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Dempsey is champion of the "whites" of the world and Willard was the alleged champion of the same aggregation of persons. Mr. Doyle is quite right about that. And it will stand awhile longer. But there will come a change before the end of this year; mark our predicative judgment, the artful lodging champion of the "whites" of the world, is nearing "the end of his strong", and Tex Rickard is but getting ready for it. He knows well that a Dempsey-Tunney match would never draw the money he is working for, a part only (450,000) of which he has guaranteed Dempsey in signing him for a bout, this summer. He will take place in New York City, and not in New Jersey; again mark our prediction. Suggs-Datto Echoes Fight fans paid out $19,288 to see the boxing bouts at public hall, last week 'Wednesday night. The attendance was 9,314. The principals, Chick Suggs and Johnny Datto, Filipino, split a purse of $5,829. Datto was given $3,331 and suggs, only $2,498. Billy Fergus, the promoter, got $4,528. the government tax amounted to $1,753 and the auctions, including the pay of preliminary fighters and referees and the rent of the hall, amounted to more than $5,000. So it cost Chick just $833 to be robbed of the decision in the fight everybody, but that K. K. K. referee who decided against him in awarding a draw to Johnny Datto, agreed he had won. The prize was $1,914. The first that good fighters or boxers will shun Cleveland in the future unless this sort of thing is stopped immediately. "Tiger"-Greb Meet, May 27. New York City—Negotiations were concluded last week Friday, for the second round of the championship fight. May 27 at Madison Square Garden between "Tiger" Flowers, title-holder and Harry Greb, former "champ", of Pittsburgh. Both boxers have signed contracts. Greb lost the title to the Georgia "deacon", Feb. 26. At that time, Flowers agreed to defend his newly won laurels within three weeks to give the first championship bout, provided he came to terms with the Tex Rickard's Garden promoters. "Tiger" is a real sport. Gourdin vs. Hubbard Washington, D. C.—Ned Gourdin, former world's record holder of the running broad jump, of national and international fame, will compete with DeHart Jubbard in the 100-meter sprint and sprint races at the Howard track meet. May 8. THOMAS TO KING. Neval "Reads the Riot Act" to President Clinton and the United Country. Washington, D. C.—The following letter is self-explanatory and is certainly worth a careful reading and some thought: Senator Wm. H. King, United States Senate, Washington, D. C. My dear Senator King: I—I assure you that the colored people of the country heartily applaud your statesmanship in defending the name of our common country and the independence of the great Nargo Republic of Haiti. It is true that there has been some lawlessness there, but we have that same barbarous thing here in the United States, and even worse. We are the only country in the world cursed by mob law and lynchings and collected statistics we have far more homicides than any other civilized land. We are hardly in a position to proclaim our entry into the little Island of Haiti as a mission of mercy and guardianship of peace. It is nothing save the greed of the great financial interests of our own country, seeking the rich fields of the Caribbean, that carried our flag there at the same time we were proclaiming the World War as "a war to end war", and one to "defend the weak against the strong." The shades of four thousand peaceful natives who had done as no wrong, but who were murdered by our languaging in prisons martyrs now languaging in prisons all over the island because they dared to criticise the ruthless injustice of the American occupation, will not call us harbingers of order and peace. Afro-Americans have a peculiar Sandy Evans, speed-flash, and members of the 369th N. Y. Inf. Athletic club, will participate in the track meets. Also six Meadowbrook club members of Philadelphia, athletes of Lincoln University (Pa.), the University of Pittsburgh and others. Will Open a Law Department. Xenia, O.—Wilberforce University trustees have entered into an agreement to purchase the old Xenia Young Ladies Seminary property on E. Church St., now known as College Apartments. It will be used as the home of a new department (law) of the university. Flowers Unable to Meet Greb. New York City—Walk Miller, manager of "Tiger" Flowers, world's middleweight champion, notified Jess McMahon, matchmaker at Madison Square Garden, Monday, that Flowers will not be able to fulfill their duties at the Garden, May 27, owing to an injured eye, suffered in a match with Italian Joe Gans at Wilkesbarre, Pa., April 26. "An Honest Mistake". An Honest Mistake Eddie Davis, the Akron boxing referee, has always properly been severely censured for declaring that "Chick" Suggs-Johnny Datto bout at public auditorium, last week Wednesday, a "draw", received, Monday, a wire from David Lumlansky, Suggs' manager. Lumlansky's message was in a telegram to Safety Director Barry, chairman of the local boxing commission, which said: "Please say for me to the referee that I am perfectly satisfied he made an honest mistake." Lumlansky's head ought to be examined. About all the crises and special events he has decided the decision should have been awarded to Suggs and it should have been "Honest Mistake". That is enough to make one slick. N. Y. Sport-Writer Liar. New York City. It looks like the prejudiced daily-paper-sport-writers of this "burge" are trying to see which one can tell the most and the biggest lies these days, will have to deal with them, this in their desperation to prevent, if possible, Jack Dempsey's getting into the ring with Harry and receiving what all feel sure he will get—a good but long deferred trimming. "They are throwing conition fits" again for the 'steenth hundredth time because it now looks like they are hitting Wills is threatening a foric dual in New York City in September. Indeed, he WILL have to do so unless Harry dies or gets out of the way as the leading challenger for the title of world's champion heavyweight pugilist. Seeing this, of course, the aforementioned lying-sport-writers are announcing that Wills is threatening a foric dual in New York City he does not get a match with Dempsey; that Harry is going to break with Paddy Mullins, for some reason or other; that Wills believes that Gene Tunney (as a fighter, an "easy thing" for either Wills or Dempsey) will get the first crack at the champion's title, etc., etc. But in the sport up and repeated in the sport departments of daily papers throughout the country. Isn't it rich? pride in the traditions of liberty that which black nation has given and we explore the conquest of the helpless little government by our powerful country simply because it was unable to match us in physical strength Again thanking you, I have the honor to remain, Very truly yours, (Signed) Neval H. Thomas. DOINGS OF THE RACE. Francis Syphax, a sophomore at Boston University, has been awarded the first prize in the annual midwinter contest of the Art School of that university. Lowell C. Wormley, a junior at Dartmouth college, Hanover, New Hampshire, has been awarded a scholarship to study biology at Woods Hole, Mass., this summer. Our present estimated wealth, in this country, is $2,000,000,000, according to a recent survey of the American Sociological Society. In 1912, it was estimated as being $700,000,000. The Women's National Law Committee appeared before the U. S. Senate wet-and-dry hearings, recently, one of the speakers was Mrs. M. Marshall, our vicepresident of our Federation of Women's clubs, and a resident of the District of Columbia. At the primary recently held in Chicago (Cook county), the Hon Adelbert H. Roberts was renominated for the Illinois state senate three Afro-Americans who represented the house of representatives for the house of representatives, the Iowa assembly, and Henry S. Golus won a nomination for County Commissioner of Cook county Solendid work. this. [Image of a man with glasses and a suit] WINS $4,000! An 18-Year-Old Boy, a Newspaper Correspondent and High School Student—Nearly 5,000 Contestants. Akron, O.-Miles A. Smith, an 18-year-old south (white), of Cardington, near here, is the winner, over nearly 5,000 other contestants, in the Martin L. Davey forest Conservation Scholarship contest. Cardington is a farming hamlet with a population of 1109. Young Smith's prize amounted to $4,000. It will be paid to him at the rate of $1,000 a year while attending an Ohio college or university. To earn it he wrote an essay of 490 words paid at the rate of $8.99 a word, making him probably the highest palid writer in Ohio at the present moment. The scholarship was donated by Congressman Martin L. Davey of the fourteenth Ohio district for the purpose of promoting the cause of conservation and reforestation. The contest was conducted by the Ohio Federation of Women's clubs under the management of Mrs. W. M. Milar of Akron, state chairman of conservation. It was open to all high school students in the state of Ohio, public and parochial, for writing an essay of 500 words on forest conservation. Thought was given preference over literary style. OPPOSED TO RACE LINES. Willamette University Students Pass Race Brotherhood Resolutions After an Address by Mrs. E. D. Camady, and Write Their State's Two U. S. Senators. Salem, Oregon.—After listening to Mrs. E. D. Cannady, an organizer for the N. A. A. C. P. in the northwest, students of Willamette University, this city, adopted resolutions which urged the enactment of an anti-lynching bill and called for a brotherly attitude in dealing with race problems. They also added that the state should imitate in resolution to the two Oregon U. S. senators in Washington, D. C. "We, the student body of Willamette University ask your support and urge the passage of the Dyer-Mckinley Anti-Lynching bill." Their other resolution reads as follows: "We, the student body of Willamette University, wish to go on record as being opposed to mob violence and lynching, separate schools for colored and white children, and discrimination in public accommodation." Mrs. Cannady also addressed the Bahai Assembly in Portland, which telegraphed the Oregon U. S. senators in behalf of the anti-lynching bill and received favorable telegrams of reply from Senators McNary and Stanfield. RAISED OVER $5,000 Indianapolis, Ind.—More than $5,400 has already been raised to carry the anti-segregation fight into court, more than 1,200 new members have joined the local N. A. A. C. P., and plans are completed for filing suit. One of the most prominent law firms in the middle west, namely Miller, Barker and Theodore, which founded by President Benjamin Harrison and had former U. S. Attorney General W. H. Miller as a member, has been retained to fight the case. Our attorneys associated with them are R. L. Brokenburk, W. S. Henry, and F. B. Ransom, the last named serving without compensation. Local white people are helping to raise the fund contributions of $100 each having already been received from the novelist, Meredith Nicholson, and Herman Lieber, recently chosen chairman of the local community chest fund. **Life. What Is It?** A little smile, a little tear, A little joy, a little fear, A little love, a little sweet, Life Bitter, Life Is sweet. **Mertha. Bright Star.** SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS DARROW OUTLINES THE CASE. HIS CHIEF ASSISTANT, ATTY. CHAWKE, GRILLS STAR POLICE-WITNESS. Where a Former Tennessee "Cracker", Now a Detroit Policeman, Got Into the Sweet Trouble--Another Real Battle for Citizens' Rights. (Special to The Gazette.) Detroit, Mich.-An indication of just how careful and thoro Atty's Darrow and Chawke are proceeding in the Dr. Henry Sweet trial here on Monday, put to prospective jurors in the case, the first of last week: "If white men had been occupying that house at Garland and Charlevio avenues, and the mob on the outside was composed of grotesques, the slainness of a white man would you give more weight to the facts in the case?" To Darrow this court fight is not merely the trial of the case of the People vs. Sweet. It is the case of the People vs. the Afro-American, and he is right, because of its far-reaching, country-wide effect. The regular jury panel of over 200 for the two weeks, beginning in April 9, 2004, last week Thursday (from Tuesday). Robert M. Thoms, prosecuting attorney, and Clarence Darrow, chief of defense counsel, immediately began examining 35 members of a special panel of 125 called for service, Monday. Another panel of 125 was called. Friday. Throughout the questioning of the jurors, the Sweet his disciplined counsel, apparently unperturbed. Frequently he smiles at the quips exchanged across the attorney's table, and often he holds whispered conversations with one or the other of his counsel. An outline of issues in the trial of Henry Sweet, charged with killing Leon Breiner, a member of a mob, last summer, was given not under way. A crowd that filled every inch of space in Judge Frank Murphy's (Recorder's) court attended the opening of the trial. Clarence Darrow and Prosecutor Toms argued whether Sweet and his brother, Dr. Ossian Sweet, and nine others who gathered in Dr. Sweet's new home, at Garland Avenue and North Street, were right. Sept. 9, 25, were justified in shooting into a mob that stoned the house, etc. Outlines The Sweet Case. Darrow after reciting our hard ship. "The white people in this neighborhood began to prepare for the reception of Dr. Sweet. They organized the Waterworks Improvement Association. It had nothing to do with waterworks or improvement. They organized to keep the waterways open. Dr. Sweet bought this home in June, but he did not move in until September. We will show you that on July 6 a Negro named Briscoe bought an apartment intending to rent it to Negroes. The tenants were driven away by white men. On July 9, a Negro named Fletcher bought a home on Stooper St. A white man bought a place on Spokane Ave. A great array of policemen was there when he went in. A crowd came, broke windows, destroyed his automobile and finally forced its way into the house. In the presence of policemen they finally forced Dr. Turner to sign an authorization to sell the place. He was driven out of all the buildings, all the mob All these acts of violence were known to the Dr. Sweet of violence knew to number of numerous instances in which black men had been burned and hanged in both north and south. Sweet had a wife and a baby. He wanted a place to live. "He took his two brothers, his chauffeur, and some friends into the home he bought. They took with them pistols, guns and ammunition not in the intention of protection in slight provocation, but with the intention of protecting their bodies, and their homes as they had a perfect right to do under the constitution. Stones came through the windows. The crowd increased. These men fired. I don't know who killed Breiner. It might have been Henry Sweet. He doesn't know. You will have to determine whether he was in a combination to kill Breiner. It is right. If Henry Sweet there is room to shoot on slight provocation, he would be guilty. It doesn't make any difference who fired the shot that killed Breiner. But if he went there to defend his brother's home and his family, he's innocent. Or if he went there for that purpose and made a mistake and shot when it wasn't necessary, but thought it was, he's innocent." Police—Witness Grilled. Two of the state's star witnesses were then put on the stand—Police Inspector Norton M. Schuknecht and IN UNION IS STRONGER COPY FIVE CENTS TRIAL! INES THE CASE. ATTY. CHAWKE, GRILLS WE-WITNESS. e "Cracker", Now a Detroit Sweet Trouble--Another Citizens' Rights. Lleut, Paul Schellenberger. The torner was cross-examined by Atty. Darrow, who brought out the fact that automobile traffic was so heavy past the Sweet home, on the evening of the disturbance, that it was finally diverted to Charlevox. Ave. He admitted further that he had been the owner of the Waterworks Park Improvement society, and detailed two detectives to attend one of the organization's meetings. What they learned was not disclosed. In the previous trial, Darrow very properly condemned the society, which was formed for the purpose of keeping our people out of the Garland Ave. district. Lleut. Schellenberger was subjected to a merciless grilling by the court, before counsel, after he had contradicted Schuknecht's assertion that there was an unusual amount of automobile traffic on Garland Ave., prior to the shooting. He finally admitted that traffic was congested and that many of the cars stopped while their occupants viewed the bombarding with stones of the Sweet residence. The testimony of the two officers indicated that a police of the district was on the upstairs windows of the house. They were standing diagonally across the street at the time, they said, Schuknecht ran over to the house while Schellenberger telephoned for the reserves. Schuknecht testified that he was admitted by Dr. Steve and also said that stones hit the porch of the house as he went in. Tennessee "Cracker," Detroit Po Patrolman Frank Gill, former Tennessee "cracker", another witness for the prosecution, was put on the stand, Tuesday, and (of course) denied that the shot he admitted firing, killed Leon Breiner, from whose death the murder of his friend lived long in the south knows how such things are done down there when it is desired to fix a crime on one or more of our people. Gill may not have killed Breiner; and then again he may have done so, and purposefully, too, for reasons obvious. In the previous trial it was suggested his shot might have struck Breiner, but we would be blind in the back while standing across the street from the home of Dr. Ossian Sweet, Dr. Henry Sweet's brother. Gill admitted firing one shot. Lieut. Paul Schellenberger was recalled to the stand by Atty. Chawke. He was questioned concerning the crowd. How many persons in a quarter of the room were in the Sweet home did you see just before the shooting?" asked Mr. Chawke. "Between 100 and 150," replied the officer. Gill was also asked this question and estimated the number to be 50, when as a matter of fact there were 300 and 500. Nearer one thousand would be closer to the truth. That a group of boys and men threw stones at Dr. Ossian H. Sweet's house, prior to the shooting, was the testimony of two witnesses, Tuesday afternoon. They were: George Suppas, age 14, 2196 Garland Ave., and Ulrich Arthur, age 65. They said they were attracted to the scene by a large crowd and mingled with it for a time, finally sitting on the porch of the Ray Dove home. While sitting there, they said six or seven other boys gathered and also threw stones at the Sweet home, directly across the street. John Gelke and his wife Della, whose home adjoins the house, were also crowd had assembled, but later under cross-examination by Chawke Gelke admitted that there was quite a crowd of persons across the street. THE K. K. K.'S BUSY! THE K. K. K.'S BUSY! Cateret, N. J.-Our people of this little town were thoroly aroused all day, Monday, after the burning of our church in the morning and the eviction of 100 of our men, women and children from their homes. The trouble started over the killing of John Carroll, a pugilist, Sunday, when he attacked one of our young men. Ralph Johnson, a confederate of Carroll, was wounded. Rev. George Reed, pastor of our church, burned, was beaten on the streets, Monday, and ordered to leave town. He and his wife caught a bus but he came back. All who were evicted from their homes were also ordered to leave town but have not gone and will not go. The authorities are trying to restore order and promise our people assistance. The latter are now prepared to protect themselves with or without this belated promise of assistance. SIS PAID ME $5 FOR BREAKING HER RESOLUTION NOT TO EAT CANDY. THEN BOORROWED IT BACK. IF I EAT ANY, I HAVE TO PAY HER $5. ILL NEVER SEE THAT FIVE AGAIN, SO I THINK ILL EAT SOME! SIS. IF I BREAK MY RESOLUTION AND EAT SOME CANDY, IT'LL COST ME $5 AND AS YOU OWE ME FIVE, THAT WILL SQUARE US UP! BUT I HAVEN'T ANY MORE DEAR! I ATE IT! W-WELL, THEN, GIVE ME BACK MY $5! GLADLY, SIS,— BUT I SPENT IT! Tim Early PUBLISHED EVERY SATUPDAY (In Advance) One Year ..... $2.00 six Months ..... 1.00 subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Sattered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Bell' Phone: Cherry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWS- EST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 350,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1926. Dr. Alonzo P. Holly, an Afro-American, who was born in Haiti, a son of the noted Bishop Holly, has just published a very interesting and valuable little booklet, "The Public Schools and Education in Haiti", which should grace the home of every intelligent member of the race. Write Dr. Holly, 620 Second Ave., West Palm Beach, Florida, at once, for a copy. Wm. Henry Johnson, P. T. Barnum, the great showman's "What is It", called "Zip", died in Bellevue hospital, New York City, Sunday. "Zip" made money for himself and Barnum posing as a freak or "monstrosity". From whom did they make the money? Why, from those "smart" American people. Yes, and from "smartalecks" abroad, too. You will recall the famous showman loved to say, years ago, that "there was one born, every minute". So very many of them like to laugh at or "make fun" of others. And yet they "bite" easily and freely when the Barnums and "Zips" come along. Especially if there is in the short-tent "at 25€ per a cow with its tail (in the trough) where its head ought to be." WANT MORE "JIM CROW"! The following are the officers of the Cleveland Hospital association, which is said to be sponsoring an effort to establish a "jim crow" hospital in this city: A. H. Martin, pres.; Wm. R. Green, vice-pres.; George P. Hinton, sec.; H. S. Chaucey, treas. Trustees: A. H. Martin, Mrs. Lethia C. Fleming, John H. Sears, V. A. Washington, A. C. Frazier, Jane E. Hunter, Clayborne George, Mrs. Marie Taylor Browne, F. G. Martin, Mrs. C. H. Phillips and J. E. Roundtree. It is said that prejudiced white city-officials, and others of their "kidney", who wish to get our patients out of local hospitals, are encouraging these "Negroes" to take the course they are pursuing. Lord, have mercy! The best of our local physicians, knowing too well what "jim crow" in the South is, are unalterably opposed to this latest effort to saddle more "jim crow" on our already too great suffering people of this community. If this "jim crow" hospital movement succeeds, the next step of the prejudiced whites and "jim crow Negroes" in the community will be to encourage a movement in favor of separate or "jim crow" schools, and then away will go nearly seventy-five of our near one hundred public school-teachers now working in Cleveland's schools, and color-lines galore will multiply in almost all the public and quasi-public places of business, entertainment, etc., in this city. The retrogressive trend of some "Negroes" in Cleveland, these days, is past understanding. One would think that they of all others would have had, long ago, a sufficiency of "jim crow" to satisfy them for the rest of their natural lives. Organization should be had to stop them from "turning back the hands of the clock" more than fifty years in Cleveland. MISSISSIPPIT'S DISGRACE. In Picayune, Miss., two white men were arrested for the murder of two government entomologists. One of the arrested men was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. The second was exonerated by the grand jury. While still in prison, however, the citizen held guards was killed by 19 men wearing handcuffs over their faces and lynched. This is a sample of the type of justice meted out by the champion lynching state in the Union. While every other commonwealth has made remarkable headway in abolishing America's most disgraced practice, Mississippi seems intent upon reviving the dying practice. From being lynched in bonding colony to guilty of innocent, has now extended operations to the white element. That doesn't surprise the criminologist. Lynchings are most prevalent in communities that are most backward, where normal social life is THE GEEVUM GIRLS retarded, either by climate or convention. A lynching, grewsome as it may sound, takes the place of a musical comedy. It is a form of mental catharsis. The man bent upon a lynching doesn't care who is the victim. "I'm going to stick around until somebody gets hanged," is the common remark at a lynching bee. The crowd wants an execution. Any victim will do. Such, evidently, is the state of civilization in Mississippi, A. D. 1926.—The Cleveland, (O.) daily News. It takes lynching of white persons, in the South, to make the great majority of the daily newspapers of the north wake up to the fact that there really is lynching in the South and that it is such a terrible thing". This, too, in spite of the fact that there has been on the average of a hundred or more "Negroes" lynched in that section of the country, every year, for many years. Most of the latter were most brutally and flendishly lynched, a number being burned at the stake. A number of them were taken out of prisons, and courts, too, after having been held guiltless of charges preferred against them. Georgia has been the champion lynching state for many years in spite of the fact that Mississippi may have led in this respect, last year. If any "commonwealth (in the south) has made remarkable headway in abolishing America's most disgraceful practice", it has been kept a deep, dark secret from the rest of the country. "The American pastime", lynching, can hardly be characterized as a "dying practice". There most certainly is not enough evidence, as yet, to justify any such statement. The South has been lynching white people as well as "Negroes" for many years. Of course, it is "backward" and has always been so. Yes, "such is the state of civilization" in the South, A. D. 1926. THIS IS FINE! Our Jewish fellow-citizens have been conducting a drive for money to help the needy of their race in distant lands. Louisville had its quota to raise. We observe the American Mutual Savings Bank donated a good sum of money to the drive. That is the spirit. Nothing hurts the race as much as its perpetual role of beggar. It's "white folks gimme to build my church, my school, my Yeshiva C A A, my home," "handful of gimme and toughful of much oblige" that has been the history of the "Negro" for fifty years. This despite the fact he prates about his "un-precedented progress" and the wealth he has amassed. It has hurt us more than any other thing. It has increased disrespect for us and contempt. And no man or race is much while the object of contempt and disrespect of his neighbors. All we ever should ask for is a deal, equal opportunity, justice for humans, equal things we can do without begging. But we are getting out of it. More and more we are putting up the money for our own institutions and our own fights. Negroes gave $76,000 for the N. A. A. C. P. Defense Fund to help the Sweets and to fight segregation and race prejudices. That's real progress. So it is a fine thing to see a Negro institution give to us a cause; another race, it is compelled to make for better racial feeling. We doubt if the American Mutual ever made a better investment—Louisville (Ky.) News. Wm. Warely. SYD. THOMPSON'S PROTEST! Editor Gazette, Dear Sir:—I wish to call your attention to one of the most disgusting things that has occurred in this city in recent years. Sunday, about 12 o'clock, just as St. Andrew's P. E. church was letting out. Welcome T. Blue, Jr., messenger in Judge Westenbrock court, and a Dr. Ruth Dentist at Scroll Ave, and E. 14th St, had four students, whom they were initiating into some fraternity, dressed up in clowns' clothing, with straw hats, and red bandanna handkerchiefs around their necks, carrying baskets of peanuts, stationed outside of the church door, giving the school children peanuts and making all kinds of litter in front of the church entrance. It may be the custom of college students to do these things. I do not believe it shows the proper spirit to pick out a church front on a Sunday noon as a place for such a performance. Very truly yours, Sidney B. Thompson. Burned To Death. Fayetteville, Ga.—Barricaded in his home to resist arrest on a charge of murder (Clint, Brown, age 60, farmer, (white), was burned to death, last week Wednesday night, when officers set fire to the dwelling in an effort to drive him out. Brown was wanted in connection with the recent slaying of Rich Neely, a member of the race. When officers went to the house, five miles from here, Brown opened fire, wounded one of the officers, then shut himself in the house. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1926. FRESH OHIO NEWS Written By "The Old Reliable" Gazette's Correspondents What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Etc. SHARLINE.—Mrs. Luce Reed, age 90, is seriously ill. Emily and Elmer Harvey are her great-grand children.—Dr. J. H. Maxwell of Youngstown preached at the A. M. E. mission here, Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Kessler, stop 26, have moved to their new home in Youngstown.—Services at both Baptist churches were well attended. Sunday.—The Business club, J. Elmer Harvey, sec. treas., has declared its regular semi-annual dividend payable on May 1.—The New Castle Grays and the Sharline Brownies are booked to play here soon. day.—Rev. S. H. Williams will graduate from Wilberforce University in June.—Mr. Robert Valentine of near Austin visited his father, recently. MANSFIELD.—Mrs. Hattie Bank has moved into her new home in E. 2nd St.—Messrs. Gantt and Rector of Cleveland are here in the insurance company. The supper, last Saturday, at Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Lake's, was a decided success.—Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sawyer, Mrs. Hattie Banks and Mrs. Pearl Cobb spent Sunday in CORRESPONDENTS must mall all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, business names, job notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 25 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. CADIZ—Mrs. Elizabeth West spent the week end in Wheeling.—Mr. David Christian of Sco was a Cadiz visitor, Sunday.—Rev. C. M. Lee, formerly of Bellaire, is the new pastor of Simpson M. E. church.—Mrs. Rezin Cooper, who has been a pastor, is right.—Mr. G. W. Bell entertained the brotherhood of St. James A. M. E. church, Sunday.—Born to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Rudolph, Sunday, a son.—St. James A. M. E. Glee club will hold a songfest at Long's Theater, the afternoon of May 9. Mrs. C. M. Hogans, directress. A number are expected from surrounding towns. Rev. Rew. E. John Quinn A. M. E. church Steubenville, will be among the solitaries. A chicken dinner will be served at the church during the noon hour. YOUNGSTOWN.—The Hon. Wm. R. Stewart was one of the speakers at the dinner tendered Judge Albert George of Chicago in Cleveland, Sunday evening.—The Soos auxiliary gave a style show, Saturday night, at a Cleveland orchestra.—Bethany Baptist church was sold at sheriff's sale, Saturday. Its officers were the best bidders. The members have 30 days in which to raise $2,000. The assistance of the public is asked.—The funeral of E. L. Richardson, who was held at C. Hendley officiating—Dr. J. H. Maxwell preached in Sharline, Sunday afternoon.—The members of Zion A. M. E. church had Senior Bishop Clements with them, Sunday.—Thos, Jackson, one of our policemen, was "fired," Friday, by the chief for "conduct unlawfully" the force, 18 months. Recently he had been working as a plainclothes officer and was eligible for promotion to detective. Officer Jackson is a 32nd degree, F, and A. M. ROXABELLL —Rev. Wm. Richardson conducted the morning service at the Second Baptist church, Sunday, in the absence of the pastor who attended the M. S. convention in Nelsonville. Rev. Wilber Jones preached in the evening. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams, Mr. and Mrs. John Bayless, two sons and daughter, and Anna Richardson also attended the church. Mr. Mary Williams and Mrs. Lona Bayless. A mother's day program will be rendered at the church. —Our teacher, Miss Weaver, has gone home to Columbus, School closed, Friday. —Mr. Clarence Pleasant was again a Thursday night visitor in Roxabell and Frankfort. —W. B. Brooks is the guest of Mr. and Al. Byrd. —May 23, our pastor will preach in Hillsboro and Roxabell has a cordial invitation to the baptizing. —Minnie and Jeannette Wright were called to Chillicothe, Sunday evening, by a niece's illness. Mrs. Thomas Valentine was also a Chillicothe visitor. —Mrs. Mredred Wright's baby is very ill. Everette Wright, who has been in the community for much better. The community band honored our high school graduate, Leroy Sloan, at the Haney Store with several selections. He received many congratulations. —Mr. Elmer Jones is convalescent. Our community band will give a box social at the Frankfort hall, May 1. —Mr. and Mrs. Sloan visited their daughters, Sun- day—Rev. S. H. Williams will graduate from Wilberforce University in June—Mr. Robert Valentine Austin visited his father, recently. MANSFIELD.—Mrs. Hattie Bank has moved into her new home in E. 2nd St.—Messrs. Gantt and Rector of Cleveland are here in the interest of an insurance company.—The supper, last Saturday, at Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Lake's, was a decided success.—Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sawyer, Mrs. Hattie Banks and Mrs. Pearl Cobb spent Sunday in the church, where Mrs. Lawson measles—Mrs. Lila Whitside is convalescent.—Rev. and Mrs. Wm. Burgess of Oberlin are being entertained at Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Reynold's.—Mrs. Mary West, who spent the winter with Mrs. Alfred Lee, will leave, Thursday, for Marion, Ind. Revival services will begin at Mt. church on Monday night. Harold Lloyd has taken Mrs. Wilbur Martin has the gripple.—A green supper, tonight at Mrs. R. W. Reynold's, given by club No. 2.—Miss Livera Newton entertained at dinner, last Thursday, Mrs. Vivian Adams of Marion.—Mrs. Dollie Minor, of W. Va., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Hattie Minor.—Condiable interest in Mrs. A. M. e church revival. It will close. Sunday.—Mrs. Hazel Shaw and Mrs. Minnie Johnson of Detroit are week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Hogan. HILLSBORO. — Mrs. Lucinda Young, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Hurd and family, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Goins and family were dinner-guests of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams, Jr. Sunday.—Mrs. Charles Colter has returned from a visit with relatives in Jamestown.—Richard Willis and Vernon Young visited in Woxford.—Mrs. Rev. J. J. 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CLEVELAND Social and Personal CLEVELAND Social and Personal Mrs. H. A. Hunt, Jr., of this city, who is in New Orleans, recently gave birth to twin boys. The funeral of Orlando S. Fox, an old resident, whose wife died about six months ago, was held from Antioch Baptist church, recently. He was superintendent of its S. S. for years. The Harmonic Choral society had as guests, recently, Mr. and Mrs. C. Quintin, of the art museum, and Mrs. A. D. Baldwin of the Institute of Music. Mrs. Grace Willis Thompson, director. Geo. A. Myers, proprietor of the Hollendle Barber shop, who has been very ill for the flu and pneumonia since last week Tuesday, was reported much better as we went to press. Thursday morning. Wm. McIntire and Tillman Farlics were presented with beautiful gift cards recently, in recognition of their 25 years of faithful service with the Cleveland Trust Co., one of the largest institutions of the kind in the country. 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The editor of The Gazette was greatly surprised and pleased, last Saturday, when his long-time friend, Richard H. Scott of Aetna Rd, walked into the office of "The Old Reliable", looking good for "a sick man". While he is not well it is true, "Dick is holding up" fine and we are-mighty glad of it. More power and strength to him! Mr. L. S. Jones, E. 101st St, went to Lancaster, Tuesday evening, to accompany his wife home to Cleveland, Friday. Mrs. Jones has been ill there for many weeks, having sustained a broken limb in an accident on a sidewalk while she and Mr. Jones were visiting in Lancaster as a part of a tour of several southern Ohio cities. Mrs. Cora West Robinson, president of our federation of women's clubs; Mrs. Ella White, Mrs. J. Crawford and Mrs. Lenora Gibson are entitled to much praise for their efforts in the Emmanuel Ross case. Attty Louise Pridgeon, Hattie Stewart, Fannie Morton, Laura Warren, Eliza Moore and M. 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Hi-Ja Chemical Company Manufacturers of Hi-Ja Beauty Products, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, U. S. A. W. L. EASLEY VICE at all times. That is the is never a deviation. L $150.00 brush casket, engraved shing, dressing, shav- removal from hos- ressing, finest funeral times. burden to those who same careful and funeral as those of HMENT ```markdown ``` Miss Florence Collins, one of the most famous of beauties, says Hi-Ja Quinine Hair Dressing and Hi-Ja Ointment made her beautiful. JOHN H. BROWN One of Cleveland's Finest and Most Modern Mortuaries 2262 East 55th Street SEGREGATION AN OUTRAGE! Help The "Old Reliable" to increase its circulation! Don't Throw Away Your Copy of THE GAZETTE After Reading it, But Give It to a Friend or an acquaintance who Might Subscribe After Reading a Copy of It. How Our Men And Women Are Insulted And Humiliated In the Government's Departments—Will the Self and Race-Respecting Negro Press of This Country Continue to Stand for This Sort of Thing? (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C., Oct. 4, 1924. There is more segregation in Washington today under President Coolidge than there has ever been since the Civil War. The beginnings of segregation were under President Taft. It was greatly extended, under President Wilson; increased, still further, under President Harding; and reached its zenith President Coolidge in 1929, when all of our parks President Wilson never troubled, but the present administration has found time and desire to introduce it even there. To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. Mr. Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the common in this city from the rest, restricting white people, white people, and black to black, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, an announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold office where white people complained. Segregation, then, is a situation and a Democratic one, brought by Republicans, and carried on to its all-embracing extent by Republicans! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany papers, is tenacious and on to by our Republican President. Only last week, a colored lady appeared after having passed the best examination, and having been telegraphed by the department. The photograph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to appoint her when she appeared, and they saw her complexion. Commissioner Blair of the internal revenue bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clerk, and his word is law there, as he has a favorite of Secretary Mellon and President Edge. He hails from North Carolina the home of the other favorite and leader of the segregation forces, Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds, is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at a loss to understand why he does not put his splendid declarations on democracy into operation here, where it would not even cost him a single vote and where he has full power and absolutely no opposition. They wonder if he is not a firm believer in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the chief tenets of the Ku Klux Klan which has found its "welcome home" in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. (Special to The Gazette.) (Special to the Gatehouse, Washington, D. C.—In the postface segregation of Campman. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical d'advantages. The department maintains a spacious cafeteria for those only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing luncheons and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantageous as it is, is far less galling to the colored clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, the comfort of the latter, and taking them off as though they were lepers. The injustice stings all the more when they reflect that they are far more capable than the whites, and render government more intelligent and efficient service—the white man of their attainment being able to got far more lucrative employment. The department goes even farther in its solicitude for whites and neglect of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other games, comfortable lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. This private club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. In the locker rooms there is segregation, and segregation is even attempted in the toilets. And all of this is against the most dependable and faithful employees. Last year the white employees passed around invitations to the white employees, in the very presence of the colored, to attend a reception to the heads of departments, including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announced dancing and a pleasant social evening with the officials for "the postoffice employees," yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. I hurried a protest to the postmaster general the day before it was to come off, and he ordered them to work as well as the white. These clerks get around their colored co-workers by giving the function at a local hotel. It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express itself in appointments, assignments, and salaries. Colored applicants are often passed over though their examination was superior. No Negro, however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The hard, unyielding caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests in quickness and accuracy in the handling of mail. Colored clerks have dared to form a union which may be regularly and affectionately manly and intelligent pertinent to the postmaster, and often appeals from his decisions to the postmaster-general. It has secured some improvement in their working conditions, but they are still bitter over the huge injustice done to them for nothing else than the color of their skin. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—The government print office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the best and brightest of our girls are forced to accept interior positions there on account of the better and more lucrative avenues of employment being closed to them because of their color. The whites are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equaling our girls in educational equipment, culture, and working efficiency. Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the latter, of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreational facilities. There is a large number in this huge structure, where all of the employees may go, but there are a few in an out-of-the-way reserved for our employees. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the place, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public humiliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard caste that bars promotion. Here as well, the inferior whites pass over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a spainful injustice of his work, felt the employees so keenly that he secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of those smart Negroes" who believe in "social equality," and then dismissed on a trumped-up basis. Hence he carried a pistol. Right after the dance incident a fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and falling to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons for which he was immediately dismissed. By this severe punishment our employees are taught that there is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a denial that the conditions complained of exist, and a request for the my information, for the fate these informants would suffer so I have given a single name!! The department then taking the position that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this iniquitous scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1926. is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it. (Special to the Gazette) Washington, D. C.—Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and members of his family, three heroic young colored women who lost their positions as a result of their protest, and the noble wife of Senator Robert La Follette. Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a member of his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thought of race. Shortly thereafter came an officer of segregation of the races, and a white woman who had been noted for her philanthropy people and who was upon intimate terms at the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their place." Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily dismissed! Senator La Follette lodged a protest with Secretary McAdoo to no avail, and his noble wife began a crusade against the undemocratic innovation. She took the platform here in Washington and Boston before the famous Twentieth Century club. She used the columns of the Senator's magazine, sparing neither space nor vigor of utterance. She thundered against it in our local white press, and addressed the national gathering of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in New York. When our people here were so profoundly discuraged, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A. to urge them to continue the fight, for democracy was at the crises. Oswald and his associates tried to attack White House and Cabinet and arouse our people, and the Nation Association secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The fight checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregators, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau ait together. The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democratic party is still there, in all of its fullness, under the administration of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public school system. GATED in their rest rooms, tents, and working stations, and of course none are ever thought of for promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best nomes, most of them with high age, normal school training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there is no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited fields at high wage for even mediocre talents. The best of our girls must take these inferior positions in segregation. Our people are still hoping for the issuance of an order destroying this iniquitous practice in all of our government departments, for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impairs the government service. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—The treasury department, according to the President's recent acceptance speech, is now under the ablest financial genius since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the great Hamilton came from the West Indies, and in that long sweep of history that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lincoln's cabinet, who, in a national extremity such as this country has never known, devised the national banking system which financed the Civil War; and Ohio's master financier, John Sherman. These men never knew what segregation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blair from North Carolina, has not appointed a colored clerk since his incumbency. While his predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, a Democrat from Texas, appointed and promoted several of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war necessitated, this is by far the largest department of the treasury, employing more than 100,000 grocers are so scarce that they can't be noticed. There is the same general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency when promotions are due; ability to go so far and no farther. The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special toiletes, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilets for the colored are few in such a large structure. Hence, the segregated clerks are forced to endure physical inconvenience at times, and are forced to travel long distances when they desire the use of them. The department maintains a huge, magnificent cafeteria, in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national driveway, where white people of every class can come to rest, dine, and socialize of afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of this "delightful retreat," and the festive scene that their presence creates. It seats two thousand diners with space to spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The registrieship of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the colored people are congregated in a separate room which is publicly proclaimed as "a colored division." When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against this segregation would result in the abolition of the division altogether; so they remain in a dilemma, fearing to act. Our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and being poor, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at work, but economic stress compels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. COOLIDGE'S SEGREGATION Washington, D. C.—We wish to call attention to the fact that in the fight against the segregation of our government employees, the Treasury Department will most likely be the center of attack, for segregation in several of its bureaus has been most pronounced. This is particularly true of the office of the register of the treasury and the internal revenue bureau. In the former, bearer board walls were maintained until recently. In the latter there have been two cases of discrimination on account of color brought to public view. The words, announcing the election of President Coolidge, were hardly cold before the effort to increase segregation in the departments here was on again at full speed. A child wiped up a little during the campaign. Investments of Burkees An investigation of the executive departments and bureaus listed below shows that segregation prevails in them as follows: War Department. Transportation Department segregated section of 5 employees P. O. Separate Lunch Room Post Office Department—a segregated lunch room. "HUMAN NATURE'S FOULEST BLOT." My ear is pained My soul is sick with every day's report. Of wrong and outrage, with which the earth is filled. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart. It does not feel for man: the natural bond Of brotherhood is severed as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skim Not colored like his own: and having power To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys: Tis human nature's broadest foulest blot. —Cowper. CHARACTER. Character, like a fine old tree, matures slowly and is a riper growth than success that is forced as hothouse products are forced. Character in a newspaper develops through years of service to a single people. For forty-two years The Gazette has been serving our people of this country. It has gathered a reader-clientele whose tastes it reflects, and whose power and responsiveness to buy are direct measures of its present importance to every advertiser. EDITOR. able" to incr HE GAZE who Might Su TRAMP DIES AFTER FINDING GOLD TRAMP DIES AFTER FINDING GOLD AGED CALIFORNIA PROSPECTOR HAD REFUSED $60,000 FOR DIS. COVERED TREASURE HAD SEARCHED YEARS FOR DUST Pocket of Valuable Ore Found on Claim Forty Miles From Railroad San Bernardino, Cal.-Found dead on the desert two days after he had refused $60,000 for a gold mine which he had discovered, the story of William Thorton, desert rat, reads like a page of fiction. As wealth, riches and all that go with them were within reach of the old prospector, fate decreed that he should never live to enjoy them, as he was found dead a few hours later near Dale. Thorton, according to Sheriff J. L. McMinn, who conducted the inquest, had searched the desert for years, hunting for the ore which would bring him riches. The man originally lived in Texas, but he was a familiar character for years around Amboy and Dale. With two other men Thornton at last found a flash of pay dirt near a claim known as "29 Palms." It was located near Dale, which is 40 miles from the railroad. The three men with Thornton leading in the work, dug deep into the property and soon ore, which proved beyond all doubt that the claim was one of the richest in the district, was discovered. Several mining men from Los Angeles, hearing of the strike, visited the property and quickly proffered an offer of $60,000 to Thornton for the claim. Thornton refused the offer, thinking it worth twice that amount when it was developed. Two days later Thornton was taken sick and died that day. Sheriff McMinn was notified and he conducted the inquest, after making the long trip in a motor car with J. L. Robinson and Morris Spellman. FINGER PRINTS GIVE , MONKEY THIEF AWAY Crook Trapped by Use of Modern Crime Detection Methods—Left Marks on Grip. New York—Modern crime detection methods have been put into effect in the New York Zoo. Fred Engelholm, keeper of the monkey house has caught a thieving orang outang by the fingerprint system. Since flirting has been stopped in the various monkey houses things have been a bit dull, so the keepers of the zoo have been whiling away the dull hours lately by taking fingerprints of apes, monkeys and gorillas and comparing them with their own. Among other dainty hands which have been placed in the smudge pot for that purpose were those of Data, the only orang outang in captivity in the Bronx. Raymond Dittmar, curator, entered the monkey house the other day with a suit case, which he left near the door and then went to his office. When he returned an hour later the suit case was missing. A careful search revealed it behind a desk, and according to the story, the bag had a large fingerprint on it. Engelholm entered, examined the smudge and, according to the chatter is quoted as saying, "That is the fingerprint of Datu, the orang outang; she stole the bag and the fingerprint convinces me that she is a thief. I think I can explain the recent theft of an inkwell." Clean Food Kills Cave Man Milwaukee, Wis.-Starving because he was given wholesome food, and wretched because the accumulated dirt of twenty years had been scrubbed from his body, Ferdinand Nurnberg, 48 years old, died in the house of correction, where he had been removed. The man's stomach accustomed to the filth of the garbage plant, revolted at cleanly food. For twenty years Nurnberg had lived within a few feet of the lake, but he never took a bath. At a local sax:torium he was scrubbed for two hours, the attendants using washing powder and scrub brushes. Men Taller in the Morning Washington—Men are taller in the morning than in the evening, medical examiners for the United States Marine Corps declare, and the applicant for enlistment who is of medium or small stature has a better chance just after breakfa. to meet the height requirements than at any other time during the day. The discs of cartilage between the vertebra of the backbone yield to the pressure due to weight of the body, when it is erect, and expand while the Congressman Fish, an Officer of the 369th Inf. During the World War, Working Hard For a Monument in France Honoring Our Soldiers. Washington, D. C.—The faculty and student-body of Howard University were favored with an address by Congressman Hamilton Fish of New York City, last week Wednesday. He called attention, among other things to a bill introduced by him in Congress which our people should unitedly support, authorizing the expenditure of $30,000 to erect a monument in France in memory of our four regiments that made up the Provisional 93rd Division of the A. E. F. This Division was composed of the 369th Regiment, volunteers from New York, known as the "Old Fifteenth" the 370th, a volunteer regiment from Chicago; the 371st, a crafted regiment from Washington, D. C.; the 382nd, a volunteer regiment composed of the First Battalion, from the District of Columbia; Ninth Ohio Battalion, and a company each from Massachusetts, Connecticut and Maryland. Congressman Fish said: "Three of these regiments of the 93d Division had their war flags decorated with the French Croix de Guerre. There were some 400 decorations given to ten numbers for regiments for heroism, gallantry, and bits of action. There were some 450 killed and over 3,000 wounded, making a 40 per cent record." He was given a vociferous welcome by the student-body and faculty, assembled in office of the 369th Inf., the "Old Fifteenth", during the World War. DR. W. A. SINCLAIR DEAD. Veteran Race Champion Died Suddenly of Double Pneumonia—President, N. E. R. League and Secretary, Howard University Alumni Association. Philadelphia, Pa.—Dr. Wm. A. Sinclair was buried here, Monday. He was executive secretary of the General Alumni association of Howard University, of which school he had been a trustee as well as in its early years an efficient financial secretary. He was also president of the National Equal Rights league, at the time of his death, April 20, in Mercy Hospital here, due to double pneumonia. Dr. Sinclair, who was a founder and former member of the board of directors of the N.A.A. P. W. writer and author, his outstanding book being "The Aftermath of Slavery", considered one of the ablest defences of the reconstruction era which followed the Civil War. THAT DARROW LECTURE At Mt. Zion Cong. Church on a Recent Sunday and the "Jim Crow" Hospital Movement—Endorses "The Gazette's" Stand On Both. Cleveland, O., April 16, '26 Editor Gazette, Dear Sir—We wish to commend you for your outspoken condemnation of the Clarence Darrow Sunday paid-admission-lecure held at Mt. Zion Congregational Temple (church) which appeared recently in The Gazette. Your attitude in this matter is sound. It is to be refreted that Mt. Zion should allow herself to be prostituted to this extent. The N. A. C. P does not hesitate to use whatever medium it can invoke to carry forward its cause. And its cause seems to be the keeping in office of "high brow" on a goodly salary. We wish further to commend you on your out-spoken condemnation of this "Negro" hospital movement. A hospital manued by "Negro" doctors and nurses, although it may not claim any color-line, will be the beginning of "Negro" schools in Cleveland. Once a "Negro" hospital is perfected, we will have separate schools, and there is no telling where it will end. It seems strange that only the now "Negro", coming into Cleveland, advocates this sort of thing. Is it because he wants a job? "LIKE THE STURDY OAK" "The Old Reliable" Gazette Has Stood For Forty-three Years—A White Friend Frankly Expresses Her Opinion. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, Ohio. Dear Mr. Smith:—I have received and read with pleasure several copies of your paper, sent to my office. First, allow me to say, I am proud to know of such a gentleman as yourself, who is a real he-man and is not afraid to express his opinion of the white man and the Negro, be he right or wrong. Also, I admire your stability. Because, if you did not possess this quality, The Gazette like many of the "colored papers" would have "gone to the wall", long ago. Some of those papers "grew up over night, like mushrooms." Where are they? But thanks to all the good your paper has stood for 43 years like the sturdy oak. May it live as long as you, which I hope will be one hundred years. Mme. "Bright Star", "Secretrieur" formerly of Cleveland. Writes a Book on Our People of Cincinnati. The South's Contribution in the Last Nine Years. What It Means to the Crime, Vice and Disease of Many Northern Cities — Professional and Business Men, Etc. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of an exceptionally interesting and valuable new work—a splendidly printed and illustrated bound volume of nearly 500 pages, written and published by out-long-time friend and coffeee Wendell Phillips Debney, editor of The Union Philips; for many years city commissioner of Cincinnati. The title of the book is "Cincinnati's Colored Citizens; historical, sociological and biographical". In his review of the new work, Alfred Hen- Editor Wendell Phillips Dabney. derson of the Cincinnati Daily Times-Star, among other things, has the following to say: "It is estimated there are 30,000 persons living in the "black belt" of Cincinnati. Dabney says in his book that there is more crime, more vice, more disease, than ever before. No 'sanitary cordon' can be placed around this belt and thus keep in the crime, the vice and the disease. It is also the case that cleaners and cleaned up—cleaned up not in the sense of police raids and arrests, but conditions must be made permanently better. "Dabney tells what he believes is the origin of the black belt and some of the reasons why in recent years it has grown in population and declined in character, the war and the great immigration from the South being outstanding contributors. Poverty, seasonal employment and bad housing, together with resiliency, aggression, and face prejudice, are discussed. The black too consideration is given the preying on the Negro by white cheats and criminals. "Dabney was for years in Cincinnati politics and he has some revealing pages on the subject. He discusses the public schools, separate and mixed. He tells of the many agencies that are doing a wonderfully effective work among the Neighboring men and women, white and black, who to our surprise frequent set-backs and discouragements, often hoping against hope, for breaks in the clouds. "And it is not all clouds. There are patches of blue, and shafts of sunshine. Dabney tells of the members of his race in the professions, in business and in public life. He devotes space to religion, to social issues, to the number of chapters are given over to the history of the Negro in Cincinnati." Nearly every large city in the north, as well as in the south, now has its "black belt" and consequent problems, just like those of Cincinnati, the solving of which a careful reading of Editor Dabney's exceptionally interesting book will materially assist. He has written frankly and frankly. Therefore, we urge our readers to secure a copy of the book, at once, addressing The Dabney Pub. Co., 512 McAllister St. Cincinnati, I. FUNERAL DIRECTORS Of Three States to Have a Great State Meet at the State Capital, Next Month. Columbus, O.—Shirley H. Winfrey of Indianapolis, president of the Indiana, Ohio and Michigan Tri-State Funeral Directors' Association, was here, April 4 and 5, arranging for the organization's annual convention which is to be held here, May 24, 25 and 26. "This will be a great meeting", said Mr. Winfrey, "and every undertaker, particularly in the three states named, should make it his business to attend it. Whether he is a member or not, he should attend and meet one of the professors." Miss Mabee White Jr. Vernon Ave., this city, secretary of the association, will be pleased to furnish all necessary information relative to the meet. So do not hesitate to write her.