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Crook or business man crook gets "Every knock is a boost" is only is false, but no knock is a boost negro crooks and confidence menide as a means to play their game the man who knows such wrong in the innocent is both a coward EDITOR W. P. DABNEY. Cincinnati Union. ur Advertisers THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since 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 town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies, if proper credit for them is desired. 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TOLEDO. — Mrs. Ella Randolph attended the Blair-Collins wedding in Cleveland, recently.—Mrs. Robert Pulley has returned from a visit with her mother in Mt. Vernon.—Mrs. Ella P. Stewart addressed several meetings in Detroit, last week, representing the industrial depart- ment of the company.—Mrs. Galdine Thornton and son of Cincinnati are visiting her mother, Mrs. Geo. W. Washington.—The annual drive of the Indiana "Y" branch was closed, Monday. Clarence R. Vena was gen. chair. of the committee in- charge. "Col." Roscoe Cackling Simmons of Chicago threw this Baptist church, recently.—Mrs. Hannah Ford, Church of the Urbana Masonic Home board of trustees, has just returned from its recent meeting. PIQUA.—Our people of this city are very proud, indeed, of the wonderful success of the four Mills brothers with their guitar. Almost over night they have become leading radio stars, now located in N. Y. City.—Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clark and Atty, and Mrs. C. H. Lewis of Detroit motored here, recently, and were joined by Mr. and Mrs. D. Barber and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Mitchell and Miss Mabel Jack Almond—who spent Thanksgiving in Hamilton—Homer Collins has arrived with his wife, nee Mrs. Mabel Blair, for more than ten years organist of Mt. Zion Cong. church in Cleveland. She is an outstanding acquisition to our small colony of musicians which we welcome with open arms. Mr. Collins is one of our leading local business men. CADIZ. — Mrs. Maud Mayle of Zanesville was the guest of Mrs. Alice Howard, last week. — Mrs. Frances Christian visited in Flushing, recently. — Miss Phyllis W. Brown returned, last week, from a visit in Pittsburgh. — Mrs. Lizzie West, Mrs. Emma Tyler and Mrs. Martha Tyler visited in Zanesville, recently. — Mrs. Elvira Wallace of Lorain visited Mr. and Mrs. Charles Christian, last week. — R. F. Ballard spent Thanksgiving in Oberlin. Mrs. Lucy Carter visited a sister, Mrs. Nancy Hays, in Zanesville. — The triumphal-belpers served a turkey dinner at St. James A.M. E. church. Thanksgiving by Elsworth Guy of Steubenville visited her parents. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Lucas, grand chancellor of Ohio, visited Unity lodge, K. P., Sunday afternoon, and gave an interesting talk. He was given a hearty reception. MANSFIELD.—Miss Evelyn Lee was home from Wilberforce Univ. recently.—Mr. and Mrs. Cory Adams and family of Findlay spent Thanksgiving in the city.—Miss Bernetta Peterson, of W. R. U., Cleveland, spent with her.—Ms. Thena Reynolds, who was operated on by Memorial hospital, is convalescing.—Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Redmond An inexpensive Christmas or New Years gift, that will be recalled and appreciated every one of the fifty-two weeks of next year (1932), is a year's subscription (only two dollars) to "The Old Reliable" Gazette. Send the paper to a relative or a friend anywhere in this country. Try it! were in Cleveland, recently.—Mrs. Augustus Hawkins was called to Findlay by the death of her fostermother, Mrs. S. S. Hanna. YOUNGSTOWN. — The musical program, Sunday afternoon at Oakhill Ave. A. M. E. church, rendered by the senior and junior cholars, was very good indeed. There was a saxophone solo by Darvin Corrigan, piano duet, Meadian Wagner; and B. Wyatt; instrumentation, B. Marcella Hewlett; selection, Tabernaecle Four, and vocal solos by Albert Doby, Ethel Jenkins, Grace Stanley and Mrs. Geo. W. Williams. Rev. Geo. W. Williams, pastor, visited in Dayton, last week, where he formerly pastored. Rev. C. D. Dixon, his predecessor here, now pastor of Mt. Vernon A. A. M. E. church, Geo. Hewlett, visited Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Dixon, last week.—Mr. Archile Riehl of Pittsburgh was here. Sunday.—Miss Harriet Burton, former resident of Youngstown, has returned and is living with her mother, Mrs. Julia Hancock. DOINGS OF THE RACE. Capt. Frank M. Snowden of Boston has been elevated to the rank of major by the War Department and stationed in that city. Maryland has had 14 lynchings in the last 45 years, 12 "Negroes." The last two lynchings occurred in December, 1911 and the night of Dec. 4, 1931. Congressman Oscar DePriest's "Sanhedrin" (national political conference) was held in John Wesley Memorial Zion A. M. E. church, last week Thursday and Friday. The $5,000 willed Wilberforce University's endowment fund (now $24,000), by a Judge Dustin of Dayton, was received, recently, by the university in two installments of $2,500 each. Turner Layton of the singing team Johnstone & Layton, now in London, recently won a $500 prize of the Irish Free State Hospital sweepstakes, held Nov. 28. "31 at Manchester, Eng. Langston Hughes (poet), of Cleveland, O., while on a lecture tour, was recently the dinner guest, in a leading white cafe at Chapel Hill, N. C., of three editors (white) of "Contemp", the University of N. C. magazine. Acting Mayor Jos. V. M. McKee of N. Y. City was photographed on the City Hall steps of that city shaking hands with Etera, a native of the island of Tar-ti, who in two years and five months, with Wm. Robinson, sailed around the world in a 32-foot boat. One coed was knocked unconscious, another's shoulder was broken, while more than 15 other students were nursing battered heads as the result of a riot which broke out at Charlestown, W. Va. Thanksgiving day, following the annual football game between Wilberforce University and W. Virginia State college. Foreign Minister Blattengueza Herui of Abysinia, Africa, who went to Tokio, Japan to call upon the emperor of that country to return the visit of a year ago of a representative of the Japanese government to the coronation of the president, Emperor Hailie Selassie, of Abysinia, was despatched by the emperor of Japan with the "First-class Order of the Rising Sun." Editor Wm. Monroe Trotter of "The Boston Guardian" headed a National Equal Rights league delegation which went to the White House to approve a federal antilynching bill, and to issue executive order eliminating racial negotiation from the governmental departments, and to advocate an enforcing law for the 15th amendment to the U.S. constitution Mrs. J. E. Hubbard. E. 868t St. spent Thanksgiving day in Pitts- burg. Mr. Hubbard, district man- ager of the Victory Life Insurance Co. attended the Howard-Lincoln game in Philadelphia, and met his sons, John and Nathaniel, students from Howard university, Washington. D. C. DECEMBER 12,1931. DE PRIEST'S "SANHEDRIN" Fairly Well Attended — Principale Speakers — Pres. G. H. Jones' Charge of Governmental Unfairness in Distribution of Educational Funds. Washington, D. C. — About 200 delegates, representing possibly 25 states, met here, last week, at the call of Congressman Oscar DePriest of Chicago. A number of women were in attendance. The principal speakers were Edith P. B. Young of Norfolk, Pres. Mordecai W. Johnson of Howard Univ. Editor Wm. E. DuBois of N. Y. City. Prof. Garnett C. Wilkinson of this city and Pres. Gilbert H. Jones of Wilberforce, O., who said among other things: "The executive department of the OSCAR DE PRIDER national government has both the duty and the power to see to it that 'Negro' schools get their fair share of the federal educational funds." The convention or conference condemned lynching, advocated both state and federal anti-lynching laws, asked a fair share of the educational funds, better treatment under civil service, etc. Mr. Emmett Meade, E. 130th St. has received an invitation from the National Slate Association to attend its convention in Louisville, Jan. 25-30. He is an associate member of the organization and a member of the local organization. Harry L. Kersey, 2700 E. 55th St., who sustained a stroke of paralysis, Sunday, is slowly improving. BOYDSTON POSTS BIG ORPHANS PARTY. Unusual activity characterizes Boydston Post, these days, the cause being its annual Christmas party for orphans, an effort that should be strongly supported by all people. It gives deserving children the kind of a Christmas day every child is entitled to. Last year 455 were taken care of. This year, many more are expected. Phil Selznik, well-known night-club and dance-hall promoter, has offered his services, and very soon you will hear his urge to help this cause during his radio programs. The A gym to entertainers at the Club Madrid have all volunteered to help. Dec. 17, we have special entertainment will be given at A gym to raise funds for the party. They are the well known Bessie Brown, Billie Banks, the Club Madrid band and others. Samuel V. Perry has also arranged several other very novel events. The Post band will play, and a well-known string-band will be on hand. Other well-known persons will help. There will be bridge and早早 in the evening, and the entertainment will start immediately after. The admission price is only twenty-five with a fine program, just a little different from anything you have been to before. A Christmas present of a $25.00 purchase, good at your favorite merchandise, will be given that night to the person selling the largest number of tickets. "BURNED AT THE STAKE" Sallisbury, Md.—Dragged from a hospital cot, his head swathed in bandages, Mack Williams, age 35, was lynched here, last week Friday night, by a mob of 2,000 in the yard of the Wicomico County Court-house, from the hospital, for the killing of a self-defeater in the afternoon, of Daniel J. Elliott, a lumberman who had shot him in the chest. Elliott's son later shot Williams in the head. A half-hour after the lynching the body down, placed it on a pile of graves and other wood and burned it. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS MUSIC LED OUR ADVANCE! Says Pickens—Also That a Higher Percentage of Our People Is "Gainfully Employed" Than Whites, Etc. The Afro-American has "got his message over thru his great gift of song" because music is the universal tolerated language" which makes its principal regardless of race, said Wm. Pickens of the Cleveland Community Religious Hour audience in Little Theater of Public Hall, Sunday afternoon, in speaking on "The Contribution of the Negro to Civilization," and confining his remarks particularly to the contribution the Afro-American has made. "Negroes have sung more money for endowments for their schools on the pocket of white people than Bokkeen Washburn, plied by a hundred, could ever have argued or pleaded out of them." Pickens said. "Roland Hayes, who is singing in your city, this afternoon, is one of the many musicians who have demonstrated the heights to which the Negro musician can rise. Work is Big Contribution. "The biggest contribution the Negro has made to the United States since here is work. A larger percentage of African population is listed in the census under 'gainfully employed' than whites. The Negro, on the whole, does not receive as adequate wages as the white man. Because of this he is not economically equipped to supply himself with many of the advantages of his white brothers. There is no such thing as a Negro death rate. That is a myth. The death rate of any people living under the same conditions is at the same level. In our conversations the Negroes starting with nothing when freed from slavery, have accumulated taxable property valued at two billion dollars." WONDERFUL WORK Being Done by Finkle and Bernstein—Just See One of Their "Unemployment Relief Cards"—"The Triplets." During the recent campaign, candidates opposing the re-election of Herman H. Finkle, Republican floor leader of the City Council, (and this included at least two of "The Blossom Triplets") slurred his holiday gifts by saying that the poor of ward 12 and the third district were given "rotten meats, rotten vegetables etc., instead of the half-bushel, each one received, filled with meat, and other necessities plenty good enough for President Hoover or anyone else with a good appetite. All those "sore birds," and others, are requested by The Gazette to go to 4737 Woodland Ave., the Finkle-Bernstein headquarters, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. m. any day except Sunday, and see what they are doing, beginning Dec. 4, '31, and Christmas several weeks away. They have little to do with thousand poor and needy families from one to seven children in ward 12 alone, to say nothing about the rest, of the third district, to each of which they have issued an "Unemployment Relief Card," signed by Herman H. Finkle and Alex. Bernstein, which entitles the holder of the card to food supplies (cold and hot boiled foods, etc.) daily, except Sunday, during the hours mentioned in the foregoing. These cards bear every date in this month, January, February, or March, 1931, (except Sunday) for daily, the date used being punched daily, a volunteer members of the women's organization of ward 12 are doing the booking and render much other service therection therewith. This is surely a wonderful relief work and a piece of human kindness upon the part of Messrs. Finkle and Bernstein that is certainly worthy of emulation, at least by The Blossom Triplets. By the way trek the 11th, 17th and 18th days and see what they are doing, Councilman George and his relief organizations of the 18th ward are doing something. Maybe Councilman Payne and Bundy will get started by the spring of 1932 Their "victory and reelection of 1932 their" auction at $1 a board charge, ought to have netted these funds which should be used to provide for the poor and needy of their wards, the 11th and 17th SHOP AND MAIL EARLY There Will Be No Delivery on Christmas Day, Except Special Delivery. The Post Office will be closed on Christmas Day, Friday, Dec. 25th. Mail early enough to insure delivery on or before Monday, Dec. 21st. Parcels may be marked "Do not open until Christmas." Wrap carefully! Address plainly! Mail early! Help abolish the "Dead Letter Office." Place a return address on every piece of mail. 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 NEWMEST AND BEST published in the interest of Afro-Americans. E COPY FIVE CENTS HEME! A VOCAL TREAT HAYES RECITAL! Large Audience Delighted — His Renditions of "Poor Pilgrim" and "Were You Published," the Best—Prof. Rogers' Estimate. Roland Hayes faced a comfortably filed house at Masonic hall, Sunday afternoon, in spite of the frowm. Pickens lecture in Little Theater of Public Hill; the same afternoon, and pleased the audience greatly. But, as usual, it was rendition of several spirituals that roused the audience to its greatest pitch of enthusiasm. His Italian and German songs and those in English, including his several encores, were exceptionally well done, but it A. remained for his last group of songs (spirituals) to stir the large audience as it had not been by previous numbers. Of the spirituals, "Dat's All I Want" was possibly the most "spectacular" because it brot out ringing tones that disclosed his vocal power. "Feed My Sheep," "Poor Pilgrim" (without accompaniment) and "My God is so High," which followed indeed, especially "Poor Pilgrim," and roundly applauded; likewise the two encores that followed "My God is so High," particularly the second and last encore, "Were You There," which was far and away the most touching and finest number of the recital, winning what practically amounted to an ovation. Several encores were acknowledged by Mr. Hayes with his accompanist who rendered fine service all thru the recital. The two most enthusiastic encores were given after he had finished the recital, and before a single person had left the hall. This is an indication of how well Mr. Hayes pleased, yes delighted his large audience. Roland Hayes' use of his hands, body, face and eyes, and his stance at the close of each selection, as well as his very skillful use of the falsetto voice, are his most artistic attributes rather than his voice which is not "wonderful" but very GOOD. It is the use of his exceptionally fine falsetto tone that is "wonderful." As far as pure and sweet tenon tones are concerned his falsetto ones excepted, his voice in its entire register is not the fine, liquid voice of Wallace King, the well-known tenor of years ago; or that of our own local tenor. Harry A. Williams, before he went abroad to study. "Mr. Hayes possesses a voice of musical timbre, and the manner in which he employs it may well serve as model and exemplar to all aspiring singers. Everything he does speaks a refined and cultured taste."—Prof. James H. Rogers, musical Cleveland Daily Plain Dealer "LEADS THEM ALL" Urbana, O., Dec. 7, '31. Ohio Masonic Home. Hou Harry C. Smith. Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Mr. Smith:—I am renewing my subscription to "The Old Reliable" Gazette, hoping you are in good health. I am feeling fine and looked for you to come by and see me, last summer, but you failed to do so: Hope to see you once more. Find enclosed $21, because I must have the paper, every week. "The Old Reliable" loads them all. Wishing you a merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year, I am A number of our Cloreleaders will attend the Alpha Phil fraternity "Silver anniversary" in Charleston, Dec 23. It is our oldest Greek letter college fraternity. The Alpha Kappa Alpha society will move there at the same time. Among those who will attend the meetings are Hon. Perry B. Jackson, Rev. Nylvester Williams, New Stanley E. Granum, Dr. N. K. Christopher, Dr. Quinn F. Montgomery, Atty. Thom Fleming Jr. and others. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY IN UNION IS STRONGER 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 325,000 in Ohio. 75,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1931 With State Senator Roxboro of Michigan, Roland Hayes and Wm. Pickens as star attractions in different places, our people and others of this community were highly entertained, Sunday afternoon. Come again, gentlemen. Congressman Oscar DePriest's "Sanhedrin," held in Washington, D. C. last week, does not seem to have pleased the Hoover-Hawkins-Scott faction of administration Republicans of color at the nation's capital. It was interesting but not very fruitful, as far as we have been able to learn up to this time. The Gazette wishes to thank The Southern Commission of Atlanta for the very interesting booklet and map, entitled "Lynchings and What They Mean." The map gives the location of 1595 of the 1886 lynchings that took place in the U. S. from 1900 to 1931, data for which was received from the Tuskegee Institute research department. --- A WORTHY CAUSE As stated in The Gazette of last week, this newspaper heartily endorses Boydston Post's Christmas Party for orphans and urges our many local readers to assist to the utmost, this affair. It is a splendid opportunity to do something for our own which we very often leave for the other fellow to do. We feel sure our men and women who are working at this time will be more than glad to give the little help Boydston Post so earnestly asks. Many often wondered what the motto of the American Legion meant—"In Peace as well as in War we serve"—but now they understand it better. Fighting the battles of the unfortunate is almost as important as fighting for one's country, and this is what Boydston Post "boys" are doing. The entire staff of The Gazette has subscribed to their effort, 100 per cent, and we hope our many local readers will do likewise. FINKLE, GEORGE, DAVIS Republican floor leader, Herman H. Finkle, in recent weeks, charged John R. Davis, superintendent of Wayfarers' lodge, this city, with using the influence of his position, if not its funds, to promote his recent Democratic candidacy for the council in the third district, and on this ground successfully opposed a $20,000, or more, appropriation for the lodge. So there must have been some truth in Finkle's charge. Councilman Clayborne George successfully charged Supt. Davis with racial discrimination in his conduct of Wayfarers' lodge, with the result that it is announced that "the discrimination has been eradicated." Finkle's and George's charges are enough to warrant Supt. Davis' dismissal, something that ought to be done at once for the "good and welfare" of the community. Therefore, we call upon the two councilmen to see to it immediately that this is done as a matter of fairness and justice not only to our people but also to the rest of the community as well. One result of such action would be the saving of two or three thousand votes to the Republican candidate for mayor in January and February. DAVIS SHOULD BE "FIRED"! The welfare committee of the Cleveland City Council, other councilmen, and Acting Mayor Harold H. Burton lunched, last Tuesday week, at Wayfarer's lodge, E. 21st St. and Chester Ave., and passed a resolution opposing racial discrimination in the administration of that relief agency. The person, Supt. Davis, responsible for the discrimination complained of by Councilman Clayborne George, should be dismissed immediately, and it is the DUTY of "The Blossom Triplets," Councilman George, Payne and Bundy, to see that he is "dired" just as soon as possible. This they own our people of this community even the Councilman George has expressed himself as being highly pleased with the "spirit" in which his criticism has apparently been accepted. That "spirit" and "firing" Davis are entirely different things, Mr. George. PERRY W. HOWARD On several occasions, The Gazette has called attention to the fact that the Hon. Perry W. Howard of Mississippi and Washington, D. C., our only member of the Republican national committee for years, has been a negative quantity as far as our people of the country are concerned. Ours was the only race paper, as far as we have been able to see and learn, that had the courage to publish such a statement. Now comes a communication to race publications of the country from one B. T. Thornton of Jackson, Miss., the home of Mr. Howard, with the following endorsement of The Gazette's statement anent him. Mr. Thornton writes, from that city: "It is said that Howard has secured places for only six black persons in the past ten years, and they were all his sisters and brothers, his sons and nephews; that there are many places that might have been filled by our people, that how they have done nothing whatever to assist his constituents of color, and at other times he has stood in their way; that he has stood as a block and obstacle to their progress ever since his elevation to the national committeemanship, that the fact that our people were given no concession and Coolidge was charged more to Perry W. Howard than to anybody or anything else." The foregoing is certainly a terrific indictment. To it should be added the part Howard took when he went to Chicago at the behest of high officials of the Pullman Co. to openly oppose the efforts of our Pullman porters and maids to secure proper wages instead of the monthly stipend paid them by the Pullman Co. in addition to the tips they secured from passengers. It is this sort of thing, even more than his neglect of our people in his home state and thruout the country, that irritates and disgusts almost beyond endurance. That it characterizes the attitude of almost all of our so-called leaders, local, state and national, is generally known among our people and explains largely the reason why our progress is so greatly impeded. When our people awaken and throw off the yoke of such "leaders," their chances for progress along all lines will be multiplied many times. The Howards and their kidney must be forced out of the limelight and into the rear, and soon, if this race of ours is ever to get anywhere in the political sun, because it means so very much to our rights and privileges not only to get political preferment but in other ways. STATE ANTI-LYNCH LAWS. Thirty-five years ago, "The Old Reliable" Gazette began advocating STATE mob violence acts or antlynching laws. This was immediately following the enactment of our Ohio Mob Violence Act or AntiLynching Law. From that time to this, the only conference or convention to recommend a state law of the kind was the DePriest "Sanhedrin," conference or convention, which met at the nation's capital last week. It also recommended a federal anti-lynching law, something which may and then may not be possible, owing to the views and sentiment of the leading statesmen and jurists of this country who recognize the right of the state only to legislate against mob violence. Thirty-five years is a long time to make such little progress in a matter of such importance to all of our people in this country. Characteristic! This explains beautifully why our race's progress is so slow, if indeed there has been any progress from a racial standpoint, in the last quarter of a century. ROOVER CAMPAIGN OPENED. The "statement concerning presidential appointees, and other colored men and women, employed by the federal government" sent to our newspapers of the country, last week, by the Republican National committee, its initial campaign document, reminds one very much of the froth on top of a glass of beer before the country "went dry." Those jobs are the shadow (and not the substance) that our people have received from every president, Republican and Democrat, for many years; certainly ever since the days that preceded the Roosevelt administration. It is positively silly for the Hoover administration to undertake to captalize its few almost insignificant appointments, or rather jobs, given Afro-Americans, so potential a factor of the great Republican party. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1931 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. Our most 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 very effective. Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have followed Ohio's lead and enacted mob violence of 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: 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, in person or without authority of law, shall be deemed a "mob" for the purpose of this chapter. 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.) 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 or dissolve. Section 6279. The term "serious injury," for the purpose of this chapter, shall include such inquiry as permanently or temporarily disables the person receiving it from earning a livelihood by manual labor. (93 v. 11 4) 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 assault is made. (93 v. 161 4.) A person assaulted and lynched by a man 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 alike, 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 against such person, who is killed by such a mob. (93 v. 162 8.) 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 had, to include it with the costs of action, 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 lynchman may recover the amount of a judgment and costs against it in favor of the 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 lynchning shall be deemed a member of the mob and be liable to such action. (93 v. 162 10.) YOU KNOW ME, AL HELLO, FELLAS, HERE I AM WHICH ONE OF YOU GUYS WANTS TO TAKE ME ON? I WON'T HIT HARD, SUST PRACTICE A LITTLE 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 north ern 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: IBS. ed. representative of victim of lynching try by mob trying to lynch another. costs in tax levy. just member of mob last another county. 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 conducted, and the amount of the judgment and the number of counties 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 dis pursue such mob. (93 v. 163 11.) or 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 Sec. 12940. Whoever, besides the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, barbershop, 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, furnished 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 perseverance thereof to be recovered by any court 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. Would - Be Lynch - Murderers Still After Orphan Jones - Atty, Ades in the Case Again - Will continue the Fight. Baltimore, Md.—Fear that the innocence of Orphan Jones, sixty year old Afro-American farm-worker accused of murder, will be established if he is tried elsewhere than in lynch-infamed Worcester County, Md. has led landowners around Snow Hill and the "eastern shore" to fight every attempt of the International Labor Defense to transfer the trial. 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Zion Civic club, Sunday afternoon. His talk was interesting and instructive. He was elected from the Detroit district by a vote of about 60,000, including 4,000 Afro-Americans. Several months ago, he secured the passage of a bill which opened the $2,000,000 girls' dormitory of the University of Michigan to our girls as well as others. That legislation is necessary to accomplish this, in about all of the states of the union, is a fine parody upon the Constitution, a misuse of American citizenship, to say the least. Roxboro claimed credit also for All He Needs Is Every DON'T TELL ME YA ANT HITTIN' HARD DE AIR FROM DAT ONE SINGED ME UPPERCUT HIM RUBE, WIND IN IT, YOU'LL WEAR OUT THE FLOOR STANDING IN ONE PLACE He Needs Is Everything UPPER CUT HIM, RUBE . WHIP INTO IT, YOU'LL WEAR OUT THE FLOOR STANDING IN ONE PLACE HE WON'T STILL . I DO KNOW HOW GOT SO BANG UP HE DON'T NO CHANGE ```markdown ``` nical Co. GEORGIA forcing the Michigan U. "Varsity" team to accept a deserving athlete of color, and passing a civil rights bill in his branch which failed to get thru the lower house of the Michigan legislature. The Civic Club's speaker for this Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock will be Acting Mayor Harold H. Burton whose subject will be "Problems confronting us and Today the club in Mt. Zion Cong. church cor. E. 55th St. and Central Ave. Detective A. C. Harris, pres.; Atty. Francis E. Young, sec. SEIPLE AND ADAMS DISCUSS Industrial and Employment Problems of Our Workers. A round table discussion of the industrial and employment problems of the Afro-American worker was held, under the auspices of our local Welfare Association, in the private dining room of the P. W. A. Monday afternoon, which was attended by representative local leaders in social, civic, industrial, and affair affairs. Wm R. 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He was interested not only in finding jobs for our workers, during the present crisis, but also in maintaining lines of employment now held and securing new opportunities; that there should be some definite planning by those interested in the industrial welfare of the Afro-American worker to meet the problems with which he will be faced as the present defender of the nation, made by B. C. Sipie, supit of the State-City Employment bureau, and Mr. Edgar Adams, formerly of the Cleveland Hardware Co. Following, there was a round table discussion after which it was announced that the conference would hold other meetings; the next one later in the month when T. Arnold Hill, director of the department of the National Urban League, City City, the principal speaker. Mr. Hill was unable to come to the city, this week, as announced last week. be a si . fy g in Your bowels! 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C., last week. ‘The Gilpin Players presented two race plays, “Deep Dark” and ‘Coast wise,” at Karamu Theater, Dec. 9- 10-11, and will do so again tonight and Sunday evening. Mrs, Dollie Tanner and _ little daughter, of N. Y. City, visited the former's cousin, Mrs. Wm. Rosier Jackson of Everton Ave., during the ‘Thankegiving holidays, Physical examinations for candi- dates for patrolman (policemen) have been postponed from Dec. 15 to Feb. 1, ‘32, and the age limit raised from 30'to 33. Mrs, Mabel Blair, for ten years organist at Mt. Zion Cong. church until in recent weeks, was married, ‘Thanksgiving day, to Mr. Homer Collins of Piqua. The newlyweds are located in that city. The cases of former Councilmen Liston G. Schooley and Thos. W. Fleming of Cleveland were con- Unued by the Parole Board, last week, until January for further in- vestigation, Boys between the ages of 12 and 18 are invited to attend a meeting, Monday at 8 p.m. at King Tut Rest, 5610 Scovill Ave., to organize a Junior Elk herd which will have the usual activities of boy organiza- tions. ‘The holidays are near—when you Will have extra need of groceries of various kinds. Do not forget that ©. ©. Simon has the best at the low- est rates at 4707 Central Ave. His assistants are members of the race, too. Patronize his store. The left arm of Tony Horton, shattered by bullets in a vicious gang attack on the policy racket figure, Nov. 28, was amputated, late last week Thursday, by surgeons at Charity hospital. ‘Horton's condi- tion was “serious” but he is better Councilman Roy Bundy has been asked by the Lee Mason group of the League of Struggle for our Rights to explain, at a meeting. § D. m., Sunday, at 7937 Kinsman Ra., why "he voted against giving the hunger marchers food and shelter in Cleveland. Residents of Mt. Pleasant and up- per Kinsman districts are to have a musicale and frolic at Lafayette school, E. 125th St. and Abell Ave., Dec. 18, the proceeds of which wili be used'to provide Xmas baskets for needy families. An excellent pro- gram will be rendered. Be sure to attend. Billie Richardson, one of the s0- called four privileged policy bosses of the third councilmanic district, was indicted, Monday, by the grand jury on a charge of ‘purjury which arose as the result of his refusal to say he knew who shot at him, Jan. 26, this year. Richardson was ar- rested, recently. He was out on bond at the time. Schedule of Civil Service Examin- ations: Jan. 5, deputy-clerk. city: Jan. 6, filter-attendant, city; Jan. 7, line-foreman, signal ‘system, city: Jan. 8, food-inspector, city; Jan. 9, school-buflding custodian. ‘board; Jan. 12, Giterforeman, city; Jan. 13, bridge-operator, steam, city: Jan. 14, bricklayer, city and’ board: Jan. 15, location-engineer, county: Jan. 16, secretarial - stenographer. city and board: Jan. 19, park-fore- man, city; Jan. 20, elevator-opera- tor, county; Jan. 21, assist. civil en- gineer, city; Jan. 23, senior bacter- fologist, city; Jan. 23, sidewalk-in- spector, eity; Jan. 26, smoke-inspec- tor, city, THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1931. — me ee ——- —. RSrSaNSe ee eile Sere wer Ly are isms \|| es ae See ee ee. || weaces , \ ( Peete || PRAMS | ~ ; COAT AND 1 BY HUSBAND CANT KUSBANS HAS Stones Me Foun | MME Gor A << T. serie 4 Siece™ ||) Sexes |) Gem ||) Gece, aie y+ Stan vou ( Sauna ||\ Ter awoniee |P nthe as focearmeac-/\1- ‘pees boen S jie 5P 4 SAN AFFORD) OURE SORE ppg croton (IN We smenr Al( ace TA LTO SPEND T-Sideaare! 77 arne eT se) CaS, Ses 4 |\ SSeS. | ee’ | 5 > =e ey T, \ bocror / <- | \ b | S& sen. && Wy, N\ fo bese ei pes as RC 3} & a) a f / Zs 4 N| stem Soe Sere *‘ fy NY q at. ite Y P ron © 181 so! iN d Magn 4b ~<e Fat Ss) 9 S Sey» 7 4 | Ge Cl Sea\ Bates \ mom site rhe pooee (rem. Yt ae Me maeey | ve 1 | Se a i | ese > SHY, te a Lb! Wl SA ZA} An sneer Bes Pent Vv J a AF eS * xe Cy WANTED. — Work — part or full ime for a young girl; high schoo! graduate and stenographer. Jean- nette Russell, 7501 Central Ave. WANTED.—A needy mother of four children wants work, washing, cleaning or house work, if she can bring her baby with hor. Will also work in exchange for clothes for herself and four children. Address Mrs. Margaret Clark, 2181 W. 61 St. The Hon. Clarence J. Brown, Ohio's secretary of state, is a. state official who is proud of his Afro- American employees and not at all backward in stating the fact. State Treasurer Day of Fremont is an- other. Would that there were more Uke them, and there should be be- cause the Afro-American vote of this state Is a tremendously potent factor of the great Republican party of Ohio and entitled to much larger representation, locally and in state affairs than it' receives. It is about time that our so-called leaders in local and state politics awaken to this fact, too. QUEER CIVIL SERVICE, Civil sérvice is Infinitely superior to the spoils system, Hon. Harry E. Davié, civil service commissioner, said, ‘Sunday afternoon, in an ad- dress to St. James forum, 8401 Ce- dar Ave. “Civil service,” he said, “substitutes merit and fitness, thru ‘open competitive examinations, for political spoils. Long continuous ser- vice can be assured only by effici- eney and good conduct under the system." He also outlines the regu- lations for civil service examination and eligibility rules. — Cleveland Daily Plain Dealer. All of which ‘(the foregoing) needs an explanation. ‘There are grave doubts in the minds of many thotful people who have watched civil service ever since its Imauguration—in connection with federal, state, municipal and other local jobs—as to its being “infinite- ly superior to the spoils system.” ‘This, largely because it entirely too often fails utterly to protect skilled or “long continuous service.” Then there are civil service commission- ers like Mr. Davis who collaborated with Councilman Clayborne George to place a Mrs. Cansler in the clerk- ship, in this city’s street commis- sioner’s office, held until some weeks ago by Miss Chrystal Newsome who was the only representative of our women of this community in the employ of the city as a clerk or in a better position. Mrs. Cansler was given a special thirty-day permit. by the Civil Service Commission to fill the position in face of the fact that Miss Louise Cheeks, and others, had taken and passed civil service exam- inations for the place, quite a year ago. And yet Mrs. Cansler who had taken no examination at all is hold- ing the job, undoubtedly as the re- sult of a second special permit of thirty days, issued her by the Civil Service Commission. If this sort of thing is “infinitely superior to the spoils system,” we fail to see it. It this sort of “civil service substi- tutes merit and fitness, thru open competitive examinations, for politi- cal spoils,” we fail to see that, too. Miss Cheeks was eligible as the re- sult of civil service examinations, jand Mrs, Cansler was not for the [ery Sood rent tha the hail taka no civil service examinations. And | vet Civil Service Commissioner Harry |E. Davis collaborated with Council- |man Clayborne George to knock down the civil service system for the spoils system because the appoint- ment of Mrs. Cansler was clearly made by the Republican Civil Serv- ice Commission for the express pur- pose of promoting the councilman’s candidacy for re-election on Nov. 3, 1931. Mr. Davis should make his words square with his acts, or keep silent. HER IDEA OF ECONOMY HEAR! HEAR!! . The eS Pw R AVRO PARA? U WAG 2 Yi Beh Stee: R WHAT'S DOING! |. 2 nowertul, political Ssure in the third councilmanic district” which of course was a JOKE! Since that |time, it is rumored that a coolness [fas ‘arisen between him and Coun- eflman Roy Bundy who had “kid- ded” himself into believing that he |was “it.” Bender has been using |Bundy “as “a political stepping |stone” to a job, and now that he is settled in one that pays $7,500 a year, Bender doesn’t feel as he did toward Bundy before he got it. Therefore, the coolness between Bender and his heretofore “black man Fridas.” The period for the filtig of ap- plications for the examinations for patrolmen closed, Tuesday, and ac- cording to Wm. R. Conners, execu- tive secretary of our local ‘welfare association, about elgnty-seven men of our group registered for the ex. aminations. This is the largest number that has ever applied, and th great interest manifested i due to the activity of “The Old Rell able” Gazette, Atty. Louise Pridgeon and the ministers under the leader- ship of Mr. Conners. Classes are being held to train the candidates under his and Mrs. Pridgeon’s direc- tion, and the prospects are bright for a number of our men attaining high places on the list. ‘The following editorial from The Cleveland Press of Tuesday is sure rich; so true that The Rounder can- not refrain from republishing it: What About Coletti? Willie Richardson, a so-called king of the policy game in Cleve- land’s Roaring Third, is indicted for perjury. One of the counts of the indictment is extremely curious, It charges him with falsely testifying that Charles Coletti, a well-known gangster, did not shoot at him on uch and such a date. The curious thing about all this is that Coletti has not been arrested for the shoot- ing, nor has he been indicted for the shooting. If the Grand Jury knows that Coletti did shoot at Richardson and knows it with sufficient cer- tainty to indict Richardson for deny- ing it, one would think the Grand Jury had evidence enough to pro- ceed against Coletti also. Looks like Rufus Jones is In for 1 world of trouble. “Uncle Sam’ has Joined the local county prosecutor's office in the fight on the “policy king.” And Councilman Lawrence ©. Payne has been drawn Into the mess as the result of his effort to settle, with a payment made by Bil- Me Kichardson, one of the “big four” policy kings, a sult filed against Sergt. Emil Smetana for in- juries suffered by a woman in a policy raid which Smetana headed. Announcement has been made that the U. S. internal revenue depart- ment 1s about to prosecute Jones for failure to pay income tax on his huge earnings from the policy rac- ket. It also looks very much like @ number of the local police officers, whoso bank deposits, in recent months, are being probed, are in for a gruelling time, too. The bank accounts of Richardson and “Hot Stuf” (John B.) Johnson aro at present under scrutiny. Frank Hoge (white), the fourth of the “lottery kings,” is said to have paid income tax. ' Jones’ earnings are said to have been the largest of the “big four.” Ever since election, wo have wanted to call the attentiva of the many readers of “The Old Reliable” Gazetto to a fact that was made so prominent at the recent election that it ought to make a wonderful im- pression upon the few “Negroes” in this community, and elsewhere for that matter, who before election love to refer to themselves as ‘Demo- crats,”” The fact is, the small, al- most Insignificant vote the so-called “Negro” Democratic candidates in the third councilmanic district polled. Of the thousands of votes cast by Democrats in that. district, Mrs. Arneita Rodgers received less than 200; Rev. Ribbins, less than 300; Walter Brown, the veteran “Negro” alleged Democrat, less than |400, and G. C. Lacy, less than 600, | their total vote being less than 1400. Not even one white Democrat scems to have voted for any of them. Votes of other candidates, given to them in the P. R. count after election day, which increased their totals a ttle, were not cast for them, and are not and should not be considered in the above figures. “Negroes” are al- [Fete with Democrats, (white) before |election day. it seems, "Twas ever thus! FRIDAY and SATURDAY ,. .. . JS DOLLAR DAY BASEMENT STORE THE MAY COMPANY = ie oe! wera ae Beier ee é 8 ee) ua eee > 7 _ — ae co . a a ie, sa Tl oe ee . oA 2>. . <a ok ee 4 is i TELETYPEWRITER SWITCHBOARD ____ We, /SED IN TI Ss) Q = EEO TN ie DELL SYSTEM'S NEW a. American business has a new communication service at its dis- posal as the result of a system that places teletypewriter service on a nation - wide interconnecting basis over wires of The Ohio Bell Tele- Phone Company and those of the | American Telephone and Telegraph Company and associated companies of the Bell System. ‘The new sery- ico inaugurated throughout the country, recently, provides for the establishment and operation of cen- tral awitching exchanges for tele- typewriters — machines that type- write electrically over wires to @ distant teletypewriter. Any sub-_ serfher to this service can. obtain ‘connecton with the teletypewriter of ‘any other subscriber to the service within the same city or in a distant city, and this will permit the imme- lato transmission of letters, type- written statements, or other intor- mation between the two subseribers. In effect, the method used for inter- connection of the instruments is the same as that now employed in the telephone system. Tho new. tele- typewriter service will thus have the flexibility. ‘that characterizes the regitlar telephone service of the Bell companies. ‘The establishment of switching offices similar to tele- phone exchanges enables subscribers to the new service to call and secure connections just as they do for local or Tong distance telephone conver- 'sations. While their teletypewriter ‘lines are connected they may send or receive typed messages as desired. “The present teletypewriter sery- ice of the Bell System is furnished only in connection with private wires which are not connected to central switching points,” officials of The Ohio Bell Telephone Com- pany sald. | “Large concerns who are now |using teletypewriters on private | wires for inter-office’ use will, of |course, continue to use them ’ for | purposes of International adminis- jtration. The special value that it is expected American business will find in the Bell System's new tele- tory ts already being compiled. 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Clair Car to B 1060 st, By RUBE GOLDBERG 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 F Remains of a Coiba Tree in Santo Domingo to Which Columbus Moored His Ships. (Prepared by National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C.)—WNU Service. THE dark, unmarked Santo Domingo harbor into which Columbus three diminutive vessels sailed in 1492 soon will be lighted by a new lighthouse, a memorial to the Great Discoverer. Plans have already been chosen from those submitted by architects representing the United States and several countries of Europe. Although now modernized, Santo Domingo still retains much of its early Spanish aspect. "Oldest in the New world" and "First to be established by white men in America" are phrases of inevitable recurrence in any descriptive list of the historic buildings and ruins of this ancient city. The early colonists built for the centuries, and many edifices dating from the Sixteenth century are still in use. and regain some prestige by seizing the more defenseless colony of Jamaica. "Battle of the Crabs." According to legend, the defenders of Santo Domingo were aided by strange allies, and along the beach near Jaina the site of the traditional "battle of crabs" is still pointed out. The story runs that the invading forces encamped one night. With their nerves on edge from constant ambuscades and surprise attacks, they mistook the clattering of the large number of land crabs hereabouts for the hoof-beats of charging cavalry, and they were soon retreating pell-mell. Between 1730 and 1740 the population of the capital fell to about fifty hundred, but fifty years later it was again riding on one of its high tide of greatness as a Spanish colonial city, only to be overtaken within a decade by another period of adven The ministry of foreign affairs and other departments of the Dominican government occupy the old colonial palace of government—a spacious structure that was venerable long before the first buildings rose at James-town, Va. Surmounting a bluff which commands the entrance to the inner harbor rises the ancient Tower of Homage. Unshaken through the centuries this pioneer outpost of New world conquest seems to dream of the golden age when it guarded the key city of the far-flung empire of Spain in America. In the tower is a small barred aperture that sometimes is pointed out as the window of the cell in which Columbus was imprisoned before being sent back to Spain in chains—a statement that cannot be true, since Columbus' imprisonment took place in 1500, when the city was situated on the opposite bank of the Ozama river. The same hurricane that destroyed the home-bound fleet in 1502 so damaged the city that it was decided to rebuild it on the higher western side of the Ozama, the site it now occupies. House of the Admiral. Of the buildings now in ruins one of the most interesting is the castle of Diego Colon or House of the Admiral, the ancestral home of the Columbus family in America. Its construction was begun in 1500, when Diego Columbus, second admiral and son of the discoverer, came to Santo Domingo as governor of the colony. The house was occupied by members of the Columbus family until the death of another Diego, great-grandson of the discoverer and last of the direct line of his male descendants. Although the House of the Admiral has been allowed to fall into ruins, with its destruction further hastened by the vandalism of treasure-seekers, it historic walls will bear mute testimony to its former magnificence. It was to this and other pretentious mansions of the city that the chronicler Oviedo referred when in a letter to the king of Spain he said that his Royal Highness often lodged in palaces far inferior to those of Santo Domingo, and added that he considered the city superior to any in Spain in its location, beauty and arrangement. Fifty years after its founding, Santo Domingo had passed the apex of its first glory. Interest in the new colony was eclipsed by desire for further conquest, and its meteoric rise was almost equaled by the rapidity of its decline. From a goal, Santo Domingo became a base for expeditions farther westward. Cortez, Pizarro and Ponce de Leon were only a few of the gentlemen adventurers who sailed out of the mouth of the Ozam with their eyes strained for the glitter of gold on the western horizon. By 1586 the power of Santo Domingo had so waned that the capital fell an easy prey to Sir Francis Drake, and a ransom was extorted by methods smacking of the torture chamber. Each day proscribed buildings were demolished until about a third of the city lay in ruins. Then the citizens managed to scrape together a going-away present amounting to about $80,000 with which Drake took his leave after hanging a few prominent citizens by way of valediction. Of less stern caliber were the warriors of the Admiral Penn expedition which in 1655 was sent to the island by Cromwell with the object of gaining permanent possession of the colony. Landing on the coast west of Santo Domingo city, the English forces were met by determined resistance in their advance on the capital and were soon glad to leave Hispaniola and regain some prestige by seizing the more defensible colony of Iran. "Battle of the Crabs." According to legend, the defenders of Santo Domingo were aided by strange allies, and along the beach near Jainn the site of the traditional "battle of crabs" is still pointed out. The story runs that the invading forces encamped here one night. With their nerves on edge from constant ambushes and surprise attacks, they mistook the clattering of the large number of land crabs hereabout for the hoof-beats of charging cavalry, and they were soon retreating pell-mell. Between 1730 and 1740 the population of the capital fell to about five hundred, but fifty years later it was again riding on one of its high tides of greatness as a Spanish colonial city, only to be overtaken within a decade by another period of adversity. Now, after more than four centuries of varying fortunes and despite siege, earthquake, and tropical hurricane, the brave old city stands defiantly at the mouth of the Ozama—a little bewildered, perhaps, as if undecided whether definitely to capitulate to the march of modern progress or wait patiently a little longer for galeous long overdue. In the last thirty years the capital city has spread far beyond the limits of the old town. One with a romantic turn of mind could wish that the streets in the old part of the city had been allowed to retain their original names, but these have nearly all been rechristened in honor of men and dates prominent in the history of the Republic. Of the old names, only the "Street of Isabel the Catholic" remains, and much of its romance is dispelled by the traffic policemen who briskly "shoo" automobile along the narrow thoroughfares. Visitors may hunt a long time for a horse-drawn coche in which to drive about and view the city, but when one of the few left in commission finally is tracked down, they lack the moral courage to charter it for fear of being thought eccentric—or worse. It just isn't done any more. Ashes of Columbus There. The chief pride of the Dominicans is their faith that the ashes of Christopher Columbus rest within their cathedral at Santo Domingo. In 1795 Spain, having ceded Santo Domingo to the French, removed what its officials believed to be the ashes of the Great Discoverer to Havana. Upon the evacuation of Cuba by Spain in 1898, the Spanish government moved the Havana remains to Seville, Spain. But in 1877, while the Santo Domingo cathedral was being remodeled, another vault containing a leaden casket was found. As soon as the casket surface appeared everything was sealed, and in the afternoon the president and his cabinet, the members of the diplomatic corps, the bishops and Apostolic delegate, and many others assembled to witness the completion of the excavation and the opening of the casket. Outside and inside were found inscriptions which bear alike the name and the titles of Christopher Columbus. All present, including even the Spanish consul, joined in a notarial affidavit of the circumstances of the opening of the vault and casket and the description of their contents. The late American minister, Thomas C. Dawson, pronounced the evidence complete, and the late American secretary of state, Philander C. Knox, on his visit to Santo Domingo in 1912, declared that any impartial court would sustain the contention that all that is mortal of the Founder of the New World rests within the Cathedral at Santo Domingo. Charles G. Dawes, United States ambassador to Great Britain, while in Santo Domingo in 1829 as the head of a commission to work out a budget system for the Dominican government, made a study of the evidence and reached the same conclusion as Minister Dawson and Secretary Knox. One of the most tragic experiences in the history of Santa Domingo occurred in the afternoon of September 3, 1930, when a hurricane swept over the capital. Outside the walls of the stricken city the devastation was practically complete; inside the walls 70 per cent of the buildings were damaged and practically all of the 4,000 smaller homes were destroyed. Upwards of two thousand people were killed and six thousand were infurte' Hat-and-Muff Sets Fashion's Latest THE FASHION OF THE TWENTIES THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., Hat-and-Muff Sets By CHERIE DESIGNERS are as bisy as bees creating the most fascinating hat and-muff ensembles one may ever hope to see. These little sets which invariably include a muff—for not in decades have we been privileged to carry such intriguing muffs as the style program now offers—are mostly made of velvet which is shirred, smocked, ruffled, puffed and otherwise manipulated to the queen's taste. You will be finding one of these flattering sets just the thing to wear with your winter fur coat. Note the winsome velvet hat and muff which the smartly cloaked young woman to the left in the picture is wearing. Black velvet ribbon shirred in a full ruke effect makes the muff, a band of the same encircling the caplike turban which dips down over the right eye exactly as it should to be fashionable. The very charming hat-and-muff set which adds such a conspicuously outstanding note to the coat of black broadcloth which the seated figure, below to the right in the picture, is wearing, stresses the ever chic black-and-white note, for they say in Paris that the feeling for black and white is waning not a whit, which is some record when one considers the beguilment of the detectable colors shown on the fall and winter color card. The muff in this instance is especially interesting in that it is one of those tricky little affairs which is supposed to slide up the arm like a huge cuff when not in actual use. Sets which feature velvet in contrast, as does this one, are also being shown in brown or in dark green with beige bandings. The idea is that they be a perfect color match to the cloth of the coat or suit which they complement. There's simply no way of telling all the designful things that are being done with velvet in the creation of these sets which fashion decrees shall be worn with the afternoon suit or the street coat. One sees, per example, the hat with a brim crowned with velvet all puffed and shaved, the treatment repeated for the muff. Like as LAVISH WITH FUR THE FUR COAT Handsome evening wrap of transparent velvet trimmed with peach-belgie fex. The unique diagonal treatment of the fur bordering is typical of the new trend. This coat is three-quarter length and is worn over a gown of dull white velvet. Brown Predominates in Latest Suits and Coats Brown, combined with fall oak leaf tones, is the principal shade this season in women's suit-dresses and coats, with black, green and some dark blues also being favored. Tweed coats and coatjobs and woof suits with raccoon or blue fox collars are proving popular. Your Copy or an Acqu SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12. 1931 s Fashion's Latest NICHOLAS Every third county city, especially who refine vote for (Councilman Bundy), and thank this comm Triplets" by many serve as snap out diately in material color par coming to the proper to prior to of account were in a this as it during the men Geordone absc ward the against of partments should have instead of in order and jobs, the mini Every voter in the fourth and third councilman districts of this city, especially those of the race who refused on Nov. 3, 1931, to vote for "The Blossom Triplets" (Councilmen George, Payne and Bundy) are entitled to the praises and thanks of all of our people in this city, and are quite proper to say at this time, as it was prior to Nov. 3d, that their claims of accomplishments for the race were in a large degree untrue. Be this as it may, the fact remains that during the past two years Councilmen George, Payne and Bundy have done absolutely nothing toward the elimination of prejudice among our people in the apartments of the city. This they should have concentrated upon first instead of quietly submitting to it in order to secure a few positions and jobs. And this elimination to the minimum could have been accomplished, too. However, the basis of the greatest complaint against the Triplets' was their desire of the removal of their pledges to our people of the fourth and third councilman districts, and the city, "to do all in their power to help out Color-line Welfare Director Dudley S. Blossom." Instead of doing this, they should to secure Blossom's re-appointment in the face of the fact that for more than four years he had barred our women and women only from training in the police and the law institution maintained by the tax-payers of this city, climaxing this miserable mistreatment with the following coarse and insulting statement to one of our leading local ministers, Rev. Horace C. Bailey, and his motherless grandmother, when they called on him at the city hall to take the entrance of the latter to the Nurses Training school at the hospital: "No! no Negro boy or girl shall be as long as I am welfare director." TOY SAILBOAT AS DIPLOM The Good Ship "Uncle Stimson" vi to Fu "HUMAN NATURE'S 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 ob- durate heart. It does not feel for man; the natural bond Of brotherhood is severed as the flax y of The GA uaintance who not the ensemble will develop into a foursome, in that a shirred and puffed velvet neckpiece likewise a handbag will be added. Not infrequently velvet shares the glory with fur in that the two form an alliance in the making of these decorative ensembles. The black velvet hat and muff which is trimmed in whiteermine is a favorite theme with designers. One-color schemes are worked to perfection such as, for instance, brown velvet with mink trimmings for both muff and beret. The flat pelts such as caracul, galyak and astrakhan are especially favored since they permit of a fabriclike handling as they combine with the velvet. The little shoulder cape made of velvet banded row-and-wall with fur is exceedingly smart. Of course, in order to attain chic supreme it must be accompanied with fur and velvet. It is quite the thing, too, if one's muff be all of fur to adorn it with a huge velvet bow to match the velvet of one's but and one's neckpiece. Fact is there is a thousand and one ways in which velvet is partnership with fur in the making of the new hats, scarfs and muffs, and the game is to choose the set you like best and be the envy of your neighbors and your sister club members as they note the chic and charm of your appearance. The bag shown in the panel above is smart for formal afternoon 'or evening. It is the new long shape which fits the hand. It is closed under the flap with a talon fastener. The bow knot and bracelet are of pearls, for a revived flair for pearls is noted in the realm of jewelry. (© 1931, Western Newspaper Union.) WALKING DRESSES REVIVE PROMENADE Walking dresses are well in the running this season. The apparently lost pastime of the promenade is being revived and whether the lovely street frocks are a cause or a symptom it is not for us to discover. Wool, of course, is about the most popular fabric and is used in its various weaves, with the corduroy weave being a tremendous favorite. Despite the apparent simplicity of these frocks, there is a vast amount of the workmanship and detail about them and the furs are smartly used to complete the scheme, although the model must never be overburdened with fur trimming. Harmony and restraint must of necessity be the keynote of the really fine frock meant mostly for outdoor town wear. Modern Clothes Given Even if we sometimes cannot exactly date any particular coat or frock, there is little of the new gaias and gracies now in our uniform clothes. Why should it be necessary to tag a historical epoch onto a garment that is quite and picturesque with a touch or feature that is semi-nestful of other days? If any particular garment was definitely of the Second empire or of mid-Victorian days it would look dreadfully out of place in a modern building. No, the new clothes are splendidly up-to-date. Designers are far too wise to go in for sartorial anarchismus. They use just enough of the bygone styles to give a different look and feel to ultra-modern clothes. Dresses Grow Wider at Top in Latest Fashion Whether you have worried about narrow shoulders and wide hips as exhibited by your own figure or just let them go unnoticed, you will glory in the new fashion for making the dresses wider at their tops. This patterning does so much for feminine shapes that it is impossible to believe that it ever went out of style. CHASTENED! TOY SAILBOAT SERVES AS DIPLOMATIC FORCE The Good Ship "Uncle Stimson" visits America on a good-will voyage to Funday. WHEN Oh Orleans was writing FUNDAY, a daily journal for his two children, Judith and Julian, he did a drawing and a verse for every day in the year—365 in all. But he quite forgot that there was such a thing as Leap Year. This omission was corrected by a sketch and poem from Jan von Haeften, the infant grandson of Dr. Julius Curtius, German Foreign Minister. And thereby hangs a tale. On his birthday this youngster received a toy sailboat from Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State, and the letter of thanks written by the boy's family, pointing out that the gift was symbolic of the affection and friendship of the two nations received by the president in America. Mr. Orleans, whose family just been published, sent a copy to the young man, drawing specia attention to the verse he had writen ten for Armistice Day:— Soldiers fight by land and air, and Sailors fight by sea. And there are other things That I prefer to be. I'd rather build a bridge or house, I'd rather print a book, I'd rather take a ship or plane, I'd rather hike. It took a three-year night on the part of The Gazette and Councilman F. W. Walz's resolution, the first of last year, to make Director Blossom "eat those words." This, however, does not lessen the grievously insulting nature of the action, and promoted the prejudiced Blossom's reappointment. Their loyal constituents of color can not and will not forget this fact which can only be atoned for in the coming two years by the right kind of action on their behalf. The writer was among those who did everything in his power, as about everybody in this community knows, to encompass the defeat of "The Blossom Triplets" and all know why. He not only has no apology to make for the same but is proud of the fact that it was and simply an exhibition of intense loyalty to this race of ours which has characterized his work for fifty years of publication of "The Old Reliable" Gazette in this city. It was early last year that, led by Bumy, "The Blossom Triplets" particularly he and Payne, started an open fight to replace Councilman Herman Finkle and leader Alex Bernstein of the 12th Ward, our people in that section of the city have and now been the most important team for many months. Under cover "The Triplets" have kept the opposition ever since, with the result that Mr. Finkle secured on Nov. 3d, the largest first-choice vote in the third councilmanic district while Payne of the same district was given a greatly reduced vote and was lucky to be re-elected even with the help of votes transferred to him from other candidates. The abnormally large registration in the county accounts for Bundy's and Payne's success in a very great measure. It is common talk that the registered vote in each of these wards is from one to two thousand more than there are voters in them. AT SERVES MATIC FORCE visits America on a good-will voyage Monday. I'd rather farm or hunt or fish. I'd rather paint or write. Than spend my days just waiting for A chance to have a fight. When the book was received by young Jan, the interesting discovery was made that it had no picture and verse for Leap Year. So, I probably his Gift for Curtius, supplied the omission by sending Mr. Orleans the sketch shown here and a suitable verse to accompany it. According to many child psychologists, including Angelo Patri, the well-known authority, FUNDAY is the ideal children's book. Mr. Orlean's book opensings of his children's world through their own eyes, and has written the book for them, and not for the amusement of grown-ups. The naive画师 and straightforward verse have been reproduced in facsimile, exactly as they were written for Juicy, aged 8, and Jan. 30, who named the book "Misty Sunday." Mr. Orleans is, in public life, a prominent New York attorney who successfully argued in the Court of Appeals the case which defined and limited the powers of the Subbury Investigation Committee in New York. RACE PREJUDICE! "I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice; none at all! "I write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life not just because and to together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world." Attention: Readers: Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in the columns of "The Old Reliable" 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. After Read bscribe after Harry C. Smith ```markdown ``` THERE was a day when every lady knew her laces and had preferences between Battenberg, Alencon, Valenciennes, Venise, Cluny, Pish crochet and all the others. The last few years, however, we've learned to use a lighter or less shadow laces for dresses. But now the tide is turning. Laces are coming in — laces of all the beautiful kinds that used to be so famous and so greatly desired. Being made in America today are Venise replicas in durene cotton which actually confound the expert who think they "know their heirlooms." As shown in the illustration, Battenberg is coming back; and fine sheer open work embroidery. They are made of the sheerest dull cotton embroidered in durene cotton yarns. The tendency is for the background of all these new laces to have a duller and the motif or design to be of a semi or low-lustered thread. PICTORIAL REVIEW 5541 A GRACEFUL YOKE The drop-shoulder line is a youthful line, and one of the loveliest we know. Here it is achieved by a graceful bend, and tends half-way down the bodice. Short sleeves, trimmed with flares which just cover the elbows, and girdle sections knotting directly in front are two other youthful features. Notice the slender pointed yoke in front it is very flattering. Double georgette sweep, and sheer cotton are all suitable for a small weakness for cotton, particularly for the young. This is an excellent candidate for graduations. The Truth! 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, wear our malign us and even even our valor and we are not unanimously insulted. It seems impossible to establish unanimity of insult in the black race.—Chicago (ill.) Whit. 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 to make some money. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Columbus, Toledo, Steubenville, Zanesville, Wilmington, Xenia, Washington, C. H. Lancaster, Digua, 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 us the addresses of persons in the cities named, and others in the state, to whom we can write relative to the matter. Editor.