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FRESH OHIO NEWS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPONDENTS. What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical Marriages, Deaths, Etc. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Sunday or Monday of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write their names and that of their city or country on the outset of the letter about returned copies, if proper credit for them is desired. Lists of names, wedding presents, programs, obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainment to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the post office. Letters of words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. SANDUSKY —Messrs. Hughes and Green, Misses Francis Robinson, Helen Carman and Hattie Green are much improved. —Mrs. M. Dodson of New York City is visiting her mother, Mrs. Chas. Hughes. —Wm. Jones, Franklin Rice and Fred Thompson were in Norwalk and Elyria, and Mrs. Moses Thompson, Sr., in Oberlin, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Day of Fremont, and Elva Alexander of Detroit were here, that day. —The Layman's League of Second Baptist church elected officers, last week Isaiah Ogleys, pres. —Mr. L. Holland of Xenia was the guest of Rev. William Moore and Mrs. Charlotte Grogan of Calor Ill. are visiting Mrs. Mary Hicks. —Mrs. Wm. Alexander was in Cleveland the first of the week. —The A. M. E. Glee club will concert, Wednesday at N. Fairfield. —(Correspondent must write only on one side of the paper. —Editor.) HILLSBORO.—Born to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Trimble, last Monday, a son.—Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Blakey of Cincinnati were here, Saturday, with Mrs. Cordella Craig and visited in Columbus, Sunday.—Rev. A. Kennedy has resigned the pastorate of Wesleyan church and preached his farewell sermon, Sunday.—Miss Cassie Essex entertained the sewing club. Thursday afternoon.—Mrs. C. Gangster was invited to the Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. John Hunt son visited his mother near Sardina, Sunday.—Mrs. A. L. Ford visited a brother in Greenfield, recently.—Mrs. Hazel Riggs was hostess to the A. M. E. Ladies' Aid, Friday night.—Mrs. Alline Burton, who has been ill for some time, was reminded, Sunday, of her birthday, being visited by Mrs. B. A. Mitchell, Mr. Robert Taylor, Middletown and Mrs. Ona Lewis of Springfield.—Mrs. G. L. Holland gave her mother a surprise birthday cake, Sunday evening. A mother was present, Mrs. G. Hardy, daughter, Mrs. L. Young and Mr. Mrs. A. Williams, Jr., dined with Mr. and Mrs. Chas Goins.—Mr. and Mrs. Asa Jackson visited in Cincinnati, Sun- GREYHOUND BUS CO. Segregation Given Another Body Segregation Company Stung in Cleveland Detroit, Mich.—Mrs. Pauline Stevens, 1440 Hastings St., was for the second time, victor in a damage suit, filed against the Greyhound Bus Co., when Judge Sampler upheld the decision for a $100 award, and gave the plaintiff an additional $250, making a total damage award of $350, in an appeal case, here, week before last. The suit grew out of charges that Mrs. Stevens purchased a ticket, from Detroit to Lima, O., over the Greyhound Line, Oct. 21, 1929, and was forced to take a seat behind a lavatory, where rain pouring and causing subsequent illness. Earlier in 1929, two members of the race, in Cleveland, O., settled a case against the same company for $100 a piece. McRae and Carter were refused service by the Greyhound bus conductor because they would not agree to be segregated. Their case was instituted under Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights law. Col. Duncan Still, Mt. Liberty Col. Duncan Still At Liberty. Chicago, Ill.—Stay of prison senten- tence. B. B. Duncan, former commander of the Eighth Regiment, Illinois National Guard. He was to begin the sentence of four months and pay a fine of $2,000 on Feb. 4, for conspiracy to embezzle government property at the Eighth Regiment Armory. "Chocolate" Defends Burrone. Hawaii, Cuba, KSA. Afro-Chuan featherweight, point- ed Vic Burrone of New York City, in a 10-round bout here Sunday. day — Mrs. Ada Higharden is fill- ered with two interesting seermos, Sunday. WILBERFORCE—Midwest champions of 1929, Wilberforce football stalwarts, were recently feted and toasted in Arnett hall dining room by admirers of the Green and Gold prowess. A six-course turkey dinner, good music and several short, snappy talks made the evening a most enjoyable and entertaining one. Atty. Sully James of Springfield predeceased President Gilbert A. Jones, Stuart S. McKinley, Jenkins, Shearin and Dr. Leo Robinson of Springfield gave the talks. Wilberforce's basketball invasion of the South resulted in winning five of the eight games played. Of seven played against college fives, one was lost to Alabama State, one to Fisk and the other to Western Kentucky Industrial Institute, Paducah. The first game with Alabama State was played in Montgomery. The following night in Birmingham, Wilberforce's Fisk game resulted in a 27-29 score. In the Morris Brown game the score was 32 to 24; the Tuskegee tilt, 20 to 16; the Talladega game, 36-24; the Hopkinsville game, 22-21. YOUNGSTOWN—The Ever-Ready club was organized at Bethany Baptist church, the pastor, Rev. R. L. Thomas, presiding as temporary chairman. Officers elected: Mrs. Geo. Wiley, pres.; Mrs. P. Davenport, vice-pres.; Mrs. King Wiley, sec.; Mrs. English Preston, asst.; Mrs. Benj. Moses, treas.; Mrs. Mary Thomas, pianist. Rev. W. M. White installed the officers who met Thursday evening at the church to draft the bill by the president of Frank L. Baldwin of the Domestic Relations court addressed the Third Baptist forum, on its recent by-monthly meeting, on "Marriages and Divorces." Warren Freeman sang. St. Augustine's Women's auxiliary gave a very enjoyable social, Thursday evening.—Joseph Mitchell's st party, Friday evening, in honor of Maynard Dickerson (assistant to the police prosecutor) who recently passed the bar examination, proved a very enjoyable social function that they enjoyed by music jubilee at Oakhill Ave. A. M. E. church, Thursday evening, by the National Benefit Agency club and for the benefit of the Y. L. M. society was participated in by Taber nacle Baptist Glee club, First Bapst tist Glee club of Farrell, Birmingham Harmony Four, Second Baptist Glee club of Warren, Calvary Baptist and Shiloh Harmony Four. Rev H. M. Marble delivered an address and the Jerusalem Ladies sextet and girls' glee club also sang. Mrs. H. M. Marble conducted a series of meetings at Antioch Baptist church. Rev. Oliver E. Anderson pastor. WON THE PRIZE! Capt. Beckwith Does. It With the Eiks. In the Ball Gradually Too. Too Boydston Post, A. L., and their guests, celebrated the 11th anniversary of the return from France of the 372nd Inf. with a ball at Public Auditorium, last week Friday night, which proved an exceptionally enjoyable affair. Several of our local lodges participated in the fancy and regulation prize drills. The former was won by Cuyahoga lodge's marching club. Co. A. local Odd Fellows also ad. Co. A. local Odd Beech with the awarding of a fine wired drill, and made such a fine showing that the Post regretted that it did not have another prize for Co. A, which sure made a hit with the crowd, their uniforms being so very attractive. The A. U. K. and D. of A. team, led by Capt. Fowler, won from the K. P. organization, led by Capt. Hamilton in the regulation drill contest. Both teams gave fine exhibitions, the women surpassing in the snap with which they characterized their uniforms were presented Captains Beckwitt and Fowler by Post Past Commander L. O. Payne. While the attendance was good, the crowd was not as large as expected, owing possibly to the fact that an incorrect date of the affair appeared in a local daily paper. Two More Appointments Chicago, Ill.—Ill. Julian H. Lewis was sworn, recently, as assistant consulting pathologist in the coroner's office and Dr. Harry C. Harris was appointed a coroner's physician. He will examine dead bodies and report on the manner in which the deceased came to his or her death. "THE BLOSSOM TWINS!" Rev. Horace C. Bailey. It seems strange, possibly, to some, but it is nevertheless true that no one has ever been able to mix religion and politics—oil and water! So it is not strange that Rev. Horace C. Bailley has failed, this time. It was Rev. Russell S. Brown who made a like failure, last fall. Director Dudley S. Blossom treated Bailey contemptuously, last year, when the latter called on him in an effort to change the daughter to the nurses' training school at City Hospital. Blossom winding up the conference with that most insulting statement that is all but scared in the very marrow of the bones of our people of this community: "No, I am not going to allow Negro girls and boys to train at City Hospital while I am director." And yet, in recent weeks Dud. Blossom coaxed Bailey to his office and so "soft-soaped" him that the latter was not allowed to have his re-appointment as welfare director of the city of Cleveland, so he told the editor of The Gazette, Monday, Feb. 17, in The Gazette office. Can you beat it? It is now "The Blossom Twins"—Bailey and Blossom. LORD HAVE MERCY! Wonder if Director Blossom was re-appointed by City Manager Daniel E. Morgan for the purpose of keeping our boys and girls from training at City Hospital? Don't it look very much like it? "THE BLOSSOM TRIPLETS" And City Manager Daniel E. Morgan to Be Inquiries in the Cam- paign. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor The Gazette, City. Dear Sir:—After reading carefully The Gazette of the Feb. 22, '30, I desire to say that I am in hearty sympathy with you and therefore am laying my copy aside for reflection the campaign when I hope to be actively engaged with you and others reminding the people of the third and fourth districts of Councilmen LeRoy N. Bundy, Lawrence O. Payne and Clayborne George's shameless refusal to obey the mandate of our people of those districts and the entire city, given them, last fall, during the campaign. I call in the Director Dudley S. Blossom, as well as City Manager Wm. R. Hopkins. There are hundreds, yes, thousands of our people in this section of the city who will not overlook or forgive their flagrant disregard of their clear duty in this matter. I expect to be actively engaged against the movement these men are in case they hold the temerity to stand for re-election to the City of Cleveland. I want you to know that I also shall not forget City Manager Daniel E. Morgan's disapproval of the Finkle ordinance, passed by the City Council, to award Garret A. Morgan the pittance of $2000 for the heroic service he gave this city at its officials' request at the time of the tunnelmaster in 1918. The most powerful tool is but little less offensive than his appointment of Welfare Director Dudley S. Blossom in the face of the letters and resolution protests of the loyal, self and race-respecting members of the race in this community. In conclusion, I wish to assure you that there are thousands of our people in this community that thorouly appreciate the honesty, fearlessness and loyalty of "The Old Reliable" Gazette. Mrs. Boston J. Prince, (Wife of the Pastor of Messiah Baptist Church, E. 46th and Woodland Ave., City.). "The Humble But Blood-Seeking Bed-Bye" The following excerpt, from the Cincinnati (O.) Union, of Feb. 20, 1930. Wendell Phillips Dabney, editor, is so pertinent and self-explanatory that comment is unnecessary unless it is to say that personal and racial experience with similar problems in the former "Queen City of the West" have placed Editor Dabney in a position to "know whereof he speaks" when he writes as follows: When the Honorable Harry C. Smith, editor of The Cleveland Gazette, throws bouquets at anyone. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS A. DUDLEY S. BLOSSOM that individual comes very near deserving them. We appreciate his kindly sentiments, for no one exceeds Harry in loyalty of race, strength of convictions, courage of expression. As a matter of fact, that gentleman has me far outclassed in vigor of statement, regardless of consequence. Where I use a hammer for knocking purposes, Harry uses an axe. Sympathy has little space in his system. He does not believe that "while the lamp holds out to burn the vilest sinner may return." He places enemies of the race in a class with the humble but blood-seeking bed-bug, for whom the only safe rule is "extermination. He, backed by his army, has been fighting against the retention of a charterite who favors segregation. Jim-crowism has always had a hard time in Cleveland. The gentleman now in question, Mr. Dudley Blossom, director of Public Welfare, was as strong for a Negro hospital as he was opposed to Negro internes and nurses in the City Hospital! Many of the colored doctors from the South, led by Dr. Gregg, were working hard for a subsidized, segregated institution. In the recent election, the colored people arose, united with the Republican party and elected three colored councilmen! That sounded the death knell of the Negro hospital! Prior to that time, the Honorable Mr. Blossom, filled with high blood pressure from "Delirium of Grandeur, I said to a colorful delegation, I am not going to allow Negro boys and girls to train in the City Hospital!" Dabney "TOO SELDOM MADE CLEAR". Editor Plain Dealer—Sir: Ever since the publication, about a week ago, of your editorial encouraging Director of Public Safety Edwin D. Barry to continue his well-directed efforts to purge the Third and Fourth Police Precincts of clearing house and all other gambling, I have been wanting to write the Plain Dealer thanking its editor particularly for the following sentence in that editorial: "These citizens", having reference to the residents of the Third Police Precinct, "have as little sympathy with law violation as have the residents of the police or have the of the more exclusive residential sections". The truth, too seldom made clear! The expression sure met a responsive chord in the hearts of hundreds of persons, like the writer who has lived in the heart of the section referred to for more than a half century, and has struggled for years to get the untrammeled police patrol service absolutely necessary for a permanent impoundment that have existed so long and have always been such an eye-sore to residents of that section of the city. Cleveland. Harry C. Smith. —Tuesday's Cleveland Plain Dealer. HAVE HAD EIGHT MAYORS Has Village Officials and Five Coun- citizen, Postmaster, School Principal and Teachers, Etc., All Members of the Race. Rendville, O.—According to Mayor W. H. Addison, a member of the race, this little city of about five hundred inhabitants has had eight Afro-American mayors, three of this number being appointed to fill unexpired terms, since 1882. In addition to the mayor, marshal, clerk and treasurer, all members of the race, five Afro-American councilmen and one school board, the principal and three teachers are members of the race. There are, three white churches and the same number of our churches. The postmaster, J. L. Jones, who has served forty or more years, and two mail carriers are Afro-Americans. Our people conduct a grocery store, billiard parlor, two restaurants, and ice cream parlor, and there is one blacksmith and wheeler right shop. We have many skilled workmen in the municipal orders, Masons, K. P. and Odd Fellows, and there are members of the Elks here who live in Zanesville. THE GAZETTE is the oldest class publication of the kind, and has the largest bona fide circulation among Ohio Afro-Americans, double that of any other newspaper published in this or any other state, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST published in the interest of Afro-Americans. E COPY FIVE CENTS MATH! ONLY 21 "BEAT" POLICE ON JOB. Investigators Learn "Special Jobs" Sap Strength of Force of 1165 Men. Cleveland's 77 square miles of life and property are guarded today by only 63 policemen who patrol stipulated "beats". These 63 men are split into three shifts, so that the average protective force of "beat" policemen is only 21 men. Scores of 1165 policemen, including the downtown area, are virtually without the protection of "beat" policemen. Many are almost wholly without police protection. Only eight men, split into three shifts, patrol the hundreds of miles of West Side streets. Of a force of 1165 policemen more than 200 are assigned "on special duties". Contrasted with the 63 men engaged in the fundamental police work of patrolling certain areas for protection of life and property are 201 men assigned to "special duties". Guard Private Estates. These "special duty" men include several assigned to act as custodians of private estates, watchmen for city and privately owned dumping grounds, protectors of certain business houses and men stationed in front of houses of questionable character to "put them out of business". Others are elevator operators, officials' chauffeurs, clerks and court bailiffs. These facts are disclosed today in a survey of police conditions undertaken by The Press and officials' chauffeurs, clerks and court bailiffs. These facts are disclosed of Safety Director Edwin Barry's assertions that there are three shifts of 283 men doing patrol duty. The survey, made by visiting every precinct and in many cases checking up on "special duties", brought out that even Police Chief Jacob Graul has no records to show how many men are engaged, day by day, in actual "beat" work — the patrolling of Cleveland's miles of streets. The Cleveland city where, all who has more murders than all others, the first five in number of major crimes, has nine patrolmen detailed to definite "beats". Two of these work from 2 to 10 p. m. Then seven men take over the district until 6 a. m. Nine other men are detailed to keep women of the night off the streets.—The Cleveland Daily Press. A BEAUTIFUL LOVING CUP Presented to Councilman Finkle by the 12th Ward Women's Republican Club's Reception. Banquet and Ball, Wednesday Evening. Wednesday evening at Councilman Herman H. Finkle's headquarters in the Fountaine Theater building, Woodland Ave., the Twelfth Ward Women's Republic club, Mrs. Rosen, pres., and Mrs. Clarisso, sec. gave one of the most enjoyable receptions and banquets this city has had in years. The hall was very pretty decorated with the men's seating area, and women guests on the other, with the long banquet table, heavily laden, stretching from one end of the long hall to the other, thru the center of it, and with an orchestra stationed at its head. Among those seated on the speakers' platform were: Dr. E. A. Bailey, Rev. L. J. VanPelley, Mrs. Lethia Fleming, Mrs. Frank Wilson, Judge Kavachy, Atyn. N. L. McGhee, Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette and others. A beautiful, large silver loving-cup Wilson, Judge Kavachy, engraved upon it, was to be presented to Mr. Finkle, Republican whip of the City Council, by the club. Sickness in his family, prevented the councilman's attendance. At the conclusion of the speaking and dining, the floor was cleared and the light fantastic tripped until a very early hour. Thursday morning, Mrs. Rosen, pres.; Mrs. Clarisso, sec.; the rest of the club, especially those in charge of the reception, banquet and ball, are to be 'congratulated upon their success in the occasion that will long be remembered by all so fortunate as to have been numbered among the guests or speakers of the Twelfth Ward Women's Republic Club social function of Wednesday night. FIVE YEARS' HARD LABOR Given North Carolina "Negro" Banks —Commercial Bank Wrecked. Wilson, N. C.—J. D. Reid, vicepresident, and H. S. Stanback, cashier of the defunct Commercial Bank of this city, which was closed last September by bank examiners after a suspicious fire in the bank vault, were found guilty, Feb. 14, '30, on charges of receiving deposits for the bank and sentenced to five years at hard labor. C. A. Bean (white), certified public accountant of Richmond, Va., testified that he discovered a deficit of approximately $70,000. He also testified concerning notes said to aggregate between $30,000 and $35,000 which were allegedly destroyed in the fire. The notes that he found record of in the bank failed to total $5,000, however. Stanback is an older dictionent in U. U. District Court on charges of violating the veterans' adjusted compensation act and will probably face trial on that count in the April term of the District Court. --- SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) One Year . . . $2.00 Six Months . . . $1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Boll 'Phone: Cherry 1250) Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902. IN UNION IS STRONGER 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 350,000 in Ohio. 60,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1930. "The Blossom triplets"? Why Councilmen George, Payne and Bundy of course. There'll sure be a political house- cleaning in the local election here- abouts, next year, in the fall time. --- The, editor of The Gazette is very proud of the fact that he had more than a personal acquaintance with the greatest Afro-American, the late Hon. Frederick Douglass. --- Councilman Clayborne George. the only second-term among the three Cleveland Afro-American councilmen and their leader, has sure guided "The Blossom Triplets" into a political mess. --- Examinations in Ohio for U. S. Military Academy at West Point and the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis have always been open to our boys. The trouble has been and is still that they too rarely take advantage of the opportunities thus afforded. --- The U. S. army control will send Col. B. O. Davis to Africa or "any old place" before it will ever permit him to command a regiment in the army or any considerable part of one. "The South is in the saddle", as far as we are concerned, in the Hoover administration just as it was in the Coolidge administration. The same power that dominated the Coolidge administration dominates the Hoover administration. --- No Ohio Congressman has ever, or would dare to bar Afro-American youth from taking the examination they offer prospective candidates for appointment to the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., and the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. So persons writing Congressman Chester C. Bolton or any of the other U. S. representatives from this state relative to the matter are merely wasting time for the purpose of handing out a little political hokum. --- The pre-election troubles in Santo Domingo will give this country the excuse it has been impatiently waiting for ever since it was literally forced to withdraw its marines from that little mulatto republic, several years ago. With that country and Haiti in its capacious imperialistic paw the U. S. A. will be "sitting pretty" over all of the island where it now holds the reins in but the smaller part (Haiti) of it. U. S. marines are on their way to Santo Domingo. Poor Haitians and Domingans! MORGAN NOT CONSISTENT. Former City Manager Wm. R. Hopkins, it seems, is opposed to annexing adjoining cities and villages to Cleveland, "Because", he says, "it would destroy local interest in municipal government". However, he favored "internal boroughs" in order to restore interest in government. We do not agree with him, but that is not pertinent to this article. What we are driving at is that when City Manager Daniel E. Morgan was asked, Wednesday, by a local daily newspaper reporter, for his opinion, his reply was: "I can't do anything to bring annexation or regional government about in my present office. And, as City Manager, I have to deal with suburban officials. Most of them are antagonistic to annexation and the borough plan. (They are wise.) Why should I start out by aggravating them?" By the same token, The Gazette would ask Mr. Morgan, "Why has he started out by antagonizing the great mass of the 60,000 Afro-Americans in this city by reappointing Dudley S. Blossom of Ku Klux Klan activities during the last six years, as welfare director of the city of Cleveland? And this, too, in the face of a united protest upon the part of these same people. The fact that "The Blossom triplies", the "Negro" councilmen, (Payne, George and Bundy), ignored the mandate given them, last fall, when they were elected, and "waived" their personal opposition to Director Blossom, does not excuse the city manager's inexcusable and most insulting appointment of Blossom as welfare director of the city of Cleveland. The city manager apparently was not and is not concerned when it comes to "antagonizing" practically all of our people of this community, something we will not and cannot soon forget. He and "The Blossom triplies" (Payne, George and Bundy) have something coming from the Afro-American voters of Cleveland which will not be delayed when the opportunity to pay them arrives, both this and next fall. THRU BEFORE HE STARTS. At the meeting of the East End Republican club, last week Tuesday evening, a member of the organization, a Mr. Blair, introduced a motion that the club go on record as protesting the appointment of Director of Welfare Dudley Blossom, which Mr. Emmett Meade seconded. The motion was postponed in reference to the fact that Councilman Clayborne George, also a member of the organization, was not present. The principal speech against the motion was made by Atty. Alex. Martin, whose talk cost him much active support for his projected candidacy, this fall, for Common Pleas judge. Mr. Meade, who had intended to introduce a motion to endorse the Martin candidacy, felt and feels that any member of the race who would take the position that Mr. Martin did in his talk would not make a proper candidate for the loydl, self and race-respecting members of the race to support, and he is right. "Negroes" who straddle the Blossom controversy need not expect favorable consideration for anything at the hands of the great majority of our people in this community. "THE BLOSSOM TRIPLETS" It does not seem possible that three persons, candidates for office in quest of votes, could possibly go through several weeks of campaigning day and night pledging the voters that, if elected, they would do all in their power to oust a man from office who had denied them and their people, of all the population of a great city like Cleveland, rights and privileges (in a public institution) in a most insulting manner, and then fail to do so, with victory in their hands—only dependent upon their keeping their pledge to the people who elected them. And yet that is exactly what Councilmen Clayborne George, Leroy Bundy and Lawrence Payne did in the case of City Welfare Director Dudley S. Blossom, when on Monday, Feb. 17, '30, they "waived their opposition"—not ours—and City Manager Daniel E. Morgan, knowing the condition of affairs thorny, so flagrantly insulted all of our loyal, self and race respecting people in this city by appointing Blossom, city welfare director. All three councilmen, in a conference with the editor of The Gazette about ten days previous to Feb. 17, '30, freely admitted they had a "mandate" from our people of their districts to oust Blossom from office for his most miserable treatment of them. The statement that "Manager Morgan would have appointed him, anyhow" is not true. That fact he made clear in a conference with the editor of this paper. And even if it were true, which was not the case, even that would not excuse them for breaking their pledge to our people of their districts and all the rest of the city, because when they "waived" their opposition to Blossom, they were not keeping but breaking their pledge and ignoring the people and the pledge they so often and so loudly proclaimed, day and night, in public meetings during last fall's campaign. It is an unpardonable act for Bundy, Payne and George will be made to atone, if they dare to face the electorate of their districts again, next year, seeking re-election. Our people of this community had a somewhat similar experience in the case of Councilman E. J. Gregg upon whom they visited a stinging defeat at the polls, last fall, because of his sad exhibition of disloyalty when he voted for a white Democrat in preference to one of his own people. Our people, especially the intelligent ones, will not condone such flagrant disloyalty, to the race, in their public servants, especially those of color. They have to work too hard to elect them to office to quietly submit to such shameless mistreatment, and Councilman Payne, Bundy and George will be made to recognize this fact, next year in the fall, should they stand again as candidates. Nor will our city manager be forgotten when the opportunity affords. James Newton, former Harleen night-club dancer, who months ago married Dolores Elizabeth Ford, beautiful heiress to $20,000,000 and daughter of Wm. Ford (white), director of the $50,000,000 Owens-Illinois lot fund reported that he offered a large sum of money to remain abroad for two years and get a divorce. Newton is in Paris, France, where he and a hypnotist (Will Garrett), a southern "cracker," have opened a cabaret with $4,000 supplied by Mr. Ford's mother. Newton is said to be living with her mother in Cincinnati. Newton is a fine looking "Afro." THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1930 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. Persons suffering 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. WHAT DO YOU WANT? I WAS A FOOTBALL PLAYER AT HARVARD LAST YEAR WE DON'T NEED NO FOOTBALL PLAYERS AND ESPECIALLY FROM HARVARD I WANT TO BE KID DUGAN'S SPARRING PARTNER DIDN'T YOU HAVE PUNISHMENT ENOUGH PLAYING ON HARVARD? IT WASN'T OUR FAULT, WAS THE COACHES. THEY WERE ALWAYS IN CONFERENCE MAKING UP THE TEAM! YOU DON'T MEAN TO SAVE THE TRAINED THAT TEAM OUT DELIBERATELY. I THOUGHT IT WAS AN ACCIDENT! WE PLAYED ON THE WRONG DAYS. WE LOOKED LIKE THE ALL-AMERICAN ON WEDNESDAY AFTER NOONS! YOU LOOKED LIKE FRED FUTUO ON SATURDAYS. I DON'T GAME YOU IF YOU DON'T CARE WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU NOW. Our mo-violence or anti-lyaching 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 chapter. For the purpose of this chapter, An act of violence by a mob 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, may be momentarily or temporarily disabled by a 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 as damages from the county in which the injury occurred (Section 629 v. 1. 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 resulted in the victim's well-being 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 from 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, then such sum shall be distributed among the next of kin according to the laws 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 against such person, who is killed by such a mob. (93 v. 162 6.) 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 recovery is bad, to include it with the costs of action, in the 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 9.1) Section 6287. The county, in which a lynching occurs, may recover the amount of a judgment and costs against it in favor of age or disability. If the victim is 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 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 (Kentucks) have also enacted anti-lynching laws, in recent years, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Ohio law follows: OBJS. ed. I representative of victim of lynchning try by mob trying to lychn another. I costs in tax levy. I must member of mob. I must another county. MOBS. 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 from such county for safekeeping, 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 to disperse such mob. (93 v. 163 11. Section 6289. This chapter shall 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 1894: The General Code of Ohio: Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor of an inn or manager of an inn restaurant, eating house, bar-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 accommodations, advantages, facilities afforded 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 not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundreds dollars to the persecutor in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. This law was 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. HERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY! "The Old Reliable" Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Columbus, Toledo, Steubenville, Zanesville, Wilmington, Xenia, Washington C. H., Lancaster, Piqua, Lima, O., and other places, particularly in Ohio, where we have none. Write to the Editor of The Gazette, 226 West Superior Ave., Cleveland, O., and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly by sending the addresses of persons in the cities named, and others in the state to whom we can write relative to the matter. PROTEST! PROTEST!! To submit in silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised against, injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, and whichever does the least disputes. The few who dare, must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. E, AL Mus WE DON'T NEED NO POSTAL PLAYERS AND ESPECIALLY FROM HARVARD I WANT TO BE KID DUGAN'S SPARRING PARTNER RING LAR The man whose brilliance of wit of anecdote, woven into stories o turned baseball slang into classic Lardner's genius was never better adventures of baseball's most co Jack Keefe, in The Funniest of all "You Kn RING LARDNER! The man whose brilliance of wit and compelling charm of anecdote, woven into stories on every current topic, turned baseball slang into classic Americanese. Lardner's genius was never better expressed than in the adventures of baseball's most celebrated "bonehead," Jack Keefe, in The Funniest of all Slang Comics "You Know Me, Al" This famous feature has appeared in leading newspapers in all the large cities of the United States. Sharing the genius of Ring Lardner with leading metropolitan dailies and national magazines, this newspaper will hereafter present regularly to its readers the comic strip "YOU KNOW ME, AL". If You Miss Laughing With Lardner You'll Be One In A Hundred Millions. Billions of Chuck are credited every year to the in of that inimitable style of comi ings whose characters are neve fused with those of any artist oth RUBE G Billions of Chuckles are credited every year to the inventor of that inimitable style of comic drawings whose characters are never confused with those of any artist other than RUBE GOLDBERG Watch For Them! AWARDED OVER SIX MILLION! After a Ten-Year Court Fight—Oil Company Usurped Farm Left Her. Kansas City, Mo. — Mrs. Mary Harris Wallace, 2928 J罗Boe st., this city, has just won a fortune of six and one-half million dollars as her share of a ten-year legal battle with the Texas Oil Co., in the courts of Tulsa, Okla. She learned of her wealth in a long distance telephone conversation with her lawyers in Tulsa. The total amount won from the oil company was thirteen million dollars to attract, one-half of the sum went to the law firm that handled the case. The wealth comes from a 200-acre farm just north of Tulsa, which was left to Mrs. Wallace by her grandmother, Mrs. Nancy Brown, who was three-fourths Indian. The Texas company has been drilling on the farm for nineteen years, has disputed her title and has paid no royalties. Oil is still being pumped from wells on the land, and Mrs. Wallace has gone to Tulsa to take over title to her farm, arrange payments of royalties and clear up the business. Baltimore, Md. — Charged with having represented himself as a doctor from Johns Hopkins Hospital in order to satisfy his strange desire to drink milk from the breasts of three Afro-American mothers, James Powers (white), age 40, who gave his address as 1611 Park Ave. was in Northeastern police station, last week Thursday, arranged inake him to be refused a statement and was let off by Magistrate O'Nell with a fine of $50 and costs on a technical charge of having assaulted and placed his hands on ST HAVE BEEN A GREAT TEAM DIDN'T YOU HAVE PUNISHMENT ENOUGH PLAYING ON HARVARD? IT WAS OUT OUR FAN. IT WAS THE COACHES. THEY WERE ALWAYS IN CONFERENCE MAKING UP THE TEAM! YOU DON'T MEAN TO SAY THE TROUVED THAT TEAM OUT DELIBERATELY ITHought IT WAS AN ACCIDENT! Now Comes JACK KEEFE Doings of the Race Paul Robeson, our leading barb tone soloist, has sailed for another concert tour of England and Germany. Mme. Florence Cole-Talbert, former resident of Detroit and Los Angeles, has accepted the deanship of Bishop College's school of music at Marshall, Texas. The North Carolina Supreme court has just ruled that buses are common carriers and must provide accommodations for Afro-American passengers. Tuskegee, Ala., N. & I. Institute has just received a gift of $25,000 for the erection of a new science hall and library, providing it raises an equal amount from other sources. Wm. H. Peters and Samuel Hamilton of New York City are our largest taxicab operators, with a business representing a half million dollar investment; 250 specially built taxicabs and a working force of more than 750 people. Alice Beatrice Jones Rhinelander is said to be wearing an eighteen-carat solitaire diamond in a white gold, size seven, setting which was given her by Joseph Berger, (white), a German acrobat, who is appearing in an Apache dance with the Four Climats at a Broadway restaurant, N. Y. City. Ernest I. Tidrington, Indiana's leading Afro-American politician, who was shot to death, some weeks ago, at Evansville, left an estate valued at $60,000 in personal property and real estate, which goes to the widow and son, except small bequests of $50 and $75 each to six brothers, five pieces and five nephews. A man is sitting on a bench. He is wearing a hat and a coat. He is holding a book in his hands. The readers of this newspaper are to join millions of other Americans in the enjoyment of his delicious humor which will appear in strip form REGULARLY IN THIS NEWSPAPER From 200-Acre Farm. A "Misfit's" Case. PETER B. RING LARDNER BEST WAY TO GET RID OF STOMACH TROUBLES CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION, GAS, HEADACHES, LOST APPETTITE, ETC. IS TO USE THE FAMOUS PARTOLA AT ALL DRUG STORES FREE THIS COUPON BRINGS SAMPLES* PARTOLA PARTOLA PRODUCTS Co. Dept. A. 162 No.Franklin St., Chicago, Ill. Name..... Street..... City.... the women who accused him. 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Send or bring locals and all business matters to The Gazette office, Suite 302, Johnson Block, 226 Superior Ave., West, opposite the Hotel Cleveland. If you wish to see the editor call there, please. We advise our readers to carefully examine The Gazette's advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of our people. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. All reading matter for publication in current issues of The Gazette must be in the office by noon, WEDNESDAY, of that week, at the latest. Display advertisements accepted until 4 p. m., WEDNESDAYS! HARRY C. SMITH 226 West Superior Avenue, Cleveland, O. (Opposite, Hotel Cleveland.) Notary Public Bell Phone: Cherry 1259 (Call, in the Afternoon.) Classified Advertising Department FOR SALE — House, suitable for two families, furnace, basement; large lot; three garages; bargain for quick sale. 2423 E. 57th St., near E. 55th and Quincy. A bargain! FOR SALE — A few lots left, in BLASS PARK, at $15 each; $5 gets your contract. Write for information to GEORGE BLASS, BALDWIN, MICHIGAN. CLEVELAND Social and Personal John Crowler and Mrs. Lula Wheeler, and Miss Ruth Jamisson and Wm. B. Lowe were married, recently. "No! Negroes will not be allowed to train in City Hospital"—Dudley S. Blossom, *Hopkins'* director of welfare. The Aldrich Dramatic club of the P. W. A. is rehearsing the play, "Making Daddy Behave", for early public presentation. Mrs. Irene B. Maxwell has resigned her position at the Christian Community Center, 2712 Scovill Ave., and returned to Chicago. Judges Baehr, Ewing and Kramer briefly addressed the Harlan club at its last monthly dinner at the P. W. A. Atty. Louise Pridgeon, pres. Our local candidates for office, next year, better be openly spoken, and on the right side of the "Blossom" matter, if they expect to get anywhere with their candidacies. Prof. and Mrs. W. J. Hale passed thru the city, last Saturday afternoon, en route to New York City. Dr. and Mrs. Edward A. Bailey were at Union Station to greet them. Prof. Hale and Dr. Bailey are brothers-in-law. The 12th Ward Women's Republican club entertained Councilman Herman H. Finkle, Wednesday evening, in their rooms over the Fountan Theater, in Woodland Ave. Chair, Anna Rosen, Mrs. Mattie Clarisso, fin sec. A goodly number of our laboring men were given jobs for from one to three days, last week. This was very kind of Street Commissioner Dombey when it is remembered that thousands are daily begging him for employment of any kind. Atty. Roger N. Dillard, president, announces that Miss Elanor Farina, assistant police prosecutor, will speak for Price Lyceum at St. Paul's A. M. E. Zion church, E. 55th St. and Quincy Ave. Sunday, at 5:30 p. m. All invited. The Kinsman Heights' Jolly club has elected the following officers: Mrs J. W. Minor, pres; Mrs W. M. French, vice-pres; Mrs D. E. Dupree, sec; Mrs Harry Breckenridge, assit; Mrs Walter A. Douglas, treas; Mrs C. Kellum, chaplain. Rev. M. F. Washington and Liberty Hill Baptist choir, Rev. Sylvester Williams of the Christian Community Center, and others of our local ministers, assisted materially in the installation exercises at Temple Baptist church, Sunday. Rev. J. C. Walker is the new pastor. Ella Stewart, E. 59th st., was fined $25 and costs, Monday, by Police Judge Sweeney, before whom she went for arraignment on a charge of telling fortunes. Police-women Alpha Larson and Helen Hollmer said the woman told them they would meet charming men in the near future. The sixteenth annual food show of St. Agnes Guild at St. Andrew's E. church, E. 49th St., Thursday evening, sponsored by the ladies of the church, proved the usual enjoyable success. Mrs. Agnes Harris, president of the guild. Mrs. Willa Smith of Canton visited her sister, Mrs. Harris, the first of last week. Patrolman Joseph Kennedy of the E. 37th St. and Longworth St. police station was dismissed from the force, Tuesday, by Safety Director Barry for conduct unbecoming an officer. Charges against Kennedy were preferred by Mary Mary Watkins, 2123 E. 32d St., who said the officer made advances to her. Kennedy denied the accusation. A few weeks ago, Mr. Edward Mitchell, Chester K Gillespie, attorney, Chester K Gillespie, --- H. SMITH'S 3007 Scovill Ave. FRANK L. HANDY'S. 4401 Central Ave. *Open, Sundays. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1930 THE SHORT-SKIRT SCREEN FOR MODEST HUSBANDS By RUBE GOLDBERG COME IN-EVERYBODY'S HERE ALREADY SOME CLASS! GREAT! BEST I EVER SAW! I'M LOOKING AT HER FACE DO'T HAND ME THAT BOLONEY! *ROSENBERG'S DRUG STORE N. W. Cor. Central Ave. and E. 55th St. MRS. VIOLA BOLDEN'S 8609 Quincy Ave. J. S. HALL'S 3133 Central Ave. FOR RENT. — Four nice rooms (up) modern—bath, gas, electric lights, etc. Very near street-line. Reasonable rent to two elderly and quiet people who want a nice, pleasant home. Call, Cherry 1259, in the afternoon. Mrs. Elisha Freeman, E. 90th St. and grandson, returned, recently, from a visit in the East. tuted suit for $500, under Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights law, in Municipal Court against the White Tower System, which operates a restaurant at E. 105th St. and Superior Ave., for refusal to serve him in the place. Last week Friday, the case was settled for $50 A checker contest was held, Wednesday evening, at Central Ave., bath-house which was participated in by representatives from Woodland and Christian Community Centers, Hiram House, Friendly Inn and Playhouse Settlement. A water carriage was sold over the evening this week, under the direction of Mrs. Florence B. Wright, supervisor of girls' activities. Walter L. Brown has been transferred from the office of County Prosecutor Ray T. Miller to the sheriff's office where he has a better place in some respects. Mr. Miller is poised to Atty. John Rountree, Republican in his office, is said, turning down Atty. John Rountree, another Republican, Rev. C. C. Aller's candidate for the place. What's become of all the local "Negro" Democrats? The recent mass meeting of the local branch of our National Association of Musicians at St. John's A. M. E. church was featured by community singing led by Mrs. Rachel Walker Turner. Rev. Henry P. Jones, John H. Early, violinist; and Mrs. Grace Willis, Thompson, past president of the local organization, the first and last-named making very interesting talks. Mrs. Eugenia Brewer Mayor, pres. World war veterans, at present suffering from disability or disease resulting from military service, must file application for disability compensation before April 6. Claims are filed with the S. veterans' bureau, 927 Harlem Blvd. Formally which to make application and information on disability compensation in connection with old as well as new claims can be obtained at the central claims bureau. A list of Associated Charities stations to which all donations may be made and where persons in need of food and clothing will be cared for follows: General service center at 2525 Euclid Ave., branches at 2945 Woodhill Rd., 8123 Carnegie Avenue, 1068 Superior Avenue, 8529 Broadway, E. 40th St. and Parkins Ave., 11705 Detroit Ave., 2901 Miles Ave., 15201 St. Clair Ave., 2111 Prospect Ave., 2630 W. 14th St., 1970 W. 32d St. and 2587 E. 55th St., or the Wayfares' lodge, 2164 Chester Ave. The Brush Foundation is presenting thru the Adult Educational Association, to the public, four forum meetings led by four eminent scientists, on the subject, "Science Looks at Humanity," at Allen Memorial library, 2009 Adelbert Rd., Sunday afternoon in this month at 4:00 P.M. at the University of Chicago, at least, ought to be interested in. The first lecture, Sunday, March 2, will be by Wm. F. Ogburn, professor of sociology of the Uni- versity of Chicago. His subject will be, "Are the Social Changes Occurring Likely to Improve the Race?" The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of an invitation from Secretary Wm. R. Conners to attend the Welfare Association's twelfth annual meeting at City club, Monday evening. Andrew Fletcher Rosemond of Chicago, who has spent several years in Paris, France, studying the violin, arrived in Cleveland, the first of last week, to visit Louia Vaughn Jones and parents of Drexel Ave. Louia had left, the day before, for Washington, D. C. and Albany, N. Y., on a concert tour, to remain until the latter part of this week. However, Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Jones, his son, accompanied him to await their son's return which he has done. Mr. L. S. Jones and Mr. Rosemond paid the editor a very pleasant visit, last Saturday afternoon. Louia Jones and Mr. Rosemond were "pals" in Paris. A mass meeting protesting the appointment of Dudley S. Blossom as welfare director of the City of Cleveland will be held by the Citizen's Rights League, Sunday afternoon, at 3:30 o'clock, in the Nt Pleasant A. E. E. Hall, 100 N. Todd, pastor. The speakers will be the pastor of the church, Roy S. Rector, Mr. Emmett Meade, Dr. James K. Nickens and the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, who will preside over the meeting. Take the Klisman Rd. car, and go to the library if you wish to hear all about the "Blossom" matter—some things that have not as yet been published. A new ordinance by Councilman Herman H. Finkle to pay $2,000 to Garrett A. Morgan for his services in rescue work in the water tunnel disaster of 1916 was killed by City Judge Delia E. Morgan Monday, on the advice of the Law Department. The City Council finance committee decided to withhold action. The first ordinance to compensate Morgan was passed by the Council but the Law Department, "egged on" by Mayo Fesler, secreted the complaint to theague; to approve the payment, Morgan brought suit to collect. He lost in Common Pleas Court and has appealed. "Problems of Afro-Americans in Cities" will be the topic of discussions by Prof. E. Franklin Frazier of Fisk University, and Whiting Williams, author and lecturer, at the twelfth annual meeting of our local Welfare Association, W. R. Conner, ex-sec., to be held Monday at 6 P. M. at City club. Mr. Frazier will discuss social and neighborhood problems and Mr. Williams will talk on economic and industrial questions. His reports for 1629 will be made. It is an agency of the Community Fund which maintains an employment bureau, compiles population and health statistics, and cares for the "Negro" blind of the city. A joint missionary mass meeting fostered by the missionary societies of Messiah Baptist church, E. 46th St. and Woodland Ave., Rev. Boston J. Prince, pastor, and St. Andrew's A. M. E. church, 2504 E. 14th St. Rev. Jas. J. Price, pastor, will be baptized by the Baptist church, Sunday, March 9; 3:30 p.m. Form missionary Miss Anita Bolden, a missionary in Africa for five years, will be the principal speaker. Rev. Henry P. Jones, pastor of St. John's A. M. E. church, and O. M. Walton, director of religious education for the Federated churches, are expected to be present to encourage the movement which has for its objective a better standing and a closer relationship ship and values societies of Cleveland. Everybody is cordially invited, says Mrs. Boston J. Prince and Mrs. Erie Owens, promoter. A delightful social event was the Martha Washington Tea given by the East End Women's Republican club at Mrs. Hazel M. Walker's last Saturday evening. Among the guests present were: Atty. and Mrs. Wm. R. Green, Mayor Arthur Johnston of W. R. Green, Mrs. Payne and Bundy, Mrs. Letha Fleming and Mrs. Mary B. Martin. The councilmen, especially George, offered the silliest and most puerile of excuses for their reprehensible support of Blossom's appointment. It was in effect that Blossom had gotten down on his knees for the appointment and had done some management. He didn't and couldn't say what these things were, but referred rather indefinitely to one or two insignificant jobs at the City hospital that were to be given. "Arousmit!" "The Blossom triplet's." They are thrul. The next regular meeting of the club will be held at the Cedar "Y", E. 77th St. and Cedar "R", E. 77th St. and 3rd St. at which time an intensive study of government will be started which will continue for several months. All members and friends are urged to attend. Capt. Chas. E. Frye. cor. sec. of Bilton's desistr. The Garden to all Bilton's desistr. Everyone is attracted to the woman whose hair is smooth and sparkling with glossy luster—arranged in a becoming style....Your hair can be beautiful if you visit your Poro Agent regularly and follow the Poro treatment faithfully. She can show you how to have a luxuriant growth of hair that will be the envy of all your friends. nounce that there will be a meeting of the committee, Sunday afternoon, at 4 o'clock, at Cedar "Y." Most people do not know that our 372nd regiment is the only national guard organization in the U. S. authorized by the War Department to wear on its colors a foreign decoration. Mrs. Blanche Gilmere Wills, former president of our state and city federations of women's clubs, died at St. Louis on Wednesday, after a long illness. Born 55 years ago in Nashville, she had been a resident of Cleveland ever since her first husband, Rev. J. M. Gilmere, first came to Cleveland to pastor St. James A. M. E. church. Mrs. J. W. Wills had been associated with Murray Hill and Miles Standish Schools, and others as a local public-school teacher. She was one of the founders of a local literary society that said our students in obtaining college training and, of late years, had been associated with Mt. Zion Cong. church. She is survived by her husband, J. Walter Wills, and a son by her first husband, Dr. Gilmere. City Manager Daniel E. Morgan on Monday, disapproved the City Council legislation to pay Garrett A. Morgan $2,000 for his heroism in saving lives at the city water crib disaster in 1916. He did on the recommendation of Asst. City Law Director Alfred Clum, who in turn was in all probability largely responsible for reading his decision by Mayo Fessler, secretary of the Citizens' League, who has been an aggressive opponent of the city's doing its long belated and clear duty to G. A. Morgan ever since the movement to get such recognition for him was started. Several other persons, all white, who only assisted G. A. Morgan in his financial recognition and medals, etc. by the Carnegie Hero Commission, years ago, while he slept on his rights in the face of the writer's urging that he be active in an effort to get them. It's only fair to Garret A. Morgan to say that he was depending upon white friends to do this, which of course they did not do, and now through City Manager Morgan the door to rightful recognition (even though a mere pittance of his face) was the mayor's face by our new city manager who like Clum has undoubtedly been misled by Fessler and others who really do not know the facts, or ignore them. GREGG, BUNDY, GEORGE, PAYNE It was just two years ago that Cecilia was elected by the people as an member. 4415 South Parkway Chicago, Ill. POR HAIR AND S dependent Republican, voted for a Democrat (white) in preference to one of his own people for member of the City Civil Service Commission. At the time The Gazette informed Dr. Gregg that he was a one-term councilman. He didn't believe it and endeavored to ridicule the statement. Late Monday afternoon, Councilman George, Bundy and Payne addressed (but not our) opposition to the appointment of the director of Welfare Dudley S. Blossom, so City Manager Daniel E. Morgan has announced. Right there and then, George, Payne and Bundy pulled "a Gregg", because they had received a mandate from our people of the third and fourth councilman districts, who elected them, to do all in their power to bring about the ousting of Welfare Director Blossom whose kui Klux Klan treatment of women was so horrifying that troyery is too well-known among us to need comment at this time. What our people will do to our three councilmen, next year, should they have the temerity to again stand as candidates, it is not necessary to consult a prophet nor a son of a prophet to learn, in the light of Excouncilman Gregg's experience as a result of his turning his back on his people, especially his constituents. The only difference is, that what our people did before is more idiagant! They forgot all about their promises, made the people during the campaign last fall, and "laid down" supinely at the feet of Dud Blossom, city welfare director, who said, last year: "No! I am not going to allow Negro boys and girls to train in the City Hospital" PULLED "A GREGG". One Ralph J. Donaldson, a local political writer, had an "inspired" article in a local daily newspaper, Monday morning, which was simply a prelude to the most insulting appointment, that evening, of Dudley S. Blossom as welfare director of the city of Cleveland. Donaldson's article was intended to help save the way for City Manager Daniel E. Morgan's appointment and was also intended to help to do the impossible — "save the faces" of Councilmen Payne, Payne and Bundy who in their zeal for jobs for some of their constituents, were the mandate of our voters of their districts who secured their triumphant election, last fall. The mandate of our people of the third and fourth districts, that they do everything in their power as councilmen to help bring about the outsting of office ```markdown ``` By RUBE GOLDBERG WERE WE SOLD OUT FOR A FEW JOBS? QUITE THE THING TO TOP THE GOWN OF GAY PRINT WITH A VELVET COAT 1920s TUNING the fashioning of the skirt to the new raised waistlines is one of the problems which has had to be met this season. It has taken no little ingenuity on the part of dress. VELVET in springtime? Yes, indeed, we have come to just that. Never again will the seasonableness of velvet be limited to a few late fall and winter months. Especially so far as the vogue of the velvet wrap is concerned, it makes no difference whether the calendar declares spring, summer, autumn or winter, which goes to show how greatly opinions of today differ from the sentiment of yesteryears. After all, it is the velvets themselves which have brought about this change of feeling toward them. No need to tell women of this day and generation what modern velvets are like. Their alty-fairy textures and transparencies are among the latest wonders of the world. Suffice it to say that the velvet coat, simply styled and often unlined, now holds a year to year lease on life duly signed and sealed by fashionists everywhere. There is no more winsome combination booked for spring than that of a SKIRTS MUST BE S TO THE NEW TUNING the fashioning of the skirt to the new raised waistlines is one of the problems which has had to be met this season. It has taken no little ingenuity on the part of dress designers to create skirts which conform to the new tuck in blouse types without sacrificing slenderized hiplines. To the rescue of the distressed stylists came yokes, with the result that almost every really new skirt has either a fitted yoke or, as instanced in the skirt pictured, a crush girdle effect which wraps snugly about the hips. Black satin is the material selected for this skirt which so cleverly answers the call for a high waistline, at the same time featuring a very new and gracefully widened hemline. The blouse top of dahlia colored satin contrasts handsomely with the black skirt. Not only have skirts been revolutionized, but blouses as well show startling innovations. Many of the new blouse modes are made so that they may be worn as tuck-ins or over the skirt. It is going to take some time to react favorably to the new silhouette which stops the blouse at a high waistline. A compromise between the long blouse such as women have been wearing and the abbreviated tuck-in has been effected in certain new frock of gay print topped with a colorful, little velvet coat. The costume in which Barbara Kent, who stars in screenland, so smilingly posed for this picture, illustrates the effectiveness of a collarless velvet coat worn with a very-muchly collared print frock. This fashion for bringing the dress or blouse collar out over the coat is one which will be widely featured. Velvet for evening wraps as well as daytime vellets, take no heed of calendar seasons. One sees in the new slowlings the most ravishing velvet shawls. These are wrought in the new "baby colorings" such as fashion prescribes for the coming months, and they are deeply fringed in self-color. Then, too, the formal black velvet evening wrap with its becoming collar of white fur retains its prestige. Some of the newer types adopt the much-exploded princess lines. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. © 1920 Western Newspaper Union.) STYLED TO TUNE RAISED WAISTLINES WIDE WORLD PHOTO models which are exceedingly short, fitting just over the belt or top of the skirt instead of tucking in. A neat sung fit for the short overbliuse is imperative. Which necessity has lead to clever contrivances in the way of adjustable hip bands, such as interlocking strap effects, or intricately tied bows or tabs which snap in a firm manner. These very short types which reach just over the top of the skirt, are really the "last word" in blouses. The new blouses, especially tuck-ins and the shortened types, are sleeved in ways most unique. The latest thing in sleeves is the short puff type. Shorten a blouse to waist length, then give to it wee puff sleeves and one begins to realize how very different the 1830 blouse is from types which have gone before. The outlook for the blouse sans sleeves of any sort is also promising. Especially is this true of the blouse worn with the jacket suit. The sleeveless blouse with a tiny cape is also featured. Among lingerie types, the blouse of cotton net either printed or plain bids for popularity. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (© 1930, Western Newspaper Union.) --- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1930. NEW IDEA IN AUTOMOBILE CONSTRUCTION A new idea in automobile construction—a novel three-wheeled car which weighs but 200 pounds and can travel at a speed of about 56 miles an hour. It is built similar to a motor cycle and has the engine behind the driver. BETTER CARS IN NEED OF ROADS Greatest Improvement Must Come Through Building Better Highways. (By E. E. DUFFY.) Competition is bringing the motoring public, which includes about 125,000,000 citizens of the United States, almost unbelievable values. Eight-cylinder cars are coming within reach of those who because of worldly cares must conserve the contents of their billfolds. Automobiles are being made better and better, and of parallel importance, cheaper and cheaper. But there is one thing wrong with the motoring picture. More has been done in creating speed and comfort in vehicles than in providing highways over which they may best operate. To say that automobile manufacturers have done all they can in the way of making cars efficient would not be quite true, for mechanical improvements are to continue. But the great betterment that is to come in motoring cannot be accomplished by motor car manufacturers. More well paved highways must be built and by John Public. Automobile Ownership. The saturation point of automobile ownership is as elusive as a bootlegger's address. In addition to the replacement of some two million worn out cars each year, the total vehicle registration is being increased by a million and a half. There are now 1,000,000 cars on the highways and hyways and by the end of 1930 the registration will have mounted to 27,500,000. It is difficult to visualize the importance of such large figures, but they do show that the motoring appetite is far from being appeased. Most cars are owned in population centers—but they do not stay there. Hence the highway problem is not only statewide but nationwide. Pew states have really made an attempt to serve the motorist but those that have made any commendable headway have done so through the aid of the bond issue plan which enables the state or local community to purchase roads in installments, as homes and cars are purchased by individuals. Meet Highway Problem. To meet the highway problem most successfully it is necessary to make use of assured future income. Plans of various states indicate that greater use is to be made of the bond issue plan. In the meantime motorists in those communities evidencing little road building energy will continue to be deprived of true motoring comfort—at a greater motoring cost than their neighbors. Good Judge of Distance Are you good at guessing distances? You aren't the best auto driver unless you are a good judge of distances. An interesting little experiment that will show you how accurate your eyes are or how they deceive you when it comes to judging distances can be performed with four nickels or four quarters. Place the four coins in a row with their edges just touching. Now move one coin straight out from the others until you think you have the same space between it and the others as there is across the original row. To see how far wrong you are measure the two distances. To your surprise you will find that you are almost the width of a coin too far away. The illusion is produced by the empty and full spaces—The Pathfinder. Automobile Prophet Was Winthrop Scarritt, writing in Harper's Weekly in 1907, made a forecast for the future of the automobile industry, which, in many particulars, proved his ability as a prophet. He predicted that the automobile would stimulate tremendously a good roads movement; that it would give city dwellers a new Sunday afternoon diversion, and that it would tend to break down class distinction by supplying cars for both rich and poor. Yet, on one point, Mr. Scarritt guessed wrong. "The horseless carriage," he predicted, "will solve the problem of congestion of traffic in our city streets." THE MOTOR QUIZ How Many Can You Answer? Q. What are the most common causes of skidding? Ans. Sudden changes in direction; quick and vigorous application of the brakes; sudden application of power; unequal tire or brake pressure. Q. Why should chains be removed after roads have become dried? Ans.—Chains wear out rapidly on dry roads and the car is subjected to unnecessary vibration. Q. How have good roads improved educational facilities in the rural areas? Ans. More than 42,000 busses now transport 1,250,000 children living in the rural areas, putting their educational facilities on a par with that of children living in the city. Q. How often should spark plugs and breaker points be examined and why? Ans. At least twice a year. Too wide gapping of spark plug and breaker points causes an engine to miss, preventing speedy acceleration. Mechanism Erected at Night scene at a railway crossing in Berlin, Germany, with the new signaling apparatus functioning perfectly. The mechanism was erected at all the railway crossing to eliminate the EIGHT FLASHES WANT OF DANGER danger from the trains which took a toll on personnel and equipment. Usually a white light flashes but the approaching train establishes a contact which changes the light to a red flash. Detroit Police Combat CAR LAWN ANNUALS This business of having to breathe oil and gas-laden funes every time automobiles pile up at a busy intersection is one that has made Detroit officials, at least, tired. An official of the police department viewing the situation with more disgust than alarm, has decided that it is entirely due to the carelessness of the car owner in not keeping the carburetor adjusted properly and the engine reasonably clean. Cars of today he declares, are so refined that reasonably good adjustments will prevent this nuisance. As a result, police are going to see that offending motorists are disciplined. AUTOMOBILE FACTS The most discontented boy in the neighborhood has left the filling station and is now a soda clerk. As he hands you a ginger ale, he asks, "Any oil?" Application of a little grease to the packing cord will prove of great assistance in the removal of a headlight lens to replace a bulb or clean a reflector. When it is necessary to drive with a weak front tire, place it on the right wheel. Should a blowout occur the car will then swerve away from oncoming traffic. A 662-pound sunfish caught in the Atlantic has a brain only as large as a hazel nut. We assume its position in the submarine traffic was similar to that of the interstate bus. Marked evidence of the noticeable trend toward engines of high compression design provides one of the most important developments of the year in the automobile industry. "THE BLOSSOM TRIPLETS!" THEY "WAIVED" THEIR OPPOSITION! PETER H. The Truth! What would cause other people to gnash their teeth and gird their loins is question of debate for us. Kick us, beat us, pile depredations upon us, revile us, abuse us, lie about us, malign us and even impugn our valor and we are not unanimously insulted. It seems impossible to establish unanimity of insult in the black race. — Chicago (Ill.) Wbh. It is with the keenest regret that the Gazette announces the most reprochensible course our three councilmen, George, Payne and Bundy, have pursued in the "Blossom" controversy which was apparently closed with City Manager Daniel E. Morgan's appointment, on Monday evening, Feb. 17, '30, of Dudley S. Blossom, as co-chair of the welfare director for a third of fourth each. Thruout the campaign, last fall, our people smarting under his insulting and gross mistreatment demanded the ousting of Director Blossom who for more than five years had barred our boys and girls from training in the City Hospital and added to this flagrant and unwarranted denial of our rights and privileges under the law in a public institution, maintained by the taxation blurting out to leading men of the race who called upon him relative to the matter: "No! I am not going to allow Negro boys and girls to train in the City Hospital while I am director." The mandate to oust Director Blossom was given George, Payne and Bundy, particularly, in unmistakable language by our people in their councilmanic districts, last three three councilmen, night after night, day after day, they pleaded with the voters in that section of the city for support of their candidacies reiterated their promise to do all in their power to accede to the demand-mandate of our people whom Dudley Blossom had so grossly mistreated and insulted. They knew that the demand for the ousting of City Manager Hopkins was the day after the demands of their own people for the ousting of Welfare Director Dudley Blossom. There can be no question as to this. Night after night and day after day in one political meeting after another, they promised the people, if elected, they would carry out this mandate to the letter. How have they done this? Soon after the election of City Manager Hopkins, being circulated to the effect that our three councilmen, in their quest for political jobs for some of their supporters, were weakening in their opposition to the appointment of Blossom at the behest of the city manager who desired, with Blossom's appointment, to somewhat appease the opposition of the local Progressive Government bloc with which Blossom was identified and to whose campaign funds he contributed. Feeding this very thing and enduring fear in clear clear to the city manager, as far as the masses of our people in this community are concerned, we sent him the following special delivery letter: Cleveland, O., Jan. 29, '30. City Manager Daniel E. Morgan, City Hall, City. My Dear Mr. Morgan:—It may be that you have quite forgotten me, but will recall the writer when rem- inded of the assistance rendered you when a candidate for the coun- cil in our ward, many years ago. I am writing you at this time for the purpose of entering a vigorous protest against the reappointment of Dudley Blossom as director of welfare in your cabinet. Last year and the year previous, he so frequently and so grossly insulted members of my race who called upon him in connection with the City Hospital controversy, which was happily settled, Monday, Jan. 27, '30, that his reappointment would be positively the most aggravating insult you could give all of my people of this community, and for reasons stated and others. Also I wish to say to you that Councilmen Payne, Bundy, Bronstrup and Finkle were elected in the Third District upon the platform of ousting both Hopkins as city manager and Dudley Blossom as welfare director. With no desire to dictate, but only PETER M. BURKE to state the real truth of the situation as far as my people of this community and Dudley Blossom are concerned, and with sincerest best wishes for your official success, I am P. S.—Councilman Clayborne C. George of the Fourth District was re-elected on the platform of outing Hopkins and Blossom. H. C. S. On the morning of Jan. 30, '30, the following day, the city manager, thru his private secretary, requested a conference with us at the city hall which was held between 11 and 12 A. M., that Thursday morning. At this conference it easily developed, much to my surprise, that the rumors were well formed. Mr. Morgan's fulsome praise of the three "Negro" councilmen, and other things he said in confidence, forced me to give credence to the rumors much as I disliked and didn't want to do so. After hearing my protest to the appointment of Blossom, which meant just as suspicious as possible and the real condition warranted, I concluded by saying to him: "You can spit in my face now, Mr. Morgan, and you will not insult me and my people of this community one half as much as you will by appointing Dudley S. Blossom, welfare director". He stood a moment as if staggered and then for the third time during our conference asked me to confer with Blossom, adding that he would like very much if I would do so. For the third time, I refused to do so, saying that I did not know Mr. Blossom, had never met him, would not know him if I were to meet him face to face, and never wanted to know the man because for years, by his refusal to permit our boys and girls to train in the City hospital and using insulting language in conversation with this refusal, he had held my people up as a slander and open to the ridicule of thousands of persons of other groups in this community. While the conference was in progress, his secretary said to Mr. Morgan: "Mr. Blossom is outside". 468 Payne. "When you people can impress the people of this community that you are worthy of more consideration, you will get it, and not until then." This explains in a few words why we need to be out in our town that individual (Blossom) our people's representatives in the city council did not, as ordered by them, impress City Manager Daniel E. Morgan with their unalterable opposition to the appointment of Dudley Blossom. Instead, they "waived" their opposition, not ours, and Manager Morgan knew this, so he issued to them of three small jobs, one in the office of the city Civil Service commission, another in that of the city treasury, and the third in the city clerk's office, does not in the slightest atone for the miserable insult he has given us in re-appointing Dudley Blossom as welfare director, in the face of all of our pro-terrorists and race-respect means far more to us than jobs, large or small, few or many, Mr. Morgan! Harry C. Smith. Attention! Readers! Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in the columns of "The Old Rellable" Gazette certainly care little, if at all, for it. Therefore, we urge our readers and all of our friends to patronize those who ask in this paper for your patronage. Editor.