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Bailey's—Second Floor Women's 10c Lawn Kerchiefs fast colored 6c Fine quality lawn kerchiefs in white and colors, prints and other patterns. Now at 6c, or 69c a dozen! Bailey's—Main Floor THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1927. FRESH OHIO NEWS 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. CADIZ.—Mrs. Parthenia Doubt is visiting in Martins Ferry.—Mrs. Anna Matthews of Steubenville visited Cadiz relatives. Sunday. The body contest, given by the missionary society, netted quite a sum. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Mason, Mar. 29.—Mrs. Sude Blanchard has been quite ill.—The play, "Sewing For The Heathen", will be given, Friday evening, at St. James church by Mt. Pisgah church of St. Clairsville.—The Married Lady's club held its nineteenth anniversary celebration at Mrs. Bertha Redmond's. An interesting program was rendered and an elaborate dinner served. ments 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 applications. ALLIANCE.—The Second Baptist church is taking on new life. Sunday's service was great. The pastor, Rev. Chas W. Chagman, has an excellent program and is asking all members and friends to help him "put it over".—Mrs. M. Miller, Lake Park, ruptured a blood vessel in the head.—Mrs. M. Woodward is doing nicely at the hospital.—Miss Mary Bailey has pleasured. HILLSBORO.—Mrs. Louisa Young has not been so well the last two weeks.—Mr. Clarence Hudson spent Saturday night and Sunday in Dayton.—Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Easton and Mrs. Jane Young visited Mrs. Easton's mother in Balmbridge, Sunnyvale, and Honolulu. Highwarden entertained Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Ames and family at dinner, Sunday.—Mr. Ibe Johnson is better.—Rev. J. J. Burr and Mr. James Blanton were at Gist Settlement, Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Frye of Cincinnati visited the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Day, Sunday.—Tell your friends to be sure to get The Gazette from the local agent. CORRESPONDENTS must mail 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 newspaper. If less this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obiary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertain- ANOTHER VICTORY! The South Carolina Supreme Court Reverses the Murder Conviction of Jim Davis Who Shot and Killed To Save His Two Daughters. New York City.—The supreme court of South Carolina has reversed the conviction (of murder) of Jim Davis, who shot and killed a white road gang foreman who had come to his house with the expressed intention of killing his two daughters. The reversal was procured through Atty. L. G. Southard (white), of Spartanburg, S. C., who risked his life, last fall, to defend the Lowman family three of whose members were later lynched. Mr. Southard is arranging for a new trial for Davis. In his brief before the state supreme court, Mr. Southard pointed out that there was intense excitement in Fairfield County, mobs hunting Jim Davis for several days after the shooting and threatening him with death on sight; that owing to the popularity and influence of the murder, that he possible to procure any local attorney to defend Davis; that despite these facts the court denied a change of venue for the trial. "The state supreme court in reversing the conviction said: "The alleged facts set forth in the petition were indicative of an atmosphere strongly prejudicial to the governor and strongly prejudicial to the Governor had reasons for thinking that the defendant would be unsafe in the Winnaboro jail and so detain him in the penitentiary practically up to the time of trial. That the defendant could not get paid the counsel and that he represent the state strongly indicates the state of feeling in Fairfield County against him." The state supreme court furthermore pointed out that a "dying declaration" of the slain white man had improperly been admitted as testimony, since the man was not at the time he made an expectation of being sent to court to procure local counsel to assist him, change of venue having been granted as a result of the state supreme court's decision. Another "Negro" Bank "Busted". Pittsburgh, Pa.—Between six and seven hundred shareholders of the defunct Steel City Banking Co. are being sued by depositors for possessions to make good any losses sustained by depositors of that institution, according to a decision handed down here, Saturday, by Judge J. Martin in the court of common pleas. Depositors will receive about 35 per cent of their claims from the receivers, but they can bring as many as 600 individual伙业 against that number of bank shareholders for the remaining 65 per cent. ments 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 ad- vertisements will be sent on applica- ALIANCE—The Second Baptist church is taking on new life. Sunday's service was great. The pastor, Rev. Chas. W. Chapman, has an excellent program and is asking all members and friends to help him "put it over"—Mrs. M. M. Miller, take Park, rupruned a blood vessel in her neck. Mrs. Mary Bailey is doing nicely at the hospital. Miss Mary Bailey has pleurisy. Mrs. Mayoma McYoung is helping Mrs. Ida Burton in youngstown revivals.—The Girl Reserves' 4 p. m., tuesday, at Mrs. Emma Prisble's was thorolly enjoyed.—Mr. Edward Oliver has moved his restaurant to Broadway.—Rev. Bess Bell is getting married. He has on some time.—Mr. Fuller is better. On April 24, the Baptist church will have "a husband and wife day." PIQUA.—Mrs. Fannie Morpin and Mrs. Mary Kates and grandson, Harry Artis, attended the dedication services of the Eaker St. A. M. E. church, Dayton.—Mrs. Verlie Johnson is convalescing.—Miss Elizabeth Hunter was home from the University of Cincinnati for her spring vacation.—Mrs. Bessie Mason entertained the Philomathae Literary club, Thursday evening, at Mrs. Desota Harris’'Miss Ruth Rontt, a Wilberforce university student, has returned to her studies after spending her spring vacation here.—Wm. Smith, dmed, Mar. 29, after an illness of several months.—Buck Jenner, a U.S. nurse, visited Kennedy of Urbana were here. Tuesday evening.—Clarence Evans of Columbus was called here, Sunday, by the serious illness of his brother, Leon.—Mr. James Artis motored to Kentucky, Sunday, to visit. He had a delightful time. PRAISE MERITED Mr. Darrow is a radical and has no hesitancy at any time in speaking, in the most forceful manner anywhere against wrong in high Prof. Neval H. Thomas. places. It seemed to be quite fitting that the man, Neval Thomas, the president of the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P., should bring Mr. Darrow to Washington. Mr. Thomas is himself a radical and never hesitates to speak out against the wrongs done his people. Like Mr. Darrow, Mr. Thomas cannot be threatened, he cannot be coerced, he cannot be bribed nor can he be forced into doing that which is contrary to the principles for which he stands. Again we say the colored people of Washington are to be coerced on having the privilege of hearing Mr. Darrow and Mr. Thomas deserves the commendation of the people for having brought him here.—Washington (D. C.) Eagle. Evans, Defeats, Oriqui. Eugene Criqui has recently been beaten by AL Brown, a third rate Afro-American pugilist, in Paris. Criqui was featherweight champion for sixty days, some years ago, having knocked out our own Johnny Kilbane. Two months later the gallant little fellow, whose jaw had been shot away at Flanders and by what he had been used only by a most remarkable operation which gave him a steel jaw bone, was cruelly beaten by Johnny Dundee and had his title taken from him. I have never seen a gamer exhibition than Criqui's that night. Miss Oiga M. Snowden and a Mr. Jenkins are to be married in Painesville, the home of the Snowden family, the owner of Reaul 'Saual' Lucas will officiate. BARNETT WINS! Gives Nebraska an Anti-Lynching Law Like Ohio's Pioneer Measure—Now For a Civil Rights Law! Lincoln, Neb.—The lower branch of the Nebraska State Assembly passed Hon. Ferdinand L. Barnett's anti-lynching bill, on Mar. 24; vote 90-3. It then went to the Senate. The judiciary committee of the higher branch recommended it and Hon. Ferdinand L. Barnett. that august body passed it unmournously, Apr. 2, 1927, the Governor signing it the same day. Some oratory, was indulged by several of the Senators. The bill requires counties to pay damages to the extent of $1,000 to heirs of any person killed by a mob. Originally the bill, a copy of Hon Harry C. Smith's pioneer Ohio Anti-Lynching law, started with $5,000, but this was reduced by the house. The bill was speedily advanced to third reading and Senators Chambers, Robbins and Reynolds, all white, of Douglas county, spoke ably for it. Senator Wilcox of North Platte favored the bill because of what he termed the disgraceful proceedings down in which mob broke loose, wrecked the court house, hanged a "Negro" nearly killed Mayor Ed P. Smith, and later caused an extra session of the legislature to be held. Nebraska now has an anti-lynching law which Representative Barnett, its sponsor, feels can be amended at the next session of the State Assembly increasing the one thousand dollar penalty to five thousand dollars, like in the pioneer Ohio law. He very wisely consented to the reduction to one thousand, at least, by paying the bill of feeling that "a half loaf is better than no loaf at all". There are two Afro-American members of the lower house of the Assembly, both from (Omaha) Douglass county. Mr. Barnett is doing splendid work. Now that his Anti-Lynching bill has become a law, he will devote his entire time to securing the passage of his civil rights bill which is also a copy of the Hon. Harry C. Smith's pioneer Ohio Civil Rights law. Mr. Barnett was a resident of Cleveland, his years ago, he will be remembered by most of the older residents of that city all of whom will be delighted with his excellent work as a legislator, the great success he is winning. "JIM CROWISM" Riddled By One of The Oldest and Ablest Members of The Race in The Great Northwest. Minneapolis, MN. — A local member of the race wrote a boyhood friend in Marion, Ohio, recently, as follows: The Negroes in Ohio never could, never did and never would now, if they could, do in a thousand years what Harry C. Smith did for the race the three terms that he was in the Ohio Legislature. Mr. Smith has put laws on the statute books of the Buckeye state. Those who oppose him, have done nothing. This is a sample copy of whose legislation—which is worse torture to intelligence than will be hell, fire and bristle-to the unredeemed sinner when he dies. Also, a friend of mine here from Marietta, Ga., who believed in "jim-crowism" such as has been here and there projected in Ohio, had his leg broken and was taken to the nurses and doctors attended him; in the general ward with white patients. I asked him if that could happen down in Georgia. He said no. From that "no", I riddled his "jim-crowism" into birdseed. So you see we have here in the north, recently from the south, in the making or rather material out of "jim-crowism" (the name of my brother-in-law even made his melting and plating department in the Duber Watch Case Works in Canton, O. an all colored outfit, until some of them began to steal. I told him, to mix up his department. Sets Scholastic Record Huntington Beach, Calif.—Setting a new record of 15.5 for the 120 yd, high hurdles and 25 sec. for the 120 yd, high hurdles and 25 sec. for the San Diego High School track star, captured two first places, tying with Harvey Bear, captain of the Santa Ana track team and Fred Steiner of the Chaffee Union High for first place honors in the recent sixth annual track meet held here, recently. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS OF MERCENARY AND MERCILESS AMERICANS, WEALTHY RESIDENTS OF THE U. S. Their Government Stolen From Them, Their Constitution Destroyed and Thousands of Natives Shot to Death by American Marines—Women Debauched—Fake Treaty and Renewal of Same. The Haitian people are in a condition of political servitude, said U. S. Senator King of Utah in a speech in Congress, recently. Continuing, he also said: Their government has been taken from them, their constitution has been destroyed, they have no national assembly, no local self-government, no control over their own fiscal affairs, and no controlling voice in their domestic concerns. Ninety-nine per cent of the Haitian people bitterly resent the course of this republic and the subjugation of their country by the armed forces of this powerful nation. Landed Marines Without Justification. Mr. President, I respectfully insist that the senator is entirely in error. The United States in 1915, without any justification, landed military forces upon Haitian soil. It sent war vessels into Haitian ports. It carried on war against the Haitian people, and more than 2,500 of the inhabitants of that invaded country were killed by American guns fired by our marines. We took possession of their country. Our military forces occupied the strategic point and the subjugation of the country was completed. From that time until the present Haiti has been under the military rule of the United States. Haiti is in the post- My resolution calls for the withdrawal of American marines from Haitian soil. It contemplates that we shall restore to the Haitian people the government of their own country and the control of their affairs. We shall press for a cursed at some length the history of the conquest by the United States of Haiti and the conditions in Haiti under American rule, but the hour is late, many senators have left the chamber, and we are all desirous of adjourning. I know that any appeal which I may make for the provision of this amendment will be in vain. The Republican party is committed to an imperialistic policy in Haiti, and it intends to keep the military forces of the United States in that unhappy country for many years to come. I shall at an early date, however, seek an opportunity to address the senate upon conditions in Haiti, and I intend to use the resolution which I offered at the last session of congress directing the committee on foreign relations to investigate the conduct of our government in seizing and holding Haiti and the conditions there existing. I take the floor for a few moments only because of the statement just made by the senator from Haiti, who said that the United States is in Haiti because of treaty obligations requiring it to maintain military forces in that country until the year 1936. DOINGS OF THE RACE The Third Baptist church, Pinewood Ave., and Division St. Toledo, of which Dr. B. F. McWilliams, a trustee of the C. N. & I. (State) Dept. at Wilberforce, is pastor, recently completed its new $100,000 church. The edifice was dedicated in February. W. Bullock, a graduate of Everett, Mass, high school and Dartmouth College, where he starred at football, graduated from Harvard law school in 1907. He was appointed a member of the Massachusetts state parole board by Gov. Fuller, recently. Indorsement of the fight of twenty-three of our families of Toms River, N. J., against segregation of their children in a poorly-heated, one-room, makeshift schoolhouse has been made by Judge Newman has found him guilty. Court when he found them not guilty of violating the compulsory education law. They had refused to send their children to school as long as they are barred from the new school building. OUR FIRST PAPER! Russwurm and Cornish, Editor and Publisher, Respectively—The Former Our First College Graduate—Died in Liberia. New York City.—"The Freedom Journal", our first paper, was started in New York City, on March 16, 1828. Samuel was born in Jamaica, British West Indies, in 1799. He was our first graduate of an American college (in 1828). Later on he went to Liberia, West Africa, where he became editor of the Liberia Herald. At the time of his death, Mr. Russwurm was governor of the province of Monrovia, capital of Liberia. Samuel穆尔维 who was associated with him as publisher of "The Freedom Journal", continued the paper after Editor Russwurm's departure but changed its name to "The Rights of All". Carter Refuses It. Washington, D. C.-I. U. S. Consul James Garneth Carter, of Georgia, in the government's consular service for twenty years, has declined the appointment of U. S. minister resident and consul general to Liberia, the State Department announced, last week Tuesday. He will be transferred to Calais, France, as consul. This is a promotion. IN-UNION LE STRONGET THE COPY FIVE CENTS GAIN! OPLE SLAVES! AMERCILESS AMERICANS, ENTS OF THE U. S. From Them, Their Consti- housands of Natives Shot Marines—Women De- treaty and Renewal Game. Landed Marines Without Justification. Mr. President, I respectfully insist that the senator is entirely in error. The United States in 1915, without any justification, landed military forces upon Haitian soil. It sent war vessels into Haitian ports. It carried on war against the Haitian people, and more than 2,500 of the inhabitants of the island were killed by American guns fired by our marines. We took possession of their country. Our military forces occupied every strategic point and the subjugation of the country was completed. From that time until the present Haiti has been under the military rule of the United States. Haiti is in the position of a conquered country and the Haitian people regard themselves as the victims of an oppressive foreign invader. The senator speaks of a treaty. Our military forces were in possession of Haiti and the Haitian government had been overthrown we set up a puppet government. We abrogated their constitution and forced upon them one which was framed in the navy department of the United States. We required the officials, whom we placed in position, to sign a treaty which attacked the sovereignty of Haiti and subjected the Haitian people to American rule. That treaty was to expire at the end of 10 years, which would be 1928. Male—Mr. President, was there not a provision in the treaty as to its renewal, and did not both parties renew it at the expiration of 10 years? Mr. King—There was no renewal. First let it be remembered that by every standard of morality and justice there was no treaty. Our forces were in possession of the country. We had destroyed the legislative branch of the government and taken possession of all governmental agencies of the country. We set up a new government. We had a Haitian militia. A few Haitians were put into position, but they were named by naval officers of the United States and they did the will of those who named them. TROUBLE BREWING. Kluxers and "Jim-Crow Negroes" Still Working for Separate Schools and Other Segregation. Dayton, O.—Encouraged by local Kluxers, prejudiced whites and "jim-crow Negroes" here are planning additional segregation and it looks very much as if our people are the forerunners of the West Side Improvement Association (white) is backing the school matter apparently with the favor of the school-board, while the Dayton West Side Amusement Corporation, Dr. Lloyd H. Cox, the only Afro- American officer, vice-president and general-manager, is planning a seg- gated community center, theater and gymnasium, with a basement for recreation. This building is to be erected at the corner of fifth and Williams Sts. at an estimated cost of $175,000. The West Side Improvement Association has recommended residential segregation, a separate junior high school, a separate playground for our chill- ing room. Recently our ministers here effected legislation that issued a statement calling on the school-board committee to consult with them, as well as the West Side Improvement Association, as to the establishment of a grade-school building and junior high school, east of Broadway and south of Fifth St., and telling that building is erected it must be for all residents without reference to race or color. Less Than One-Third, White. New York City—Less than one-third of the world's population is white, according to Prof. H. W. Williams, who lectured, recently, before the Geographical Society of Manchester, England. Mr. Williams said there were about 1,900,000,000 in the world of white women; 500,000,000 in the world of black women; 700,000,000 in yellow, 400,000,000 brown and 200,000,000 black. Mr. Williams pointed out that the whites dominated about nine-tenths of the earth's land surface and that this could not last. Flowers Wins. Atlanta, Ga.—"Tiger" Flowers, former middleweight champion, knocked out Soldier George Jones, of New York, after one minute of fighting in the first round of what was to have been a 15-round bout here. Tuesday night. Flowers weighed 168 and Jones 180. (in advance) One Year . . . $2.00 Six Months . . . 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter 236 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 or circulated in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will im- mediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 850,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1927. There is no need of our ministers of "the roaring third" employing private detectives to learn the location of vile resorts in that section of the city because the police know every one of them. As The Gazette has said frequently in the past, it repeats at this time; the solution of the lynching problem in this country rests wholly and entirely in the several state legislatures because the Congress has not the power to enact a federal anti-lynching law that would be declared constitutional by the U. S. Supreme court. If Congress had the power so to do, the prejudiced southern Republican and Democratic influence in Congress has been and is so strong that it is able to block any such legislation projected and sought there. The right to legislate against mob violence and lynching rests with the several states of the union, as we have said. It is a state right which the U. S. Supreme Court long since declared could not be usurped by the federal Congress. In this decision the leading and ablest constitutional lawyers in Congress concur. AGAIN, "THE ROARING THIRD" The appeals of Miss Jane Hunter, secretary of the P. W. A., to City Manager Hopkins, the first of the week, and the alleged threats upon her life, said to have been made in threatening letters written by denizens of the underworld in "the roaring third", are but a natural outcome of the miserably immoral conditions existing in that section of the city. At last, too, they have forced one of our ministers' organizations in "the roaring third" to also appeal to the city manager for relief from a vile condition that ought not to be permitted to exist in any section of any city. The Gazette has cried out for years against it and pleaded in vain with our ministers and other reputable residents of the section for action that would help to force the city's management to afford "the roaring third" the police protection it is so sadly in need of. And the gambling in the section, so thoroly exposed by a local daily newspaper in the last week or ten days, is the least of the evils to be complained of. However the newspaper exposures, along a gambling line, are apparently what finally stirred both Miss Hunter and the ministers to action. This latter is welcome regardless of what encouraged it. Periodic clean-ups of "the roaring third" by the police department of the city afford only alight temporary relief and do not effect any permanent good. There are just two things that must be done, if ever that vile immoral condition is to be eradicated to the minimum and that is, Director of Safety Edwin Barry must restore police patrol duty in the third and fourth police-precincts of this city. Second: He must drive out of these precincts the hundreds of prostitutes that infest them and upon whom hundreds of disreputable men rely for a livelihood. Drive them from the city, Mr. Director, and their miserable male consorts will be forced to follow them or starve because they will not work. This will do more to clean up "the roaring third" than merely hounding the gamblers and their following. "JIM CROW" HOSPITAL EFFORT. Wm. R. Green is still president of the so-called Mercy hospital association, according to a communication he sent to a local publication, last week. In it Willie said he sent his letter of resignation as president to its board of trustees and gave as his reason for resigning the condition of his health. Then goes on to say that for twenty-five years he has given of his "time, energy and GET A CLOTH, SIS. QUICK! YOUR CAT UPSET THE WATER! health" in the fight against prejudice and discrimination affecting those of the race in this city. We have lived in Cleveland many more than twenty-five years and this is news to us. We are not overlooking his activity for several years, in recent years, as president of the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P., either. As a matter of fact, that is the only time we have known Willie to give of his "time, energy and health" in the fight against local prejudice and discrimination. It seems that the pseudo hospital association labored with Willie to withdraw his resignation which he has done and announces that he intends to give it all the support he is physically able to give. This, of course, eliminates him as a possible candidate for municipal judge, this fall. Meantime, it is announced that he is to visit Detroit where another abortive effort is being made by "jim-crow Negroes" to segregate the "Negroes" of that city in a "jim-crow" hospital, going from there to Chicago to look over the Provident hospital, a "jim-crow" institution on the south side of that city of riot-notoriously and a "jim-crow Y". The statement of a local publication to the effect that our ministers and doctors of this city are supporting the Mercy Hospital segregation scheme is not true, of course, as nearly every one knows, because our ablest, oldest and leading ministers and doctors of this community are unalterably opposed to the "jim-crow" hospital segregation effort. This reminds us of what one of the doctors, referred to, wrote The Gazette, several weeks ago, to wit: "The men back of this project are deceivers. What they want is a job; that is all. But not only do they want a job, but they want to get their hands in the Community Chest. I regret that I have to tell you this, but the situation has come to a "show-down" and it is imperative. This is true!" And what George A. Myers wrote us, a week later: "The one claim of the 'jim-crow' Mercy hospital proponents is that such an institution is necessary to provide places for our two or three yearly internes (graduates of local medical schools) and would-be nurses. This could easily be secured from Cleveland's city manager who has the power to open Cleveland's City hospital and nurses' common schools to our people" common with all other citizens and tax-payers of the community. And if he fails to do this promptly on request, we have recourse to the local courts which would surely compel him to do so. This would not cost $220,000, either." And a third communication, sent us by Rev. Horace C. Bailey, one of our oldest, leading local ministers: "Our people of this community are now grooming and writhing with great debt, saddled with them unnecessarily", and "during and since the World War, they have been exploited by unscrupulous speculators of both races", closing this paragraph of his letter with this appeal. "Doctors, I pray you, give a breathing spell to our 'overworked' people." What we said, several weeks ago, we repeat; the proposed "jim-crow" Mercy hospital is entirely contrary to the progressive spirit of this community, would prove a hundred times more harmful to our people of the community than helpful, and is unnecessary because we have wonderful hospital facilities here in Cleveland open alike to all of its residents. Then, too, there is that indebtedness of our local churches approximating a half million dollars which with the Phillis Wheatley indebtedness totals more than a half million dollars. Add to this $220,000 for a "jim-crow" Mercy hospital and the indebtedness of the "Negro" controlled institutions of the city of Cleveland would be nearly one million dollars—over $700,000 to be exact. Our people of this city, almost helpless in the face of their present church and Phillis Wheatley indebtedness, with the most generous assistance upon the part of their white friends here and everywhere cannot for a single moment consider adding to it the sum asked by the few doctors sponsoring the "jim-crow" Mercy hospital movement. We repeat, there will be no such institution in this city. Bernie B. Whiting, E. 100th St., a native of this city and one of our most promising young men who lost his wife but a few months ago, died, last Friday, after a brief H illness. Funeral services were held Woden day after the death of 'dew's B. Archbishop the pastor, Rev. W. B. Sutherland, officiating. His close relatives have the sympathy of many friends in this community. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1927. A "JIM CROW" HOSPITAL WANTED NOT BOTHERED ABOUT OPENINGS FOR TWO OR THREE YEARLY INTERNES. The Hospital Advocates Can Open City Hospital to Our Internes And Would-Be Nurses But Will Not Do So—No Discrimination in Local Hospitals. The statement made by a local publication, last Saturday, to the effect that our local ministers had 'endorsed' the abortive "jim-crow" Mercy Hospital movement and that the latter was "gaining friends" is not only untrue but positively ridiculous! The committee, appointed at our ministers' meeting, last week Monday, in Gethsemane Baptist church, cor. E. 30th St. and Scovill Ave., and attended by about thirty, was to report at the meeting held in the same place on Monday of this week but failed to do so and is hardly expected to, for reasons obvious. Dr. C. C. Aller's Protest. Rev. Chas. C. Aller, pastor of Zion Hill Baptist church and secretary of our local Ministers' Association, which represents 56 churches, has made the following statement: "For about eighteen months our attention has been called by some of our local physicians to their desire to build a hospital for our people. The doctors tell us that we should have a hospital in which we have a perfect right to have our doctors and nurses trained; that we are turned down in this city because of color. I believe the fact we have no colored internes and doctors, we have no fault, because we have to go to the polls and vote for what we want. We only had one deputy sheriff until we went to the polls and influenced the appointment of two. The same is true in the hospital matter. Thus, why pay taxes and stay away from the polls? Why stand off from duty and refuse to go to the polls? We have the rights of our internes and would-be nurses in City hospital? It is ours to go to the polls and get what is ours. I believe it is far better to do this than to attempt to build a hospital when we cannot pay for our churches and the Phillis Wheatley home for the girls we have $158,000. The doctors and sisters in Christ, when will we be free from debt or from the police? According to the statement a doctor made in my home, it will be a doctor, who is one of the leaders in the Mercy Hospital movement, told me if they were successful in building a hospital he would not take his wife and daughter there. According to this statement, building this hospital means to lean on us, which to my mind is a bad idea. To attempt to divorce the street regards his wife and daughter's life as dear as any doctor or preacher. Friends, we as a people, have suffered no more than others by the congested condition of present hospital facilities, and regardless of what we have relatively contributed, we will receive benefits and privileges as other races. I am opposed to attempting something that is impossible. To attempt to divorce those of the race in Cleveland. Friends, you will find that some few of the preachers are talking of the 'merits' of the proposed Mercy hospital, but where are the 'merits'? There are none!!" Oppose Mercy Hospital Move! Editor Plain Dealer—Sir: On Jan. 29 there appeared in the Plain Dealer an article bearing the title, 'Seek Mercy Fund'. On March 22 another was published headed "Negrothera" by the Plain Dealer. Knowing the fairness of the Plain Dealer and its friendly attitude toward my people, especially in the last forty years, I make bold to write you an open letter upon this vital matter, to the great majority of my people of Cleveland and to advise the great body of philharmonic community that my people are not asking them for a separate hospital. Contrary to the statement "That colored people are frequently turned away from the Cleveland hospital with the answer that there are no colored beds vacant", this is not so, and I challenge the authority of the statement. Relatively to what we contribute to other national other nationality from the hospitals of Cleveland, and never to my knowledge have any of them, who are able to pay, been refused a private room. I speak from personal experience; that of my wife and myself. It is not the custom in any hospital anywhere to give charity patients a private room, and the great majority of "Negroes are charity patients." This statement is reflected in the hospital in Cleveland, but it is untrue, unfair and unjust, and should others of my people. I have contributed to every hospital campaign, and we are regular contributors to the Community Fund. A recent survey of the committee has failed to find any discrimination or segregation. The fact of the matter is that a few of these "Negro" doctors, mostly recent comers from the South where they have separate hospitals, are desirous of having a "Negro" hospital for their own aggrandizement. The older and more prosperous "Negro" doctors favo no separate hospital. It is therefore the misguided "Negro's" and selfish doctors need any such place, the colored people of Cleveland have no objection to their establishing (and they are abundantly able to do so) a private hospital and clinic of their own, maintained and supported by themselves. But we are unalterably opposed to them seeking funds from the public to give them a hospital which will be the means of closing the hospital and every hospital in the faeces of "Negro" by whites saying to us—"Go to the one we have given you". they are a private their own, and by them alterably op- funds from a hospital of closing in Cleve- Negro," by to the one all your at- The Gazette Negro news- doctors are hospital; also Negro minis- in their pul- should give not be able ceased by the phelion fund subscribed Wheatley o years or have paid in arches alone not of over anning cam- ebt. Cleve- ir with her of them are ). in our civic the sharing in national- and political fund of the our local ow that when Cleve-land—now and the new construction will be one centers of colored peo- tom with all the greatest on that the We want right name— and we hope of Cleveland movement. A. Myers. I desire to further call your attention to these facts: The Gazette and the Call, our local Negro newspapers, and our leading doctors are opposed to this Mercy hospital; also many of our leading Negro ministers have opposed it from their pulpits; they would give it to local Negroes would not be able to support it; as evidenced by the Phyllis Wheatley subscription fund, The Negroes of Cleveland subscribed $169,000 in the Phyllis Wheatley campaign—to date (two years or more afterward) they have paid in only $11,400. Our churches alone have an aggregate debt of over $500,000, and are planning campaigns; they have fair with the land has always been fair with her colored citizens (many of them are not fair with Cleveland). We are satisfied with our civic accord and treatment, the sharing in common with all other nationalities in every civil and political right. We are not unmindful of the congested conditions in our local hospitals, but we do know that when the hospitals, the clinics, the additions—and the new ones in the course of construction are finished, Cleveland will be one of the greatest medical centers of the world and we, as colored people, will enjoy, in common with all others, the benefit of the greatest medical skill and attention that the world has ever known. We want no Mercy hospital; its right name—"jim-crow" hospital—and we hope that the good people inland will frown down this movement. George A. Myers "Jim-Crow" Doctors To Blame. Editor Gazette, Dear Sir:—Local 'Negro' doctors, who own property are taxed, in common with all other taxpayers of the various nationalities in this community, to support the City hospital and so long as it is closed to "Negro" internes an women who would learn nursing, it is their own responsibility to open securing a mandatory injunction on the ground of "taxation without representation". 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Misses Lucille Taylor, Charlotte Clark and Helene Clinthorne, Ohio State students, spent their spring vacation in the city. Thelma and Elaine Dean, also of O. S. U., were guests of Miss Clinthorne. Harry T. Burleigh, a native of Erie, Pa., who has been located in New York City for many years, where he composes, sings and teaches, addressed the New York high school students and sang several of his baritone solos for them, early in March, from a broadcasting station in that city. The Inter-racial Study club met, Mar. 28, at Mrs. Thomas Cox's, E. 87th St. A delicious luncheon was served by the hostess. Ida M. Burton, president; May Hunter, reporter. The club will give the playlet, "Clubbing A Husband", at St. James A. M. E. church, 8401 Cedar Ave., Monday evening. The first community supper and program under the auspices of the St. James Social-Dramatic society will be held, Apr. 12, at St. James THE GEEVU LOOK, SIS! SOMEBODY DROPPED A LETTER! THE GEEVUM GIRLS *M. 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Superior Ave., opposite Hotel Cleveland in the afternoon. A. M. E. church. Mayor John D. Marshall is expected to be present. Reservations may be made by calling, Cedar 3562, between 10:30 and 8, each day, up to Monday, Apr. 11. Supper served, from 5 to 9. Program at 9:15. Rev. Mack T. Williams, who is still in town in spite of rumors to the contrary, in a sermon at Cedar Y. M. C. A. to his followers, Sunday, warned people against the "very dangerous output of rubbish about God". A conception of God is unavoidable to all men, he said. "Many men's relation to God may be largely attributed to their training", he asserted. "The church must give a reasonable and satisfactory idea of God." Andrew Oliver, age 39, who, with his common law wife, Beatrice Buford, was the victim of a meat cleaver attack. Monday, died in charity attack. He was killed when Oliver's was held by police for questioning. Mrs. Buford was dead when police broke into the home at 6400 Scovill Ave., and Oliver was dying. Both had been struck repeatedly and the cleaver was found in the house. The former sweetheart was taktn by detectives to the bedside of Oliver. Just before he died he is said to have identified her as the assailant. Race pride can be established on a much smaller scale than the "jim-crow" $220,000 Mercy hospital scheme being sponsored by a few of our so-called professional and charitable St. In the "Central" area, there are many restaurants. The public there is practically our group and we have only one adequate restaurant owned by one of our race in that vicinity. This restaurant surpasses all of the other restaurants in the area and depend our money with it and others of the race who are building independent race enterprises and not with the Greek, Italian and other foreign-controlled restaurants in that vicinity. Give the Pool restaurant your patronage. The expense of any kind of a hospital will not be less than $100 a day, $2,000 a month, or $36,000 a year. Where is this money to come from? The "jim-crow" doorkeeper not pay it. They have not doorkeys to pay their subscriptions to Howard University, the N. A. A. C. P., our churches, and the P. W. A. Some of them need all they will make in the next ten years to get their home-property out of debt, it is said. It will be a waste of time, money and effort for any local Afro-American attorney, to be a candidate for a municipal leadership, this fall, who M GIRLS THE LET Big thigh from k door, f feet ear wolls f prunces treasury THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1927 falls to take a stand out in the open against segregation and that means the abortive Mercy Hospital movement, too, just at this time. Your Home Prettier Your Furniture Bright Your Work Less Use O-Cedar Polish "Cleans as it Polishes" Musterole, made of pure oil of mustard and other helpful ingredients, will do all the work of the old-fashioned mustard plaster—without the blister. 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Subscribe Now Don't Throw Away Your Copy of The GAZETTE After Reading It But give it to a Friend or Acquaintance who might Subscribe after Reading a Copy of It. SEGREGATION AN OUTRAGE! In the Government's Departments—Will the Self and Race-Respecting Negro Press and People of This Country Continue to Stand for This Sort of Thing? Coolidge Permits It. Washington, D. C., (Special). - 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 Ratt. It was greatly extended, under President Wilson. It still further, under President Harding; and under its zenith under President Coolidge. For instance, the largest 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 men in this city in white clothing while workers in black, white people, and black labor, 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 state institution and not a Democratic one, it was begun by Republicans, and it is all-enbracing 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 the papers, is tenaciously held on to by our Republican President. Only last week, a colored lady appeared after having passed the best examination, having been telegraphed for 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 word is law there, as he is especial favorite of Secretary Mollon and President Coolidge. He halls from North Carolina to the home of the segregation leader and leader of the segregation forces, Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds, it 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 notice and 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 Constitution, in which it is "welcome home" in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—In the postfive segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious cafeteria for whites 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 the money of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them in though they were lepers. The injustice stings all the more when they reflect that they are far more capable than the whites, and render the government more intelligent and efficient service—the white man of their attainment being able to get far more lucrative employment. The department goes even farther in its solicitude for whiles and neglect of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other games, com for t able 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 room, 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 presence of the colored, to attend a reception to the beads of payments, including the postmaster general, in the postmaster building. It announced damage and a pleasant social event with the officials for "the postoffice employee" 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 the postmaster to invite the colored as well as the white. These two 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 on contests in quickness and accuracy in the handling of tasks. The colored caste dared to form a which meets regularly and often sends manly and intelligent protests 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 printing 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 cafeteria in this huge structure in the employees may go; but there are no employees out-of-the-way section 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 promotions. Here, as elsewhere, the law imposes 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 splendid record in his work, felt the injustice of this violation of his own opinion that 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 the power of the church and the damned on a trump-up charge. He was a night-employee, 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 failing to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted the harry case with the damned or which 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 names of my informants. I knew the fate these informants would suffer so I have never given a single name! The department then taking the position that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this inquitious scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it. (Special to The tazette) 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 job of secretary to the White House. Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a mem- der or 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 order for segregation of the races, and a white lady who had been noted for her philanthropy among our people and who was upon intimate formal attire. 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 places." 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 Garrison came to town to attend White House cabins 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 alt it 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 fulness, under the administration of the party that 'braham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass are helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public service. THEY ARE SEGREGATED in their rest rooms, toilets, bathrooms, and classrooms, 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, the inevitable result of segregation. Our people are still hoping for the rescue of this institution, this necessary practice in all of our government departments, for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impaire 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 gambler came from the West Indies, and in the 1830s, a factory 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, devolved the national Civil War system and financed the Civil War, and Ohio's governor, 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 several thousand clerks. Yet Negroes have so scarce, they they won't beotted there is the main 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 lockers, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilers 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 work in the dark, stire 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 the well-attended retreat, the festive scene that the present 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 resistership 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 the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. By single stroke of his pen, President Coolidge can stop every bit of the 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, beeper board walls were maintained until recently. In the latter there have been two cases of discrimination on account of color brought to public attention, 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. It had slowed up a little during the campaign. Investigation of Burcus An investigation of the executive departments and bureaus listed below shows that segregation prevails in them as follows: Office of the Register of the Treasury, there are two segregated sections—one with 30 Afro-American employees and the other with 14. Navy Department — one segregated section of 18 of our employees, as well as a segregated lunch room. Census Bureau — a segregated section of 60 Afro-American employ- Bonus Section Bonus section of the War Department—one segregated section of 180 of our employees. Veterans Bureau—a segregated section of 16 employees. Department of Justice—a segregated section of 10 employees in the file room. **Internal Revenue** Internal Revenue Bureau—a segregated section of 7 employees. Office of the Treasurer of the United States—a segregated section of 4 employees. War Department, Transportation Division—a segregated section of 5 employees. D. Separate Lunch Room Post Office Department—a segregated lunch room. EASTER IS HERE Over the landscape dull and drear The sunshine falls and then a thrill Quickens the crust on the hillside sere, Wakens the seed and loosens the rill; Out of the south the soft winds blow, Up from the south the white clouds veer; Nature the wakened, murmurs low: "Easter is here!" Story of old—yet ever new— Told us again in quickened dust, Told us in seed, in changing hue, In flower, in breeze, in waking crust; Chiming afar from joyous bells, Carolled by children, sweet and clear. Higher and higher the message swells: "Easter is here!" W. R. ROSE, in Cleveland Plain Dealer. Additional Locals The O. K. Printing and Acme Book Co., 3113 Central Ave., will celebrate their fifth anniversary, this month, April. Special reductions on bibles and other books! One hundred cards given free with every order for printing of five dollars or more. The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of the program of the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P., as outlined for the year by its president, White. His sixth recommendation, "the adoption of a more aggressive attitude toward all forms of segregation and discrimination in Cleveland," is absolutely necessary if the local branch is ever to become a real success in this community. Its failure to do this very thing, ever since its imposition, will continue to be until President White's fourth recommendation is accepted in full faith and acted upon. A shot fired over a gambling table in the "Roaring Third" police precinct sent another victim to the prison ward of City hospital. Monday. Robert House, 2385 E. 37th St. fell under a fuselade of bullets when a man, who had lost his watch and chain in the course of a card game for money on behalf of the prison players. He is the second man to fall a victim of the gambling evil within the "Roaring Third's" so-called "black belt" within the last two weeks. Just a week ago, Saturday, Wm. Curtiss, 25. 4922 Scovill Ave., was shot to death after an argument over cards in the Autumn Leaf club 4711 Scovill Ave., where gambling games were going to be played. Joe Allen, 2345 E. 38th St. is charged with shooting to wound House, a reputed employee of James "Slim" Young, operator of the gambling house at 2250 E. 37th St.—Cleveland News. e who might LOS ANGELES INLAYS OF CONTRASTING CLOTH ORNAMENT SPORTS COAT POCKETS ORNAMENT SPORTS COAT POCKET A "lace season" such as new reigns throughout all fashionland bespeaks none other than the alluringly feminine, and this is exactly in accordance with the demand of the mode. The new colorful chiffon and georgette frocks with their dainty lace adornment are all that imagination may picture in the way of an exquisitely feminized styling. All grace, all charm, all loveliness are they. The model here illustrated is distinctly characteristic of the present moment fashion trend. Artistic placement, as well as the lace itself, impart enchantment to this gown. Insets such as are here shown are much in favor for lace-styling. In this instance, cream lace is cunningly positioned to help form a bell sleeve, also to embellish the skirt hemline, and to add a unique touch to the girdle. For this "sweetly feminine" frock choose almond green georgette with cream lace for the color scheme, although any of the new colors will be just as effective, such as pink beige, boils de rose, valencia blue, INLAYS OF CONTR ORNAMENT SPO BECAUSE of their style importance, one is led to begin with pockets in telling the story of the season's sports coats. Decorative as well as useful pockets are an outstanding factor in modern coat styling. Now that the pocket is depended upon to individualize the coat, designers are bending every effort to devise unique and interesting effects. One of the most successful is that of a contrasting cloth inlay. It seems as if a patch of solid-colored fabric or leather serves to make the novelty worsted of which the sports coat is made look all the more novel by way of contrast. A tweed and a homespun novelty mixture coat are shown in this picture, each accentuating pockets GAZETTE Subscribe a grecian rose, meadow pink, monkey-skin or orchid. Filmy lace dyed to match the chiffon as well as heavy cream lace, comes the style message from many leading ateliers of Paris. A fascinating feature of the new lace program is that it abounds in such delightful revelations of ingenuous design. Refreshingly "different" is a cream lace blouse posed over an accordion-plaited chiffon skirt, the latter styles with inset lace drapes. A below-the-elbow puff of the chiffon for the sleeve, with a bow of this material at the neck and for the turtle girdle, interrelates this gown. Lace yokes and sleeves are an outstanding style element in spring dress fashioning. This applies not only to the colorful dressy georgette frock, but especially are cream or lace yokes introduced into the simple black dress. Hand beading and embroidery on lace are the "last word" in the lace program. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (© 1927 Western Newspaper Union.) ASTING CLOTH ARTS COAT POCKETS inlays, the model to the left using velours, while the other employs bright-colored suede. Belts, too, play an interesting part in the fashioning of coats. Sometimes they unite with the pocket in achieving chic. In the model to the right a tiny suede belt, matching the inlays on collar, cuffs and pocket, slips under a buttoned contrivance—such intriguing details as this affording fascinating variety to sports coats modes. Swagger coats, either of plain or novelty cloaking, feature patches, inlays and insets of flat furs. At the moment interest is concentrated on pony skin, shaved lamb and spotted calfskin. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (© 1927, Western Newspaper Union.) After Reading KU KLUX KLAN! CHURCH DEBTS! The indebtedness of our churches in this community is nearly a half million of dollars. This vast sum our people here can never hope to raise among themselves and will have an awful time getting it, if they ever do, from all sources: people, local and national Add-ons, the money the one hundred and fifty-eight thousand dollar debt on the new Phillis Wheatley home, the known total aggregates more than a half million dollars! And this does not include the indebtedness of a number of our churches in this community we have not yet be able to do with. Then for a few backward "Negro" physicians, in the face of this, to ask this community to finance and support a hospital for them to cost at the start two hundred and twenty thousand dollars, making the total indebtedness of "Negro" controlled institutions here more than seven hundred thousand globally, precisely a million and out of the question. This is only emphasized when one recalls the fact that there is positively no need of a hospital controlled by "Negro" physicians; that it would eventuate into a more harmful "jim-crow" affair, another "Negro" burden on the community; that it could never hope to give the service our people are now enewed in the community a number of which have Afro-American physicians connected with them, some on their staffs. The one claim of the proponents of Mercy hospital that such an institution is necessary in order to make an opening for two or three yearly graduates of local medical institutes is therefore also ridiculous. Such an opening can be made without a two-hundred thousand-dollar expense and with a hundred times less trouble, if it is really necessary. All that is necessary is for City Manager Hopkins to open the City hospital and nurses' school to our internes and would-be nurses. If he fails to do so, we can hire a doctor and tax-payers can use the courts to compel him to do so, and it will not cost any $220,000 to do this, either. We want our readers, particularly the local ministers, to read carefully and ponder—the following of our local churches indelhoused: Cory M. E. church, $4,000; Shiloh Baptist church, $45,000; Zion Hill Baptist church, $15,000; Gethsemane Baptist church, 8,000; Teonium Baptist church, $18,000; St. James A. M. E. church, $30,000; E. 71st and Cedar Ave., $30,000; Temple Church, $30,000; Mt. Zion Baptist church, $0,000; E. 74th and Kinsman Rd., $5,500; churches in Mt. Pleasant, $3,500; E. 64th and Quincy Ave., $25,000; St. Paul A. M. E. Zion, $30,000; 2nd Emmanuel Baptist church, $8,000; E. 33rd and Central Holy Church, $30,000; Presbyterian Baptist church, $6,000; Linnean churches, $8,000; Frank Ave. Baptist church, $2,000; Monumental Baptist church, $17,000; Baptist and Methodist churches in Collinwood, $12,000; Triedstone Baptist church, $9,000; Friendship Baptist church, $13,000; Miles Avenue church, $2,000; Mt. Zion Cong, temple, $50,000; churches on West Side, $3,600; Phillis Wheatley Association, $158,000. Total $538,100.