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Brascher Gives Negro Outlook With Herbert Hoove President "The Public Be Served" An Independent Weekly Devoted To the Best Interests of All VOLUME II. NUMBER 2. Still a Star Ethel Waters. Ethel Waters, internationally known blues queen, who filed a voluntary bankruptcy plea a few weeks ago, is at present a big attraction at Orphoum circuit theatres. She has given up musical comedy ventures since the ill-fated "Miss Calico" and "Africana." ARM SEVERED BY FAST TRAIN Lying face downward by the side of the railroad track near 19th Avenue and Broadway, his left arm severed from his body, Eriass Berry, 38, of 2241 Madison street, was discovered early Sunday morning by a man whose name was not learned. He had been struck by a train as he was walking along the westbound main track. He says that he was by himself at the time and did not see the train until it was upon him. There were no witnesses to the accident. The unidentified man, on discovering Berry's unconscious body, notified the garage attendant at 19th avenue and Broadway, who in turn called police. The victim was rushed to St. Antonolo's hospital by Sergt. George Humeau's squad. His condition is called critical. Jazzin The News (The week's news in verse) By F. MARSHALL DAVIS Trustees shoot the pastor as he en ters door Told him he could not preach there any more Carey must quit his job the politicians tell He may go back to preachin' an savin' folks frumel Hoover's good for Negrees, N. D. Brascher writes Says to us to have no fear of Dixie lily-whitees. Negroes are the heroes as the Vest tris goes down Saved themselves and 39 as they're about to drown Convicts leave their prison to roam around at night And when you want a bargain, just scan an AMERICAN ad! Red Hot News SHANKS TRIAL STARTS In trial for his life here is David Shanks, 24 to last Aug. killed Jennie Constance, Northwest-cher-student, in a robbery. It was one of the crimes ever to happen in Cook county. Shanks CHICAGO.—On trial for his life here is David Shanks, 24 year old moron, who last Aug. killed Jennie Constance, Northwestern university teacher-student, in a robbery. It was one of the most sensational crimes ever to happen in Cook county. Shanks pleads insanity. ON BOARD VESTRIS special)—Eight Harlemites were on sunk off the Virginia coast. The James Headley family, Misses and Walter Cadogan. The Headleys to the West Indies after a visit to on, bound for Barbados, and C. I. NEW YORK CITY.—(Special)—Eight Harlemites were on board the ill-fated Vestris which sunk off the Virginia coast. The list included five members of the James Headley family, Misses Germaine and Daphne Julian, and Walter Cadogan. The Headleys are reported as lost. Returning to the West Indies after a visit to New York were Agnes N. Johnson, bound for Barbados, and C. I. W. Johnstone of Trinidad. THREE BANDIT-KILLERS CAUGHT 22; Napoleon Glover, 19; and Van notured by Sergt. Reynold's squad 43rd street and South Parkway, or Lucas, 45, half owner of a drug ing a holdup earlier in the evening. Metlock, who lived above a drug ry robbed that store. After killing is pockets and escaped. They were CHICAGO.—Norgan Swan, 22; Napoleon Glover, 19; and Van Yedder Dontaerax, 22, were captured by Sergt. Reynold's squad at the Tyson apartment hotel, 43rd street and South Parkway, after the youths had killed Peter Lucas, 45, half owner of a drug store at 3859 State street, during a holdup earlier in the evening. Sunday night they killed Charles Metlock, who lived above a drug store at 4501 State street, as they robbed that store. After killing him for protesting, they riffled his pockets and escaped. They were captured without bloodshed. NO FEAR IN CHANGES OF DIXIE HEADS Says De Priest Will Be Seated; New Day At Hand (By Associated Negro Press) CHICAGO—The tumult and the shouting are over. Herbert Hoover will be the next president. The "I Told You So," association is holding daily sessions, and, the "Alibi Club" is giving out statements of "if" and "however." Various newspapers, daily and otherwise, and various wiresacres, local, and national, if not always so wise, are describing the part colored America played in the national game, and what position will be taken, or forced in the coming days. Some have said this was the first year Democrats ever "went after the Negro vote." The record, of course, belies this. The Democrats have always gone "after the Negro vote," north, in all national elections since enfranchisement, and has always had a goodly number. Grover Cleveland made outstanding appointments and had zealous adherents. Bishop Walters and Monroe Trotter earnestly supported Woodrow Wilson in his first election, only to be humiliated by Wilson's ignoble double crossing after getting in the White House. Four years ago the racial Democratic wing was directly in national headquarters, instead of being camflaged in outside locations with more or less dubious names. Probably 1928 furnished the largest number of colored voters who protested against Republican sins of omission by voting for Al Smith. The proportion at that, however, except in New York and St. Louis, was not anything like many anticipated, and some seem yet to think. Better than 70 per cent of Chicago Negroes voted for Hoover. Arthur Sears Henning of The Chicago Tribune makes the bold statement in one of his articles that not many Negroes voted for Hoover, therefore they cannot expect much from the incoming president. As a matter of fact, colored America expects more from Mr. Hoover than from any other previous president. Their expectations are based on Americanism and not on color. The thoughtful men and women of the race are expecting Mr. Hoover to live up to the principles he enunciated before and since the election that sectionalism shall be wiped out, that common sense, under Divine guidance, will be used, and that the "Door of Opportunity" will be opened to all, without regard to religion or race. New Leadership in the South There will be new leadership in the South, and this will probably be white, for the most part. But this is no less true in the North, where the race, in recent years, has made its largest political advancement. It is true in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Kansas City, and other locations where the largest advancement Continued on page 3 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1928 KILL PASTOR IN DOOR OF CHURCH Negros Save 39 At Sea Four Convicts Leave Prison Every Night To Rob SLAYING IS RESULT OF CHURCH WAR Three Trustees Also Shot During Riot At Terre Haute (Special To The American) TERRE HAUTE—Because he dared to enter the doors of the Sincere Baptist church here Sunday evening after he had been ousted by the trustees, the Rev. Obediah Thompson was shot four times by church officials and almost instantly killed. After falling dead to the floor, his face and neck were hacked and slashed with a razor in the hands of infuriated members of his congregation. As a result of the slaying, four trustees are being held in jail here charged with murder. They are: Van Williams, 36; James Martin, 38; James Hill, 47, and David Sutton, 48. Two of these men were in injured in the free-for-all fight. Jeff Makins, 42, a fifth trustee, is in a hospital here with a bullet wound in his neck from which he may recover. A murder charge is to be lodged against him. Factional Dispute The killing of the minister brought to an end a dispute between two warring factions in the church. Some members sought to oust Rev. Thompson; others favored retaining him. But the trustee board decided finally that the preacher had to go. Accordingly, they arranged for the Rev. James W. Butler to fill the pulpit at the Sunday evening services. So when Thompson appeared as the church Sunday evening, he was met by Martin, one of the trustees. "You're fired," Martin told the pastor. "We don't want you here any more. Get away and stay away." Rev. Thompson listened in silence. Then he turned abruptly and went home. A few minutes later he returned. Witnesses say that he brought his gun back with him. To Force Entrance Nobody is positive as to what actually happened when Thompson returned. Stories differ. It is the general opinion, however, that Thompson started to enter the church door. James Ewing, a friend of the pastor, was with him. Somebody is said to have struck the minister over the head with the butt of a gun. Ewing grabbed Trustee Martin. It is said that then the trustees whipped out revolvers and began shooting the preacher as he slumped to the floor from the blow. Confusion reigned. Many shots Continued on page 3 HAMILTON, B. W. I.—The most amazing situation ever uncovered in the annals of crime was brought to light here recently on the island of Bermuda when it became known that four convicts undergoing sentences in the St. George's jail for crimes including manslaughter and burglary had been in the habit of wandering about the country at night and breaking into grocery and other shops for delicacies of food and tobacco denied them in prison. The singular case came to light when the convict-burglar were apprehended in a grocery store. Two Are Colored Folk More Prosperous Than Ever? BY KURIOUS K'TIE more prosperous than question? Do you think you am giving you two more for answering the first orders below. Maybe YOU at the others say. And ARY Y.M.C.A. tion of both, for the rest getting better wages, a campaign, the number of this dry crusade. We are and I think because endthrifts. If we are ap- pose we immediately exce- come up to that we want ROOSEVELT SCHOOL that colored people have the instances less, but I take to greater advantage of them buying homes prosperity." LIFE— superous. They spend a TLOCK— superous. They are earn- to see better results ear- nobiles. Of course the the thrity one, but on t property." ST BISHOP O 'BIG BILL' Commissioner result of Dene and Jury Invest "Are colored people more prosperous than formerly or merely more spendthrift?" How's that for a question? Do you think you could do much good answering it? But here I am giving you two more. If this keeps up, there don't be much space left for answering the first one. Look over the answers below. Maybe YOU will get a chance next week. Anyway, read what the others say. And disagree, if you want to. MR. GORDON, SECRETARY Y.M.C.A.— "They are a combination of both, for the reason that they have more with which to do. We are getting better wages, and, as was mentioned by Mr. Hoover during the campaign, the number of automobiles and homes we have is a result of this dry crusade. We are more prosperous than we have been in the past and I think because of that prosperity we are inclined to be greater spendthifts. If we are approached with a request for money for a good cause we immediately exclaim, 'Oh, times are very hard!' But if something comes up that we want we always find money for it." MRS. LYTLE, TEACHER ROOSEVELT SCHOOL— "I really believe that colored people have learned to save more. They are making in some instances less, but I think they are learning to place what they do make to greater advantage. Looking over the people here, there are more of them buying homes now than formerly, and I think it indicates real prosperity." MRS. MEANS, HOUSEWIFE— "They are more prosperous. They spend more, it is true, but they have more to spend." ALDERMAN A. B. WHITLOCK— "They are more prosperous. They are earning more money and saving more. We are able to see better results each year. They buy more property and more automobiles. Of course the man who buys the automobile generally is not the thrifty one, but on the whole they are saving more and buying more property." MOVE TO OUST BISHOP CAREY FROM 'BIG BILL'S' CABINET CHICAGO.—Bishop Archibald J. Carey, astute A. M. E. churchman and member of Chicago's civil service commission, may be asked to resign from his post a result of the wrecking on Nov. 6 of the once powerful Crowe-Thompson republican machine which started on the downward path in last April's primaries. This announcement was made last week. Demands by prominent citizens, individual members of Mayor Thompson's committee of 100, his personal friends who are a part of his cabinet and who wish only to see that Thompson acquits himself with some credit before his term ends, and insistence by the Emerson-Brundage-Barrett-Snow group, now dominant in the republican party organization, that the G. O. P. in Chicago become not only respectable but responsible. Investigation Result The proposed ousting of Bishop Carey and a large number of other high city officials is one of the re cts Leave Pri Two Burglars, Caugh Robbery, Escape Prison Caught At Escape Back To Two Burglars, Caught At Scene Of Last Robbery, Escape Back To Their Cells escaped and returned to their prison cells. The other two were captured by police. When grilled, the four men said they had enjoyed this unusual freedom for several months. Through this confession, police say they believe they can now solve several mysterious burglaries. The men's methods were simple. One of them was a "trusty," and --- dougorous than formerly or merely more you think you could do much good you two more. If this keeps up, there being the first one. Maybe YOU will get a chance next says say. And disagree, if you want to. A.A. h, for the reason that they have more better wages, and, as was mentioned by the number of automobiles and homes aside. We are more prosperous than buck because of that prosperity we are If we are approached with a request mediately exclaim, 'Oh, times are very that we want we always find money ELT SCHOOL— people have learned to save more. less, but I think they are learning ter advantage. Looking over the peo- buying homes now than formerly, and they spend more, it is true, but they they are earning more money and sav- results each year. They buy more course the man who buys the au- one, but on the whole they are saving SHOP CAREY BILL'S' CABINET S missioner, Other Heads of Deneen Faction by Investigations culs of the special grand jury investigation which started with investigating the election day murder of Octavius Granady, candidate opposing Morris Eller in the famous "bloody 20th" ward. The investigation turned to crooked politics, payroll padding, and vice conditions. Oscar De Priest and Dan Jackson were indicted as a result of these investigations. This special jury linked the name of Bishop Carey with an attempt to sell certain jobs with the city to private individuals. As the churchman-politician is a Thompsonite and a Negro, this was pouenced upon and held by the opposition as evidence to prove his unfitness for office. It is not known, however, whether or not this proposed ousting will take place in the near future. Two young men want quiet room in respectable family. Twin bids preferred. Rates must be reasonable. Leave address or telephone number with Mrs. Wallace. Gary 2-3865. Pison Every Night At Scene Of Last Back To Their Cells worked as a cleaner in the police office. He found a duplicate pass key which opened the cell doors of he and his friends and the door in a jail wall. Armed with this, it was a simple matter to slip out after the evening count and get back in their cells before the morning checkover. On one of their nightly jaunts, they paused in Market square, the ROOM WANTED PRICE THREE CENTS IN IURCH At Sea EBON SEAMEN OF 'VESTRIS ARE HEROES Ocean Takes Toll of Black Passengers On Board Ship BULLETIN NEW YORK CITY.—(Special). Five New York City Negroes, all members of the same family, are among those missing in the Vestris sea disaster. They are: Mr. and Mrs. James Headley, with their children, Marion, 6 years old; Mildred, 5 years old, and Audrey, 3 years old. They were third class passengers. Mrs. J. F. Thompson, of Montreal, Can., is also listed as missing. She was traveling as a first class passenger. The coast guard cutter Tucker recovered the body of a Negro about 240 miles off the Virginia coast, the scene of the disaster. (Gary American Press Service) NEW YORK CITY.—(Special)—Four Negroes, all members of the crew of the ill-fated Lamport and Holt liner Vestris which went down at sea Monday, are heralded as heroes by the 220 survivors who arrived here on board the American Shipper and the German liner Berlin, the French Myriam, and the American Wyoming. Many of the crew of the Vestris were Negroes. Lionel Licorice, a diminutive quartermaster on the Vestris, and a native of the Barbados islands in the West Indies, is one of the four praised for heroic work. He is said to have saved 20 lives singlehanded. Took Charge Of Boat "That Negro did what the officers of the Vestris tried to do." said Alfredo Ramos, star South American swimmer, who was rescued by Licorice after swimming and floating for 14 hours. "He took charge of boat No. 14 and not only saved the passengers but occasionally jumped out to catch an oar or helpless passengers floating in the water. By the time the American Shipper picked up the boat he had saved 20 lives. "I cannot say that the officers of the Vestris could be praised for their endeavors to save us. The quartermaster was the only member of the crew who exerted himself in our behalt." Loose Lifeboat Equally as well praised are Archibald Bannister, boatswain's mate; Joseph Alexcel, seaman, and Fred Myricle, seaman. Every survivor save one of the 23 aboard the Berlin Night To Rob Last ice of his key of he a jail simple evening bills be anunts, e, the "gay white way," of St. George, listened to a band concert, and exchanged critical comment on the music with bystanders. On another occasion they broke into one of the public houses, or barrooms, and removed a quantity of liquor and a dice box. The gambling outfit, a few bottles of rum, a quantity of canned food, and several packages of cigarets and tobacco were found hidden beneath the wooden floors of their cells. Prison dress in Bermuda is white cahss coat and trousers, which is similar to almost universal summer dress of white linen crash. THE FEDERAL NATIONAL PRESIDENT Ras Taffari, progressive emperor of Abyssinia, the African nation, photographed with King George of England, whom he recently visited. The Ethiopian ruler has negotiated with Dictator Mussolini of Italy for the establishment of a railroad in Abyssinia and it is rumored that an ambassador will be sent to Rome. Y.M.C.A. PLANS BIG PROGRAM OF INTEREST TO GARY PUBLIC FATHERLESS MAN SLAYS HIS MOTHER AS SHE LIES ASLEEP Plans for future development of the Hunton branch of the Y. M. C. A. by fostering interesting community programs are being made by the committee of management, according to an announcement made Wednesday by Secretary Gordon. That the public realizes the Y. M. C. A. is a great constructive organization is evidenced in the large attendance at the Sunday afternoon meetings at the branch which are open to both men and women. Nationally known speakers appear on these programs and render interesting talks. The next of these meetings is to be held Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock when Executive Secretary B. W. Overton of the Cincinnati Y. M. C. A. will be the principal speaker. Future events include the annual Father and Son banquet, an eagerly anticipated event, and the City-wide FATHERLESS MAN MOTHER AS Savoy Head Plans Big Gary Night J. Edgar "Duke" Hodges, affable advertising and promotion manager of the million dollar Savoy ballroom, Chicago's big pleasure place at 47th street and South Parkway, was scheduled to be in Gary today to lay plans for the holding of a special Gary night at the Savoy. This special night is to be a feature held especially for Gary citizens, if plans now being laid are carried out. The Savoy already has a number of other features, including the Friday night collegiate dance, the Saturday night Derby, the Sunday matinee, and others. Managing Director Tom Cross and Mr. Hodges are of the opinion that the proposed Gary night feature will be successful. REV. HAWKINS INJURED IN FALL AT RESIDENCE Rev. Charles Hawkins, pastor of the First Baptist church here, slipped and fell Saturday evening while in the basement of his home at 2440 Adams street and has since been confined to his bed. His injury would not permit him to preach Sunday morning. His injury is not serious, and he is expected to be well within a few days. Life would be dull if we knew what it was all about. Older Boy's conference, an entirely new feature which will be sponsored this year by the boy's work committee of which W. W. Cooke is chairman. The membership committee, chairmained by Dr. Royal W. Grubbs, is hoping to greatly increase membership in the organization through a drive which is to soon get under way. A new feature of the drive will be the introduction of the emblem system. Persons securing five members will receive a gold emblem on a red background with a gold border. For 25 members the emblem will consist of a gold emblazoned "Y" with a border of sapphires. It will also be on a red background. Negro History week and Negro Thrift week are also to be observed this year. The programs will come under the direction of the educational department chairmaned by Justice W. C. Hueston. NEW YORK CITY. — Tring of hearing it said that he was an illegitimate child, Arthur Wright, 22, decided that the "only thing to do" was to kill his mother, Mrs. Ada Wright, 54. Therefore he arose Sunday morning at daybreak, smoked a cigarette, then got a flatiron and pounded his mother's head to a pulp. Then he went to the cellar, got a hatchet, and tried to sever his mother's head from her shoulders. Sitting down, he smoked another cigarette. He was found in this position when police, summoned by the dead woman's cousin, arrived at the scene. "I'm the young man you want," he told officers. "I murdered my mother. I couldn't stand it any longer. I have heard since I was five years old that I was an illegitimate child. My mother would always say that my father died when I was very young. So I decided to kill her." Anna Darty, the dead woman's cousin, was sleeping beside the mother when Wright attacked her. Terror-stricken, she leaped from the bed and ran screaming to the street to summon police. They found Wright smoking unconcernedly when they arrived. He told his story without emotion. On being taken to the police station, he asked only that he be supplied with plenty of cigarettes. WOMAN DROPS DEAD COVINGTON. Va.-Mrs. Pannie Brown dropped dead Monday in the basement of Jeter School where she was employed as a janitress. NORDIC 'HEREDITY MONGERS' ARE RIDICULED BY SCIENTIST NEW YORK.—"Heredity mongers" who claim superiority for blond Nordics are sharply ridiculed by George A. Dorsey, author of "Why We Behave Like Human Beings" writing in the November issue of "Plain Talk" on "Race and Civilization Specialists." Mr. Dorsey traces the development of the race superiority theories from Count Gobineau and the successive emphasis on "Aryan," "Tentonic" and Nordic. Of Madison Grant, author of the "Fassing of the Great Race" Mr. Dorsey writes that he knows many "facts" unknown to anthropologists. Other contemporary writers of this sort whose facts and theories are found wanting on examination include Henry Fairfield Osborn, Dr. BLACK SEAMEN WRECK HEROES (Continued from Page 1) owed his life directly to the heroism of these three men. The three seamen had leaped overboard into the water. When they saw vessels capsizing, Bannister swam back to the sinking ship and succeeded in launching a lifeboat unlaid. Picking up Alexcel and Myricle, he piloted his boat to the relief of overcrowded lifeboats and those who were swimming in the water. Bravery Lauded "We had given ourselves up for lost when we saw the Negroes coming to our relief," said one of the rescued passengers. "So sure were we all was over that we told them to save themselves and not bother with us. "But they refused to desert us and at the peril of their own lives stood by until we were all transferred to their boat and then to the Berlin. It was the bravest thing I have ever seen." Bannister was one of the last to leave the sinking ship. He gave one of the most clear and technical accounts of the disaster. He believes that Capt. Carey and Radio Operator O'Loughlin perished. Move Offices To Gary State Bank Building Move Offices To Gary State Bank Building MORE OFFICES TO -GA...JB August A. Bremer and Robert 0. 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BURTON SUITE-TEN 366 East 47th Street CHICAGO, ILLINOIS --- Bravery Lauded Ellsworth Huntington, Professor William McDougall, Lothrop Stoddard, Edwin M. East, and Albert Edward Wiggam who "has broadcaet more false views about race and civilization than any other one man." "The chief difference between the heredity mongers and the Ku Klux Klan," writes Mr. Dorssey, "is the difference between kid gloves and a night gown—they have the same ethics. There is no problem of race and civilization; they know. Mr. Dressey summarizes the available evidence of authorities in medicine, biology and anthropology to showw the falsity of the heredity mongers' doctrines. "Our problems," he concludes, "are not those of race and civilization, but of too little understanding and too much prejudice." Canada To Deport Marcus Garvey Canada To Deport Marcus Garvey (By Associated Negro Press) QUEBEC, Can—Marcus Garvey; intrenant president of the Universal Negro Improvement association, was scheduled to leave here for his home in Jamaica Saturday as a result of an order issued by the Canadian go- vernment stamping Garvey as an undesirable visitor and decreeing his department. Mr. Garvey had just arrived here from England. It is believed that he had intended to remain in Canada and direct the work of his organization among the Negroes of the United States. His first action was to make a public recommendation that the Garveyites should vote for Alfred E. Smith for president. Mr. Garvey declared that Mr. Smith was a more human and liberal man than Hoover and that Smith represented the masses, whereas Hoover represented the classes. He charged that the aid and comfort which Hoover had given interests which were exploiting Liberia would set that country back one hundred years. What Mr. Garvey's next step will be is uncertain. After his release from the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, he was deported to his home, but later went to England, where he has been speaking to unsympathetic audiences. The United States seems to be the most fruitful field for his labors, but there does not seem to be any way for him to get close enough to do any effective work. WANTS LE AND JACKSON REMOVED TO MISSISSIPPI JACSON, Miss. — President-elect Hoover's breaking up of the solid south has had one amusing result. Believing that the bodies of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson would be "defied" if they continued to remain in Virginia, since that state has gone republican, State Senator Castee has introduced into the Mississippi legislature a bill to remove the bodies of the two famous confederates to "demonocratic soil" in his home state. 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When, therefore, we suggest that infliction of such punishment upon a fifteen-year-old girl is inhumane and unjust, no reflection or censure of the court is intended or implied. "We make this suggestion in the belief that no fifteen-year-old child has reached the maturity of judgment necessary to commission of the premeditated and cold-blooded murder for which the law prescribes its NO DELAY IT TER st come into our store, n and the rest in small dry. Delicately etched, 18-k White Gold Ring, 5 small diamonde, $19.50 50c A WEEK Dunhill Lighter and Cigarette Case. Triple plate, engine turned Set $3.50 Masonic Ring, 14-k rose gold diamond as illu- strated. $19.50 ANDY DIRECTOR OF GARY FIRMS WHO GUARANTEE PRODUCTS & SERVICE RESIGNATION I've never ceased to smile Nor have I shed a tear; I'm happy all the while Although you aren't near. No face disturbs my dreams— No voice brings memories; I never even sigh, it seems, Nor re-live ecstasies. No kisses haunt me now; Your letters lie unread, And tho' I wear a facile brow My heart is dead. —M. Steptoe. extreme penalties. The spirit of humanity protests, against so dreadful a punishment of a fifteen-year-old girl, who in all probability obeyed her primitive instincts and impulses because she lacked even the measure of discipline and education given the average white child of similar age. "If the fifteen-year-old culprit belonged to the white race, we have no doubt that powerful intercession would have been made in behalf before now. The fact that she happens to be a Negro should not doom her to lifelong imprisonment from which her youth should shelter her. We do not believe the ends of justice can be served by an injustice to child offenders. And accordingly we hope that ways will be found to moderate this sentence to a degree consistent both with the safety of society and the modern principles of child welfare as applied in our juvenile courts." 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Miss Georgia Washington, petite artist, spent Saturday theatre-going in Chicago. The "We Modern" club will meet Friday evening with Miss Juanita Barton, Gary's school dentist. The Roosevelt Annex carnival and Minstrel was a huge success, with Glenn McAdoo in the leading role. Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Guy attended the opera Saturday night in Chicago. Miss Juanita Williams witnessed a presentation of Alda by the Chicago Civic Opera last week. Mrs. Margie Woodfolk spent Sunday with her parents in Chicago. Returning Monday Mrs. Woodfolk had as her guests the Messrs. Montgomery, her father, brothers and two cousins, who spent the day with her in her home, 1918 Mass. Miss Reynolds, who was formerly supervisor of sewing at Tuskegee Institute, is the now sewing teacher at the Annex. Miss Reynolds spent last week end in Chicago and while there in company with Mrs. Lytle and Miss Jackson, attended the recital given by the pupils of Mary Bruce Dancing Class at the 8th street theatre. 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Delicious Food, Prompt Service, Fair Prices Try our food and service and be convinced of the superior quality of our dishes, as well as the fairness of our prices. GOLDEN WEST LUNCH ROOM 1912 BROADWAY ```markdown ``` ♦ ♦ ♦ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ ♦ ♦ ♦ + + + ♦ ♦ ♦ + + + + + + ♣ ♠ ♡ ♣ ♣ ♣ iary in Chicago. Thanksgiving morning, will see Dr. Clay or Mrs. A. S. Johnstone. The Business Men's Club is arranging for its annual exhibit Nov. 26, 27 and 28. The programs promise to be interesting and the booths "won't quit." This is looked upon as the annual "event classique" and the three nights will be "jam full" of events and spectators. The St. Augustine P. E. Church extends a cordial invitation to the public to be present at a special service Sunday afternoon at four o'clock. Father Weaver of Evanston Ill. will conduct the service. There will be a social hour after the service. The City Federation of Clubs will meet next Wednesday at the Stewart House from 1:30 to 4:00 p.m. The public is invited. The Wednesday Bridge club met with Mrs. W. W. Cook, 2319 Adams st. The Social Art and Embroidery Club met last Thursday at the home of Mrs. Frank Nelson 2229 Adams .. Miss Gueenie Robinson, hostess. Attendance was very good and Miss Robinson proved an excellent hostess. Club meets this Thursday with Mrs. Alice Brady, 507 W. 21st st. St. James A. M. E. Church is making elaborate preparations for its dedication service to take place the second Sunday in December. Bishop Carey will assist at the ceremonies. + + + A young people's program and contest will be given Sunday, Nov. 18 at 3:00 p. m. at Jones' Community Church, Ood-Carriers' Hall, 21st and Wash. st. Prizes will be awarded contestants. The public is invited. The 44th precinct will have a get- together meeting Friday at 5:00 p. m. at the home of Mrs. Nina Carter, 2612 Fillmore. Mrs. Marie Cook, prec cinct committee-woman. Mrs. Bringesty, 1944 Maryland, is entertaining the Willing Workers club of First A. M. E. 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MARSHALL DAVIS, Managing Editor TELEPHONE GARY 2-3865 Associated Negro Press, National Negro Press Association, and Exchange Press. SUBSCRIPTION RATES on price, for a limited time only, $1.00 per year three cents. No subscriptions accepted for sends who favor us with manuscripts for public articles returned they must in all cases ea second-class mail matter at the post-office at of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1928, by the Incorporated. OREIGN ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE Mailing & Company, 176 West Adams Street e Franklin 2468. Humbard Associated Negro Press, National Negro Press Association, American Press Association, and Exchange Press. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Subscription price, for a limited time only, $1.00 per year in advance. Single copies, three cents. No subscriptions accepted for less than one year. If our friends who favor us with manuscripts for publication wish to have rejected articles returned they must in all cases send stamps for that purpose. Entered as second-class mail matter at the post-office at Gary, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1928, by the Gary American Publishing Co., Incorporated. FOREIGN ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES: J. V. Houghtaling & Company, 176 West Adams Street, Chicago, Illinois, Telephone Franklin 2468. THAT SCHUMANN-HEINK AFFAIR Some of the teachers in the local schools are engaging in quite an extensive whispering campaign. They are whispering they were assigned at the Schumann-Heink recital Sunday afternoon. We call it a whispering campaign because we have as yet been unable to find anyone who will speak loud enough for officials of the Gary school board to hear. Nor have we located anyone who says that he or she protested to the concert management about the alleged Jim Crow seating arrangement. We are advised that it was possible for these same teachers to reserve their seats some ten days before the concert was given. A diagram of the entire auditorium was accessible to all. A seat in any part of the auditorium could have been reserved. Yet most of the teachers waited until Saturday or Sunday before getting their tickets. Some sought seats together. Others, who made early reservations, compared notes and went to the auditorium knowing in what general locality they and their friends would be sitting. The Negro teachers, so it is whispered, were herded together in a few rows beneath the balcony. Those not assigned to this section were given seats in the balcony. That is the story the disgruntled ones tell. On the other hand, a number of patrons say that they were given seats in all sections of the first floor. They expressed surprise when the alleged segregation was mentioned to them. In view of the facts as we have found them, we say that certain people are making fools of themselves in a very complete and vigorous manner. Some people are afraid to recognize segregation when they see it, or some teachers are making the lot of the Negro harder by raising false cries of jim-crowism. Those who believe they were segregated should have returned to the box office and protested then and there. Their whispering gets them nowhere. The incident is closed. Let them safeguard themselves at future concerts, if they think they have been mistreated. But we want no false cries of "wolf." MONKEYSHINES AND TWO DEAD MEN Two of the states ruled by the great Nordic superman that Lothrop Stoddard and Madison Grant have written about in such a voluminous manner have shown us again that accounts of the superiority of this great blonde beast's intellect have been slightly exaggerated. We refer specifically to Arkansas "anti-monkey law," and to the introduction into the Mississippi legislature of a resolution to remove the bodies of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, two deceased confederate gentlemen, from Virginia to Mississippi because the former state went republican in the recent election. Arkansas doesn't want to be taught evolution. She said so at the polls November 6. And, come to think of it, we don't believe that evolution should be taught there. Evolution teaches us that man and monkey come from a common ancestor. That doctrine is dangerous in Arkansas. Most students, hearing the doctrine for the first time, would look about themselves in the state and would be moved to embarking questions. They would want to know why none of the offspring on the human side settled in Arkansas. Furthermore, they would leave and come north to civilization at the first opportunity. This anti-evolution law, as we see it, was enacted purely for protective purposes. But in keeping the natives ignorant, Arkansas focuses attention upon itself from the other states of the union. It is highly probable that the rest of the country would not have noticed that the state is peopled by beings with ape-like intelligence had not the law been passed. Now we know that the Arkansas yokels have anthropoidal tendencies. Although the citizenry do not pelt tourists with coconuts from the protection of tree-tops, we can account for this by saying that Arkansas doesn't grow coconuts. However, we are positive the tossing tendency is there. As for Mississippi—we suggest that a committee be appointed to visit a spiritualist and learn what the very late Mr. Lee and Mr. Jackson have to say on the burial changing proposition. This suggestion is as sensible as the resolution. Mr. Lee and Mrs. Jackson are apparently content with their resting places as they haven't said one word against it. No matter what the private feelings of Mr. Lee's and Mr. Jackson's ghosts concerning the bolt of Virginia to the republican ranks, we believe that the bodies of the two deceased southern gentlemen would turn over in their graves with considerable vigor and great rapidity in protest if it were decided that Mississippi would be their future resting place. We can imagine them wailing together in spiritland and crying, "Ah, woe is us! Would that we had been cremated and our ashes scattered to the four winds of the earthh!" Mississippi is hardly acceptable even as a graveyard for southern gentlemen. We mention again that these two states are ruled by the famous Nordic. Only in the south is there that particular racial strain in its greatest purity. The Nordic from northern Europe settled there and has remained aloof from miscegenation. So in Mississippi and Arkansas we get a chance to view the Nordic mind in all of its magnificent purity. And, as a result, we take pains to let it be known that we are glad we aren't Nordics. Word comes to us now that Webster's dictionary will be outlawed in Arkansas. What they trying to do—make people read it? They tell us that what this country needs is a good five cent cigar. We've had one all along—but it sells for fifteen cents. It wonder Alimee met such a cool reception in Glasgow. They've been saving their own souls for a long time. And the Scots wouldn't give anybody anything—not even a warm welcome. A little more activity in automobile their roundups and the motorists can look forward to a theft insurance reduction. NOTICE OF THE ADOPTION OF PRIMARY ASSESSMENT SOL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. That on the 29th day of October 1928 the Board of Public Works adopted a Primary Assess-ment and the improvement of SHELBY STREET & OTHERS. The Board of Public Works, Lake County, Indiana, under Decaratory Resolution number 5832 adopted on the 12th day of May 1927 by the Board of Public Works. The intersecting streets and alleys are: Pine Avenue Rush Street Olive Avenue Alley No. 14 North Maple Avenue Alley No. 15 North Locust Avenue Alley No. 16 North The parallel streets and alleys within One Hundred Fifty (150) feet are: Alley No. 83 East Alley No. 84 East Alley No. 85 East Alley No. 12 North Said assessment roll contains the names of the owners and descriptions of property to be assessed, with the amounts of the property to be assessed, the parcel of land subject to assessment, and is on file and can be seen at the office of the City Hall, Gary, Ickesburg, Indiana. On the 19th day of November 1928 at nine o'clock A. M. the Board of Public Works will meet in office at the City Hall to meet and record assessments against the amounts assessed against each of said lots and parcels of land and will all hold the same question as to whether the question shall be will be specifically benefited by said improvement in the amounts set forth in said lots and will give a bearing to pertinent interested in to maintain or modify in whole or part the respective prima facie assessments on said bill. By order of the Board of Public Works. CHESTER J. DUNN JOHN A. BRENNAN BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS ATTENA BARRETT CLEKR. 11-2-9 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on the 28th day of October 1928 the Board of Assessment adopted a Primary Assessment Roll for the North Line Bancorp RENSTREET, SECTION 1 from the North Line Indian Bank Bancorp Drive to the North Line Indian Bank Bancorp Drive to the City of Gary, Lake County, Indiana. The City of Gary, Lake County, Indiana adopted on the 28th day of March 1928 by the Board of Public Works. The intersecting streets and alleys are Maple Avenue Oak Avenue Alley No. 16 North The parallel streets and alleys are: One Hundred Fifty (150) feet are: Alley No. 92 East Alley No. 92 West Said assessment roll contains the names of the owners and descriptions of property to be assessed. Each property can be at the office of the Board of Public Works in the City Hall, Gary, Lake County, Indiana. Day on day the 1828 at 10 o'clock a.m. Works will meet in its office at the City Hall to hear and receive remonstrances against the proposed laws each of said lots and parents of land and hear and determine the question as to what have been benefited or will be specifically involved in the amount set forth in said roll, and will then give a hearing to all persons involved in sustaining or modify in whole or part, the respective prima facie assessments on said Boll. 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D. 1928, the name being the 45th day of the next term of said House, Room No. 2, at East Chicago, in said County and State, on the 2nd Monday will be heard and determined in his action will be heard and determined in his IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto hold and affix the seal of said Court, at Chicago, this 1st day of November A. D. 1928. KILLIGREW, Clerk L. S. C. BY WILLETTA CAMPELL, Dearborn. L-18-29-8 Seek To Save Church 100 Years Old (By Associated Negro Press) NEW ORLEANS, La.—Faced with a financial obligation amounting to $5,000 which falls due on December 9, extensive efforts are being made by the congregation of the First African Baptist church, one of the oldest colored congregations in the country, to raise the amount in a financial drive to be launched on November 11 and continue for one week. "Old Baptist," as the church is also known, is one of the landmarks in the religious life of the population of New Orleans and Louisiana. 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BOLAR 2169 Washington St. Dismiss Suit Against Judge Atwell (By Associated Negro Press) NEW YORK.—A $50,000 suit for slander brought by Atty. F. R. Serri against Judge William H. Atwell of Dallas, Texas, was dismissed here this week by virtue of a decision handed down by Federal Judge Campbell in Booklyn. Judge Atwell sat in Booklyn while two of the local judges were on vacation the latter part of July and all of August. The remarks complained of byMr. Serri were made by Judge Atwell in passing sentence on Mrs. Angelina de Luca, who was convicted of selling whiskey. The Texas judge not only criticized the lawyer, but advised the woman that she should move her family out of a district where Negroes lived. 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