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JANUARY 18, DATE OF WEAVER APPEAL FORTY-SIXTH YEAR. No. 22. Formation of the Populist Party and history of the Populist-Republican Fusion Movement in Alabama and the South; giving also, the facts as to Disfranchisement. Diagnosis of the Southern Political Situation and an Analysis of existing Political Conditions. Smith-Vare contests in the United States Senate; the Anti- Saloon League and its working in connection with the Klu Klux; the Lynching of the 15th Amendment. These and other topics of present interest discussed. 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HE IS HOPEFUL AND CONFIDENT OF PROVING HIS INNOCENCE, IF GIVEN IT (Special to The Gazette) Columbus, O.,—Joseph Weaver's final appeal from the death-sentence for the murder of Jasper Russell in Cleveland, eighteen months ago, a crime for which Alex. Maynor, confessed murderer of Russell, is now serving a life sentence in the Ohio penitentiary, will be heard by the Ohio Supreme Court here, Tuesday, Jan. 18. '23 Weaver is seeking a new trial on the grounds that new evidence, which includes sworn statements of Alex. Maynor, would very materially aid his defense. Maynor exonerates Weaver of any connection whatever with the crime. The great fight, at their own expense, waged by the defense, Messrs. Nate Cook and Win. Marsseur of Cleveland, ever since April 1927, has challenged the admiration of all familiar with this exceptional case. Six times this has its innocent man stood in the shadow of the death-chair and for a year and a half "shouldered" a death-sentence he is clearly not deserving of and which resulted from testimony given by Maynor who saved his own life by falsely accusing Weaver. It is said Maynor was offered this immunity by police or the county prosecutor's office, in Cleveland, before the trial, if he would so implicate Weaver whose address was found in his (Maynor's) pocket. By "turning state's evidence" Maynor, confessed murderer of Russell, obtained a life-sentence from the Waukee County Common Pleas Court was ordered by the State Supreme Court to consider the application for a new trial for Weaver. It is upon the refusal of that lower court, to grant a new trial, that Weaver's attorneys are basing their latest appeal to the state's highest court. "Mark my words," Chaplain T. O. Reed of the Ohio penitentiary said, recently. "Joseph Weaver will never go to the electric chair. I have witnessed 90 electrocutions. I have led 70 men from their cells to the electric chair. And never before have I possessed the power to be in danger of death; that the state was about to commit a disgraceful crime. At the time that I first protested Weaver's innocence I did not know that doubt existed in the mind of the judge who sentenced him. I have since found this to be true. Alex Maynor, said to have been an accomplice of Weaver, turned state's evidence and obtained a life sentence for himself. He has confessed the murder of Weaver, himself and the warden, that Weaver is innocent; that he accused him in order to escape the chair himself." Kind Sir:—I am writing you for the purpose of letting you know how glad I was to read the few lines on your card saying "we are doing our best for you, and are hopeful, too". I know if our people in Cleveland and Ohio lift up their voices for justice for me, along with my attorneys, I will be given my freedom. I cannot help thinking how the assistant prosecutor, James C. Connell, of Cleveland, came down here, on the order of Prosecutor Stanton, has already carried out a very near convincing act. The Governor has guilty, after Alex Maynor had accompanied me; and no doubt, at the same time, knowing better. He recommended life imprisonment, and that, I believe, to keep the Governor from blaming them for being as careless as they were about the life of a person and his innocence. The policemen sure find lots of pleasure in given a person the "third degree." They could easily have found the truth about the crime in the beginning. I can't understand how they thought I could have written two days in an asleep I followed him and not knowing where Maynor was. Why that job for我 would have been like sitting on a red hot stove. The policemen arrested me at work, on the job. There is lots. I would be glad to explain in a new trial (if I was given one) which would wipe out all doubts as to my innocence. There are about a half-dozen persons, who have feared against me, who will be locked up. I will be granted a new trial. The people I am referring to will have nothing to hide under, if I face trial again. I was so bewildered and out-done to see how the policemen stood up and let Alex. Maynor slip his awful deed over on me, if they did not assist him, until I hardly knew right from wrong, part of the time. I am in the best of hopes for freedom, believing as you say that you all will do the best you can for me. This is my first time to be in prison and my first time to ever be arrested. Dear Editor Smith--Pardon me for writing you so often. But I cannot refrain from doing so after being so enthused since I read The Gazette of Dec. 22d, and saw that you are re-enforced by various organizations in your effort to help secure justice, which means freedom for me, as I am an innocent man. I was expecting them to move for me which I believe ought to be their duty. I noticed in The Gazette that you are urging every competent citizen who will, to write the Governor at once asking him to pardon me. Well, it would be safer for me to be released by the Governor than it will, to take a chance on getting a new trial. However, one day seems as easy as it can be to be pardoned; but I'd rather spend two weeks overtime in here and be acquitted by a jury than to be pardoned by the Governor. That is because, if I am given another chance to make a statement to a jury, there will not be one doubt left as to my innocence. I cannot take vengeance upon anyone one because that belongs to God. But there were a little more than a half dozen false witnesses against me at my trial who ought to be punished for their actions. I was 2240 E. 48th St., Alex. Maynor's wife's pal from her youth, sat in the witness chair with her eyes cast down upon her toes and swore to a wilful——by denying the truth. It is true, I was at Alex. Maynor's house from ten to fourteen hours prior to the death of the man, and I could not deny that to the court. Mrs. Hollday was there, and since Maynor has betrayed her trust, he is my best witness against her in a new trial, if I get one. The street-car conductors admitted to the court that they did not get to know the living lady until they saw there was thousand dollar reward offered for the killer of the man. There was lots left out in my trial that I wish to explain. I do not wish to publish it now, but that is why the policemen forced the charge against me. I will, sometimes may be, in the near future explain it to you in a letter. I explained it to my attorneys, since I've been here. Every word from start to finish at my "trial" was just a frame-up against me. Most anybody would have taken advantage of the opportunity to save his own life as Mayo the police man, the gap that the policemen and others opened up for him in order to use him as their principal witness to convict me. I gave Alex Mayo my number and name on a piece of paper for the purpose of selling him some cloak to make his wife a suit to match one I had already sold him for $42.50. The policeman found that scrap of paper in his pocket when they arrested him, and they used it for a claw to link me with Alex, in the murder of that poor man. They came very near beating me to death; they were too unmerciful and brutal (giving the "third degree") to tell. Alex, Mayo said, while exonerating that the policeman came to him and made him say I came to him, after they found my name on a piece of paper in his pocket. He said they knocked out one of his teeth and broke two of his elbis! Denounce Lynch-Murderers. Hattiesburg, Miss. — Determination to bring to Justice the brute who, lynched Emanuel Metcalf, an automobile mechanic, is expressed by citizens after a mass meeting sponsored by the local chamber of commerce. Rewards were offered and resolutions adopted urging that the authorities take every action possible, after leading citizens, including several ministers, had denounced the lynch-murders. "BIG BUSINESS" Using the Klu Kux Klan, the Anti Saloon League and the "Lily-white" Republicans to Control the Country. New-York City, Dec. 31, '28. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Sir:—Dr. W. E. B. DuBois is very correct in his position that the southern political situation is a bar to democracy in the nation and the recent election shows that invisible government, the powerful capitalist interests, avails itself of that southern condition by the employment of the political agencies in the South which dominate. The Klan and its twin, the Anti-Saloon League. Hon. Joseph C. Manning, are the back-bone of the Hoover Republicanism of the South, for the "illy-white" Republican machine of the South is only the nucleus about which these two forces entwined. There is nothing in any of the three elements but intolerance, bigotry, and the most aggressive sentiments of unAmericanism. What is worse to be feared is that the forces that have destroyed democracy in the South are now work- ing up into control of the Republican party in the North, and have been appropriated and adopted as the agencies of big business through which control is to be maintained. For these reasons I declined to support the Republican party in the last election. There can now be no ground for criticism of anyone for voting no ticket in the election of the Republican party, in my judgment; and I have to confess that those who long ago refused to continue their Republican affiliation, seem to be fully justified in so doing by the developments that have come. DOINGS OF THE RACE. Mr. Jesse Binga, our leading Chicago banker, is a Catholic. Miss Althea Washington is our first woman to win the degree of doctor of philosophy at Ohio State University. Miss Otelia Cromwell, who holds the degree of Ph.D. from Yale University, was recently elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Smith College. Miss Marian Anderson of Philadelphia, our well-known and leading contralto solist, who has had a successful European tour, gave her first New York recital, this season, in Carnegie hall, Sunday evening. Word comes from Paris, France, that Josephine Baker, the most popular actress in that country and an Afro-American, is not married to that Italian "count", who is styled a "bogus nobleman". Married or not, "Jo" is "sure goin' some, these days". Nine lynch-murders, last year, one a Mexican; Mississippi, 3; Louisiana and Texas, 2 each. Missouri and New Mexico, one each. There were 21 in 1927, 34 in 1926, 18 in 1925, and 16 in 1924. All charged only with having committed a crime; none proven guilty. The Firestone Co. of Akron employs 10,000 Liberian workers on its rubber plantations in Liberia, W. Africa, and only 90 whites. Thirty thousand acres have been planted, thus far, with six million trees. Workers, skilled and unskilled, received $1,024,000, last year, 700 skilled Liberian workers receiving Thirty thousand rubber-tree stumps and 100,000 rubber-tree seeds were given free to Liberian farmers, according to "The Premier News Service" of Washington, D. C. Our Division Leaders. Goffrey leads the heavyweight division. Jack Thompson ranks second to Jackie Fields among the weltweight leaders among whom is "Gorilla" Jones. Baby Joe Gana leads the junior walterweights, while Kid Bantam leads the bantamweights. Not a bad showing in the barbarian game of pugilism. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS DR. DUBOIS IN A NEW ROLE! KNOCKING THE RACE PRESS AND THE PUBLICA TION HE EDITS. Emulated the Cow That Gave a Good Big Pail of Milk Only to Kick It Over—The Editor of The Crisis Must Have Been "Good and Sore" Washington, D. C. — "Advertisements are given to Negro newspapers, either as charity or as a sort of blackmail", said Wm. E. DuBois, editor of The Crisis, in a speech before the Founders' Day meeting of the Negro branch Dec. 22. The evening before he delivered from manuscript one of the best addresses given before the National Inter-racial Conference. It was on the "Presentation or Data on Citizenship". DuBois dropped with a dull thud from the sublime to the ridiculous in his statement before the local N. A. A. C. P. meeting. He made an appeal for better and more remunerative support of The Crisis and the advertising columns of the "official organ" of the organization. He said that advertisers purchase in white magazines the newspapers to make products household words. "For instance", he said, "if you think of cleaners, you at once think of ——". The newspapers can serve no such purpose and are simply patronized "to keep the papers off of the advertisers". Nor was the editor of the "official organ" thru with his "wise cracking". He went on to advise the people of Washington that their support of The Crisis would not be missed, if it were entirely withdrawn. The audience, which was as cold and humiliated as the Negro Jackson has ever produced, was visibly by the trend of his remarks. The meeting at this point was nearly broken up by the audible dissension which his caustic and ill-advised remarks brought forth, and several people left the room. When interviewed the next day, they said they left in protest against the "slanderous remarks against the newspaper fraternity". DuBois did not endure himself, or The Crisis either, to the local crowd or to the newspapermen. Secretary James· Weldon Johnson spoke immediately after him. It was him who was disconcerted by the Nubian he was disconcerted by the objector" to the tone of DuBois' remarks, for his speech was punctuated with several full stops. Prof. Neval H. Thomas the presid- "EASY PICKING"! A Number of Our Race Publications Are for a "Windy City" Advertising Agency. Referring to the ready made supplement, which some of our race weeklies are sending out with their regular news edition as a special feature, the veteran editor of The Cleveland Gazette, said: "The Illustrated Feature Section", which a Chicago advertising agency (Jewish) has "wished" on a number of our unsophisticated (from a business viewpoint) newspaper publishers, is "a good money-maker" for the agency because "elephant" in more ways than one for the aforementioned publishers. Brethren of the race press, don't be such "easy picking". Editor Harry C. Smith of The Gazette is just as caustic in dealing with a one-sided business proposition and turning it down, as he is in opposing a prejudiced candidate for public office or an effort at racial segregation. It is hard to fool a veteran of his type.—N. Y. Age. THEY "SHOOT IT OUT"! For a Belgian Blonde and Wound Two Women—Both Under Arrest —The Afro-American Abroad! Paris, France.—Glover Compton, well-known pianist of Chicago, was wounded here, Dec. 22, '28, when Mike McKendrick and Sidney Beckett, Afro-American musicians, are said to have duelled over the affections of a beautiful Belgian girl, in the Montmartre district. Two women were also injured, but neither of the duellists was struck. McKendrick, who hails from Paducah, Ky., and Beckett, from New Orleans, were mild in love with the little white dancer, it is said, and when they met in a little cage in Rue Pigalle, without words began shooting. The women, Dolores Gibbins, age 20, an Austrian dancing girl, and Mme. Marguerite Radheine, age 60, a charwoman, are both reported in a serious condition, the former receiving two bullet wounds in her chest, and the latter receiving a bullet in the abdomen. Police are holding McKendrick and Beckett while they seek the blonde Belgian sweetheart that caused all the trouble. 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 state, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. THE COPY FIVE CENTS APPEAL IN A NEW ROLE! PRESS AND THE PUBLICA- THE EDITS. Gave a Good Big Pail of Milk er—The Editor of The Seen "Good and Sore" ing officer, came late, made his usual anti-segregation speech, but little if any attention was given to that phase of the work by the four general officers present: Miss Mary White Ovington (white), DuBois, Walter White and Johnson, all of whom ad- Editor Wm. E. DuBois. dressed the meeting. Mr. Johnson steered clear of the subject, and the looked-for or clash between "Nev" and "Jim" failed to materialize. Those who came for a thrill got one only thru DuBois' "wiscrackening" statements about the Negro press and its devastating parishes. Wendell Gorman is asking themselves if it is possible that the disagreement between the local president and the national officers has been amicably settled. An examination of the advertising columns of several papers for the week ending Dec. 22, 1928, shows patronage far above any such sordid status as DuBois sought to picture as truth. Taking two local papers, two New York papers, two Chicago papers, a Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Baltimore paper, I found about 6500 inches of advertisement, ultimately 320 columns of which 45 columns were classified ads, and 45 columns, general advertising. "A RED BANDANNA." Roland Hayes sought to purchase orchestra tickets for himself in a Pittsburgh vaudeville theatre. He was told that colored people were only permitted to purchase gallery seats. He declined the jim-crow seat and went away. Whatever Mr. Hayes is, he cannot escape the responsibility of the outstanding position he has achieved. Blacks and whites, alike, take him as a model. He expects to be a party to humiliating him (at his concerts here and in Washington, D. C.) when he does not tolerate it for himself. Money isn't everything. Character is worth more. Moreover, there are but 14 southern states in which jim-crow might be expected. Some 34 other states remain in which Mr. Hayes can and does sing, at $2000 a night. Mr. Hayes was born in Georgia. He has gotten out of Georgia now, but all the Georgia is not out of him. Even Mr. Hayes will have earned enough money to live abroad. His Viennese counties and thumb his nose at America's color-line problems. We are only seeking to remind him, however, that he has a handkerchief on his head—a red bandana.—Baltimore (Md.) Afro-American. Millport, Ala.—"Uncle Bill", who celebrated his 106th birthday recently, was born at Blue Creek, Va. Dec. 4, 1823, and was stolen from his parents at the age of 12 and taken to Tuscaloosa, where he was sold to Ennile Sanders, who brought him to Pickens county. He has been living within a few miles of Millport, 93 years, and is as active as the average man of 65 years. He raised three bales of cotton and 100 bushels of corn, last year. Tom Not the First! Editor Plain Dealer, Sir;—Councilman Thos. W. Fleming's statement, in a recent issue of your paper, to the effect that his election as an elector, at the recent election, "is the first time in Ohio that a Colored man has been a Presidential elector", is NOT correct. J. Madison Bell, poet, and writer, of Toledo was the first, many years ago. I trust that you will publish this. Harry C. Smith. 2A g OH HERE COMES eS aaa | | twit owcu! BAD BOY. 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Germany, England and Ireland ted in the number of emigrants sent to this country, last year,-says a gov- ernment report. This is news. ae President Herbert L. Hoover is going to disappoint a lot of people. Among the number, we hope are the K. K. K,, the ‘iily-whites” and that effervescent organization known as the Anti-Saloon league. i Have YOU done your duty to Jo- soph Weaver? It doesn't make any difference where you live in Ohio, o out of the state for that matter. That man {s innocent and must not be electrocuted. Do not delay writing Gov. A. V. Donahey, State House, Columbus, 0. Only a few more days ‘ett tn -Ghhes te Os ee “Having reference to 1928, the lo- eal dally press announced, the first of the ‘week, that “banks had a prosperous year”. This, too, in the face of the’ fact that-last year was the worst ‘for middle-class business men in this section of the country since the “Grover Cleveland” years of 1893 to 1898. Even the banks wore “merging”, last year, as never before since the years mentioned. Why the “hokum"? —Ii— The exodus of our people trom the South, since 1917, had more to do with the decrease in the number of lynch-murdera in that section than all else. There were only nine, last year, the smallest number in forty years, Let a couple of hundred thow- sand more of our people in that sec- tion come North and there will be an even greater decrease in the barburic mistreatment visited, upon those left ehind, by “crackers” and others in the southiand. ‘The effort to make the unfortun- ate hospital experience of Marvin Freeman an argument in favor of @ local “Jim-crow” hospital is post- tively silly and will avail those using ft in that way absolutely nothing. Cleveland has more than enough 0! “Sim-erow” now and those “jim-crow Negro” doctors and others who con- Unue to agitate for one should go back down South where they came from and get it. It drove them here, we regret to say. Cleveland does not need them. =e POLICE “CLEANUPS”. ‘The so-called “cleanups” of the local police are nothing in the world but so much camouflage, smoke- screens (as we have frequently taken occasion to say in the past) which are ordered for a pw obvious, nd made fairly plain In the follow. ing excerpt from the Cleveland Daily Pfess of Dec. 31, '28: “These i aes ‘cleanups’ do not clean up th. important places (or any other). There were no impor- tant joints included in the Cleveland raid of last week. The Cleveland po- Hee went out and raided a lot of cheap places. At the very time of this raid, there were important gam- Dling and bootlegging joints. oper- ating In Cleveland under the protec- tion of important politicians which were not touched.” ‘And they are not all in the “Roar. ing Third” either, as the police offi- cials well know. But they can send into that section and do about as they please without fear of any “comeback” because they know that our people there have no one “to go to the front” for them; do anything material for them. ‘Phere 1s a polfee/drder that pre- vents the patrolmen of this city from raiding any place without an order from headquarters and such an or- der does not materialize against the ~tmportant joints” for other reasons obylous. Some day the press and the people of this city will “wake up” to the real condition of city governing affairs here and then there Mlllives lip a “housecleaning” dust ho'efty in thts country, not oven Ohi: cago and New York, needs any worte Gia thle ct. Pein re Grady autinery rice ity Counc: All three “rolled Into Gone" Would uct make ono goed ome ine (li ancin “gute” anda. do: Fartisnalibn to; wea cSt his peools. fae? vaya.’ playthings” tor the Cleveland police on order of their superior offictrs, heads of the de- feiiient. Thereare very: te of Fe icslaes hi oud anconat Eis are -edoees 10 60008 010 ae Saturday and on many previous oc- legen pee (e951 has ier ore Heese eopallea toloned rts Prime Sport News Godfrey at Lorain. fisin io reealiecst Grussizie Pe eiinosemet win mer ean Ben Grudn a ce are saint weasenient bocne Btw. inte ansoves usin event Danie sed Seater one on Moses Galleoums, dau, it, Alcs Hart Lorain welterweight, will fight in the ten-round semi-final. ee pe Cuyahoga lodge, Elks’ first show of the new year, Thursday evening, was held, as msual, in Its auditorium in E. 55th St. Danny Martin and Sailor Ward (white) furnished the ‘main bout. Each held a decision over the other. Whiz Bang Carter and Sidney Johnson furnished the semi-final hout. Others were: Wil- hert Monroe vs. eLo Fellenbaum, 120 pounds; Bob Williams vs. Steve George, 125 pounds; Red Movis vs. Comer Crew, 135 pounds, and Thom- as Lindsey ‘vs. John ‘viov, 155 pounds. Wm. Jones in a Draw. ¢ New York City.—Last week Fri- day night at Madison Square Garden, in one of the preliminaries Tony Va- carell! worked hard to earn a draw decision with “Gorilla” Wm. Jones of Akron, 0. The Harlem Italian Was wild but aggressive and it took a desperate rally in the closing two rounds of the 10-round bout to give him a draw. Jones won the third, sixth, seventh and cighth rounds, and two rounds. the second and fifth, were even. ‘The Italian's wild lung- ing had Jones somewhat bewildered and the Akron fighter's inability to solve the style of his opponent rob- bed his work of some of the effec- tiveness that has characterized his other appearances here. ; Goilfres to Fiaht Al Walker. ere seer ese, SST OTs heavyweight contender. has been signed to meet Al Walker, Harlem hagvy, in a ten-round bout here, Mon- day night. Walker is originally from Florida. In 58 fights, he has permitted only about three to go the full limit with him. The New York- er, weighing 220 pounds, 9 a terrific puncher with a switch somewhat re- sembling Stanley Ketchell’s famous one featuring his attack. He dresses his opponents up with a swinging right hand to the head and then turns loose with a terrific left, usual- ly a left uppercut with elther the body or the chin as his target. Chocolate Kayoes Denico. New York City.—Kid Chocolate, the sensational Afro*Cuban bantam- weight, wound up his pre-holiday ac- tivities by scoring a technical: knock- out over Pancho Denico of the Phil- ippines, in the second round of their ten-round bout at the Olympia A. C., here, Dec. 22. Chocolate was the az- gresior thruout the fight and his op- ponent at no time showed to advant- age. Just before the Denico fixht, Chocolate's manager, Louis Guiter- rez, and Gus Amos and Eddie Me- Mahon, matchmakers at the Olympia ‘A. C. and the St. Nicholas Arena, re- spectively, conferred over the matter of Chocolate's services when he re- turns to this country from his vaca- tion in Cuba, late in January. ea eka ‘Tite boxing commission approved the matching of “Gorilla” Jones of Akron, and Arturo Shackels (white) of New York city, welterwelghts, for the ten-round windup of Matt Hin- kel’s boxing show in public hall, Jan, 8. Joey Kauffman and Arman- do Shackels of New York, a brother of Arturo, will meet in the ten- round semi-final. They are light- weights. Three preliminaries com- plete the card. Jones is to face a tough, game. hard-hitting kid when he meets Schackels. The Belgique was in several workouts with Gene Tunney at Speculator. last summer, and his ability was quite evident. In his last fight, he easily whipped Jack McVey, quite a feat for a welter- weight. Clevelanders have seen Me- Vey, a middlewelght, hold his own with the leading 160 and 165-pound- ers. Jones, of course, is a more dan- gerous man than McVey, since he is a much harder hitter. However, he is no part of the equal of McVey in skill. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0., SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1929. SAVE WE! FRESH OHIO NEWS | ovr: —————- Colum! WRITTEN BY “THE OLD RELIABLE” GAZETTE’S |e" oi" ee Feces the Ohio Penite CORRESPONDENTS, j@ie for a erin trong oplaton —— slutely no. pa eS : Alive fw due tt What Our People’ Are Doing Each Week—Chureh, |!!'",) |!".!", tioned in this « Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musieal— 01! F Warden Pt Marriages, Deaths, Etc. confession bya tonced to Hite | Se crime) exten BELLEFONTAINE, — Miss Ellen loscent, The tlu—Mt. Olive g, 8.| which time Ch Johnson of Cleveland has returned | pupils. Kave a splendid Xmas pro; [ecased. eaten home after a very pleasant visit cram in the evening: Mrs, Lona{ Attys, I, with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Fred | Raker, Miss Atberta aud Mea, James jieltee. Room 5 Johnson, and family and a host of | Mitchel, directors, “Abie tee, laden {Chrecdant ate other relatives here. A dinner was | with gitts, was the feature. Mise | time, oar na given in ber honor. Dec. 26, to whieh | Vera Finney has the Mu. St. Lukes | tiene cea ay twenty-four relatives were Juvited, |S. S. pupils rendered an excellent [seen it On Dee. 28, an uncle and aunt, Mr.) Xmas program. Mrs. Hattle Blacks (ara gonynend: and Mrs. Edgar Harper, gave a burn and Mrs, Eva Hutchinson, db Jatin so enkaged party for her which all greatly on-| rectors, Mrs. Ella Sanders, pianist, [Aico cheaked Joyed. They reported a grand time, | Santa Chuus (Aira. Mike Lawson) | Uecuss the eas Mr. Sanford Hicks ts slowly re-| came thr an open window, delight: | ett, fon covering from a-severe attack of la| ing the little ones, aud used IU for | joe Oyen we krippe.—Hand ‘your news for this jextt. The beautiful treo, loaded when [IME Alena 6 letter to the local agent when he) gifts, was enjoyed by ail-—-Mr, and {186 Bublie th ee {Sitts,. was enjoyed by all.—Mr. an " eee ie aaa a re ee letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Mon- day (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach ‘The Gazette office on ‘Tuesday morning, and always write thelr names and that of thelr city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies, Un- less this latter 1s done, proper credit cannot be given you. ‘Lists of names, wedding presents, ete., obit- uary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, 1n- cluding items announeing entertain ments to be held in the near future, aust be paid for in advance at the rate of 20 cents a line,| six words to @ Mne. Our rates for display ad- vertisements will be sent on applica- Hon ——— LORAIN.—Quarterly meeting, Dee. $0, at Tth St. M. E, chureti, the district” superintendent” administer- ing communion in the evening. None of the churches were well attended on account of 30 much sickness. The lu seems to predominate here as cisewhere.—Miss King, St. Mathews church. pianist, i out aiter serious illness that held her in St. Joseph's hospital for sometime, — Mr. Isaac Austin, brother of Mrs. Jessie Mar Un, died, Xwas morning. ‘The fun- eral from Wicken's parlor, Dec. 28, was conductea py Rev. A. J. Sim- mons, pastor of the A. M. ib. church of which the decoased was a faith- ful member. His sister, Mrs. Mar- tin, and her husband have the sym- pathy of the enttre community.— Tell your friends io read “The Old Reliable” Gazette and keep up to} iT : HILLSBORO. —Mrs. Lillie Powers attended Dane Murray's funeral in Greenfield.——Mrs. Anna Hill of De- troit spent her Xmas vacation with her mother.—Mr. and Mrs. Frank Johnson entertained at Xmas dinner, Mrs, Jane Young, J. H. Henson and Isaac Williams of Columbus.— Rev. and Mrs. A. Ware and Mrs. J. J. Burr attended revival services at Wash- ington C. H., recently, Rey. Ware preaching an excellent sermon.— Floyd Holland was quite ill, last week.—Mrs, Mildred Waters and son spent Xmas week with her daugh- ter in Dayton,—Mrs. Zack Lewis of Springfield is visiting her mother.— Miss V. Paxton of Detroit is visit- ing her father.—Colleen, Mr. and Mrs. Williams’ infant, was buried, Dee, 22.—Mt. and Mrs. Chas. Minor entertained at Xmas dinner, Mr. and Mrs, Albert Williams, Jr., Mrs. Lu- cinda Young, Mrs, Florence Burr, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Hurd.—Mrs. Calvin’ Dixon and Mrs. C. H. Wil- liams shopped in Washington C. H., recently.—The play at Lincoln school, Dec. 19, was good. A large audience,—Lorenzo Holland heard the program at Rawlin St. Baptist chureh, Washington C. H., Dec.. 21 Rev. Burr returned with him.” His church gave him a bountiful Christ- mas.—Mr. Charles and Mrs, Low Kilgore were married, Dec. 22, by Rev. Burr.—Charles Colter and John Harewood. of Wilberforce U.,, spent their Xmas vacation hore.—Kenneth Warner of Columbus visited here last week. ALLIANCE, — Mrs. M. McGowan of Chicago visited her son, Edward Johnson, and her mother, Mrs. F. Phillips, last week. — Mrs. Clara Jones who died, Dec. 23, was buried, Dec. 26, from Second Baptist church, Rev, J. H. Holmes of Pitt%burgh of- ficiating, assisted by Rev. C. W. Chapman. A husband and four small children survive her and have the sympathy of all.—Eula, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Geo. Bell, who died from pneumonia, was buried. Dec. 21, from a local funeral parior, Rev. C: W. Chapman officiating. — Mr. and Mrs. Chas, Williams of Ravenna vis- ited’ Mr. and Mrs. Wm, Cisco, last week. Mrs. Caldwell of the ‘same place visited her daughter, Mrs. Ruth Rhines. On Dec. 23, Wm. H. Cisco celebrated his 77th birthday. His daughter, Mrs. Mabel Williams, came from Ravenna to prepare the dinner.—Mrs. Celia Neal is conva- loseent, The fit.—Mt. Olive 8. 8. apis gave a soleudid Xmas pro gram in the evening: Mrs, Lena Baker, Miss Atberta and. Mes: James Mitchel, irectors, "A big treo, laden with gitts, was the feature. —- Miss Vera Finney has the flu. —St. Luke" S. 8. pupils rendered an exectient Xmas program, Mra, Hattie Black burn and Mrs. iva’ Hutehinson, dt rectors, Mrs. Ella Sanders, pianist Santa “Chas Olrs, Mike Lawson) came thru an open window, delight- ing the little ones, and used it for exit. ‘The beautiful tree, loaded with gifts, was enjoyed by wil—Mr. and Mrs.” Hays Hutchinson, daughter, and Mr. Lawrence Hutphinsoa visit ed in Canton, Dec. 27.4—-Miss Jessie Browder is visiting her mother. Mrs. Lucy Frazier had the grip. — Mrs. Lena Baker spent ten Gays at West Polut, Ark.—Mr. and Mrs. Don- ahue aaye returned from Cineinnatl where they spent the holidays with relatives.—Mrs, N. ‘T. Burruss and son have returned from visiting rel- atives in Kansas City, Mo.—Mr. and Mrs. Robert Arnold have recovered. ‘The flu Mrs. Cora Hamlet, organ ist of Second Baptist chureh, was too ill to function, Sunday. — Mrs. Ella Baldwin 45 visiting a sister In Mempitts, Tenn.—J. W. ‘Thompson and Miss Martha Terrell of Warren will wed, Jan, 27, HILLSBORO. —Mr. and Mrs, Ca- rey Williams entertained at Christ- mas dinner, Mf and Mrs. Edward and Calvin Dixon and daughter, Mrs. Sarah Zimmerman, Rev. and Mrs. A. P. Male of Richmond, Ind. —Mr. and Mrs. Albe't: Williams and Mrs, M Reece of Columbus visited Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Gragston, Xmas. | Mrs. Gragston accompanied ‘them as. far as Wilmington aad visited her moth- er until Saturday.——Jakie Starks and Siauley Hudson visited in Washing- ton C. H. and Greenfield, Sinday.— Marion Clemens of Piqua and aunt, Miss Ivy Burns, of Samantha called on Freda Cole,’ Dorothy. Harris and Nina Kilgore, last Monday evening. Mr, and Mra. Archie Cole, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Easton, Rosetta Nelson, Thelma Kittrell and Starlie Han: cock attended a dance in Chillicothe, Thursday night. — The Christmas programs ac the churches were good ind the pastors were well remem- vered. fev. and Mrs. A. Ware spent the day in Xenia.—Freda Cole en- tertained at ‘@ six o'clock Xmas din- ner, the Misses Harris and Kilgore. —Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Hudson and sister, Mrs. Bird, of Greenfield and brother, Orval, of Detroit, were at the Baptist church, Tuesday evening. ——Miss Cassie Essex has been quite ill.—Mrs. M. Wootsan, of Washing- ton C. H., was here, Thursday night, —Mrs. Arthur, Mr. Harvey, Mr, and Mrs. T. Ames, Mr. and Mrs.” Ray Burns, were called to Guysville by Mr, and Mrs. Dayton Dalton’s daugh- ter’s death.—Mr. and Mrs, Harley Hill and daughters of Wilberforce and Mrs, Rhoda Newman visited Mrs, Vernon Young, Thursday eve- ning.—Miss Lizzie Kilgore of Cin- cinnath visited relatives here, re- cently,-~ Mesdames Powers, Nukes andj} wn, Miss Tatman, Rev. Voung, Mr. and Mrs, A. Trimble are ill.—Rev. and Mrs, C. A. Graine ot Detroit visited her mother, Wednes- day to Saturday.—Born to Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Ames a 10-Ib. son.— Barrett Williams visited his mother, Xmas, in Dayton, — Mr. and Mrs. John Hudson were called to Sardin- ia, Saturday, by Mr. and Mrs. Chase Hudson's {llness.—Mrs. Zack Lewis returned to Springfield, Sunday. She viisted her mother. — Miss Grace Trimble and Mrs. Mary Ellis visited fr at eeu Aa aE INAUGURAL SEGREGATION. Woshlngton De Ge-Sonremation vat struedy euade ite appenrancs is nas Ready ee oslaraions (er ane Hoover and Curtis inauguration. A gear cane mtntes on bostial eee ciotag had bean ope nted: he Momberr at this sub-committe ae eee econ: chains, Miss Evy Chant: Mra “Gabrielle. Potham and Miss Rachel Bell. The chairman of Beenie atbcnaaides (on hos satity and housing tr Mee, Viteinia White Speel. The general commit- tee having charge of inaugural af- Miceminte, consis ot appecziaa(s ly 200 persons. Only four of them Be pe oe pemane 3 Seu, Bene inncr, oka he Hewkine and Br. onacles i Marshall" Noe. of car women were appointed on’ this Sommittes: oe ee Subscribe NOW! Just Like a Girl. SAVE WEAVER! OUR WOMEN CALL! Columbus, O., Dee, 17, "28, Dear Chih.” Members: “Joseph Weaver is still in the death row of the Ohio Penitentiary, condemned to iy for a erie in which, in the strong opinion of many, he took abe solutely no part. ‘That he is. still alive fs due to thos who have eham Ploned: hw qRw.- RIA) tos oo snes tioned in this connection Is Rew, 0. Rood, chaplain of the Ohio Peni fentlary, to whom in company with Warden M6, ‘Thomas was made a confession by another prisoner (sen tonced to Tify imprisonment for the crime) exenerating Weaver, sineo which time Chaplain Reed Nas not coased in strong concern and effort, Atty’s, No, Cook and Wm. Mars- teller, Room 518, Leader Building, Cleveland, ate giving snstintedly tn time, effort and money in behalf of thelr client of whose innocence they are convinerd. ‘They have knocked At every legal door for relief and are Still so engaged ‘They. will frankly discuss the case with anyone Inter ested. Hon. Harry C. Smith, edt tor of The Cleveland Gazette, ix do- ing splendid work In Keeping before the public the case of this, young man whom editorially. he calla “In focent Josepi, Weaver.” The Bap- {ist Ministers’ Association, the Inter- denominational Ministers’ Aliance, a club of our lawyers, all of Cleve= land. ave passed strong resolutions expressing willingness to co-operate in any way and every way In the movement to save Joseph Weaver. Wm, R. Conners, ex. see, Welfare League of Cleveland; Mr, Charles White, pres, Cloveland NA. A.C. P. and Walter F, White of the New York office, in attendance at the Tn- terdenominational Ministers’ AMli- ance at Cleveland stand ready to as- sist, Mrs. Dovio King Clarke, who formerly taught him In the evening schools of Cleveland, 43 now visiting our varions Ohio organizations In an effort to pass over to these audiences her affection for her former pupil, feeling that to anyone who. has Known him closely it is unthinkable to connect him with a sordid erime. ‘The greatest anxiety now prevails to get this matter properly before Gov. A.V. Donahey at once and this anxiety is made most tense by the fact that only a few days remain of hia administration. 1 am asking that our clubs show co-operation by writing him letters at once asking for the pardon of Joseph Weaver: from individual clubs and from fed- erations as well. Do not wait for regular meetings of your clubs, but xet together on this, at once. “Gov. Donahiey’s term of office expires, Jan. 14; the mattes should he closed days before then, Let every club not only send a letter to the governor, hat in- fuence ministers and influential per- sons and organizations to do the sume. this month? Yours earnestly, ANNA V. HUGHES. Chair., Legislative “Com., Ohio Federation of Our Women's eer Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, 0. Dear Sir:—Ever since’ I've been. here, since I had no other job, I've been writing for other men as many of them cannot write for themselves. ‘Among the number is John Sabo, a young Hungarion in poverty like my- Self. He is new in this country and knows very little of the English lan- guage, It is believed, even by some of the state officers, that Sabo is ine nocent of the crime he is under sen- tence of death for. And since the Hungarian people are of the same conviction, word to that effect has been circulated among Hungarian- American citizens by Hungarian newspapers. John Sabo's evidence, proving his innocence, isn't half as strong as mine. And ¥et, let me tell you that money from nearly every State in the union has been raised by the Hungarian people and sént to the treasurer of the fund for him at the headquarters in Akron to help him demand justice. Total amount, over $4,000. Our newspapers have published repeatedly the fact that I am an innocent man and about to be executed! Our race seem to believe they have more and better religion than any other race on earth, and I feel ashamed while answering not less than $00 Sabo letters, since I have been helping him, thanking the Hungarian people for what they are doing to help him. Not more than a few, out of the ten million of our people in this country, have made a move to help me and those few con- sist of the Mission Volunteer society of the Seventh Day Adventist church, E, 71st St. and Cedar Ave., Cleve- land; Rev, Dr.-Clarke and his fam- ily of Columbus, he a former pastor of St. John’s A. M. 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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 James G. Offer, injured several weeks ago in an auto accident, has fully recovered. St. John's choir rendered a beautiful cantata, Sunday afternoon, at its regular monthly musicale. Mr. Wm. Warfield, of Blaine Ave., severely injured, recently, in an auto accident, is convalescing. Mrs. Frances E. Young and brother, Morgan Gray, spent the Xmas holidays with their mother who was ill in Detroit. Bernice Ellington, a 10-A student at East high, recently won a scholarship at the school by her excellent record for the past semester. Miss Ellen Johnson returned, the first of the week, from a delightful holiday visit with her parents and other relatives in Bellefontaine. She was highly entertained. Mrs. Mary Tilley, widow of Mr. James M. Tilley, who has made her home in Los Angeles for some years, was married to a Mr. Simms of that city, recently, it is reported. J. A. Lee, of Fairmount Bldd., who left, last month, with the Kenyon V. Painter party on a tour of Europe and Africa, writes relatives here of the wonders of the eventful trip, thus far. Prof. and Mrs. Charles Smith of Wilberforce spent the holidays here and in Detroit. They visited their son-in-law and daughter, Rev. and Mrs. Russell S. Brown, of South Blvd., while in Cleveland. The Harmony Trio was in the city recently, leaving for New York City to sing for the Movetone Syndicate. A special engagement. The Trio joined the Miller & Lyles "Keep Shufflin" Co. some weeks ago, and made, as usual, a wonderfully fine impression wherever it appeared. Legacies of $1,000 each from the veteran banker, Spencer T. Knight's $70,000 estate will go to our local Old Folks' home, St. James A. M. E. Church, and Pleasant Hill (Tenn.) Academy, an institution for higher education of our young men and women. Provisions of the will Mr. Knight died, Dec. 12, aged 90, after 35 years in local banking circles. He was dean of the Cleveland Trust Co. directorate at the time of his death. The Old Folks Home association have elected the following officers for a year: Mrs. Marie Brown, pres.; Mrs. Minerva Taylor, first vice-pres.; Mrs. Vlaurie Burbridge, second; Mrs. Ida Fountaine, rec. sec.; Miss Fiorina Quinn, rec. sec.; Mrs. Elizabeth Robbinson, assist.; Mrs. Grace Lucas, fin. TUBBY GEE. THIS BOOK ON HYPNOTISM IS HOT STUFF. ALL YOU GOTTA DO IS LOOK SOMEBODY RIGHT IN THE EYE AND YOU'VE GOT THEM IN YOUR POWER AN'T THE GOTTA DO WHATEVER YOU TELL THEM ```markdown ``` ROSENBERG'S DRUG STORE, C. Central Ave. and, E. 55th, The Gazette regularly should notify copy delivered promptly. business matters to The Gazette nk, 226 Superior Ave., West, oppo- you wish to see the editor call carefully examine The Gazette's purchases. Business men who have the patronage of our people, assurance that they want it. lication in current issues of The by noon, WEDNESDAY, of that advertisements accepted until C. SMITH, Avenue, Cleveland, O. tel Cleveland.) Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 (Call, in the Afternoon.) FOR RENT — Furnished rooms, in the East End. All conveniences. Nicely heated and well lighted. Rates reasonable. 'Phone, GAR. 7067. Weaver's drug store in the Hotel Majestic was closed, several weeks ago. sec; Mrs Fannie Morton, assist; Mrs Cornelia Nickens, treas; W. E. McIntire, assist. Trustees re-elected were Mrs J. K. Nickens, Mrs. Cornelia Blue and Mr. McIntire. One of the very interesting affairs of the pre-holiday week was the annual Christmas exchange party of the Present Day club at the cosy home of Dr. and Mrs. E. J. Gunn. The male Chef club, which is make-up splendid by the leadership of its president, Mrs. Gunn, will soon make its debut in a musicale. The members are: Mrs. Gunn Mrs. Onell Mitchell, Mrs. G. A. Myers, Mrs. L. M. Jones, Mrs. N. B Bowen, Mrs. Harry Basey, Miss Dorothy Smith, Mrs. W. T. Blue, Jr. Mrs. J. E. Allace, Mrs. Y. byborne Mrs. W. Wallace, Mrs. E. B. Spencer, Miss Martha Swan Mrs. Paul Berry, Miss S. Coprick Miss Nell Hackney and Mrs. M. Smith, music teacher, E. 83d St. About 200 attended the 17th Ward Republican club's meeting, last week Thursday evening, at Mt. Zion Cong. church. Dr. LeRoy N. Bundy, president, presided. The club's welfare committee, Mrs. Marie Lomax, Jos. Jenkins and Rev. R. S. Brown, made its report on the assistance rendered many needy families, Xmas, Mr. H. Mayerson's resolution endorsing the candidacy of Dr. Bundy for the City Council was again unanimously approved, Mr. John Rohringer making an exceptionally strong talk in favor of the residents of the ward, a life-long active Republican. Atty. Wm. R. Green, Revs. Brown and Van Polt followed him and were also enthusiastically received. Miss Mamie Hudson is secretary and Mr. H. Mayerson, chairman of the club's publicity committee. Cleveland police were charged with "race discrimination". Monday, in rounding up 350 residents of the "Roaring Third" in the usual bluff at "crushing a crime wave". The charge was made by Atty. Wm. W.R. Green, who appeared before Judge Belcher to represent the police in a murder of a police assmblage. His accusation was supported by Councilman Clatborne George, who appeared with him. "Every time the city experiences an outburst of crime, higher-ups order police to arrest indiscriminately members of my race." Green said. "These men are guilty of no crimes. They are victims of a mad rush to fill the Jails with so-called violators, a guilty population." Oil for a Councilman with some "guts"—one who would stand up in that body, like a man, and fight for the rights of his people and for deegat, humane treatment, from the police and city manager, for them. The Workers' Inter-racial league will hold its next meeting at Cedar Y, 7615 Cedar Ave., Sunday, at 4 p. m., when plans for its relief conference to aid our Florida sufferers will be perfected, Mr. Blackburn. --- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1929. I'M GONNA TRY IT OUT ON HANK — HOCKUS-POCKUS- YOU'RE A CANARY BIRD- HANK SING A SONG- SING! There's an Error Somewhere. Miss Van Veen and others will address the meeting. The league extends a greeting to all workers of both races and an invitation to attend its meetings. The Century "Y" Club of Cincinnati has invited the editor of Tue Gaette to be the principal speaker at its Doughlass-Lincoln birthday banquet, Feb. 12, 8 p.m., something a prior engagement makes impossible. The death, Sunday, at Huron hospital, E. 99th St. and Euclid Ave., of Marvin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elisa Freeman, as a result of the accidental discharge, Saturday evening, of a revolver at his home, was most distressing, especially in view of the fact that Dr. Crille's hospital refused to take what it claimed was "an emergency case" and there appears to have been an unnecessary long delay in treating the patient at Huron hospital. If these two states were to have a fight (they would get to The Gazette), Martin's young wife and child have right of action in the courts against the management of both hospitals. The young man's family and parents have the heartfelt sympathy of The Gazette and the community. A 10-cent taxi bill brought Ruben Moore, 4317 Scovill Ave., more trouble than a million-dollar deficit causes the Democratic party. It caused Ruben's arrest on charges of intoxication, contempt of court, assault and battery, the costs on the intoxication charge, a fine of $25 and a $500 assault charge. Ruben was putting on style during the holiday season and hailed a cab at E. 40th St. and Scovill Ave., Dec. 24, to take the lady friend to E. 37th St. and Scovill. The fare was 10 cents. The taxi driver and Ruben got into an argument over whether Ruben had change coming from a 25 or 50-cent piece. The taxi driver told him that a woman who had he suffered a broken nose and had not been able to eat for a week as a result of the battle. Blocton, Ala., Items. Mr. and Mrs. S. Jennings of Altoone spent the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. B. Wilson—Miss V. A. Peterson of Bessener is visiting her father, Mr. T. Peterson—Miss K. E. Williams of Wylam spent the holidays with her mother, Mrs. A. Williams—Mrs. Arlene Project of Altoone was visiting her father, Mr. G. Davis, and friends—Mr. and Mrs. H. Mainer of the West-End, who were recently married, will live in Banks' quarters. Varbo Lost Again. Floyd Hybert (white) "hung it on" Wilson Yarbo a second time, last Tuesday afternoon, in the feature bout of the semi-pro card in the winning suite. Yarbo won their first setto. Tuesday it was their third contest. A MUCH-NEEDED LESSON! Dr. James W. Elechberger, Jr., of Chicago, a member of Zion A. M. E. Church, and one of the many delegates attending the Educational Commission's International Council of Religious Education convention held, this month in this city, reserved accommodations (by letter) in the Cleveland Hotel, effective, Dec. 13, 28. When he arrived in the city, that day, and applied for his accommodations, he was refused by the hotel manager who said: "No accommodations are here for you and my employees had no right to make reservations for you, and had no right to even check your baggage." Whereupon, Epichelberger retained Attys, Gillespie and Dillard who have entered suit for $500 damage, under Hon' Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights law, against the management of Hotel Cleveland and will of course, teach that manager who, it seems, is from the South, an Ohio lesson he undoubtedly needs much to know. This is the only way to stop that sort of things in this state, have an effective civil rights law. Go in court properly and right, and you cannot lose. And our people of the state should do much more of this very thing, too, than they do. Guaranteed and Efficient Work TWENTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE 'Phone: Randolph 5870 Sundays by Appointment SING, I TELL YOU! THERE MUST BE SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS BOOK WINNER AN ORANGE BLOSSOM A little blossom, blown and clinging to its stem of Life; Unheralded, in silence comes, midst turmoil and in strife; It brings no word of introduction, penned by friend or foe, Nor rings the bell, or sees the usher standing at the door. 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Book on "EyeCare" or "Eye Beauty" Free on Request BE MUST BE THING WRONG THIS BOOK Don't Throw Away Your Copy of The GAZETTE After Reading It But Give it to a Friend or an Acquaintance who might Subscribe after Reading It GEARLESS CAR ON DISPLAY IN ENGLAND Nancy A. D. Hearn A godsend to the motorist—the "gearless" car—being displayed at the Olympia motor show at Olympia, England. Its speed is adjusted by a small "control" on the steering wheel, being operated by Miss Kitty Brunnell. STARTING MOTOR DURING WINTER Main Trouble Is That Gasoline Does Net Vaporize Readily Enough. Of course the principal difficulty in starting a car when it is cold is that the gasoline does not vaporize readily and combine with air into a combustible mixture. Understanding this do not wear out the storage battery with the starter or your patience with the crank handle in a fruitless endeavor to start something. Use your head instead of your arms. It will start easier, for neither headstrong nor armstrong starters are worth while. Open Choking Device. As soon as the engine starts it is very important that the choking device be opened partially, depending upon the temperature until the engine heats up, and then fully opened. Otherwise the excess of gasoline will cause the engine to run sluggish. Indeed, it may load up the cylinders with such a mixture that the engine may stop again. This in turn will make it harder to start the engine than before. Do not close the choker again if the engine stops from this cause. Get as much air in as possible while you crank the engine and thus approximate a correct mixture. If using of the choker device fails to start the engine the only thing left to do is to apply heat to the intake manifold. You may pour a little hot water over the manifold. The intake will get warm enough this way in a little while. But a surer way is to wrap a cloth about the manifold and empty the teakettle slowly upon it. Extreme care must be taken not to get any water on the high tension ignition terminals or in the float chamber of the carburetor. Water will not pass through the spray nozzle and a tiny globule will stick there and hold back the gasoline. Warming Device. Practically all modern carburettors have some sort of warming device to heat the gasoline and air entering the mixing chamber. Some get air from a stove or hot-air furnace attached to the exhaust pipe and some depend on hot water from the cooling system. Neither of these will get into action, however, until after the engine has been running some time and will not help the cold morning troubles of the owner. If there is a hot water jacket on the carburettor, persons who drain the cooling system on cold nights will aid starting materially if they fill the radiator with hot water in the morning just before it is time to start the engine. This warms the entire engine, so that condensation is not likely to occur. It Is Not Necessary to Prime Gas Tank by Hand The idea that when one runs out of gas and the vacuum tank has run dry, it is necessary to prime it by hand, is erroneous, according to a factory authority. A knowledge of how to refill the tank without leaving the driver's seat will save time and effort. Here's how: Turn off the ignition and throttle down, then step on the starter and turn the engine over a dozen times. This creates sufficient vacuum to draw gas from the gas tank to the vacuum tank, and fills it up, ready to go as soon as the ignition and gas are turned on again. Millions of Spark Plugs Are Now Used Every Year The 22,000,000 cars in operation in the United States travel approximately 220,000,000,000 miles annually based on an estimate of 10,000 miles per car per year. These cars use 65,000,000 spark plugs a year. This means that one plug is used for every 3,384 miles a car travels. Warning Signal Light Attached to Oil Gauge While the oil gauge on the dash indicates plugged oil pipes by registering excessive pressure, or oil pump failure by a low pressure reading, you may not happen to look at the gauge. The illustration shows how to install an electric indicator lamp that will immediately call your attention to any oil failure in case you do not notice the warning of the oil gauge. Procure an extra oil gauge and mount it on the back of the dash. Remove the glass. Mount a fiber or rubber block just above the gauge and on it fit a couple of light brass fingers arranged to make contact with the gauge pointer. The proper settings will, of course, depend on the characteristics of your particular car. Wire a dash indicator lamp as shown. When the ignition is turned on the bulb will light until the starting of the motor runs the oil pressure RUBBER BLOCK CONTACT STRIPS SIGNAL LIGHT ON DASH IGNITION SWITCH TERMINAL OIL PIPE FROM OIL PUMP IGNITION SWITCH TO OIL PIPE GAGE ON DASH A Warning Signal Light, Wired as Shown in This Diagram, May Save Damage to Your Motor. A Warning Signal Light, Wired as Shown in This Diagram, May Save Damage to Your Motor. up to the regular running point. If anything goes wrong with the oiling system, the gauge pointer will touch one of the fingers and the light will flash a warning.—Popular Science Monthly. Auto Stopped Instantly With Original Device A device which the inventor holds will save human life by stopping an automobile almost instantly has been perfected and a patent for it has been sought by Pasquale Strano. The mechanism, the inventor says, can be applied to any car. It stops the vehicle, he declares, by dropping under the rear wheels a chock, or shoe, the sole of which is fitted with a cork pad to prevent skidding. The shoes, which weigh about eight pounds, are fastened on a pair of rocker arms integral with the chassis. They are wedge shaped, and the points pass under the wheels. The wheels cannot pass over the chocks, Strano asserts, because the top surfaces of the shoes are fitted with rollers on which the wheels revolve if power is applied before the chocks are pulled up. AUTOMOBILE ITEMS On the highways and in politics, detours are the order of the day. German railway car manufacturers who turned to making automobiles to save their profits have found the venture a failure. A partially clogged fuel line will permit the car to run up to certain speeds, then a popping noise starts in the carburetor. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELANE, O.. SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1929. DRESS PRINT-DESIGNS CLAIM ATTENTION OF FRENCH ARTISTS In addition to creating the print the artists have joined hands with the leading couturiers of Paris who have in turn designed a collection of fetching models of the illustrated silks. For instance, a afternoon frock by Renee displays to charming advantage a pri MIDSEASON MODES STRESS VOGUE FOR LIGHTWEIGHT WOOL FROCKS MURTANOUD THE WORLD JANUARY IS, or should be, the month when the woman who has the cunning to make her own clothes begins to map out her spring sewing program. One of her first thoughts is usually "a simple little silk frock" which can be comfortably and becomingly worn under her winter coat. Comes in this connection the query, "Will they or will they not wear prints this season?" To be assured of the re-emphasis placed on prints of every description study the Southland resort modes for they are a trustworthy forecast of what will be worn in spring. As a matter of fact fashions as are now being displayed for solowrners under sunny skies give promise of 1929 being the most glorious "print season" of them all. The latest venture registered by silk prints leads into the studios of several well-known French artists, who for the moment have stepped from the fold of formal painting into the realm of textile design. For inspiration these artists have looked to the immediate things about them, interpreting everything from canes to palm trees in their decorative patternings. It is innovations such as this which are adding a note of super-interest to the new silk collections. MIDSEASON MODES FOR LIGHTWEI OF COUISSE you are going to indulge in a lightweight woolen daytime frock this season. Every woman must who takes pride in being fashionably attired. No matter how many silks, satins, velvets, cliffons and gay prints she may possess, without at least one dress of wool crepe. wool georgette, light reps or featherweight tweed, her wardrobe will not qualify as 100 per cent equipped for midseason and spring. Paris is showing much enthusiasm for frocks of cloth, especially reviving the tailored street coat-frock in its many versions. These are made with the most intriguing details imaginable - yokes, tucks, unique seamwork, capelets and all that—and buttons! Yes, do not forget buttons; they are on the way by the dozens. Up and down the front of the straight coat-like lines they go, some covered with self-fabric, others of bone colored in perfect match. If there is a novelty shaped cape then it too is very likely y Your Co or an Acqu based on a motif of palm trees executed by Bernard Bouet de Mouvel. The design itself is a beautiful floral, revealing the exquisite craftsmanship of its creator. A print by Zyg Brunner introduces a note of novelty with its amusing display of seemingly every member of the canine family. Of this "doggy" silt, Augusta Bernard creates the smart frock which the young woman seated in the accompanying picture is wearing. Benito, so well known in Paris, turns to the forest for his inspiration, producing a new silk print with pine cones as the basic motif. The afternoon frock on the standing figure here illustrated is of this silk, the patterning of which gives an exquisite penn and ink effect in tones of beige and red. This gown comes to us from the artifler of June Regny. Among others of this group of artists "impressions decoratives" is a large flower silk patterning which charmingly portrays the genius of the artist Marty. The design possibilities of the triangle and acute angle have been well realized in the chevrons print by Lepaque and there is also a clever design based on a parachute motif—this same by Pierre Mourgue. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. © 1928, Western Newbery Union.) STRESS VOGUE RIGHT WOOL FROCKS buttoned to the dress. You will like these new tailored cont-dresses and the way to get the most good out of one is to acquire it early in the season in readiness for the first mild days that may come. If the young woman in the picture would only turn around you would find that from a front view her cloth frock of gray blue reps follows tailored coattile lines, the fanciful plaits and such being shifted to the back. This placing of the fullness at the back is the newest "stunt" in dress styling. In the instance of the trock shown here not only is the skirt fulness accented with plaits at the back but a two-piece effect is stressed with simulated plaits outlining the blouse line. The sleeves are very artful and go to show the many intriguing details which designers are lavishing on the new light woods. py of The aintance w WEAVER STILL LANGUISHES. Addressing the Sam S. Williams Voucher club at the Euclid Avenue Baptist church, Chaplain T. O. Reed of the Ohio penitentiary repeated his contention that Joseph Weaver, now in death row awaiting execution for participation in the murder of Jasper Russell, a Cleveland watchman, is innocent of the crime for which he was convicted. Meanwhile, his attorneys, Nathan E. Cook and Wm. F. Marsteller, are asking the Ohio supreme court for leave to file a petition in error. Inasmuch as the evidences of doubt continue unabated, the contemplated legal move ought to meet with success. Chaplain Reed's plan to interest the Federation of Women's Clubs of Ohio in a campaign to obtain commutation of sentence for Weaver seems to us, however, to be an incorrect step. If Weaver is guilty commutation is not warranted. If he innocent, he should be freed. Should grave debts continue to exist in the household so we were connected with the case and are thoroughly conversant with all its details, Weaver should be granted a new trial. Life imprisonment is hardly a sensible compromise between the death penalty and complete freedom. But so long as the element of doubt troubles not only his legal repercussions, giving to their time without punishment, than also an experienced prison chaplain, Weaver's execution would be a grave miscarriage of justice. If the death penalty is to continue as an effective deterrent against crimes of violence, it cannot be authorized when there lurks even the faintest suspicion that a condemned man has been murdered. In the Weaver case there is obviously more than a suspicion—Editorial, Cleveland Daily News, Dec. 21, '28. Weaver has been steadily denied a new trial because of a legal technicality: Because his attorneys did not apply for it immediately after his conviction. The common pleas court, the courts of appeals and the Ohio state supreme court have all refused him a new trial (the first two a second time) and all for the same reason. There is now more stronger and better evidence of his innocence than there ever was of his alleged guilt: Alex Maynor's sworn confession that Weaver was not with him when the crime was committed, and the fact that the night-watchman's vlock which he used to ring in with, every hour, showed that he was alive at least a half-hour or more after the time street-car employees testified (at the trial) they saw Maynor and Weaver on a street-car the night of the murder, coming from the Midland Products Co. plant. Weaver is innocent of the charge, just as Alex, Maynor, confessed murderer, now swears, and should either be granted a new trial by the state supreme court, something we do not look for in the light of Weaver's attorneys' experience in the recent past in that court, or Gov. A. V. Donahey must pardon him. Ohio cannot afford to electuate an innocent man to help the Cuyahoga county prosecutor's office maintain its record for convictions, for that seems to be the cause of its continued activity in the Weaver case, ever since the trial. There should be no commutation of sentence, just as The News editor says. Weaver, an innocent man, must be given his freedom, either as the result of a new trial or thru pardon by the Governor. His execution would be more than "a grave miscarriage of justice". This state cannot afford and we do not believe it will permit such a blot on its escutcheon. Our people, at least, should never cease writing Gov. A. V. Donahue, State House, Columbus, O., requesting him to pardon Joseph Weaver, until that innocent man is given the freedom and liberty he has been deprived of now for more than a year. It will be difficult to find a stronger or better argument, against a continuance of the death penalty in tifis or any other state of the Union, than this Joseph Weaver case. Write Gov. A. V. Donahue, State House, Columbus, O., to pardon Weaver! Do YOUR duty! "WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD!" Cleveland, O., Aug. 28th, 1925. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette, Dear Friend:—I have read the latest copy of The Gazette through and after reading it. I can read it easily. I worth its weight in gold! I admire true manhood—a man who, seeing injustice and oppression, dares, within the limits of the law, to expose it and, if possible smite it. You and I have frequently, during the forty-two years since the birth of The Gazette, been, as the Scotch would say, like two Norfolk men. I find man such as you, who consistently, and persistently, through nearly half a century, puts his race foremost in his life struggle, I take off my hat to him, as being a true friend of our class. Long life to you and The Gazette. Yours for the right, John P. Green. (Former Member, Ohio State Senate.) OHIO'S MOB VIOLENCE ACT OR ANTI-LYNCHING LAW LEADS THE COUNTRY IN EFFECTIVE LEGISLATION Against the Mob and Lynch-Murder-Three Years' Work of a Member of the Race-Also His Ohio Civil Rights Law. Section 6278. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching. 6283. Person offering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another. 6284. Limitations of action. 6285. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. 6286. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob 6288. County's right of action against another county. 6289. Non-relief from prosecution. Our mo.-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1894 and re-introduced in 1896. It took the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, just three years to secure its enactment into law. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the constitutionality of the law and it has been Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without authority of law, shall be deemed a person receiving it from a mob after. An act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lynching" within the meaning of this chapter. (93 v. 161 2.) Section 6279. The term "serious injury," for the purpose of this chapter, shall include such inquiry as per the definition of the person receiving it from earning a livelihood by manual labor. (93 v. 161 3.) Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob, and assaulted with whips, clubs, missiles or in any other manner, may recover, as hereafter provided, a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars and assaulted with the assault is made. (93 v. 161 4.) Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover, from the county in which such assault is made a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars; or, if the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or, if such injury result in permanent disability, to earn a livelihood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v. 12 5.) Section 6282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob, may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars damages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the minor children of such person so lynched, if any survive; him, until such children are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share allike, the widow receiving an amount equal to a child's share. If there be no widow or minor surviving such decedent, such sum shall be distributed among the next of kin according to the law of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. Such sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of such person so lynched, nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (93 v. 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this chapter. He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by the mob. Section 6284. Action for the recoveries provided for in this chapter must be commenced, within two years from the date of such lynching, in any court having original jurisdiction of an action for damages for malicious assault. (93 v. 162 7.) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which such action is had, to include it with the costs in the next succeeding tax levy for such county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v. 162 8.) Section 6286. If the decedent so lynched has minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian. Such guardian shall administer such fund under the direction of the probate judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for counsel fees in the action for such recovery. (93 v. 162 9.) Section 6287. The county, in which a lynching occurs, may recover a judgment and costs against it in fact, for legal representatives of a person killed or seriously injured by a mob from any of the persons composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent, at such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be liable to such action. (93 v. 162 10.) Section 6288. If a mob carries a prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to commit violence on a prisoner brought into the county, before the county in which the lynching is committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob came, unless there was contributory negligence on the part of officials of such county in failing to protect such prisoner or disspurse such mob. (93 v. 163 11.) very effective. Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have followed Ohio's lead and enacted mob violence or anti-lynching laws which are copies of our Ohio law. Several other northern states and at least one border state (Kentucky) have also enacted anti-lynching laws, in recent years, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Ohio law follows: **UBS.** ed. representative of victim of lynching. try by mob trying to lynch another. costs in tax levy. inst member of mob ust another county. not relieve a person concerned in such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for engaging therein. (93 v. 163 12.) OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request of many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of the Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights law which the editor had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1884: Title of job: Shire. Sec. 12940. Whose employer, the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, barber-shop, public conveyance by land or water, theater or other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen, except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens and regardless of race or color, the full enjoyment of the facilities or privileges thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay the next than fifty dollars nor more than fifty dollars to the person aggrieved thereby to the per prisoner in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. The trouble is our people will not use it as often as they should, but expect it to do for them what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the courts. Judge Grant's Opinion of the Law. Misled by the foolishly manufactured outcyte for the passage of the Beaty bill, a few years ago, the Akron Beacon Journal editorial to which the editor of The Gazette replied, calling its attention to the fact that the Ohio Civil Rights law was good law and did not need amending. The following letter from Judge Grant former presiding judge of the Court of Appeals of the Eighth District of Ohio, is self explanatory: Akron, O., April 25, 1919. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Education. Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, O. M. Dear Sir: Observing your letter in the Beacon-Journal, of this city, I venture to send you, under a separate cover, a letter from porter of Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard H. Forman, decided in Akron, last fall, in which a judgment for ($500) five hundred dollars was sustained. If the Beacon-Journal had known that as going on in its own town, there would have been no occasion for criticism after THE LAW OF OHIO IS UNDER RE- PROACH, nor our courts and in administering it. Not a word was said by the Beacon-Journal when the Forman case was reviewed. Very truly yours, R. C. Grant. "HUMAN NATURE'S FOULEST BLOT." FOULEST BLOT." My ear is pained, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage, with which the earth is filled. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart. It does not feel for man; the natural bond Of brotherhood is severed as the axe. That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colored like his own; and having power To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys; Tis human nature's broadest foulest blot. —Cowper. 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