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Write them and hand to Bert when he comes with your copy of the paper. 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 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. CANTON.—Mr. LeRoy Carey of Cleveland and New Vienna has located in the city and is in the employ of Mr. E. E. Mack, vice-president and treasurer of the Geo. D. Harter bank, as chef in his home. Mr. Carey is a reader of exceptional ability, and our chairs are already taking advantage of this opportunity to increase the interest in their work. In Cleveland, he was a great help to Mt. Sinai Baptist church and Cory M. E. church of which he is a member. Mr. Carey spent yesterday (Friday) in Cleveland celebrating his birthday and was highly entertained in the evening by his hosts of the event. "The Old Reliable" Gazette thorally circulated here and will start on that work immediately on his return, today. CADIZ—Mr. and Mrs. Winfrey Smith and children, and Mrs. Susie Murrell of E. Liverpool, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Christian—Rev. C. M. Sexton of Cleveland is the new pastor of Simpson M. E. church—Rev. and Mrs. Richard Hughes left for their new home in Florida. The cantata son is home. She spent the winter in Florida—The cantata "Queen Esther," drew an audience that filled St. James A. M. E. church, last Thursday night. It was given by rally groups, Nos. 1 and 2; Mrs. Bertha Redman and James Pettress, leaders—Mrs. Myrtle Freeman has returned to Cleveland. She visited her sister, Mrs. Elvira Hallace, the request of many who could not attend, the "Queen Esther" cantata will be given again next week at the A. M. E. church—Peter Hytan has returned from Ohio Valley hospital at Wheeling, improved in health. BRIDGEPORT. —Rev. L. D. Stevens inched in St. Clairsville, Sunday. —Mr. and Mrs. Amos Sprinkel of Wheeling visited Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smith, Monday. —Mrs. Mamie Richardson was called to Detroit by the serious illness of her daughter, Miss Anna Bell, and Wright, who was here, Thursday. Rev. C. James is pastor of Park M. E. church. —The Pentecostal Assembly of the World has a little church at Steubenville. Rev. G. H. Richardson is pastor. Sunday services were well attended. —The Misses Roberta Wright, Barbara Thomas and Eleanor Smith attended a party Coleman at Saturday. —Mrs. Dagher Ferguson. —Mr. Chester West of Cadiz visited his aunt, Mrs. J. W. Smith, Wednesday. —Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Griggsy and Mr. Archie Merrill attended the rally in Clairsville. Sunday. —Give the local representative your order for a copy of The Gazette, every week. You will like this real race paper. It's clean and wholesome reading for all your family. HAMILTON. —The dedicational services of Pilgrim Baptist church terminated, Sunday evening. Rev. Clifford Jordan, a former member, now pastor of Coke Otto Baptist church, preached an excellent sermon. Friday evening. Rev. C. M. Hogan and his Church, its Glee club. Mrs Hogan, directress, had charge of the services, last Friday evening. They were a treat. —Miss Hallie Q. Brown of Wilberforce, who lectured, Thursday evening, was the guest of Mrs. John W. Casey"while here— Robert Walker, age 18, of Lockham, who lost his life in a train accident, was brought to Hamilton and buried in the cemetery. He was as bright, industrious lad—The A. M. E. M. M. society met at Mrs. Juno. D. Freeman's, Friday afternoon. A chicken dinner was served. Mesdames Joe Richardson and Mac Jordan were Mrs. Freeman's assistants. Leslie Robinson has been very ill. Leslie Francis has been very ill. L. Francis was in Cincinnati, recently—Order The Gazette from the local representative. HILLSBORO.—The Household of Ruth went to Wilmington, Saturday night, to assist in organizing a Household. Mrs. M. Calloway of Ripley, a state officer, accompanied them. Lunch was served.—Mrs. Faith Goodson of Dayton was here, Sunday evening.—Mr. and Mrs. Walter Golns spent Sunday afternoon in Chillicothe.—The rally, Sunday, at the Wesleyan and A. M. E. churches was a success.—Mrs. James Young and Mrs. Donald Highwarden entertained the Get-Together Club at the former's residence Wednesday afternoon.—The K. 2. annual sermon, M. 6. callled "The Gazette, every week, from its local representative and keep up to date with the sports news."—Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Gragston entertained Mr. and Mrs. John Williams at dinner, Sunday.—The A. M. E. church's quarterly meeting and a rally were held, Sunday. Rev. A. M. Gilmer, pastor of W. M. church, preached in the afternoon.—Robert Gance has a badly burned foot.—Rev J. J. Burr preached, Sunday, at his church in Georgetown.—Mrs. Alline Burton, who has been ill, in Springfield, several weeks, is but slightly improved. were called there, Saturday. Other were remaining longer with his mother.—Mr. and Mrs. A. Holland and sons visited in Wilmington, Sunday afternoon.—Mrs. Lucinda Colder is ill.—Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams, Jr., visited relatives in Greenfield, Sunday. ALLIANCE.—Mr. Raymond Wilson of Pittsburgh, who has been doing missionary work in Sierra Leone, Africa, gave a very interesting talk on his work.—Mr. and Mrs. Chas Garner spent a week-end in Cleveland, recently.—Miss Dorothea Davis,olin pupil of Mr. Richard Appleton, gave a very interesting talk on Symphony Orchestra, played in the concert given at High School auditorium, last Sunday afternoon. Miss Davis is our only member of the organization.—Mrs. Ethel Childers visited her little son, Durant, who has been ill for months at a sanitarium in Springfield.—The combined choirs of St. Luke, Second Baptist and Mt. Olive churches will render several works for the choirs of Mt. M & B. corporation, in May, at Christian church.—"Woman's Day" will be observed at St. Luke, Sunday.—Mrs. Irene Hood has been helping Mrs. Ida Burton for ten days in revivals in Pittsburgh.—Mrs. Sarah Cisco was ill, last week. W. H. Cisco was a guest at the bricklayers and mason's banquet in K. P. Hall. He is a charter-member of the Salem was also a guest at the banquet. Isabel and Wm. Harrel and Edna Jackson are convalescent.—Mrs. Megg, Mansilla, who lives with her foster-daughter, Mrs. Wm. Lawson, celebrated her 88th birthday, last week. She was given a surprise party and some useful and beautiful presents. She is in comparatively good health and very spry or ornate. She was an Easter visitor here.—Mr. and Mrs. Chas, Adams and daughter, Mrs. M. Rucker, of Newark visited relatives here, Sunday. "FADEOUT OF POPULISM" Hon. Jos. C. Manning, New York City. Washington, D. C., April 16, '28. Dear Mr. Manning: I have your favor of the 14th inst. and also the copy of your book "Fadeout of Populism". In it, you have told a wonderful story of the flipped storms that raged in Alabama in the nineties before Democracy and the fusion of the Republicans and Populists. . . This book ought to be in the hands of every American who loves his country, its flag and the constitution. I enclose you two dollars for two copies, with a sincere prayer for your restoration to your former health and well-being. Very Truly Yours, THOMAS WALKER. Atty. THOMAS WILL COME! Last week the editor of The Gazett received a letter from Atty. Chas. W. White, president of the local N. A. A. C. P. branch, requesting the editor to join him in a communication to Prof. Neval H. Thomas of Dunbar High School, Washington, D. C., and president of the District of Columbia N. A. A. C. P. branch, insisting that Mr. Thomas come to Prof. Neval H. Thomas. Cleveland, Sunday, May 13, to address a mass meeting of the local branch. This we did and the follo- ding is the result. Washington, D. C., April 23, '28. Hon. Harry C. Smith, M.D. Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. Mr dear Harry:—Your request that I come to Cleveland to speak is this minute at hand, and I reply at once that I consider it a command. I hope it will do the good that you are optimistic to think it will do. I am in the thick of the fight here, and the situation here at the seat of the rottenness needs more than all of my time, since there are so few here who have the pure spirit, and courteousness. But I shall be shaking thrones to the center, Supposing I had the whole army behind me here. I am proud of my long comradeship with you in this unequal struggle, and I acknowledge my boyhood education in radicalism which I secured from The Gazette, and the teachings of Frederick Douglass. If you good people still want me, knowing the things I stand for, I shall come to serve you without money and without price, as I never charge for services in a Cause like Sincerely yours, NEVAL H. THOMAS Doings of the Race Our National Insurance Association held its annual convention in Columbus, this week. New York musical critics were unanimous in their praise of Hampton Institute choir which, under the direction of R. Nathaniel Dett, recently sang in Carnegie Hall, N. Y. City, and in Washington, D. C., before President Coolidge. In an opinion handed down, last week, by Justice Holmes in the U. S. Supreme court the suit of a Texas Afro-American voter for $5000 damages against election judges for refusing to permit him to vote at a primary was upheld and the contentions of the defense that the subject matter of the suit violated the law with his jurisdiction of the court and no violation of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments was shown, we swept aside. PLEADS FOR UNITY! Dr. De Bow Pictures the Tragedy of Human Brotherhood Rent Wilcoff "No phenomenon is more tragic than the strange division among the peoples of the world and their attitudes toward one another," said Rev. Charles L. DeBow of First Methodist Episcopal church, Tuesday night, at the opening of a conference of the World Unity Foundation of New York State Chapel, Western Reserve University. "The most un-Christian thing that Christian people do is maintain an un-Christian attitude toward people who do not believe as they do," Dr. DeBow said. "They worship the same God, and they have the same primary emotions. It is odd that one reason for division is color. Psychology does not contain feelings but it deals with perceptions of all things matter what color body it is in. World unity will not be achieved until superiority complexes are overcome. They cause prejudices, and an open mind is necessary for world unity. The will to peace is also necessary, and that must be in the heart. Disarmament conferences will do no good because if people have it in their hearts to fight they will fight whether they have weapons or not. The common aims of people must be emphasized, not their differences." Mrs. Myrtle Freeman, who visited relatives in Cadiz, has returned. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS IS TOLD BY THAT EMINENT JURIST, MOORFIELD STOREY, OF BOSTON ued at Once—"American Tyranny"! New York City.—Moorfield Storey of Boston, president of the N. A. A. C. P., has written a letter to Senator Wm. E. Borah, protesting forcefully against the continued tyranny of the American Occupation in the republic of Haiti. Mr. Storey's letter is as follows: "My attention has been called to the letter which was addressed on April 11 to James Weldon Johnson, secretary of the N. A. A. P., in which you say you do not quite see what the committee or the Senate can do in the way of effectuating a change in the situation. "The Haytian problem is one of the most discreditable in the history of the United States. Here was an independent state which for a great many years had been recognized by us and with which we had friendly relations. By the terms of its constitution foreigners were forbidden to acquire land within its territory. We seized the powers of government and against the protests of its citizens and without regard to its constitution by which foreigners could not obtain control of land, and insisted that that prohibition had ceased to be a part of the constitution of Haytli. That was our act, a usurpation in the interests of our citizens, and it would seem to me that an act done in that way through the U. S. state department, and by our government without authority of Congress, is absolutely usurpation and with no validity whatever, and to say that the part of Congress, which nations, cannot set aside such tyranny is a disgrace to the country. I am satisfied that the government which we established there was never legal, and should not be recognized or permitted to continue. To say that we cannot do anything is to say that NEW P. W. A. OPENING. Principal R. R. Moton of Tuskegee, Ala. to give the Principal Speaker. The new $500,000 building of the P. W. A. was officially opened, Tuesday, at a banquet of about 400 members and friends in the gymnasium. "Opening this building means more than just establishing an institution for the betterment of Afro-American women and girls of Cleveland," said Dr. Moton. "It represents the progress being made by my race in this country, and, what is just as important, it represents the Dr. Robert R. Moton. co-operative effort of two extreme types of man to make this achievement possible." Dr. Moton is a graduate of Hampton Institute and holds degrees from Oberlin, Wilberforce and Williams. He was given his first opportunity to gain an education, he said, by Mrs. Amasa Stone of Cleveland. He is the author of "Racial Good Will" and "Finding the Way Go" and has written as much inter-racial trouble as there is trouble within the races themselves," Dr. Moton said. "There never was a time when people from both races would so freely sit down and talk over their common problems as they do today. The crux of the whole difficulty is the intermarriage problem. I believe in the integrity of the races as much as any white man does. Most people do, and that is why members of one race are afraid of members of the other race. It is no reason why we can't all work together toward a common cause." The Cleveland College Alumnae club will have a public reception for the poet, Countee Cullen, at the metropolitan club room from 2 to 4 p.m., today (Saturday). 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 locale, immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. LE COPY FIVE CENTS STORY R WM.E. BORAH NENT JURIST, MOORFIELD OF BOSTON peaceful and Illegal "American —Should Be Discontin- American Tyranny"! Moorfield Storey, Esq. in the United States to correct it, which I am not prepared to believe. "The foreign policy of the United States under the present administration has been a steady disgrace, and as I know you have always shared my view on that subject, I want to see you exercise the powers which are vested in you to remedy the wrongs which we both recognize. To pass laws which grant rights to which we have never been entitled and to acquire land by adverse possession, I cannot think of its being tolerated. The power to stop it is the power which is vested in the Congress of the United States by the Constitution. The power to commit these outrages does not exist at all." SEES LOWDEN VICTORY SURE His Campaign Manager Claims 200 Delegates to Date—Lowden the Strongest Candidate. Washington, D. C.—The Republican campaign was reviewed from the standpoint of Frank O. Lowden, by Clarence F. Buck, manager for the former Illinois governor in his pursuit of the nomination. He said that 200 delegates have been pledged to Lowden to date, and predicted his nomination at the Kansas City convention surely "not later than the fourth nomination." Asked who would be chairman of the Illinois convention delegation, Buck said that question had not been discussed. Both Vice President Dawes and Senator Deneen had been mentioned in this connection. Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, recently nominated as a Republican candidate for representative at large from Illinois, was mentioned by Buck as likely to be a member of the delegation. Turning to the Ohio political situation following the death of Senator Willis, Buck said the Lowden forces were satisfied "with things in Ohio as they are right now." He numbered delegate candidates that had been pledged to Lowden as second choice to Willis at 39, and said he understood that nine other former Willis delegates were similarly inclined. POLITICAL HOWLING. Certainly the housing question in the "Roaring Third" and its environs is not a racial question. Councilman Gregg is entirely right; it is a housing question affecting both the white and colored people involved. Nobody with sense should pany any of Councilman Gregg in any way of Councilman Fleming. If he is so sure that all is right in a housing way with his constituents, what is he making such a howl about? Nothing but facts are likely in the long run to come out in the wash. And it will do no one harm to take a look at the facts. Up to date, we for Councilman Gregg in what looks as like an attempt to do something decent with regard to conditions which have long been much too bad. And while we are suggesting that Councilman Fleming stay out of this, until he has some decent and persuasive reason for coming in, we suggest that Herman Finkle stay out too. We think he has the same degree of people reasons for howling as fermenting in the ample bloom of Fleming —Cleveland Daily Press. Mrs. Leola Ellis visited in Alliance, recently. --- CHESTER, I'VE MISLAID THE LETTER I WROTE LAST NIGHT - HAVE YOU SEEN IT LYING ABOUT ANYWHERE? SURE! I PUT A STAMP ON IT AN MAILED IT FOR YOU, COUSIN PATRICIA BUT YOU COULDN'T MAIL IT - IT HAD NO NAME OR ADDRESS ON IT I KNOW - SO I WROTE ONE ON BEFORE I PUT IT IN THE MAIL BOX CHESTER! WINNER PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY IN UNION IS STRENGTH 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 850,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. The wards of the city, 11, 12, 17 and 18, in which our voters are strongest in numbers did their duty (and more) to the Davis charter amendment, Tuesday, and our people of those sections of the city are to be congratulated! They were RIGHT, too. "Stand pat", brothers and sisters! We'll win, next time, sure. Who was it that said, "Atty. John E. Roundtree was the peoples choice"? As we anticipated, Dr. LeRoy N. Bundy also a candidate, Tuesday, for delegate to the Republican national convention from the 21st congressional district beat him so badly it was really painful. Roundtree never had a chance, with such a pitiful conduct of the Willis campaign. --- Yes, "Rev." E. W. B. Curry of Springfield, O., the "Negro" who joined with the Ku Klux Klan effort in that city to foist "jim crow" schools on our people there. We were there with them (our people) in the thick of the fight and know whereof we speak. The Gazette said this before Tuesday's primary and we are saying it now, after the same. Do not forget this, please. The Willard Storage Battery, sponsors for the WTAM program, Saturday, 10 to 11 p. m., styled "Wandering Minstrels," have an announcer known as "Mister Lou," who uses the insulting word, "nigger." He did this, Saturday evening, and an assistant of his did the same thing some weeks ago. This ought to be stopped and doubtless would be if our people would notify the Willard Storage Battery people. All of our people, attending the Republican national convention, are to be "jim crowed" notwithstanding the fact we have two or three members of the committee. It selected that city as the meeting place. The national committee never dared to do this before. And it shows just what kind of representation our people have in the committee. Lord, have mercy! Those "Negro" members of the committee ought to hang their heads in shame and we ought to lose no time in making them do so. Stay away from the Kansas City meeting and if the "jim crow" bar is not removed, and soon, too, lst us stay laaway from the polls in November. Be men and women!!! Show self and race respect!!! A citizens Military Training Camp for our youth will be opened at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., "if 50 candidates are accepted," it is just announced. Applications will be accepted until July 1 and the camp is to continue 30 days, if the candidates come forward and are accepted. This is said to be the first C. M. T. C. provided for our boys who ought to shun it. The age limit is 17 to 24. When separate camps are established for Irish-Americans, German-Americans, Italian-Americans and all the other hyphenated Americans will be time for our youth to enroll in a separate camp. WE COULD IF WE WOULD. We have no recourse. We are a poverty stricken people, we are checkmated in every attempt to break the chains of serfdom. We are the under-dogs, we feel the heel of oppression and "we alone bemoan our outcast state." Our politics is a reflection of our economics and the white south knows it too well—Chicago Whip. But we have "recourse," though "a poverty stricken people." We do not make the "attempt to break the chains of serfdom" we should. "We are the under-dogs," alright, and "we feel the heel of oppression," etc. all because we absolutely retuse to organize and work for our rights and privileges as would any other group or class of people in this country, if similarly placed. If the intelligent of our people would use the time and effort we put forth "bemoaning our outcast state" to effect the organization necessary or would present a solid front in an aggressive and continued effort to improve our "state," "our politics" would not be "a reflection of our economics" and real and lasting racial progress would be made. In plain words, the last thing our people think about is getting together in a locally and nationally organized way to promote our rights and privileges as American citizens. "COL. YOUNG" PENSION INCREASE. Congressman Brand of Ohio has introduced a bill to increase a $50 a month pension, which Col. Charles Young's widow receives, to $100 a month and has been successful in gaining for his bill the favor of the pensions committee of the U. S. House of Representatives. This is a good start for which Mr. Brand is entitled to the thanks of our people of Ohio particularly, and the entire country. We are wondering if there is a single widow of a white army colonel receiving so small a pension as $50 or $100 a month? We will thank Congressman Brand for this information. Surely, it is an outrage for this great, rich country to grant a pension of only $50 a month to a widow and children of one of its best soldiers, a colonel, too. CARMI A. THOMPSON Persistent rumor, for several weeks, has it that when Atty. Alex H. Martin and Eugene R. Brown, in charge of the recent Willis campaign among our people in this city, went to Col. Carmi A. Thompson, general manager of the Willis campaign, on a certain occasion, they were curtly told by Mr. Thompson that "the colored people ought not to expect to take any part in the direction of the campaign, or even to suggest, because they had not contributed to its fund; that A. Lee Beaty of Cincinnati had contributed $500 to it and was the only member of the race in Ohio to do so." This, if true, undoubtedly explains Mr. Beaty's selection, by the Senator, as our Willis candidate for delegate-at-large. It would also explain the pitiful effort made during the recent campaign to interest Afro-American voters of Ohio, particularly those of Cleveland, in the candidacy of the late lamented Frank B. Willis who mistakably showed signs of the inimical Thompson influence, along racial lines, during the last few weeks of his life. For several weeks, Mr. Brown, we understand, has insisted that Mr. Thompson said substantially what we have quoted in the foregoing. When asked his understanding of what Mr. Thompson said, Mr. Martin qualified and softened somewhat Mr. Brown's statement. The latter, we understand, also claims that Mr. Thompson steadfastly refused to provide the local Afro-American Willis headquarters with stenographer and telephone service, all of which may in a large degree explain why our people throughout the state showed so little interest in the Willis campaign, closed on Tuesday last. Col. Thompson's management of the Senator's campaign, before and after the latter's death, certainly did not encourage our people throughout Ohio, his best friends, to come at all active in his behalf. This is greatly to be regretted. A STADIUM FOR CLEVELAND? Cleveland is to have a stadium, it is said. If the city does not build one with the tax-payers' money, President Alva Bradley, and his associates, who own the Cleveland American League baseball club and plant, will do so, it is announced. Since organized baseball, with which the local team is identified, bars Afro-American players and there is such a large number of our people in this city, we fail to see the wisdom of asking the tax-payers of Cleveland to furnish the money to build a stadium. Indeed, we doubt very much, with our voters opposed to such a thing, that a bond bill, carrying several millions of dollars for such a purpose, would get the approval of a majority of the voters of this city. Since organized baseball is busily engaged, these days, grooming Jewish players for several clubs, the Cleveland team included, in order to increase the number of Jewish patrons of the game, why not give the Afro-American ball-players the same chance, President Bradley? GARRETT A. MORGAN. The editor of this paper remembers well the city water-tunnel disaster of many years ago. Garrett Morgan did take the leading part in the rescue. He led the effort. The mistake he made was in listening to "friends" of the other race in preference to members of his own race. They told him, so he told the writer at the time, that they would look after his interests and see that justice was done him. They failed to keep their promises, of course. "Twas ever thus!" Great publicity was given the few whites who assisted him in the rescue and Carnegie hero medals were awarded them. After all this was done, his white friends of the unkept promises "investigated" only to be told "the case was closed," and has been closed ever since to Garrett. Thus was the door again closed in "Uncle Tom's" face. Mayo Fessler, director of the Citizens' League, says: "You'll not find any reference to the herosom of Mr. Morgan in the newspapers telling of the disaster." He is wrong, as scores of old citizens in this community can testify. Morgan was mentioned in the newspapers at the time but not given full credit, for what he did, by the daily newspapers of Cleveland because he was a "Negro" and because the white men who assisted him in the rescue work wanted to and did "hog all of the credit and honor" for what was done. We have a very vivid remembrance of this because we was anticipated and because we labored with Morgan to take steps to prevent it which he refused to do, as we have stated, on the advice of "white friends." W. J. Maloney, paving inspector, who was assistant superintendent at the crib at the time of the water-tunnel explosion, in his testimony recently before the City Council clearly betrayed, even at this late date, the jealous feeling that dominated the whites active in the rescue work. When Morgan told Maloney: "I didn't go anywhere with you. If you went down (in the water-tunnel) you followed me," he told him the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and the writer knows it; well remember it. The city of Cleveland owes "Uncle Tom" Morgan much and should pay him well even at this late date, Fessler, Maloney, and all of their kidney to the contrary notwithstanding. DAVIS, NO "QUITTER"! To those who ask if there is to be another "Davis" Charter-Amendment fight, we have this to say: Ex-Gov. Harry L. Davis's father was the Hon. Evan H. Davis, seatmate of the writer in the Ohio Legislature, many years ago. These Davises were and are Welsh-Americans, and no one ever accused England's war-premier, Lloyd George's group of "Englishmen" of ever being "quitters". Evan wasn't a quitter and his son has not developed any such distressing symptom to our knowledge, and we have known him well ever since he was a lad. Last fall the alleged "Charter" majority over the "Davis" amendment was less than 6,500. 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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 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 now; used less than two weeks. Call, CHerry 1259 in the afternoon. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Abbie and Virgil Gates of Stearns Rd. left Saturday night for Duluth, Minn., and will spend the season on the lakes. Baraca bible class, of St. John's S. S., held its annual banquet in the church parlors, Wednesday evening, and thoroly enjoyed it, as usual. Mrs. Willie Patterson Smith of Canton spent last week with her sisters, Mrs. Ella White, Mrs. Agnes Harris and Mrs. Sadie Patterson. Mrs. Lulu Meade Brown, E. 128th St., has been given the past daughter-ruler's degree by the Elks, for service rendered in connection with their educational program. President Sidney B. Thompson of the Caterers' Association sustained a slight stroke of paralysis, last week, at the club rooms in E. 40th St. Too much politics, Sid. The local N. A. A. C. P. branch presented Countee Cullen, poet, to the local public in a reading of his poems at the Women's City club auditorium, last (Friday) evening. Dame rumor has it that Miss Dorothy Cole and Skylow Etter are soon to wed. Miss Cole has gone to Detroit to join her mother and make preparations for the event, it is said. The Cleveland Music association is making preparations for "Music Week" in May. Mrs. Grace Willis Thompson is president of the association and Mrs. George Foster secretary. Mrs. Jessie Peoples of Pittsburgh, who spent the winter with her niece, Mrs. Marie T. Brown, E. $80th St., has returned home. Dame rumor has it that she is to marry again, soon. St. John's choir will give its monthly musicale, Sunday, at 4 p.m. Among the special attractions will be the popular Harmony Trio, Mrs. Olive W. Ball, Miss Gladys Wells and Mrs. Pearl C. Johnson. Councilman E. J. Gregg will address a meeting at King Tut Lodge Rest, at 3 p.m. Sunday, on housing. Alston Yancy, chairman of the lodge's Forum committee, will preside. Music. The public invited. The speakers for the Davis Amendment meeting at Tristone David Baptist church, last week Friday evening, were former Gov. Harry L. Davis, Hon. Harry C. Cushman, Assist. U. S. District Attorney Jos. C. Breitenstein and Mrs. M. Robinson. Turner Curry, of Central Ave., married his secretary, Miss Alberta. 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The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Scott of Yazoo, Miss, and the groom a graduate of Tuskegee institute. Miss Carolyn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Stone, E. 81st St., a freshman at Western Reserve University, died at Mt. Sinal hospital, April 11. Funeral services from Antioch Baptist church, April 14. The parents have the heartfelt sympathy of the community. Mrs. Susie Reynolds Huggins, E. 40th St, an old and well-known resident, died at St. Luke's Hospital, recently, following an operation. Her daughter, Mrs. Lena Johnson, arrived from the East in time to be at her side when she passed away. Funeral, last week Wednesday, from Undertaker Wills' chapel. The 54th biennial session of the United Supreme Council, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Masons, headed by Ill. G. C. Williams, 33 degree, Most Pulsant Sovereign Grand Commander, of Shreveport, La., will convene in Cleveland, the house of the 8618 Cedar Ave., director of convention committee of arrangements. Mrs. Armen G. Evans gave an enjoyable musicale tea at the Metropolitan club, recently, in honor of Mrs. Nona Evans Berk, and daughter of her husband, recently here from Youngstown but did NOT locate at 2347 E. 86th St. Among the participants were: Miss Myrtle Wiggins, soprano, and John H. Early, Jr., violinist. Miss Willie M. Shook, E. 89th St. royally entertained the Wistoria club, recently. The house and tables were beautifully decorated. Bridge and a fine lunch featured the social function. Mrs. Charles Leatherman won the first club prize and Mrs. John Wilson, the second. The guest prizes were won by Mrs. W. P. Saunders and Miss Dorothy Myers. Miss Chrystal Newsome, E. 83rd St. was appointed a junior clerk and W. Murray, the E. E. unmilieuous investigator by Street Commissioner John Tomson, recently. Mr. Tomson has also appointed a large number of our men laborers in both the street cleaning and repair departments. This sort of thing counts and will undoubtedly greatly benefit Mr. Tomson's candidacy for sheriff which has been indorsed by the leader of the local Republican organization. Zlatko Balokovic, who will appear in concert at Masonic auditorium, Sunday evening. May 6, with John Carroll University Glee club and Symphony orchestra, is regarded as one of the famous violinists of the world. This is the verdict of critics in London, Berlin, Vienna and many other old world cultural centers. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1928 There Might Not Be a Circus in Heaven. Naturally, his success in this country has been wonderful. In Rome, Italy, Balovick, who has been styled Fritz Kriesler's peer, as a violinist, was made a Knight Commander of the order of St. Gregory by the Pope. Concert will begin promptly at 8:15 p. m. Ex-Senator John P. Green, Hon. Harry E. Davis and a number of others were Hoover speakers, at a church, Saturday evening. Monday evening, Atty. Wm. R. Green and others addressed a similar meeting at the Western Reserve Republican club rooms in E. 55th St. Dr. Edward A. Bailley proved a de luxe Dr. Edward A. Bailey. Willis-speaker at a large mass meeting in Zion Hill Baptist church, Monday evening. His fine commendation of the late, lamented Senator's splendid work for the race, extending over a number of years, oft-times at the request of the editor of The Gazette, was loudly and persistently applauded. Dr. Halley is a very interesting speaker. Rev. C. M. Sexton is the new pastor of Simpson M. E. church at Cadiz. It is said that Helthol has given relief to a number of people who have suffered from indigestion. Mr. Louis Protus, a graduate of O. S. U. Pharmacy school, is placing this wonderful product on the market. During the week the Public Library had a special display of literature, written by Afro-Americans, in honor of the young poet, Countee Cullen, who read a number of his poems at the Women's City club, last evening. Chas. W. White, pres, N. A. A. C. P. branch, will speak at the Worker's Forum, 2046 E. 4th St., Sunday, at 8 p. m. The talk will be followed by a discussion. The public is cordially invited. Admission free. Mr. White's subject will be, "The Hopes and Alims of the N. A. A. C. P." The Hon. Harry C. Smith will discuss "The Roaring Third" before The Brotherhood of St. John's A. M. E. church on Sunday evening, May 6, 1928, at 7:30 o'clock, at the church. The public is cordially invited to hear the editor who has lived for more than a half century and still lives in the very heart of that most discussed (and cussed) section of the city. He is fearless, an actionist, and is in the best position to impart the startling truth anent it all wish to know, having made a study of "The Roaring Third" (from the inside) for many years. Do not fail to hear him! The "housing" question will be explained, too.—Adv. After thirteen years in Cleveland, L. R. Carey has accepted a good position in Canton, in the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Mack, leading residents of that city. Mr. Mack is vice president and treasurer of the Geo. D. Harter bank of Canton. Mr. Carey is stopping with Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Slaughter, 2235 E. 13th St., that city. Before leaving Cleveland, April 11, he gave several characteristically fine readings from his accompaniment, Martin Luther Hill, son of his pastor, at Mt. Sinai Baptist church. Mr. Carey returned to the city to spend yesterday (Friday), his birthday and was highly entertained by local friends and admirers in the evening. Another step in the long legal battle to save Joseph Weaver from the electric chair was taken last Saturday, when Marty Nathan Cook and Mr. Joseph appealed a ruling by Judge Irving Carpenter, in which Weaver was recently denied a new trial, to the court of appeals. Judge Carpenter sentenced Weaver to the electric chair. 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The beginnings of the segregation were under President Taft. It was greatly extended, under President Wilson; increased, still further, under President Harding; and reached its zenith under President Coolidge. For instance, under 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. President Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the censurers in this city in 1919, restricting the work of white residents 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 institution 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 on by our Republican president. Some mutilated colored girl appeared after having passed the best examination, and after 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 his word is law there, as he is the special favorite of Secretary Mellon and President Coolidge. He hails from North Carolina, the head of the other favorite a leader of the segregationist leader, the superintendent of buildings and grounds. It is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at odds with why he does not put his splendid declarations on democracy into operation here, where it would not even cost him a single vote and where he has full power and absolutely no opposition. They wonder if he is not a firm believer in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the chief tenets of the Constitution, and which found its "welcome home" here and in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. ((Special to The Gazette.) (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—In the postoffice, segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and by their disadvantages in department maintenance, spacious cafeteria for whites only, where inferior white clerks can buy appetizing lunches and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold lunches from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantageous as it is, far less galling to the colored clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for the 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 more capable of 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 whites and neglect of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other games, comfortable lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. This prize club building, the 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. The white employees have even passed around invitations to the white employees, in the very presence of the color, to the other departments, including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announced dancing and a pleasant social evening with the officials for "the postoffice employees," yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. I hurried a protest to the postmaster general the day before it was to come off and ordered to leave the building as well as the white. These clerks got around their colored co-workers by giving the function at a local hotel. It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express itself in appointments, assignments, and salaries. Colored applicants are often passed over though their examination was superior. No "Negro," however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The hard, unyielding caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests in quickness and the accuracy in the handling of mail. Colored clerks have been told to form a union which meets regularly and offers many and intelligent prospects 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.) (Special to the newspaper) D. C. — The government's 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 those of college students. 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 course, having the better educational facilities. There is a large cafeteria in this huge structure where all of the employees may go, but there are 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 cafeteria in a life of physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public mutilation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard caste that bars promotions. Here as elsewhere, the infirm, 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 splendid record in his work, left the jail, the police department, and the employees so keenly that he secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of those smart Negroes" who believe in "social equality," and then dismissed a trumped-up charge. He was arrested on a pistol. Right after the dance incident a fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and failing to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons for which he was immediately dismissed. His severe punishment was 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 them, and have met by a deal 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 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 heroes young colored women who lost their positions as a result of their protest, and the noble man of the nation Harriet Fletcher (deceased). Shortly after the cesion of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a member of his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thought of race. Shortly thereafter came an order for the segregation of race, and a woman been noted for her philanthropy among our people and who was up- on intimate terms at the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places." Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily dismissed! Senator La Follette, father of the present Senator of the same name, 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 either space nor vigor of utterance. She said, against it, in our local white press, and addressed the national gathering of the N. A. C. P. 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, for democracy was at the crisis. Oswald Garrison Villard came to town to attack the White House and Cabinet and arouse our people, and the N. A. A. C. P. secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The fight checked that was thought to be the intention of the same authors, 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 Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public service. THEY ARE SUBGREGATED in their training stations, in training stations, and of course none are ever thought of for promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best homes, most of them with high and normal school training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there is no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited fields at high wage for even mediocre talents. The best of our girls must take these inferior positions, the inevitable result of segregation. Our people are still hoping, by the issuance of the question, this iniquitous practice in all of our government departments, for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impairs the government service. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—The treasury department, according to the President's acceptance speech, is now under the ablest financial genius since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the great Hamilton came from the West Indies and in that long sweep of history that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lincoln's cabinet, a national extremity such as this has never known, devised the national banking system which financed the Civil War and Ohio's master financier, John Sherman. These men never knew what segregation was' The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. 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 Net neutrality scarce there that they can't be noticed there is the same general complaint the long our clerks and other employees is in the other branches of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency when promotions are due; ability to go so far and no further. The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special toiletls, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilets for the colored are few in such a large structure. The segregated clerks are forced to be physically inconvenience at times and need 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 folly so硕 that their presence creates. It seats two thousand dinners with space to spare; but, Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group The registrieship of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the colored people are congregated in a seperate room, 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 action of the division altogether; so they fear being 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, the white person can stop every bit of this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan whenever he decides to do so. Subscribe Now SIMPLE TAILORED UNDERWEAR ALWAYS GIVES BEST SERVICE THE BIRD CAGE JUNIOR COATS FOR SPRING STRESS SOFT PLAID WOOLENS THE WINTER COAT TO BE sure, no normal beauty-loving woman is going to withstand the ture of lace and ribbons and all sorts of delightfully frivolous fol derols, when it comes to assembling a collection of dainty underthings. Indeed, no up-to-date fingerle wardrobe would be complete without its generous quota of filmy, fragile lace-laden garments. However, when it comes to the genuinely practical, there is no type which insures the service and ever-pretissiness as does the garment which is tailored with utmost simplicity. As an exponent of the practical type the bodice-cheinise set in the picture captures one's fancy, because while it is tailored, its artfully scalloped beline gives it a dainty trimmed aspect. For the making of this garment the woman who does her own sewing could successfully use either washable crepe satin or crepe de JUNIOR COATS FOR STRESS SO PLAIDS and checks, for which there is such unbounded enthusiasm, are right in their element in the junior realm. To be sure, there is nothing startling in the thought of plaids until one sees them in their array of new colorings. According to foreseeing colorists this is to be a "blue" season and many of the smartest plaids and checks confirm this prophecy. Miss Junior in choosing a spring coat for school wear will be proving that she knows a thing or two about "style" if she requests to be shown a plaid carried out in shades of blue. If it be belted in navy suede after the manner of the model in the picture, it will have achieved the utmost degree of chic. Among featured materials for youthful coats, basket weaves are given special prominence. Light tan shades predominate in these loosely woven woolens. Many coats, especially those of navy twill or kasha cloth, are accompanied with print silk or crepe dresses which py of The e who might chine. While it would be in perfect accord with fashion's idea to choose a delicate tint, say flesh, blue, mauzor or nile green for this garment, the latest message from headquarters tells of a revived interest in white. If one is inclined toward the thoroughly practical, there is one material above all others which answers this call, namely, ponge. No argument is necessary to convince the woman who has once put ponge to the test, of its winsome qualities as a medium for utilitarian underwear. Not only does it launder both easily and perfectly, but besides being always spick-and-spun looking, it is exquisitely cool and refreshing to wear. Specialty shops are showing most intriguing pajama ensembles, costume skirts and gowns of ponge. These include garments for children as well as grown-ups. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (© 1928 Western Newspaper Union.) SPRING T PLAID WOOLENS match their linings. A scarf of the silk run through slots in the cloth collar of the coat adds a touch of chic to these ensembles. The junior miss, aspiring to fashions as worn by her elders, has enthusiastically adopted the cape theme. Very smart and extremely practical types for the schoolgirl feature neat straight line coats which are tailored of either tweed or navy twill, the same topped with capes which are detachable. The self-fabric scarf is also an outstanding feature in junior coat styling. These scarf collars are variously enhanced with tucks or self-toned embroidery or a bit of dainty fur across the scarf ends. Sometimes both cape and scarf collar form partnership Stylists are making it a point also to use very bright effective linings which greatly accent the charm of both cape and scarf. Young girls are also taking keen delight in coats of cloth which introduce the silk kerchief trimming. That is a triangle print scarf of silk is attached to the coat by being drawn through slots cut in the cloth. Another whirl of fashion is that of dangling a gay silk print kerchief from the pocket caught by only one corner. Which goes to show how conspicuously the kerchief squares and triangles are entering into the spring picture. JULIA BOTTOMLEY (© 1928 Western Newspaper Union) GAZETTE Subscribe af ANNUAL REPORT Of The National Benefit Life Insurance Company Reveals Total Insurance Claims 40099 — A Record Which Transcends Miracle Stories. Washington, D. C. — The National Benefit Life Insurance Company, our largest business enterprise (in the world) has just issued its financial statement showing the condition of the company at the close of the year, Dec. 31, '27. The record is one of transcendent importance. The company shows total assets of $5,188,000, of which $397,000, at this time aggregating $73,897,000 greater than any of our other insurance companies. It is a dramatic story of the realization of the ideals of the founder and of his associate officers. No such "reservoir of financial resources" has ever before been at the disposal of any of our companies. It is, therefore, with justifiable pride that President R. H. Rutherford and the Secretary-General Manager S. Rutherford have published an enterprise which represents the acme of financial achievement among Afro-Americans. A careful reading of the balance sheet, which is published elsewhere in this paper, from the standpoint of financial weight, will indicate how impressively important it is. Race organization is the watchword of the officers of this standing organization, and the sloping to the fostering of upon the flowers of the race. "Negro Dollars" flowing through our business-channels will solve for us in the future as it has solved for all other races the question of economic advancement. The protection of the family is the watchword of National Benefit. It is licensed to do business in twenty-six states. Every dollar of the tremendously large investment by the officers of the directors and directors. With more than seventy million dollars worth of insurance in force, National Benefit stakes its prestige upon its well advertised slogan, "Not for Power and Prestige, but for Service." The figures which are presented in the report represent an epoch-making achievement, and the congratulations of our people every year will be capable of so supreme an achievement. A careful reading of the advertisement of National Benefit which we publish in this issue of "The Old Reliable" Gazette will be worth while. BLOCTON, ALA., NOTES. Mr. Ernest Wilson is very ill in T. C. I. hospital, Fairfield. A. D. Davis, very ill for five weeks, is rapidly improving. Miss Queen Mainer who died, April 15, was buried in Caffey cemetery. Mrs. C. S. Pearson is visiting her parasite. Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Pearson are currected. M. A. Wilson of Brent is visiting Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Wilson. - T. E. Jones of Bessemer will spend a week-end with Mr. T. Peterson and family. There will be an all-day rally, April 30, at Liberty Baptist church. Dinner on the ground. All churches in the city will host Rev. J. H. Holmes, who has been conducting revival services at Peace Baptist church in W. Blocton, has returned to Birmingham. "Reliable and Wonderful". In renewing his subscript, R. E. Luttrell of Allegan, Mich., wrote on April 22, '28: "The Gazette is a reliable and wonderful race paper, giving reliably our news of the world. I wish you every success for the year of 1928. Let us make this year the best one in political matters since the Civil War, and "fight hard for our rights." Policeman Indicted. Orlando, Fla., April 18. —Orlando's chief of police and four patrolmen were named in indictments charging second degree murder returned by the Orange County grand jury, late last week Wednesday, in connection with the sking of an Afro-American here, the night of April 10. Patronize Our Advertisers Cedar Branch Y. M. C. A Cor. Cedar Ave. and E. 77th St. A HOME FOR YOUNG MEN! RESTAURANT - HOME COOKING Individual Beds $2.50-$3.00 Randolph 8288. PRIME SPORT NEWS. Flowers and Terris Sign. New York City. — Sid Terris (white). East Side lightweight flash, and Bruce Flowers, our sensational girl, have signed articles for a terrorist bout at Ebbets Field. Brooklyn, June 6. The bout will mark Terris return to the ring since a one-round knockout at the hands of Jimmy McLarnn, Pacific Coast star. Lead Harrier Pack. Waynesville, Mo. — Two Afro-Americans, Phillip Granville of Hamilton, Ont., and Ed Gardner of Seattle, Wash., paced the transcontinental foot racers into the 51st control here, Monday. Their time for the 51.9 miles from Conway was 7:41:06. Granville, the fourth place man in the race, has covered 1,936.9 miles in 366:16:05, and Gardner, fifth place man, has done the same distance in 367:13:34. Will Open the Season Today, if the weather will permit, the Tigers will open their regular season of national league baseball, the Detroit Stars being their opponents. The local team has been strengthened in recent weeks by the acquisition of several real class players and will sure give the fast-stepping Stars a real tussle for every game they play here. In March, the Tigers have signed Flint Baseman De Witt, a home run hitter in Kansas City, last year. His acquisition gives the Tigers a "Big Three" in their batting order. Johnson and Womack are the other heavy hitters of the team. Harry and Paddy's $50,000. Harry and Paddy's $50,000. New York City.—The U. S. court here, this week, has certainly been able to force the jack Kearns-Jack Dempsey legal battle for "dough." During the trial, Monday, Paddy Mullins and others connected with the signing of the papers at Niles, Mich., in September, 1925, testified regarding A. C. Weisberg's, (owner of a hotel in South Bend, Ind.), paying $50,000 to Mullins and a tailor with H. O. Willett to a retainer for a fight between Wills and Dempsey. Weisberg and his associates desired the bout at South Bend and Dempsey seemed willing. But after they had paid the $50,000, they were tardy in finding a retainer of $100,000 for Dempsey. Therefore, Dempsey lost interest. Mullins and a tailor with H. O. Willett, which Dempsey and Wills signed, reverted to Floyd Fitzsimons, Dempsey's friend, instead of being turned over to Weisberg and his associates. HELTHOL is really a wonderful spring tonic. We do not believe it has any superior. Do not fail to read the Heilthol Medicine Co. advertisement elsewhere in this paper and take advantage of the golden opportunity to get the best when you need it best, and that is in this spring time. 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