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Offers $1,000 For Lynchocrats 5 PRICE CENTS THE HOUSTON INFORMER America's Greatest Weekly Newspaper FINAL EDITION MOBOCRATS GREET DEMOCRATS $10,000 VOTED FOR LYNCHING PROBE VOLUME X MOB $10,0 THE MIRROR BY C. F. RICHARDSON SOME PERTINENT QUESTIONS JOURNALISTIC DEAN DEAD Newspaper reports stated that Detective Davis, who received a fatal wound in an alleged gun battle with a police officer, Robert F. J. Oldenberg and Robert Davis, day morning, was shot in the back of his head. These newspaper accounts also answered Robert F. J. Oldenberg and Robert Davis, and later taken from his hospital bed and lynched by a small group of officers when the officers sought to disperse a group of Negroes, apparently attending to their own business, as Anna and Rose streets early Sunday morning. If Davis were shot in the back of his bed, how could they be beating him, from the scene, fire a shot which would take such an aerial route, pass the park and turn around and strike the officer in the rear of his head? Did the slain officer's partner fire weapons? Is it unlawful for a group of colored persons to stand on the streets after a certain hour of the night? It curfew law in Houston for blacks? Who formed the mob which invaded the city hospital and subdued the half-dozen lifesaving corps of his lifespan corpse from a roundside bridge several miles from Houston? Who warned by one of the lycopers, and what was the insignia which adorned his uniform? Is it possible that a police officer had a hand in this reversal to savagery and barbarism, motivated by average the death of a fellow-officer? Are police officers the only person who wear uniforms? Didn't Davis, the dead officer, work conductor on Pierce car line for the police department? In this the name Davis who, a operator on Pierce car, shot a collision after the Negro left the car? Don't these trainmen and operators have uniforms? When did county continue to keep wounded prisoners in this hospital or will they make provisions for them in jail and criminal courts buildings? Why did the sheriff maintain only one guard at Jefferson Davis Hospital, and why should he have been caught "sapping," in the man in which he says he was "covered?" Why was no attempt made to seize police guarded as long as city police guarded as county officers were placed as his prisoner, instead, but mobbed? Perhaps if some of these questions can be answered, the authorities can be institutional recognition as an editor and publicist. He visited the chapel enclosed the faculty and student body, and his speech, coupled with the manner in which he penn, inspired and fired this writer to such an extent that the field of journalism became a joke and call us in days of our time. Well do we remember the Thomas Fortune, then editor of T. Harris's gripping addresses at this East Texas institution of learning, and the day to engage in editorial work. The Grim Reaper recently called Mr. Fortune, the dean of Négro journeymen, the head of demes, though he lived the allotted treasure and ten years, has brought anthus and narrow to journalists, and has editorial contributions and activities. Under Mr. Fortune's ownership, the New York Age gained national press. Local Branch Posts Money For Lynchers O. P. DeWalt, president of the Houston branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, states that his local organization is offended by the conviction of the Houston huns who lynched Robert Powell. Mr. DeWalt's statement follows: "It has been the proud boast of Houstonians throughout America that the South whose good name had not been behemothed by a lynching. We are no longer boast of this record! "It is providential that this harrise of a time when we were at the peak of our glory—when the eyes of the world "Southern Hospitality" above our doors and throwing them open to the God moves in mysterious way!" Undoubtedly these cowardly defenders of "white supremacy" called themselves "getting even" for the verdict in the Chenter case, and thought that they would take an chances in Powell rebellion. To denounce and condemn the cowardly lynchers will not improve the situation much, but the law enforcement officers and agencies can bend every sincere and current effort to apprehend and punish the guilty culpits; for many citizens are of the opinion that a difficult matter to arrest the ringleader of this miniature mob. "It is not prevention chaperon than punishment," he wrote for Houston to have thrown the right kind of prevention and protec- tion for Houston to have disregarded and disclinued in the eyes of the civilized world? "We oppose the state of Texas and the nation to punish and enforce strict and laxing laws on the conduct of immigrating characters of this character." Look at at from another angle. Houston will lose considerable in mountain or mid-rock and infiltrate it. "Bellering that law and order is the foundation of America as a permanent institution," the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People offers an additional reward of $1,000 for the arraignment of the perpetrators of this crime." In the face of the national parley of the Democrats, this lynching orgy will cause many to cancel their proposed visit to this city, and many of those who will come will live under a terrible mental strain and in constant fear of mobocratic demonstrations during the convention. Furthermore, what assurances have the delegates and visitors that they will be safe and secure from humilih horrors while here attending the convention. COLORED EDITOR SEEKS ASSEMBLY OFFICE IN CALIF. Didn't this guard have any type of weapon, and if he did have a gun or pistol, why didn't he at least fire a shot in the direction of the departing mobbists and thereby alarm the neighborhood? Knowing that certain elements here were incensed and enraged because another officer had fallen in an alleged fight with a Neo-Nazi didn't the authoritarian place a stranger guard at the hospital? Los Angeles, Cal.—(ANP)—With the California elections in August, the Republican candidates R. Bass, editor of California Eagle, and notedighter against segregation and discrimination, are preparing for the November presidential political battles over held in California. The race is to be between Ted Cruz and Fred Roberts, present nominees. Is the wave of nullification and disregard for constituted authority, which infests and infects the South, one of the contributing factors to this Houston lynching? The Informer also wonders if certain remarks made by some of the law-enforcing officials of this county, when Pete Chester got off with the light sentence at his Huntsville trial for slaying a white Houston patrolman, influenced these local huns to take the law into their own hands in the Powell case? One of the factors that brought the courageous newspaper man into the limelight and stamped him as a fearless defender of Afro-American civil rights was his battle with high officials of the Ku Klux Klan a few years ago. At that time the hooded order had gained a firm foothold in California and numerous instances of persecution took place. Bass began a fiery attack against them. His stand so nerved the Negro citizens of the east side that on one occasion the local klavern sent notice that it would march down Central Avenue and clean it up. The Negroes sent word for them to come on and they would get a warm reception. They did not come. Mobcrats and Democrats! What fine campaign thunder for Republicans during the presidential race! The Houston Negroes, on the whole, are law-abiding, peaceful and respectable, and the relations here between the two races are good. The Southern city; it will be unfortunate, not only for the white, but for here, but for the entire community, to have those amicable relations disrupted by such acts of barbarianism and savagery as pulled on the city's outkids early Wednesday morning. The Informer wishes to command the authorities and leading citizens of both races for the summer in which they are attempting to cope with the disgrace and damnable outcrop of the blacks will be the theme; list of this species on the municipal escutcheon of Houston. Mr. Bass has never stopped his battles against the cells that have been used to make the need of a powerful, fearless, uncompromising Negro anomalyman absolutely necessary to the safety of the California group. Houston Negroes are disgusted and resists, though unafraid, and many of our substantial colored citizens are open stating that they will not live in any community where heathenish and savagery coexist so such sporadic outcasts of anarchy savagery and "kultur." and his ability as an editor soon become noteworthy. There is absolutely nothing which can be said in defense of these cowardly and pusillanimous lume, but it will certainly be well for all conferred by the authorities take such actions as to make the repetition of such a hellish horror an impossibility; for if these few lousy lynchocrats think that their "stunt" is calculated to terrify and frighten the upstanding Negroes of Houston, they have another thought coming and have most assuredly "reckoned without their hosts." Selah! camo nationwide. He better than journalism in better than Mr. Fortune Ired and devoted originally his entire career to Negro race should never forget the great service required it and the n- gricious Illustrated杂志 and journal. Heavenly Houston Turns Hellish and Hunnish As Mobbists Stage Pastime Wounded Black Kidnapped From Hospital and Treated to Dose of Famous American Concoction Several Miles From City—Victim Had Been Charged With Fatally Shooting Local White Detective—Wound In Back of Slain Officer's Head Could Not Have Been Inflicted By Negro Running From Slain Officer—City Council Orders $10,000 For Lynching Probe—Fine Prologue For National Democratic Convention. Despoiling the fair name of "Heavenly Houston" and pulling off a demonstration of anarchy and mobocracy just on the eve of the Democratic National Convention (which officially opens here next Tuesday morning) that this community will never be able to live down, a small group of white lynchocrats entered the Jefferson Davis (county-city) Hospital at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday, seized Robert Powell, wounded colored youth; carried him several miles out of the municipal confines and treated him to a practical demonstration of the celebrated American pastime—Judge Lynch. With scores of nationally famous newspaper editors, writers and Democratic leaders already in the city, the mobocrats could have hardly chosen a more opportune occasion to stage their convention prologue, and thus bring everlasting discredit, disgrace which had been free from a lynching bee during its entire history. Powell was taken to the hospital early Sunday with a pistol wound in his abdomen, having been arrested at his home after A. W. Davis, 30-year old city detective (white), received fatal injuries in an uncalled for and unwarranted gun battle in the Fourth ward. A murder charge was filed against Powell in connection with the shooting, and police guard was being maintained over him by the police, who were being from his court. According to Detective Henry Brad, the colored men holding their show, the dead officer's partner, the HOUSTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1928 HOUSTON'S HELLISH HUNS! Without any attempt at alliteration, the abovecaption can apply to the small band of Nordic mobsters, who entered a local hospital early Wednesday morning, seized a colored youth who had been seriously, if not fatally injured in an alleged gun fight with a city detective early Sunday morning, carried said youth to nearby rural regions and there staged the first lynching in the history of what we have heretofore been want to call "Heavenly Houston," but which hereafter will more likely be referred to as either "Hellish," Heathenish" or "Hummish Houston." When the news was flashed over the city early Wednesday morning that Houston had put a team in Judge Lynch's loop, many could not believe it; for here is one Southern city which had never had a mobocratic disorder, and the fact that a small group of cowardly Huns had brought unspeakable shame and dishonor upon our fair and famous city, literally shocked and stirred the entire community. The Informer, not knowing the facts in the alleged gun battle between the slain detective and the lynched Negro, can not speak in the defense of the mobbed black, nor in criticism of the dead officer, as it relates to their alleged gun battle of Sunday morning; but this paper does know that no community is safe and secure where heathenish and hellish hoodlums can invade a hostile community. The police, by lying fatally wounded, it matters not what crime is charged at the hands of the wounded prisoner! It is rather surprising that these Houston hams did not pull off the lyrical song "Sum. Sum. Houston Hall." place for the Democratic past week. According to Detective Henry Bradshaw, the dead officer's partner, the two white detectives were patrolling 1:30 a.m., 1:30 a.m., Sunday, when they discovered a group of Negroes engaged in combat at Andrews and Genesee schools. Why didn't the guard on duty shoot at the mob after it had re- ceived the blood-colored prisoner to the waiting automobile just outside the hospital? Officerra Started Trouble Seeing that they were Negroes, the officers, of course, ordered them to carry the pistol and still another began to beat the corroding to the officers, drove a pistol and still another began to beat the officer Bradshaw, according to his statement, arrested the Negro who had dropped the pistol, while Davenwort were fired and Davenwort later wounded when Bradshaw reached his side, according to Bradshaw's state. Subsequently a search was made by police officers in the section of the building where the officer was arrested, though the skin officer's partner declared that Davenwort had been shot in the back of the head; the officer pulled a queer tool and defended the laws of nature and gravitation, for a running man to shoot his pursuer Authorities Held Responsible Powell was placed in Jefferson Davis Hospital, with a light guard, despite the sentiment and feeling of certain the recent light injuries given to the given Peter Chichester for the alleged slaying of Officer The mob, which was unmasked and led by a white man described as wearing a black jacket with gold insignia with gold insignia on the marina arm and breast" was composed of various estimates by different Deputy Sheriff S. Y. Q. Britannia and was before the pitches of the invading lynchman, though the officer was not to effort to fire up the crowd. Did Lawrence Davenport Get Impartial Trial The question whether Lawrence Davenport, Houston colored youth electrocuted at the state penitentiary at Huntsville some weeks ago, received a fair and impartial trial and got the benefit of the doubt, has remained so steadfastly to the force that the Informer is herewith reproducing the petition which the Informer presented to Governor Dam M. Moody in Davenport's behalf. The committee went to Austin and held a conference with the governor extending over nearly one hour. The members of the committee state that Governor Moody gave them a courteous hearing, and promised to look into the case further as a result of their visit; the governor at the same time rather indicating that his mind had already been made up that Davenport would have convicted on his life for the crime, despite the fact that he was convicted on an alleged forced confession and circuitial evidence. Guard Made No Resistance Officer in prismate state, he stated he was raised by the dark Lydia Branch, nurse, who was writing some reports, he felt several platoon presents ordered to get up, he said, and forced to turn his face toward the wall, while commander Powell, slapped him, curmed him, bound him and, lifting his bodily, carried him to the mobbies had made good their departure, the deputy phoned the sterilif and told him what had taken place, Did Law Davenp impa The question whether Lawry youth electrocuted at the state's久 ago, weeks ago, had a benefit of the doubt, has remitted The informer is here, reminding citizens' relief committee of How M. Moody in Davenport's benefit. The committee went to Austi government to ask Austi committee to meet in heariing, and promised to look in their visit; the governor at the mind had already been mad to explaie with his life for the was convicted on an alleged torture. The cardinal principle of English jurisprudence is that the defendant must be until his guilt is established behind the shadow of a reason NUMBER 6 RATS PROBE turns Fish As age Pastime Treated to Dose of Fam- City—Victim Had Been Detective—Wound In Been Inflicted By Nec- cil Orders $10,000 For National Democratic Conven- he said. Various peace officers began a search for Powell and found his body, which he pointed from a bridge on Post-Gate cotof road, eight miles from Houlton. According to the officers who found him, he was surrounded around his neck in a hansen's mouth, with the other end of the rope attached to a bridge post. His hands were never seen, and his wounds were even afraid to try to lay a wounded man without first bending his hard and fast) and his feet were not seen. He pointed to the dead Negro's head shown that he had been struck with a blunt instrument, and by his knife the Negro cautors and lychees. $10,000 for Lynching Probe # At a special meeting of the city council on Monday, the city government ordinance was passed approving the mayor to appoint a committee to investigate the city's police department, separate and distinct from the probe being made by the regularly constituted authorities in the Forsyth County city council. The city council also approved $10,000 to be used by the committee to investigate the police department prosecuting those found to have participated in the mobocratic demonstration. Mayor Oscar F. Holcombe appointed Judge Henry J. Dumamus as the chief prosecuting officer to other members of the body being B. M. Rearr, J. W. Neil H. R. Scalf, J. W. Neil H. R. Scalf, Messr. Grigby and Henderson are colored.委员会 will have absolute leeway in making its investigation. (Continued on next page.) INFRANCE PORT Get partial Trial Since Davenport, Houston colored penitentiary at Huntsville some and impartial trial and got the ed so steadfastly to the position which inducing the position which Davenport presented to Governor Dem- and held a conference with the one hour. The members of the Moody gave them a courteous case to the case further as a result of same time rather indicating that up that Davenport would have crime, despite the fact that he burden of proof is on the statis (Continued on Page Five) ST. LOUIS PAYS CORONA POLICE Cleveland Critics HONOR TO OLDEST TAG MOTORISTS Laud Gilpin Players NEGRO EDUCATOR OF NEGRO RACE In Abraham's Bosom PAGE TWO—FIRST IN EDITORIALS THE FIRST TIME THE MUSICIAN WAS IN THE MUSIC BOX St. Louis, Mo.—(ANP) - St. Louis' oldest teacher of our race, Edward Sandford Williams, principal of Bannerk School, Locas and Ewing avenue, Sandford Williams, principal of service at a golden jubilee celebration at Vanton High School last Friday night. He has spent fifty of his twenty-two years as principal of local schools. He is now to St. Louis in 1872." Principal Williams explained to reporters, "because a friend of mine who was a teacher here advised me to come west and grow up with the country, and I was a teacher of education had authorized Negro teachers in Negro schools, and gave my first year a month, monthly and annual grade in New York at Papin Street and Jefferson Avenue of one-room school that had only twenty pupils. (In his present capacity, principal of Bannerk School than 1200 pupils.) "Twenty-two years ago Same School was the principal of No. 12, Attacks and Desalinas schools. In 1905 I was put in charge of Bannerk School than 1200 pupils. We moved into the old Standard School building here in" Principal Williams was born and educated in America and has traveled extensively in America and other countries. He is able to take course at Harvard, Howard and Washington universities. I have studied here unanticipated schools, including Darton and J. Snider, *Aside* from possessing a legal mind, Principal Williams is a trained healer. He said the program last Friday night was not meant to honor him but to educate the schools during the last fifty years. Principal Williams depicted changes in the school system and showed the importance of the school. The faculty members of Bunkeer School were uniting in their honor, honoring Principal Williams fifty years of service as a teacher, author, and director of the celebration. She is well known as Miss Catherine White, former teacher of the Bunkeer School and director of the city. Upon his treasured possessions Principal Williams displayed yellowed letter more than fifty years of education at the Dell Phillips and William Lloyd Garron, addressed to a friend of Mr. Williams in the teacher's profession. The only other teacher of our race was Prof. Richard H. Cole, who died in 2013 years after his "golden jubilee" celebration. Principal William howe, who hopes to serve a long time yet, he is in his fifty years of service as a Los Angeles, Calif.—(ANP)—Although the business men of Corona, Calif., were not hostile to the establishment of an elaborate country club for Negroes just three quarters of a mile from the little city, the chief of police seemed bent on attempting to inimidate as many of the 5000 Negro city on Decoration Day to the opening as possible. On various charges of traffic violations nearly 500 tags were issued to motorists for speeding, wrong turns, etc. As proof of the fact that color was influencing him, several Negroes so fair as to deceive the molesting officers were allowed to escape with the same violations for which their darker brethren suffered. As rapidly as the tags were brought into the club house, White, who with Clarence Bailey and Dr. Eugene Nelson, is owner of the club, took charge of them and next day turned them all in to the attorney general. He dismissed all the cases and no one had to appear or pay a fine. Parties had motored from San Diego, San Francisco Bakersfield, Fresno, and all parts of California. Hotel Employees Plan Big Meeting In Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio. — (A N P) — P l a n a s are being made to make the forthcoming annual meeting of Colored Waiters and Hotel Employees, which will be held in Cleveland, August 11-14. The meeting will be in the history of the association, according to an announcement made Wednesday by the association, which was established three years ago, for the purpose of promoting the employment of the larger hotels of the colony in the leading Negro colleges of the country to include in their curricula the buying, preparing and serving of foodstuffs. "Many of the white colony hotels in the leading colleges," said Mr. Brown, "and if boys are to keep pace with the whites in the colony, they must receive the same instruction." Delegates from all sections of the colony will be in pitting over a real program. Other officers include Albert G. Barnett, Chicago; W. Alonso, Cowan, vice-president; Pittsburgh Albert G. Barnett, Chicago; W. Alonso, Cowan, vice-president; G. R. Birdson, R. St. Paul; C. Sullivan Carr, St. Louis; W. William Wright, Colored Waiters, W. Louisville. teacher. He was the recipient last Friday of numerous gifts, flowers and telegrams from friends in various parts of the country. THE HOUSTON INFORMER, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1928 Cleveland Critics Laud Gilpin Players In Abraham's Bosom Cleveland, Ohio.—(AN P)—The eyes of the entire theatrical world of Cleveland are faced with the Little Theatre this week. There the Gilpin Players are nightly playing to a well-packed theatre and nightly adding more stars to their crowns. The presentation is the 1927 Pulitzer prize play, "In Abraham's Bosom" by Paul INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS Surveyed by The Associated Negro Press with the cooperation of The National Negro Business Institute and Department of Commerce and Other Reliable Agencies. NOTE—If the articles appearing in this column suggest any particular question to your mind, or if you desire further information, please contact the Publication Office. NOE-If the articles appearing in this column suggest any particular question to your mind, or if you desire further information about them, then you should contact the Association of the Associated Negro Press, 3423 Indiana Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, or Secretary, National Negro Business League, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, or a communication to the Inquiry Board, D.C., will be productive of the further information desired. During the week of May 28, this play was presented by them in their little Karamau Theatre on Central Avenue, and though it played eight times, it was not the house the demand was so great that it had to be given another show and at a larger theatre. Each evening the percentage of whites was larger than that of colored people and the percentage of blacks so the Little Theatre, which has recently presented such plays as "The Captive" and "Ellen Gantz," wanted it. This is quite the largest theatre in which these players have acted. The play is set between playing to a few hundred people in a crowded room and acting before thousands of regular theatre goers, but the Gilpin Players were equal to it. Their success is assured their act has won universal appl NATIONAL BUSINESS LEAGUE MEET IN NEW YORK PROMISES GREAT BENEFITS TO RACE Indications point to the 1928 convention of the National Negro Business League which will be held this year in New York City as virtually marking a definite epoch in the history of the organization that has for more than a quarter of a century fostered Negro business efforts, and has fathered nearly a score of trade line bodies with substantial memberships of their own. John L. Holsey, national secretary of the League, was in Washington during the last week in May conferring with Dr. Frank Surface, assistant director in charge of the Domestic Commerce Division of the U. S. government, with whom he completed plans for the participation of the bureau in a program of instruction in retail merchandising. Dr. Surface will be present in person to deliver a talk, and the Foreign and Domestic Commerce Bureau will be represented for the whole period of the convention by James A. Jackson, assistant business specialist, who will take with him from the University of exhibit material and literature dealing with retail merchants problems. The leading parts of the play are their speeches. Abraham and Olive Hale as his wife, Speaking of them in the Cleveland of June 11, Don Muir Strouss says: In the meantime, the New York local league, of which Alderman Fred R. Moore is president, and Lennon L. Foster secretary, is rapidly developing a new program that will provide students with attractive and instructive sessions as well as a typical series of New York metropolitan entertainments. A number of important importers, mercantile efficiency experts and transportation officials have been asked to assist the League officers to strengthen the programs of discus- "But it is the acting itself that Woodford in the name part through which Woodford in the name part is imbed an actor as one would hope to be, and the actor is imbed during intensely emotional moments, yet winning from them, through his interpretation of every one of feeling." A significant contribution to the assurance of a large attendance is noted in the news that more than a half dozen trade line bodies that originated "Olive Hale, his sweetheart, and late his wife, is called upon to re-enter the throughout the greater part of the house. At the same time, she must portray reactions to a situation that brings her to tears. Climax. She acquires her excele- You will always find OKEH ELECTRIC RACE RECORDS ON SALE at GOGGAN'S As Soon As Released THOS. GOGGAN & BRO. 1010 MAIN ST. 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McCarthy, secretary of the Local Community Research Committee. An entire floor of the Urban League will set aside for this special work. Part of the work will be done at Urban University of Chicago. E. Franklin Frazier will direct the study. Mr. Frazier was formerly director of the Atlanta School of Social Work and during the past year was research assistant in the department of sociology of the University of Chicago. He has been engaged in a study of the Negro family and before coming to Chicago taught and studied the Negro in the South. He is a graduate of Brown University and has studied at the New York School of Social Work. The study has already begun and will continue indefinitely. It will undoubtedly become a definite part of the programs of the Urban League and the research committee of the university. Elbridge Bancroft Pierce is president of the Urban League board of directors. Judge Albert George is secretary and Elgar N. Greenbaume is treasurer. 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He spoke in his usual eloquent manner here and was liberally applauded as he recounted the rights he had asserted to correct the wrongs perpetrated by the police. He argued his legacy not to live in their fight against all forms of prosecution and told them not to be ready to compromise to save some imaginary place they hold for moneys. He addressed the address he paid a fine tribute to Robert J. Nelson, who resides in the Elks civil liberties com- nouncement SON'S BEA Arkansas A. K. Johnson MARIE C. FERGUSON OPE WINNER FIRST GRAND Girl—the presenter of all the pretty girl— girlgies it girls it used to make sound will be sent to the winners listed on June 22, at the Alhambra Theatre LOCAL PRI ```markdown ``` LOCAL PRIZE WINNERS FIRST IN REAL NEWS—PAGE THREE NEW YORK'S MAYOR SHOWS TRUE FORM; FAILS TO APPEAR New York City—(ANP) After promising to attend the banquet of the Harlem Children's Fresh Air Fund, Mayor James J. Walker ran true to form and failed to show up. 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The judges reported that HUNDRED AND ZEN WINNERS in will be awarded to the First and New York City—(A N P) - Civil Service Commissioner Ferguson J. Q. Morton was one of the two who testified in the big street cleaning graft scandal which has shaken New York. He testified that the commission of any blame in the riding of payrolls, and put the matter squarely up to the street cleaning department. Mr. Higgins, conducting the investigation, questioned Mr. Morton. "Why, the justification for the approval by the civil service commission in these cases is almost too plain to necessitate any elucidation. There might have been any number of occasions when none of the men certified the commission was eligible for appointment showed up for work which necessitated the superintendent putting on men who are not on these rolls. He was virtually nothing the civil service commission could do to avert this practice. Mr. Moggett up to the street cleaning department. TEST GRAND PRIZE WINNER the judges reported that AND TEN WINNERS in awarded to the First and PAGE FOUR—FIRST IN CIRCULATION City Happenings Mary Curtis Marshall and Miss Mary Bryant motored to Brenham on the 19th and report a delightful trip. George Adams, Bartlett, who has been visiting his brother, C. B. Smith at 3212 Drew, left this week for his nieces Ruby and Ernestine Phelps spent a pleasant day in Navanova, spending with relatives, Mr. and Mrs. William Guice. Mary E. A. Hillard and daughter, Galveston, spent the week-end in Litchfield Lake, Mrs. A. W. H. Lee, 2901 Shepherd. Mary W. E. Smith, 2006 Shepherd, left this week to visit her mother atument in Port Arthur and New Orleans. AGENTS WANTED—To mail, Linda K. Smith, 2006 soldier, Write for Tree sample Doe Dallie, P. W. Warren, Conroe, announces the marriage of his sister, Mary Belle Constance to Frederick Cornell, July 16. John A. Martin, Howard University is home to spend the summer with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Martin, 1118 George. There will be a woman's day program at Boynton Chapel, Sunday. June 24. Mrs. L. V. Harrison will address the body. Little May Hainsworth, who underwent an operation at Houston Negro Hospital, is much improved at time of going to press and will soon be at home again. Mrs. E. J. McBeth, Brazoria, after several weeks visit with her daughters Mesdames B. A. Crawford and S. A. Jenkins, 2715 McGowan, has returned home. FOR SALE—Two lots in Roslyn Heights, block 30, lots 12 and 13. Lot size: 30x100 feet each. Will take $400 cash. Write Mrs. N. B. Miller, Box 95, DeQuincy, La. LOST—A gentleman's white gold wrist watch. Pilgrims' buildings auditorium, June 2. The watch was a graduation present and the owner will pay a liberal reward for the return of same. Phone Fairfax 6254. For Sale—About a thousand feet of good, sound lumber, suitable for building garage or outhouse—A bargain. See Jas. T. Ewing, room 408 Odd Fellows Temple, phone Preston 7790. See Spivey Pratting Co. for good information. 3220 McKinney. Reasonable rates. Work called for and delivered promptly. James Richardson, Jr. has returned from Howard University after spending two years in that institution. He will spend the summer with his piano teacher, and Mrs. Isaiah Smalley announce the marriage of their daughter, Mattie Jessebelli, to Andrew C. Jones, and Mrs. Isaiah Summer, July 1922, 3801 Equestre St. MAIDS and MATRONS—If interested in beautiful lingerie, Hose and saving prices, call Mrs. Prudie Wye, saleleday for Quality Products Lingerie Co. Angeles, Calif. Phone 514-262-2626. 504 MILAM ST. NOW SHOWING "THE ENEMY" With an All-Star Cast of Characters Sunday-Monday— MONTE BLUE in one of his best "THE BUSH LEAGUER" Tuesday-Wednesday— "The Danger Patrol" With a picked cast of cinema artists Coming Soon! TOM MIX in the "ARIZONA WILDCAT" ORCHESTRA-COMEDIES NEWSREEL Galveston Doctor Chosen President of State Medicos DR E. A. ETTER, Galveston, the Lone Star State Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Association at San Antonio, last week, ranks as one of the leading physicians of his city and state, having devoted the last 11 years to the study of urology and venereal diseases, in which he is considered an authority. He has been a constant predator at the state meetings, and has given the association a type of assistance that is well-known Dr. Eter, who is a graduate of the University of Texas, exas, and McMahay College, College, Tenn., and a native Texan, is the president of Galveston, the doctor of Galveston, the doctor of Texan and one of the founders of the present state medical body. Dr. Eter has already launched his work in the association, which one in several ways, and he expects to make public some of his plamain, a Popular Dentist Heads State Body; Elected Last Week Popular Dentist Heads State Body; Elected Last Week DR. IRWIN L. JONES, popular Galveston dentist who was selected as head of dental section of the Lone Star State Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Association at San Antonio last week, is a product of the Island City; graduating from Mebray Dental College, Nashville, Tenn., in 1954. Dr. Jones, who has practiced in Galveston since 1959, has practiced in Galveston since 1959, has practiced in Texas consisting of two complete operating rooms, an X-ray and other medical treatments. Aside from his lucrative practice, Dr. Jones is an ardent churchman, being treasurer and trustee of St. Paul M. E. Church and he is also general secretary of the Texas State Association of the I. B. P. O. E. W. He states that plans are now being worked out to make the 1929 meeting in Galveston a banner one. Mrs. W. H. Mitchell and W. H. Jr. are spending a few weeks in Palestine, to which place she was accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Ella Jones, who was enroute to Portland, Ore. W. L. D. Johnson, Jr., arrived in the city Friday, after spending four years at Fisk University, where he received the degree of bachelor of arts. His friends congratulate him and wish him much success. Rev. J. R. Burdette, pastor Bethel Baptist Church, and Theo Harris, president of Antioch B. Y. P. U., left this week for Milwaukee, Wis., to attend the Baptist Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. Congress. Miss Jewel Alma Woodard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Woodard, and who was valiedietorian of the class of '27 Booker T. Washington High, is home for vacation, after spending the term at Atlanta University. Miss Woodard won second place this year on the honor roll at her school. RACE MUSICIANS TO MEET The Houston Musical Association will have a special meeting at Antioch University on June 24, 5 o'clock. All musicians and music lovers are cordially invited. HOUSTON-THOMPSON NUPTIALS One of the most brilliant social events ever carded on the local calendar, was the marriage Monday morning of Miss Constance Houston Houston, a graduate of G. C. Houston, to Tracy Thompson a graduate of knot law was tied by J. R. Hurdette, pastor of Belted Baptist Church, and attended at Antich Baptist Church due to illness of the bride's mother. THE HOUSTON INFORMER, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1928 Odd Fellows' Temple Meets All Building Requirements--Engineer After the collapse of the wooden awning attached to the Odd Fellows Temple, Louisiana and Prairie, which fell Saturday, June 9, fatally injuring a blind colored woman, rumors and gossip were rife in the city that the structure was defective, and that its collapse was inevitable. These reports and rumors became so widespread and persistent that James T. Ewing, grand secretary of the order and manager of the temple, held a conference with the contractor, Carl Curtis of Houston, and informed him of what the wise ones were saying about the building. Thereupon Mr. Curtis had Harold M. Sanford, consulting civil engineer with offices in the Esperson building, to check and investigate the structure and make public his findings. He spoke for itself, and should do much to allay the wild-eyed talk which has been going the local and state rounds since the awning fell. The letter follows: actor, request I have checked the condition of the six which you build for the DG G.Household of Ruth (D Houston,Texas. At this structure is in much better than usual is the equal of any tion,safe. is in conformity with meets with the required the American Society ate Institute and the Materials,which is co- Mr.Carl Curtz,Contractor, 2813 Washington Ave. Houston, Texas. At your request we have investigated the corp frame building which you use. Lodge No.25 and D.G.House Texas,G.U.O.O.F. at Houston. I find that this the workmanship is much building as a whole is the and is, without question, the design is in building codes, and meets the Joint Committee of the A. The American Concrete Ins Society for Testing Mater best practice today. HMS-MS So much speculation has been indulged of Mrs. Mattie Hunter, blind beggar killer to an Informer representative the other order on the building took care of or damages. He further states that the order is still the propaganda of some who seem anxious the rocks. "Just tell 'em we'll be at Fo "and with every bell blinded for the safe and the calamity howlers and mem for carrying on their well-known pasting G. Gore, 'we are sawing wood and sayi At your request I have checked the design, and have investigated the condition of the six-story, concrete frame building which you built for the District Grand Lodge No.25 and D.G.Household of Ruth (No.13) of Texas, G.U.O.O.F. at Houston, Texas. I find that this structure is in perfect condition, the workmanship is much better than usual, and the building as a whole is the equal of any modern structure, and is, without question, safe. The design is in conformity with the most rigid building codes, and meets with the requirements of the Joint Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers; The American Concrete Institute and the American Society for Testing Materials, which is considered the best practice today. indulged in as to who was resp sugar killed when the awning gai the other day that the various of the fatality, as well as the i er is still in business and movin em anxious to see the "grand be at Fort Worth in August with the principles of our grand a and members of the I-told-you pastime. In the language of and saying nothing!" So much speculation has been induged in as to who was responsible financially for the death of Mrs. Mattie Hunter, blind begged killed when the awning gave way, that Mr. Ewing stated to an Informer representative the other day that the various types of insurance carried by the order on the building took care of the fatality, as well as the broken plate glass and other damage. He further states that the order is still in business and moving along as days of yore, despite the propaganda of some who seem anxious to see the "grand old order" floundering around on the rocks. "Just tell 'em we'll be at Fort Worth in August with bells on." Mr. Ewing stated, "and with every bell beeping forth the principles of our grand and glorious order. Our temple is safe and the calamity howlers and members of the 'I-told-you-so' colony must seek new fields for carrying on their well-known pastime. In the language of our lamented Grand Master H. G. Gorce, 'we are sawing wood and saying nothing!' **Houston Churches** **ANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH** Rev. E. L. Hauppast, Pastor Sunday, June 24, morning and night, sermon by the pastor. **TRINITY M. E. CHURCH** Rev. J. H. Lovel, Pastor **ropers skill.** A special section has been reserved for the colored race where each specimen is unmounted and of everything that takes place in the area. A number of colored cowboys, who wield just latters as lariats in their uniform, all the bekleaders of the, whose many kind deeds in many places have made him one of the most admired men of this section, will take part in the performance; while the bekleaders of the, whose many kind deeds in many places have made him one of the most admired men of this section, will add interest to the convention. GALVE $1 GALVESTON Santa Fe $1 ROUND TRIP SUNDAY Morning Flyer Leaves Union Station 8:05 A. M. SEASIDE SPECIAL LEAVES UNION STATION 1:25 P. M. Arrives Galveston 2:40 P. M. One Hour and 15 Minutes Leave Galveston 8:25 P. M. and late Special 10:15 P. M. Dear Sir: HMS-MS Houston Churches ANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH ANTIHOE RAPHISP CHURCH Broadway, 212-722-2000 Sunday, June 24, morning and night, sermon by the pastor. TRINITY M. E. CHURCH Rev. J. H. Lovell, Pastor Rev. J. H. Lovell, Pastor visit and visit, Superintendent J. S. Scott of the Houston district Miss Erie Lea, leader, topic: "Our Good Times; Bought or Built; 8" M. Seal, assistant pastor; topic: "Miss Erie Lea, Win-Shall Christ?" SEES NIECE WEDDED HERE Prof. S. W. H. Wouston, principal of Houston Normal and Industrial High School, will attend the wedding of his niece, Miss Constance Houston to her husband, Dr. Robert Houson at Antisch Baptist Church Monday morning. ATTENDS MOTHER'S FUNERAL J. E. Stamps, Chicago, Ill., agency director of the Victory Life Insurance Company, was in the city that hosted the funeral of his state to attend the funeral of his brother, Todd, who died Tuesday of a week in family have the sympathy of their numerous friends throughout the city. Convention Rodeo To Feature Negro Broncho Busters The convention rodeo which will be staged at Rice Field during the National Democratic Convention will be the big entertaining feature of the convention, and it will be said will be the most thrilling sport contest contested in the country. More than 100 cowboys and cowgirls, the pick and flower of Western rodeo contests in which $15,000 in cash prizes have been hung up for the winners will be featured in the steer riding and wrestling and kindred sports of the plains country. More than 500 head of livestock have been hung up for the Mexican and Brahma horses, trained cowboys and feested Brahma calves waiting for the test riders and HAROLD M. SANFORD CONSULTING CITY ENGINEER EMPLOYMENTS 878-2670 HOUSTON, TEXAS JUNE 14, 1928 I have checked the designation of the six-story, built for the District Gate Household of Ruth (No.13) of Jackson, Texas. Its structure is in perfect better than usual, and the the equal of any modern stur safe. In conformity with the most with the requirements of American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Materials, which is considered Yours very truly, H. M. Sanford d in as to who was responsible financi- d when he awning way, that or day that the various types of insu- fatality, as well as the broken plate g ill in business and moving along as de- dious to see the "grand old order" flor- t Worth in August with bells on, or pythons of our grand and glorious members of our grand and glorious members of our lamented nothing! 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Moody, the State of Texas, Austin, Texas. The underigned, Citizens Reliable Committee of Houston, Texas, pray that your excellence may be moved from death to life imprisonment, and herewith submit our request. Davenport from death to life imprisonment, and herewith submit our request. As laymen we have always understood it to be the law that the state of Texas should be a double, and while we do not take the position that the record in Law, the evidence, the conscience, we do feel most strongly that we are willing in urging upon the state to grant the guilt, as shown by the record itself, is so grave that a man's life should be doubt. We are not doubt. We shall address ourselves to the question of whether such a doubt Owald F. Foster was shot and killed on May 22, 1927. The state of Texas should not Foster, the only present present at the shooting, so far as the Vern Phillips, the chief witness for the state, Miss Phillips testified on this crime committed but we do not make the testimony of Miss Phillips very, very important. Let us examin "They took me to the police station he had a Negro named Alfred Gibson him as being the one who committed him as being the one who committed "Later then I say this defendant, Lawrence Davenport, is the one; yes, he may change my mind because of the statement defendant made and I am not pleased. I presented there. I did not hear him say the statement. The statement I refer to is the one shown me by some of the detectives down there. I do not remember what statement I made. The statement was signed, was signed by someone purporting to be Lawrence Davenport, more than a month moment, after I had identified Alfred Lawrence Davenport, yes, sure I did. I do not know under what circum- stance was not present when it was made, but from some of the details outlined have been Lawrence Davenport who identify him from the statement writing, rather than from his looks or physical make-up." Page 8 of "I looked at Lawrence Davenport, this defendant, down there at a time he groomed up there and I failed to identify him at that time, failed to point him out." Page 8 of the record. "I When identified Alfred Gibba it was soon after the crime had been committed, I identified Lawrence Davenport. When I identified Alfred Gibba it was known, don't just how many days it was; and I had a better mental picture at that time of the crime," Davenport said. "Page 9 of record. "Aside from that statement in my mind I would say that Lawrence Davenport had not been told. I would say that because different things came up that prove that the defendant had not been told. Defendant has not said anything to me. It is from things that I have been told. The detectives showed me the statement; they carried me up there; they told me that the crime, yes, they did, and they told me that they wanted me to identify him, and they carried me up there and by showing me that statement and such things as they have told me to the defendant's statement." Page 10 of the record. “I didn't see the shot fired; I didn't see the person who fired the shot. As for my knowing whether it was fired by the darky who was at the car or was at the fire, I could have been the one who might have been in the direction they went, was in the direction but I didn't see them, wasn't looking down that way.” Page 11 of the record. We respectfully submit to your ex-ecency that the above quoted testimony of Miss Phillips eliminates everything in this case. Except the cases of a new report, which is the record at page 14. We believe that there is sufficient doubt as to the circumstances under which this confession was signed to justify us in urging upon your excellency that a man's life should not be taken merely on the basis of this confession. We shall address ourselves to the circumstances under which the confession was signed. Lawson Davenport testified that the confession was beat out of him by the officers. Page 46 of the record. The officers testified that the confession was voluntary. Pages 16, 55-56, 57, 58, 59 of the record. Our contention is that the independent, disinterested and unbiased testimony in the record on the question of whether Lawson is such as to make the decision in such as to make the doubt so grave that his life can't be taken on account of this confession. What is this testimony? M. L. Shipp, a white doctor, who is or was resident physician in the University of Texas, Jefferson Davis Hospital, at Houston, Texas, testified that he examined Lawrence W. Bickel, who is or was resident physician in Texas and further followed "I had occasion to observe him at the entrance of the mine or minthirty, eye at a light, brought there by an ambulance, suffered by him. He did not at time have an ambulance on the side of his head and his temple struck on him by the side of his face, no, sir, didn't have it. I did not notice an orbule or bruises on him anyway, wound in the leg. I did not examine him and recorded all I found. I examined him from head to foot, strip, and cut his ankle and that all I found Page 34 of the record. I examined the testimony by the ambulance driver to the hospital. Pages 36, 37 of the Now, this examination was made by Dr. Shipp about nine or nine-thirty on the night of June 4, 1927. The defendant, Lawrence Davenport, was arrested late that same night, or rather early the next morning about two o'clock; page 25 of the record. The confession was signed the afternoon of June 5, 1927. Record, pages 13, 14, 55, 58, 59. The defendant, Lawrence Davenport, was in the custody of the law from that time, that is, the time of his arrest, until he was examined by Dr. Ernst Wright, county health officer, residing at Houston, who is a white man and who could not possibly be biased in favor of defendant. What did the doctor find? "Four places where there were abrasions; on the right side of the face and one on the shoulder." "Just in front of the left ear there was little place there; on the back of the hand just above the knuckle on the second finger there was a small place similar to the one in front of the left ear, and on the left ankle just above the left ankle, just over the left ankle there was some small scabs which were also mostly serum, just dried up, just small scabs caused from hitting or scraping, something like that." "On the buttocks, on the left side of hip, there was horizontally up and down the body a bruise or cut-an abrasion is what it was—it shows an abrasion; was not cut through the skin. There was just enough abrasion here to cause the skin to peel. All those scars and abrasions and the peeling of the skin are about the same duration, seven or eight days." Above quotations from page 40 of the record. "The only 'whelp' of any kind that I found across his back was the one I described down on his buttocks. That was caused by some soft something like ... it was not a rope, it was not twisted. He told me that it was a garden hose, and that would fit the best of anything I could imagine; it was something soft, soft like that; he had received a lick with it, or blow." Bottom of page 40 and top of page 41 of the record. "It was about 11 a. m. of the 11th of June that I saw the defendant and examined him. From about two o'clock of the morning of the 5th of June until about 11 o'clock of the morning of the 11th is practically a week." Page 42 of the record. While the above testimony does not prove that those scars and abrasions were inflicted by the officers in order to force Lawrence to sign the confession, they do, in our opinion, raise a doubt sufficiently grave that the life of Lawrence Davenport should not be taken on account of that confession. The other other circles of the record which tend to confirm that doubt. Lawrence's mother, A nn i e Barnes, testified that Lawrence was at home sick on the night of May 22, 1927, when Foster was killed. Page Galley 11 Informer Williams 6-18-23 43 of the record. Lawrence also testified to the same effect. Page 44 of the record. Nathaniel McClellan, a Negro, testified for the state that "about ten thirty" on Saturday night, June 1927, he was held up Lawrie, Davenport and that the适-fle Lawrence was shot; yet Dr. Shipp testified that Lawrence was brought to Jefferson Davis Hospital in an ambulance at about "nine or nine-thirty" on that night. The testimony of McClellan is found at page 24 of the record, and that of Dr. Shipp at page 34 of the record. This raises grave doubts concerning the efforts of the state to show that Lawrence was in the hold-up business. Miss Phillips states as follows: "I outlined to the detective the details of this crime, to two or three of them before the called upon to identify Lawrence Davenport; I did that before (Lawrence) Davenport was arrested." We respectfully submit that, because of the doubles raised by the recorder, we are surrounded the signing of the confession in this case, the sentence of Lawrence Davenport should be committed from the life of the deceased. With the prayer that your excellency may make this disposition of the case, we are. Your obedient servants, CITIZENS RELIEF COMMITTEE O. P. De Walt, Chairman, Rev. E. L. Harrison, Counsel, Cleyer, A. W. DeWet. CORSICANA Corsicana, Texas—Rev. C. S. Booker left Monday for Milwaukee, WI, to attend the Sunday School and R. Y. P. U. Congress, Mrs. Surnburner left Monday for father in Pt. Worth, Mrs. Willa Shaw is home from Galveston. Miss Lillie Bell Bloe, Akebee, is visiting relatives here, honoring Mr. and Mrs. Shaw. Miss Annabelle San Antonio, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Robinson, East Collin St., entertained with a farewell social. Spring flowers were used in the decoration. The hostess was assisted by Little Miss Ruth Patterson, East Collin St., entertained and Mrs. Eleanor Moore. Sore Legs Healed Grace Lupus, Ursula, Ruthwardt Veldt, Colleen, Emmara bounced while you work. Write for from her book, "The Art of Writing." Grace Lupus at your desk. Your copy A. C. 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Jesus Christ was announced by an angel and he was afterwards by many witnesses. Conviction concerning Christ's ability to effectively witness for Him. In order to revive the drooping spirits of the disciples Jesus was transfigured before them. Two men who were disciples of Jesus converse with Jesus about His approaching death at Jerusalem, the very thing about which the disciples were so alarmed. The answer is given a foregone of the coming kingdom. April 22. Jesus as a son was faithful to his parents. He had a high regard for the true home. In this lesson He acts as a guardian for the home, which is the foundation of the home. Those who are actuated by His spirit will recognize marriage as the ideal marriage. Lesson for April 29. Jesus' answer to the question of the rich young ruler concerning what he should do in order to inherit eternal life is that he is the necessary love is supreme love to God and that we should be willing to part with everything his sake. Lesson for May 6. While Jesus was resting in the shadow of the cross, the disciples were disputing as to who should be the first to die. The true greatness is expressed in willingness to give oneself in service to others. Lesson for May 13. Learned Jerusalem and officially presented Himself to the Jewish nation according to prophecy. Jesus exercised his kingly authority in curbing the fig tree and driving money changers from the temple. Lesson for May 20. Under the parable of the husbandman who betrayed their trust, Jesus shows the Jews to be guilty of persevere and undivided love of God. The son of God. Many whole duty is summed up in one word—supremacy and undivided love of God. Jesus is coming in glory and will enter into judgment with those who have been unfaithful. It is incumbent upon all to watch so as to be ready for the lesson for June 3. Though Jesus was the very Son of God, he was the same man the same time a real man and croused human sympathy, therefore he took His disciples to the garden. 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DRAKE PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Diseases of Women, Blood and chronic 323-03 Add Plows Temple Hours: 2:30 a. m. 12 m.; 2 to 5 p. m.; 7 to 8 p. m. Sundays by appointment Dr. O. L. Bledsoe MEDICINE AND SURGERY Office: 1114 W. Houston Ave. Phones: 1062-1269 Marshall, Texas ADVENTURES IN MISSISSIPPI ```markdown ``` UTICA INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE Top, left—Brady Hall, boys dorsitory; center—Rev. G. Geo, L. Payne, president Board of Trustees; middle—middle school; faculty bottom; left—Boker T. Washington, girls dorsitory; middle—faculty bottom. When it became certain that I was to visit Mississippi early in the month of May, I was plainly apprehensive, Northerners who knew knowledge of the far South is more academic than practical, my associates were disposed to regard me as the victim of an unfortunate break in circumstances when I was to attend to attend the silver jubilee celebration of the Utica Normal and Industrial Institute at Utica, Mississippi by W. H. Hotzclaw, principal of that institution. They did not see how that person could be in store for the porter. And they could not understand how any curiosity I might have about Mississippi could compensate for what man in store, Goab, should have safely, well, known how to do in the South, esper- How was I to get to Mississippi? That was the first question which Jackson asked. He o'clock in the evening, I would reach Jackson, Miss, at three o'clock the purchase a Pullman berth out of Chicago and spend nine night日晖 in through Tampa, impatiently! I didn't but it did not seem necessary. I decided that I would take a beth to Memphis to spend at a quarter to nine, and transfer to the pullman-cow coach. That was cheap when I arrived, a Pullman into Jackson, although it can't say that I could not be done with a Pullman in Birthingham. Jim Crow, like Death, is a great leaver. Jim Crow looks green like it, reduces them all to the *name* condition. Jim Crow threatens. Negro and makes the two, equal. It finds the lowest common denominator, Negro, the *how to* and the thoughtless, the chant and the tunicless in the development of his mind, his character, and certain deeds of compassion, without at least, to the statism of the most ignorant and holdensive plow Crow. In a free country, one has the right to choose where one will live, where one will eat. Under Jim Crow this freedom of choice is removed and where one will eat. At hate very practices are the mode. I would rather ride in a white horse than ride in a black horse for chances of enjoying the comfort I am used to be greater. I am kind of a little nervous, but I complied to ride in the white coach that would be jim crow, too, but it would be a more endurable form. Because it is my impression that granting the principle of separation from the horse himself in greatly responsible fur most of the disgraceable features of jim crow as it is suffered now in the station, I sought breakfast at the station. I sought breakfast at the station when I observed him related when I observed him related when I felt to myself that if I now how to order, I was going to be able to get from the station to the dining room and the white dining room were served from the same room as the station. I felt to myself that if I now how to order, I was going to be able to get from the station to the dining room and the white dining room were served from the same room as the station. But I didn't and why? Because the horse could be delivered dry, from bamboo. ceiling. The counters were greasy, the knives and forks were dull with wear, and the servers were the boy employed to wait upon you, slow beyond conception, was dirty. His toes stuck out of his shoes, and his face flashed, his coat and trousers, filthy. Now I could not have made him understand an intelligent order, but I had brought it. It occurred to me that interest on the part of the Negro, in cleanliness and difference, in this restaurant, similar, physically, but separate from the clean, white dining room on the other side of the room. Perhaps the jim-crow coach in which I rode was wooden, but I did not notice it. What I noticed more was that buxom, greasy brown wo- man who rode opposite me pulled off her shoes, preparatory to messing the up-up with the work. The man was not at all I also noticed that she offered the porter a drink of gin, which he drank, and neglected me. In front of the car, two railroad hands, dressed in new overalls, engaged in animated and loud conversation with a gaunt, but gaily bebied black womans, and just left her hand. All of the most intimate affairs that may have occurred for two or three years prior were gone into by the three of them to convince one another of how mean a man the husband was. The two railroad hands finally interspersed their stories with each other. The man and the other that a minister, was in their midst, and the presence of many others to whom such language was repulsive. I was fuming with disgust for them when a young man and woman came from the front Jim-crow coach to the smoking room in the rest of our coach. The man and the women had been talking were attracted by the girl entering the smoking car. One of the men had to desist from his ribald narrative long enough to go into the smoking car to learn whether the girl was smoking. He seemed to sell us all in a close of horrors that she did not sell. One's pre-summe they did not sell Bibles down that way. Jackson was safely reached and a local on the Yazoo and Mississippi Rivers met him at the Utoa. Thin coach was also filled with a motley, careless group. I sought one of the many car, which I were among, and piled by the news butter, white, of course. I sat down beside him (the man) who offered him a cigarette, which he declined. Noticing later that the brand was one with which he was not familiar, he smoked, with comments as to the virtue of the fag and its rareness in the smoking room, the conductor entered and ask beside me. His second or third question was “Where're you from?” I told him Memphis. When he asked me what I did in Memphis, I replied that I was a student, making sure my kabat on my baldiness might not be observed. From this conductor I gleamed an idea of what the white Mississippian of his rank and station in life thinks about his state. He seemed to be well acquainted with agricultural conditions within the state and the degree of prosperity being enjoyed in various sections. He knew that it was a good move on the part of Mississippii farmers to diversify their crops, but felt that they had not yet learned all they should about it. The weather conditions still hold too much away on the outcome of a crop. Tommatoes, beans, peas and strawberries, he told me, are now making money for the farmers in Mississipp. At that time, the first week in May, farmers each of Jackson had money, than six millions of dollars in banks from the sale of strawberries alone. This money felt that the political situation in Mississippi today is precarious. He did not believe that his state would support AI Smith, not merely because Smith is a Catholic, but more because of the fact that Smith and his adherents had evolved no particular form of relief for the farmers. He said that Mississippi farmers were wise to the fact that Smith had not said anything for them. His general remarks seemed to indicate that somebody would have trouble with Hoover in Mississippi. FIRST IN INFLUENCE—PAGE SEVEN Thus did we talk until we reached Utica, this fearful traveler from the North, and this conductor, probably of the clan Vardaman. And by the way, where is Vardaman? Is he dead? You have not heard of him dying, have you? Well, he isn't dead. On that train I discovered that the man who stirred Mississippi and the nation with his tirades and white-horse parades, directed against the Negro; who became governor of his state and senator from his state, is now in an insane asylum in Alabama. Funny you haven't heard about it, isn't it? Well, it isn't being published. Mississippi has been quiet about it, both whites and blacks. They somehow feel that Vardaman's present predicament is the sign of a great curse that would be more terrible if the world was told about it. E Franklin Frazier, writing his memorable "Pathology of Race Prejudice," missed the greatest object lesson. Would it be too much to say that prejudice drove Vardaman mad and made a paralytic of Tillman? We are now at the Utica Normal and Industrial Institute, seated at a heavily laden table, with members of the family and of the board of trustees. INTERRACIAL WEDDING STIRS NEW YORK CITY New York City.—(ANP)—The case of Adolph Hodge, coach and physical instructor at the P. S. 139 in W. 140th Street, who married Miss May Yockel, a white teacher in the same attention in social and educational circles in this city. Hodge, a graduate of Howard, has been working in the same building, who was working a trip abroad, Hodge is said to have and become ennounced of the same building, whose family is said to be wealthy. On his return to school work, accustomed to the story, Hodge paid little attention to devoting most of his time to Miss Yockel, who reported that the colored girl reported that she was the principal, who in turn reported the case to the superintendent of the district, young white woman were employed. Calling Hodge to his office, Superintendent is alleged to have advised Hodge that he had given the same course to the Yockel woman. Neither followed his advice. Calling Hodge to where they were married. On their return to the school, marriage was ended. Hodge and his wife to reside. This they did, at the same time requiring the matter to Dr. William S. Williams, Dr. O'Shea refused to act on the matter, demanding to know by what right Mr. Nicholson had demanded the location of the man and his wife. As a result, it is said that while the two men were both reeployed in the schools for the balance of the school year (about fifteen or twenty of the schools) both he reeployed in the fall because their resignations were not accepted. Judge who is 41, has an excellent bridge, and he is a former residence, his landlord declared that he was one of the most famously men who had ever lived with his father, a famous in the inter-school meets, winning the valuable Herald-Trifle award, a big meet in which they participated. The couple are living in seclusion here in Harlem. Dr. G. P. A. Forde Phyllodes and Surgeon 409-10 Old Fallow Temple Phonet: Office, Freston 2775 Broadcliffe, Oxford 4855-M GRAND CENTRAL SYNTAX (Washington Ave.) Southern Pacific-T. & N. G. 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EDITORIALS THE HOUSTON INFORMER AMERICA'S GREATEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER "It Gets You Told—Nothing Else!" MEMBER NATIONAL NEIGHBOR PRESS ASSOCIATION Published every Saturday by the Webster-Richardson Publishing Company, Inc., 409-411 Smith Street, Houston, Texas. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1919, at the post-office at Houston, Texas, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. C. F. KUCHLAHSON G. H. WEBSTER J. ALSTON ATKINS CARTER W. WESLEY Editor-President General Manager-Treasurer Secretary Auditor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Cash in advance): One Year, $2.00; 9 months, $1.50; 6 months, $1.25; single copy, 5c (987824) All matter intended for insertion in any current issue of The Houston Informer must reach our office by Wednesday noon of the week publication of same is desired. FOREIGN OFFICES: Chicago (Western) office, 604 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, ill.; New York (Eastern) office, 171 Madison Avenue, New York City. ANY MAN WHO IS GOOD ENOUGH TO SHED HIS BLOOD FOR HIS COUNTRY, IS GOOD ENOUGH TO BE GIVEN A SQUARE AWARD. NO MAN IS ENTITLED TO MORE AND NO MAN SHOULD RECEIVE LESS—BOOSEVELT. HOUSTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY, PUNE 23, 1928 POT CALLING KETTLE BLACK! The editor of The Informer (readers will pardon this personal reference) who was a delegate to the Republican State Convention which was held at Dallas, Texas, May 22, 1928, (having been elected to said partisan parley at the regular Republican convention of Harris County) has been criticised considerably by a small coterie of Texas blacks because this writer did not walk out of the regular state convention at Dallas. A recent issue of a colored magazine, published in San Antonio, carried a criticism of the action and attitude of the "Negroes of Houston and Harris County," inferring that failure or refusal to "bolt" the regular convention of this county was detrimental to the race, and a lot of high-sounding "bull-sheviki." We also observed an article from the pen of a certain race physician of the Alamo City, who sought to mildly chide this editor for lining up "with the Creager forces under the guise of supporting Hoover." As stated before in this paper, we have no apology, alibi or excuse to offer for supporting Mr. Hoover for the presidential nomination by the Republican party; and the would-be colored politician and editor of San Antonio, who have arrogated unto themselves the power to lambast and excoriate the Texas Negroes who were for Mr. Hoover prior to the precinct, county, state and national conventions of the party, ought to be extremely careful what they say and print about political insecurity and partisan activities of others. When the split came between the MacGregor-Nolte-Scobey Creeger-Wurzbach faction and the Green-McCarthy-Beck-McDonald-Grigisby bloc at San Antonio in 1920, these same dusky San Antonio politicians remained in the "regular" ("illy-white") convention, and under the audacity to criticise those of us who walked out under the leadership of Harry Beck of Dallas and "Bill" McDonald of Fort Worth. They remained with the "regular" (Creager-Nolte) organization until the 1928 convention, and, when this writer was called to a conference at San Antonio during the congressional race of 1926, we were reliably informed that several of these black Alamo City politicians, who have been bitterly condemning us for remaining in the "regular" convention to which we were elected, were taking money from the "illy-white" faction which was then fighting Congressman Harry M. Wurzbach's renomination and re-election. Where were these San Antonio Republicans of color during the memorable "black and tan" fight in 1920? If they were against the "illy-white" regime then in control of the Republican party in Texas, why didn't these race-loving and patriotic San Antonians of color line up at that time with those who were trying to wrest control of the party in this state from the hands of partisan manipulators and "illy-white" of the deepest dye? Where were these same black Bexar County Republicans in 1922? Were they not found in the camp of the "regular" (MacGregor-Wurzbach) Republican organization? Moreover, what position did these astute Negro politicians of San Antonio take during the 1924 campaign, when Congressman Harry M. Wurzbach was one of the delegates to the Republican National Convention from Texas, on the Creager-Noite ("illy-white") when Captain John E. Elgin, "Bill" McDonald and this editor were putting up a fight at Cleveland in 1924 for Republican principles, where were the San Antonio politician-physician and magazine editor? We repeat, where were they and what were they doing then for the race which they now profess to love so deeply that they even left the "regular" organization, to which they were elected after a strange event (in Dallas last month and ran off after strange political gods)? Furthermore, where were Congressman Wurzbach, Charles C. Littleton, F. E. Scooby, Tom Darling, Paul Gage and other-recent converts to the cause of the downtrodden black brother, when we were fighting with all our energy for the overthrow of the "illy-white" Republican regime in Texas? Isn't it also a fact that even Congressman Harry M. Wurzbach never forsook or differed with the "regular" ("illy-white") Republican organization in this state until a sharp difference arose between him and Mr. Creager over the distribution of federal patronage in Texas? After all is said and done, wasn't the recent intra-partisan fight merely a combat over positions and patronage rather than principles? Were Democratic in one election, voting pro-Creager in another election and voting pro-Wurzbach in still another election, as if these colored politicians of San Antonio ought to America's Greatest Weekly Newspaper be the last persons on earth to criticise any person for what they term "political insincerity." In supporting and advocating the nomination of Mr. Hoover, the Informer certainly was not influenced by monetary considerations; for its editor had far better financial inducements from certain anti-Hooverites, including the state management for one of the presidential aspirants. Again, the Informer knew full well the attitude of the Creager-Nolle administration regarding Negro participation and representation, yet this paper and editor chose to back Mr. Hoover in spite of his other adherents and supporters in Texas, because we believed then and still hold to the opinion that Mr. Hoover will make an excellent chief magistrate of this great American commonwealth. Hereafter, some of our ebony-hued political pills will do well to take a good peep at themselves in some mirror before essaying to label as black certain political kettles not identified with their bloc. The Ne BY KELLY In the days of the South the Du used to say that, ceep, spoofing, disgusting and displeasing is all over exerci Hoover and Smith nominated. When he was done, we may. The De can praise for Smith, can prefer their praise for Smith, can prefer such cunning trickery for the fawning of the fairy tale. But we are not allowed to POLITICAL PRODIGALS RETURN! When the Republican State Convention had concluded its deliberations at Dallas last month, and had refused to place any colored man on the delegation to the National Republican Convention—due to the fact that only 8 or 9 colored Republicans sat in said convention along with their county delegates where no contests were involved, some of the ebony-hued supporters and adherents of the anti-Hoover faction in Texas sought to have considerable fun at the expense of the few Negroes who were delegates in the regular state convention. Prior to the various Republican conventions in this state, The Informer came out editorially for Mr. Hoover, and, while originally favoring the commerce secretary for president and an uninstructed delegation from Texas, when the forces lining up in Texas against the Creager-Nolte machine began to attack and cannonade Mr. Hoover, then this paper assumed the attitude that it was for an uninstructed delegation as long as its proponents did not oppose Mr. Hoover; but that since they were fighting Mr. Hoover's nomination, as the Informer was for Mr. Hoover, the opposition to the proposed paper was committed to the proposition of sending an instructed delegation from Texas to the national conclave of the party. After the Dallas convention five of the six Houston Negroes who attended the regular Republican State Convention, were the butt of crude and pseudo-humorous jokes; one local sheet, apparently subsidized by the anti-Hoover forces of the state and nation, even placing the names of these five colored Republicans in a tombstone, or alternatively conveying them to their political grave and partisan tomb. But, judging from what happened at Kansas City, viz: the welligh unanimous nomination of Mr. Hoover as Republican presidential nominee; the facility with which the Hoover forces controlled the Republican national executive committee, credentialed by the House, and the fact that which the anti-Hoover delegates from the Lone Star State were treated, losing out at every turn; the temper of the convention, itself, towards the claims of the Wurzbach-Littleton faction—all appear to indicate that our local anti-Hooverites of color held their funeral ceremonies rather prematurely and consigned the women to death and political persecution. These local black anti-Hooverites bet money that the secretary of commerce would never land the Republican presidential nomination, have proven poor partisan prophets and political prognosticators! Their following was quite small and insignificant prior to the state and national conventions, and it will be reduced to nil now, for people are not wont to follow losing leaders, whether said they are the people, or whether they are self-appointed or superimposed. The Informer is not gluing over the fact that the colored brethren in the anti-Hoover camp went down to welligh inglorious and ignominious defeat and disaster, neither is this paper attempting to join the "I-told-you-o" aggregation; but since The Informer's choice received the nomination and will more than succeed next November, we are perfectly willing for the public to pass judgment on the wisdom of The Informer's presidential choice. Having been the first Negro newspaper in Texas to announce its support of Nominee Herbert C. Hoover, and having been one of the few papers in the state or South, colored or white, to urge and work for the commerce secretary's selection as standard for the "grand old party." The Informer has "no regrets for the past," and has been the public face of the pre-convention editorialist. The Informer regards Mr. Hoover as the most available and formidable candidate the Republicans could have chosen to head their national ticket, and this paper and its editor will be found contributing our "bit" in the campaign to elect Mr. Hoover to the highest office within the gift of the American electorate. While no fatted calf and sweet strains of music greeted our ebony-hued political prodigals upon their recent return to the city of Kansas City convention, instead of consigning them to political office, the Informer has been the public face of the stones. The Informer extends to them the right hand of fellowship, welcoming them back to the fold of colored Hooverites! LEE G. O. P. GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE With presidential electors for Herbert C. Hoover and Charles Curtis heading the Republican national ticket at the general election in November, the Republicans of Texas, when they meet in their state convention at Fort Worth during August, to nominate a state ticket, should select as a candidate for governor an outstanding Republican; a man who can command respect for the state ticket; a candidate on whom the warring factions in this state can harmonize their differences. In the opinion of The Informer, Hon. T. P. Lee of Houston is the logical man for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, and his selection for this post would be a happy and wise one. Mr. Lee was nominated for this post in 1924, but withdrew from the race when certain differences arose concerning the campaign, whereupon the party bosses nominated Dr. George C. Butte of Austin, who polled an exceedingly surprising vote in the race against Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson, Democratic candidate. The Informer asked questioned the Republicanism of Dr. Butte, and when his campaign pronouncements and statements demonstrated that he was catering and appealing to the dissatisfied Democratic and klan vote to the exclusion of the genuine Republicans, this paper refused to support Dr. Butte. Not only is Mr. Lee one of Houston's most distinguished citizens, but he easily ranks as one of the big men of this state and section, and the Republican party will honor itself in choosing this local Republican to head the state ticket at the November election. OPINIONS The Negro Faces the Political Field A By KELLY MILLER, Howard University, Washington, D. C. In the days of political violence in the South the Democratic politician John McCain said, "It is all ever except the policy that we have." He all except the peaceful dispensation we say that, "I will never accept the shooting," He all except the nominated. When a thing is as good as done, we may as well say that we all except the majority have expressed their preference for Smith, and the Republicans then prefer their preference for Smith, a two-thirds vote for favorite sons tactics will vote for favorite sons tactics will vote for a clear majority. It means sure defeat if the Democrats in the New York governor candidate that the New York governor candidate that the equally disastrous for the Republicans, through manipulation of bosses, will vote for a favorite as a substitute for the secretary of commerce. Mr. Hoover has had the indignable courage to go to the states and defied the local bosses and West Virginia, where he has suffered superficial defeat. He has had the indignable courage to go to the states and defied the local bosses and West Virginia, where he has suffered superficial defeat. He has demonstrated his ability to the greatest vote-getter within the Republican leadership of local bosses. The governor of America must, therefore, balance the guidance of local bosses. Smith. There are three chief factors in every political context: (1) The content of the policy; (2) the candidacy; and (3) the interest. white voter by this patriotic act, but I am sure that he will gain many a vote. I am sure that he will have to hope that if elected, I mean when elected, he will abolish all racial discrimination in the manipulation of the ballot. Let it be granted that Mr. Hoover was playing politics in abolishing racial prejudice. He was catering to the Negro vote. If Mr. Smith is elected, he will doubtless do many things and take the question to meet the sentiment of his Southern supporters, against his own bias. What then is the moral difference between Mr. Hoover playing politics against him, in favor of Southern race prejudice, Mr. Smith and Mr. Hoover who doubtless make a good president. Both would doubtless dispose to be a white voter as political exigencies would allow. And yet the balance of favor from the Donalduck contest rests with the Republican In the third place, we have to face with issue which the opposing party will take into account. Neither will take any affirmative position on the rights of the Negro people, nor will they be involved in the eighteenth amendment. We may indeed, expect some hollow promises from the right to uphold all law. But this is more malign the haughty which the guilty conspiracy against the right to righteous Republic party, with the exception of a few lawmen, has been enacted. The Great Republic West is best dry. The dominant element in the South is the Democratic republicary South but is but the Democratic core to give value and power to the significant factor. In the North, Mr. Trump is essentially wet. This is the one great moral principle which, of itself, is essential to the chief victim of intempreture) to align itself with that party which in the present prosecutions, temperature and So far as the parties are concerned the choice is not so difficult. The Democratic party favors a advantage both from the historical and from the present standpoint. It always be the party of patriotism and nationalism. The Democratic rival has too often allowed itself to become the party for the sake of protest. It has committed too many historical blunders and indiscretions. Its reputation has been marred by misadventures. On the whole, the Democratic party is composed of the old, the middle, and the erstwhile disloyal South. On the other hand, the Grand Old Party is composed of the most urgent local situation, has all but disappeared in the middle and far west as a competitive political Now, dere wkw my pot frim from its souffran, what is his hollower out of the pot? What is it? wan, an w什 good chance de cultul fokes wuw gwinter her tg ver fumw from whim it red in de papers uw how De hoover steemilr ma敷 shustf insus neatly ever cull dell feilder stuffen it looked lower, it looked it me macker Hoover wawer keren es mout but de cultul man an Irs ites he es did From every rational point of view, we seem to see that the national should provide support, should align himself with the Republican heretofore. Heretofore, and with nausea against national obligation. Informer Breaks Records In Last Editions of Paper Debate Juneteenth At Antioch Church Po' Walter Cohen, de cull man dum Joe natim, gon de on man side uv de kern de doryo bawan side uv de kern de doryo bawan wag lead de doryo bawan wnu de kv kernityt had de nurve wnu de kv kernityt had de nurve hir him but ee Cohen we good hir him but ee Cohen we good w palled ter jer on him hard. An interesting debate, with June 16, 2014, staged at Antiope Baptist Church in Chicago, where the opposition Club. The proposition as stated in the opposition That We Continue To Have a Church. Houstonians Back From Medical Meet H. E. Lee, W. M. Drake, Leon Peacock, F. F. Stone, F. P. Dorter, F. O. Roetti, T. Pelman, T. Pelman, Rooti, Rooti, Dr. and Mr. Herbert C. Blanks, Ryl B. Bysar, C. A. Wilson and Mia R. D. A. Lamson insisted to the Alamo City. Among those attending the Lone Star State Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Association in San Antonio last week from Houston were: Anthony K. Antoni, elected vice president; L. R. Bell, M. Mitchell; J. W. Howard