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"The Truth-Quick" In our humble way we strive to serve the Colored people of America by giving them a truthful story of local and world news. Mustard Neg Lament Hope? Hope is an idle mockery; Can I not see that it is dead? That flame is dead. Passed.....passed --- VOLUME III No. 40 HELLO, EVERYBODY! "Shady Rest," down in Marion, Ill., is to be used for a big revival meeting. It used to be a bootleg joint and a gangster's hangout. Which means that they've just changed ways of going to heaven. Speaking of whisky, evolution, and HOW to TELL Some Men From Monkeys, get a pint bottle of two bit whiskey and place it before the subjects. If it drinks it, it's a man. But there is some evolution. Man is the highest animal. Look what man does for the feeble-minded. He marries them. A HICK TOWN IS A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN LIFT THE SUNDAY PAPER WITH ONE HAND With the wistful fragrance of the autumn breeze. I stand staring at the burnt-out embers. AY, HAVE YOU GOT A MATCH? YOU HAVE OUR DISTINGUISHED PITY Sir: You will no doubt remember me as a former contemporary who once wore the coveted mantle of column conductor. I have since thought that my unequaled mind went sometimes into the waste paper basket immediately after unaccepted contributions. Perhaps the following entertaining incident taken from my past will illustrate. One night recently I strolled leisurely into a cafe and seated myself with the greatest of nonchance. I gave an order with that easy grace which distinguishes kings from the proletariat. I ordered a cigar and had the waitress light it. I called for my check and strode majestically to the cashier's cage to pay my bill and prepared to stick my hand in my trousers pocket to extract the money. Imagine my embarrassment when I found I had no trousers on! —T. N. T. GIVE A FOOL ENOUGH ROPE AND HE'LL SMOKE HIMSELF TO DEATH. POSSUM CENTER NEWS ITEMS. Luke Budd, our town's laziest man, wishes to tell all of his friends who want to see him that they must come around to the backyard as his wife has moved him and all the other things there while cleaning house. Jake Winslow, who has been a father once a year for the past ten years, went out of town for 22 months but it didn't do any good. Have you done your Christmas shopping yet? SHERIFF'S SALE STATE OF INDIANA LAKE COUNTY ss. No. 20221... Lake Circuit Court, April Term, 1930, American Home Security Corporation, a corporation, vs. David Posner, et al. By virtue of an Order of Sale, to me directed from the Clerk of the Lake Circuit Court, I will expose to public sale to the highest bidder for cash in hand, at the east door of the Court House in Crown Point, Lake County, Indiana, on Tuesday, the 16th day of September, 1930, between the hours of ten o'clock a. m. and four o'clock p. m., the rents and profits for a period not exceeding seven years of the following described real estate to wit: Lots Forty-three (43) and Forty-four (44), in Block Five (5) as marked and laid down on the recorded plat of Madison Terrace, a subdivision of the Northeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of Section Twelve (12) Township Thirty-six (36) North, Range Ten (10) West of the Second Principal Meridian, Lake County, Indiana. If said rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and costs, I will at the same time and place offer for sale the fee simple in and to said real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to satisfy said judgment, interest, costs and accruing costs. Said sale will be made without relief from valuation or appraisement laws. Taken as the property of David Posner, et al at the suit of American Security Corporation, a corporation. OSCAR D. HUTCHISON, Atty. for Plaintiff. JOSEPH B. KYLE, Sheriff Lake County, Indiana. 8-23-30-9-6 The Gary American Negroes Idle As Mexicans Stay On Jobs Many Come in Yearly To Take Jobs Which Citizens Need Competition Great In Negro Centres Europeans Contribute to Economic Welfare by Going Into Business Four Mexicans were arrested in Gary Tuesday night and held pending an investigation of their citizenship. Their arrest takes on significance when the size of the unemployment giant, both locally and nationally, is remembered. Our neighbor to the south sends thousands across the U. S. border annually to work on jobs which would otherwise go to citizens of this country. Few who openly come ever become naturalized. Others are smuggled across at many points along the border in spite of the vigilance of authorities. Fortunes are made purely from this traffic alone. No Ocean Barrier Practically all of the other foreign born element that go to make up the pot-pourri of United States citizens must come here through recognized channels due to the separation of the countries by the oceans and strict immigration laws. Only the Mexican can come in large numbers unknown to government officials. Lake county boasts a Mexican population numbering into the thousands. Today only a few of them are unemployed. Most are at work in the mills and on the railway and construction gangs while Gary Negroes—born in this country—are marching in the huge army of non-workers. This crowding out of citizens by Mexicans has been going on for considerable time. It is almost an unwritten law that railroads employ mainly Mexicans for labor in many parts of the country. These sections incidentally happen to be where there is a large number of available Negro labor that otherwise would be put to work. In Competition As a general rule, there are few Europeans where Mexicans and black Americans are congregated in large numbers. Few go into Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and other states in this section which have heavy Negro and Mexican populations. The European stays mainly in the east where only a fraction of the 14,000,000 Afraamericans are located. An advantage is enjoyed by the citizens from our southern neighbor which makes their economic contribution to the U. S. much smaller than that of the European. Close to home, he can return to his native land for only a few dollars. When he desires, he can return again to gather more fruit from the green tree of governmental munificence. He buys only bare necessities and, due to his low scale of living, can save much for splurges on his many return trips to Mexico. Europeans Contribute The European does contribute something to American commerce. He often operates businesses, both big and large, which employ his own race and give work to white and black citizens here. Many of the largest institutions in this country have been founded by European born. The Mexican's contribution to commefcial life is infinitimal. Those seeking to curb unemployment might investigate the Mexican population of this country to see just how many legally belong here and take steps to prevent them coming here at the present rate, for they contribute little and subsist on jobs which would otherwise go to Aframerican laborers. LEGAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PUBLIC SERVIC COMMISSION DOCKET No. 10133 IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF WILLIAM G. PAXTON, ET AL, FOR LOCATION OF A NEW HIGHWAY, OR EXTENSION OF BROADWAY, IN CENTER A...CEDAR CREEK TOWNSHIPS, LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA. Notice is hereby given that the Public Service Commission of Indiana will conduct public hearing in the above entitled cause in the City Hall at Gary, Indiana, at 10:00 o'clock A. M. on Thursday, September 11, 1930. Public participation in this hearing is requested by the Commission. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF INDiana Indianapolis, Indiana, August 19, 1930. ntimate Facts Except Wel Populari and I dicaps encountered by Doug- to seorn in February, 1817, on an the owned by Colonel Lloyd in to be County, Md., his life was one of tme hardships from the begin- about He was half-starved the great- Of the time, and, as he him- rick Them Jumped Society By Marjorie Burrell Mrs. R. Woodfolk plans to leave Gary Sunday to attend the Elks' convention in Detroit, Michigan. She will be gone a week. * * * Dr. and Mrs. Hedrick left Monday for Indianapolis to attend the National Medical Association. They are expected to return the latter part of the week. * * * The Just Twelve club met with Mrs. Corrine Cross, 2433 Jefferson, on Tuesday. * * * The Central District Women's council will meet Wednesday, August 27, at the Hunton branch Y. M. C. A., at 7 p. m. Mrs. Mary Reid has gone to Louisville, Ky., to visit her mother. She will return early in September. Grace Presbyterian Church Rev. Joe Reynolds of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was guest speaker at Grace Presbyterian church Sunday morning. Grace Presbyterian church choir has accepted an invitation to sing at Wayman A. M. E. church the first Sunday in September at 3:00 p. m. Rev. Lewis will preach. Republican Club Meets The 44th precinct Republican organization met Thursday evening, August 14, in the home of Mrs. F. Odell, 2444 Fillmore. The purpose of the meeting was to have Miss Alberta Checks, who was awarded a scholarship to Fisk University from Englewood high school, Chicago, discuss the work of the school. Two other guests, Mrs. Daniels and Mrs. Cannady, received gifts from the club in appreciation of the splendid work they have done. The next meeting will be August 28, in the home of Mrs. C. Jacksor, 2445 Pierce street. ... On Sunday the members of the Avondale club entertained a number of their friends at their residence at 25th and Broadway. Among those present were: Misses V. McClendon of Ohio; Rosena Smith, St. Paul; M. Rossmons, M. Eakin, Greenwood, Mississippi; Thelma Trent, A. Paine, Gladys Washington, Veola Jones, Varonia Trent, Zether Fitzgerald, Naomi McGee and Messrs. Carol Roby, Theodore Johnson, George Curry, Semmie Hutton, James D. Cannon, A. Hendricks, O. Dukes, T. Ward of Chicago; Ivory Wilson of Chicago, and Otis Bailey. Miss E. Wright of Pueblo, Colorado, is visiting her sister and brother, the C. Ramseys of 2569 Adams street. The F. W. Alexanders returned from their trip to Washington Monday. While there they were the recipients of many courtesies. They attended all the meetings of the National Bar Association and accompanied the association on a pilgrimage to tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Mrs. G. W. Smith of Broadlands, Illinois, is visiting her daughter, 9 Mrs. Sexton 2of 25 Washington street. Mrs. S. R. Blackwell has returned to Gary after spending five weeks visiting her cousin, Mrs. Atwater, in New York City. The charming Mrs. Stringfellow of New York City is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. Taylor, 2356 Jefferson street. Other fair visitors in the city are Mrs. Bessie Epps and Mrs. Marcella Allen of Mounds City, Illinois, and Miss Jeanette Wyatte of Independence, Kansas, who is visiting her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Wyatte. Wendell Mitchell of Detroit, Michigan, spent the week-end in Cary with his many friends. Mrs. Mary Robinson, 1812 Connecticut, is very ill at her home. --- GARY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1930 Bacoyn Says He'll Combat Safety Board Claims Insubordination And Incivility Are False Charges Calls Case Just a Political Frameup Harrinngton Resigns at Tuesday Meet of the Safety Board Claiming that charges of insubordination and incivility against him were false, Edward McKinley Bacoyn, lawyer and police officer, declared today that he would fight the charges when his case comes up for trial before the safety board. "I have nothing to ssay about the charges as preferred against me by Inspector Wood," he stated, "but if they are not substantiated I propose to hire two of the best lawyers in Indiana to vindicate my name." Bacoyn became affiliated with the police department soon after Mayor R. O. Johnson was elected to office. He was engaged mainly in research and investigation work. When Woods was appoint-head of the local crime curbing bureau one of his first acts was to order Bacoyn into uniform. File Charges Immediately on receipt of this notice, Bacoyn asked for and was given sick leave. Since that time he has refused to put on a uniform and as a result charges of insubordination and incivility were filed against him. Bacoyn classes the whole procedure as nothing more than a political move and cites the publicity given his case in the local daily as a subtle method to force him to resign. He maintains that it was was not intended that he should do any other than the type of work in which he was engaged. No date has as yet been set for the trial. He has, however, been asked by Inspector Woods to resign to "keep his record cleanl Patrolman Frank Harrington, charged with napping in the back of a harness shop while an inimical acquaintance entered and gun, resigned from the force when killed the proprietor with his his case came up before the safety board Tnuesday night. It was maintained that he violated one of the primary obligations of a patrolman on duty—failure to keep his gun. It was further charged that after the shooting, the killer lingered for five minutes but Harrington made no effort to arrest him. In defense, Harrington said that he was unable to get to the murderer because of the crowd which immediately collected. CALIFORNIA VOTERS DIVIDED LOS ANGELES.-The 30,000 colored voters of the state are divided behind three candidates for governor at the August election nears. The candidates are Governor Young, Mayor Ralph of San Francisco, and Buron Fitts of Los Angeles. SHERIFF'S SALE STATE OF INDIANA Lake Circuit Court, November Term, 1929, American Home Security Corporation vs. Wilson A. Dibblee, et al. By virtue of an Order of Sale, to me directed from the Clerk of the Lake Circuit Court, I will expose to public sale to the highest bidder for cash in hand, at the east door of the Court House in Crown Point, Lake County, Indiana, on Tuesday, the 16th day of September, 1930, between the hours of ten o'clock a. m. and four o'clock p. m., the rents and profits for a period not exceeding seven years of the following described real estate to wit: Lot Twenty-nine (29) and the North Eight (8) feet of Lot Thirty (30), in Block Eight as marked and laid down on the recorded plat oof Franklin's Addition to the City of Hammond, in Lake County, Indiana. If said rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and costs, I will at the same time and place offer for sale the fee simple in and to said real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to satisfy said judgment, interest costs and accruing costs. Said sale will be made without relief from valuation or appraisement laws. Taken as the property of Wilson A. Dibblee, et al at the suit of American Home Security Corporation OSCAR D. HUTCHISON, Atty. for Plaintiff. JOSEPH B. KYLE, Sheriff Lake County, Indiana. 8-23-30-9-6 Claim Story Fake Which Caused Marion Lynching Hood Release Was Work of Unknown Man Ax Suspect Freed When Outsider Files Suit For Freedom Plans to Sue City For Cop Brutality Starr Says Three Weeks Confinement in Jail Against Laws Learning of apparent cruelties heaped by the Gary police department on Louis Hood, ax man suspect, Vance D. Smith, 1812 Connecticut street, an unknown friend, filed a petition through Attys. Milo Murray and Adelbert Moore for his immediate release. As a result, Hood was set free a weew ago Tuesday after being held incommunicado for three weeks without the being identified as a partner in crime of Ulysses Mack, hatchet slayer doomed to die next month. Hood planned to file suit against the city for maltreatment received at the hands of the police officers. He went to Richmond to rest and was to have returned to Gary this week to begin the proceedings. The petition as filed in Hood's behalf was directed against Inspector Albert S. Wood, as head of the Gary police department, and Detective John Bolden, as the arresting officer, to show cause why they continued to hold Hood without filing charges against him. Assault Charges Filed When the heads of the police department were called before Judge Ridgely Saturday to answer the petition on a writ of habeas corpus they immediately filed chages of assault with intent to kill in their effort to hold Hood. This charge was filed because of the attack made by Hood on Turnkey Louis Manalan. (Manalan was attacked in Hood's cell as Hood was trying to make his escape Attorneys Moore and Murray demanded immediate trial for the imprisoned man when the police department filed the assault charges. City Prosecutor Busch claimed that he was not ready for trial, asking for a continuance until Tuesday. Attorneys Moore and Murray agreed to the continuance only on the condition that Hood be transferred from the custody of the police department to the custody of the sheriff. They asked this transfer for their client because of the inhuman treatment he had been accorded by the police department. Judge Ridgely then issued the order transferring Hood to the custody of the sheriff, and he was sent to Crown Point. Prisoner Badly Maltreated When Hood appeared before Judge Ridgely he was in a bad condition because of beatings he said he received from the hands of the police. In their efforts to force him to make a confession of guilt, many cruelties had been inflicted. Both eyes were swollen and discolored, whelps were noticeable about the head and body, his left arm had been wrenched until it had swollen to more than twice its normal size, and many other bruises were noticed on Hood's body. Appear Before Prosecutor Attorneys Moore and Murray went before County Prosecutor Oliver Starr Monday afternoon asking that the assault charges against their client be dismissed and that he be freed from the custody of the sheriff. Their contention was that Hood was justified in his attack on Turnkey Manalan in the Gary city jail. They cited the law to the effect that the police were holding Hood without a formal charge against him at the time he attacked Manalan. It was the attorneys' theory—and substantiated by Prosecutor Starr—that holding Hood without charge was in the same class as kidnaping, and the Indiana statutes permit a person being kidnapped to use any force necessary to repel his kidnappers. "Had Right to Kill" Prosecutor Starr, in freeing Hood, stated: "This man's liberty was being deprived, without due process of law, and in trying to gain his liberty he had a legal right to kill anyone who deterred him, and the state could not prosecute him for it." KINGSTON, Jamaica.—Plans for a lavish reception have been curtailed at the request of two African princes who are expected in the Island soon to hold a secret conference with Marcus Garvey at the headquarters of the U.N.I.A. Link Sale of Lynch Photos To Park Case Vendor of Pictures of Marion Lynching Is Unapprehended Woods to Arbitrate If Polish Ask Him Mills to Fire Negroes Caught in Park, Is Alleged Threat An unidentified white man who peddled pictures of the recent lynching at Marion to Gary Caucasians at a dollar each here this week was linked with the Washington park case. It was claimed that they were being sold to foster race prejudice. A pickup order issued by Police Chief Bucklind Monday to apprehend the vendor of the photos was of no avail. Joseph Pittts, president of the local N. A. A. C. P., also attempted to apprehend the seller but his efforts met with no more success than those of local police. The situation at the park, however, remains little changed. A mass meeting was held Sunday at the "Y" by the N. A. A. C. P. on the park case, but no new plans were to be immediately tried. Might Help If Asked Inspector Woods announced that he would not make another effort to arbitrate the conditions, unless the Polish leaders came to him personally and asked his assistance. He also added that he would keep the park under surveillance by members of his department. As yet no one has approached for arbitration. Negroes' Jobs Threatened Many subtle methods are being used to keep the Negroes out of the park. It is alleged by several persons claiming to have heard the threats that Negroes employed in the mills are told to keep out of Washington Park for fear of losing their jobs. H. O. Egeberg, employment manager at the Illinois Steel company, is reported to have made stump speeches to the men at the gates of the mills, saying if the Negroes did not keep out of Washington Park, and also keep their children out, they would lose their jobs with the company. He is reported to have made this threat to more than one group of men, and on more than one occasion, when they were leaving their work. 40 Boys Attending 10 Day Scout Camp Special Program Sunday for Camp Visitors Forty south side boys left Sunday for the scout camp at Tremont, 18 miles east of here on the Dunes highway. They will be gone 10 days There is a set program consisting of games, swimming, and regular scout activities daily. Sunday there will be a special program in the afternoon at which the Rev. Mr. Lewis, pastor of Grace Presbyterian church, will speak. The public is asked to come and members of the Fifth District council are importuned to be present. It is advised that those going out should take their lunches with them. Dr. Royal W. Grubbs, who examined the boys Tuesday and found them to be in excellent physical condition, is asking that at least 10 Garyites volunteer the service of their cars for use in bringing the boys back from camp. He can be reached at Gary 2-4945. Scouts making the trip are from troops at Stewart house, St. Paul church and Neighborhood houses, and First Baptist church. In addition to the scoutmasters, the camp is in charge of Mr. Frederickson, assisted by Clarke Bulette. Jazzin' The News Bacoyn says he'll wage a fight to keep his reputation. Legion post may aid the youth who's interested in aviation. He doesn't read The American? My Gawd! Aln't that a pity? Final Edition News while is is news—and a complete Illustrated Feature Section with each issue of the paper. Delivered to any part of the city. Which Lynching Make Move to Oust Sheriff Campbell Claim Boy Slain as He Picked Fight With Youthful Trio ```markdown ``` B. H. O A.N.J JULIUS ROSENWALD On Tuesday, Julius Rosenwald celebrated his 68th birthday. The mail order magnate has proven to be one of the staunchest friends on the Negro by giving millions for education in the south, and to the Y. M. C. A. In 1911, Mr. Rosenwald promised that he would give $25,000 to the erection of a "Y" building in any community that would raise another $75,000 for its construction. This has been taken advantage of many times and the philanthropist has given away more than a million dollars for this one thing alone. The local Y. M. C. A., under the direction of Mr. Gordon, its secretary, is seeking to raise $75,000 so that Gary may have a modern "Y" for the use of the men of the community. Calumet Post May Subsidize Flying Stude Plans of Major Fisher. Licensed Flyer, to Be Discussed Major George Fisher, aviation enthusiast and one of the few Negroes in the United States licensed to pilot airplanes, was the guest of the Calumet post of the American Legion at the regular semi-monthly meeting at the Y. M. C. A. last Tuesday evening. Major Fisher is the head or a flying and mechanical training school in Chicago, and his mission to Gary was to interest the Calumet post in sending at least one Gary youth to his flying school. In outlining the course of training to the members of Calumet post, Major Fisher explained that he had been commissioned by the aviation reserve corps of the U. S. army to teach aviation to Negro youths. The full course of instruction in his school costs $150, and he claims to fit the students that they may obtain a commercial pilot's license. The officials of Calumet post expressed an interest in Major Fisher's plans, and according to James A. Thomas, commander of the post an open discussion of the plans will be conducted at the next meeting. Other officials of the post expressed the opinion that it is probable a Gary youth may be selected to take the full course in aviation, in Major Fisher's school, at the expense of the Calumet post. Nine Nabbed While Rolling Dice Police interference spoiled a "friendly game of 'galloping dominoes,'" according to Will Harris, 1811 Washington street, when he appeared in court Tuesday, with seven other men, charged with operating a gambling house. Detectives Bolden and Fields raided the house Sunday night and arrested Larry Parsons, 1811 Washington; Floyd McBreth, 1734 Massachusetts; Fred Bolden, 1640 Adams; William Spencer, 1808 Washington; James Martin, 2156 Jefferson; Dale Anderson, 20 West 25th avenue; Clarence High, States Hotel, and Will Harris. All were booked for either gambling or frequenting a gambling house. In city court, Harris was fned $25 and costs and 20 days for operating the game; Parsons drew $5 and costs; Bolden, $5 and costs; Spencer, $20 and costs, and 10 days, with the days suspended; Martin, $20 and costs and 10 days, with the days suspended; Anderson, $5 and costs and 10 days, with the days suspended. Price 5 Cent Judge Clawson Refuse To Issue Warrants For Leaders By Albert Meadows (Special to The American) Marion, Ind.—Refusal of Circuit Judge O. D. Clawson to approve 15 affidavits and issue warrants for the arrest of leaders in the recent lynching here, and stories that first reports of the alleged crime for which the boys were mobbed were untrue, are the lattest developments in the case. Judge Clawson, in defending his action, stated that he was not disapproving of the attempt to bring the lynchers to justice, but believed that the arrest of only six participants in the crime prior to the time when the grand jury meets in September would defeat the ends of the prosecution Sentiment Changes Statements have been persistently made by Negro and a large number of white citizens that there was no attempt to criminaly assault Mary Ball, 17-year-old fiance of Claude Deeter, white youth slain in an alleged holdup on a highway near here. In fact, it is being said here that Deter and the girl were not on the highway but at the edge of the Negro district when they met the three youths. Deeter objected because they stared at the girl too much. He is said to have cursed them and called them vile names. When they answered in like manner, he pulled out a gun. The trio attempted to take the gun away from him and in the struggle Deeter was shot and killed. The girl was not touched but the boys fled as soon as they saw Deeter fall. That the boys fed Deeter away and killed him while one of their number attempted to attack her according to the girl, is classed by the Negro inhabitants as absurd and a deliberate lie to obtain sympathy for her slain lover. Public sentiment, which at first condoned the lynching, went in reverse here following the burial of Tom Shipp and Abraham Smith withdrawals of two companies of state guardsmen rushed here to restore order. County Prosecutor Harley Hardin and Deputy Attorneys General Earl Stroup and Merle Wall questioned a score of witnesses and obtained the names of most of those said to have been leaders of the mob. It was on these affidavits that Judge Clawson refused to is sue warrants. The deputy attorney's general are planning to present evidence to Atty. Gen. James M. Ogden so that he may decide whether or not to take steps to oust Sheriff Jake Campbell, who let the mob take his two prisoners without a shot being fired because he feared a might "injure women and children." Belief that Campbell could have obtained outside aid was expressed here when it became known that persons a hundred miles away were informed several hours before sundown that a lychian would take place that night in Marion. Police Smash Boy Gangster Ring Through investigation by Detective Fletcher, police succeeded last week in breaking up a gang of boy bandits who have been responsible for numerous petty robberies in the last few months. The gang was operating out of a basement at 1608 Adams street, to which police were directed by a boy who had been "kicked out" of the gang. Upon raiding the place police found numerous auto accessories, and tools taken from hardware stores. It was the practice of the gang to demantle these accessories, as much as possible, and sell them junk. Boys who were implicated were Albert Jackson, 1604 Adams; Sylvester Williams, 1608 Adams; James Brown, 1600 Jefferson; Harri Brown, 1600 Jefferson; and Keever Jackson and L. G. Borgan, who refused to give addresses. All were placed on probation to the juvenile authorities. KILLS SELF IN CASKET DETROIT, Mich. — Despondent because his wife deserted him, Oswald Diggs crawled into a ket in his brother's undertaking a tablishment and ended his life by inhaling gas, last week. Investigate Slaying Of Harlem Chauffeur Who Kept Love Tryst PARKER HOUSE SAUSA There's a Diff Unequal PARKER HOUSE SAUSA MEA Parker House Chicago PARKER HOUSE SAUSA SAUSAGE Last 2 Florsheim Shoe ER HOUSE SAUSAGE It's a Difference Unequaled Quality and Flavor PARKER HOUSE SAUSADE 2 Days m Sale PARKER HOUSE SAUSAGE There's a Difference Unequaled Quality and Flavor PARKER HOUSE Pure Po SAUSA MEA Parker House Chicago PARKER HOUSE SAUSAGE PARKER HOUSE SAUSAGE SHOE It's like finding money in your shoes...the saving you make on Florsheims at these greatly lowered prices! The Sale is nearly over... better buy now, at least two pairs! EN'S SHOES tan in a wide va- $4.85 $8.50. Some styles $5.85 "M. B." MEN'S SH both black and tan in a wi riety of styles. Formerly sold at $8.50. MR MILGRAM'S BOOT SHOP M.D. 1336 Broadway "Indiana's Exclusive R Good Shoes Since 19 336 Broadway Exclusive Retailers of Shoes Since 1910." PAGE TWO Meets White Girl; Killed By Ruffians Lake Placid, N. Y.—Beaten by a gang of white men, police say, because he kept a tryst near here with a beautiful young woman of their race, William Treadwell, a New York chauffeur, died in a hospital here Wednesday without gaining consciousness. Meanwhile, a boy of 16 and a man have been arrested in connection with the murder. Police are making every effort to apprehend the guilty parties. Treadwell is believed to have met the girl on a lonely road just outside the village. White chauffeurs are believed to have become suspicious and attacked him, leaving him for dead. When found, his head was badly battered. He died of concussion of the brain. Citizens Demand Investigation At the request of Lake Placid citizens, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People began studying the case before making an intensive probe and demanding the arrest of the gang which was believed to have surprised Treadwell with the white girl. The chauffeur, whose wife and three-month-old baby boy live in New York, was employed by Samuel Yaffee, white, of Chicago. He was on a tour of the East and had been spending most of his time re- cently at Asbury Park, N. J., before driving out for the tryst at Lake Placid. Treadwell was originally known as William Anderson Tidwell. He was born in Mississippi. Mrs. Victoria Brooks, his mother, lives in Como, Miss., and his sister, Mrs. Laura Barnes, makes her home in Memphis, Tenn. $8.85 A Few Styles $9.85 SHERIFF'S SALE STATE OF INDIANA LAKE COUNTY ss. No. 20225. Lake Circuit Court, November Term, 1929. American Home Security Corporation, a corporation, vs. Harvey A. Morey, et al. By virtue of an Order of Sale, to me directed from the Clerk of the Lake Circuit Court, I will expose to public sale to the highest bidder for cash in hand, at the east door of the Court House in Crown Point, Lake County, Indiana, on Tuesday, the 16th day of September, 1930, between the hours of ten o'clock a. m. and four o'clock p. m., the rents and profits for a period not exceeding seven years of the following described real estate to wit: exceeding seven years of the following described real estate to wit: Lot Twenty-nine (29) as marked and laid down on the recorded plat of F. J. White's Addition to Hammond, Lake County, Indiana. If said rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and costs, I will at the same time and place offer for sale the fee simple in and to said real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to satisfy said judgment, interest, costs and accruing costs. Said sale will be made without relief from valuation or appraisal laws. Taken as the property of Harvey A. Morey, et al at the suit of American Home Security Corporation, a corporation. OSCAR D. HUTCHISON, Atty. for Plaintiff. JOSEPH B. KYLE, Sheriff Lake County, Indiana 8-23-30-9-6 SHERIFF'S SALE STATE OF INDIANA Lake County Circuit Court, February Term, 1930, American Home Security Corporation, a corporation, vs. Gordon H. Leary, et al. By virtue of an Order of Sale, to me directed from the Clerk of the Lake Circuit Court, I will expose to public sale to the highest bidder for cash in hand, at the east door of the Court House in Crown Point, Lake County, Indiana, on Tuesday, the 16th day of Septem- by using the m form of transpo The saving is mo The most econ transportation i dependable. All Over Town WASHINGTON CLEANERS 1542 Broadway MEN'S SUITS Cleaned and Pressed 75c SALS in STA OCER to prepare meals when e foodstuffs on hand, g prices. At North West always get the freshest delivered, moderately 22 to 30 1 can Bak every S 0 ERIES Beef Ste SPECIAL GROC It's a true delight to prepare you've fresh, delectable foodstu available at budget-fitting prices. A Packing company you always get and tastiest, promptly delivered priced. August 22 to 3 SPECIALS in fresh STAPLE GROCERIES It's a true delight to prepare meals when you've fresh, delectable foodstuffs on hand, available at budget-fitting prices. At North West Packing company you always get the freshest and tastiest, promptly delivered, moderately priced. August 22 to 30 GROCERIES 1 can 53c 3 cans $1.49 Frankfu Pet Milk Alaga Syrup, gal. can . . . ½ gal. can . Pork and Beans, large can Geo. Van Cam FLOUR — Pilsbury and Gold 24½ lb. sa PEARS, Bartlett large can 2 FRESH EGGS . . . Peaberry Coffee, 3 lbs. . . Corn Flakes 2 boxes . . Fab Beads 3 boxes for . . Toilet Paper 1,000 Sheets Sil FLOUR — Pilsbury and Gold Medal 241/2 lb. sack 98c Toilet Paper 1,000 Sheets Silk Tissue 3 rolls 22c --- ber, 1930, between the hours of ten o'clock a. m. and four o'clock p. m., the rents and profits for a period not exceeding seven years of the following described real estate to wit: Lots Three (3) and Four (4) and the North half of Lot Five (5) in Block Seventy-nine (79) Unit Twenty-three (23) in Woodmar, an addition to Hammond, more commonly known and designated as 1604 Wicker Avenue, in the City of Hammond, Lake County, Indiana, together with all improvements thereon. If said rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and costs, I will at the same time and place offer for sale the fee simple in and to said real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to satisfy said judgment, interest, costs and accruing costs. Said sale will be made without relief from valuation or appraisement laws. Taken as the property of Gordon H. Leary, et al at the suit of American Home Security Corporation, a corporation. OSCAR D. HUTCHISON, Atty. for Plaintiff. JOSEPH B. KYLE, Sheriff Lake County, Indiana. 8-23-30 and 9-6 One way to sidetrack bad luck is to be prepared for it. SILK DRESSES, LADIES' Suits and Overcoats Cleaned and Pressed We call and Deliver Phone 2-2951 "Budweiser" BARLEY MALT SIRUP BUDWEISER BUSCHIS SEHUS SIRUP 3 Large Cans 25c 1719 Broadway money! the most economical transportation in town. Good is money earned. The most economical form of station is also the most valuable. Per Town For 8 Cents. always in fresh TAPLE RIES Make Money! by using the most economical form of transportation in town. The saving is money earned. The most economical form of transportation is also the most dependable. All Over Town For 8 Cents. Gary Railways FREE I can Baking Powder Free with every $2.00 order with this COUPON MEATS Beef Stew No.1, lb.. 91/2c Pure Pork Sausage, Bulk 121/2c Frankfurters, 1 lb. $ 1 7^{1 / 2} \mathrm{c} $ Neckbones, 3 lbs. 10c Dry Salted Bacon, fancy, lb 25c Salt Pork , lb. . . . . 14c Farm House Sausage 1 lb. Package 19c Parker House Sausage lb.21c Many other bargains. Come in and convince yourself. If you are pleased, transfer your account here. KING CO. Phone 6755 SHERIFF'S SALE STATE OF INDIANA LAKE COUNTY ss. No. 20219 Lake Circuit Court, November Term, 1929. American Home Security Corporation, a corporation, vs. Helen M. Williams, et al. By virtue of an Order of Sale, to me directed from the Clerk of the Lake Circuit Court, I will expose to public sale to the highest bidder for cash in hand, at the east door of the Court House in Crown Point, Lake County, Indiana, on Tuesday, the 16th day of September, 1930, between the hours of ten o'clock a. m. and four o'clock p. m., the rents and profits for a period PET PETTENED EVANOLATE MILK MILK not exceeding seven years of the following described real estate to wit: Lot Numbered Five (5) in Block Two (2), as marked and laid down on the recorded plat of Michigan Avenue Addition to Hammond, Lake County, Indiana. If said rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and costs, I will at the same time and place offer for sale the fee simple in and to said real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to satisfy said judgment, interest, costs and accruing costs. Said sale will be made without relief from valuation or appraisement laws. Taken as the property of Helen M. Williams, et al at the suit of American Home Security Corporation, a corporation. OSCAR D. HUTCHISON, Aty. for Plaintiff. JOSEPH B. KYLE, Sheriff Lake County, Indiana. 8-23-30-9-6 Peace also has her victories, as any old bachelor will tell you. Screens Galore We Make Them by the Thousands That's why our prices are lowest. We also make screen doors. Combination doors and porches 04745 320 --- Garden 1625 Broadway White Pot Cheese I. G. A. Mayonnais Apples 6 LBS. . . BUSHEL . . White Potatoes 3 lbs. COFFEE A Blend famous fo Come Come in and let us Serve You SERVICE - SUPPLIES Factory trained SPECIALISTS for all makes. Only GENUINE parts used. Official Speedometer Service AUTOMOTIVE SPECIALTY EXPERTS 119 W. 4th Ave. Dial 2-1849 I.G.A. BANANAS The Eagle Dry Goods LOW PRICES ON SHOES AND DRY GOODS FOR SCHOOL OPENING at 117 W. 25th St. the are make tion THE P OF FLO Gary's Lead Flowers for Eve And Oc AT LOWES Funeral $2.00 an Palace Theatre Buil Open Evenings THE PALACE OF FLOWERS Gary's Leading Florist Flowers for Every Purpose And Occasion AT LOWEST PRICES Funeral Designs $2.00 and Up Palace Theatre Building. Ph. 2-6529 Open Evenings and Sundays ```markdown ``` The new Better th Intro We make GOLD C Hand M as ... PAINLE We save PLATES AS I ASK ABOUT THE The newest, finest precious Better than gold. At a price Introductory offer: .Half We make all kinds of plates, zelonite, hecolite GOLD CROWNS (22k) Hand Made Low $5.00 as ..... lo PAINLESS EXTRACTING We save you pain and money THANK WATT DR 860 Broa The newest, finest precious metal plate ever known. Better than gold. At a price you can afford to pay. Introductory offer: Half Price till Sept. 1st. We make all kinds of plates, rubber, gold, aluminum, zelonite, hecolite and alcolite. GOLD CROWNS (22k) BRIDGE WORF (22k) Hand Made Low $5.00 Beautiful, lasting, $5.00 low as PAINLESS EXTRACTING — DON'T HURT A BIT We save you pain and money. Come and see us. THANK YOU! WATT DENTISTS 860 Broadway MEMBERS OF I. G. A. COVERING 36 STATES-EACH STORE INDIVIDUALLY OWNED en City adway Augu 23 - otatoes naise 19 8 oz. jar City Coffee day August Sa 23-25-26 tatoes FAN naise 19c KELLOGG 8 oz. jar Cooking Duchess A Grade 100 CREPE T 259 -$1.00 199 3 lbs. 239 ous for its flavor 25c -$1.00 19c 23c for its flavor 1000 Sheets CREPE TISSUE TOILET PAPER 3 Rolls 23c American and Brick Lower-Merritt DECORATING CO. Expert Interior Decorators 566 Washington St. Phone 2-6277 PALACE LOWEI Reading Fl Every P Occasion BEST PR al Design and Up Building. Ph ings and Sund S LOW A THE NEW PR ous metal pla price you can Half Price t ates, rubber, olite and alcoo BRIDG Beautiful, low as ... NG — DON'T money. Co NK YOU! DENTIST Broadway Free Store Phone 22 TANCY PK. GG'S PEN 1000 Shee TISSUE PAPER 3 Rolls 2 ALACE FLOWERS Sing Florist Every Purpose Occasion T PRICES Designs and Up Calling. Ph. 2-6529 and Sundays PETER H. BOW AS $10 A NEW PLATE metal plate ever known. be you can afford to pay. If Price till Sept. 1st. r rubber, gold, aluminum, and alcolite. BRIDGE WORK (22k) Beautiful, lasting, $5.00 w as ..... — DON'T HURT A BIT Come and see us.. YOU! INTISTS dway Store Phone 22310 ale CY PK. 35c 21c lb. S PEP - 10c 0 Sheets ISSUE TOILET APER rolls 23c K . . . 23c 3 large cans OLIVES Qt. jar e You LIVES 39c . jar ou August 23,1930 I.G.A. Superb Food At 20 Cents; Coats At $4 Tom Taggart in Race for Auditor—Rush West In Wagons to Okla. How would you men like to buy a good heavy overcoat for $4? Would you mind spending $10 for an A-1 grade kersey or chinchilla overcoat? Or buy your wife a high grade cloak for $5? Maybe you didn't know it, but if you've got 20 cents you can go to Lee Hanshaw's Lyra restaurant, the most exclusive place in Indianapolis and located at 80 West Washington street, and get a big three-course Sunday dinner for that price. To be precise, you can do these things if you can find some way of going back to the year 1890. The old Indianapolis Freeman of Jan. 25, 1890, for a long time the leading Negro newspaper in the country, carries many advertisements to that effect. To properly appreciate how old the paper is, there is in its pages the following political announcement: FOR AUDITOR OF MARION COUNTY—THOMAS TAGGART. Subject to Democrat nominating convention. Taggart died two years ago after rising to great power and position IVAN C. DUNLAP Jeweler Successor to Stringfellow's Jewelry Department Expert Watch Repairer 548 Broadway Are you in need of MONEY See Sam at 1604 Broadway Phone 2-3477 ALLEN'S SERVICE STATION 21st and Virginia Gas and Oil A BODY BUILDER Most of the ills and primary causes of disease are due to can be cured unless the bowels move regularly. If the bowels faulty elimination. No disease do not move properly toxic poisons accumulate through the bowels into the blood. Therefore it is important in treating chronic or lingering disease that the bowels move regularly. DR. MICHAEL'S ALL-HERB TONIC acts as a mild soothing TONIC laxative. It thoroughly cleans every fold, tube and gland, of the entire alimentary canal, it flushes out, cleans and strengthens the kidneys, carefully removes the superfluous bile from the liver. Therefore it is very essential to rid the body toxins which eliminate through the pores of the body, the urine and bowels, then nature's machinery is ready to do her work in a natural way, putting forth rich, red, healthy blood flowing throughout the entire system, and health is restored. DR. MICHAEL'S ALL-HERB TONIC imparts making and building qualities to the blood. ASK YOUR DRUGGIST Suits Cleaned and Pressed LADIES' DRESSES AND COATS $1 INDUSTRIAL CLEANERS We Call and Deliver 116 Adams Phone 720 "Photographs Live Forever" BE PHOTOGRAPHED EVERY YEAR Grand Studio 1700 BROADWAY Room 207 Phone 2-1459 EMPIRE LOAN SHOP 811 Broadway Bargains In— HI-GRADE LUGGAGE JEWELRY & LEATHER GOODS Watch Repairing Open For Business! With plenty of money in its vaults to meet all demands and under the management and control of successful bankers, the First Indiana State Bank will open its doors today ..... Depositors in the American State Bank, which the new banking organization succeeds, are invited to call during banking hours tomorrow between 9 a. m. and 1 p. m. and learn how well prepared we are to serve you. Accounts in the closed bank will be honored by the new organization under Clearing House rules. Public Reception All Afternoon The entire afternoon today, Saturday, will be given over to a public reception from 1 to 8 p. m., during which time the general public, city officials, civic leaders, bankers and friends are invited to call and become acquainted with us. FIRST INDIANA STATE BANK 1710 BROADWAY in the ranks of the national Democratic party. This notice appeared almost at the beginning of his career. Of course the once great Freeman looks a little odd htese days with its extreme narrowness, printing, advertisements and illustrations. Unlike most modern Negro papers, it carried both white and black news condensed in its eight pages. Most of the places then consid- In Chicago Mrs. Humphrey used to ered to be "swell" have since gone operate a rooming house at 510 South State, the Redmonde was the leading hotel at 571 South State and 550 Wabash, and I. B. Walters operated a restaurant in the then exclusive neighborhood of 2822 State street. Maybe some of the oldtimers remember a few of these places: Sullivan, Jackson Fight. Big news of that day: John L. Sullivan and Peter Jackson will fight in California for $15,000. Six breweries at Cleveland, Ohio, have been sold to an English syndicate. Denver saloons must close on Sunday. The Czar of Russia is supposedly losing his mind. United States President and Mrs. Harrison attended the funeral of Walker Blaine. Negroes are migrating to Oklahoma territory in covered wagons. There are 22,000 there now. This paper is the possession of F. Marshall Davis, managing editor of The American. Lork's Confectionery Ice Cream, Fruits Candy and Cold Drinks C. LORK, Prop. 2500 Adams Street --- MOTOR OIL At Wholesale Prices Light Medium, gal. . 4 Medium, gal. . 4 Heavy, gal. . 5 Extra Heavy, gal. . 5 40c 45c 50c 55c Please furnish can Alger and Hirschberg 10th and Broadway Open YOU'LL NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE! BUTTER 39c Brookfield, 1 lb. EGGS 22c 1 doz. ... FLOUR 68c 24½ lbs. sack .. CORN MEAL 29c 10 lbs. SUGAR 50c 10 lbs. PET MILK 25c 3 cans HEINZ CATSUP 20c large COFFEE 25c Peaberry, lb. ... CORN, 10c can 29c 3 for ..... PEAS, 10c can 29c 3 cans ..... APPLES, 25c Cooking, 7 lbs. These Specials are to last the Whole Pay Week S. A. Fele 1631 Broadway Saturday, Aug. 23, 1930 MEATS Tasty and Juicy GROCERIES of Quality Meats PORK ROAST 11 $ \frac{1}{2} $c 1 lb. SPARE RIBS 11b. 12c SALT PORK 1 lb. 12 1/2 HAMS, Calif. 11b. 15 $ _{1/2} $ PURE LARD 2 lbs. 25 16 $ \frac{1}{2} $ c NECK BONES 1 lb. AMERICAN CHEESE, lb. AMERICAN CHEESE, lb. . . 22c acking Co. Phone 2-1327 FLL DELIVER team, white, and the Vincennes Athletic club, Negro champions of the Mid-West league. SOUTH SIDE GROCERY 2194 Washington SPECIALS At All Times Come in and Compare Our Prices with Others Best Quality Meat— Lowest Prices— Prompt Delivery! Phone 2-1931 DRINK Dixie Dairy Milk A pure fresh milk from contented cows. Furnished thru a modern plant. Dixie Dairy Co. 1200 W. 15th Ave. Phone 6101 Stop! Look! Read MODERN EQUIPT SHOE REPAIR SHOP FOR SALE Must sell out. Bad health has overtaken me. Good Business Location COME AT ONCE The Peoples Shoe Repair Shop 2140 Broadway MILLER GIFT SHOP 39 W. 6th Ave. Join Our 25c per Week MERCHANDISE CLUB for lovely lingerie, hose, etc. Attractive Home Furnishings Christmas is Coming! DRESSES CLEANED PRESSED, FINISHED 75c GARMENTS INSURED Mens' Suits and Topcoats Same Price PLEATED DRESSES ENSEMBLES $1 None Higher More than 5,000 Satisfied Customers LADIES' FELT HATS 25c Bring your garments in now while these prices last THE FORD Master Cleaners 556 Washington St. Phone 5449 CLEAN BEA Restored safely to all wearing apparel. Prompt service, right prices. We subject your clothes to a scientific process that removes every spot and stain. This process brightens the colors without harming the sheerest of fabrics. It results in your garments coming back to you fresh and like new. Phone today for our wagon. At the New York Fashion Shop's August Sale $100 Fur Coat SALE Northern Seals Trimmings Silver Rats Russian Fitch Golden Rats Ermine Pony Coats Pahmi Mendoza Beavers Fox Squirrel One Year Free Service with Every Coat These Values Will Be The Talk of Gary! Our New Millinery Department Opens Thursday with an Important Sale of 100 Hats Felts and Velvets $1.85 Black Brown Green One Year Free Service with Every Coat! These Values Will Be The Talk of Gary! Our New Millinery Department Opens Thursday with an Important Smart Beret Types and Close Fitting Styles Others at $2.95 to $6.50 Smart New Velvet Berets, $1.50, All Colors LOOK! COMPARE! And Be Convinced! LOTH COATS us furs, unusual your new coat. ow you. $59.50 MION SHOP ay Your Pay Envelope Is a Reminder AUGUST SALE OF CLOTH COATS $39.50 Expensive materials, luxurious furs, unusual styles. Save $10 to $20 on your new coat. Come in and let us show you. NEW YORK FASHION SHOP 622 Broadway THE BANK OF NEW YORK Bank of America 5 BROADWAY National Bank of America 685 BROADWAY F M No Sil Gold Po Men One Th Our Sa Fel an Velv Sr LO A Newest Styles Selected Skins Smarly Trimmed Carefully Made Smart New Fitted Lines! of a debt you owe yourself a debt that can only be paid by making regular deposits in a Savings Account and building up a surplus fund for the future. This isn't a difficult matter when you save at the NATIONAL BANK OF AMERICA, for we welcome small as well as large deposits and pay the same 3% compound interest on All Savings Accounts. Blue Ribbon Dairy Co. Phone 6954 Published every Friday morning by The American Publishing Company, Inc., Arthur B. Whitlock, president; Chauncey Townsend Vice-President; Fritz W. Alexander, Treasurer. MEMBER OF EXCHANGE PRESS Subscription price: $1.50 a year, in advance; for six months, $1 single copies, five cents. Advertising rates upon request. Copyright 1980, by The American Publishing Co., Inc. "Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into you children, that the Liberty of the Press, is the palladium of all civil, political and religious rights of free men."——Junius BRANCH OFFICES GARY—1819 Washington Street. Phone Gary 6134. HAMMOND—530 Kenwood Avenue. Phone Hammond 3945-W. EAST CHICAGO—2214 Broadway. Phone East Chicago 1382. INDIANAPOLIS—520 Indiana Avenue. Phone Lincoln 7222. CHICAGO, ILL.—608 South Dearborn. Phone Harrison 8768. NEW YORK CITY—551 Fifth Avenue, The W. B. Ziff Company. Inspector Wood's Policies LBERT WOODS, new inspector, is to be commended for his efforts thus far in attempting to clean out Gary police department. He is attempting to break up the apparent alliance between vice and law, inaugurate more efficient systems, and rid the department of incapable officers. Mr. Woods has ordered the police to hold no prisoner longer than 48 hours on an open charge. It reflects a credit on previous Gary police methods when the new heretofore the department must issue special orders to enforce the servance of a law by men sworn to uphold the law. Our new inspector might go a step farther and ask the local police employ their time in the curbing of vice and crime instead of arresting black Garyites for no reason other than that they may have had some thing to do with local crime. More Negroes are arrested here as suspects than for any other cause and most of these go free. The American is back of Mr. Woods in his desire to take the Gary police force serve its purpose. It is our wish that he continue in the same vein in which he has started and not weaken when he has become accustomed to the job. Instead of "no funds," checks writtten by Garyites are now being returned marked "no bank." It's a little hard to believe in evolution after watching the players at -pee-wee golf courses and endurance matches. LBERT WOODS, new inspector, is to be commended for his efforts thus far in attempting to clean out the Gary police department. He is attempting to break up the apparent alliance between vice and law, inaugurate more efficient systems, and rid the department of incapable officers. Mr. Woods has ordered the police to hold no prisoner longer than 48 hours on an open charge. It reflects no credit on previous Gary police methods when the new head of the department must issue special orders to enforce observance of a law by men sworn to uphold the law. Our new inspector might go a step farther and ask that local police employ their time in the curbing of vice and crime instead of arresting black Garyites for no reason other than that they may have had some thing to do with a local crime. More Negroes are arrested here as suspects than for any other cause and most of these go free. The American is back of Mr. Woods in his desire to make the Gary police force serve its purpose. It is our wish that he continue in the same vein in which he has started and not weaken when he has become accustomed to the job. Instead of "no funds," checks writtten by Garyites are now being returned marked "no bank." It's a little hard to believe in evolution after watching the players at -pee-wee golf courses and endurance tree sitters. WE HAVE ALL THE LATEST HITS IN BLUES Sheet Music and Rolls Hear the Latest Records Here At Your Favorite Music Shop Roosevelt Music Shop 1446 Broadway -- Phone 6424 BUY YOUR WINTER COAL NOW Buy your winter coal now. Prices are lower; delivery are prompt; and the coal is stored away in your bin, ready for the first cold blast of winter's icy breath. GUARANTEED ALL YEAR ROUND PRICES ON COAL Franklin County BIG LUMP $6.50 EGG 6.50 NUT 6.50 MINE RUN 6.00 Pocahontas LUMP $8.50 EGG 8.50 MINE RUN 6.50 Little Betty Kentucky EGG $6.00 OIL COKE 5.50 WHEELING 250 CARRIED 500 These prices are on load lots over five tons. Pennsylvania Ice & Coal Co. 300 W. 21st. Avenue Phone 9467 Buy your winter coal now. Prices are lower; deliveries are prompt; and the coal is stored away in your bin, ready for the first cold blast of winter's icy breath. Pennsylvania Ice & Coal Co. 300 W.21st.Avenue Phone 9467 Good Work Promptly Done When You CALL GARY 7571 A call brings one of our courteous drivers to your door for your soiled clothes. A few days later, he returns them, sweet and clean. For how can dirt resist the great amount of pure water and soap we use. For real laundry satisfaction, call us! SLICK'S Gary Laundry Co. "The Laundry That Does It Best" FIFTH AND MASSACHUSETTS --- Palace Pastry Shoppe Cakes and Pastry for All Occasions We Specialize in Rolls of All Kinds and SALT RISING BREAD 786 Broadway --- --- MASTER BRAND Ask Your Dealer For A Gary Product MEET That MEAT With Your Approval SAUSAGE, LUNCHEON MEATS HAM and BACON Once you Try, You will always Buy Superior Meat Products (Inc.) Phone 9157-8-9 --- --- TRANK FRED JAMES JOHN LAWRENCE TITTLE BROS. PACKING CO. INC. • Meat Merchants - • Stores Everywhere • 1500-1504 BROADWAY 631-633 BRODWAY --- HANDY DIRECTORY of Gary Firms Who Guarantee Products and Service BANKS EXPRESSING BANKS EXPRESSING BOOMING BUSINESS BOOMING BUSINESS from BETTER BANKING AMERICAN STATE BANK 1710 Broadway SMITH'S EXPRESS OAL, WOOD, EXPRESSING Phone 2-7216 1749 Washington BEAUTY SHOPS JULIETTE BEAUTY SHOP 16 W. 25th St. COMPLETE BEAUTY SERVICE For Women who are more Fastidious STIMSON FURNITURE CO. 1855 Broadway Phone 2-6311 GROCERY STORES RUDOLPH'S BAKERY and LUNCH We bake all of our pastry and Bread. Real Home Cooking. Once served at Rudolph's you will become a regular cust- omer. Mrs. Todd Rudolph, Prop. 1751 Washington St. CANDY STORES JAMES' GROCERY and MEAT MARKET Fresh Vegetables We deliver anywhere in the city. Phone 2-2706. R. JAMES, Prop. 1951 Washington HUNTER'S Home Made Candies Fresh Salted Peanuts Daily ROTH PACKING CO., Inc. For Good Meats 1729 Broadway Phone 6730 1945 Washington Street CLEANING and PRESSING CENTRAL CLEANERS AND LAUNDRY CO. 10 E. 19th Ave. Phone 2-5641 TRACEY SMITH, Prop. BOLTON'S RESTAURANT Choice Foods Served Open Day and Night 24 W. 17th Street R. BOLTON, Prop. Ph. 2-7847 ADVERTISE IN THE GARY AMERICAN SPAGHETTI HOUSE We serve real Italian Spaghetti Tables for Ladies 1827 Washington TONY GREGORY, Prop. ADVERTISE IN THE GARY AMERICAN --- August 23, 1930 RICHEST IN VITAMINES Blue Ribbon Milk is truly a bottle of sunshine for your child . Richest in all vitamines, both the bone-building mineral ones, and in the cream, Vitamines 'A' and 'D,' strongest in heat value. Give it to the youngsters at mealtimes and after school. Bottled in our sanitary dairy, Blue Ribbon Milk is the most healthful and economical food. Use Blue Ribbon Sour Cream for Baking. 1524 Connecticut St Phone 6954 The TRUTH ABOUT THE GREAT FREDERICK DOUGLASS "At Another Time Four of Them Jumped on Him at Once" 1932 "No fewer than fifty . . . stood by and saw this brutal and shameful outrage and that one's face was beaten and battered most horribly." By J. A. ROGERS Noted Author and International Correspondent. FREDERICK Douglass is not only the most eminent of colored Americans but he is one of the greatest figures the United States has yet produced. None of the great national heroes, Washington, Lincoln, Grant, Jackson, came from so low and degraded a depth as he. All these were born free. Douglass was born a chattel; he had to achieve his freedom, before he became a man. True Stories Achievement Stories W. B. Ziff Co., 608 S. Dearborn St., Chicago Advertising Representatives The TRUT By J. A. L Noted Author and Inter FREDERICK Douglass is not colored Americans but he the United States has yet national heroes, Washington, I from so low and degraded a born free. Douglass was born his freedom, before he became And in spite of the height to which Douglass rose he had never had a man's chance. But his greatest achievement, perhaps, is that at no time did he ever cease fighting to assert that fullest measure of manhood which he felt most strongly was his by divine right. "At An "No fewer than fifty Helped Save the Union Douglass played a very important part in saving the Union. Who knows but that if his advice had been followed earlier, the war would have ended sooner? As to the Emancipation, the part he played was at least as great as Lincoln's. The following excerpt from Lincoln's letter to Charles D. Robinson, dated August 17, 1864, will throw some light on this assertion: "Drive back to the support of the rebellion the physical force which the colored people now give and promise us and neither the present nor any coming administration can save the Union. Take from us and The Garg American give to the enemy the hundred and thirty, forty, or fifty thousand colored persons now serving as soldiers, seamen, and laborers, and we cannot longer maintain the contest. "The party who could elect a Presi- stood by and saw this bru dent on a War and Slavery Restoration, would of necessity lose the colored force; and that force being lost it would be as powerless to save the Union as to do any other impossible thing." That is to say, according to Lincoln's own words, it was the 186.104 Negro soldiers that turned the tide of battle in favor of the Union. Now it was Douglass who was the first to advocate the use of colored soldiers, a step which Lincoln opposed for some time. No child living in any civilized country today is called on to face Intimate Facts Scarcely Known by Any Except Well-read People are Here Popularized in an Exciting and Inspiring Article the handicaps encountered by Douglass. Born in February, 1817, on an estate owned by Colonel Lloyd in Talbot County, Md., his life was one of extreme hardships from the beginning. He was half-starved the greater part of the time, and, as he him- r of Them Jump tal and shameful outrage and th self relates, fought with the dog of the house for the scraps. He also suffered intensely from the cold, his only garment, summer and winter being a long shirt. Of shoes or hat, he had neither. While a baby, he was taken from his mother, and given to his grandmother. Later he fell to the care of his Aunt Katy, who ill-treated him. The poor whites among whom he lived were also ignorant and cruel and would take their spite against the upper whites out on the slaves. As to his mother, Harriett, he saw her rarely; she worked on a plantation twelve miles away. In order --- to see him she had to steal away after the day's work, and then hurry back to be at work in the field at the rising of the sun. She died when he was about eight. Of a sensitive nature, young Frederick was very much affected by the that one's face was beaten and sufferings of his people. He would see old men beaten to death by cruel masters, and young and beautiful colored girls tortured by jealous and hysterical mistresses. Everybody around him seemed to wish the privilege of beating someone else. "As I grew older," he says in his autobiography, "I became more and more filled with a sense of my wretchedness. The unkindness of Aunt Katy, the hunger and the cold I suffered, and the terrible reports of wrongs and outrages which came to my ears, together with what I daily witnessed led me to wish that I had never been born. I used to contrast my condition with that of --- Human Interest Features Clean Fiction in the Illustrated Feature Section were posed, not depict principals unless so captioned. OUGLASS known by Any e are Here xciting icle the blackbirds in whose wild and sweet song I fancied them so happy." But when life seemed gloomiest there came relief. He was sent to live with the Auld family, relatives of the manager of the plantation. Mrs. Auld, a rather tender-hearted Once" battered most horribly." woman, took an interest in him. She had him outfitted, gave him his first pair of trousers, and made him the playmate of her little son, Thomas. Instead of the damp dirt floor of a cabin, he now walked on carpets. He was then ten. Learning to Read One of his earliest ambitions was to learn to read, and he begged his mistress to teach him. Not knowing that she would be breaking the law, she gladly consented; but one day she innocently told her husband. The latter, astonished, scolded her severely, and forbade any more lessons. Continued on Page Two The Truth about the Great Frederick Douslass Continued frem Page One “Teach him to read,” shouted Auld wrathfully, “and youll unfit him tc be a slave. Learning will spoil the best Negro in the world. He shoul¢ know nothing but-tne will of his master and learn to obey that. The next thimg you know he'll be wanting to write and then he'll be running away with himself.” - Auld’s words almost broke the heart of the young slave. But they proved to be a turning-point in his life. They caused a new and powerful revelation to sink deeply into his soul, néver to be effaced. They made him realise as perhaps nothing else could have done, the value of knowledge. He said to himself: “I see now what is the most direct path to freedom,” and deep within he made this solemn vow: “Knowledge I mean to have.” Thereafter all printed matter be- came almost magical in its value to him. He treasured bits of old news- Paper as others do bank-notes. Young people today with books to be had for the asking, can have no idea how Douglass would have envied them. From these bits of paper he would spell out the words as best he could, stealing away to do so, and some- times using cunning to let his white playmates help him. At times Mrs. Auld would espy him, and stamping and storming “in the utmost fury” would snatch away the book or paper. All of this served to whet his de- ‘termination, and three years -‘er after this catch-as-catch-can method he could read fluently. Fences and Pavements for Copy Books It was in a manner no less ingen- ious that he learned to write. While firing a boiler in a ship-yard in Bal- timore, he noted that the carp. iters used to mark letters on the timber according to the part of the ship for which it was intended. For instance, starboard would be marked “S”; lar- board, “L,” and so on. 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St. Joseph's The Woman» Yonic kD) FLLUSTRATED FBRATURE SECTION— August 23, 1930 ee ees ee Se ee pen and ink, I soon learned to write. Stealing used copy-books, he wouk copy the matter in the unused: space At night in the kitchen loft, with ; flour barrel as a desk he woiild cop; from the Bbie and the hymn book all at the risk of being soundly whip- ped. Lincoln's efforts to get an edu- cation, great as they were, were almos: nothing compared with the struggle: of Douglass. Another important event in his life occurred when he secretly bought a “Columbian Orator,” with money earned at blacking shoes. Now he read the mighty orations of Chatham, Pitt, Fox and Burke until his own ambition was fanned to white heat. A Brutal Master At this time happened what seemed to him a disaster, but it was only Life’s way of training him for a great task. His master, Colonel Lloyd, died, and he was sent for to be valued with the big estate and divided up with the rest of cc property. It is t--:e that he was returned to the Aulds but the fact that he had been treated as @ common animal, he, in whom such manly thoughts seethed, wounded him to the core. Moreover, life at the Auld> was not to be the same. Owing to a family tow, he found himself under Capt. Thomas Auld, an inten: ly selfish, hard, aac brutal individual, ~-oe piety did not prevent his de:.conding on the slaves at prayer-meeting and beating them unmercifully . As to Mrs. Rowena Auld, sh: was not only unkind but stingy as well. She gave Douglass barely enough food to keep him alive, and to make sure that he would steal none, she kept the key of the meat house in her pocket. “Bread and meat were mould- ering in there,” says Douglass, “while I was famishing.” Driven by hunger he would steal away at times to a nearby estate where the slaves were better fed for a few morsels. For this he would be severely beaten when caught. Instead of showing repentence, Douglass took no pains to conceal his resentment after each ‘hrashing. Auld, enraged, decided that he need- ed breaking in. Living not far away was @ poor renter, named Covey, who had earned a reputation at this sort of thing. Masters had been known to send their stubborn slaves to Covey, free of charge for a year. When they were returned they would be thor- oughly tamed. The Slave-Trainer To Covey, Douglass was sent, and Douglass gladly went. In this new place he at least hoped to get enough to eat. Covey was e«_ round-shouldered, bull-necked man, above middle height, with a thin wolfish face; fe- rocious and strong. He at once set Douglass to doing field-work, his first time at it. Three days later, on a slight pre- text, Covey beat him so severely that the blood flowed. A few days later he beat him again. He had given him a team of unbroken oxen in a cart to fetch wood. On the way the oxen crashed into a gate. Covey, cutting down a sapling, lash- ed him till the sapling flew into bits. From now on, overwork and the lash were his regular companions. As to study, that was out of the question. The dark night of slavery closed in on him, dragging him almost to the level of the brutes. Longing, he would watch the ships sailing to free lands and wish he were on one. Long ago he had made up his mind to escape at the first opportunity. YBut his spirit was far from being broken, and one day when Covey. seiz- ed him by the leg, trying to tie him with a rope, he showed fight. Covey’s cousin, Hughes, came rushing to his aid, but Douglass rising to his feet hurled his six feet of lusty young manhood at Hughes and bearing him Quick . UICK, SUre Wa caer s i , E ] 1 er / . oe ee — oe —— FF aioe Bc eel aN, s a . a See Ska <a. % - _ 2. ee ro erful bleach! Nadinola never fails. a ae rk It always works—and works quickly,! eee Every jar carries with it our written ™ —— Cdiireecttions. 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Here he was in- structed to do whatever any of the carpenters bade him, thus comins under the orders of several men whe would send him on various errands. kteking and cuffing him when he dic not move fast enough. Once one of them after kmocking him down, kick- ed him im the eye, nearly bursting the ball. At another time four of them sprang on him at once. Of this in- cident, he-says: “Dear reader, you can hardly be- lieve this statement, but it is true, and therefore I write it down; no fewer than fifty white men stood by and saw this brutal and shameful outrage, and that one’s face was beat- en and battered most horribly and no one said, ‘That's enough,’ but someone cried, ‘Kill him! Knock his brains out!’” He was being trained in a hard school indeed. Is it any wonder that later his eloquence was so terrific? After this incident, Auld took him away from the shipyard not out of sympathy but because his property was being damaged. Escapes Under Disguise He was now allowed to hire himself out and bring home his wages on Sat- urday nights; but the idea of having to turn over this money to his mas- ter galled him, and made him more determined than ever to escape. Not far away was Pennsylvania. Lf ee could only reach Philadelphia he {would be out -of. slavery. But how to get there? The regulations on both the railroads and the steamships we-2 So stringent that it was difficult for even @ free Negro to get a ticket. Such a one had first to present his papers which were carefully examined. At last Douglass succeeded in get- ting a sailer’s uniform and passport, and decided to make a dash for free- dem. To avoid having to buy a ticket he waited until the train had started ‘and then ran for it. Te lull suspicion he had learned the | Sailor’s lingo, and swaggered like one. | But there was one great danger: the ;description on the passport did not [tally with himself. It called for one ‘much darker. Besides there was the possibility of meeting someone who knew him. And he did meet two such persons: a ship-captain with whom he had talked but a day or two before, and a German ship-carpenter with whom he had worked. The first man did not recognize him, and the second said nothing. A day later he was in New York. Free at last! This was September 3, 1838. He was then twenty-one. But the danger was not yet past. There was the fugitive slave law, and the masters had Negro spies in the North to look out for runaways. Judges, too, were paid $10 a head for each fugitive returned. In New York he worked at shovel- linc coal or anything he could get to do. Then hoping to get work at his trade, he went to the ship-yards at New Bedford, Mass. But the preju- dice was-too strong for that, even in the North, and he was offered work at tending a furnace. 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I have worn them to church every Sunday since I got 'em. I never use any polish on 'em, I rub 'em up with my hand an' the oil in my hands keeps 'em bright." Here he rubbed his hand back and forth to demonstrate how he did it. Finding me an interested listener, he set aside his tray of dishes and continued. "These shoes cost only seven dollars and thirty-eight cents. Now they sell for twelve dollars. Two college boys wrote themes about my shoes." Then he clasped his hands and smiled proudly as he added, "An' both of 'em made A." "Lee," I said, "the factory that makes these shoes would probably pay you a good price for them to use for advertising." "Yes'm, I've been told that before." Then he bent forward, laughing. "But I always tell them to keep their money. All I want is my shoes." And Lee took up his tray of dishes and went chuckling out of the room. This conversation took place a year ago. I dropped in at the college cafeteria again recently, and, seeing Lee Battle, inquired about his famous shoes. He stated that he expected to wear his famous shoes the rest of his life. During his thirty-one years of service at Mercer University he has become one of the most popular persons on the campus. He has proved himself a friend to the boys at all times, cheering them up when home-sick or discouraged and advising them when necessary. When the boys are "broke," they often borrowed money from Lee, and in several instances, when boys have lacked the necessary funds to continue their studies. Lee has loaned them the money to complete their college education. His cheerful attitude has won, for him, the title "Mercer's Apostle of Optimism." Two years ago, Lee was quite ill, and he doctors found that in order to save his life, a blood transfusion was necessary. 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SPICER CO Box 2627 Memphis, Tenn. 6 MT? 99 2 ; : P : t & e < e e ’ Ww ; A Suicide--on the Threshold of Happiness te @ HE: daily papers of _M—— carried the story of a¢turn aside. However, that RM ee tragedy this morning. A: prominent young lawyer |®*bine to me, then. I, too, -” ; ' was found shot to death in his apartment. It was cas ai ms aes oe wer A ‘Great IVi unquestionably a case: of suicide. He left no word of ex-| 1 jooked into her eyes and, instinc- : planation as:to why, on the eve of what appeared to be the|tveiy, my heart leaped. It was: but e ‘WILD ¢ eginning of a most successful career, he should choose to|the love of the fiesh for beauty; but|| “The story tep out of life: te her it meant’ something from life: usual moral. lesson ic Po ethesina ~ mat, une weceda -eabisk c eee Bien, sans. wey widens ~ meas that was more than something: jus; and appreciated bv yet GENES. SACL 4AED 64S. Ath OE UBEAD bout her. The knowledge: is: bitter rn my heart beeause: mine is the sin and mine must forever be the secret nowledge that, as I sowed the wind, 50 I and my children and my: chil- dren’s children, perhaps; must reap the whirlwind. ,, I am aman of sixty. I was born Just after the Civil War, of free-born ? entage. The free Negroes .” those lays formed a. class practically apart from the great masses of their own folk. This was partly the result of ‘aws passed by certain states to pre- ent what they considered a menace po the morale of their bond servants ind partly by a disposition on the part of the freedmen themselves. These latter considered themselves on A plane several steps above their prothers who were in bondage. 7 My father had accumulated what, n those days was considered great wealth for a Negro. The gre-t am- pition of all people of color at that ime was to gain an education. Few schools were open to them, however. was cent to one of these few. In the large city where the school yo which I was sent was located, there was @ large Negro Population. When was not in school I associated free- ly and happily with my own people. Wheir social life was of necessity fomewhat limited. The church was the one center of wholesome social ictivity. For the rest, there were uestionable pleasures in still more /juestionable society. | Like most young men of my. day nd time, I drew a very definite line between the two. But I reserved to ynyself the right to cross that line mt will, only stipulating <nat my ivomen’ folk and their associates re- ain very definitely and clearly within the pale.- The moral code of those days was, in much greater de- sree than now, a man-made code; and as there were double standards a conduct, there were double stand- ds of life for men and women. In common with the other young fellows whose blood flowed warm with youth, I frequently sought com- ipanionship with young women out- side of the pale. i e « se There was one place in particular that was the mecca for the wild com- Sanions with whom I sought to break the monotony of my life as a stu- Ment with more money than was good for me and less interest in my studies than I would have had if-I had been ompelled to earn my way. The place was a ramshackle frame house | t stood across the street from the Dnion station at the rear of one | f the more pretentious brick build- es that frorted it. ‘This house . @ sort of boarding house for ilroad porters and janitors of* the: Rearby buildings. | It served also as a restaurant fre- huented by Negro passengers who tould not obtain service fro.n the peecint places patronizec by the: gen- eral traveling public. Frequently, per- son:; who were compelled to stay over tween trains would rent one of the ualid, poorly furnished rooms for @ nominal sum. The income from ho rooms was but the least of the questionable means of procuring money to which the proprietor, 2 big lorown, brutal-faced ‘man, resorted. | Gambling games: were always in lbrogress in some of the many rooms of the old: building. Drinks: were peccuaee and served from the back mtrance to the- saloon facing. the street. A percentage of the sales was the remuneration of “Brownie,” the owner and operator of the dive. | Often the girls who frequented this house of sin were very beautifui. | One night after having attended a social function «t a little Methodist church to and from which I had es- ported the: girl who was later to be- me my wife; I-decided to round out the evening with a gamblirz and diinking bout at Brownie’s. O-cinarily, I weuld have chosen ILLUSTRATED FEATURE. SECTION—August 23, 1930 ; eee ee TN eee ) J Soe ee By : ES or ‘ ; 4 : AA ware ee oe f ts: ee: |< An a ror ees anne " 3 —_ Ecc ee Sagi ea MM onli SS esa rn cg os oe | e, fo ie ie e Pe le i ol kil Bak eee F ee @ si _— ae ae . i ‘1 | im, Pe a. F we oa ee Ad: Ba ee 1 : | mn si a pbb ; 3 a. A 5 ee 4 ee Oh My) ot po! mee i caer ee e i e ay el =) : 4 ey, 3 a - = ~ & CUE 5, pa Fe : ; a ie re Pes de Ea Fi Bd 1) ie | we Os 33 ee P ; bs : ° "FS f ~ 3 sg bi i : ] , bcd aa Pan . _ a i a i i “y ae : eer eee a pay Ps ae ar ; | f. ¢ vie | e se There was one place in particular that was the mecca for the wild companions with whom I sought to break the monotony of my life as a student. ae Oooo OY EEE USE EEE > but the next day was to be my last im: the city for some time, it. was the- beginning of the: vac. tion period. I was: to leave for home on an af- ternoon train. Once ther, I knev that all such pleasures .f the senses would be out of my reach. The small tcwn where I lived provided no such means of evil < were mac2 possible by the greater numbers of people and their comparative lack of close and intimate acquaintance. . a s When I entered the den of iniquity that night, it was comparatively quiet. I noted a light i. the upper tront room, the one usually reserved for traveliny transients, as I came around the corner of the big. brick building that housed the saloon in front. Someone stranded for the night with no hotel accommodations, So they're having to put up at Brownie’s, I thought casually. | About an hour later, I had had quite a number of drinks and was feeling mellow and adventurous. ‘Brownie eyed me speculatively: I Noticed that he seemed unusually in- terested in my enjoyment. I won- ‘dered. | Then, at last, he came ove. to the table and bent dewn to whisper a Question in my ear. “How'd you like to meet a pippin, Boy?” he said. ‘There was no doubt in my mind: as to his meaning, I smiled up at him acquiescently. “Lead me to her,” I answered, la- c vieally. = Her name was Lilly. She was traveling on her way to the Southern city near which I was born. I knew without questioning her, the purpose for which she was going there. The beautiful clothes, the plentiful money. the unusual beauty, the blas: loek in the gray eyes, told me what her type was. But she was youn_. I knew that life: had been treating her- harshly and that her very youth and love of beauty and wish fer. the real things had goaded her into the path from which she would probably never “um aside. Hewever, that meant nothing to me, then. I, too, was young and life meant. nothing to me exteps sensual - pleasure. I looked into her eyes and, instinc- tively, my heart leaped. It was: but the love of the flesh for beauty; but te her it meant’something from: life that was more than something: jus; ty. 2e bought and paid for in geld. She was for sale, but she lenged for something better. I represented: to her the things that she desired above gold. I was youth and love and-pas- sion not based on price. * * * In that one high moment of Lilly’s life I took the greatest gift. a woman can give to anyone. I { ok her love, and in return I gave her husks. To me she was just another pretty toy to be appreciated for the momen:. I had no reason, no particular de- sire, to hide my name and identity from her. There was no need. Such connections as mine and Lilly’s were teo. easily consummated and just as Treadi., dissolved. So it was, that I was all unprepared for the letter that came to my father BROWNIE’S PLACE ee next eer OF scDeel: It told of the child that had been born to the girl of my passing fancy. My greatest anxiety was to keep the news from my mother and my fianeee. In this my father aided and abetted me. “Now, Jack,” he said as he was leaving me after his trip to * e Southern city where Lilly lived, from which he had come by the :-hool on his way home, “let this be a les- m to you. From now on I want you to cut out this sort of thing. I understand, of course. You are hard- ly to blame. I know it is the usual thing. I have fixed it up. “I took Clemons (a lawyer) to see the worzan -nd he paid her off and she is shut up for good. The big thing is to keep this from your mother and Clara. (Clara and I ~ere to be married in the fall.) “Now I want you to settle down and meke a man of yourself. You've sowed your wild oats, and now that you are through, let’s hear no more of them.” Ah, Go, as I recall those words today, how fervently I regret the sowing of those wild oats and how futile I know the power of man to be, in rooting up that whieh, once sewn, must grow to full fruitage. * * s I never saw Lilly again. I moved Week-End True ‘Story || A <Great Moral Lesson “The story ‘WILD OATS’ is a most ur usual moral.lesson io be tearned by yout and appreciated by elder generations, says Rev. H. Holland Fields, of the A-M:E | Church, and well-known young write: ! } “The story ‘WILD OATS’ is a mest un- usual moral.lesson io be jearned by youth and appreciated by elder generations,” says Rev. H. Holland Fields, of the A-M:E. Church, and well-known young writer. phrimself told me that. his father had ee when he was quite young, and ‘his mother, who sent: him through college, had died the year following ‘his graduation. . * ° e The marriage of my daughter was @ very happy affair. I presented them a@ perfectly appointed home as & wedding present, | The day following their home- coming and their welcome by a big reception, I went to thei: home to have dinner with them. After dinner, we went to the den, Cari and I, alone. With a sigh of complete contentment and happiness I sank down in the big comfortable, winged chair beside the grate. Carl offered me the box of pure Havanas that he had just opened. I reached out my hand to take oue. A picture that Carl had plaeed over the desk from which he took the box, arrest- ed my gaze. My hand froze. The blood fiooded back on my heart. “Who is that?” I said. My voice was hoarse. a terrible fear reached out an icy hand of horror and gripped m_ throat. Its muscles were con- stricted. I could scarcely breathe. Carl looked up at me. Bewildered question was in his face. Plainly he was puzzled. As he looked at me, * saw the alarmed surprise that began to rise to the surface of his gray eyes. “What's the matter; are you ill?” he questioned, anxiously. “No, no,” I gasped. My whole soul was recoiling in unthinkable dread of the thing that leered out at me rom the dim recesses of a remorseful memory. “I—I—My God, man, WHO IS THAT?” I pointed with trembling finger to the picture. “That,” he said, and his eyes were more bewildered than ever; ‘hen, suddenly as though he were trying to soothe and reassure a child who is frightened at the dark, he smiled, “Why, that is my mother. It is an old picture taken when,I was a little shaver, but even that costume and the hat, preposterous as they are, aren't going to bite you. I own they're pretty awful but— -” The room reeled around me. The Picture on that desk was the likeness of—LILLY. e o ° Carl Drexle cursed me as I stum- bled from that room that I had en- tered with him so blithely an hour before. I was never to see that room again, nor hear the veice of the man whose curses: drove me from it. Theee black curses will ring in. my ears throughout eternity and beyond. The stricken leek on my daughter's face when she left me after a night torn with grief and anguish will be constantly before my eyes to remind me of the black abyss from which no human hand can save her—ner that even the hand of God can re- move from her memory. So—I who sowed the wind must reap the whirlwind. And, to add to the horrors, as I drink the broth of Hell that my own hands have brewed, I must see the child, for whom I would give my life and all that I am or have ever hoped to be, choking and losing her reason as she quafis the awful brew with me. Oh, ye who sow the wind—pause and remember that the -eaping time must surely come. And where one seed is sewn, thousands spring up. THE END. ey _ Ear'y pioneering Africans influenc- ed tk “Indian religion through fetich- ism, and they left relics in caves which gave further evidence of their Presenc2 or this continent, before the white man. Mid-Western city. I married Clara, but God in his justice began the grinding of His mil! even then. Pas- sionately as we desired children, none were born to that union. Clara died and left me a childless widower in the second year of our marriage. As if in mockery of the thing my heart most desired I was phenome- nally successful in a business way. Money piled upon itself for me. Years passed. At last, in my loneli- ness, I married a second time. As if to lead me on to hopes of happi- ness, as I had led the unfortunate Lilly, this second marriage was blessed—Ged! did I say “blessed”? ‘Nay, it was cursed—with the birth of @ beautiful daughter. | My little girl grew up. She was ‘the spoiled and petted darling of a home where everything revolved around her. Then the first blow fell ‘when she was twelve. Her mother died. I tried to love her for both. My love for my daughter now became the one great force of my life. I loved her-with a supreme love. Then there came into her lif> the inevitable. | I was no longer all in all to my child. THE Man entered, and for the first time all things else had second place. Carl Drexle was a fine type of men. There was nothing about him to which I could object. I sineerely liked him. Graduate of a Central Western college, he was a fine type of young lawyer. _ He was unusually handsome. He had @ natural charm and grace that re- minded me-of the old South as I ‘knew it in my boyhood. Carl had no living relatives, but I made inquiries about him from the faculty of the college. I found that their opinions of him rated him very highly. He was a young man of sterling qualities, so they said, and of unusual mental attainments. Car! 7 7 ‘ x a 8 7 le RS Peo Tea Here Before Columbus ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION-August 23.1930 The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale portrait of a young woman with wavy hair. Alice Caird 1940 Lincoln Hilderd DOROTHY BOYD, comely New York stage, Beauty, formerly of Irwin, Millers Kara M.Y. FLORENCE WRIGHT, pretty stage Dancer of the Savoy, New York. She is well known throughout theatrical circles