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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. Unlikely letters done, proper credit cannot be given, 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 20 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. CADIZ—Rev, and Mrs. Richard Hughes of Simpson M. E. church attended the group meeting at Martins Ferry, last week. He will leave the 11th for conference at Chicago.—Mrs. Elsworth Guy of Steubenville visited relatives here, Sunday.—Miss Gladys Williams and Mr. R. Matowsky visited relatives here, Mrs. Va. Saturday—Mr. Donald Blanchard visited in Martins Ferry, Sunday.—Mrs. Naomi Henry and Mr. Paul Watson of Columbus are visiting their parents, Rev. and Mrs. W. E. Watson at St. James' A. M. E. parsonage.—The churches have arranged special Easter service.—A son has arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Noble Mason.—J. B. Polinton and D. B. Polinton visited Unity lodge. K. P. Thursday evening.—Mrs. Mary Brown was called to E. Liverpool by the illness of her husband, P. T. Brown. BRIDGEPORT.-Miss A m a n d a Levicy spent the entire week end in Woodsdal.—Mrs. Chas. Thurman was in Wheeling, Saturday.—Miss Roberta Wright has recovered. La gripe.—Mrs. Georgia Lucas and Miss Eleanor Smith were in Bellaire, Thursday.—A large congregation at Mt. Zlon Baptist church, Sunday. The sermons were excellent.—Mr. and Mrs. Dan Smith and family spent the week-end in Bellaire.—The chicken supper at the M. E. church, Thursday evening, was a success.—Wilberforce University quartette sang in Bellaire, last week Thursday. A number from here added to the congregation in Wheeling, Saturday.—Mr. Jesse Banks of Bellaire visited D. W Smith, Sunday.—Members of clubs are working hard for the rally at Mt. Zlon Baptist church, April 28. Tell your friends to give their order for "The Old Reliable" Gazette to its local representative and get a copy every week. ALLENANCE. — Quarterly meeting, this Saturday evening, and tomorrow morning at Zion A. M. E. church at Dover. Rev. Leftruch, P. E., will preach at 11 A. M. and also in the evening. Rev. McD. Sharpe, pastor. Easter program at 3 P. M. —Miss Josephine Bell was married, Monday, to Mr. Robert Lake, of Deppe, N. Y. by Rev. E. Bell, her father, at her residence. The S. of Deppe, Rev. E. Bell, pastor, and Mt. Olive church, gave an excellent program, Sunday afternoon, at Mt. Olive. A good collection. The Sebring church will have an Easter program, Sunday. On Monday, revivals will begin, conducted by Rev. C. W. Chapman. —Miss Bessie Smith gave a surprise party March 27, in honor of her sister, Miss Mayme Miles' 18th birthday. She received many beautiful gifts. —The W. M. M. S. young ladies, auxiliary met at Mrs. Emma Berry, 27, in honor of her sister Richardson pastor of Mt. Olive, and family will soon move to N. Liberty Ave.—Mrs. Vera Young and children of Ravenna stopped here, on their way home from a visit with relatives in Cleveland, to visit their grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Cisco, a few days. HILLSBORO—Mrs. C. M. Gragston entertained Mr. and Mrs. Donald Highwarden at dinner, Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. Garland Carr returned to Detroit, Sunday.—Frank Day and Stephen Marshall of Dayton visited here, Sunday.—Abe Pearl died suddenly, last week, in Cincinnati. The remains were taken to Gist Settlement for burial. Funeral services, Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. R. L. Bray. Joe Williams, Edward Green, Joe H. Williams and Oliver Mitchell attended. Joseph R. Cole visited in Washington. Mrs. R. Cole visited Mrs. A M. Glimer, of Richmond. Ind. were here, Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. John N. Johnson of Columbus were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Goins, last week. They have moved their household goods to Columbus and will locate there.—Rev. J. J. Burr preached in Washington, C. H. Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Woods, Mrs. Jude Pate and Mr. James Ash Murray, Mrs. Judy Woods field.—Miss Helen Woods has gone to Detroit.—Mr. and Mrs. Harry Goins and family have moved to Springfield where he has employment. He is a first-class brick-mason.—Richard Kittrell left Sunday, for Detroit.—Easter programs will be rendered at the churches, Sunday.—The A. M. E. revival closed, Sunday. A successful and interesting meeting. Rev. S. Buford and Smith J. A. attended the Maryville Sunday. The evangelist Mrs. Mattie Price of Xenia left, Tuesday, for home.—Rev. and Mrs. Ware have made many friends while here.—Mrs. Faith Goodson of Dayton visited here, Sunday. DOINGS OF THE RACE Memphis whites are in the courts fighting our Elks because of the latter's use of the word "Elks." The Louisiana Supreme court has declared against segregation in a New Orleans house-building and renting case. South Carolina spends, every year, $27.88 to educate each white child and but $2.74 to school each Afro-American child. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has accepted an invitation to be the commencement speaker at Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., June 6. The 16 lynchings, last year, took place in seven states. The number of victims was 14 less than in 1926, one less than in 1925, and the same number in 1924. The annual report of the General Education Board for the year of 1926-27, published recently, shows that it appropriated $1,910,782.55 toward Afro-American education. The 100 student voices of the Hampton, Va., Institute choir, under the direction of R. Nathaniel Dett, director, will present a program in Carnegie hall, New York City, April 16. Bishop R. E. Jones of the M. E. Church, speaking in Philadelphia recently, said: "We as a group can never get anywhere until we support our press." And the bishop is right. Bob Church, a republican leader of Tennessee, and Ben Davis, national Republican committeeman are being charged with "grifting" federal officeholders in their states by "illy-white" Republicans, and Democrats. They deny the charges. An expenditure of $35,000 has been authorized here by the trustees of Storer College, Harpers Ferry, Va., for the rebuilding of Anthony Memorial hall. It is to be ready for occupancy by September and was destroyed by fire, some months ago. ANOTHER "COLD BLOODED MURDER" Down in Florida—How the "Crackers" Do It! Enormous Are Arrant Cowards, New York City.—Following close upon the disclosure of an alleged lynching by police in Miami, Fla. of a hotel-bellboy, another "cold-blooded murder" is reported from Deerfield, Fla. The chief of police of that little town deputized a friend to arrest a drunken and harmless man of color. The latter passed a road that led to his sister's house and tried to go in the road that led to the house. The cowardly white brute deliberately shot him through the head. The man did not resist nor have any tussle or argument with the officer. The shooting occurred within ten feet of a man and his wife who were sitting on their porch. The man died the day after the shooting. First Conviction of the Kind. New York City.—For the first time in the history of Washington county, Alabama, white men have been convicted of murder for killing a "Negro." They killed Oliver Lee, storekeeper and plantation manager, because they wished to extend their hog-range over 2,000 acres of ground which Lee controlled as manager. HOOVER VERY SLOW "Investigating" the Segregation in His Department—Promised Prof. Neval H. Thomas to Do So, Three Weeks Ago. New York City—Herbert Hoover, U. S. secretary of commerce, recently granted a hearing to a committee which protested to him against segregation in the consus bureau and, according to a report from Prof. Neval H. Thomas, president of the Washington Branch, N. A. A. C. P., Mr. Hoover promised to "investigate" the situation. Mr. Thomas writes: "Secretary Hoover granted our committee, Messrs Nelson, Pinkett, Johnson and Thomas, a hearing on Monday, March 19, 1928. We presented our complaint against segre- HERBERT L. HOOVER gation in the census bureau where there are eighteen of our competent clerks segregated behind a pile of boxes, under a colored sub-chief. There are also five of our clerks confined in a room by themselves in another wing of the large building of this same bureau. We presented the arguments against segregation and the injury it does us. The Secretary said he sympathized with our problems. He himself invoked in his department, "said he would 'look into the matter at once', and that he 'disapproved of segregation.' We then told him of the small number of our clerks in the main building of his department on Pennsylvania Avenue. Of the hundreds in this vast structure, only three are Afro-Americans. We told him of the superior quality of our people who are in the civil service because the whites of their calibre could get far more remunerative employment. We showed him that his subordinates and the civil service adhered to the merit system, there would be dozens more Afro-American clerks appointed. He promised he would look into the whole situation and us know. He sent me a letter, later, saying that the director of the census had just returned from Europe and that he is taking the case under advisement with him." Mr. Thomas also reports that the Washington branch and allied groups are seeking to obtain some definite statement from Ogden L. Mills about segregation in the U. S. treasury department. THE "REIGN OF TERROR" Of the Ku Klux Klan at an End— Some of the Atrocities Committed. New York City—The Klu Klux Klan's rule by mask and lash in the state of Alabama, characterized as a "reign of terror" by a local grand jury, has hastened the downfall of the order, according to R. A. Patton, in the April number of Current History Magazine. In northern states, he says, "physical violence was less prevalent, but elections were bought and sold, compounded by its principles were forced from office and incompetents took their places, municipal, county and state governments were honeycombed with rottenness and intrigue. Whole states were under Klan domination, as witness Oregon, with its attempt to eliminate private and parochial schools; Texas, Colorado, Indiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, Louisiana, to a lesser extent Illinois, and later Alabama." Among the troopers involved in the attack on Klan in Alabama, Mr. Patton reported the following: "A lad whipped with branches until his back was ribboned flesh; a woman of color beaten and left helpless to contract pneumonia from exposure and die; a white girl, divorcee, beaten into unconsciousness in her own home; a naturalized foreigner flogged until his back was a pulp because he married an American woman; a colored man lashed until he sold his land to a white man for a fraction of its value—these are only a few of the cases. In concluding his article, Patton says Klan is responsible for the care with which it may walk before the law in the future, will ever live down the mark of the lash as revealed in Alabama." SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS "CURRY HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT" SAYS PROF. NEVAL H. THOMAS AND WE CAN BELIEVE HIM. Secretary Mellon, Secretary Work and Other Coolidge Administration Cabinet Officers Still Refuse to Wipe Out Segregation in their Departments. Washington, D. C.—The Hoover campaign managers, worried over the threats of our leaders to have our people, en mass, oppose their candidate, have taken steps here to placate Afro-Americans, generally. Administration officials have taken one step toward stopping "segregation" in executive departments. All of our clerks in the census bureau, department of commerce, have been promoted within the last few days from the basement floors and other segregated sections to better jobs and more desirable quarters. The charge of "segregation," also repeatedly made against the treasury department and the department of the interior, still stands, however. Secretary Hoover has yielded but Secretary Mellon and Secretary Work still retain it in their departments. President Coolidge should order them to eliminate it, too. If he does not, then Afro-Americans should NOT vote for HIS candidate for the Republican nomination for president, Herbert Hoover. The change at the census bureau followed a conference between Secretary Hoover and some of his bureau chiefs on the one side, and on the other side, Prof. Neval H. Thomas, president of the local N. A. A. C. P. branch; Robert J. Nelson, executive director of the civil Liberties Bureau of our Elks, and Secretary Pinkert of the local N. A. A. C. P. branch. Southerners Take Note. The report of the new deal for our emplees for the census bureau spread rapidly till Monday. Southern Democrats have been asserting (a joke) that many of their constituents would vote for Mr. Hoover over Gov. Smith, local option governor of New York. Many calls were made at the department of commerce to ascertain the truth of the reported readjustment there. The explanation given was: "The bureau of the census in the course of its work had developed a degree of public statistics particularly affecting the men and in a desire to extend employment to Afro-American members of the staff it placed this division in their control, and naturally the Under the Outrageous American Marines Control in Haiti—Many Natives Leaving the Island. New York City.—Belhomme Auguste Nicoleau, a young Haitian who has studied for three years in France, says that when he left Haiti, March 15 this year, two editors of a newspaper published at Cape Haitien, were still in jail, having been there for upwards of two months because one of them had written an article offensive to an educational inspector. Seven persons had been imprisoned originally for the publication of this same article, says Mr. Nicoleau, but of these all had been released save Clamart Ricourt and Descartes Albert who were still in jail on March 15. The U. S. marines are in control of Haiti. Mr. Nicoleau says further that economic conditions there were bad, that litter and sugar were being exported, and that the coffee and woodwork enterprises conducted by Americans, Haitians were given opportunity only to do the lowest forms of manual labor. He also says public opinion in Haiti was especially stirred by the recent "amendments" to the Constitution, ratified at an election which he characterized as farcical, by which judges, formerly holding life-tenure, were made subject to removal. Mr. Nicoleau says that he was young Haitian, who had studied were leaving the country, many of them going to Cuba, because there were no opportunities for them in their own land, for more than six years now grooming under outrage us American Control. South African Dutch Bats. London, Eng.—Half the total area of South Africa is involved in a plague, Minister of Health Dr. Malan was quoted in a Daily Express Dispatch from Cape Town as having told Parliament. Recent investigation by the government, he said, revealed the existence of a new infectious disease, communicated by rats, called the "Tiger River disease." Southerners Take Note. CONDITIONS BAD THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation in Ohio, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published in this or any other country. It immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. LE COPY FIVE CENTS HELDS! THING TO DO WITH IT H. THOMAS AND WE CAN EVE HIM. Library Work and Other Coolidge net Officers Still Refuse to regregation in their room. Recently some complaint has been made that it amounted to segregation, which was against the orders and the practice of the de- whole division was centered in one partment of commerce. Upon the return from Europe of the director of the census a few days ago the matter was called to his attention and he at once distributed the Afro-American members throughout the staff. Some twelve or fourteen persons were involved. The Gazette's local representative has just been authorized by Prof. Neval H. Thomas of Dunbar High school to announce to Ohio Afro-American voters that "E. W. B. Curry of Springfield, Ohio, had absolutely nothing to do with the census bureau anti-segregation victory," won by him and others, on Monday. Curry is the "Negro" who sided with the Ku Klux Klan of Springfield, Ohio, in that "jim crow" school fight there, and the age of the loyal member of the race should be voted for him for any thing at any time. He pastors a Baptist church there it is said. CURRY ASKED QUESTIONS! Used To Be "Dry"—Is He "Wet" Now?—Hoover Generally Regarded as a "Wet" Candidate— Curry One of His Delegate- at-Large Candidates. Columbus, O., April 4, '28. Rev. E. W. B, Curry, Pastor Baptist church, Surling场, O. My dear Rev.:: As I have known you for many years, I am taking this privilege of writing you this letter. I see by the daily papers that you are a Hoover candidate for delegate-at-large to the next Republican National Convention when I say that you were a vice-president of the Anti-Saloon League, some years ago? If so, have you had a change of heart since then? If not, why are you training with the "wets" of Ohio now? You contend that Hoover is "dry." HE did not say as much in his epilogue to what he said. He said simply that he believed in the enforcement of the 18th amendment. Gov. Al. Smith, the leading candidate of the Democrats, says as much, and he is as "wet" as the Atlantic ocean. Do you believe that the 18th amendment is an experiment? While Mr. Hoover has a perfect right to be either "wet or dry," yet every voter has a right to ask and to know just where the several candidates for president stand on all the vital deadlines of the election. Do your congregation and your friends to support Hoover in preference to a "dry" candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination who has always been friendly to our people? Do you condone the powers that be for the segregation and mis-treatment, as practiced in the Governmental departments at Washington relative to the Afro-American employees in those departments?" I am a supposing, for Mr. Hoover says a much, when he says: area on aalan Dis- viving iga- re- fe- cate. "If I am nominated and elected I will continue the policies of President Coolidge." I know of but one reason why you or any other Afro-American would consent to be a Hoover candidate at this time and that reason I do not care to discuss in this letter. Yours truly, A. D. MALE. Prof. Neval H. Thomas. YEH- MIKE'S AN AWFUL DUMBBELL- BUT HIS DANCING CAN'T BE BEAT YOU SAID IT- HE'S A SAP ALLRIGHT- HIS BRAN'S ARE IN HIS FEET- IT'S MOST IMPROPER, MISS, TO USE A LIPSTICK IN THE STREET- THEM DAYS ARE GONE FOREVER! PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY (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 Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE 820 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 IN UNION IT IS STRONGER 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 850,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1928. Florida is sure "leading the van," these days, with its "cold-blooded" murders. What we told Garrett A. Morgan in July, 1916, has finally come true. He would not listen to us. The Ku Klux Klan's record for crimes is enough to kill any organization. No wonder it is slowly but surely going out of existence. --- The U. S. census bureau explanation of its abatement of racial segregation is real amusing because of its labored efforts to cover up the real reason for what it has finally done upon the insistence of President Neval H. Thomas and his associates of Washington, D. C. 'Twas ever thus. What little good Hoover did for our flood-sufferers in the South does not overshadow that segregation in his department at Washington, D. C. So go slow and wait and see what he does with it, at the request of the committee headed by Prof. Neval H. Thomas of the nation's capitol. Several weeks have now elapsed and Mr. Hoover's promised "investigation" is yet to be heard from. Have and show self and race respect, please. Since the foregoing was written, Mr. Hoover has "come thru," has yielded to our demand for justice, right and proper treatment in his department. BEATTY AND CURRY It's real funny, isn't it? Hon. A Lee Beatty of Cincinnati used to be as "wet as the Atlantic Ocean." We do not know how he stands now but do know he is a candidate for delegate-at-large on a "dry", ticket. E. W. B. Curry of Springfield, Ohio, was "dry," as Prof. A. D. Male writes in his letter, published elsewhere in this paper, and yet he (Curry) is a candidate for delegate-at-large on what is generally considered a "wet" candidate's ticket. Funny, isn't it? The "Rev." E. W. B. Curry is the "Negro" minister who lined up with the Ku Klux Klan and against his own people in that Springfield "jim crow" school fight of several years ago and Beatty tried to amend adversely our Ohio Civil Rights law, when a member of the Legislature. What a pair! LORD, HAVE MERCY!! ROBERT STANTON ALLEN. With his near relatives, the editor of The Gazette sincerely mourns the death, last week, of his long-time friend, Robert Stanton Allen of Columbus. From the days of our youth until the day of his death, last week Tuesday, "Bob" Allen, as he was familiarly addressed by scores of friends throut the state and the country, and the writer had been more to one another than merely friends. There was a stronger feeling than mere friendship, which oftimes obtains between persons who think and act much the same along lines of importance such as those which have to do with the vital progress of the race. "Bob" was intensely loyal to his friends and people; he was intelligently and quietly aggressive, and ever alert. A positive force, that was always in action when there was an opportunity to advance the interests of the race, is gone and will be missed not only by our people in Columbus but through the state. The editor of The Gazette extends his heartfelt sympathy to the three sorrowing sisters. WILLIS PASSES OUT. Those long, tiresome, weekly trips from Washington, D. C. to Ohio and to several other points in the state, together with strenuous campaigning and worrying over its many de- THEM DAYS ARE GONE FOREVER (A New Tune Each Day tails, was too much for even the wonderful constitution of U. S. S. Senator Frank B. Willis who died sud- PETER H. FRANK B. WILLIS denly at his home in Delaware, last Saturday evening. He was a big man, mentally and physically, with a red-blooded boyish spirit, sensitive and courageous, loyal and honest "to the core," full of energy and sym- pathetic. We knew him well, ever since we were colleagues in the Ohio Legislature in 1900 when Warren G. Harding, Nicholas Longworth and Ralph D. Cole were also members of that State Assembly. Ohio's loss is great—in Frank B. Willis' death. APPROPRIATES $635,000 For Our Institutions in "The Blue Grass State"—The Kentucky Legislature Generous. Frankfort, Ky.—The recent session of the Kentucky legislature appropriated $322,000 for our Kentucky Industrial college at Frankfort, to replace a building recently demolished in W. Kentucky Industrial college at Paducah, for new buildings; $10,000 for our Red Cross sanitarium, to care for an overflow of patients, and $25,000 for our Kentucky Home society, for the care of dependent children. Provision was made in the budget also for the establishment of an Indian school for deaf-blinded children. Total $635,000. Gov. Sampson approved this. 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Sworn to and subscribed before me this 26th day of March, 1928. PAUL APPLE. (My commission expires Aug. 8th, 1930.) THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.. SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1928. PRIME SPORT NEWS Gaines Wins. Buffalo, N. Y.-Larry Gaines heavyweight champion of Canada decisively defeated Biggie Peter in a ten-round bout here. Monday night, Joe Gans Defeats Pry Joe Gans Defeats Pry Philadelphia, Pa.—Joe Gans, of Allentown, Pa., won a decision here over Jack Pry, (white), of N. Y. City, Monday night. Each weighed 162 pounds. Eight Players Signed By Tigers. Eight Players Signed By Tigers. Eight players have been signed for the Tigers. Cleveland's entry in our National Baseball league, S. M. Terrell, general manager of the club, announced, last Saturday night, the arrival of a player, a Cleveland, most of the rest coming from the south—and west. The Clevelander signed is big John Barnes, 240-pound catcher, who played with the Tates in 1926 and 1927, batting around 325 both years. He played with Detroit in 1924 and St. Louis in 1925. Theodore Stockard, a fast infielder, formerly with the Kansas City All Nations' nine, has been signed. He's a right-hitter and is expected to do quite a bit with the stick. He goes into fast company with the Pueblo, who is only 24 now. He played with the Omaha Federsal and the Sioux City Ghosts before coming to Cleveland. Jim Womack, former star of the Birmingham Barons, has been signed to tackle the first base job. Last season he smacked out fifty-eight home runs and is expected to beat that record this year. There will be two Dixons on the Tigers. George, a catcher, who bats left-handed, and played the last part of last season with Cleveland, having played seven years. J. B. Dixon of Chattanooga is a pitcher and an outfielder. He played with Massillon, New Castle, Pa., and with the Detroit Stars. He's 27 and bats right-handed. Nelson Dean, a pitcher from Muskogee, Oka., used to work on the mound for the Kansas City Monarchs and will be figured on for the Big share of the box work on for the Tigers this year, according to Frank Duncan, playing the team. A Woodridge, formerly with Louisville, Evansville, Donora and Homestead, leaves the Fairmount, W. Va., Giants to hold down the right field job for the Tigers. A. C. Davis, former Detroit star player, is the eighth player signed, thus far. Flowers-Kaufman Bout Ordered. New London, Conn.—Bruce Flow OBITUARY Henry C. Dawson, age 84, a resident of Willoughby since 1873, died. March 27. He was one of the oldest and most highly respected business men of that little city. The day Gen. Grant took richmond, Va., Mr. Gennison shook hands with the immortal L. L. Johnson years he conducted a barber-shop, retiring in 1926. The widow, daughter and other relatives survive him. His funeral on March 29 was attended by many old friends of both groups in Willoughby and from other sections of the state, among them the L. L. Johnson Mrs. Geo. A. Myers. Many of the stores of the town were closed the afternoon of the funeral and the floral tributes were numerous and beautiful. Mr. Dawson was well-to-do, owning valuable real estate in his home-town, stock in the Cleveland Street Railway Co. Mrs. Bismarck Levine of St. Louis is the daughter. Robert Stanton Allen, aged 63, of Columbus, retired business man, died, March 27, of heart disease. He had been in ill health for a year, but his death was unexpected. The deceased was a veteran of the Spanish-American war, and a memorial plaque in his honor. He also was a member of St. Mark's lodge, F. & A. M.; L. D. Easton consistory, Scottish Rite; Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Aladdin Temple; Prosperity lodge, K. P., and Franklin lodge, Elks. Mr. Allen was a member of the board of directors of the building. Surviving him are three sisters, Miss Bertha of Columbus, Mrs. Mattie A. McAdoo and Miss Lula Allen, of Washington, D. C., where the latter is employed in the government library. Services were conducted at Masonic temple, March 30, and in memory of the building. Memorial Columbus, Undertakers C. D. White & Sons were in charge. Friends were requested to omit flowers. URGE UNION RECOGNITION Pittsburgh, Pa.—Resolutions demanding that the policies of the "save the union committee" be substituted for the program of the John L. Lewis administration in the United Mine Workers of America were adopted at the "Save the Union Convention." The resolutions were framed by Powers Hapgood and included a clause providing for the recognition ers, of New Rochelle, N. Y., our leading light-weight, will be required to meet Joey Kaufman of New York City before contracting for further bouts in national boxing association events. Kaufman has ruled. The Flowers-Kaufman bout was scheduled for New Haven, April 3, but was canceled on Flowers' plea of an injured hand. Donahue announced that in the event Flowers engages Stanislaus Loayza at Detroit, he will be required to meet Kaufman as soon. Thereafter as possible and before making anyone else. Tigers vs. Tires. Manager Frank Duncan will send the Tigers against their first big time opponents of the season, Easter Sunday. The outstanding semipro team of northern Ohio, the Akron General Tires, will be their opponents. The game will be played at 3 P. M., Sunday, at Luna Park stadium. Both teams are just rounding into shape for the opening of the season and it will be the first big game for both, this year. The team will be placed at Luna Park stadium which is in first class shape. Every morning the team works out, and a few additions to the lineup will be made by Manager Duncan before the Tigers start their season. April 28. Tigers Secure Slugger. Signing of Oscar (Heavy) Johnson, to play an outfield position for the Cleveland Tigers, was announced, Wednesday night, by Frank Duncan, manager. Johnson is one of the biggest idols in baseball circles, according to Duncan, and he was acquired when M. C. Barkin, backer of the local nine, outbid five other players in its services. Last year, playing in the team's division, Harrisburg (Pa.) Giants, he smacked out 42 home runs and batted .364 in 88 games. Illness at the close of the season kept the big boy down from his aim of 60 home runs, but he hopes to equal that mark this year for Cleveland. Johnson will be in either right or left field at the New Luna Park stadium when the Giants play their first pre-season contest, with both Adrian Tires. Heavy Johnson is expected to be the biggest box office attraction in the league, according to Barkin. Elks, Upset Midlands season promoters. 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Display advertisements accepted until 4 p. m., WEDNESDAYS! Classified Advert Classified Advertising Department FOR SALE — A good bedroom set of three pieces. A BARGAIN—in good condition. Also a Way-Sagless spring and a first-grade mattress. Both practically new; used less than two weeks. Call, CHerry 1259 in the afternoon. CLEVELAND Social and Personal John H. Morton, E. 82nd St. well-known engineer and plumber, who has been very ill for four weeks, is rapidly convalescing. Mrs. Robert B. Hodges, of Parkside Rd., has been moved home from Clinic hospital where she was successfully operated upon recently. Thomas Reeves and Moses Bruce, star athletes of Central high, were recently selected by a local daily paper for its all-star Senate basketball team. Rev. W. Patterson of Temple Baptist church and Rev. D. W. Hill of Mt. Sinal held a union baptismal sermon, Sunday afternoon, at E. Mt. Zion Baptist church. The spiritual, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" is one of the compositions included in the Music Memory Contest to be held, April 10, in Masonic Hall. The mistake in the date-line on page 1 of The Gazette, last week, misled some of our readers into thinking they had been sent an old paper. Miss Carolyn, 19 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Stone, E. 81st St., freshman at Western Reserve University, is dangerously ill at Mt. Sinal hospital. The remains of Sam McPherson, who died in Buffalo recently, were brought home for burial, last week. He was the son of Joseph McPherson, one of our oldest citizens, now at the State hospital in this city. Mr. George Buchanan, veteran barber-shop proprietor, who has conducted a similar place of business on Independence Rd. for 25 or 30 years, has opened an attractive shop at E. 79th St. and Central Ave. The Central Voters league met, Sunday afternoon, in E. 55th St., and arranged for a vigorous fight in the present campaign. 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Sinai Baptist church, delivered an excellent sermon on Palm Sunday morning. Following it came a reading by Lee Roy Carey, "The Way of the Cross," written by Mr. Carey, with violin accompaniment by Master L. Hill. Mr. W. Freeman then sang "I Want to See Jesus, Don't You?" On March 30, 1928, Virginia V. Houston, 4450 Cedar Ave., thru her attorneys, Gillespie & Dillard, filed suit against Hector Bolardi, owner of Giardino D'Italia restaurant, located at 917 Woodland Ave., for refusing to serve her. He asked for the sum of $500, under Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio's Civil Rights law. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Kelley, of 2287 E. 103rd St., entertained at dinner, March 18, in honor of their brother, Truman Ford's birthday. He said he quit having birthdays, but in spite of this an elaborate dinner, with beautiful table decorations, was prepared. Other guests were: Mrs. Ford, A. L. Taylor and Miss Remitha Ford of Dayton. All roads, not only Cedar Ave., lead to the Cedar theater, next week. When Manager Bob Davis tells you, as he does elsewhere in this paper, that he has a real show at "The Cedar" you can believe it, depend upon it! Do not miss the show, next week. Go out early in the week and you will go often. We going to be there, too. More than once. Ex-Gov. Harry L. Davivis, sponsor of the Davis charter amendment last Saturday announced that indorsement of the amendment had been given by the Consensusative Rebuild of which Councilman E. J. Gregg is director. The league, in a letter to Davis notifying him of its action, declared that it stood ready to serve in any way to assure its adoption. Mrs. Dove King Clarke, wife of Rev. Clarke, former pastor of St John's A.M. church located in its city, writes the editor of the Gazette: "I am especially happy over your interest in Joseph Weaver. He was my pupil in night-school and a very fine fellow. I was always particularly glad when he found it ARE GONE FOREV HELP IT... ALL I DO Y - AND PINE --> "AM COM WHEE!!... THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1928 possible to attend. One more reason against capital punishment!" Mrs. Anderson H. Bowman, one of our oldest and most highly respected residents, died, Monday night, after a brief illness. She leaves a humane and daughter who have the heartfelt sympathy of a host of friends and acquaintances in this community. The funeral, Thursday afternoon, was from the residence, 961 Maud Ave. and largely attended by our older residents. Mr. Bowman was for many years head of the Bowman & McAfee orchestra, well-known throut northern Ohio, years ago. Mrs. Truman Ford, E. 101st St., gave a most enjoyable bridge-lunchon Wednesday afternoon, in honor of her sister-in-law, Miss Remitha Ford, of Dayton. The rooms were artistically decorated with flowers. The guests: Mesdames S. C. Glenn, Wm. P. Saunders, Anthony. Whitehead, P. Theresa Griggsy, Chas, Garvin, W. Balley, J. T. Sugga, J. Wills, Walter Isom, George A. Meyers, C. George, Misses Ida Gray and Willa Shook. Mrs. Bailey was awarded first prize, Miss Shook the second, and Miss Ford the guest prize. The Caterers' ball on April 9th, Easter Monday night, will be a rare treat to the public in general. There will be two orchestras which will give you continuous music, something very unusual in Cleveland. The Caterers are expecting to make this the most outstanding social function of the season. Come and join in this wonderful treat. The two orchestras will be Mae Moore's Augmented Orchestra and Tootsie Willis' Augmented Orchestra. The Caterers are making a great annual affair, and also the most outstanding social function of the season given by our group in this city. Popular Bob Davis, manager of the Globe theater when it was at its best, many months ago, has returned to the city and will have charge of the Cedar theater. Bob knows the theater business "from all angles" as a result of his many experiences as both actor and manager, and the owner, Cedar" can confidently look forward to a season of success with Bob in charge, such as it has not experienced in a long, long time, if ever before. Go to it, Bob. "The Old Reliable" GAZETTE is with you, as always. At the Caterers' ball, Easter Monday night, April 9, all indications point at an overflow attendance. President Sidney B. Thompson of the Caterers' Association has received information from a large number of out-of-town acquaintances that they are coming to attend this spring social function. The entertainers, in the manchief of Mr. Harvey Armstrong, is making every effort to give the public a real treat, Easter Monday night. Two "peppy" orchestras will give continuous music, and anyone, who has heard them play their latest "steps" will be "raring to go" with the scores of ladies in their beautiful new gowns. Bessie Brown. "Cleveland's queen of the blues." E. 40th St., has filed suit for a divorce from Clarence B. Shaw, Majestic Hotel. Shaw ordered her from their home, last month, and threatened her life if she returned, she charges. When she did return, he had the furniture put in storage, Bessie says. She asked the court to restrain him from selling it. Since they were married in 1920 Shaw has refused to support her, she asserts, and often has abused and threatened her. This may explain why she sang the music she alleged true her alleged mistreatment didn't lessen her skill in "putting over" her songs for she sure can sing the "blues." MORGAN'S PLEA For Financial Assistance Should Be Acceded To—He Deserves the Help. A resolution directing City Manager Hopkins to investigate the services rendered by Garrett A. 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