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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. 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 wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary 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. week-end here.—Clarence Hudson was in Dayton, Saturday night. His brother, Vivian, and family spent Sunday here with him.—Claretta and Calle ityan and brothers of Columbus were guests of Mrs. Calin in Dixon, Mrs. Wm. Tatum has appendicitis.—Mrs. Calin Dixon and daughter, Miss Gratna, have returned from a visit with her parents in Columbus.—Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ford, Mr. and Mrs. James Hill, Mrs. C. M. Gragston, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Young and Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Jones attended the basket-meeting in South Salem, Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. Oral Clements and family visited relatives in Georgetown, Sunday.—Mrs. Jane Young and Mrs. Sarah Johnson at advertisements will be sent on application. CADIZ—Mr. J. Taylor, a teacher in Greensboro, N. C., visited here Sunday—Mrs. Susie Murrell, Mrs. Katherine Smith and children, of Chester, W. Va., visited Cadiz relatives, Sunday—Mrs. Jessie Thompson, Dorothy and Bernice Robinson visited here, recently—Mrs. Susan West attended the funeral of Mr. Harry Lucas at Barnesville, Saturday—Miss Beatrice Tyler is visiting in Steubenville—Rev. C. M. Hogans attended Dr. Charles Bundy's funeral in Cleveland last Sunday, December 14, and Thomas Christian are home from Washington, D. C. where they spent the summer, Mrs. Cora Chavis and children of Pittsburgh are visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Christian—Quarterly meeting, Sunday at St. James A. M. E. church. Rev. T. W. Woodson, P. E., preached, morning and evening. GALLIPOLIS.—Eddy Peppers, 21, porter of the Park Central hotel here confessed, early Saturday morning, that he murdered Mrs. Florence Buck (white), last week Monday morning. The confession was made in the Galla county jail, say police. A preliminary hearing was held immediately, at which Peppers was bound over to the grand jury. According to the "confession," Peppers said he used a wet towel to strangle his victim. Fearing mob violence from friends of the slain woman's relation, Peppers was taken by Va. across the Ohio river from here. Peppers was taken in an automobile to Chillicothe where he was placed in the Ross county jail. Mrs. Buck age 37, was the wife of Wm. Buck a Mason county farmer and was postmistress of Grimm's Landing, W. Va., at the time of her death. COLUMBUS.—Dr. Joseph L. Johnson, president of the board of trustees of the State Department at Wilberforce, has called upon Gov. A. V. Donahey to make an investigation of certain state officials and conditions at the well-known institution. The request is the result of adverse newspaper reports and Cedars to daily newspapers. "I want to ascertain if something is really wrong at Wilberforce," declared President Johnson. "Personally I stand ready to be called before a grand jury or any jury to give an account of my stewardship as a trustee in connection with the affairs of that institution." State officials (white) "playing politics" are at the bottom of the newspaper attacks. The newspaper lies pledged to them by former employees dismissed by the trustee board for good and sufficient reasons. They hope in this way to be reinstated, but will be disappointed. HILLSBORO.—Mr. and Mrs. Alex Holland and sons and Miss Florence Burns visited in Gallipolis, last week.—Rev. and Mrs. Forrest Mitchell and family of Chillicothe, guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Williams, attended the honorary reception, last week Wednesday, given by the Ladies' Aid. Mrs. Ella Taylor—Mr. and Mrs. John H. and Miss Helen H. Johnson of Cincinnati visited relatives in Cleveland the past week-end.—Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Frye of Cincinnati visited her parents here, Sunday.—Mrs. Ella Taylor—Mr. and Mrs. visited the former's sister, Mrs. Lillian Whestle, in Xenia, Sunday.—Mrs. Addie Young, taken suddenly ill, last Wednesday night, is much improved.—Rev. Wm. Holbert of Columbus was here, Sunday, and assisted Rev. A. P. Mayle with his last quarterly meeting before conference—in Pomeroy.—Mrs. Amanda Owens entertained the Get-Together Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Irene Reagan visited Circleville were called here, last week, by Mr. and Mrs. John Day's serious illness.—Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Evans of Cleveland passed the last week-end here.—Clarence Hudson was in Dayton, Saturday night. His brother, Vivian, and family spent Sunday here with him.—Claretta and Callie Ryan and brothers of Columbus were guests of Mrs. Calvin in Dixon Sunday.—Mr. Wm. Tatum has appendicitis.—Mrs. Calvin Dixon and daughter, Miss Grata, have returned to Columbus in lumbus.—Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ford, Mr. and Mrs. James Hill, Mrs. C. M. Mragston, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Young and Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Jones attended the basket-meeting in South Salem, Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. Oral Clements and family visited relatives in Georgetown, Sunday.—Mrs. Jane Young and Mrs. Sarah Johnson attended the fair in Washington C. H., Roy. B. A. Mitchell of Middletown, Hope Baptist church, will send Labor Day here.—Clarence Pleasant, Floyd and Lorenza Holland and Joseph Cole attended the Masonic grand lodge meet in Columbus. TABOR OFFICERS Elected For the Ensuing Term—The Next Meeting Place, Eagles Last week Friday, what was considered the best convention in the history of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor was closed in this city. Officers elected: S. A. Jordan, I. C. G. M., Little Rock, Ark; Mattle Brock, I. G. H. priestess, Iowa; C. R. H. bard, I. V. G. M., Pittsburgh; J. E. Hernhrd, I. C. G. S., Mo; R. C. H. Johnson, I. C. G. R., Ill; Emma Gaines, I. G. H. Pr. Kans, L. G. E. Bedford, I. G. P. Pr. L. G. E. Bedford, I. G. S. M. Ohio; D. J. Mitchell, I. C. G. Tr. Tenn; Agnes A. Knight, I. C. G. Inner sentinel, Calif; J. A. Tombs, I. C. G. orator, Okla. Montgomery, Ala. was selected as the next meeting place—in August, 1930. The competitive drill and military ball at Grays' Armory, Friday night, was largely attended. The first prize for ladies was awarded to Texas; Missouri second; the first prize for men went to Arkansas; the third prize for ladies was from $300 down. The local committee, headed by Joseph H. Drue, chair; Rhoda Wilson, sec., desires to thank the local public for its cooperation and hospitality in aiding in entertaining the visitors. Much of the success of the convention was due to the following additional members of the committee: Mamie R. Jackson, Juanita Sellers, Saddle Bird, Mary Alphine, John Simon, Thos. D. America, Frieda Banks, Dora White, Lula Todd, Ida America, Jula Gamia, Juda Gamia, Juda Gamia, Trigg, John Grayson, Chas Robinson, E. W. Sellers, Charles and Kina McCard, Bertha Smart, Angeline Hawkins, Sarah Jackson, Emma Roberts, Atty. P. B. Jackson. BASCHKO SENT TO WORKHOUSE Leader of Ku Klux Klan Buckeye Gangsters in Woodland Hills Bathing Pool Riot and Troubles. On Aug. 18, Mike Baschko was convicted before Judge Sweeney in municipal court of assault and battening on the Hills Bathing Pool on John Branham, given costs and sentenced to thirty days in the workhouse. Baschko was one of the victims (was stabbed) of the rioting three weeks ago. But the charge, on which he was convicted, was assault and battery committed before that rioting occurred. It developed at the trial that Baschko was a leader of the mob. He gang, by the K. K. K., that is attempting to deprive our people of their right to use the pool. It is also noteworthy that suits are being contemplated and instituted against the county under Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Mob 'boney Acc' was made a county jail for $5,000, to any person injured or lynched by a mob. The statute contains a very liberal definition of a mob and defenses lynching and injury received at the hands of a mob. Mr. Thomas Williams has already brought such a suit and others are expected to be filed in the near future. Young Scott, who was a county jailer, was mob seven weeks ago, he had to be taken to Mt. Sinai hospital, ought also to enter a suit for damages. Music Disunto a Family that dissuade Washburn, D. C.—Mrs. Roy W. Tibbs, wife of Howard university's professor of music, an Oberlin graduate, is suing for separate maintenance after several seasons abroad in opera. Mrs. Tibbs' professional name is Mme. Evanti. They have a six-year-old son. THE PRIZE WINNERS Announcement, of the Lucky Ones in The Contest for Our Composers, At Our Natl' Association of Musicians' Annual Meet. St. Louis, Mo. — An important feature of the annual artists' concert of our National Association of Musicians, which held its annual convention in this city, this week, was the announcement of the prize-winners in the contest for our composers. The prizes aggregated $1,000 in cash and were offered by Rodman Wanamaker of Philadelphia, through the Robert Curtis Ogden Association of the Philadelphia Wanamaker store, an organization composed of our employees of the store and organized for educational and recreational purposes. Carl Ditomis, concert Philadelphia, president of the association, introduced John Love, president of the R. C. O. Association, who spoke briefly and in turn introduced Mr. Chas. Landslide, official representative of the store, who made the announcement of the prize-winners and the compositions. Mr. Wanamaker had divided his prize offer into five classes. Five prizes were offered in each class as follows: $15 for the first prize, $25 for the second, $15; and fifth, $10. The classifications were: a love song for either voice or instrument; a lullaby; "presidigitation"; and synchronous effects. The judges were Harry T. Burleigh, composer and artitone; Charles M. Courbain, official organist; the Philadelphia Wanamaker store in Philadelphia; Carl Diton; Samuel L. Laciar, editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, and Clarence Cameron Waterhouse, the Wanamaker West Virginia Institute. The judges met last June the Wanamaker store and examined with great care the compositions submitted. The result was very gratifying and more than 260 compositions were sent in to the R. C. O. Association. The successful contest in each class, together with the works which won the individual prizes, were as follows: Class 1—"A Hymn of Freedom", first prize, Wellington Adams, Washington, prize; Class 2—"The Wonder of the West", first prize, Frank Tizol, New York City; Second, Harry E. Rush, Philadelphia; Class 3—A lullaby, first prize, Fred M. Bryan, Brooklyn, N.Y.; second, Hinton Jones, New York City; third, Wesley Howard, Washington, D.C.; fourth, Wellington Adams; Class 4—"Presidigitation", first prize, Maude Odealie Bonner, Roxbury, Mass.; second, J. Howard Brown, Kansas City, Kansas; third, Richard Lowe, Iowa; fourth, D. Griffin, Philadelphia; third, Mrs. C. B. Cooley, Roxbury; Class 5—Melodies and synchronous effects, first prize, Oscar Howard, Philadelphia; second, John A. Gray, Los Angeles, Calif.; third, George Duckett, Philadelphia. It was announced that Mr. Wanamaker will offer prizes again next season. "A NORTHERN BOY" SOUTH Who Wouldn't Be an "Uncle Tom" Artistically Decorated a Supervisor's Head With an Ax— Mims Still at Large. Barnwell, S. C.—Richard Mims, a miner, came here from Pittsburgh, Pa., some weeks ago. He wouldn't be an "Uncle Tom", so Supervision J. S. Stills and Policeman John Hogg, both white, went to his home with guns to "show him something", to give him the southern "third degree" because local whites objected to what they termed "his arrogant, disdainful attitude". Mims struck Stills over the head with an ax and took a whiff of the policeman the rest was Hogg then shot him twice. Mims takes refuge in a house a quarter of a mile away which the policeman feared to approach because he had emptied his gun fireing at Mims, who is still at large. THREE GOOD POLITICAL JOBS. Chicago, Ill.-Atty. Patrick E. Prescott, son-in-law of Bishop A. J. Carey, a member of this city's civil service commission, has just been appointed an assistant corporation counsel. Salary, $5,000. Atty, Wm. H. Temple has been made an assistant city attorney and Atty. George B. Prescott, vice president of the counsel. Prescott's wife, a daughter of Bishop Carey, is head of the French department of Wendell Phillips high school, this city. White Girl Dies in "Jim-Crow" Hospital. Pensacola, Fla. — E. E. Tart (white) took Dorothy Friederichsen, a prominent white girl, to a local "Negro" hospital for an operation. Dr. S. A. S. McGee and E. C. Moon, members of the race, and Tart, are told that the two are said to have received $100 each for performing the operation. The Booze Case Dismissed Rosedale, Miss.—The case against Mrs. Mary Booze, her husband and three other residents of Mound Bayou, who were charged, recently, with having caused the death, three years ago, of Isaiah T. Montgomery, founder of the town, was dismissed, county court here Wednesday, in the county court here. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS IF SOUTHERN U. S. SENATORS PERSIST IN FIGHT ON SENATORS SMITH AND VARE. Thousands of White Republicans in Alabama Alone Disfranchised—"Negroes" Not the Only Ones—Pennsylvania and Southern Districts Compared. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—Resumption of the fight, to exclude U. S. Senators-elect Frank L. Smith of Illinois and Wm. Vare of Pennsylvania when the next congress convenes, is almost certain to face with an organized demand for an investigation into the wholesale disfranchisement in the south—a veritable political hornets' nest because thousands of white Republican voters are also robbed of their votes. Such an investigation was proposed in the closing days of the last congress by Senator Richard P. Ernst (R. N. H. H. H.) in a report that it be made simultaneously with an inquiry, into the alleged barter and sale of federal offices in the south, which was recommended by the senate judiciary committee. Senator George W. Norris (Rep. Neb.), chairman of the judiciary committee, while agreeing that both investigations were desirable, asserted that the proposed committee was action on both the proposed investigations was frustrated by the filibuster, under the leadership of Senator David Reed (Rep. Pa.,) which defeated a resolution authorizing continuance of the "slush fund" inquiry during the summer recess. During the filibuster, Senator Reed compared the number of votes he received in Philadelphia county in the Vare election with the far more numerous counties in southern states in which no votes at all were counted for President Coolidge in the 1924 election. He cited especially fourteen counties in Texas in which no election was held in 1912, because, he charged, with our vote barred from the results of the latter were accepted as the results of the election. He MAYS WAS INNOCENT! White Woman Confesses to Crime He Was Electrocuted For Committing, Years Ago—Murderess Freed. Norton, Va.—Although police said she had confessed she killed Eertie Lindsey in Knoxville, Tenn., about five years ago, for which crime Maurice Mays was electrocuted, Mrs. Sadie Mendil, (white), aged 28, was released from jail here, last Saturday. Chief of Police Warren said he had been advised by telephone by the office of the Knoxville chief of police that Maurice Mays, a member of the race, had paid the death penalty for the crime, and that records there showed no charge against the woman. Mrs. Mendil and her husband, a palmist, arrived here, last week Wednesday. She went immediately to the chief of police's office and volunteered a confession, explaining that her conscience had been troubling her. At the time of the crime, police said Mrs. Mendil told them her name was Mrs. John Roddy and she had ad Deviation. Toenice Dheebal, with her face blackened, according to her story, she slipped into the Lindsey woman's home and killed her in bed. She did so, she said, because a few nights previous, she had trailed her husband, a traveling man, to the Lindsey home, and had seen her husband on the street. When she left the jail, Mrs. Mendil told Chief Warren she was going to Knoxville to see her two-year-old son who is living with friends. THE KLUXERS WERE WITH HIM Campbell, O.—Every member of the Ku Klux Klan in this city was active in his support of Mayor Roy T. Gordon during the recent campaign and at the primaries, Aug. 9. Gordon's claim of a majority of 120 over City Solicitor Joseph E. Julius, his opponent, is being contested in the courts as the result of glaring election irregularities. The notorious fact that the great majority of Republican voters of this city voted for Mr. Julius, the free use of money and the influence of employers, in the city of Jackson, is Gordon's K. K. K leaning, if not membership, was what held about one-half of the colored voters of this city in line for him. IN-UNION IS STRENGTH COPY FIVE CENTS NT! ESTIGATED ATORS PERSIST IN FIGHT SMITH AND VARE. publicans in Alabama Alone roes" Not the Only nia and Southern Compared. insisted, that if the "slush fund", continuing resolution was to be voted on, the committee should also be directed "to go into these southern states and find out what has happened to the voters there, what has caused this complete suppression of the Republican vote." The amendment was not actually offered, however, and the senate again escaped recording itself for or against the proposed investigation and thus again dodged its clear duty. The probability that the question will be revived, this fall, has caused considerable discussion of the means by which disfranchisement has been effected upon the country in general. By 1876, native southern groups, with the aid of "nightriders", the Klu Kux Klan and other lawless bodies and acts had regained control of the southern states and after the Hayes-Tilden compromise, withdrawing the federal troops which supported the federal government to consolidate their opposition to Republican suffrage. "White supremacy" was reinstalled almost as much by legislative and judicial repeal of the federal reconstruction code as by fraud, corruption, intimidation and violence. By successive decisions the "dough-faced federal courts" and the federal government "officiated" of the fifteenth amendment and the federal civil rights law in rulings holding that violations of the right to vote as granted by the states must be on grounds of discrimination based on race, color or previous condition of servitude. Uniformly, disfranchisement in the south is never affected by color or previous condition but in reality it is on all of them with the addition of politics (Republican). DOINGS OF THE RACE Our Knights of Pythias held their annual grand lodge meeting and national encampment in Chicago, this week. The Los Angeles N. A. A. C. P. branch has won its fight to prevent the exclusion of our bathers from Manhattan Beach, Calif. In spite of the government's denial, segregation, recently installed, is still enforced in the pension department at Washington, D. C. The Supreme Life and Casualty Co. has announced the immediate erection of a modern three-story fireproof office building in Cincinnati. The Pan-African conference held a four-day session in New York City, this week. Thirteen countries, in addition to this one, were represented in the conference, it is claimed. Dr. John W. Watkins of Pittsburgh, as the result of a competitive civil service examination, is connected with the Chelsea Naval hospital in Boston, our only governmental employee of the kind in the New England states. It is publicly announced that the West Indian membership of our Elks is seeking control of that organization. J. Delima Steele is their candidate against J. Finley Wilson, G. E. R., who is seeking re-election to a third or fourth term. Last week, Paul W. Johnson (white), of Fayetteville, N. C., struck Hector Graham in the presence of the latter's wife for addressing him by his first name (Paul). Graham killed him. Blood-hounds and police are still searching for Graham. The salary of the Hon. Arthur G. Froe, our Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia, is not subject to retirement act. Robert W. Dutton, deputy recorder and disbursing officer, had deducted the customary percentage from Mr. Froe's salary. Blocton, Ala. Personals. Miss Rebecca Payne, who finished at Tuskegee Institute, has been here teaching night-school for the past six weeks. She will leave immediately for Colton, Ala. to teach a nine months' school—A young folks' concert, Aug. 29, at Hope Hill Baptist church. Everybody cordially invited. HELLO, GIRLS. -- I'M ON MY WAY TO JAIL WITH THIS PRISONER! YOU'RE SOME DETECTIVE, MR.GAZZINKUS! OH. "GAZZY! DO TELL US HOW YOU CAPTURED HIM, "GAZZY"! JUST HOT ENOUGH FOR FURS WHISPER— S-P-P-S!--S-P-S-P-P-S-S-S! COME ON. SIS— -ISN'T LOADED! - WE MUSTNT DELAY MR.GAZZINKUS! Tim Earzy The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY 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 Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE 826 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 immediately 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, AUGUST 27, 1927. The bunglesome way in which the Sacco-Vanzettii cases were handled has made this country the "laughing-stock" of the world. --- A good wife, who is intelligent and economic, is a real asset to any sane man. Mrs. Harry Wills, from all we have learned of her, is just that. Result: Harry Wills has quit the fight game at least a half million dollars "to the good". Rah! for Mrs. Wills. The statement going the rounds of the race press to the effect that "more than a hundred million dollars of annual business" was represented in the St. Louis, Mo. hall where our National Business League assembled on Aug. 8, '27, in annual meeting, is so silly and absurd that we are astounded at the nerve of the "blow-bagging" newspaper correspondent who wrote it. --- All that can be done now, since the white woman who committed the deed has confessed and been freed, is for Maurice Mays' relatives, if he has any, to sue the state of Tennessee for damages. He was electrocuted, five years ago, on a charge of having killed Bertie Lindsey (white) in Knoxville, a crime he never committed, according to the woman, Mrs. Sadie Mendil. See Norton, Va. letter, elsewhere in this paper. --- The Kluxers are sure giving the white people an awful "ride" in a number of southern states. The frequent floggings, many of them very brutal indeed, have compelled the state authorities of several states to take severe measures in an effort to put a stop to them. This will hasten the end of the K. K. K., in this country. The back of their effort in the North has been broken and the end of the "Invisible Empire" is not far distant. WASTEFUL It sure would be interesting to know just how much money "Negroes" have spent this month alone, attending conventions of various kinds. Thousands of them will need the money, they wasted in this way, to buy food and clothing, this winter. Everybody tells them to spend and no one encourages them to economize and save. This is the main reason why the material progress of the race is so slow. The "windjammers" and "blowbaggers" of the race, many of whom are "skinning" our poor hard-working people in every conceivable way, are untiring in their efforts to create an opposite impression because it is to their interest to do so. The more they jolly the masses of our people the easier it is to "skin" them. Judging "Negroes" by what they spend, proportionately, would lead one to believe that theirs was the richest group, class or race in the country. ARROGANCE AND DISLOYALTY. Just how arrogant and contemptible southern whites as a rule are in their attitude toward our people is shown in the case of Samuel Kennedy, arrested in Chicago, last week, at the request of a deputy sheriff from Madison, Ga. In 1924, Kennedy slapped Ray Davis (white) in Madison because the latter was assaulting him. For this, he was arrested and sentenced to 18 months "on the county road". He escaped from jail and went to Chicago, with the result noted in the foregoing. Just how loyal many of our people are toward one another is perfectly exemplified in the following: Kennedy's whereabouts were learned, recently, from a letter sent to Madison, Ga. by a woman who formerly worked for the Madison chief of police in his home and was there when Kennedy escaped from jail. She lives A. No other preparation lightens your skin like Dr. Fred Palmer's Skin Whitener THE GEEVUM GIRLS in the building with him at 2954 Prairie Ave., Chicago. Lord, have mercy! TROUBLES OF THE TIBBS. When Prof. Roy W. Tibbs, head of the music department of Howard University, Washington, D. C., permitted his wife, "Mme Evanti", to leave their home and very young son to go abroad to study music and sing in opera, he made the mistake of his life. When a woman thinks more of a musical career abroad than she does of her family, especially the care of her child, it is high time the husband asserts the authority which should be exercised by the head of a family. Prof. Tibbs failed to do this and as a result has lost his wife, the mother of his six-year-old son. There is a lesson in this which many of our married couples, at least one of which is musically inclined, would do well to learn instanter. COBB WILL NOT GO SOUTH. Our readers are familiar with the Cobb case—he is a member of the race who came to Cleveland, a year ago, from Alabama after his wife had been murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. With the help of several churches, he was able to bring his eight children here, later on. The Alabama authorities first sought his voluntary return to that state to appear as a witness against those who murdered his wife, and at one time he made a statement that he was willing to return and appear against them if protection there was furnished him. This the Alabama authorities would not guarantee, but made up a felony charge against Cobb upon which they based a claim for extradition papers which Gov. A. V. Donahue issued and then revoked. The result is Cobb has decided to remain in Cleveland as The Gazette advised, weeks ago. Good! --- "Trouble in the church": The two factions which have recently split the congregation of the Church of God in the Risen Christ, at E. 37th St. and Scovill Ave., were forced to have services outside the church, and the church closed Lott, 2547 E. 51st St., who arrived here a month ago to take the place of Elder James Hawkins, 3718 Scovill Ave., who refused to resign, locked the doors. Adherents of Hawkins retaliated by placing their own locks on the same doors. Assistant Pastor John McCarthy O. Payne heard their stories, last Saturday and advised a civil action to settle the dispute. No other pre lightens you Dr. Fred Palm Any complexion, no matter how dark, muddy or oily, can be improved almost over night with Dr. Fred Palmer's Skin Whitener Ointment. 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This is one minute and twenty-five seconds, puts George in line for a crack at the winner of the Dempsey-Tunney contest soon to be staged. Godfrey has had a half dozen fights this year. Harry Wills Wealthy. New York City—Harry Wills, a former heavy-weight fighter, recently purchased the Juliette Apartments, 76-78 St. Nicholas Place, for a price estimated at $150,000. Yearly rental, $26,000. This is the second large apartment house that Wills and wife have bought in the last three years, for rent reimbursed. W. 147th St. near the Rockefeller Apartments. They also have a $30-000 private residence in 139th St. W., and a large farm near Mrs. Wills' former home at Petersburg, Va. She is a woman of education. Harry has little but is wise enough to let his wife manage his business affairs. Tiger Flowers to Battle Anderson. Seattle, Wash.—Tiger Flowers, former middleweight champion, and Joe Anderson of Covington Ky., have been matched for a ten-round bout, Sept. 1, in Madison Square Garden. The Hornets Defeat Tires. The Hornets Defeat Tires. Akron, O.—The General Tires dropped a hotly contested game to the Cleveland Hornets here, Sunday afternoon, and a hotly contested game to the right, match all the games of a total of twenty-six hits were registered, including two three-baggers and two doubles. Each side used two pitchers. An error in the ninth put three runs across for the Hornets after the Generals had scored in the fifth, seventh and eighth innings to tie the count. Shockard made a two-bagger and Wesley a three-bagger. Miller and Moore did the pitching for the Hornets. **Bruce Flowers** Beats Bernstein. New York — Bruce Flowers, the third-highest right fighter over Jack Bernstein, (white), former junior lightweight champion of the world, for the second time when he took a ten-round decision in the feature bout at the Queensboro Stadium, last week Wednesday night. Flowers (not "Tiger") weighed 134 and Bernstein, 130 lbs. Yarbo Is Loser. 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Send or bring locals and all business matters to The Gazette office, Suite 302, Johnson Block, 226 Superior Ave., West, opposite the Hotel Cleveland. If you wish to see the editor call there, please. We advise our readers to carefully examine The Gazette's advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of our people. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. All reading matter for publication in current issues of The Gazette must be in the office by noon, WEDNESDAY, of that week, at the latest. Display advertisements accepted until 4 p. m., WEDNESDAYS! HARRY C, SMITH, 226 West Superior Avenue, Cleveland, O. (Opposite, Hotel Cleveland.) Notary Public Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 (Call in the Afternoon.) Classified Advertising Department FOR SALE — House and large lot. Beautiful seven — room up-to-date home, near St. Clair Ave. and Lakeview Rd. Splendid location. Brand new Holland furnace. The owner lives in the house. Terms. Address: Box 20, Suite 302, 226 W. Superior Ave. FOR RENT. — Four rooms up and six down; $15 and $30 per month, respectively. Two garages; $5, each, at 3017 E. 82nd St. FOR RENT. — Two-room suites, first floor. All conveniences for housekeeping. Heat, light and gas furnace; $7 per week, 2208 E. 90th St. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Evans visited in Hillsboro, last week. Wood B. Hawkins, E. 86th St., has been very ill at City Hospital. Atty. and Mrs. A. H. Martin, E. 40th St., motored to Detroit, recently. M. Hearney Hubbard and Miss Bernice Livingstone are towed soon. Mr. and Mrs. John H. and Miss Helen H. Johnson of Cincinnati are visiting relatives in the city. Miss Rosa Johnson, E. 46th St., a June graduate of Central high school, is visiting in Chattanooga, Tenn. Mr. and Mrs. Scott Thompson returned, last week, from an auto trip to Niagara Falls and several cities in southern Canada. Miss Thelma, and her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Oliver A. Taylor, were in Detroit, recently. Miss Taylor also visited in Pittsburgh. Rev. H. C. Bailey has been appointed administrator of the estate of Mrs. Sarah Gaines, 2174 E. 87th St., recently deceased. Dr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Johnson of Columbus drove to Cleveland, last week Friday, to attend the funeral of Rev. Chas. Bundy. Miss Jennell Wooding, E. 43rd St. delightfully entertained with a party, Monday evening. There were a number of out-of-town guests. Mrs. Trulia Bridgeford, a teacher in our schools at Keystone, W. Va. visited her mother, Mrs. A. E. George, E. 85th St., recently. Dr. Hoover and Bob Shauer of Rosenberg's drug stbre, cor. E. 55th St. and Central Ave., are real assets to that leading place of business. Miss Dorothy, daughter of Mr. Carroll Scott, is on a visit to Detroit, Windsor and Chatham, Ont., Ca. She is a recent graduate of Central high school. Miss Helen Johnson, a teacher in our school at Hillsboro, spent the week-end with her parents. Mr. and THE GEEVUM GIRLS HOW MANY FLIES HAVE KILLED SO FAR, SIS? *M. KLEINMAN'S 2928 Central Ave. *THE S. & S. DRUG CO. 7325 Central Ave. ROSENBERG'S DRUG STORE, N. W. Cor. Central Ave. and E. 554th St. The Gazette regularly should notify copy delivered promptly. business matters to The Gazette , 226 Superior Ave., West, oppo- you wish to see the editor call carefully examine The Gazette's purchases. Business men who have the patronage of our people. assurance that they want it. dication in current issues of The by noon, WEDNESDAY, of that advertisements accepted until C. SMITH, Avenue, Cleveland, O. Bell Cleveland.) Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 (Call in the Afternoon.) FOR RENT. — Modern 3-room suites; steam-heat and hot-water furnished, at 9805 Cedar Ave. Inquire, Suite 11, or L. Kabat, owner, Gar. 6617-J. This is a nice apartment just opened to the better class of our people. Splendid location for a doctor or dentist, too. FOR RENT. — Five nice, good-size rooms, downstairs. Electric lights, bath, gas; all conveniences. Large cellar and yard, in the East End, very near Quincy car line. Call, Cherry 1259, in the afternoon. Quarterly meeting at St. John's A. M. E. church, Aug. 28, Dr. West, P. E. is to be present. Mrs. Clarence Johnson of Thackery Ave. Do not miss reading carefully and thoughtfully the long article in column 7, page 4 of this paper and tell your friends and acquaintances to do so also. Mrs. Mary Bockwith, of Woodland Ave, Dr.'s R. C. Wood and F. H. Burke of Columbus left, this week, on an auto trip thru Pennsylvania and Virginia. Mrs. Sarah Gaines, an invalid for years before and after the death of her husband, Mr. Harry Gaines, died recently. Mrs. Gaines was a most lovable character. A card, from Samuel V. Perry, last week, announced that he will be home from Dayton, today (Saturday). His many friends will be greatly pleased to hear this. Mrs. Ocata Gardner of Philadelphia is visiting her niece, Mrs. Wm. Rosier Jackson of Cedar Ave. Mrs. Anna Scott of Boston was Mr. and Mrs. Jackson's guest, recently. Mrs. Esther Irving Cooper and three children who visited her sister, Mrs. Lottie Gordon, of Gibson Ave., for several weeks, left for home, Fort Myer, Va., last week Friday. Miss Ernestine Shepherd, of Central Ave., entertained a number of friends, Sunday afternoon. The out-of-town guests were: Miss Helen Jewett of Akron, Riley Canty and James Lyons of Columbus. Francis L. Todd, of Thackery Ave., entertained at luncheon, last Friday evening, Mrs. Ona Lewis of Springfield, Mrs. M. Wright of Cincinnati, Messrs. Ross and Wrennington of Mobile, Ala., and L. R. Care of this city. Warren J. Cossey, 4313 Cedar Ave., a Gazette alumnus, after an illness of some weeks in a local hospital, was able to return home, last week. This will be good news to "Warry's" many local friends and acquaintances. Atty. and Mrs. John E. B. Ballard and daughter, Helen; his sister, Mrs. E. R. Schaeffer and her daughter, Aileen, and Robert Ballard, Jr., most recently, to attend the wedding anniversary of Prof. and Mrs. E. F. Ballard. YOU WHEN I GET TWO MORE ITLL MAKE NINE! THAT KNOW GET FASHION TALKS THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1927 Rev. W. H. Smith, now of Cedar Ave., is pastor of Second Baptist church, Medina, and secretary of the Minister's and Deacons' union of northern Ohio. His wife, Mary L. Smith, is a very competent social worker. He pastored in Lorain for some years. Mrs. Grace Willis Thompson and Mrs. Kathleen H. Forbes are attending the annual convention of our Musicians National association in St. Louis. The former, chairman of the artists' committee of the organization, was in charge of their important conference. Dr. B. F. Rucker and family visited his old home in Tennessee, recently, going by auto and stopping in several cities, en route from and to Cleveland, for short stays with old friends and acquaintances. They also attended the national medical convention in Detroit, last week. Mr. and Mrs. S. Cunningham accompanied by their son, Atty. Ralph, and their daughter, Miriam, en route to New York City on an auto trip, visited Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Carey, E. 81st St. Mr. Cunningham has been active in the real estate business in Atlanta for over thirty years. A citizens committee consisting of Atty's Perry B. Jackson, C. K. Gillespie, R. N. Dillard, Harold T. Gassaway, Frank C. Lyon, J. R. Baylor, Fred Roseboro, Lawrence O. Payne, Selmo C. Glenn, Chas. W. White and others, are arranging for an "emancipation" banquet, to be held, Sept. 22. Mrs. E. L. Anderson and nephew, John H. Perry, of Circleville; Mrs. A. H. Nickens and son, Albert, and Mrs. Frank Nickens of Columbus spent Saturday with Mrs. Loula S. Jones, E. 101st St., who took them sight-seeing thru the city. They returned to Columbus, Saturday evening, via Akron. John S. Hall, our oldest jeweler and optometrist, for the past twenty-six years in business in Central Ave., has established himself thoroly in the confidence of our people of this city because of fair dealing, expert and satisfactory work at reasonable rates. Patronize John S. Hall's jewelry store, 3133 Central Ave. The special committee co-operating in the collection of pledges, from our subscribers to the Philshe Wheatley fund, held a dinner-meeting, Monday, at the P. W. A. Encouraging reports of the payment of old pledges were made and plans laid for an intensive drive to bring the payments up to date. Next meeting, Sept. 9. The Packard car, beautifully decorated with cut-flowers and a large silk hand-made flag, in the K. and D. of Tabor parade, last week Thursday, in which roe S. A. Jordon G. and Sir Knight M. Manager of Mo. and Sir Knight L. R. Carey, was the donation (its use) of W. W. Williams, E. 55th St., a Tabor of 50 years ago. At the second anniversary celebration, Sunday morning, of the junior members of Triedstone Baptist church, an interesting program was rendered in which the choir, Rev. Norman Jones, Geo. V. Atwood, S. Neal, R. Carey, Rev. J. Kimbro, H. Grimmette, the Melody Boys and Rev. D. H. Hill, assistant pastor, participated. The boys and girls of the Playhouse Settlement, E. 38th St., have done so well with their marionette show that it will be repeated at local municipal and community houses, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Jellife, directors, announce. Their repertoire includes "Mercella," "Three Bears," "Red Riding Hood," "One Bye," and "Three Wishes." Mrs. Julia Anderson Burdine, E. 1st St., who has suffered greatly from neuritis in recent months, is improving slowly. 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Wright was elected grand eminent commander; John Foxhall, G. C. S.; Geo. H. P. Prof. S. S. Spiegel, Janta, N. G. M, and H. P. Horns, N. G. H. P., were among the distinguished visitors to attend the "Eureka" meet. Don't Throw Away Your Copy of The GAZETTE After Reading It But give it to a Friend or Acquaintance wh might Subscribe after Reading a Copy of HOW SEGREGATION IS USED AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL TO LOWER OUR STATUS AS CITIZENS. How Much Longer Will Our Self and Race Respecting Press, Pulpit and People Submit to This Rank Injustice? 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 Turt. It was greatly extended, under President Wilson, still further, under President Harding; and reached its zenith under 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 census-takers in this city in 1910, restricting white workers to white people, and black to black, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold office where white people complained. Segregation, then, is a Republican institution and not a Democratic one it was begun 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 their papers, is tenaciously held by our Republican President. Only last week, a colored girl appeared after having passed 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 a favorite of Secretary Mellon and President Coolidge. He halls from North Carolina, the house of the other secretary 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 underlief 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.) 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. Physical discomfort, disadvantage as it is, is far less galling to the coored clerks than it is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for comfort of the latter, and setting 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 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 whives and neglect of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other games, a 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 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. I announced dancing and a pleasant evening with the teachers for "the postoffice employees" yet not one was present in 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 gave 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 manpower. The colored clerks have dared to form a union which meets regularly and often sends many and intelligent appeals 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 inferior 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 recreation facilities. There are more places in the workplace where all of the employees may go, but there are a few tables in an 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, the law of segregation passes 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 spandit shirt in injustice of this exclusion of our 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 court, and he was sentenced to three grunt Negroes who believe in "social equality," and then dismissed on a trumped-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 falling to secure any evidence searched him only discovered the pistol. He quickly discovered the 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 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 iniquitous 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 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 senators, a noble wife of Senator Robert La Follette. Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a mem or our 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 appearance 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! abolition of the division altogetner; 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 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. 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 discouraged, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A. to urge them to continue the fight, or perhaps was at the court. Wald Garrison Villard came to town 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 altogether. 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 'braham Lincoln, Charles Summer and Frederick Doug g as 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 the three rooms, toilets, and sitting rooms. None are ever thought of for promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best names, 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, 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 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 president was a man of 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 while financed the war and system of war. The chief, John Sherman. These men never knew what segregation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blain 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 are scarce and the tax be notice. 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 toilets, 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 registrarship of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro in Gartfeld 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 a single stroke of the pen, my friend Coolidge can stop every bit of the damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. Washington, 12. 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 waits were maintained until recently. In the latter there have been two cases of discrimination on account of color brought to public view, 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 bureau 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. Post Office. Separate Lunch Room Post Office Department—a segregated lunch room. THE RACE PRESS SHOULD STOP IT! New York City, July 29, '27. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Sir:—We are handing you check for six dollars ($6.00) to cover advertising and thank you for the publicity you have lent us from time to time. We have advertised 'BUGAR' in every colored (newspaper) of any importance. North and South, and so far the returns have been very disappointing. It is the reading notices that keep up permanently before the people and flat (display) advertising never has paid. We simply feel duty bound to give enough advertising to make up for the free publicity we have received from the colored press from time to time. Very truly yours, W. C. Handy, Music Publisher, 1545 Broadway, N. Y. City. Cleveland, Ohio. August 15, 1927: Mr. W. C. Handy, 1545 Broadway, N. Y. City 1945 Broadway. Dear Sir: Your letter of a recent date with enclosure (check for a small advertisement) received. Thank you for the latter. You do not particularly what you say relative to your display (flat) advertising, and reading-notices which are also, as a rule, advertisements although you do not seem to realize that fact. The publication, without charge, of so many reading-notices is one of the greatest hindrances of the successful publication of our newspapers. This results from their ignorance of business and lack of journalistic training. Your reading-notices, as a rule, should be paid for when they are not news. The race newspapers should do what properly conducted daily and weekly newspapers do in such cases—publish as much of all reading notices that are news as in their judgment they deem proper. This latter is frequently governed by the amount of space they have to spare for such publications. If reading notices are not news and are not paid for, they are promptly consigned to the waste-basket, as you no doubt well know. Therefore, you can render the poor struggling race press telling service by paying for your reading notices, as far as you are able and ought to since you contemplate elimination of display advertising which covers almost an entirely different field as contracted with that of reading-notices. They are not one and same. Neither one covers entirely the field of the other. I thought you might want to know these things because they cannot but prove helpful in your business, and trust they will be received in the friendly spirit sent. With best wishes for your contin ued success, I am sincerely Yours for the race. HARRY C. SMITH. THE FASHION WEEKLY LATEST WHIM OF THE MODE IS HANDPAINTED FROCKS AND SMOCKS JAPAN And now it's the feather toque or skullcap, more properly named, which is the newest star in the millinery firmament. They are nothing short of a midsummer sensation, these pasted feather caps, coming in so unexpectedly just as a fashionable clientele had been converted to the wearing of brims of the widest. Maybe you are one who has always believed that it requires a hat broad of brim to interpret the picturesque. Catch a fleeting glimpse of one of these new pastel feather toques as worn with fluttering garden party frocks of flowery print and - well it's a woman's privilege to change her mind. As the elite in Paris wears the pastel pasted feather skullcap, it is always in tones to match the frock. There's another number on the midsummer millinery program which is eliciting much favor. It is the Agnes toque of white violets—so called because of the artiste modiste who created it. The moment you look at it as shown in this picture you will no doubt be saying "It's lovely." And so it is; perfectly adorable—made more LATEST WHIM OF THE HANDPAINTED FI "W HERE are you going, my pretty maid?" "I am going a yachting, sir," she most likely answers. To prove that she has tuned her costume to the occasion, she holds to view the sleeve of er blouse, which, as you will observe, according to the center figure in this picture, is hand painted, showing a nautical scene of a proud ship sailing over some very blue waves—all this in the name of fashion. It is really quite exciting the way white sails speed over wild waves pictured with paint and brush, across the ends of one's scarf, or perhaps upon the front of one's blouse, or on one's necktie or 'kerchief square for the neck. If a tennis enthusiast, it will be an alert figure posing a racket in midair which adorns her summer blouse, or a golf player in action, if such be the event. Considering the vogue for hand-painted apparel, it behooves the artist, AZETTE A Subscribe a so because of the huge cluster of matching violets which are always worn with it. This white violet chapeau lends it self beautifully to the season's all white ensembles which are so definitely representative of the present season's fashions. Speaking of the modish new feather turbans, as shown at the top in this picture, they apparently are the prologue to a coming vogue for feathery millinery. Even now flat feather motifs are appearing on straw and felt eats. Then, too, scores of little snug-fitting hats have their contour diversified by conspicuous feather side-trims of the shaving brush type. Women always like this type of trimming, for not only does it "carry style" in the truest sense of the word; but it is very flattering to the wearer. If your felt or straw close-fitting hat is not as becoming as you wish it were, just add one of the new shaving brush feather trims and note its transforming effect. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (© 1927, by Western Newspaper Union.) THE MODE IS SMOCKS AND SMOCKS either amateur or otherwise, to lose no time in getting out palette and brush preparatory to taking up the fascinating pastime of embellishing frock blouse, smock, coole coat, hat and also parasol with wonderful birds of paradise, or exotic flowers, or if your taste runs that way, flamboyant modernistic motifs. And would you believe it some modern maledicts there are who doting on unique and pretty under things, are decorating their steppe and their nightrobes with butterflies birds and flowers. If there is one place more than an other where bizarre hand painting finds placement it is on the back of one's coole coat, which, by the way, is extremely popular either for boudou or beach. Students at the art schools too—what delight they are taking in wearing coole coats which are en livened with gay paintings a chinise. The picture shows two such pretties adorned in this way. Now that wide ribbons trim so many hats, they are frequently hand painted with garlands of flowers or quaint figures. It is also quite the fashion to paint directly on the straw, felt or crochet visca hat. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (© 1927, by Western Newspaper Union.) after Ready after Reading Wonder how many of our readers noticed that with its issue of last week, "The Old Reliable" Gazette entered upon its forty-fifth year of continuous publication, every week on time. Forty-four years ago, this paper made its first appearance, with the writer at the helm as part-owner, editor and manager. Many years ago, he purchased the interests of the other members of the company—Messrs. John Holmes, John Lightfoot and Oliver T. Jackson, the last named succeeding his brother, Jamgs Harvey Jackson, one of the four original members, the other three being Messrs. Holmes, Lightfoot and the editor, the writer. Ever since, the burden and responsibility of the publication of The Gazette has rested upon the shoulders of the writer. How successful we have been, is a matter of common knowledge the country over, and of personal pride on our part, for The Gazette's accomplishments were and are vitally important, many and varied. They recommend it, too, in the strongest possible manner especially to the loyal of the race where-ever they may be. As a direct result of the efforts of The Gazette, many years ago, the notorious "Black Laws" of Ohio were wiped out, and an effective Civil Rights law and Mobi Violence act or Anti-Lynching law were enacted by the Ohio Assembly. This paper, as all know, has never failed to do all in its power to help defend and protect our people, not only of Ohio but of the entire country. It has time and again blazed the way to wiser and better political and other action, and "turned back" the "jim-crow Negro" who is a more treacherous and dangerous opponent of real racial progress than any other enemy of the race. Indeed, "The Old Reliable" Gazette has stood out in the open all of its forty-four years of life like a beacon light, fearless and unafraid, never faltering and always determined. What it has done in hundreds of other instances to help defend and encourage our people along all lines of endeavor that lead to greater and better progress is a matter of general knowledge. We refer particularly to its efforts against criminal legislation and harmful discrimination, national, state and municipal, and in favor of all that was helpful to the race. Personal and business interests have always been subordinated by its editor to those of the race, and The Gazette's clarion call to Afro-Americans, generally, in season and out, has been to accept nothing in the way of treatment that is less than that all citizens, without reference to class (race) or color, are entitled to. When it comes to our citizen-rights, here in the North, we have been and always will be, unalterably opposed to any "doctrine of surrender", or conciliatory policy, so insidiously preached, in this day and time, by "jim-crow Negroes" and their fool-prejudiced white masters. The Gazette believes in demanding for our people, in this section of the country at least, and in continuing to fight for, ALL that is due all American citizens, under the law. THIS IS OUR SLOGAN! Its firm adherence to principle, thrul all these years, together with its known accomplishments, are its best recommendations for continued and greater support, and we respectfully ask it. To our faithful following of the past forty-four years—thousands of readers in all parts of the country, from ocean to ocean and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf—we have only expressions of sincerest appreciation. There, however, one thing we would ask of all our readers at this time and that is that they urge their friends and acquaintances to become subscribers of "The Old Reliable" Gazette and in this way assist it to materially increase its circulation and power for good. For all you have done in the past, we thank you, and again assure you of our sincerest appreciation. Harry C. Smith, Editor and Owner. Additional Locals SHE SHOT HIM!: When Rev. John Watson, age 34, of 3720 Woodland Ave., owner of a restaurant at 3722 Scillov Ave., tried to discharge his cook, last week Thursday, he sure asked for a cook, Rosa Morton, 10623 Norman, asked for her revolver when she was ready to leave and then shot him in the shoulder, Watson told police. He had taken out all the cartridges but one before he gave her the weapon, he said. Watson was taken to Charleston to "paint the gun to the "cooler" where she was charged with shooting to wound. At the Minerva Reading club's recent mid-summer meeting at Mrs. Lewis Dean's, Elberon Ave., a delicious luncheon was served. Mrs. H. Alexander of Columbus delivered address on "Love" and Prof. Thomas Holcomb and Miss Myrtle Wiggins rendered several beautiful vocal numbers. Mary visitors were present. Those from out-of-the-city were: Mrs. Gilbert H. Jones and Miss Jessie Smith force, Mr. and Mrs. Thos Reynolds of Kansas City, Kan., and Mrs. Lulu Hall Alexander of Columbus.