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SOCIETY NEWS PUBLISHED FREE Vol. XXXI. 5 C [Name] HON. WILLIAM R. FETZER Republican candidate for renomination for the Municipal Court of Chicago, Tuesday, April Fetzer, who stands ace high in the Masonic a society world, has many thousands of true frally to is support on primary day. KLAN RAIDER IS KILLED; VIC-TIM OF BAND IS SHOT had barred the door threatened to shoot tried to enter. Ada candidate for renomination for the Court of Chicago, Tuesday, April so stands ace high in the Masonic a world, has many thousands of true fr support on primary day. Republican candidate for renomination for Judge of the Municipal Court of Chicago, Tuesday, April 13. Judge Fetzer, who stands ace high in the Masonic and in the secret society world, has many thousands of true friends who will rally to is support on primary day. Athens, Ga.—Robed in white and heavily armed, a band of men rode into Royston Wednesday night. As a result, one man is dead, another is dying in Anderson hospital, and a third is in a dangerous condition. The dead man and one of the two wounded were members of the invading party. The third is the man they sought to whip for his alleged attentions to a married woman. The casualty list included Walton Adams, Franklin county farmer, dead; Herman Bigby, a resident of Royston, dying; and B. A. Harrison, Lavonia, Ga. druggist. Bigby had lived alone since coming from Honeapath to Royston. His wife is living at Honeapath. Since he has been in Royston he is said to have received several notes purporting to come from the Ku Klux Klan warning him against paying attentions to a married woman. The band of white robed men, said to have numbered fifty, went to his house late at night and demanded entrance. Bigby expected trouble. He ```markdown ``` 4. M. H. HON. GEORGE FRANKLIN HARDING One of Chicago's most extensive real estate owners; extremely popular with all classes of his fellow citizens. The Crowe, Barrett, Brundage, Thompson and Harding, Republican candidate for Treasurer of Cook County. Senator Harding firmly believes in Home Rule for this city, Cook County and throughout the State of Illinois. As Treasurer of this County, he will save millions of dollars to its small taxpayers. Vol. XXXI. 5 CENTS PER COPY 1930 nomination for Judge of the go, Tuesday, April 13. Judge in the Masonic and in the secret usands of true friends who will try day. had barred the doors and windows and threatened to shoot the first man who tried to enter. Adams is said to have led the attack and was killed. Harrison and Bigby were shot in a battle following. Brother Bigby evidently was breaking the law in the way of kissing and hugging another man's wife, but that fact was up to the courts to handle him, and it was not the duty of violators of the law to set in judgment on his moral or unmoral acts, and he proved himself to be a real man by defending his own home.—Editor. DR. AND MRS. J. FRANK ARM. STRONG STILL CONTINUE TO STAND BY THE BROAD AX For more than twelve years, Dr. and Mrs. J. Frank Armstrong, 1959 W. Lake Street, have been constant supporters of this newspaper and the doctor is ever ready to pay his subscription to it and to speak a good word to his friends for it. Dr. and Mrs. Armstrong are both held in the highest esteem by the most prominent and the leading citizens on the west side. THE BROAD AX THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, MARCH 13, 1926 Arthur C. Rich of Battle Creek, Michigan, whose Father Is One of Its Millionaire Citizens, Sent to the State Prison for the Remainder of His Life at Jackson, for Assaulting Miss Louise King of Battle Creek, that State. The conviction of young Arthur C. Rich, at Mason, Michigan, whose father is one of the big millionaires of that state, for his brutal assault and raping of Miss Louise King, who is 20 years old, and his imprisonment for life has attracted world-wide attention. The celebrated assault case arrived at the end of the road at Mason, Mich., Wednesday, and from its beginning to its end it was full of many thrills, and the following is a short account of its sad and disgraceful ending to the fond and loyal parents of young Rich, who always had more money to spend than for his own good, for at all times he had plenty of money to spend for whisky and fast living, and with scorn and contempt he looked down upon all young women who failed to fall for him and his whisky. Mason, Michigan.—Arthur C. Rich, millionaire's son, was found guilty of criminally assaulting Louise King, 20, Battle Creek college co-ed, by a jury here Wednesday afternoon, after less than an hour's deliberation. Judge Collingwood immediately sentenced the 22-year-old defendant to life imprisonment at Jackson. A formal motion for stay of sentence pending preparation for an appeal was overruled by the court. Commitment papers were at once issued and Rich was taken to the penitentiary Thursday morning. The closing hours of the trial were marked by many dramatic touches. The defendant fainted in his father's arms as his attorney pleaded for his liberty. Twice the father, George C. Rich, Battle Creek manufacturer, broke down and was led from the courtroom in tears. Attacks Girl's Character Defense Attorney Barnard, in his plea, waved a handful of lingerie before the jury as he attacked Miss King's character, painting her as without re- REV. W. A. JONES RECOM- MENDED A DIVORCE AS FAMOUS CASE ENDS (Preston News Service) Pittsburgh, Pa., March 12.—The concluding chapter is about to be written in one of the most sensational divorce cases ever heard of in this city when Rev. W. Augustus Jones, pastor of Central Baptist Church, is handed down his divorce by the Allegheny County Court from Edna Jones. It will be recalled that about a year ago the newspapers of the country carried accounts of this case when Rev. Jones charged his wife with indignity of the person and adultery, naming a prominent Baptist minister as correspondent. The prominence of the principals and the prominence of the ministers named in the bill of particulars and the published evidence Rev. Jones obtained through detectives, created widespread spect for any of the conventions of society. “This girl admitted she drank,” he declared. “She admitted she smoked. When a girl does these things and wears underclothing that doesn't weigh seven ounces I say it isn't a mark of American womanhood. I say that these things are not chaste. I say they are not respectable. I don't care what society women think of me, I say women who do these things and wear this kind of clothing are not and cannot be respectable. “Don't get it into your heads that this girl is an innocent little school girl. She's not. She's a crafty, shrewd actress.” Verdict on First Ballot The jury reached its verdict inside of 30 minutes and on the first ballot, although it did not return to the court room for about thirty minutes more. When the verdict was announced, George R. Rich's head sank upon his wife's shoulder. The defendant leaned over and put his arms around his father and mother, and the three of them sat in this embrace while the jury was polled. "Arthur Rich, will you step into my office," Judge Collingwood then directed. They were closeted for two or three minutes. In the interim, Rich's father, accompanied by the mother, had been assisted from the court room and the senior Rich placed on a lounge. "Defendant, step forward," the court commanded on their return. "Do you know any reason why sentence should not be passed?" Defendant Is Shaken "No," Rich answered. His cheeks were highly colored, his forehead moist, his large hands shaking. "Then," said the court, "I sentence you to spend the rest of your natural life in Jackson prison." Sheriff Hugh Silsby took Rich by the interest in the case at that time. In the bill of particulars one Pittsburgh minister was alleged to be known as "Irene." Master Recommends Divorce Be Granted In his report submitted last Friday, Attorney A. T. Morgan, master in the case, recommended that Rev. Jones be given a divorce from his wife, Edna Jones, on the grounds of "indignity to the person." Rev. Jones was represented by Atty. Sidney J. Watts and Mrs. Jones was represented by Atty. William M. Stanton. Adultery Charge Withdrawn It is said that upon advice of counsel as well as pleadings on the part of the ministerial fraternity Rev. Jones was prevailed upon to withdraw the adultery charge. It is said that should Rev. Jones press the adultery charge it would bring undue and highly damaging notoriety upon several ministers throughout the country. It is claimed arm and led him, almost fainting, out of the courtroom, while the jurors asked to be presented to Miss King and Mrs. Monta King, her mother. The girl was weeping. "I guess I'm a baby," she said. "We think you're pretty plucky," said Leroy McCreery of Stock Springs, foreman of the jury. "I'm happy over my girl's vindication, but I think I'm sorrier for Mrs. Rich," Mrs. King said. McCreery said that the first ballot brought a unanimous verdict on Rich's guilt. He suggested that each of them ponder the situation and see if he could recall any evidence which might cast some doubt. Smoke for a While "We sat around and smoked a minute or two," he continued, "and then I said, 'Well, any one got a doubt?' No one had. The severity of the sentence, the maximum prescribed by law, came as a shock in spite of Judge Collingwood's reputation for severity. The defense had every confidence its motion for a stay would be granted. Miss King said she probably would return to Battle Creek college and continue her studies in dietetics. The crime for which Rich was convicted was alleged to have been committed on the evening of May 25 last on the grounds of the Battle Creek Golf club. Rich, it was charged, knocked the girl into semi-unconsciousness and criminally assaulted her. Five facial bones were broken, including her jaw. The sad fate of young Mr. Rich should be a lasting warning to other fast young men who have not the slightest respect for God, man or the devil, that they have no moral right to beat up and break the jaws of young women who are unwilling to yield to their beastly, uncontrollable passions or desires.—Editor. that Rev. Jones was advised that he had sufficient grounds for divorce on the "indignity to the person" charge to obtain his divorce. FIFTY CENTS WILL BE PAID FOR A COPY OF THE BROAD AX DATED SEPTEMBER 27, 1924 If any one of the many readers of this newspaper in all parts of the country can bring forth a copy of The Broad Ax, dated Saturday, September 27, 1924. The copy of the paper must be in good condition and just as soon as the writer gazes upon it the person producing it will receive the fifty cents, if sent by mail or otherwise. If it is the good luck of the readers of this paper to run across a copy of that date, please make the editor feel happy by calling up. Phone Wentworth 2597. X O The ideal and honest Treasurer of Cook nominated and elected Sheriff of the hands down, for thousands of Republ waiting to vote for him in November. and honest Treasurer of Cook County, and elected Sheriff of this county, nw, for thousands of Republicans are vote for him in November. The ideal and honest Treasurer of Cook County, who will be nominated and elected Sheriff of this county with both hands down, for thousands of Republicans are ready and waiting to vote for him in November. Actuated by an earnest desire to help the school children and to relieve the financial difficulties of the Chicago Board of Education and other school boards of the county, County Treasurer P. J. Carr and his assistant, Jacob Lindheimer, went before the last general assembly and procured the adoption of an amendment to the state law providing for the payment to school boards of interest earned on school taxes. The passage of the above amendment in a very commendatory resolution by unanimous vote of the Board of Education of Chicago, a copy of which was sent to Mr. Carr and Mr. Lindheimer. ing Mr. Carr's incumbency resulted in a saving of $750,000, despite the fact that the work has been increased 10 per cent each year. The cash registers and auditing machines installed by Mr. Carr have enabled the County Treasurer to audit and balance his records daily, and this year, for the first time, he will be able to make a complete and final distribution of all taxes collected at or before the end of the fiscal term, December 1st, 1926. This will prove a tremendous benefit to all the taxing bodies in the City of Chicago and Cook county, as it will enable them to retire their tax anticipation warrants at an earlier date, thus saving thousands of dollars. The new amendment to the law in effect since July 1st, 1925, has enabled the County Treasurer already to turn over to the Board of Education of Chicago $107,000 in interest earned as of December 1st, 1925. The school districts outside of Chicago in Cook county are being paid their pro rata share of interest earned on school funds. Efficient business administration dur 1930 M. 78 HON. CHARLES KRUTCKOFF President of the Norris-Ward Coal Co., honorable member of the Board of Assessors of Cook Co. and steadfast friend of Hon. George F. Hardy. Krutckoff freely predicts that Senator Hardy nominated for Treasurer of Cook County Tueso of the Norris-Ward Coal Co., honorable of the Board of Assessors of Cook Co. ofelfast friend of Hon. George F. Hardy of freely predicts that Senator Hard d for Treasurer of Cook County Tueso President of the Norris-Ward Coal Co., honorable and popular member of the Board of Assessors of Cook County, warm and steadfast friend of Hom. George F. Harding; and Mr. Krutckoff freely predicts that Senator Harding will be nominated for Treasurer of Cook County Tuesday, April 13. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE BROAD AX No. 26 measurer of Cook County, who will be used Sheriff of this county with both thousands of Republicans are ready and him in November. to help ing Mr. Carr's incumbency resulted in ave the a saving of $750,000, despite the fact Chicago that the work has been increased school 10 per cent each year. The cash registers and auditing machines installed by Mr. Carr have enabled the County Treasurer to audit and balance his records daily, and this year, for the first time, he will be able to make a complete and final distribution of all taxes collected at or before the end of the fiscal term, December 1st, 1926. This will prove a tremendous benefit to all the taxing bodies in the City of Chicago and Cook county, as it will enable them to retire their tax anticipation warrants at an earlier date, thus saving thousands of dollars of interest which had heretofore accrued and in addition making it possible to meet all their financial obligations promptly. This in itself is the most remarkable improvement ever achieved in the office of the County Treasurer. These cash registers and auditing machines above referred to were the first machines manufactured and installed for the collection of taxes. 78 Ward Coal Co., honorable and popular and of Assessors of Cook County, warmest of Hon. George F. Harding; and Mr. edicts that Senator Harding will beurer of Cook County Tuesday, April 13. ‘The honorable member of Congress from the First Congressional District of Mlinois, and right her it cam be truthfully said that the colored people have never had a better nor a truer frienc in the halls of Congress than Hon. Martin B. Madden, and on Tuesday, April 13, he wil again be nominated for his highly honored position. THE MEETING OF THE COL-| Colored and a motion was made to| club house in order to have a perma ORED WOMEN’S CLUBS send a vigorous letter to the Speedway] nent location in which the various de By Mrs. Elvie L. Stewart officials protesting against this species| partments may hold sessions and plar The Chicago and Northern District Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs held its regular quarterly meeting last Monday at Grant Memorial Chapel, A. M. E. Church, 46th Street and Evans Avenue. Promptly at 9:30 A. M. the presi- dent, Mrs. Nannie Reed sounded the gavel calling the meeting to order and after the regular routine of opening and reading the minutes of the Ex- ecutive Board the roll of clubs was called, the several clubs responding with reports of their various activities during the second quarter. Following the reports of the clubs came the re- port of the different departments, twenty-four in number, into which the Federation is divided and by which its business is transacted. ‘The department of Ex-Service Men, Mrs. Letitia R. Myles, chairman, re- ported 81 soldiers in the Speedway Hospital in Maywood, 9 having been ost by death since last report. It was noted in the report that the rooms occupied by our soldiers are labeled One of the most popular public officials in this city or county; he is one of the true friends of the commoh or the poor people, and on Tuesday, April 13, he will be re-nominated for one ‘of the Commissioners of Cook County. aa, , ( al RI RR a Ue PR aE TT a A a aaa es Sa ; - Ks ; i “ % ‘ ™ _ 5 : : is Ree Spel . i Bs | [os VE ee? | 7) i j fi HON. DANIEL RYAN, JR HON. MARTIN B. MADDEN Colored and a motion was made tc send a vigorous letter to the Speedway officials protesting against this specie of segregation. The report on Institutions, Mrs Belle Fountain, chairman, showed six teen different institutions under het notice, some of which are the Provi dent Hospital, Home for Aged and In firm Colored People, Young Women's Christian Association, Juanita Day Nursery, Wendell Phillips Settlement Friendship Home, Jane Ridley Home Big Sisters, South Side Community, Iroquois Club, Evanston; Nationa School of Music, Mason School for Children, Deaconess Home, and Wil. son Hospital. The report on Court of Domestic Re- lations was made by Mrs. Lillian Bar low. The meeting adjourned for dinner at 1:15 P.M. The Twentieth Century Art Club was hostess to the Federa- tion, ‘he afternoon session was devotes to a one thousand dollar drive to in: crease the revenue already on hanc for the purchasing of a club house for the club women of Chicago. It is the policy of federated clubs to own theit THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, MARCH 13, 1926 club house in order to have a perma- nent location in which the various de partments may hold sessions and plar out their different means of work and to this end the amount of two thou sand or more dollars has already beer raised during the time this project has bees on foot. In order to further the movement the President had an- noxaced that the entire afternoon ses. sion would be devoted to the raising of the sum anticipated. Each clut woman was asked to give the smal sum of one dollar and the result of the drive was that $627 dollars in cash was laid upon the table by the women; nearly all of the departments were one hundred per cent efficient. In perfecting the plans for the club house, eleven directors were elected as follows: Mesdames T. G. Macon Jeanette Smith, Irene Goins, Carrie Horton, Eugenia Tyler, Sadie Adams Nannie Red, Clara McAdams, Ruth Steele, N. Violet Cunningham and Dr. Mary Waring. ‘The meeting was well attended and full of enthusiasm. The next regular quarterly meeting will be held June 1, 1926 the place to be determined at 3 later date. COL. JAMES H. JOHNSON WILL SOON BE ABLE TO RETURN TO HIS HOME FROM ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL The many friends of Col. James H. Johnson, 3650 Prairie Avenue, will be delighted to learn that he will soon be able to return to his home, after un- dergoing an operation at St. Luke's Hospital. Dr. Daniel H. Williams, who is one of the most expert physicians and sur- geons in this country, successfully per- formed the operation on Col. Johnson and very successfully pulled . him through. Col. Johnson has a long, honorable military record behind him. For many years he served in the U. S. Ninth Cavalry and also through the Spanish-American War and was Leiutenant-Colonel of the Eighth Regiment until it left for the battle- fields of France in the Spring of 1918. His good and dutiful wife, Mrs. Eliza Johnson, during his illness oc- cupied a seat by his bedside all the time and greatly assisted to administer to his wants and comforts. STATE PROCLAMATION Issued by Massachusetts Governor for Attucks and His White Companion Martyrs—City and State Flags Fly Schools Hold Exercises—Memo- rial Procession rial Procession Boston.—History was made for the colored American race this week when Gov. Alvin T. Fuller, gp the request of a sub-committee of the Declaration of Independence Committee of the Na- tional Equal Rights League, issued an official Proclamation for Boston Mas- sacre Day, eulogizing Crispus Attucks and mentioning with praise his @hite companion martyrs, the first for this country’s independence. This episode which Attucks conducted had never been so fully recognized before. ‘The two-day observance of Attucks Day by the League and Committee began with a night procession Thurs- day from the spot where Attucks fell, marked in State Street to Faneuil Hall, scene of his funeral, led by Major He- witt of the 372nd Battalion, Colored, and its band. In the historic “Cradle of Liberty,” a great meeting was held, Rev. D. S. Klugh presiding, and Rev. D. Leroy Ferguson delivering a mas- terly Attucks oration in which he urged that March 5 be made a national holiday. E. M. Sullivan of the Boston School Committee, spoke for the two Irish martyrs and Rolfe Cobleigh, ed- itor of the Congregationalist, for the two English martyrs. The proclama- tion was read by Mrs. L. L. Ferntado, The K. of P. Branch, E. & W. H. serenaded each speaker. On Friday, outdoor exercises began at 10 A. M. at the death tablet on State Street by the Wm. H. Carney Circle, Ladies of the G.A.R., Mrs. Josephine Cunningham, real colored Daughter of the Revolution, spoke, and Mrs. Mary L. Rollins, whose ancestor fought in the Revolution, hanging the wreath; then at the grave under the Wm. E. Carter Post, American Legion, Monroe Mason, Commander, introduc ing the head of the Post Office em- ployees, Local, Mr. Kelly; then at Declaration of Independence Tablet under the Massachusetts State Union of Colored Women’s Clubs, Mrs. Dora Johnson, president, presenting Mrs. M. Cravath Simpson as orator; finally at the Attucks Monument under the League, where Monroe Trotter pre- sented Mayor Nichols for the city, At- torney-General Benton for the State, Hon. W. H. O'Brien‘for the Irish and Mrs. Minnie Wright for the race. A. wreath was placed at each place and also by the city at the monument. The committee secured the flying of the flags from all city and state build- ings, police and fire-stations, also class exercises in the schools, the race of Attucks to be made known. The Fan- euil Hall meeting voted to ask the race to make March 5 a national race day, and to at once form Declaration of Independence committees, or sub- committees of existing race bodies to call loudly for the enforcement of the Declaration on April 19, Lexington and Concord Day, June 17 on Bunker Hill Day, and July 4th. Leafiet Ready The League announced completion of its Declaration of Independence Race History leaflet which can be se- cured by mailing 6 cents in stamps to League Headquarters, 9 Cornhill, Dear Editor: Dear Editor: Let each one of us editors do utmost to arouse race to agitate for enforce- ment of the Declaration of Independ- ence at once while the country is cele- brating its sesqui-centennial as we will never have a time when the centennial appeal to the honor of the white people will be so effective! —W. M. Trotter. aoe CAPTAIN JAMES S. NELSON IS STILL IMPROVING AT THE SPEEDWAY HOSPITAL Captain James S. Nelson, who was for many years Regimental Quarter- master of the old Eighth Regiment, I!- linois National Guard, who honorably served in the Spanish-American War and wended his way to Camp Logan, Texas, in 1917, and to the Mexican Borders in 1916, with the old Eighth Regiment, continues to greatly improve in health, after undergoing an opera- tion at the Speedway Hospital. In the near future, Captain Nelson will be able to return to his home, 3652 S. Wabash Avenue, where his many friends can have the pledsure of calling to greet him. MRS. GRAY BACK IN CITY Mrs. Maud Gray, 3606 Wabash ave- nue, has returned to the city after spending several weeks at Hot Springs, Ark, where she took a much-needed rest, and stopping with relatives a few days in Hughesville and St. Louis, Mo. U. 8. JUDGE UPHOLDS FREE- DOM OF PRESS (Preston News Service) Philadelphia, March 11—Down in the tropical Virgin Islands a little more than a year ago some natives in- dulged in a playful street brawl. At the approach of a policeman the crowd dispersed, but stopped to hurl a few stones. That, of course, angered the policeman, whose name was Mathias, and he fired his pistol. The shot struck a citizen's bathtub and a clamor_arose. Mathias attempted to arrest a native woman and when she fought with him he struck her with his club. Out of that rather commonplace in- cident grew a legal case, decided by Judge Buffington, Thursday, in the United States Circuit Court of Ap- peals here, in which the court was forced to decide on such momentous questions as the liberty of the press, the right of free speech, the constitu- tionality of the laws of the Virgin Is- lands, the right of the natives to trials by jury for misdemeanors and the jurisdiction of both the native courts and the United States Circuit Court in this country. Police Court Criticized The actual groundwork of the case, which is regarded as one of the most extraordinary to come before the Cir- cuit Court, was laid when Rothschild Francis, editor of the Emancipator, published on the Island of St. Thomas, where the street fight occurred, in De- cember, 1924, was sentenced to 30 days in jail by Judge George Washing- ton Williams, of the Federal Court of the islands. Francis, the editor, was charged with libeling Mathias in edi- torials which bitterly attacked the police for their brutality. Francis’ reply to the judge came in the form of a fiery editorial attack in which he denounced the court, char- acterized Judge Williams as “Sir Oracle,” and charged that his convic- tion was “not due to a sense of justice, but solely from racial and political prejudices.” Whereupon Judge Williams held that the editor was guilty of contempt and fined him $100, sentenced him to an additional 30 days, and expressed the opinion that the courts had the power to control “demagogic” news- papers from “spreading their diabolical influence.” Trial Judge Rebuked Judge Buffington, in his decision, in the court here to which Francis carried his appeal, disagreed flatly with Judge Williams’ theory, rebuking him for as- suming the position that the courts have the right: to control the press, demagogic or otherwise. | The 30 day sentence for the “libel” of the policeman was set aside, but the other sentence for a like time and the $100 fine was upheld, since it was ruled that Francis’ editorials were a reflec- tion on the court as a tribunal of justice and therefore in contempt, but had the attack been a personal one, Judge Williams’ only redress would have been a civil suit against the editor. Rebuking both Judge Williams and Francis for their misconceptions of the principles of “free press” and “free speech,” Judge Buffington said that the legal propositions which were woven into the case by the editor in his appeal were out of all proportion to the real issues. AMATEUR MINSTREL CLUR Important Announcement For the past two weeks a large force of cleaners and interior decorator: have been busy at the Eighth Regi- ment Armory preparing for the sailing of the S. S. Charity, Easter Monday night, April 5, 1926 at 8:30 P. M. The chairs and rail. of the upper deck have been thoroughly scrubbed, while th floor of the lower deck has beer washed and waxed especially for this occasion. It was: essential that this be done for gossip along “Dressmakers’ Row’ has it that there will be seen some very gorgeous spring gowns at this affair In fact, we learn that it will be a min iature fashion show. Come out your. self and persuade five or more friend: to come with you! Our slogan is fou thousand dollars for the old folks Home! Tickets $1.00 per person, wardrobe free. Steam ship crew will lead the grand march. Tickets on sale at Por- ter’s Drug Store, 3510 S. State St. Stoball & Hudson's Drug Store, 30 E, 35th St; I. N. Dunlap, Music Di. rector; Robt. R. Jackson, Stage Man. ager. SEND BACK TO CONGRESS, ELLIOTT W. SPROUL, THE MAN TO WHOM HON. NICHOLAS LONGWORTH, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA. TIVES, WROTE IN A PERSONAL LETTER: “It ia very gratifying for me to say that I think that your attendance in Congress is as nearly perfect as the similar record of any member, and your regularity on all party measures is beyond question. I would term you as one of the reliable Republicans.” | By SS CR ORC a a aT ES ie cn ‘ a a pe o < . es “ Z ee i 8 ee en es i Cyebe 4 a a a o8 ve : a ee Ga i be a es Me oo s ae fae ie a eer. io fe aie 2 Soe 5 Ss S We OR... : ig Se ee a 7 ° a y is el ; 2 Re = pe Se to Be, REPRESENTATIVE ELLIOTT W. SPROUL, at the solicitation of administration leaders in Washington and of business and civic leaders in the THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT, is again a candidate for renomination in the REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES, April 13, 1926. For the past five years Mr. Sproul has served his District faithfully and well, de voting his entire time to the services of the people and giving his constituents the benefit of more than forty years of business experience. HIS POLICY OF SERVICE TO CONSTITUENTS IS UNCHANGED. HE KNOWS HOW TO MAKE THAT POLICY EFFECTIVE IN WASHINGTON. ‘As a member of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, one of the few major Committees of the House, Mr. Sproul was largely responsible for the enactment of legislation granting a salary increase to 360,000 employes of the postal service. He has personally investigated the claims and procured the settlement of hundreds of cases for disabled ex-service men, and through his efforts many Civil War and ‘Spanish-American War veterans and thelr widows have received increased pensions. Ne case of an ex-service man has been called to Mr. Sproul’s attention without receiving Prompt attention, and, with few exceptions, a successful and satisfactory settlement. EVERY ONE OF THE THOUSANDS OF LETTERS WHICH HAVE COME TO HIM DURING HIS TERMS OF OFFICE RECEIVED PROMPT CONSIDERATION AND COUR- TEOUS REPLY. Mr. Sproul bas been an administration stalwart, having consistently stood with Presi- dent Coolidge in his economy program whereby taxes have been reduced more than One Billion Seven Hundred Million dollars. His counsel is sought by his party leaders and hhis colleagues value his judgment on matters of business and political policy. VOTE TO KEEP THIS EFFICIENT PUBLIC SERVANT IN CONGRESS WHERE HE HAS MANY FRIENDS AND NO ENEMIES. Primaries Tuesday, April 13, 1926. “~~ (Signed) REPUBLICAN EXECUTIVE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE. Washington, D. C. Ady. THE SOTH ANNIVERSARY OF|THE FOURTH ANNUAL FASH- THE INVENTION OF THE ION SHOW FOR THE BENE- BELL TELEPHONE FIT OF THE BUDGET OF THE _ Distribution of a memorial button has been started among employes of the Illinois Bell Telephone Company and other telephone companies throughout the state of Illinois. Those connected with the Bell Telephone Co. began to wear the button March 10, in celebration of the completion of 50 years of the telephone. On March 10, 1876, in Boston, the first complete sentence was heard over the telephone. The sentence was, “Mr. Watson, come here; I want you,” and it was spoken by Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor and heard by his as- sistant, Thomas A. Watson, in an ad- joining room. From this small begin- ning the use of the telephone has grown until in 1925 the telephone was used more than 0,000,000 times daily in the Bell Syst - alone. The tele- phones connecting the two rooms in Boston have grown to nearly 17,000,- 000 in the United States. The fiftieth-year button will be worn not only by Illinois employees, but those all over the United States and Canada. The greatest number of tele- phone men and women in any state in the union is in Illinois. This state has more than 70,000, including the em- ployees of the independent and rural companies and those of the large man- ufacturing organizations in Chicago, the largest of which is the Western Electric Company, manufacturing telephones and apparatus for the Bell System. The telephone industry as a whole employs. about 400,000 persons. This year will be observed general- ly as the telephone jubilee and the observance will be continued through- out the year in various ways. On the night of March 10, the members of the ‘Theodore N. Vale Chapter No. 1, Telephone Pioneers of America, were hosts at a large dinner and entertain- ment given in the refectory of the Hawthorne Works of the Western Electric Compatiy. THE FOURTH ANNUAL FASH- ION SHOW FOR THE BENE- FIT OF THE BUDGET OF THE INDIANA BRANCH OF THE Y.W.C.A. Next Tuesday evening, the greatest of all the fashion shows will be held at the Eighth Regiment Armory, 3517 Giles Avenue. It being the fourth an- nual affair, it is freely predicted that it will outshine and far surpass all of those which have gone on before it. ‘The ladies’ spring drive for the bene- ft of the Y.W.C.A. is under the man- ‘agement of some of the most prominent ladies in this city. Mrs. Albert B. George is serving as the very able chairman of the general committee and she is the right lady in the right place. Mrs. Lula Lawson, general secretary of the committee of management, con- tinues to work hard early and late in order to make the fourth annual fash- ion show a grand success. Many blooded and high pedigreed dogs will be in evidence and featured as one of the leading attractions of the fashion show. Prizes and beautiful fancy ribbons will be presented to the owners of the dogs, who are the best strutters and the proudest walkers. More than fifty ladies will parade up and down the grand promenade cos- tumed in the most fashionable, expen- sive finery, furs and hats, that can be gazed upon in Chicago. The fashion show is for a worthy cause, and next Tuesday night the Eighth Regiment Armory should be filled to overflowing by the good cit- izens of Chicago to witness it. Dancing will follow the main show. Admission $1.00—Adv. IE SO < ee oy - Sr | : e rt - aS : * eee ha bs em 4 ; x i HON. GEORGE B. HOLMES High Mason, one of the most honorable Judges o pal Court of Chicago, who can easily count | the thousands, will be renominated for his pr position April 13. High Mason, one of the most honorable Judges of the Munici- pal Court of Chicago, who can easily count his friends by the thousands, will be renominated for his present judicial cation nel 42: Hon. George B. Holmes, who is one of the best and most far-seeing judges of the Municipal Court of Chicago, is so well and favorably known that he needs no long introduction to the many readers of this newspaper. He has been one of the highly honored citizens of this city since 1885 down to the present time, and during all of those years he has been actively interested in every movement pertaining to its ad- journment, He was admitted to the bar in 1890 and practiced law continuously from that time until elected to the Municipal bench some ten or twelve years ago. He served with distinction as a mem- ber of the First Illinois Volunteer In- fantry at the siege and capture of Cuba in 1898. Judge Holmes is a member of the United Spanish War Veterans, Veterans of the Foreign Wars, Society of Santiago de Cuba. He is a high Mason, Odd Fellow, Kanight of Pythias, Loyal Order of Moose, Amer- oo 3s 2 4 iS i ae s eh po es fea = i s. se met * ce a : a : oH HON. OSCAR WOLFF The best coroner that Cook County has ever had, who has more than two hundred thousand friends and many supporters ip this city and county who will assist to nominate him as the Republican candidate for member of the Board of Review Tuesday, April 13. ican Brotherhood, Chicago Lincoln Club and many other organizations. Judge Holmes has always discharged his sworn duties without fear or favor and has mode good all along the line. He stands at the top notch of Judges of the Municipal Court and none of the judges are more popular than he. He has honorably served in every branch of the Municipal Court in all parts of this city, and being well grounded in the law and it is seldom that any of his cases are turned upside down by the judges of the higher courts. Judge Holmes, who stands high in the estimation of the colored people re- siding in this city, has thousands of friends and supporters among the ‘people residing in all parts of this city, who frequent his court rooms from time to time, and they admire very much his fair, square and reasonable treatment which they receive at his hands, and it goes without saying tha they will assist to re-nominate him for judge of the Municipal Court of Chi- ‘cago, Tuesday, April 13th. THE BROAD AX, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, MARCH 13, 1926 COLORFUL NEWS MOVIES By THE CAMERAMAN “I throw my warlike shield; lay on MacDuff; And damn’d be him that first cries ‘Hold, enough.” The weaker exemplars of the great white press have been in the throes of printers’ colic ever since the Georgia Deacon and the Pittsburgh windmill, respectively, known as Mr. Tiger Flowers and Mr. Harry Greb, joined gloved hands in Madison Square Gar- den last week, with the result that alter the Doxology was sung the Georgian was saying it with “Flow- ers,” Harry “grabbed” the loser’s end of the spoils of the prize ring. Among the first dispensers of sour grapes comes the Washington Times (un- doubtedly an ardent sympathizer of the dodging Dempsey, whom the New York Boxing Commission has just or- dered to fight or quit officially) with a long discourse upon the brutality of prizefights. (We have never known the Washington Times to write a double-column upon the brutality of lynching). The mighty Washington Times, which usually headlines murders, arson and robbery, has at last turned to re- ae It philosophizes upon the bru- tality of man-to-man encounters; em- phasizes the barbarism of the prize- fight ring; points out the calamity of a black pugilist annihilating a white one: and, after exhibiting the most pro- nounced example of the sour grapes fever we have ever seen, proceeds to admonish the fleeting public to reform, using, in its reform zest, violations to the Constitution of the United States, as references. (It is silent upon vari- ous Constitutional amendments and upon the fact that not infrequently a hundred or so whites hang or burn a single black, without Constitutional protection or a scintilla of Christian- ized justice). Says the Times: “The lowest class of the white race will hate the thought that a powerful Negro should beat a white champion”; “the more ignorant class of the black race are elated, to their own detriment and danger, by the black man’s victory”; and “to have black Harry Wills beat white Jack Dempsey would destroy Dempsey’s value.” ‘We are quite in agreement with the Washington Times that prize-fighting is brutal; and we believed that when Sullivan, Corbett, Fitzsimmons, Dixon Jeffries, Willard and Johnson were in their heydays. (And we regret that the Washington Times did not sing o'er and o'er again its reform philoso- phies when white champions were con- stant winners, through evasion and avoidance and other types of cowar- dice, of 99 per cent of the affrays of brutal hand-fighting for sordid” cash.” We are convinced, however, tha so long as the absorbing public and the press (with the exception of the Washington Times and some of its prototypes) insist upon the delectable entertainment afforded by pugilistic champions, a prize-ring virtuoso may as well be champion of all the people, white and black, and not limited in the racial areas which he may seek for the unharnessing of his brutal proclivities. Furthermore, we ardently wish the ‘Times would join with us in making war upon other and moré harmful forms of brutality, such as are fre- quently practiced by the dominant race in this country against the weaker. Then, we would indeed know that the heart of the Times was RIGHT. As it is, its editorial of March 3 looks more like a case of sour grapes than a repentant declamation of reform. eee Wanted! A College President With the expectant passing of Dr. J. Stanley Rurkee, . President of Howard University, again comes the absorbing, question of finding a new leader far the Nation's greatest Negro university; and again comes the dual query, together with the agitation, as to whether or not the new President of Howard shall be white or black. One group, which believes that Negro institutions should be operated and supervised by Negroes, will advocate the appointment of a Negro as presi- dent; another group, which, unfortun- ately and mistakenly believes that col- a people are incompetent to direct Se ian Se oem reba ee 3 A@ ‘ : =| @ f) ii L| i J ) fi : ries 44 P 7 eZ, & kai. 4 <1 es i Aw EG). Gag af ee aa HK 2 ea ma — | is ae ° The First Message “MRWATSON, come nere;1 the summons, and the telephone want you!” exclaimed Alex- speeds it on the way. Business of ander Graham Bell on March 10, importance demands the decision of 1876, during an afternoon of experi-_ one who is on the far side of the mentation, and over a wire connect- _ continent.Come here, I want you,”” ing two rooms, the young assistant is the summons again, and as if by heard the words,—the first spoken magic, a personality is projected sentence to be so transmitted. through space, questions are asked, Fifty years have passed. To-day _8Wers given, problems solved— there are 17,000,000 telephones in by telephone. the United States, giving voice to _Every telephone call is an echo human need, as Bell’s crude trans- of the first message. For whether miter did then. Fire breaks out in it is the physical presence or the | the night; law-breakers invade a listening ear that is desired, the home; sickness strikes at a family impulse that lifts the telephone re- circle. “Come here, I want you,” is ceiver is, “I want you.” ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY BELL SYSTEM One Policy - One System + Universal Service “1676-THE TELEPHONE’S FIFTIETH YEAR—1926 ‘than 2,000 Negro men and women, whose number will increase each year, and whose service to the world will grow with the expansion of their Alma Mater. Howard needs national sym- pathy, morally and financially, from every person in the United States, ‘without limitation as to color. How- ard’s objective in the training of Ne- ‘gro youth includes, along with ‘educational training in arts and science, ‘the building of real men and women— ‘Christian’ citizens whose influence will ‘be felt among the peoples of the world, white, black, yellow, red and brown. “Howard needs a supervision of wisdom, justice, integrity, respect, scholarship, ‘sympathy, patriotism, and, above all, LOVE for all mankind; and the person who, with these attributes, can make the present Howard a greater Howard, is the ‘person, be he white or black, who is NEEDED MOST on the Howard hilltop. eae Interracial Dilutions and Delusions A Harvard professor, Dr. William McDougall, is quoted as saying that crime waves in the United States are the result of a mingling of races. Whether the good professor was talk- ing with Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas, Michigan, New York, or Maine, was ‘not disclosed in his prophetic disserta- ‘tion. Furthermore, just what kind of mingling the professor has in the back- ground of his mind did not appear. We recall, with much pleasure, a teacher of History in the good old state of New York, who, adroitly and quite logically, used to differentiate be- tween the (1) Direct, and the (2) In- direct causes of events. Probably the learned professor overlooked this bet, in formulating his conclusions. In other words, perhaps crime does emanate freely, like the case of Dr. Sweet of Michigan, for example, where there is a mingling of races; but no one would dare conclude that such crime waves are the direct result of the mingling processes. In Louisiana, for instance, not even a learned so- ciologist would dare set up the dis- heartening conclusion that the rising tide of mulattoes is the cause of the mingling of races. Quite to the con- trary, it is the effect—the aftermath, in which, as Darwin would say, the stronger absorbs the weaker, to the Prejudice of the latter. It’s like mimicry among birds of the forest, where a bird so nearly resembles a tree leaf that Nature has taught it to say, in bird language: “I am a leaf.” No, kind sir, it's not the mingling of races that causes crime waves. It's the alloyed selfishness, fear, and cowardice of the group which, like Pilate, wants, in the nighttime, to wash its hands of sin; and when the morning sun appears, gazes about its conquests and says: “I am holier than thou.” wy ho. “1P < VV ILLIA IOUNS & | SF TTT EAN ae eco t s NES KY aur BE [eS Gh Heed ma eh a aX ii og oe Lt Oe a OOS F \ “TheWilliamson Funeral” g ~) ts distinguished by « 2) the up-to-date designs “<)> of its Cunningham 4 o e ° ae Limousine Hearse ate and Cars seo PE peta : ; —_— Unexcelled for Quality Service and Price AUTOMOBILES FOR ALL OCCASIONS a nea es KENWOOD 0455 Waa 5121-23-25 South State Street Souls and Men The American world is in harmoni- ‘ous agreement that Negro music has a soulful substance, which is undeniable —a symphonic and peaceful aspect which bodes for harmony and love as between men and groups of men. And when J. Rosamond Johnson and Tay- lor Gordon “put their whole strength and soul into their renditions” at Town Hall, New York, last Monday night, an audience of whites was enraptured with the songs and scales of the Negro artists. As one musical critic said: “The audience asked for repetitions of the musical outpour of the souls of these black artists, whose efforts car- ried conviction to the hearers; and whose fervor was the motive power of musical interpretation. We cannot but pause and wonder why, if Johnson and Gordon were transformed into the finest types of other models of souls and men, their sweetness would go wasted on the desert air, so far as the great bloc of whites who can, but will not render unto the Negro race the things which to it belong, is concerned. A Negro philosopher, scientist, carpenter, or baseball player has the time of his life securing an audience of whites which desires repetitions of him and his serv- ices. Were he the greatest mathema- tician in the whole world, ignorance would be bliss, were he to offer his genius to the greatest universities of the country. Were he an inventor, the white world would almost perish be- fore it would receive his offering. Were he the only true Apostle of Christ, he could scarcely obtain a scattering audience of whites, eager to hear his doctrines. But, as a singer-of Negro spirituals, he has a soul, for which the gentle public craves—a liv- ing, lovable, coherent soul. Other- wise, He came unto His own and His oom received Tiim ect. 1 THE BROAD AX Published Every Saturday In this city since July 15th, 1899, eikhout missing one single issue. Republicans, Democrats, Catholics, Protestants, Single Taxers, Priests, infidels or anyone else can have their say as long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, even claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. It is neither Democratic nor Republican. It is strictly or absolutely independent in politics. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... $1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 6206 S. Elizabeth St., Chicago. Phone: Wentworth 2597 JULIUS F. TAYLOR Editor and Publisher Vol. XXXI No. 26 Chicago, March 13, 1926 Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug. 19, 1902, at the Post office at Chicago, Ill. Under Act of March 8, 1879. BULLETIN NO. 48 — PROTECT YOURSELF AGAINST PICK- POCKETS By Chief of Police Morgan A. Collins With the approach of Spring the danger of having your pocket picked becomes greater. Do not carry any more money than is absolutely necessary for your immediate needs. Women carrying large sums of money in purses and handbags encourage thieves. Upwards of ninety per cent of purse-snatching is due to this carelessness. When riding in elevators grip your handbag or purse with both hands so that it cannot be opened. The favorite method of purse snatchers operating in crowded conveyances and busy street corners is to cut the strap of the handbag or strap-purse. Always guard yourself against being pushed or jostled in crowded places. If you are carrying a large amount of money keep on the edge of the crowd or in the open as much as possible. Men should use extreme caution when carrying large sums of money on their person. When you carry your wallet in your hip pocket you are easy prey for a pickpocket. Always be on your guard when riding in public conveyances. Beware of the stranger who thrusts a newspaper before you. A sharp pair of nippers and your diamond pin or stud is gone. If you see a suspicious person following you notify the nearest policeman. The Police Department is always at your service. We are trying to protect you against thieves. AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION IS WORTH A POUND OF CURE. INCOME TAX IN A NUTSHELL WHO?—Single persons who had net income of $1,500 or more or gross income of $5,000 or more, and married couples who had net income of $3,500 or more or gross income of $5,000 or more, must file returns. WHEN?—The filing period ends March 15, 1926. WHERE?—Collector of internal revenue for the district in which the person lives or has his principal place of business. HOW?—Instructions on Form 1040A and 1040; also law and regulations. WHAT—One and one-half per cent normal tax on the first $4,000 in excess of the personal exemptions and credits. Three per cent normal tax on the next $4,000. Five per cent normal tax on the balance of net income. Surtax on net income in excess of $10,000. FORT DEARBORN HAS BIG INI TIATION Last Sunday evening was a very interesting night with a large number of officers and members of Ft. Dearborn Lodge, No. 44, at which time thirty-eight club members known as Club 44 from Waukegan, Ill., chartered a bus from the oldest city in Illinois, and came to the clubrooms at 3920 Grand boulevard, where they were made permanent members of Ft. Dearborn Lodge. Several other well known persons who work in the Chicago postoffice were also made. Exalted Ruler James C. Martin, R. L. Potts, F. W. Henry, M. T. Balley, C. T. Hume, Dr. Geo. W. Lacey, Wm. Boyd, P. A. Glanton, David Bishop and other prominent members of Ft. Dearborn Lodge, were all in smiles as they retired to their various homes. WOMAN SEEKS DEATH AFTER VIEWING BODY OF SULCIDE LOVER (Preston News Service) Washington, Pa., March 12.—While leaving a local undertaking establishment Friday afternoon, where she had viewed the body of Clarence Streibling, 29 years old, suspended member of the local police force, who ended his life Thursday night in the locker room of the Washington police station, Josephine Lemley, 25 years old (white) attempted to end her life, police say, by swallowing poison. Late Friday afternoon Streibling's alleged mistress, after reviewing his remains, attempted to end her own life by swallowing poison as she stepped in a taxicab just after leaving the morgue. The act was frustrated by a woman with Miss Lemley, who grabbed the bottle just as she raised it to her lips. Some of the poison got into the woman's mouth, badly burning her throat. She was rushed to Washington hospital, where her condition was reported serious. Officer Kills Self After "Unbe- coming Conduct" Charge When Streibling was confronted with facts regarding his alleged intimate relations with a white woman, he turned in his badge and other official ornaments to the chief of police and then went to the locker room and ended his life by firing a bullet through his brain. Streibling is married. MAN STRIKES MATCH ON OIL SOAKED CLOTHES; IS FATALLY BURNED Tampa, Fla., March 12.—Striking a match on his grease-soaked overalls, Austin Williams, 25-year-old mechanic, Tuesday morning ignited his clothes and caused severe burns which may cause his death. Williams was employed as a mechanic at the Yellow Cab garage. He came to work Tuesday morning, put on a pair of overalls that were saturated with gasoline and grease, and started to light a cigarette. He scratched a match on his trousers leg and in a second found himself enveloped in flames. The man ran screaming from the garage, pursued by several, of the employees of the garage. He was overtaken a half a block away and thrown to the street. Several men tore the burning overalls from his body. At the Clara Frye hospital an examination disclosed that his entire body had been burned. WARNS OF ANTI-NEGRO MOVE Bishop Hughes Sees Danger of World Combine Against Caucasians Atlantic City, N. J.—A "silly modern movement" against Negroes was denounced Tuesday night by Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes of Chicago, presiding officer at the New Jersey Methodist conference. "This silly modern movement is allied to protestantism in America," he said. "We are driving the Negro into the Catholic church, which is welcoming him, yet we have had no finer protestants in this country than the Negro. "If we keep on with our silly movement we shall cause the black, yellow and brown races to combine against Caucasians, and then God help the white people of the world!" OHIO ATTORNEY GENERAL BARS PRIVATE SHOWING OF "BIRTH OF A NATION" Columbus, O., Mar. 12.-Attorney General Crabble in a ruling Wednesday barred from private showings in Ohio the old motion picture, "The Birth of a Nation." S. W. Lawrence, an official of the Ku Klux Klan, had requested permission to show the picture at private Klan meetings as a part of the educational and entertainment program of the Klan in the State. ENTERTAINS Hands of Love Club of which Maude Mitchell Allen is president, entertained more than a hundred members and their friends at a reception at the club rooms of Ft. Dearborn Lodge, No. 44, 3920 Grand boulevard, on last Monday evening, in celebrating its sixth anniversary. A fine program was rendered. BAILEY BEGINNING SEASON M. T. Bailey, president of The Bailey Realty Co., 3638 S. State St., is on the go in arranging for the spring season in the various suburbs of the city with the hope of doing a greater good for the people. PLAN BALL ON ST. PATRICK'S The United Celtic-American Societies of Chicago will give their annual St. Patrick's Day ball March 17, at the White City Amusement Park. County Treasurer P. J. Carr will lead the Shamrock grand march which is used at all the celebrations on St. Patrick's Day in Ireland. Edward J. Sheehan and Stephen A. Kelly will direct the program. MRS. YOUNG VISITING HOUSE-HOLDS Plant More Trees Six million trees can be grown on 5,000 acres of land, according to for-entry experts in the Department of Interior. Six times that many trees are cut annually from which is made nothing more than toothpicks. Good Sealing Ground Fur-bearing seals, whose peits are considered second in quality only to the better known Alaskan seal, are found in the vicinity of a small island a few miles off the coast of Uruguay, South America. Famous French Soldiers Mrs. Lou Ella Young, 4114 Calumet Ave., D.G.M.N.G. of Eden Grand District Households of Ruth of Illinois and jurisdiction, has just returned from Rockford and other cities in Illinois, where she spent considerable time during the past week in interest of the order. REMOVED TO HOME Mrs. Allen Clark, 4149 Prairie avenue, has been removed to her home, where she is improving nicely, following a successful operation at Provident. JUVENILE TO CELEBRATE Hannibal Juvenile, No. 7, Pythian Cadets, will celebrate on April 3rd at Bailey's Hall, 3638 S. State street, with a program in commemoration of their fifth anniversary. Kinston, N. C.—Seven hundred and fifty automobiles were in the funeral cortege when Rev. Kelly Artis, Free-Will Baptist minister, was buried here Monday, and thousands of people crowded in and about the church during the services. WHITE BOYS SENTENCED TO TEN YEARS FOR TAKING AGED NEGRO'S NICKEL Kansas City, Mo., Mar. 12.—For a five cent robbery, Robert Clark and John Jackson, white youths, each were sentenced to ten years in the state penitentiary here Thursday. It was testified at the trial that the nickel was taken from an aged Negro in a street holdup. A jury imposed the sentences. Telephone: State 3278 A. D. GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 813, Ashland Block 155 N. Clark Street CHICAGO, ILL. Residence, 1262 Macalister Place Telephone Monroe 2714 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 318-320 Reaper Block Clark and Washington Sts. CHICAGO Telephone Central 1239 Phone Main 2017 A. L. WILLIAMS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 706 Firmenich Building 184 W. Washington St. CHICAGO Residence 3655 Prairie Ave. Phone Douglas 9133 W.G.Anderson Attorney At Law 17 North La Salle Street CHICAGO NOTARY PUBLIC Suite 560 Watson Bldg. Office Phones: Dearborn 7094-7095 Res. 3354 Vernon Avenue Phone Douglas 6045 Notary Public Phones: Office Main 4153; Residence, 4751 Champlain Avenue Phone Kenwood 5611 ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Suite 708—184 W. Washington St. CHICAGO Plant more Trees Six million trees can be grown on 6,000 acres of land, according to forestry experts in the Department of Interior. Six times that many trees are cut annually from which is made nothing more than toothpicks. Good Sealing Ground Fur-bearing seals, whose pelts are considered second in quality only to the better known Alaskan seal, are found in the vicinity of a small island a few miles off the coast of Uruguay, South America. Famous French Soldiers Mousquetaires or musketeers were horse-soldiers under the old French regime raised by Louis XIII, 1622. This corps was considered to be a military school for the French nobility. Ashes Clean Silver Oigar or clean cigarette ashes, used on a moist cloth or chamols, make a good silver polish. 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