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THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library. THIRTEEN COLORED SOLDIERS HANGED DRASTIC AND SUMMARY PUNISHMENT METED.-TEXANS' WRATH APPEASED BY SACRIFICE. Colored People of the United States Appalled by Severity of Sentence--Men Offered Lives to the Government and upon Demand of Court Martial and Department Commander the Government Took the Lives That They Offered. VOLUME XXXV, NO. 5 THIRT DRASTIC Colored People the Gov San Antonio, Tex., Dec. 11.—Thirteen Negroes, soldiers of the Twenty-fourth United States Infantry, were put to death by hanging simultaneously at dawn today in expiation of their murder of Houston citizens last August, when members of that regiment engaged in mutilous rotting in the city's streets. Forty-one other Negroes were sentenced to life imprisonment, four others for short terms and five were acquitted. In the dark of the night army motor trucks conveyed the lumber for the scaffold to a little clearing in a lonely mesquite thicket on the big Government reservation where the Negroes convicted by court-martial were to die. And there, by the light of honfires, army engineers erected the death traps to which at 5 o'clock in the morning other motor trucks hurried the condemned Negroes and the officers and men of the military guard. It was the army motor truck, the only incident which made this military execution different from previous ones, that enabled the officers in charge to keep secret the time and the place of the hanging. MEN WHO PAID DEATH PENALTY And it was the army trunk that so quickly obliterated all traces of the execution and carried the dead bodies to a place near by, which is as distinguishable as the execution site, before official announcement had been made of how the order of the court-martial had been carried out and the following men had paid the ultimate penalty: Sergeant William C. Nesbitt. Corporal Larson J. Brown. Corporal James Wheatley. Corporal Jesse Moore. Corporal Charles W. Baltimore. Private William Brackenridge. Private Thomas C. Hawkins. Private Carlos Snolgrass. Private Ira B. Davis. Private James Divine. Private Frank Johnson. Private Rosley W. Young. Private Pat MaeWhorter. The bonfire illumination for the hanging just as the eastern sky was streaking with gray through the morning clouds, the bleak landscape of dull gray and bronze against which the new timbers of the rough scaffold stood out, the knaki clad military guard, officers with coat collars upurned against the cold, all made an unforgettable picture. But now one might tramp for hours over the brush covered acres of the military reservation without finding either execution site or burial place, though the hanging occurred not more than a hundred yards from bath houses which have been built near a swimming pool in the Satado Creek for men of the National Army cantonment at Camp Travis. ALL OF THE 13 NEGROES STOICAL The condemned Negroes had known of their fate since Sunday. Twelve of them sought spiritual consolation of army Y. M. C. A. workers. The thirteenth, whose name has not been disclosed, gave no inkling that he knew. Outwardly all of the Negroes were stolical. They did not know the date of the execution, but last night they were taken from the cavalry guard house, where they have been prisoners more than a month, and placed in separate barracks. Aside from less than a dozen officers of the Southern Department and the Sheriff of Bexar county, no one in the city or the army camps knew of the execution. The other Negro defendants were ignorant of the fate of their companions until after the formal announcement had been made. The condemned men were aroused this morning a few minutes before regular army reveille, 5:30 o'clock. The military guard had been summoned silently and no sound was heard in the camp where nearly 40,000 men were sleeping except the purring of the army truck motors awaiting their loads. The Negroes dressed in their regular uniforms as carefully $a_8$ for inspection. They displayed neither bravado nor fear. They rode to the execution singing a hymn, but the singing was --- that of soldiers on the march. Arrived at the clearing the singing stopped, the men, shackled, were helped from the trucks to the scaffold and seated on chairs. A low "Good-bye, boys," addressed to members of their military guard, who had been in charge of the Negroes since they were brought here from Fort Bliss, was the only expression from any of the Negroes. ALL PLUNGE NINE FEET TO DEATH An army chaplain offered prayer, An officer called "Attention!" And as on parade the Negroes stood erect. They stood quietly while caps and nooses were adjusted and then stepped on the traps. The Major in charge of the execution gave a signal and soldiers sprung the traps. The Negroes plunged nine feet to instant death. Even after the execution and the fun of the guard to camp news of what had occurred did not spread through the camp or through the city until announced by newspapers. It created some demonstration among Negroes who had followed the progress of the trial in the nature of "mournings" at a few Negro churches. Crowds at these, however, were small. No announcement has been made when the forty-one Negro defendants given life sentences by the court-martial will be taken to Fort Leavenworth. The five men acquitted were sent to join their commands. A guard of 125 cavalrymen and 100 infantry soldiers was stationed at the scene of the execution. With Millard P. Waltz, post commander in command, the guard arrived at 6:20 A.M. The guard assembled in hollow shape formation around the scaffold and about 7 A.M. the prisoners were (Continued On Fifth Page.) LOST Three pass books, money orders checks and cash. Saturday, December 8th in Mechanics Savings Bank Third and Clay streets or on Clay Street car. The finder will please, send, bring or mail the books, money orders and checks to J. W. Thompson Samaritans Hall. N. W. corner Sxth and Duval streets or 104 W. Jackson street. No questions asked. HEAR DR. DOUGLAS S. FREEMAN Will Speak on, "Our Girls, Our Soldiers, Our Country." Dr. Douglas S. Freeman will speak at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Tuesday night, December 18, 1917, at 8:30 P. M. Editor John Mitchell, Jr. will introduce the speaker. Special music by the Sabbath Glee Club and Virginia's Union Quartette. Mr. Benjamin Deane will sing "Joan of Arc." Come rain or shine. Hear these two brilliant editors. Dr W. H. Stoker pastor. Mr. Virnal C. Hodges, of Norfolk, Va. was in the city this week taking the State bar examination. He was one of the nineteen successful candidates out of a total of forty-seven. Mrs. Mary M. Leod Bethune, of Daytona Training School, Daytona, Fla. was in the city last week. She visited our office in company with Mrs. Maggie L. Walker. Mr. J. B. Evans, Jr., Lynchburg, Va. passed through the city enroute to Hampton, Va. Mr. James Edwards of Pittsburgh, Pa. called on us. Mr. J. E. Chick, of Mangohick, Va. was in the city this week. Mrs. Frances E Preston, National Organizer for L. T. L. of the National W. C. T. U. is in the city in the interest of that work. She is the guest of Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Stokes. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1917. Colored Officers Entertained Prof. R. C. Woods, of Virginia Theological Seminary and College, entertained at his home, in honor of Lieutenant John R. Hunt of Camp Meade, Baltimore, Captain Horner of Camp Dick, New Jersey, and his brother Corporal, Harry T. Burnette of Camp Lee Petersburg, Va., Saturday, December first. The parlor was beautifully decorated with ferns and chrysanthemums while a flag of the Stars and Stripes graced the center for the occasion. Music, solos and recitations thrilled each present with joy and laughter. Miss Minnie Hayes presided at the piano and played a beautiful solo. Mrs. Forbes played a violin solo, which made us feel we then wanted a violin. Another violin solo, by our honored Prof. Jordan, the Orchestra director at the Seminary, Pref. Lester, a recitation which made each thibk of the olden days when we entertained by the old time fireside. Prof. Woods gave us some selections on the victrola. Those present; Lieutenant John R. Hunt, Captain Horner, Prof. Robertson of Union University, Prof. John J. Aordan, Prof. A. P. Lester, Prof L. E. Drewry all of Virginia Seminary. Rev. C. G. Cabell, Prof. R. C. Woods, Misses Minnie Hayes Bessie Alexander, Geldie Pride, Ellen Moorman, Amy L. Pendleton, Opheli Spencer, Nedlie Hunter, Yarbola Bayleut, Lizzie Burnette; Mrs. C. G. Cabell, Mrs. Florence Forbes. After the program, all proceeded to the dining room, where a delicious rest was served, which consisted of chicken salad, cheese sandwich sandwich, cocoa, cream, cake and after dinner prints. Each expressed himself as 'taking spent a most enjoyable evening.' APPEAL TO COLORED PEOPLE The advantage of having a centralized national organization, like the National Colored Soldiers Comfort Committee to deal with the matter of relief work among dependents of our own Colored soldiers, instead of a number of small independent ones has become apparent to the Colored people of the country. The national organization is in position to know most of suffering and how best to reach and relieve it. If the colored people of the country only knew how many dependents of our brave colored boys called into the army are now in actual need; how many faithful wives and pitiful little children are suffering for food, clothing and fuel, they would respond quickly to our appeal for contributions to the $2,000,000 fund being raised for colored relief work. There are 12,000,000 colored people in this country, a greater number than Jews in the world, yet the Jews of this country have responded nobly, loyalty and quickly to the Jewish appeal for $10,000,000 for relief work, among their own, while at the same time contributing generously to every other appeal for funds for relief work. "A careful survey shows that there are today thousands of colored dependents in actual, urgent need. Race loyalty to the men of the race who must brave the rigors of c. up life, the horrors of trenches and terrible bloody death on battle fields in France ought to dictate that those at home do their bit, and to the limit of their ability, by the dependents of our brave men who will be doing their might to help this country to win the war, and not only "to make the world safe for democracy but democracy safe for humanity. An urgent appeal is made to the colored people of every city, town and hamlet to respond quickly with contributions, if but the widow's mice, for the fund of $2,000,000 being raised for relief work among the dependents of our brave boys at the front. Immediate contribution is urgent don't delay. Remit today to Ralph W. Tyler, National Secretary, 1105 Von St. N. W., Washington, D. C. Think what Christmas will mean to you if you have done your duty by the dependents of our Colored soldiers. Prof. Kelly Miller, Pres; Ralph W Tyler; See; J. C. Napier, Treas. UNION 1917 CHAMPION (By T. P. Turner Jr.) The Virginia Union University aggregation of this year broke all of its previous records and stands today as the best team of the season. Union has decisively beaten the leading contenders for the championship honor. The score in neither the Hamilton nor the Howard contest indicates how much Union outplayed her opponents. Hampton, although much heavier than the Unionites, war completely outclassed by their Eichner and faster opponent. Hampton howls because of the fact that she lost players on account of the war. But Union suffered a similar fate. She 'bost five of her star players including, captain The impenetrable War's balanced by coach Robinson contained only three regulars. Yet no team was able to make any consistent guards against it this season. The red and steel back field was easily the season's peer. In Gregory and Hulcs Union has developed two of the best backfield men Gray of Howard. Gregory is encoded by all to be one of if not the fastest produced since the days of Terry and player that has ever donned the mole skin. Taylor has well filled the shoes left vacant by Gale and even excels the great Hampton star in defensive work. There are not three men on the other teams combined that can compare with this trio. Wood's work at full place him in a class all to himself. Captain P year, this season's all American tackle, stands head and shoulders above any other connector. Union's speed and open style of playing has been the undoing of her opponents. Some of the teams with regret acknowledge Union's superiority which can't be doubted. Even Lincoln after being defeated by Hampton Union's victim, sought a chance to wrest Union's honor; Hampton after her Thanksgiving shattered of Howard dreamed of another chance at the lost honor. Why should any team be so unsportsmanlike as to hesitate to give honor to whom honor is due or to make frivolous excuses for its defeat, or even to attempt to establish a precedent by having a post season game? The best team won and today the red and steel machine stands as the premier squad of the association. Union's record for the season is as follows: UNION 38,— ST. PAUL,—0 UNION—3. HAMPTON—0 UNION—16. HOWARD—0 UNION—34. V. N. L. I—0 UNION—91. OPPONENTS—0 CAPITAL CITY LODGE, ELKS ELECTS OFFICERS At a regular meeting of Capital City Lodge, No. 11, I. B. P. O. E. of W. held Thursday night, December 6, 1917, the following officers were elected for the ensuing term: Harrison Dean, Exalted Ruler; R. L. Waller, Esteemed Leading Knight; Marshall Woodson, Esteemed Loyal Knight; John B. Harris, Esteemed Lecturing Knight; A. J. Brown, Secretary; W. A. Smith and John G. West, Assistant Secretaries; E. J. Smith, Esquire; Rev. J. W. Pryor, Chaplain; R. B. Moshy, Tiler; W. L. Lewis, Inner Guard; Dr. Q. W. Moone, Medical Examiner; W. H. Black, Chairman; W. E. Williams and W. E. Johnson, Trustees. The District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler W. S. Cowan, presided. NOTICE The Rt. Rev. Charles F. Hannigan will speak at the Colored Elks Home 1026 N. Second street, Sunday, December 16, 1917 at four o'clock P. M. Public invited. DR. BUNDY EXPOSES POLITICAL FRAUD IN EAST ST. LOUIS. Corrupt Politics Cause of July Riot, Dentist Tells Truth About Political Conditions and Asserts His Innocence, Statement Not A Confession, Congressional Committee Will Return To Investigate New Charges. Dr. Leroy N. Bundy, the East St. Louis, dentist who is under indictment for murder, growing out of the July riots there, has made a sworn statement to Attorney General Edward J. Brundage of Illinois. The affidavit contains more than 9,000 words and tells of wholesale frauds committed during the East St. Louis mayoralty elections of 1915 and 1917 and the election of the treasures of the Levee District in 1916. Bundy's charges are: gantling, conspiracy, is wounded that the Congressional Committee will return for another investigation. It is also expected that a special grand jury will be called in St. Clair county to investigate the political corruption mentioned in the statement. POLITICS CAUSE OF RIOT Waart Bundy said was to elect the truth and to meet the charge that Colored people were responsible for the riot of July 2. In the statements the Attorney General learns that a crowd of political corruptionists had planned the riot which was to be on the night of July 3. The killing of the officers only brought the action on sooner. It is also shown that the colonization of Negroes for the election in the fall of 1916 is utterly false and that Negro voters were hired in large numbers, as "workers" on election day at $5,000 each to vote for the corrupt gang. KARCH PRETENSE A CAMOUFLAGE According to Bundy's counsel the statements of Charles A. Karch, Unified States District Attorney, that if the statements made by Bundy are true he would call the attention of the Department of Justice to it and request an investigation, are only a camouflage to hide his knowledge of the truth. There is no information which Mr. Karch now has which he did not have for a year and the identical parties were known to him. Karch is a federal officer and has only to do with federal affairs. There is no charge of fraud in the election of Presidential electors or any other federal officer. The election referred to in Bundy's statements was for state offices. Attorney Brundage is the man who pulled the cover off the political hypocrites. MORNING PAPER MISLEADS The statement in the Republic Wednesday morning relative to Rev. A. J. Carey of Chicago securing Bundy's release, when arrested last summer in Chicago because he refused to turn over to the United States District Attorney Karch or Lott Tarlton, democratic boss of East St. Louis, a letter that he had received from Republican Headquarters at Chicago, in misleading. The Republic states that when Rev. Carey stated he had set the machine in motion to secure Bundy's release he had stated it was political machinery when as a matter of fact Dr. Carey secured attorneys who sued out a writ of habeas corpus and the officers were in the office of States Attorney Horne to serve this writ when Bundy was released. However, politics caused his arrest which was wholly without justification. Since Bundy has made his statement numerous affidavits substantiating it have been obtained from both white and colored. Referring to the buying of votes, Bundy described a system which he says was used in the Levee Board election in buying votes, which he termed the "flash system." These intending to pay the Negroes for the votes had a "checker" in the polls, he said. After the Negro had marked his ballot he gave the checker a "flash at it, Bundy stated. Then he continued, the "checker" signaled a worker on the outside, who took the vaper to a white "pay off man," who had headquarters near, and who paid out the money. SAYS "WORKERS" GOT $5 a DAY Bundy admitted that he supported those who practiced this scheme, but said he protested to the white leader that it was dangerous. The leader replied, he said: "What in the hell do I care? If the fellows haven't any better sense than to be caught, that is their business. It is cold turkey with me." The affidavit covers a wide range of corruption and involves more than 150 prominent men in East St. Louis, who may have to face the courts on account of the exposure. NOT A CONFESSION Belleville, Il., Nov. 26, 1917.—In much as every statement that I have thought it right to make, to enlighten those who seek to correct conditions at East St. Louis, has been reported in the daily press with 24 line caption, "Dr. Bundy Confessing." I declare I have nothing to confess. I am telling the truth about political conditions at East St. Louis, just as I have told the truth about riot conditions there. My present annoyance here comes through men who dare not tell the truth. I am not guilty of the crime with which I am charged, as a fair trial on that charge will reveal. (Signed.) LEROY N. RUNDY, St. Louis Argus.) DEFUNCT TRUE REFORMERS BANK DEPOSITORS It is important that those depositors of the defunct True Reformers Bank, whether individuals or societies, not having other attorney and who wish to participate in a dividend, soon to be had, to immediately communicate with me. There are more than eight thousand separate accounts to be verified. Resident depositors are urged to see me in person; non-residents write to 117 E. Clay Street, Richmond, Va. J. R. POLLARD, ATV NEW COURT AT BIG STONE GAP Big Stone Gap, Va., Nov. 30, 1917 Editor of The Planet: After several efforts to organize and set up a Court of Calanthe at this place and failing, through the uniting efforts of Sir S. S. Betts, we succeeded in setting up the Court on November 29 (Thankssiving Day) The day was dark and gloom but that did not dawn the ladies who came through rain and mud from three to four miles to be set apart. Through their efforts they might do something to better mankind. We had expected our well-beloved Sr John Mitehell, Jr., G. W. C. to be with us, but for some reason he was not able to be with us. We had planned great things for his reception, such as banquets, etc., but all things work out for the best for those who trust in the Lord. He depatized Mrs. W. L. Roseboro, of Stonega, Va., who came and did the work so well that it would have been a credit to any one far in advance of her. Twenty-seven candidates were initiated. Following is the list of officers: Mrs. Ola Dykes, W. C.; Mrs. Mary L. Edwards, W. Inx; Mrs. Mamie Harrington, W. Inspector; Mrs. Eliza Edwards, W. O.; Mrs. Florence Franklin, R. of Deeds; Mrs. Susa Bell Maloy, R. of Accounts; Mrs. Lizzie Brice, R. of Deposits; Mrs. Mar'a Martin, W. S. D.; Mrs. Lizzie Smith, W. J. D.; Mrs. Hatt'i Bettis, W. Con.; Mrs. Nannie Bradley, Ast. W. Con.; Mrs. Ethel Penn, W. Escort; Mrs. M'nien Bradley, W. H.; Mrs. Hattie Williams, W. P.; Mrs. George Anna Davis, Mrs. Nellie Simpson, Mrs. Lucy Patterson, Trustees H. MARTIN, D. D. G. C. ANGED S' WRATH angered Lives to mander Ethiopia's Call List the sound! what is the commotion? The boys drilling in the camp, Waiting there for ("Onward March!") When to the front, they shall (tramp That tell them they were born real soldiers. And for this blessing they must face the braveness. So enter the fray my boys with braveness. "Onward march to your Country's call." Our swords of prayer shall shield and guide you. And Ethiopia shall conquer all. Yes, Ethiopia in the end shall reign. It is written by his mighty hand. She shall wear the crown of loyalty and heroism. The victory is hers, it is Gods command! MARY E. SATTERFIELD Y. W. C. A. NOTES A Cobweb Social will be given at the Y. W. C. A. Friday, December 14, at eight o'clock. Admission, five cents. Instead of the regular vesper services at the Y. W. C. A. Sunday, December 16, the friends and members will attend a service at St. Philips Episcopal Church, at 3:30 P. M. Miss H. L. Jackson of the Y. W. C. A. will speak. Special music by St. Philips choir. 50TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY 1867—1917 Mr. and Mrs. W. W. HILL request the pleasure of your presence at their Fifteenth Anniversary, Wednesday December the twenty-sixth, 1917 seven to eleven o'clock P. M., at 1006 1:2 North Seventh street. CLARK--HORSLEY Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Horsley request the pleasure of your presence at the marriage ceremony of their daughter, Avis Frances, to Prof. William W. L. Clark, on Wednesday evening. December twenty-sixth, n'teen hundred and seventeen, at four o'clock, 1411 West Cary street, Richmond, Virginia. All friends invited. No cards. WADDEY—PEYTON Rev. and Mrs. R. V. Peyton wish to announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Annetta Virginia to Mr. Charles A. Waddley, the step son of Mr. Richard Hamilton and the son of Mrs. Francis Hamilton. The marriage ceremony was performed on the 14th of November, by Rev. A. Binga, Jr., D. D., pastor of the First Baptist Church, South Richmond. The reception will be later. Gone Before. Mr. Beale R. Roane, a member of the firm of Roane and Helmes, harness company, 17, 12 North, 18th street, died suddenly. Saturday night December S. 1917 at the residence of his cousin, Mr. John R. Helmes, 1518 F. Leigh street. Before coming to Richmond in June 1917 he was instructor of the harness department of St. Paul Industrial School at Lawrenceville, Va. Funeral arrangements later. The Fulton Branch of the Mechanies Savings Bank returns thanks to the patrons of Fulton Bank, 824 Deny street, A. D. Daniels' printing plant. Cards for 1918 are being issued. John Mitchell, Jr., President; R. W. Whiting, Manager. WE ARE MAILING CHECKS TO Eight Thousand Members OF THE CHRISTMAS SAVINGS CLUB FOR 1917 GET READY FOR 1918 WE INVITE YOU TO JOIN NOW--DEC. 17TH If you have only ONE CENT, you can join. If you have more than that amount, you can do the same thing. Here are a list of the classes. Join either one, two, three, or all of them. 3 per cent interest allowed on all cards that are kept paid up promptly according to the Rules and Regulations printed on each card. SHOULD YOU CHANGE YOUR RESIDENCE, CALL AND BRING YOUR CARD WITH YOU AND WE WILL CHANGE THE ADDRESS. IF YOU LEAVE THE CITY, THE CHECK WILL BE MAILED TO YOU. YOU CAN OPEN A SAVINGS ACCOUNT FOR AS SMALL AN AMOUNT AS TEN CENTS. YOU CAN SECURE A TEN CENT BANK TO HELP YOU SAVE YOUR MONEY. 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THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library THIRTEEN COLORED SOLDIERS HANGED DRASTIC AND SUMMARY PUNISHMENT METED.-TEXANS' WRATH APPEASED BY SACRIFICE. Colored People of the United States Appalled by Severity of Sentence Men Offered Lives to the Government and upon Demand of Court Martial and Department Commander the Government Took the Lives That They Offered. VOLUME XXXV, NO. 5 THIRT DRASTIC Colored People the Gov San Antonio, Tex., Dec. 11—Thirteen Negroes, soldiers of the Twenty-fourth United States Infantry, were put to death by hanging simultaneously at dawn today in expiation of their murder of Houston citizens last August, when members of that regiment engaged in mutinous rioting in the city's streets. Forty-one other Negroes were sentenced to life imprisonment, four others for short terms and five were acquitted. In the dark of the night army motor trucks conveyed the lumber for the scaffold to a little clearing in a lonely mesquite thicket on the big Government reservation where the Negroes convicted by court-martial were to die. And there, by the light of bonfires, army engineers erected the death traps to which at 5 o'clock in the morning other motor trucks hurried the condemned Negroes and the officers and men of the military guard. It was the army motor truck, the only incident which made this military execution different from previous ones, that enabled the officers in charge to keep secret the time and the place of the hanging. MEN WHO PAID DEATH PENALTY. And it was the army truck that so quickly obliterated all traces of the execution and carried the dead bodies to a place near by, which is as indistinguishable as the execution site, before official announcement had been made of how the order of the court-martial had been carried out and the following men had paid the ultimate penalty: Sorgeant William C. Nesbitt. Corporal Larsen J. Brown. Corporal James Wheatley. Corporal Jesse Moore. Corporal Charles W. Baltimore. Private William Brackenridge. Private Thomas C. Hawkins. Private Carlos Snodgrass. Private Ira B. Davis. Private James Divine. Private Frank Johnson. Private Rosley W. Young. Private Pat MacWhorter. The bonfire illumination for the hanging just as the eastern sky was streaking with gray through the morning clouds, the bleak landscape of dull gray and bronze against which the new timbers of the rough scaffold stood out, the khaki clad military guard, officers with coat collars upurned against the cold, all made an unforgettable picture. But now one might, tramp for hours over the brush covered acres of the military reservation without finding either execution site or burial place, though the hanging occurred not more than a hundred yards from bath houses which have been built near a swimming pool in the Salado Creek for men of the National Army cantonment at Camp Travis. ALL OF THE 13 NEGROES STOICAL The condemned Negroes had known of their fate since Sunday. Twelve of them sought spiritual consolation of army Y. M. C. A. workers. The thirteenth, whose name has not been disclosed, gave no inking that he know. Outwardly all of the Negroes were stolical. They did not know the date of the execution, but last night they were taken from the cavalry guard house, where they have been prisoners more than a month, and placed in separate barracks. Aside from less than a dozen officers of the Southern Department and the Sheriff of Bexar county, no one in the city or the army camps knew of the execution. The other Negro defendants were ignorant of the fate of their companions until after the formal announcement had been made. The condemned men were aroused this morning a few minutes before regular army revelle, 5:30 o'clock. The military guard had been summoned silently and no sound was heard in the camp where nearly 40,000 men were sleeping except the purring of the army truck motors awaiting their loads. The Negroes dressed in their regular uniforms as carefully as for inspection. They displayed neither bravado nor fear. They rode to the execution singing a hymn, but the singing was that of soldiers on the march. Arrived at the clearing the singing stopped, the men, shackled, were helped from the trucks to the scaffold and seated on chairs. A low "Good-bye, boys," addressed to members of their military guard, who had been in charge of the Negroes since they were brought here from Fort Bliss, was the only expression from any of the Negroes. ALL PLUNGE NINE FEET TO DEATH. An army chaplain offered prayer. An officer called "Attention!" And as on parade the Negroes stood erect. They stood quietly while caps and nooses were adjusted and then stepped on the traps. The Major in charge of the execution gave a signal and soldiers sprung the traps. The Negroes plunged nine feet to instant death. Even after the execution and the creation of the guard to camp news of what had occurred did not spread through the camp or through the city until announced by newspapers. It created some demonstration among Negroes who had followed the progress of the trial in the nature of "mournings" at a few Negro churches. Crowds at these, however, were small. No announcement has been made when the forty-one Negro defendants given life sentences by the court-martial will be taken to Fort Leavenworth. The five men acquitted were sent to join their commands. A guard of 125 cavalrymen and 100 infantry soldiers was stationed at the scene of the execution. With Millard F. Waltz, post commander in command, the guard arrived at 6:20 A.M. The guard assembled in hollow square formation around the scaffold and about 7 A.M. the prisoners were (Continued On Fifth Page.) LOST Three pass books, money orders, checks and cash, Saturday, December 8th in Mechanics Savings on Clay, Third and Clay streets or on Clay Street car. The finder will please send, bring or mail the books, money orders and checks to J. W. Thompson, Samaritans Hall, N. W. corner Sixth and Duval streets or 104 W. Jackson street. No questions asked. HEAR DR. DOUGLAS S. FREEMAN Will Speak on, "Our Girls, Our Soldiers, Our Country." Dr. Douglas S. Freeman will speak at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Tuesday night, December 18, 1917, at 8:30 P. M. Editor John Mitchell, Jr. will introduce the speaker. Special music by the Sabbath Glee Club and Virginia Union Quartette. Mr. Benjamin Deano will sing "Joan of Arc." Come rain or shine. Hear these two brilliant editors. Dr. W. H. Stokes pastor. Mr. Virmal C. Hodges, of Norfolk, Va. was in the city this week taking the State bar examination. He was one of the nineteen successful candidates out of a total of forty-sonv. Mrs. Mary M. Leod Bethune, of Daytona Training School, Daytona, Fla. was in the city last week. She visited our office in company with Mrs. Maggie L. Walker. Mr. J. B. Evans, Jr., Lynchburg, Va. passed through the city enroute to Hampton, Va. Mr. James Edwards of Pittsburgh, Pa. called on us. Mr. J. E. Chick, of Mangohiek, Va. was in the city this week. Mrs. Frances E Preston, National Organizer for L. T. L. of the National W. C. T. U. is in the city in the interest of that work. She is the guest of Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Stokes. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1917. Colored Officers Entertained. Prof. R. C. Woods, of Virginia Theological Seminary and College, entertained at his home, in honor of Lt. Lieutenant John R. Hunt of Camp Meade, Baltimore, Captain Horner of Camp Dick, New Jersey, and his brother Corporal, Harry T. Burnette of Camp Leo Petersburg, Va., Saturday, December first. The parlor was beautifully decorated with ferns and chrysanthemums while a flag of the Stars and Stripes graced the center for the occasion. Muscle, solos and recitations thrilled each present with joy and laughter. Miss Minnie Hayes presided at the piano and played a beautiful solo. Mrs. Forbes played a violin solo, which made us feel we then wanted a violin. Another violin solo, by our honored Prof. Jordan, the Orchestra director at the Seminary. Prof. Lester, a recitation which made each think of the olden days when we entertained by the old time firecrobe. Prof. Woods gave us some selections on the vinetroin. Those present; Leutonant John R. Hunt, Captain Horner, Prof. Robertson of Union University, Prof. John A. Jordan, Prof. A. P. Lester, Prof L. E. Drowry all of Virginia Seminary, Rev. C. G. Cabell, Prof. R. C. Woods, Misses Minnie Hayes, Bessie Alexander, Goldie Pride, Ellen Moorman, Amy L. Pendleton, Ophelia Spencer, Nellie Hunter, Yarbola Bourle, Lizzie Burnette; Mrs. C. G. Cabell, Mrs. Florence Forbes. After the program, all proceeded to the dining room, where a delicious roast was served, which consisted of chicken salad, cheese sandwiches, cocoa, cream, cake and after dinner prints. Each expressed himself as 'avenging spent a most enjoyable evening.' APPEAL TO COLORED PEOPLE The advantage of having a centralized national organization, like the National Colored Soldiers Comfort Committee to deal with the matter of relief work among dependents of our own Colored soldiers, instead of a number of small independent ones has become apparent to the Colored people of the country. The national organization is in position to know most of suffering and how best to reach and relieve it. If the colored people of the country only know how many dependents of our brave colored boys called 'into the army are now in actual need; how many faithful wives and pitiful little children are suffering for food, clothing and fuel, they would respond quickly to our appeal for contributions to the $2,000,000 fund being raised for colored relief work. There are 12,000,000 colored people in this country, a greater number than Jews in the world, yet the Jews of this country have responded nobly, loyalty and quickly to the Jewish appeal for $10,000,000 for relief work, among their own, while at the same time contributing generously to every other appeal for funds for relief work. "A careful survey shows that there are today thousands of colored dependents in actual, urgent need. Race loyalty to the men of the race who must brave the rigors of life, the horrors of trenches and terrible bloody death on little fields in France ought to dictate that those at home do their bit, and to the limit of their ability, by the dependents of our brave men who will be doing their might to help this country to win the war, and not only "to make the world safe for democracy but democracy safe for humanity. An urgent appeal is made to the colored people of every city, town and hamlet to respond quickly with contributions, if but the widow's mite, for the fund of $2,000,000 being raised for relief work among the dependents of our brave boys at the front. Immediate contribution is urgent Don't delay. Remit today to Ralph W. Tyler, National Secretary, 1105 You St. N., W. Washington, D. C., Think what Christmas will mean to you if you have done your duty by the dependents of our Colored soldiers. Prof. Kelly Miller, Pres.; Ralph W. Tyler, Sec.; J. C. Napler, Treas. UNION 1917 CHAMPION (By T. P. Turner, Jr.) The Virginia Union University aggregation of this year broke all of its previous records and stands today as the best team of the season. Union has decisively beaten the lead contenders for the championship honor. The score in neither the Hump ton nor the Howard contest indicates how much Union outplayed her opponents. Hampton, although much heavier than the Unionites was completely outclassed by their fighter and faster opponent. Hampton howls because of the fact that she lost players on account of the war. But Union suffered a similar fate. She lost five of her war players, including captain. The impenetrable ball was reduced by coach Robinson contained only three regulars. Yet no team was able to make any consistent, gainful against this season. The red and steel back field was easily the season's peer. In Gregory and Hucles Union has developed two of the best backfield men Gray of Howard. Gregory is conceded by all to be one of if not the fastest produced since the days of Terry and player that has ever donned the mole skin. Taylor has well filled the shoes left vacant by Galg and even excels the great Hampton star in defensive work. There are not three men on the other teams combined that can compare with thi. trio. Wood's work at full places him in a class all to himself. Captain P ycar, fast season's all American tackle, stands head and shoulders above any other competitor. Union's speed and open style of playing has been the undoing of her opponents. Some of the teams with regret acknowledge Union's superiority which can't be doubted. Even Lincoln after being defeated by Hampton, Union's victim, sought a chance to wrest Union's honor; Hampton after her Thanksgiving slaughter of Howard dreamed of another chance at the lost honor. Why should any team be so unsportsman-like as to hesitate to give honor to whom honor is due or to make frivolous excuses for its defeat, or even to attempt to establish a precedent by having a post season game? The best team won and today the red and steel machine stands as the premier squad of the association. Union's record for the season is as follows: UNION 38,— ST. PAUL—0 UNION—3, HAMPTON—0 UNION—16, HOWARD—0 UNION—34, V. N. I. I—0 UNION—91, OPPONENTS—0 CAPITAL CITY LODGE, ELKS ELECTS OFFICERS. At a regular meeting of Capital City Lodge, No. 11, I, B. P. O./E. of W. held Thursday night, December 6, 1917, the following officers were elected for the ensuing term: Harrison Dean, Exalted Ruler; R. L. Waller, Esteemed Leading Knight; Marshall Woodson, Esteemed Loyal Knight; John B. Harris, Esteemed Lecturing Knight; A. J. Brown, Secretary; W. A. Smith and John G. West, Assistant Secretaries; E. J. Smith, Esquire; Rev. J. W. Pryor, Chaplain; R. B. Mosby, Tiller; W. H. Lowis, Inner Guard; Dr. Q. W. Moone, Medical Examiner; W. H. Black, Chairman; W. F. Williams and W. E. Johnson, Trustees. The District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler W. S. Cowan, presided. NOTICE. The Rt. Rev. Charles F. Hannigan will speak at the Colored Elks Home 1026 N. Second street, Sunday, December 16, 1917 at four o'clock P. M. Public invited. DR. BUNDY EXPOSES POLITICAL FRAUD IN EAST ST. LOUIS. Corrupt Politics Cause of July Riot. Dentist Tells Truth About Political Conditions and Asserts His Innocence. Statement Not A Confession. Congressional Committee Will Return To Investigate New Charges. Dr. Leroy N. Bundy, the East St. Louis, dentist who is under indictment for murder, growing out of the July riots there, has made a sworn statement to Attorney General Edward J. Brundage of Illinois. The affidavit contains more than 9,000 words and tells of wholesale frauds committed during the East St. Louis mayoralty elections of 1915 and 1917 and the election of the trustees of the Levee District in 1916. Bundy's charges are "warriging" that in understood that the Congressional Committee will return for another investigation. It is also expected that a speeched jury will be called in St. Clair county to investigate the political corruption mentioned in the statement. POLITICS CAUSE OF RIOT. Waat Bundy said was to elicit the truth and to meet the charge that Colored people were responsible for the riot of July 2. In the statements the Attorney General learns that a crowd of political corruptionists had planned the riot which was to be on the night of July 3. The killing of the officers only brought the action on sooner. It is also shown that the colonization of Negroes for the election in the fall of 1916 is utterly false and that Negro voters were hired in large numbers as "workers" on election day at $5.00 each to vote for the corrupt gang. KARCH PRETENSE According to Bundy's counsel that statements of Chr les A. Karch, United States District Attorney, that if the statements made by Bundy are true he would call the attention of the Department of Justice to it and request an investigation, are only a camouflage to hide his knowledge of the truth. There is no information which Mr. Karch now has which he did not have for a year and the identical parties were known to him. Karch is a federal officer and has only to do with federal affairs. There is no charge of fraud in the election of Presidential electors or any other federal officer. The election referred to in Bundy's statements was for state offices. Attorney Brundage is the man who pulled the cover off the political hypocrites. MORNING PAPER MISLEADS The statement in the Republic Wednesday morning relative to Rev. A. J. Carey of Chicago securing Bundy's release, when arrested last summer in Chicago because he refused to turn over to the United States District Attorney Karch or Lott Tarlton, democratic boss of East St. Louis, a letter that he had received from Republican Headquarters at Chicago, is misleading. The Republic states that when Rev. Carey stated he had set the machine in motion to secure Bundy's release he had stated it was political machinery when as a matter of fact Dr. Carey secured attorneys who sued out a writ of habeas corpus and the officers were in the office of States Attorney Horne to serve this writ when Bundy was released. However, politics caused his arrest which was wholly without justification. Since Bundy has made his statement numerous affidavits substantiating it have been obtained from both white and colored. Referring to the buying of votes, Bundy described a system which he saws was used in the Levee Board election in buying votes, which he termed the "flash system." Those intending to pay the Negroes for the votes had a "checker" in the polls, he said. After the Negro had marked his ballot he gave the checker a "flash at it, Bundy stated. Then he continued, the "checker" signaled a worker on the outside, who took the voter to a white "pay off man," who had headquarters near, and who paid out the money. SAYS "WORKERS" GOT $5 a DAY Bundy admitted that he supported those who practiced this scheme, but said he protested to the white leader that it was dangerous. The leader re plied, he said: "What in the hool do I care? If the fellows haven't any better sense than to be caught, that is their business. It is cold turkey with me." The affidavit covers a wide range of corruption and involves more than 150 prominent men in East St. Louis, who may have to face the courts on account of the exposure. NOT A CONFESSION. Belleville, Ill., Nov. 26, 1917.—Inas much as every statement that I have thought it right to make, to enlighten those who seek to correct conditions at East St. Louis, has been reported in the daily press with 24 line caption, "Dr. Bundy Confessing," I declare. I have nothing to fear. I am telling the truth about political conditions at East St. Louis, just as I have told the truth about riot conditions there. My present annoyance here comes through men who dare not tell the truth. I am not guilty of the crime with which I am charged, as a fair trial on that charge will reveal. (Signed.) LEROY N. BUNDY. St. Louis Argus. DEFUNCT TRUE REFORMERS BANK DEPOSITORS It is important that those depositors of the defunct True Reformers Bank, whether individuals or societies, not having other attorney and who wish to participate in a dividend, soon to be had, to immediately communicate with me. There are more than eight thousand separate accounts to be verified. Resident depositors are urged to see me in person; non-residents write to 117 E. Clay Street, Richmond, Va. J. R. POLLARD. Aity NEW COURT AT BIG STONE GAP. Big Stone Gap, Va., Nov. 30, 1917 Editor of the Planet: After several efforts to organize and set up a Court of Calanthe at this place and failing, through the untiring efforts of Sir S. Bettis, we succeeded in setting up the Court on November 29 (Thanksgiving Day) The day was dark and gloomy but that did not daunt the ladies who came through rain and mud from three to four miles to be set apart. Through their efforts they might do something to better mankind. We had expected our well-beloved Sir John Mitchell, Jr., G. W. C. to be with us, but for some reason he was not able to be with us. We had planned great things for his reception, such as banquets, etc., but all things work out for the best for those who trust in the Lord. Ho deputized Mrs. W. I. Rosboro, of Stonega, Va., who came and did the work so well that it would have been a credit to any one far in advance of her. Twenty-seven candidates were initiated. Following is the list of officers: Mrs. Ola Dykes, W. C.; Mrs. Mary L. Edwards, W. Inx.; Mrs. Mamie Harrington, W. Inspector; Mrs. Elika Edwards, W. O.; Mrs. Florence Franklin, R. of Deceds; Mrs. Susa Bell Maloy, R. of Accounts; Mrs. Lizzie Brice, R. of Deposits; Mrs. Maria Martin, W. S. D.; Mrs. Lizzie Smith, W. J. D; Mrs. Hatt'e Bettis, W. Con.; Mrs. Nannie Bradley, Ast. W. Con.; Mrs. Ethel Penn, W. Escort; Mrs. M'nille Bradley, W. H.; Mrs. Hattie Williams, W. P.; Mrs. George Anna Davis, Mrs. Nellie Simpson, Mrs. Lucy Patterson, Trustees. —H. MARTIN, D. D. G. C. PRICE, FIVE CENTS NGED 'S WRATH red Lives to mander Ethiopia's Call List the sound! what is the commotion? The boys drilling in the camp, Waiting there for "Onward March!") When to the front, they shall tramp Yes, they will tramp to the sound of music, Musil that God shall awake in their souls, That tell them they were born real soldiers, And for this blessing they must face the braveness, So enter the fray my boys with braveness, "Onward march to your Country's call." Our swords of prayer shall shield and guide you, And Ethiopia shall conquer all. Yes, Ethiopia in the end shall reen. It is written by his mighty hand. She shall wear the crown of loyalty and heroism. The victory is hers, it is Gods command. MARY E. SATTERBILD Y. W. C. A NOTES A Cobweb Social will be given at the Y. W. C. A. Friday, December 14, at eight o'clock. Admission; five cents. Instead of the regular vesper services at the Y. W. C. A. Sunday, December 16, the friends and members will attend a service at St. Philips Episcopal Church, at 3:30 P. M. Miss H. L. Jackson of the Y. W. C. A. will speak. Special music by St. Philips choir. 50TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY 1867-1917 Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Hill request the pleasure of your presence at their Fiftieth Anniversary, Wednesday December the twenty-sixth, 1917, seven to eleven o'clock P. M., at 1006 1-2 North Seventh street. CLARK—HORSLEY Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Horsley request the pleasure of your presence at the marriage ceremony of their daughter, Avis Frances, to Prof. William W. L. Clark, on Wednesday evening, December twenty-sixth, n'neen hundred and seventeen, at four o'clock, 1411 West Cary street, Richmond, Virginia. All friends invited. No cards. WADDEY—PEYTON Rev. and Mrs. R. V. Peyton wish to announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Annetta Virginia to Mr. Charles A. Wadley, the stepson of Mr. Richard Hamilton and the son of Mrs. Francis Hamilton. The marriage ceremony was performed on the 14th of November, by Rev. A. Binga, Jr., D. D., pastor of the First Baptist Church, South Richmond. The reception will be later. Gone Before Mr. Beale R. Roane, a member of the firm of Roane and Holmes, harness company, 17 12 North 18th street, died suddenly, Saturday night, December 8, 1917 at the residence of his cousin, Mr. John R. Holmes, 1518 F. Leigh street. Before coming to Richmond in June 1917 he was instructor of the harness department of St. Paul Industrial School at Lawrenceville, Va. Funeral arrangements later. The Fulton Branch of the Mechanies Savings Bank returns thanks to the patrons of Fulton Bank, 824 Denny street, A. D. Daniel's printing plant. Cards for 1918 are being issued. John Mitchell, Jr., President; R. W. Whiting, Manager. TWO HE PLANET SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1917 Rev. Dr. John W. Lee, Recently Appointed Field Missionary for the Northern States, To Work Negroes in the Presbyterian Church Will Open Headquarters Here—Professor William Pickens to Speak Here Sunday—Metropolis Sees Football Game Between Negro Teams—Lincoln University Meets Officers From Camp Des Moines On Thanksgiving—Mrs. Lelia Walker Robinson Active in War Relief. (Allen's National Nows Bureau.) New York, Dec. 3.--Rev. Dr. John W. Lee, one of the foremost clergymen of the race, and who was recently appointed field missionary by the Board of Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church, to work among the colored Presbyterians throughout the North, is in this city looking over the field with a view of establishing headquarters here. The office which is the first to be held by a Negro, carries with it responsibility, and makes Dr. Lee one of the general officers of the Presbyterian Church. His work will consist of stimulating the work among the colored Presbyterians where the work is lagging, to reorganize churches, to set up missions, and to supervise in general the work as it relates to the Negro. Since his appointment to this post in May he has already done much for the success of the work in Washington and Baltimore and other cities he has visited, and has brought new life to the work in these centers. While in this city he is making a close investigation of the work here, and told your correspondent that this was a fertile field to develop. He will pay a great deal of attention to the development of the Washington Memorial Missions, which was recently organized by the Rev. W. R. Lawton and other new work that has been started in this center. Dr. Lee was elected to his office with the general wishes of the entire board, and goes into his office with a large experience as a worker among the colored Presbyterian church in the country. He thoroughly conversant on the problems of the Negro in the church, and when seen by your correspondent for a brief interview relative to the work that is doing among the colored communicants he said that there were over 35,000 Negro communicants, 141 day schools, 400 teachers, 270 ministers, and 322 workers, that made up the Negro department in the Presbyterian church. He said that during the past year the colored communicants had raised $186,179.79, and that at no time was the work more promising. Dr. Lee is a man of fine address and is capable of inspiring confidence among the people. For seventeen years he was the pastor of the African Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, which is 110 years of age, and the oldest Negro Presbyterian church in the country. It was while he was serving the church that it enjoyed its most prosperous years. He practically reorganized the church, remodeled it, and took in over 490 members. He is a graduate of the Lincoln University. He has long been foremost in affairs pertaining to the uplift of the race. The election of Dr. Lee to this office gave to the race added prestige and dignity in church circles. The appointment of Dr. Lee will be hailed with delight by Negro Presbyterians throughout the country. It marks a new epoch in the life of the Negro Presbyterians in America. He will be located at the General Presbyterian Headquarters at 156 Fifth Avenue. While here he was accompanied by his wife. PROF. WILLIAM PICKENS COMING Prof. William Pickons, dean of Morgan College, and one of the foremost spokesmen of the race, whose brilliant record at Yale University is still before the country, will speak in this city next Sunday afternoon, at the Salem M. E. Church, under the auspices of the Lyceum. The meeting will doubtless be a noted one, and will bring out a large gathering to hear the young orator. He is well known in this city and will get a warm ovation when he speaks. Hon. Charles W. Anderson, the former collector of the port, will preside. There will be special musical numbers by the choral society, under the direction of Mme. Emma De Lyon Léonard. The meeting will be one of great importance to the community. METROPOLIS SEES FOOTBALL GAME The premier attraction here on Thanksgiving day was the football game between the fast Lincoln University eleven, and the crack team of the Officers from Des Moines, which was staged at Lenox oval. It was the first time in the history of the North, when two Negro eleven met in a game, and the even brought out a large gathering of followers of the sport, many of them ex-football stars. The game took on the real college atmosphere, a large number of young men coming from Lincoln University, as well as the representation of the various Negro cantonments nearby. In the line-up were many of the famous Negro athletes from the various Negro universities, as well as men who have won gridiron honors from the large universities of the North. Among the officials were Fred Pollard, the famous half-back from Brown University, who was referee. The game which was a titanic struggle ended in a the score and furnished to the spectators a fine exhibition of athletic prowess. The large number of young men in khaki added a picturesque touch to the occasion. The event was given for the benefit of the Fifteenth Infantry and a large number of men from that regiment were present. The promoters of the game were J. W. Duncan, Jr., and Dr. Holly. It is believed that as the result of the game an annual game will be staged here yearly colored teams. The event would prove to be a fine attraction and would give a fine opportunity for the young colored athletes to be seen to advantage. MRS. LELIA ROBINSON ACTIVE IN WAR RELIEF Mrs. Leila Robinson, the daughter of Mme. C. J. Walker, is taking an active part in the relief movement as it affects the colored soldiers, and is donating both wool and money and other essentials to the organizations that are addressing themselves to the relief of the soldiers. She sent a check recently for $100.00 to the Negro Circle for War Relief, a movement which has been launched in this city to work for the soldiers and their families. She has made several visits to the Negro cantonments, and is now taking a course in the First Aid to the Injred with a view of preparing herself for work among the colored soldiers in the event that she is called to the front. The splendid spirit of altruism that is being shown by Mrs. Tobinson should give inspiration to the other women of the race who are in a position to aid in this direction. She is setting a fine example of unselfish service. LINCOLN MOTION PICTURE STOCK NOT OWNED BY WHITE MEN. Information has reached this bureau from Clarence Edward Wolls, the Philadelphia representative of the Lincoln Motion Picture Company, denying the rumor that the bulk of the stock of the company is owned by white men, and that the controlling interest of the company is not under Negroes. A letter is also enclosed from Noah D. Thompson, the California representative who made an investigation to get to the bottom of the rumor, and who has discovered that the matter is without foundation of any kind, and that the charge is nothing more than a mean "frame-up" on this splendid work the company is doing. After a thorough investigation Mr. Thompson has sent out for publication the following telegram. "Have investigated claims of the Lincoln Motion Picture Company, Los Angeles, Cal. Find them prepared to make excellent motion pictures. Directors and majority of stockholders are patriotic colored men and women." Mr. Thompson is a man of responsibility and is a member of the editorial staff of the Los Angeles Tribune, one of the most influential newspapers on the coast. The Lincoln Company is one of the foremost and most managed photo-play movements that has ever been launched by colored men in this country, and is doing much to educate the public relative to the ability of the Negro. Their pictures of Negro life, which have been shown in this city, have done much to give inspiration to all those who have seen them. The statement of repudiation will be hailed with delight throughout the country. Strong men like Dr. Robert Moton, Emmett J. Scott, and President Dogan have endorsed the pictures. CLEVELAND G. ALLEN. BALTIMORE NOTES BALTIMORE NOTES Baltimore, Dec. 5.—In an oral opinion handed down Tuesday, Judge John C. Rose of the United States District Court ruled that the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court, invalidating the Louisville (Ky.) segregation law also voided the Baltimore law. The decision was in the case of Dr. Wiliam T. Coleman, who was arrested two weeks ago for violation of the Baltimore law by moving into property that he had purchased at 2039 McCullough Street, a "white" block Dr. Coleman, on the advice of his counsel, Attorney Warner T. McGuinn, refused to put up $300 bail when he was held at the Northwestern Police Station for the action of the grand jury. Attorney McGuinn sued out a writ of habeas corpus before Judge Rose for the release of the physician. Argument on the petition was set for December 5, and Dr. Coleman was released on $100 bail pending the same. City Solicitor Field made the argument for the Baltimore law, contending that the decision in the Louisville case did not affect it. Judge Rose replied to Field's allegation that white builders would provide new homes for colored people by saying that they have to borrow money. Mr. McGuinn cited the Supreme Court decision in the Berea College case and similar suits to show that the court ruled that accommodations must be equal. PLEAS FOR YOUTH Declaring that it is impossible to draft a segregation ordinance that will pass muster, for the Supreme Court has placed a limit on the exercise of the police power of the State, he said that as colored and white men are ready to go to Europe to fight for democracy that the young colored men going thereto should not think that segregation prevails at home. Freedom is the slogan of the day, he concluded. City Sollicitor Field then took up some of the points made by Mr. McGulnn, and argued that the Supreme Court did not decide upon the Baltimore law. While it may not happen in this community, he went on to say, the whites of other communities have a way of protecting themselves. He THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA argued for the segregation law as a means of preventing conflict between the races. ROSE UPHOLDS DECISIGN Judge Rose said that th. 14th amendment is involved in the exercises of property rights; that while the law in some sections provided for equal and separate accommodations for the races in schools and public conveyances, that "it is beyond the wit of man to devise a segregation law that it would be fair to all." He said the city had no right to establish ghetoes for any class or race, mentioned the fact that colored people had to pay higher gents than whites and declared holding Dr. Coleman in custody until the Court of Appeals handed down its decision in a pending segregation case would be depriving the physician of his liberty. He then released Dr. Coleman. The physician and his attorney were then the center of an admiring number of prominent men, among whom was Bishop I. B. Scott. Baltimore, Md., December 5.—Better schools and more pay for teachers in the counties were urged at the annual meeting of the Maryland Colored State Teachers' Association, hold here last week. About 500 teachers attended. The following officers were elected: George B. Murphy, president; P. E. Gordy, James F. Armstrong, and J. Wesley Bruner, vice, presidents; Jesss L. Nicholas, secretary and Henry J. Lowers treasurer. Kansas City, Kan.—The Rev. Dr. J. Frank McDonald editor of the Western Christian Recorder, died here Monday. He was 67 years of age and a veteran of the Civil War. For many years he had been a minister of the A. M. E. Church. Washington.—The Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, field agent of the Board of Home Missions and Church extension of the M. E. 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EXCELSOR HAIR PREPARATIONS are made only by—THE EXCELSOR MANUFACTURING CO THE EXCUSSION MANUFACTURING CO 205 S. Bland St., Bluefield, W. Va. Contractor & Builder Nics Bank Bldg. Phone, Ran. 2637 Shop in Rear. Phone, Randolph 2105 the Taking of Contracte for Building Secture. Job Work A Specialty. OTT, Funeral Director LY. OFFICE 2220 E. MAIN ST. RANDOLPH 2073. ALL NIGHT CALL RANDOLPH 2703. LOND, VIRGINIA ALY HAPPENED! cruel weather chills not her sunny disposition. She loves to gambol in "ish" the fleecy flakes and romps like a jump to a boy with a brand new sleigh. A the other evening she was in the company of two young men and was "uns" demonstrating the fact that she loved to jump and play in the snow and con- up to ride to walk in the narrow path made by the tramping pedestrians. old Approaching a beautiful "meadow" alm. of snow, as yet not touched by human motion feet, she jumped right into it—and, and one of those little feet slipped. con- rits. The young lady and her happy disposition fell flat of her back—that is all but her extremities which were seen cold, FRANTICALLY BEATING THE AIR THE MEDICINE WILLIAM C. CHANDLER, EX-NAVY Member of President Arthur's Cabinet and Helped Found the Republican Party Concord, N. H., November 30—Filian Eaton Chandler, Secretary of the Navy in the Cabinet of President Arthur and a United States Senator for fourteen years, died at his home here today at the age of 82. Senator Chandler of New Hampshire had as much to do as any other man in making Rutherford B. Hayes President of the United States in 1876. It was his swift appraisement of the situation which existed on the day after the people voiced for Hayes or Samuel J. Tiden that brought about such legal action as saved the Presidency to the Republican party. Sonator Chandier went to Washington ton from his nome in Concord immedately after casting his vote. Arriving at Washington in the early hours of the next day he learned the Republican managers were ready to accept defeat. They had gone to bed discouraged. But coincidentally with Chandier's arrival in Washington came the news that Oregon had been carried by Hayes. Chandier saw that this would mean Hayes's election if the Republicans could secure a fair count of the ballots in doubtful Southern States. Acting on his own responsibility he sent telegrams to Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana as well as to Oregon, warning against fraud. Promptly thereafter a conference of Republican leaders sent Chandier to Florida to protect the interests of the party. GRADUATE OF HARVARD LAW SCHOOL After a period of dangerous agitation the contest between Hayes and Tilden was transferred to Congress and then to an electrical commission, before which Chandler made the argument for Hayes. Previously he had been active in politics, beginning almost as soon as he was graduated from the Harvard law school in 1855, of which class the te Joseph H. Chotee was a member, he was then 20 years of age, having been born on December 28, 1835. He was educated in the public schools of Concord and in the academies of Theford, Vt., and Pembroke, N. H. After leaving Harvard law school he began the practice of law with Francis B. Peabody. He was one of the founders of the Republican party in 1856 and became very active subsequently in the work of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee of which he was chair man in 1864 and 1865. He had served in the State Assembly meanwhile, and was Speaker in 1863 and 1864. In November 1864 he was appointed by the Navy Department to prosecute the Philadelphia Navy Yard frauds, and in the following year was named by President Lincoln as Solicitor and Judge Advocate General of the Navy Department, the first to hold those positions. In June, 1865 he was appointed First Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Hugh McCullock, and hold the office for two years. In subsequent years he practiced law and maintained his activity in politics, becoming secretry of of the Republican National Committee and being energetic in managing the campaigns of 1868 and 1872. HEAD OF NAVY FOR THREE YEARS President Arthur appointed him Secretary of the Navy in 1882 and during his three years in office he made many improvements in departmental methods. His greatest work, perhaps, was in laying the foundation of the modern navy by building four cruisers of the most improved type for those days. In 1884 he organized the Greely relief expedition, commanded by Commander Winfield Scott Schley, afterward the Admiral of Spanish war fame. In 1887 Chandler succeeded Austin F. Pike as United States Senator from Hampshire, filling out two years of Senator Pike's unexpired term and then being re-elected three times. In 1901 he was defeated for renomination by Henry E. Burnham. In that year he was appointed by President Roosevelt to head the Spanish War Claims Commission, and he retained the post throughout the life of the commission in spite of his sharp differences with the President —differences which moved Mr. Roosevelt to put Mr. Chandler in the Ananas Club. When he resumed the practice of law at Concord he had charge of the famous Mary Baker G. Eddy case and brought Lout an accounting of her property. When in Washington last March Mr. Chandler was stricken with illness but his condition improved for a time when he returned to his home in Concord. This fall his health declined rapidly. Four sons survive him. One Captain Lloyd H. Chandler, U. S. N., commands a battleship. The others are William D. Chandler, publisher of the Concord Mentor; Joseph G. Chandler and John P. Hale Chandler, all of Concord. $10 to $25 per week during spar time. No reference required, parti- culars, terms etc; $2.5. R. Wes.er Box 131 Montgomery, Ala. MONEY LOANED ON REAL ESTATE HOUSES FOR SALE Private Papers Kept in Round Door Burglar Proof Vaults. Legal Papers Acknowledged Before Notary Public. Savings Accounts Solicited SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT. APPLY MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK NORTHWEST CORNER THIRD AND CLAY STS. John Mitchell, Jr., President Only 19 cities out of 163 of 25,000 population or over reporting to the Bureau of Education teach foreign languages below the seventh grade of the elementary school, according to a statement just made public. In 12 of these cities German is the foreign language taught; in three cities German, French and Spanish are all taught in the elementary grades; in one city German, Italian and Polish while in the three remaining cities the languages taught to elementary school children are French and Spanish, alone or in combination. In a few cities the foreign language is taught in all grades, from the first to the eighth; in others the instruction does not begin until the fifth or sixth grade. The number of elementary school children taking German ranges from 40 in one city to 22,000 in another. Few of the superintendents who replied to the Bureau's inquiry favor the teaching of German or any other foreign language in the lower elementary school, though many of them believe thoroughly in foreign language study for students in higher schools. A California superintendent says: "I was in doubt before the war. I am becoming convinced now that our public schools should teach one nation, one language, one flag. The teaching of a foreign language below the seventh grade is a sentimental hold of the old country on Americans of the second generation." An Illinois superintendent says: "The public schools should not assist in perpetuating a foreign language in the home and foreign view points in the community." An Iowa superintendent is careful to explain that German is taught in the elementary grades in his schools because "German-American grandparents and many parents demand it." A typical condition is that in Baltimore, Maryland, where the introduction of German as a subject of instruction in elementary schools in 1874 was partly due to the fact that there were a large number of German private schools in which the atmosphere was entirely German. By the introduction of German into the schools the private schools were eliminated and the children gradually came under the influence of American ideas. In this city the superintendent reports that "The number of pupils taking German has been reduced so that now Ger, is taught only in a few instances in the seventh and eighth grades." In St. Louis instruction in German in the elementary schools was discontinued in the 80's. In Cincinnati agitation against the continuation of German in the schools has resulted in the reduction of the number of children studying German in the grades from 13,800 in 1916-17 to 7,000 in 1917-18. German has been taught in all grades of the elementary schools of Cincinnati for 76 years. CARE FOR PRISONERS AS THE LAW STIPULATES. Richmond, Va., December 4.—The editor of one of the best known county papers recently wrote Food Admin instructor White; "I ran across a new obstacle the other day: some people objected to signing the food pledge card or having anything to do with food conservation, because, they said, 'the German prisoners in this country are being feq on the fat of the land, and paid regularly large salaries from our treasury.' Is it a fact that interned German prisoners are faring so sumptuously at our expense? Many of these German prisoners are interned at Hot Springs, N. C., and Senator Overman, of that state addressed a letter on this subject to Secretary of War Baker, from whom he has had this reply: "Referring to your letter in which you state that you have a good many inquiries in regard to interned men at Hot Springs, I beg leave to inform you that the German prisoners hold at Hot Springs are under the jurisdiction of the department of labor, and that the war department has no jurisdiction concerning them. International law provides that a captor nation pay commissioned prisoners of war a certain amount which is used to defray the cost of their food and clothing, and for the purchase of any other articles permitted them by prison regulations. Upon conclusion of war the amounts so expended shall be refunded by the prisoners' own government. "International law also provides that enlisted prisoners of war shall be clothed and fed by a captor nation, and shall be paid for certain labor per formed by them. This provision of the law does not require that they shall be paid a stipulated salary or wage. No money is given to the German prisoners of war, but is used to better their condition, and the reimbusement by their own government is not an indemnity. "The rules of international law are being complied with by all the belligerents of the present war, including Germany, and what the United States is doing is only what is required of them by laws of war." THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Man From North Carolina Is Victimized Out of $85 in Capitol Square Led into the snare of a brother colored man by the pocket-book film-flam. C. C. Gaskin, twenty years old is in Richmond broke. En route from Griffin, N. C., to Cleveland the boy left the train here and met two colored men in Captiol Square. They gave him a pocket-book with $300 in it and the young man told the police last night it looked like real money. The sharpers then got $85 which the North Carolina Negro had with him on the pretext of getting $115 more, so that they would have $500, of which the traveler was to get one-third. Their duel waited a long time in the park for his share of the $500, and finally told his story to the police. He was given a lodging for the night at the First Police Station. (Times Dispatch, Dec. 7, 1917.) CAN COMPEL THE RAILWAY TO CHANGE ITS GRADE. City Attorney Says City Need Not Pay $10,000 to Abolish Magnolia Grade Crossing City Attorney Pollard reported yesterday to the Administrative Board that the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company could be force' to abandon the crossing at Magnolia street known as Laundry Crossing. He further stated that the company could be forced to bear all the expenses for the construction of an underground crossing. Previous to this the board has passed a resolution calling upon the City Attorney for his opinion and appropriating $10,000 for the city's share in the construction of this crossing or as much of this fund as was necessary. The Administrative Board then requested that the City Attorney draw up a proper resolution $t_0$ be presented to the Council compelling the railway company to take immediate steps in complying with their request. (Times Dispatch, Dec. 7, 1917.) Try This Preparation Try This Preparation WHEN ALL OTHERS FAIL. Don't burn your hair off with hot iron combs. Forget the old time way. Hot irons are used for lots of other things but not for human hair. When hot irons are used it burns the life out of the hair. It breaks off. That is why so many women are without hair. To prevent baldness, stop using irons and GIVE THE OLIVE HAIR POMADE A FAIR TRIAL PRICE, $1.00 PER BOX. This is OLIVE HAIR POMADE, made only by the Druid Hill Drug Co. 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THE STANDARD RAILROAD ON THE OCEAN (1866) Train leave Richmond Daily: For Florida and South: 8:10 A P M For Norfolk: 6:15 A, M, 6:28 A P M. For M, 4:00 P M, 4:10 P M P M. For M, 8:00 P M, 9:28 P M For Petersburg: 12:50 A. M. 6:14 A. W. 8:15 A. M. 9:00 A. M. 9:58 A. M. 10:00 P. M. 8:15 A. M. 9:00 A. M. 9:58 A. M. 10:00 P. M. P. M. 9:28 P. M. 9:58 P. M. For Goldbore and Favetower: 14:00 P. W. For Hopewell: 15:15 A. M. 17:15 A. M. P. M. 15:15 P. M. Trains arrive Richmond daily: 4:00 A. M. 7:00 A. M. 4:15 M. M. 6:15 M. M. 8:30 F. M. 10:00 11:40 A. M. 25:10 P. M. 31:10 M. M. 37:00 M. 6:85 P. M. 7:45 P. M. 9:14 P. M. 10:20 P. M. Except Sunday. Thursday Time of arrival and departure are not guaranteed. THE SOUTHERN SR SERVES THE SOUTH (N. B.—Following schedule figures published as information and not guaranteed). 5:30 A. M.—Daily—Local for Danville. 10:30 A. M.—Daily—Limited—For all pots South. Muni bucket parlor car. 8:00 M.—Kuman bucket parlor car. Chicago. M. Buffalo Junct. and intermediat stations. 6:00 M.—Daily—For Danville. Atlanta and Stamford with Pullman observation sleeping car. 11:15 P. M.—Daily-Limited-For all poles South. Pullman ready 9:08 P. M. YORK RIVER LINE 4:15 P. M.—Daily—Local to West Point. 6:10 P. M.—Daily—Local to except Sunday for West Point and Baltimore. 7:25 A. M.—Daily—Local to West Point. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHEOND From the South. 7:00 A. M. 8:10 A. m. 8:50 P. M. and 8:50 P. M. daily; 8:40 A. m. except Sunday. From West Point: 140 A. M., 6:15 P. M. Date: December 1, 1914. Train to East- Lincoln, daily except Monday. MAGRUDER DENT, D. P. A. 907 East Manhattan. Madison 979 28 North Sewattle CHESAPEAKE & OHIO. Gracinati, Louville & West. *2 p. *, *7 p. *, *11 p. Gracinati, Louville & West. *2 p. *, *7 p. *, *11 p. James River Lain. *8 a. *, *12 p. *, *11 p. Newport News, Norfolk and Old Point. *8 a. *, *12 m. *, *11 p. Newport News Local. *8 a. *, *12 m. *, *11 p. Trains arrive from Norfolk. *11 a. *, *114 p. Newport News. *9 a. *, *105 p. *, *106 p. Newport News. *9 a. *, *105 p. *, *106 p. *11:15 p. *, *7:10 p. daily from Charlotteville, except Sunday from Thurmond. James River, *8:28 a.,* 4:40 p. *Daily* *Except Sunday* SEABOARD AIR LINE THE PROGRAMMATIC RAILWAY ON THE SOUTH Southbound trains scheduled to leave Richmond daily: 9:25 A.M. M., local to Norfolk; 1:23 P.M. M., local to Jacksonville; 1:23 P.M. Birmingham; 6:05 P.M. M., local to Jacksonville; sleepsers to Jacksonville; 11:00 P.M. M., Florida Limited; 12:00 A.M. M., sleepsers to Atlanta, Birmingham; Jacksonville, Tampa and ecocosse to Jacksonville. Northbound trains scheduled to arrive Richmond daily: 4:12 A.M. M., 5:12 A.M. M., M., local to Mason; 5:12 A.M. M., THE PLANTER Member of President Arthur's Cabinet and Helped Found the Republican Party Concord, N. H., November 30.—Filiam Eaton Chandler, Secretary of the Navy in the Cabinet of President Arthur and a United States Senator for fourteen years, died at his home here today at the age of 82. Senator Chandler of New Hampshire had as much to do as any other man in making Rutherford B. Hayes President of the United States in 1876. It was his swift appraisal of the situation which existed on the day after the people vowed for Hayes or Samuel J. Triden that brought about such legal action as saved the Presidency to the Republican party. Senator Chandler went to Washington from his none in Concord immediately after casting his vote. Arriving at Washington in the early hours of the next day he learned the Republican managers were ready to accept detract. They had gone to bed discouraged. But coincidentally with Chandler's arrival in Washington came the news that Oregon had been carried by Hayes. Chandler saw that this would mean Hayes's election if the Republicans could secure a fair count of the ballots in doubtful Southern States. Acting on his own responsibility he sent telegrams to Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana as well as to Oregon, warning against fraud. Promptly thereafter a conference of Republican leaders sent Chandler to Florida to protect the interests of the party. GRADUATE OF HARVARD LAW SCHOOL After a period of dangerous agitation the contest between Hayes and Tilden was transferred to Congress and then to an electrical commission, before which Chandler made the argument for Hayes. Previously he had been active in politics, beginning almost as soon as he was graduated from the Harvard aw school in 1855, of which class the Jesse Joseph H. Choate was a member, he was then 20 years of age, having been born on December 28, 1835. He was educated in the public schools of Concord and in the academies of Theford, Vt., and Pembroke, N. H. After leaving Harvard law school he began the practice of law with Francis B. Peabody. He was one of the founders of the Republican party in 1856 and became very active subsequently in the work of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee of which he was chair man in 1864 and 1865. He had served in the State Assembly meanwhile, and was Sneaker in 1863 and 1864. In November 1864 he was appointed by the Navy Department to prosecute the Philadelphia Navy Yard fraud, and in the following year was named by President Lincoln as Solicitor and Judge Advocate General of the Navy Department, the first to hold those positions. In June, 1865, he was appointed First Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Hugh McCulloch, and held the office for two years. In subsequent years he practiced law and maintained his activity in politics, becoming secret.ry of the Republican National Committee and being energetic in managing the campaigns of 1868 and 1872. HEAD OF NAVY FOR THREE YEARS President Arthur appointed him Secretary of the Navy in 1882 and during his three years in office he made many improvements in departmental methods. His greatest work, perhaps, was in laying the foundation of the modern navy by building four cruisers of the most improved type for those days. In 1884 he organized the Greely relief expedition commanded by Commander Winfield Scott Schley, afterward the Admiral of Spanish war fame. In 1887 Chandler succeeded Austin F. Pike as United States Senator from Hampshire, filling oft two years of Senator Pike's unexpired term and then being re-elected three times. In 1901 he was defeated for renomination by Henry E. Burnham. In that year he was appointed by President Roosevelt to head the Spanish War Claims Commission, and he retained the post throughout the life of the commission in spite of his sharp differences with the President differences which moved Mr. Roosevelt to put Mr. Chandler in the Ananias Club. When he resumed the practice of law at Concord he had charge of the famous Mary Baker G. Eddy case and brought Lout an accounting of her property. When in Washington last March Mr. Chandler was stricken with illness but his condition improved for a time when he returned to his home in Concord. This fall his health declined rapidly. Four sons survive him. One Captain Lloyd H. Chandler, U. S. N., commands a battleship, the others are William D. Chandler, publisher of the Concord Mentor; Joseph G. Chandler and John P. Hale Chandler, all of Concord. $10 to $25 per week during spare time. No reference required, part- iculars, terms etc; $2.5. R. Wes. cr Box 131 Montgomery, Ala. MONEY LOANED ON REAL ESTATE HOUSES FOR SALE Private Papers Kept in Round Door Burglar Proof Vaults. Legal Papers Acknowledged Before Notary Public. Savings Accounts Solicited SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT. APPLY MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK NORTHWEST CORNER THIRD AND CLAY STS. John Mitchell, Jr., President FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. Only 19 cities out of 163 of 25,000 population or over reporting to the bureau of Education teach foreign languages below the seventh grade of the elementary school, according to a statement just made public. In 12 of these cities German is the foreign language taught; in three cities German, French and Spanish are all taught in the elementary grades; in one city German, Italian and Polish while in the three remaining cities the languages taught to elementary school children are French and Spanish alone or in combination. In a few cities the foreign language is taught in all grades, from the first to the eighth; in others the instruction does not begin until the fifth or sixth grade. The number of elementary school children taking German ranges from 46 in one city to 22,000 in another. Few of the superintendents who replied to the Bureau's inquiry favor the teaching of German or any other foreign language in the lower elementary school, though many of them believe thoroughly in foreign language study for students in higher schools. A California superintendent says: "I was in doubt before the war, I am becoming convinced now that our public schools should teach one nation, one language, one flag. The teaching of a foreign language below the seventh grade is a sentimental hold of the old country on Americans of the second generation." An Illinois superintendent says: "The public schools should not assist in perpetuating a foreign language in the home and foreign view points in the community." An Iowa superintendent is careful to explain that German is taught in the elementary grades in his schools because "German-American grandparents and many parents demand it." A typical condition is that in Baltimore, Maryland, where the introduction of German as a subject of instruction in elementary schools in 1874 was partly due to the fact that there were a large number of German private schools in which the atmosphere was entirely German. By the introduction of German into the schools the private schools were eliminated and the children gradually came under the influence of American ideas. In this city the superintendent reports that "The number of pupils taking German has been reduced so that now Ger, is taught only in a few instances in the seventh and eighth grades." In St. Louis instruction in German in the elementary schools was discontinued in the 80's. In Cincinnati agitation against the continuation of German in the schools has resulted in the reduction of the number of children studying German in the grades from 13,500 in 1916-17 to 7,000 in 1917-18. German has been taught in all grades of the elementary schools of Cincinnati for 76 years. CARE FOR PRISONERS AS THE LAW STIPULATES. Richmond, Va., December 4.—The editor of one of the best known country papers recently wrote Food Administrator White: "I ran across a new obstacle the other day; some people objected to signing the food pledge card or having anything to do with food conservation, because, they said, 'the German prisoners in this country are being foq on the fat of the land, and paid regularly large salaries from our treasury.' Is it a fact that interned German prisoners are faring so sumptuously at our expense? Many of these German prisoners are interned at Hot Springs, N. C., and Senator Overman, of that state addressed a letter on this subject to Secretary of War Baker, from whom he has had this reply: "Referring to your letter in which you state that you have a good many inquiries in regard to intermed men at Hot Springs, I beg leave to inform you that the German prisoners held at Hot Springs are under the jurisdiction of the department of labor, and that the war department has no jurisdiction concerning them. International law provides that a captor nation pay commissioned prisoners of war a certain amount which is used to defray the cost of their food and clothing, and for the purchase of any other articles permitted them by prison regulations. Upon conclusion of war the amounts so expended shall be refunded by the prisoners' own government. "International law also provides that enlisted prisoners of war shall be clothed and fed by a captor nation, and shall be paid for certain labor per formed by them. This provision of the law does not require that they shall be paid a stipulated salary or wage. No money is given to the German prisoners of war, but is used to better their condition, and the reimbursement by their own government is not an indemnity. "The rules of international law are being complied with by all the belligerents of the present war, including Germany, and what the United States is doing is only what is required of them by laws of war." THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA FLIM FLAM GAME Man From North Carolina Is Victimized Out of $85 in Capitol Square Led into the snare of a brother colored man by the pocket-book film-flam. C. C. Gaskin, twenty years old is in Richmond broke. En route from Griffin, N. C., to Cleveland the hoy left the train here and met two colored men in Capitol Square. They gave him a pocket-book with $200 in it and the young man told the police last night it looked like real money. The sharpers then got $85 which the North Carolina Negro with him on the pretext of getting $115 more, so that they would have $500, of which the traveler was to get one-third. Their dupe waited a long time in the park for his share of the $500, and finally told his story to the police. He was given a lodging for the night at the First Police Station. (Times Dispatch, Dec. 7, 1917.) CAN COMPEL THE RAILWAY TO CHANGE ITS GRADE. City Attorney Says City Need Not Pay $10,000 to Abolish Magnolia Grade Crossing City Attorney Pollard reported yesterday to the Administrative Board that the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company could be force to abandon the crossing at Magnolia street known as Laundry Crossing. He further stated that the company could be forced to bear all the expenses for the construction of an underground crossing. Previous to this the board has passed a resolution calling upon the City Attorney for his opinion and appropriating $10,000 for the city's share in the construction of this crossing or as much of this fund as was necessary. The Administrative Board then requested that the City Attorney draw up a proper resolution $10 be presented to the Council compelling the railway company to take immediate steps in complying with their request. (Times Dispatch Dec 7, 1917.) Try This Preparation Try This Preparation WHEN ALL OTHERS FAIL. Don't burn your hair off with hot iron combs. Forget the old time way. Hot irons are used for lots of other things but not for human hair. When hot irons are used it burns the life out of the hair. It breaks off. That is why so many women are without hair. To prevent baldness, stop using irons and GIVE THE OLIVE HAIR POMADE A FAIR TRIAL PRICE, $1.00 PER BOX. This is OLIVE HAIR POMADE, made only by the Druid Hill Drug Co. 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M. to Jacksonville, Atlanta; Birmingham; 0:55 P. M. to Jacksonville, noakes as sleepers to Jacksonville; 11:40 P. M. limited; 12:45 A. M. sleeps to Atlanta, Birmingham, Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Tampa and coaches to Jacksonville. Northbound trains scheduled to arrive Richmond daily: 4:28 A. M. 7:28 P. M. or A. M. local, 1:28 P. M. to A. M. or FOUR 2 ye Ye 4 gine} RF Ho cee te hee PF ote) SS SE ANOS rae” ie UI eae ee EE tA NADAS a eaaeare Published every atuiday by gon Mitohell, Jr. at Sit N. 4th Street, attchmond, Virginia, JOHN MITCHELL, JR, EDITOR AU communications intended for pub- cation should be sent 30 as to reach us ly Wednesday. Butored at the Post Oftce at Richmond Virginia, us second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. ONB YEAR v..ccecceeee scons $160 SIX MONTHS ..cceceeeeeeeeeee 80 THRER MONTHS ...c0eee..0e04 AO VOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS. ...$2.00 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1917 We have reag with unalloyed pleas: ure and genuine satisfaction, the letter of General Attorney A. B. Gul gon expressive of tho attitude of him self and the Virginia Railway and Vower Company that he represents. We are not surprised at what Captain Guigon says, speaking for himself, for we have known him for well-nigh a quarter of a century and we feel free lo State that Virginia has never pro- duced a son more worthy of the price Jess heritage that has come down to him, But wo are happy over that fact that his position {s cordially approved ang endorsed by the great corporation that ho so ably represents. We hope that our people will continue to prove themselves worthy of this recogni. lion and encouragement. ‘Tho best way to show our appreciation ts to show no resentful attitude to any em ployee of the Company, but to be cour: teous in our demeanor’ and respect ful to all eilizens, whether they wear tho uniform of a conductor, motorman or belong to the great army of ordl- nary citizens. Let us insist upon our rights and privileges in a manner becoming per sons of good breeding and whenever trouble occurs, voice 4 protest, ey “aligto ‘Authority a2 GI she Com. plaints in the Department, where ac cording 10 the statement of this “great and good man,” we are assured of a just hearing. God bless Hon, Aleck B. Guigon! May God prosper the great corporation that he so abl3 represents, ‘Pho torturing and burning f Lation Scott, a colored man at the stake at Dyersburg} “Tennessee, December 3, 1917 {s one of the most horrible ex amples of gepravity ever displayed in this Country. ‘The simple account; told with all of its wrrible details reads ike the stories told of the Spanish Inquisi- tion and tho horrors of the French Revolution. ‘fhe men guilty of this fiendish action have forfoited their right not only to bo called civilized boings, but also their right to live in this Country, You may talk about the massacre of the Armenians and the brutality of the ‘Turks, what must bo said of the outrageous conduct of men living in a civilized American Repub Me? Yoaraago ‘T.'Thomas,Fortune, then editing the New York Age, propound- ed tho question, “Is the white South clyilized 7" Is not this an appropri: ate enquiry concerning the whito citt zons in the netghborhood of Dyersburg Tonnessee? Scott's crime was hein- ous and ho no doubt desorvea death, but the law provides how this punish ment shall be motod. ‘Those human flonds burned out their viclim’s eyes with red-hot pokers, seared his flesh with the same instruments and prac- tically overy oponing in his smoking, bilstering body was treated to this method of human torture that for downright heartlessness and cruelty furpasses anything dono in this coun try for many years. SUI, we are telling other nations what they should do and assuming an alr of henovolent charity and self holiness in dealing with the races ‘and pooplé of the Ola World. Wo draw the curtain here, hoping that the teachings of the good anq lowly Jesus may find a lodging place in ‘Tonnossoe and that Home stops may be taken some way and some how to in a partial way at least offaco the stain. Man is a sinful boing, -but some men aro below the level of tho fionds that they profoss to abhor and whose actions they allege to depre- cate, - PROPHECIES THAT DIDN'T COME TRUE, ‘Tho Wall St. Journal, ono of tho ablest edited publications in tho United States in its issue of October 23, 1917 under the caption of “No Sugar Famine” said: i ee When people begin to feol panicky about the svgar supply, and some un- scrupulous retailers take advantage of their fears and demand extortlon- ato prices, i is Lime for users. to “stop, look and listen.” If they do this, they will quickly feel better. About the middle of September the Food Adminisuration requested tho beop'e to reduce consumption for x few weeks and explained the reason |why it Was necessary. Apparently, little attention was pald to this ap reals Tho public could atgad It to bart with thousands of yotfng mon estined for tho front, bat could not kive Up or curtail its use of sugar, |What Mr. Hoover warned us against ts now here. | Of course the Wall St. Journal got its Information from tho “Bureau of Theorists,” who now seem to be in authority every where. Persons of practical experience are not in high favor, it seems in the councils at Washington. Col, George W. Goethals of Panama Canal fame is no doubt aware of that fact. ‘The Wall St. Journal swys further: But the shortage is morely tempor- ary. ‘There is sugar enough growing and {twill soon be here. We have a record crop of sugar beets growing, and the harvest season usually opens the first of October, ‘That sugar should be on the market before the first of December and relieve any shortage. In the meantime, the avail able sugar will be distributed as equitably as possible so that. none need go without. | Our main reliance of course, is the supply from Cuba, Porto Rico and Hawall. ‘Those erops are good, and [will bo harvested, and tho refined sugar on tho market long before the beetsugar can be exhausted. Indeed, ‘there should be buti a few weeks be tween the appearance of the two kinds of new sugar. There 1s no fear for the future whatever, tho only question is a Mitte inconvenience for a fow weeks now. ‘Tho solution of tho present incon- [venience reste largely. with the. peo. ple. There 1s no hoarding by refiners or wholesalers. ‘There is no Increase in the wohlesale price to retailers. ‘The supply avaliable will be distrt- buted to retaflers as equitably ag pos sible and at usual price. ‘There ts no exeuse for them to sell at a price higher than usual, although it might be proper for them to: limit amount to each customer. ‘The customer for their part can best mect the sit- uation by buying for present needs, ‘refusing to pay unreasonable prices and above all, reducing their own con sumption, which can he done with out any real inconvenience. | ‘That sounded “mighty good” then And no doubt our contemporary told the truth, but it fs now December 16th and only ten days ago or thereabouts Ragnla were running from place to MRP ongesvoring to iceate a suyply of sugar. von in New York City, Photographs wore taken of long lines f people, ono behind the other on. deavoring to secure this necessary commodity, which was not in evi dence, even where the prospective ‘purchaser had the necessary amount “of money with which to purchase th¢ quantity of sugar that he wanted, In this city a progressive banking institution’ purchased a car load o} sugar and endeayored to disposo of It at cost price, A crowd var ously estimated to ‘be com posed of from ten to fifteen thousand people stormed the neighborhood an¢ on orders from Washington, D. C. the sale was stopped. ‘The supply o! sugar was sald to have been distribu ed to the jobbers, who necessarily were required to advance the price « halt cont to the pound. ‘The poorer class of people were made to pay (hi amount. Just why arrangomoats wore made to stop the sale Instead of mal ing arrangements to continue the dc lvery, assisted by the police author! tes will ever remain a mystery. | We presume that jt was que te people in Washington passing upor a case, In which they wore not persor ally cognizant of existing condi tions. We do not know just wher this blundering system will coaso, but if tho majority of the white folke of this country can stand it, cer tainly the majority of the colored folks can do the same thing, MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS. We do not know what will ultimate: ly be done with some of the medical institutions of the country that have been graduating men alleged to be proficient in the practice of medicine and surgery and wo do not know what romedial legislation will be pro posed to weed out of the oxamining boards of the War Department that class of material that has shown itsolf to bo so glaringly inofficfent, but ff the following report from a staff cor- respondent of the Washington, D. C., Post, is to be accepted, drastle action on tho part bf the Presidont of the United States and the Congress ts needed at ones. Here is the report: Camp Meade, Md., Dec, 7.—Tho mon rejected for physical rensons at this national army cantonment, al- though passed by draft doctors, ts reaching surprising numbers. ‘They now amount to about 3,000, nearly 10 per cont of the solectives at the camp. Somo local boards have been_aston ishingly Inx; virtually all havé sont some men 80 obviously unfit for milt- tary gorvico that they should never have heon considered in that connee- tion, Within a few days a sergeant THE RIOMMOND PLAWET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA had to bo assigned to accompany back to a Httie town in Pennsylvania an epileptic sent in the draft quota, and who was in such condition that he could not travel along. \ Here is more of the samo kind: Among Pennsylvania cases found by medical examiners here was a man in the last stages of tuberculosis, an other with a leg missing below ' the kneo, and three men with all the fingers of their left hund missing. We do not accept men of that kind even in civilian semi-military organi zations among colored folks. To put @ one legged man in a military com pany ts one of the anomalies of the century. It would be just as great a blunder as to muster in a man with two rlass. hee in his head and no others, ‘Tie report gets even more Interesting: Tho worst laxity occurred in Ten. nessee, where out of 300 colored draft soldiers from a single county more than 100 had to be rejected, One vir. tually dying from tuberculosis when he reached camp; another's leg was more than two Inches out of align: ment due to a gunshot wound, | It Is understood that the War De. partment has caused the removal of the draft doctors in Tennessee who parsed colored men physically unfit. But what about the draft doctors, who sent in the white recruits who were just as bad off? A man with his leg out of alignment is no worse than a man with no leg at all, The congo~ ing part of the affair “for the govern ment is told in the following ‘com. ment: : For every man rejected after being sent to this camp the local boards will have to send another, who meas ures up to the physical requirements. Tho harm done comes from the fact that the sending of these unfit men retards the devolopment of an ffl. clent- army, The truth of the matter will no doubt be that the doctors drow pay for service that was not rendered. ‘They filled out the blanks and cert. flea to the efficiency and fitness of the recruits on sight. This is the on ly charitable view to take of the whole affair, ‘To reach any other conclusion fs t¢ reflect upon the medical schools and colleges that sent them forth, It may be that some of these institutions sent these doctors forth without any medical examination to practice upor a confiding public and to win favor with the undertaking fraternity — o! the United States of America, A OBNTRALIZED KORM OF GOVERNMEN’. If General Ulysses S. Grant could awaken from his long sleep, together with General Wiliam ‘T, Sherman, General B. F, Butler and the host of Union leaders, who have gone on before their surprise would boone ot intense gratification over a situation that emphasizes the correctness o! their views and the righteousness o! thelr contentions for a strong nat fonal government, a centralized pow- er backed up by a large standin army. For more than forty year: leading Democrats attacked leading Republicans over this controversy and the advocates of State's rights won finally in making a skeleton of the regular army. ‘Today, all of this Is changed under mo ieadership of a southern gentie man, surrounded by a bevy of influ ential Southerners, all of whom have Aisavowed the doctrines and princi ples of Hon. Robert Toombs, Genor al Robert E. Lee, President of the late Confederac}, Jefferson Davis and » host of others we might name, ‘The national government can not only command a citizens property, but can take from him his Ife. ‘The doc trine Is emphasized in a brief recent ly flleg by the attorneys for the Gov ernment. The position taken therein removes from the arena of controver. sy, the last vestige of the fundamental rights of a freeman in a Republic. Here is what it says. Washington, Dec. 9.—In a. brief made public tonight asking the Su~ preme Court to diomiss cases attack ing the constitutionality of the se- lective draft Iaw the Government as- serts that power conferred upon Con- gress to declare war carries with it authority to compel military service either at home or abroad. Compulsory draft 1s asserted to have been a nor- mal method of raising armies ever since the Government was establish. ed, the legality of which repeatedly fias been upheld by the courts. ‘The situation in Russla is pointed to, without mentioning the name, as a demonstration that there can with safety bo no absolute freedom in clv- ized societies. ‘This then is a positive declaration that tho enunciation of fundamental rights and privileres by ‘Thomas Jof- forson can have no existence in fact. It says further: “If the argument against this law upon constitutional grounds he not frivolous,” says the brief. “then that adjectico has lost its legal signif- cance.” ‘The eases now before the court in clude nine appeals from Minnesota, Georsla and Ohio, in which porsons were convicted of failing to register on Juno 6 or of attempting to block onerations of the act by urging others of draft age not to comply with it. Among the cases aro those of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, Tuesday. “It 48 true that the law provides for the restraint of the Liberty of the eltt- zen to a certain extent,” the brief sets forth, "yet to protect ‘most truly te Uberttes of people who lve together in communities, it is plain Uhat some Governmental organization and some exercises of Governmental powers aro necessary. ‘There Is no absolute free dom In clyilized societies. Our own Uistory prior to the adoption of the Constitution ang the present expert: enco of one of the Allies vividly show moreover that the Government which exercises least powers may be the In strument of tyranny in the hands of domestic disturbers as well as the faclle tool of foreign conquerors. ‘Tho virtual admission-of the alleged iure of freo Institutions if true {s distressing. It says further: ; “Iptstrations may be cited without number to show that In order to pro: teot the Hberties of the people as a whole the individual citizen may in eldentally or temporarily be restrain d of his Uberties ‘Thero 4s no denial of this fact, but this temporary denial of rights and privileges must follow the rules pre: seribeq by law. ‘That rule is the sus pension of constitutional guarantees by proclaiming martial law. ‘These people try to do what is legally and properly Impossible. ‘They try to have the Constitution and mart 1 law in effect at one and the same time. ‘The Constitution therefore for bids this. It continues: “Yet military service, cited as an extreme example of restriction of pcr sonal Hborty, 18 only temporary, in cidental to the security of the’ eitt- zens asa whote, and only so far {m. posed as fs necessary for the purpose. ‘The fow who are compelled to serve do so that the many who remain at home at the present time and the gen erations who come In the fetare may enjoy those blessings of — freedom which this Government was estab- Ushed to secure,” This {8 no new argument. When the Hie of the nation is at stake, re course to the draft system fs Justified If we are in a war of conquest, then the draft system ts not justified. ‘The following argument ts about the bost in the document: ‘Tho prief characterizes as “unfound ea” the contention that compulsory military servico is contrary to the spirit of democracy and says that While occasions for the draft in this country have been infrequent “it has been resorted to without flinching when the emergency arose.” It was largely through this method that. the revolutionary war was successfully concluded, (he Government — asserts and undor. the conditfons of modern werfarg fitsomcans of ratsing an arms are “the most prudent, just and equl table method’ which’ ean bo employed." “War is now not a matter of mon but of nations," it adds “AML the re sourees of ‘the combatants humar and material are thrown into the scale. As ft is In the power of the Government to compel so it {s the duty of all its citizens to give, re gardless of persona! preteronce, the service whlch they can most officiont ly render. “ose who bear the respor sibility of leadership must habe als the power to assign every citizen tc tho station he is: beat qualified — tc fil. Nor is tt any longer Just to leave the performance of military duties only to the most ardont and patric He, Instead of distributing them with cauity over the popwlation as « whole.” ‘Tho declaration that those who ben the responsibility for leadership mus have the power to assign every cit {yon to the staion he is best qualifl ed to fill smacks not only of social ism but of slavery: It can only bi enforced legally inside of a penitenti ary, where human rights are no! tolerated, but forgotten. We have al ways regarded it as a generally ac cepted principle that a — government in distross or danger had a right t draft its citizens to fight. ‘To argu that it has a right in a Republic t draft them to work is a new phas« of @ most important subject. Certain it is, if the whito folks can stand this kind of curtatlment of rights and privileges, the colored folks can. All of this trouble has boon brought about by the denial to one class of citizens the rights and privileges that have heon accorded to the other, Selah. It is not pieasant news to the colored people of this country that thirteen enlisted colored men of Company ©, Twenty-fourth United States Infantry were suddenly and quictly 1ed to a gallows and executed undor a decree of a military court- martial ang without an opportunity to have their cases hearg or reviewed by the President of the United States or by other members of the War De- partment, upon the plea that this country is in a state of war. The executions took place Tuesday, De- cember 11, 1917, 7:17 A. M,, at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, ‘The mon, Sergeant William C. Nes. bit; Corporals Larnon J. Brown, James Wheatley, Jesse Moore, Charles W. Baltimore; Privates William Brackenridge, ‘Thomas 6, Hawkins, carts Snodgrass, Ira B. Davie, James Divine, Frank Johnson, Risley W. | Young and Pat MacWhorter went up: on the seatfola fearlessly an died |with the simple oxprossion, “Good- byo, Company ©,” on thoir lips. | Certainly, their stoical bravery did much to olevate them in the ostima: tion of tholr comrades and oxccu- toners, Forty-one other colored mon were sentettcey to life imprisonment. Only army officers and Sheriff John ‘Tobin were present, when the hang. ings took place. We would advise our people to “say nothing.” The punishment may have been all right and the death-penalty may have boon all wrong, ‘Tho men who have gonc to judgment are better off than thou- sands who ore left behind. CLUBS AND HOTELS MUST HAVE LICENSE. Richmond, Va., Dec, 1.—Clubs: and hotels must have bakers’ Heonses is tic ruling of the government food admin istration officlals regarding the pres! dent's proclamation on the subject. Motels were under the impression that because they did not make bread ‘for sale,” in the broad sense of the expression, they were not subject to the license clause. ‘The paragraph jn the president's proclamation, applicable to these cas es fs as follows. All persons ‘firms, —_ corporations and associations who manufacture for sal bread in any form—eake crack ers, biscuits, pastry or other bakery products (excepting those whose con sumption of four and meal in the manufacture of such products fs, in the aggregate, Joss than ten parrols & month)—are hereby required — te procure A Heense on sr before Decem ber 10, 1917. ‘This Includes hotets, res turant{, other publiq eating places and clubs who serve bread or other bakery products of thelr own baking." SAVING SCHEDULE FoR lous». WIVES. Savo ono ounco of sugar per persor per day, onethird ounce of fat per person per day, two ounces of wheat flour per person per day. Ono ounce of sugar means two lev el teaspoons, one-third ounce of but ter measures two level teaspoons two ounces of flour measures one quarter cup. ‘ ‘The soldiers Noed—-Wheat, butter lard, sugar, beef, ham, mutton, Folks at Home Can Use—Corn, oats barley, rye, cottonseed off, peanut of corn ofl, drippings, "molasses honey, syrups, chickens, nuts, exes cottage cheese, fish. WHA'T. BECOMES OF SUGAR? A man who’ aas been connected for many years with a large sugar manu- factory says that in Ameriea cach person eats two pounds of sugar each Week. In France, he says, one and one tenth pounds of sugar per, month are the rasions doied out to cach soldier; while in England each soldier gets Ure fourtus of a pound per week, “It's sinful the way sugar Is wast- ed in this country,” he declares, “Why Vve seen girls making candy with a stowpan full or sugar, leave it to burn and thon dump the whole mass out inte the ainl—Ltwico as uuch, In fact ay @ Briish soldier gots m a week. “That's one thing” the young wo- mien of this country can certainly con serve on during tho war—maling candy. ‘They can stow molasses If they like, but they surely ought to cut out the sugar Ull this war is over and {hero's sugar enough for everybody. My children are fond of eating sugar on bread, ‘That's all right and good for them in peaco times but I won't allow It now. ‘They ought to feel they are making that much of a sacrifice. “Why, the Food Admitiistratton has found out through its Bureau of Sta- Uistles that the sugar used for making candy in the United States is suffi. cont to meet all the sugar require. ments of all England under the rat foning standard adopted there. If one half the sugar. used in making andy in this country in 1917 could have been saved it would havo been enought tc meet all the requirements of Ttaly for one year, under that governments present sugar standard. “These are facts, not hearsay.” Cottontafls can ‘serve the country better in rabbit ple than by gnawing fruit trees. ‘The best way to take caro of our big Potato crop is to eat it, Then we can ship more meat and wheat to our own and the Allfed Armies. ~~ CALLY RYLAND. Assistant Publicity Director for Vir ginia. HE SHEPHERDS ACTIVE. Five Hundred ($600.00) Dollar: paid in death claims for November “In tho midst of lite, there ts aeath,’ says one, ‘Tho Improved Order Shep herds and Daughters of Bethlehem is being made to realize the force ot this statement as it never has before. Pivo of our faithful and — zealous workers wore taken from our ranks during the month of November Among them was Mra. Fannie Pope of Mattle's Fold, No. 76, of this city. She served the Order as Grand Sen- for Staff Supporter from its organi. zation to the past September. She filled this position with credit to ner. self and to the organization. Not only was she active in tho Grand Body, but she was also a great or. ganizer, and gave to the Order what wa during her life time one of the leading Folds in the city of Richmond, It was known as Evening Star Fold, No 7. The other deceased wero Mrs. Winnto Scruggs, of New Canton, Va.; Mrs, Mary Wallaco, of Richmond, Va.; Mrs, I, P, Johns, of Appomattox, Va. ang Mr. Saunders Harvey, of Rolling hill, Va. If you want to Join an Order that fs prompt in paying its claims, and one where there js no vestige of doubt as to its ability to pay, look up the Improved Order Shepherds ang Daughtors of Bethlehem. — ‘The disponaation is on now and you can Join for one dollar, Now is your op portunity. “Wo are itriving to add three thousand new members this year. Wo want now Folds in ovory county in the State. Send in for in- formation and literature. Wo want you to know moro of our Order. Address all communteations to AMOS C. CLARK, Grand Secretary. 214 B. Clay Street, Richmond, Va Y. M. O. A. NOTES, ‘The Women’s auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A., had a woll attended meeting last Friday at the Y. M, G. A., Build ing and business of much Importance Was transacted. ‘This department of tie work is now very business Ike un der the gwidance of Mrs. Louborta Blackwell. All who attendea the class for the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson ast Saturday taught by Rey. A. D. Daly was greatly helped. Last Sunday was a very full day with the boys and men of the Y. M. GA. 9:30 A. M. Regardless of tho ex- treme cold weather the workers were out in Kood numbers to the meeting, Jed by Commiticeman J. C. Young. ‘The inmates of the efty home, 10 A. M. were glad to welcome the com. mittee and the meetings were enjoy- ed by all. 10 A, M. the committee held special meeting in the elty Jail for ‘the pris: Overs and much Was accomplished. ‘Tho hbifding of thy Y. M. G. A. was crowded with boys 4 P.M... to hear Committeoman B. 1. Allen, who sao them an address which will stick. ‘The boys renderea their parts well. Several “new boys Joined, Mothors you aro right on the work and we thanic you, send your boys again. ‘Tho open meeting for men, 5:30 P. M.. at thhe Y, M. ©. A., was a good one lead by Mr. A.C. Clarke, Every man was activo. Come to the explanation today 5 P. M., at the ¥. M. CG. A., building by Dr. W. TE, Stokes. Women and men be on timo. Men he on timo Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. All workers are invited to tho early meeting 9:30 A. M., at the Y. M. C. A. Committeeman B. L. Allen will condnet the meting for tho boys 4 P. M. atthe Y. M. G. A, Mothers hotp us. ‘The last call 3:30 P. M., to women and men at the Sharon Baptist Church. Mrs, Hla Williams Johnson will, deliver a specal message to the wonven and mon of Richmond. ‘The cholr of the First Baptist Chureh will sing for this great meeting. Bo on time. | We are on our way to the front and the call has come. ‘The Y. M. GC. A. Is asking every homo to have spectai prayer for the ¥. M. G, A. RECOUNT POR ALDERMAN 1 HALTED BY COURT. ‘The move to inspect the ballots cast for alderman in the = Twonty-sixth aldermante district was given » tem- porary setback Monday, when, rank Muticn, the democratic opyonent of James C. ‘Thomas, Jr, was granted a stay by Mr. Justice Gavegan of the Supreme Court, which took precod- enee over the order issued last Fri- acy by Mr. Justice Gieserich of the Suprome Court instructing that an in speetion of ballots be started Decem- ber 3, at two o'clock. Mr. Mullen In petitioning for a stay of inspection before Gavegan Monday morning, stated that he do- sireq to take the matter to the Appel- late Division of the Supreme Court for adjudication, ' Mr. Thomas and his attorneys charge Mr. Mullen with stalling for time." Mr. Justice Gavegan, there- fore instructed Mullen to taxe his ease before the higher court by Thurs day or the order would bo vacated and an immediate inspection of the ballots be permitted. Although Mullen denies that fraud was committed to give him the lead over James C. Thomas, Jr., tho lat- ter has unearthed startling irregular ities made by the New York County Board of Canvassers. In the 30th Election District of the 19th Assem- Diy District Mullen was given twenty five votes, although he actually _re- ceived fifteen. In the 31st Election District of the 19th Assembly District the Democratic nominee for alderman was given twenty-one votes, although he received eleven. In the 32nd Flee. trie District the canvassers mado the mistake of giving Mullen 124 in- stead of 94 votes, and Thomas was credited with 152 although he receiv eq_ 155. Mr. ‘Thomas says that an inspoc- tion of the ballots will show that many other irrecularities were made by the New York County Board of Canvassers and predicts that he will win owt on the recount. According to Mr. Thomas, a play for time is being made by Frank Mullon Who is under the impression that if sworn in as alderman the first of the year those secking to oust him will be given no end of trouble and sub- jecteq to many trying experiences. ‘The case is expected to como up before the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court sometime this month despite Mr. Mullen’s strong objection to holding an inspection and recount. Mr. ‘Thomas says that the case will be carried to the Court of Appeals if necessary. (New York Age.) VIRGINIA—In tho Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 11th day of December, 1917. PATTIE HARRIS,,.......Plaintift,’ against FRED HARRIS, ........Defendant. Tm Chancery, The object of this suit Is to obtain an absolute divorce from the bonds of matrimony upon the ground of de- sortion, And an affidavit having been mado and ‘filed that the defendant, Fred Harris is not a resident of tho Stato of Virginia, it is ofdered that ho, tho sald Fred Harris appear here within fifteen days after the due pub Heation of this ordor and do what may be necessary. to protect his in. torest herein, A Copy,— Testo:—LUTHER LIRBY, Clerk J. HENRL CRUTCHFIBLD, p. 4. 20 Lbs. Sugar, $1-? Can't be gotten, but you can got a bargain in a nico home on Greenwood Avene, Barton Holghts, 6 roomy and bath, newly painted and papered and in good order, now renting in flats to good colored tenants at $20 per month, Owner will gell for small cash payment and balance like rent. ‘This is your chance to secure a home and stop the rent collector from calling. B. A. CATLIN & CO., 22 N. 8th St. “ Drug store, best location in Rich- mond for colored trade and doing fine business, well stocked. Cash Address, DRUGGIST, care of The Planet. WANTED—Dright, Active, Inteligent Men and Women of our raco to rep- resent ua in every part of the country in a dignified, honorable business where the carnings will be from $75.00 to $160.00 per month, Encloso stamp in replying. Address Manager, Box 854, San Antonio, "Texas. The Editor, The Richmond Planet, Richmond, Va., | Dear Sir—You have undoubtedly learneg by this time of the formation of the 92nd Division Naticnal Army to be composed of colored soldiers.. In order to remove certain existing handicaps and to Insure the greatest success to this organization it is os- sential that we secure a number of technically trained men and skilled (artisans of the various trades, such as civil engineers, — stenographers, auto repairers, electricians, telecraph and radio operators, Hnesmen, cable splicers, draftsmen, plumbers, phar- maelsts harness makers and clerks, , ‘The available number of spectalists: as secured by the draft has been quite )smatt in most instances and nil in the others. i The welfare and success of this dl- vision should be of the ‘greatest. In- terest to the Negro raco as well as to the United States in general, and if the need of thes speialists was brought to the attention of the pub- He, we believe there would be a big response by means of enlistments to eliminate these barriers to our efficl- eney. Tt is requested that you make an appeal through your estimable news paper to your readers and present our needs, the obligation dovolving on the race to insure the maximum offi- \elency of this division, and patriotic | quty which all owe to home and coun- try. Major General C. C. Ballou com. manding the 92nd diviston, has pre- sented tho urgent necessity of these specialists to the War Department and requested that all recruiting offt- cors be directed to enlist for Foot-ser vieo, Colored, Remiar Army, men. fu fling the rogutromentasas stated ty yaragraph (1) In addition we would suggest that you show tho splendid opportunities oxisting in regard to promotion. Brains and ability are at a premium In the army as well as In clyil Hfe and the capable men are always in demand, To the young, ambitious, intelligent Negro, Homé, Country and Opportun- ity are calling, | ‘Tho general procedure for theso enlistments woulg be for the appli- cants to repert to the nearest recruit [Ing office and apply, for enlistmeat in the Foot-service, Colored, Regular Army, stating their qualifications as jspecialists ‘and presenting bonafide lovidence of same, and requesting that they bo transferred upon enlistment either to the Field Signal Battalion {or tho Engineer Regiment, 92nd Di-- vision, stationed at Camp Sherman, Ohio. Correspondence is invited from all who are interested and communica- \tlons should be addressed: “Tho Per sonnel Officer” 92nd Division, Camp Funston, Kansas. Any assistance you may give us in this matter will bo greatly apprect- ated and your tnterest and consider- ation in our welfare ig requested. Very truly yours, P. P. 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Eiitht romantio story form, It Will vintorest any who have faith Ti~vho Newro, inspire any whodoubs him and'bring-hepe.to Mio wish for Mile epner ta ‘the, “Now World Democracy.” PRICE 27 CENTS POST PAID 701 South 19th Street Philadelphia, - - Penna, THE JOURNAL SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1917 ROANOKE NOTES ROANOKE NOTES ROANOKE, VA., December 10.—Mr. Byrd Stanfield, of 546 Seventh avenue, who died Friday morning, December 7, at one-thirty had been sick for a long while but had improved seemingly. He was taken ill Thursday, November 29 and continued so until the end came. He was conscious of the approaching end and was strong in the faith of a life of immortality beyond the grave. He came to Roanoke to live with his son, Mr. I. P. Stanfield and his wife, Mrs. Nannie Stanfield, fourteen months ago, where he remained till the end. His sons and daughters visited him from North Carolina and Maryland during his sickness. He was the only uncle of the Stanfield Brothers of Roanoke. He lived a devout Christian for fifty years of his life and died in full triumph of faith, being seventy-seven years and nine months old at death. The funeral services were held on last Sunday evening, one-thirty, at the Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church which he joined immediately after his arrival here. The funeral eulogy was delivered by the pastor, Rev. George C. Taylor, D. D., after some remarks by Brother C. H. Howard, who had known Brother Stanfield during their boyhood days. Reviewing the past he saw himself the only one of the older classmates now left, of forty-eight years ago. Rev. Taylor used for his discourse, Job 14:14 and I Corinthians, 15:51-58. It was a great eulogy. He exhorted the audience to the faithfulness of the deceased and showed all by the words of his text, how vitally important it is to seek the Lord in early life in order to be strong for him in old age. The services were closed at the church, the weather being severely cold. The remains were interred in Midway Cemetery. Mr. C. C. Williams, of Gillmer avenue had the funeral in charge. Two sons and one daughter were present. Mr. Alfred Stanford and Sister Martha from Western Maryland and one grand daughter, Miss Mattie Stanfield, of Durham, N.C. and six children are left to mourn their loss. Mr. B. T. Wade and sister, Mrs. Amanda Leftwich left the city on Wednesday, November 28 to spend Thanksgiving Day in Hagerstown, Md., where they had quite a pleasant time with old and newly made acquaintances. They returned Monday, much elated, to aoir trip Mr. Charley Holland, of Crozor avenue was married in Dublin Sunday and brought his bride to Roanoke, where they expect to make their future home. Much joy to the pair Mrs. G. S. Edmondson, 321 Tenth avenue, N. E. has been confined to her bed since November 26. Dr. Moore has been attending her every day. Mr. G. S. Edmondson will be home from Pittsburgh on Monday, the tenth. Mrs. Rev. Murphy and Mrs. Susan Murphy wish to thank the whole community for the hospitality shown us through extreme illness and death of their son and husband, who died November 5, 1917. He preached his own funeral. The words he used are in Ezokiel. After preaching his own funeral he preached thirty minutes, after which he quietly entered in the Kingdom of God. Done by the order of Mrs. Elizabeth Murphy and his mother, Mrs. Susan Murphy; his s'ators Mrs. William Coleman, Mrs. Thobbs, of Philadelphia and Miss Burder of Lynchburg. Mr. Phillip Ringsdale, of Tenth avenue, N. E. is much indisposed and has been for four weeks and not much improved. Mrs. Bessie Stanfield, of 66 Chestnut avenue has been quite indisposed for two weeks. She is slightly improved. Dr. J. H. Roberts is the attending physician. Rev. Moore, of Columbus, Ohio preached for Rev. Taylor and his congregation Sunday morning, at eleven o'clock from Psalms 8:4. The divine did credit to the occasion. He is a blind man but he makes men with eyes see the Scriptures. It was learned this morning that Mrs. Jennie Corbett of Bollair, Ohio died Sunday and would be buried there Tuesday. This information was obtained from the daughter of the deceased, Mrs. Bertha Traynham of Tenth avenue, N. E. Mrs. Catherine Stanfield was taken very sick Tuesday evening about six-thirty. Mr. Cyrus Curtis, of Eighth avenue N. E., who has been in declining health for more than twelve months, died Monday, December 11. Mrs. A. L. Thaxton, of 529 Ninth avenue, N. E. has been sick with La Cripoine since Friday last and is still under treatment of Dr. George B. Monte. MIDDLESEX COUNTY NOTES: Waterwow, December 11.—The funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Key was held at the Metropolitan Baptist Church on last Sunday. The pastor, Rev. Thomas Harris officiated. Mr. Charlie' W, Baytops, of Camp Lee, soon last Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Baytops. Mrs. Lily Brooks, of Baltimore, Md. is visiting her sister, Mrs. Harriott Boyd. Mr. Steven Burrell, who went to Baltimore for medical treatment has returned, not very much improved. Mr. Webster Brown, of Nestings, was soon more late Sunday evening, and was in Joy, in Vyhanna, spent last Sunday, in Vyhanna, friends here. He was somewhat, not. back to see Mr. W. Brown in the neighborhood, as he had heard that he had joined the army. Urbana,—Miss Emma Carter, Messdames Rosa and Bertha Burrell and Mr. H. N. Lockley were the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Green, on last Sunday. There was an excellent concert at the Lebanon Church last Wednesday evening, given by the Pino Grove School, Mrs. L. H. Berkley and Miss Menecely Grecious, teachers. Laneview,—Mr. Dotson Gresham has returned home from the training camp, being physically unfit. Fire destroyed the school building at Shiloh recently. The origin is unknown. —BACHELOR DANVILLE NEWS Danville, Va., December 10.—Notwithstanding the weather was bitter cold here last Sunday, the churches report good services. Though the wind blew at a raap'd rate, chilling everything in its path, the fire of the Holy Spirit was burning in many hearts. Little St. Clair Wilson, of South Main street is doing well, after an operation of the throat last Wednesday. Mrs. Dean Wilson, who spent the Summer in Philadelphia is home for the Winter. Mrs. Wheeler, the mother of Mr. A. D. Wheeler, is suffering with Paralysis. Mr. Robert Lee, of Stokes street is out again after spending some time in the hospital Prof. I. W. Taylor and Prof. W. F. Grasty are attending the Grand Lodge of Masons, at Hampton, Va. this week Rev. P. P. Banks has erected a Miss Maude Wilson and Miss Ora Williams attended the teachers association at Portsmouth, Va. Mrs. Charles Brown, who underwent an operation at the General Hospital is home. She is getting on nicely. Mrs. Stacy Jacob, of Spruce street's on the siek list. The pupils of Holbrook Street Industrial School gave a very interesting play Monday night. The title, "Christmas in the Trenches." The Planet makes its weekly visits to the following: Mesdames Fannie Woolrich, N. G. Russell, Nannie Johnson, Millie Wilson, Jennie Brewer, Viola Thomas, Mary Jordan, Rebecca Turner, Delma Bailey, Jennie Price, Kate Patrick, Ethel Wilson, Elizabeth Coleman, Misses Maude Wilson, Janet West, Messrs. Aaron Wheeler, Flood, Frank Bassett, Mrs. Grace Handy, Mrs. Amanda Lee and Miss Boisseen. Send your items to 244 Broad street before Monday noon of each week or phone 1054—Correspondent of The Planet. FARMVILLE NEWS We believe there is an awakening interest in the Farmville public school this year, with Rev. P. W. Price as principal. Of the six teachers, we have three now ones for this term. Miss Helen Branch who has been teaching in this school for seven years has charge of the Domestic Science Department, and is doing successful work. Mrs. E. S. Clark, a natural born disciplinarian and teacher has charge of the fourth grade. Mrs. C. H. McDaniel is serving her 44th term in the public school service, and is still doing efficient work and is loved by all. Miss Cassie Branch is quite at home with her second grade and not with standing this being her first year with these children. A marked change can be clearly seen since the term be gan. Miss Martha Hillon is having her patience tried with the beginners and we believe the right person is in the right place. Rev. P. W. Price, with eighteen years experience as a teacher and sixteen as a pastor is holding up the spiritual side of life with the intellectual. Messrs. W. D. Hill and Irving, were in the city last week looking after the interest of The North Carolina Mutual and Povident Association. Mr. John Wesley Holmes came home Sunday afternoon. Mr. John Palge spent a few days with his parents last week. Miss Lottie Redd has returned from Danville, after being away for more than six weeks. Dr. and Mrs. G. L. A. Pouge of Bedford City spent a few hours with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Paige last week. Mr. Van Scott of Amelia was in the city Sunday visiting Miss E. C. Ward. Many of our boys from Camp Lee were home Sunday. COLORED SCHOOL AT LYNCH BURG DESTROYED. Lynchburg, Va., Dec. 10—Morgan college, a handsome structure of four stories for colored students situated in the suburbs was tootally destroyed this morning by a fire which started in the roof. The loss is estimated at $50,000, partially covered by insurance. The school had been maintained two ty-six years and had a high standing among colored schools. It was known as the Virginia collegiate and industrial school of the Morgan College, with headquarters at Baltimore. The Lynchburg school was a preparatory school of the main college at Baltimore. The school was maintained by the Washington conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. The school was in charge of Professor L. M. McCoy colored, or Little Rock and will probably be rebuilt. No one was injured and the students will be sent to their homes. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 13 COLORED SOLDIERS (Continued From First Page.) given the order to march to execution. Without a tremor they stopped out with soldierly tread, and singing a hymn walked to their places. Prayers were said by a Negro minister and by two army chaplains and then the men were ordered to stand on the traps. Resuming their song they stood erect and displayed fortitude while the ropes were adjusted. At 7:17 A. M. a Major gave the order to spring the traps. The triggers had been arranged, one for each drop, and six men were assigned to each. At the word of command they pulled on the triggers and the thirteen dropped to their deaths. Of the sixty-three men tried by the same court-martial forty-one were sentenced to life imprisonment. One man was sentenced to dishonorable discharge from the army, fortiture of a.1 pay and allowances, and to be confined at hard labor for two and a half years. Three were sentenced to dishonorably discharged from the army, fortiture all pay and allowances and be confined at hard labor for two years. Announcement of the executions was made at headquarters of the Southern Department at 9 A. M. Only army officers and Sheriff John Tobin of Boxar county were present when the sentence was carried out by soldiers from the post. COURT-MARTIAL FINDINGS The announcement from headquarters was as follows: "The proceedings, findings and sentences of the general court-martial which tried sixty-three members of the Twenty-fourth Infantry for their implication in the riots at Houston, Tex., August 23, 1917, were approved by the commanding General, Southern Department, December 10, 1917. "The sentences for the court were as follows: "In the cases of (here follow names of men hanged), to be hung by the neck until dead." "In the cases of Cook William Frazier, Cook Nathan Humphries, Jr., privates, first class, John M. Hudson, Jr., James R. Johnson, Ben McDaniels and Stewart W Phillips, all of Company I; Privates Douglas T. Bolden, Fred Brown, Robert Brownfield, Harrison Capers, Ben Coell, Gerald Dixon, Henry Green, James R. Hawkins, George Hobbs, Norman D. Holland, Richard Lewis, Leroy Pinkett, Joseph Wardlow, William S. Kane, Harry Richadson, Luther Rucker, Roy Tyler, Joseph Williams, Jr., all of Company I; Privates Ernest Adams, John Adams, Wash Adams, Douglas K. Lumpkins, Richard Brown, all of Company K; Privates Allie C. Butler, Abner Davis and George H. Parham of Company L; Bugler Ruben W. Baxter, Company M; Privates Walter Burkett, James Coker, Callie Glenn, William Hough, Thomas Jackson, Walter T. Johnson, Dean New, Jesse Sullivan, all of Company M, all of the Twenty-fourth United States Infantry, in each event to be dishonorably discharged from the service, to forfeit all pay and allowances due and to be confined at hard labor at such place as the reviewing authority may direct for the term of his natural life. "In the case of Private Oliver Fletcher, Company M, Twenty-fourth United States Infantry, to be dishonorably discharged from the service, to forfeit all pay and allowances due and to be confined at hard labor at such place as the reviewing authority may direct for two years and six months. "In the cases of Private Henry T. Walls, CompanyI; Private (first class) Alvin Pugh, Company I, and Private Walter B. trucker, Company I, all of the Twenty-fourth United States Infantry, and each of them to be dishonorably discharged from the service, to forfeit all pay and allowances due and to be confined at hard labor, at such place as the reviewing authority may direct for two years." ONLY FIVE MEN ACQUITTED "To be acquitted. Privates William B. Beacoo, Grover Burns, Company I; Grant H. Moms, Company K; Bursh L. L. Smith, Company L, and Terry Smith, Company M, all of the Twenty-fourth United States Infantry. "The forty-sixth article of war authorized department commanders in time of war to carry into execution sentences of death without reference to higher authority. "Those named above as sentenced to death were hanged on the military reservation at Fort Sam Houston at 7:17 o'clock A. M., December 11, 1917. "The execution was carried out under charge of a guard furnished by the troops at Fort Sam Houston. "The remains were interred near the place of execution. "Those named above sentenced to confinement for life will be sent to the United States penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Those sentenced to confinement for a number of years will be sent to the United States disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. "Those acquitted will be released from confinement and sent to join their regiment." WAR DEPARTMENT UNADVISED. The hanging of thirteen Negro troopers for complicity in the Houston riot was unknown to practically all officials of the War Department until it was announced at Fort Sam Houston. Doubtless the death sentence of the court-martial and the preparations for the executions were known to a few high officials, but so far as can be learned the departmental commander carried out the executions as a routine affair, as he is warranted to do in time of war and will report in a formal manner later. Were the country at peace the executions would have required the approval of the President. In time of war, however, all such authority is decentralized and placed with responsible commanders. No such wholesale execution in the army has occurred within the memory of the present generation. The last of its kind was the execution of members of the so-called "St. Patrick's Battalion" by Gen. Scott during the Mexican war. Members of the battalion deserted, joined the Mexican forces, later made their homes in Mexico, marrying native women, and many of their descendants are now found there, natives of that country in all respects, but bearing names quite foreign to the language they speak. A large number of them were executed by Gen. Scott at the battle of Chapultepec and their last glimpse of life was the sight of the American flag breaking out to the breeze as Scott's legions stormed the ramparts. The swift manner in which the Houston rioters were tried and executed, without much publicity, was the subject of remark today at the War Department. The last involving rioting Negro troops was the celebrated Brownsville affair, as the result of which President Roosevelt summarily dismissed a whole battalion from the army. In spite of the executions and announcements of the other sentences, this morning the riot at Houston is not a closed incident. Investigation is still in progress and it is expressed additional court-martials will follow. COLORED MAN IS FOREMAN OVER WHITE JURY. Brockway Leader of White Gifts Five Years in Penitentiary, A $1,000 Fine. Edward Simms, a well known coeforced citizen of Belleville, where he has lived nearly all his life, was chosen as foreman of the jury of white men that tried and convicted Richard Brockway, the leader of the wife mob that murdered 10 Negroes in East St. Louis July 2, and sentenced him to five years in the penitentiary and fined him $1,000. Simms is a teamster by trade but is a man of character and intelligence and was chosen as their leader by the white men who composed the jury on account of his superior qualities. He has a fair, almost white complexion and sandy hair, and although well known in Belleville, as a Negro several of the lawyers and also several members of the jury were not aware of that fact, as it was never mentioned throughout the proceedings of the trial, which lasted for 21 days during which the jurors ate, drank and slept together and deliberated for 13 hours before reaching a verdict. BROCKWAY WAS MOB LEADER The trial of Richard Brockway was one of the most important of all the riot cases, because he was the leader of the conspiracy which the state sought to prove exiled among the whites of East St. Louis to murder the Negroes. Brockway, who was a former claim agent of the East St. Louis and Surburban Railway and a man of some prominence in the community, was charged with conspiracy to incite rioting at a public meeting on the morning of July 2, in the East Louis Labor Temple, over which he presided as chairman and at which he made a speech which inflamed the minds of the white people with race harred against the Negroes and led the crowd in the street to make attacks upon every Negro they met. Brockway went about the town stirring up the whites until the rioting became general and continued all day and night until the soldiers rounded up 290 of the rioters and broke the backbone of the riot. John Tish, one of Brockway's most active heutenants was also given a term of five years and Johnson, another, was given one year. Joseph Dickerson, and John "Andrews, who were also tried with Brockway, were acquitted. FIFTEEN WHITE RIOTERS CON VICTED, TWELVE MORE ARE INDICTED Fifteen white rioters have been convicted thus far and twelve more are yet to be tried on indictments already returned, charging them with conspiracy and rioting. Rockyway who has about a dozen more charges of conspiracy pending against him, is at liberty on a $20,000 bond, pending the action of Judge Crow on his motion for a new trial. The white men convicted and sentenced up to date are, Herbert Wood, and Leo Keane, Charles Hannah, and John Grow, convicted of murder and given fifteen years each in the penitentiary. S. L. Schultz and Harry Robinson, who are serving five year sentences in the Chester penitentiary and Richard Brockway, John Tish, and John Johnson, who were convicted last week. Six other white men were permitted to plead guilty to minor charges, are also serving sixty day sentences in jail at Beilleville. ELEVEN NEGROES SENTENCED Eleven Negroes in all have been tried, convicted and sentenced. Ten of these to fourteen years each, on a blanket indictment charging them with the murder of Police Sergeant Coppedge and Wodley and Calvin Beener, another Negro who was convicted and sentenced to five years for setting fire to his own house during the riot, to collect insurance. (St. Louis Clarion.) NOTES FROM HARTFORD. CONN Mr. J. E. Dixon, Jr., of 48 Martin street is confined to his bed. The Union Baptist Church has closed its 39th annual church fair which proved quite a success. Program rendered by different congregations each night, after which valuable articles were on sale, every body enjoyed themselves. ESTHER A cantata to be sung at Shilloh Bantist Church, Thursday evening, December 20th under the auspices of B. Y. P. U. Admission 25 cents, doors open 7:30; Cantata 8 o'clock sharp. Ice cream, cake and Hot coffee on sale. Miss Lavinia Roane president, Miss Ada Basoy pianist. Miss Bortha Harris and Mr. Wallace Henderson, both of Hartford will be united by the holy stage of matrimoine January 9th, 1918. It will be an invitational affair. Both parties are well known in the social circle of Hartford. Miss Dora Powella and Mr. Christopher Cuffey both of Hartford will be married Sunday December 30th, at A. M. E. Zion Church, immediately after evening service, by the pastor, Rev. R. R. Ball. The Victor Club is gibing a social at Mr. Wallace Henderson's, 18 Martin street, Friday evening, December 7th. JURORS AID ACCUSED MAN. Ra'so Purse for Unfortunate Beggar Robbed of His Savings. Moved by his pitiful plight, jurymen in the hustings court today raised a purse for William Smith, colored blind man, after he had been freed of the charge of trafficking in cocaine. When it was stated that the man was on his way from Washington to his home in Alabama and that he had been robbed here of every cent in his possession, amounting to upward of $330, W. L. Warriner a member of the jury, suggested that a collection he taken up. Other members at once assented, the result being that a nice sum was raised. The blind man seemed deeply grateful when Mr. Warriner gave the money to him. Because of the freezing weather Judge Richardson thought it unwise to turn him out in the street. So a nominal bond of $100 for three months was fixed with the understanding that the man would be released at any time he felt capable of braving the elements. At the suggestion of Commonwealth's Attorney Wise, the jurymen returned a verdict of acquittal without leaving their seats. It was testified by Patrolman Holt, Reese and Settles, who made the arrest, that a phial containing (twenty-one tablets) was found on Smith. It was also testified further that they were made of cocaine. Smith asserted that they were given to him for headache medicine and that being blind he had never been able to see what they looked like. Only a few tablets had been used out of the bottle. The police suspected that Smith, who makes a living begging, was also engaged in the vending of that drug. Sympathy of the jury was excited by the recital of a story to the effect that the man had been shashed with a razor on both hands before being robbed of his money. He still wore bandages in court today. Colonel M. L. Spotwood acted as counsel for the defense at the suggestion of the court. Sam Johnson, the Negro who was charged with robbing the blind man in a room at 528 North Adams street, was recently freed when the grand jury failed to indict him. Smith's inability to see his assailant made it difficult. It was said, for the police to fasten the crime on him positively, Smith claimed that he accumulated most of the money in Washington. (Richmond, Va., Evening Journal Dec. 11, 1917.) WINCHESTER NOTES Winchester, Va., December 10.—The following officers were elected by the G. U. Q. of O. F. to serve the ensuing term: Messrs. Thomas Nickens, N. F.; Larrie Turner, P. N. G.; William Maybury, N. G.; P. W. Gibson, V. G.; George Dixon, Warden; Howard Robinson, W. C.; Cornelius Robinson, W. E.; William E. N. Laws, P. S.; James F. Robinson, B. S.; Charles Lampkin, I. G.; Mayhew B. Cooke, Advocate. We are glad to note a change in the Teachers' Institute. Formerly it was for white teachers only, but now it includes the teachers of both races and they make arrangements to have able men to address them from time to time. It will be a great help to our teachers. Rev. J. H. Quiett, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Craigsville has given bond for $500 with R. Brooks surety, to perform marriage ceremonies. The Men's Day at John Mann M. E Church was a grand affair in spite of the bad weather. The program was one of the best witnessed in many a day. The music was looked after by Prof. J. Mount Lovet and Sir C. W. Hall. They acquired themselves in great style and the speeches and papers by Sirs Stephen son, Jennings, Nickens and Jefferson and others were simply grand and flowing with eloquence. A feature was the violin solo by Master Kirk Gaskin, then an address by Rev. G. O. Wing, followed by Dr. W. P. Fisher in an eloquent address. The collection was looked after by Brothers Charles Lampkin, C. Jefferson, W. Goode, H. Robinson, J. Stephenson, William Ashby, F. Nickens and they gave a good account of themselves, the sum realized being $51. Rev. J. A. Reed thanked every body in his usual dignified manner and a soul-stirring prayer of thanks to the Bestower of all good things. The Stork has presented Mr. and Mrs. Marcellis Nickens, of Kern street with a fine daughter, of which they are very proud. Mr. William Brisco has been in with a severe cold, but is much better. The Odd Fellows will hold a rally shortly and expect to raise a nice sum. The Bethel A. M. 15. Church is holding revival services and four conversions have been had. Mrs. Moses Karner was brought here and buried last Thursday, Rev. W. P. Fisher officiating. The Ladies Aid was entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Brooks, on South Market street on Friday night. The Brotherhood will meet at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Mac Gruder on North Market street on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Walker James have left for St. Lou's. Mo., where he is engaged in business. Miss Hattle Lampkins is visiting her grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lampkins on South Main St. The guest from out of town are arriving for the Going-Morris nuntials. Rev. George A. Carter spent last week at Camp Lee with his son, Samuel, who is stationed there. Ira J. Faucher coffee is on the sick list but is somewhat improvised. Road The Planet. B.C. 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Good Slightly Used Pianos —many well known makes, all in excellent condition, are now offered at half original prices. Just the instrument for the beginner—or for the home where a moderate investment is desired. Such unusual values will go quickly and you must come in at once if you would secure one of these bargains. Victrolas and Outfits are going rapidly and it is desi style Victrola you have determi are new and improved models a outfits, including an assortment $22.25 upward. Remember—you need not pay ca small down payment now or monthly, The Corley THE HOUSE THAT MA THE GIFT MOST A GIFT OF JEWELRY FROM DISAPPOINT FOR IT IS LIKES TO HAVE. YOU TO VISIT OUR STORE AN are going rapidly and it is desirable that you call and have the style Victrola you have determined upon, set aside at once. There are new and improved models at from $20 to $400—or complete outfits, including an assortment of your favorite Records at from $22.25 upward. Remember—you need not pay cash to participate in these values—a small down payment now will do. Balance weekly or monthly, as you prefer. The Corley Company; THE HOUSE THAT MADE RICHMOND MUSICAL THE GIFT MOST APPRECIATED A GIFT OF JEWELRY FROM "MEYERS" WILL NOT DISAPPOINT FOR IT IS SOMETHING EVERY ONE LIKES TO HAVE. YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO VISIT OUR STORE AND COMPARE OUR PRICES FOR HER Diamond Rings; Set Rings Silver Novelties; Bar Pins; Brooches; La Vallieres; Earrings; Watch Bracelets; Watches; Chains; Toilet Sets; Vanities FOR THE LITTLE ONES. Rings; Lockets; Chains; Spoons; Cups; Table Sets; Bib Holders; Pins; Comb and Brush Sets; Ingersoll Watches WE WILL GLADLY CASH YOU BUY YOUR GIFTS HERE. QUALITY GOODS AND AND SATISFY E. C. Meyer Jewelr WE WILL GLADLY CASH YOUR CHRISTMAS SAVINGS CHECKS. BUY YOUR GIFTS HERE. YOU ARE SURE OF HIGH QUALITY GOODS AND REASONABLE PRICES AND SATISFACTION. TOO. E. C. Meyer Jewelry Co., 21 W. Broad Florence S. C. Notes Florence S. C. Notes FLORENCE, S. C., December 13. —Mr. A. F. Johnson, a prosperous farmer of Brownsville, S. C. visited our city recently. He runs a four horse farm with great success. Messrs, Luther Shaw and Alfred Singleton returned from Hopewell, Va. Before leaving they purchased each a horse costing $165, for farm work. Miss Rosa Smith has left the city for Spartanburg, S. C. for the Winter Mr. N. H. Bright, of Blackshear, Ga. passed here onroute to Kinston, N. C. Miss Maggie Bacote, of Society Hill was married to Mr. Bunch, of Charleston, S. C. and after a few days with her parents she joined Mr. Bunch of Florence on train 83, onroute home. The Agent of The Planet extends best wishes. Mr. Eugene E. Price of Wilmington, N. C. went to Charleston, S. C. to enter the U. S. Navy, being the first to volunteer there. His father is the Rev. A. I. Pr'co, pastor of Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church there. Mrs. Elizabeth Hill, of Saratoga, N. Y. passed here onroute to Palm Beach, Fla. for the Winter. Company; DE RICHMOND MUSICAL. IT APPRECIATED FROM "MEYERS" WILL NOT SOMETHING EVERY ONE ARE CORDIALLY INVITED AND COMPARE OUR PRICES. FOR HIM FOR HIM Watches; Chains; Fobs; Emblems; Lockets; Plain Rings Set Rings; Stickpins; Cuff Links Mountain Pens; Knives; Ti₀ Clasps; Collar Pins; Cigar Cases and Cigarette Cases Soldiers' Comfort Kits FOR YOUR HOME Silverware and Cut Glass; Clocks; A Big Ben Alarm Clock; $2.50 Many Other Useful Gifts. OUR CHRISTMAS SAVINGS CHECKS. YOU ARE SURE OF HIGH AND REASONABLE PRICES ACTION, TOO. Mry Co., 21 W. Broad Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Harper end baby, C. W. of Wilson, N. C., after visiting friends in Montrose, Ga., have returned home. Mr. L. P. Robinson, our old Florentine has returned from a Summer trip to Newark, N. J. He said any- where you go you must work and will be kept in your place. Rev. R. B. Doughty, of Clarendon county, brother of Rev. Doughty has gone to Latta, S. C. to visit his brother's work. Mr. Henry Thomas, an old citizen of Florence county, who has been in the state of Georgia during the past sixteen years is here now in interest of the Ocella Joint Stock Lodge. He is P. C. and succeeding nicely in organizing new lodges. He will visit many points. His lodge, of which he is treasurer is flourishing. Dr. R. G. Wilson, D. C. D. O., of Darlington, S. C. has gone to visit the Druggess Hospital in New York City. Prof. P. G. Kellingsworth has accepted the principalship of Pee Dee Normal at Dillon, S. C. Mr. P. J. McClary, of Kingstree attended the marriage of his brother to Miss Ruth Sanders on December 6. Mr. McClary's father is Grand Chief of the Joint Stock Co. He is a twin brother to the groom and was returning to Allen University at Columbia, S. C. FIVE -E. B. WEBSTER HEARLAND SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1917 HAMPTON CRUSHES LINCOLN 7 TO 0. (By W Everett Clark ) Much to the very evident suprise of the Lincolnites, Hampton Institute met and defeated, on Friday after noon, her old rival, Lincoln University, on the Institute grounds, before a large crowd of loyal supporters. Promptly at two-thirty the Lincolnites lined up to receive the kick After receiving the ball on her 20 yd line and running it back several yards she was forced to kick. Hampton at once began some terrific line plunging, but on being penalized was forced to kick. FAST PLAYING. Both lines strengthened perceptibly and the ball was kicked by both sides several times before any gains were made. Lincoln's right half back finally got away for a 15 yard end run. The Penn boys were again forced to kick. After plunging the line for a first down, Hampton kicked the ball to the center of the field, and the first quarter ended with no scoring. STONE-WALL LINE. The second quarter began with Lincoln attempting a foward pass, which was caught by Hampton. The ball was fumbled, however, and was covered by Lincoln on Hampton's 20 yard line. This gave the Lincoln boys more speed and another pass brought the ball within 5 yards of Hampton's goal. The situation was serious now. It seemed as though the Lincolites would make a touchdown. Hampton's line, however, held like a stone wail. The fast Lincoln backfield charged with unabated fury only to be rolled back by the determined "Seasiders." LINCOLN GAINS At one time the ball came within a few inches of the goal, but it availed nothing, as Hampton soon kicked out of danger when the ball came in her possession. Lincoln was now forced to kick and Hampton began more line plunging. HEAVY LINE PLUNGING Driving through Lincoln's Line like a 42 centimeter shell, Wood and Rigney soon had the ball within 15 yards Lincoln's goal. ON FORWARD PASSES. ey attempted a drop kick, but successful, and the first half with no score. The second half began with Lincoln kicking to Hampton. Harvey received the ball and ran it back 20 yards. This play was followed by a couple of line plunges by Wood for a gain of 10 yards. Hampton was penalized again, but Rigney made up the loss by another line plunge for 10 yards. After attempting another forward pass, Hampton was forced to kick, Lincoln kicked again and Harvey ran the ball back 15 yards. Another pass was then made to Paxton. This netted 20 yards more for Hampton. HAMPTON SCORES. With this encouragement the Hampon backfield marched steadily down the field, until Rigney crossed Lincoln's line for a touchdown. The goal was kicked. This gave Hampton 7 points at the end of the third quarter Lincoln had made no score. BRAVE FIGHTNG. The Lincolnites in the last quarter began to realize that their only chance for a touchdown was gone, yet they fought on bravely. Lincoln lost the ball on downs, and after bringing it up the field several yards, Harvey made a long pass to Rigney. This notqted another gain of about 25 yards. Here it seemed as though Hampton would make another touchdown but Lincoln's line stiffened and the ball went to her on her 20 yard line. The Penn boys promptly kicked to the center of the field and here the ball passed from one side to the other until the whistle finally ended the game. HARD. FAST CLEAN GAME. Knowing that much of the future of both teams depended on this game each side fought hard, but the game was as clean a game as any that has been played on the Hampton Institute grounds. The fine spirit and playing of Capt. Barbour was excellent, as was the playing of Archer. The Hampton team has improved greatly since the Virginia Union University game. The whole Hampton team played like veterans. The work of Paxton and Brooks on the ends was excellent, as was Somerville's at tackle. The entire backfield was excellent, Harvey and Rigney playing in old time form. Owl and Wood showed un usual possibilities. The line-up was as follows: The line-up was as follows: Hampton—7 L. Lincoln —0 Paxton L. E Baumgardner. Somerville L. T. Barbour (C.) Clayborne L. G. More Spaulding C. Shelton Bradby R. G. Hopkins Mitchell R. T. Howell Jimerson R. E. Williams Braye R. H. B. Batey Owl L. H. B. Ridgley Substitutes: Hampton: Brooks Hammond, Wood, Burress, Shumate, Eilot; for Lincoln—McMarch. Referee, G. C. Wilkerson; Umpire, E. B. Henderson; Head linesman, H. G. Douglas; Timekeeper, H. G. Douglas Time, Fifteen minute quarters; Score, Hampton, 7; Lincoln, 0 THE FOOD ADMINISTRATOR ON COMBINATION SALES. Richmond, Va., Nov. 27, —During the past week the Food Administrator's office has received numbers of complaints from would-be purchasers of sugar, to whom the groceryman—who had not read the recent rulings on the subject of sugar, to the effect that no retailer may sell sugar on condition of buying other commodities, with the one exception of corn meal—were trying to sell groceries they did not need and did not care for, for the privilege of buying a pound or two of sugar. The Administrator is investigating these complaints and asks that everyone who has had the same trouble will send a statement of his or her experience, with the retailer's name, to the office of the Food Administrator in Richmond. The trouble has probably been that few persons have read the rulings all the way through. There is one very im portant exception. The retailer may sell a combination of two pounds of corn meal to one pound of sugar. This is the only combination that can be made, and this is the only ratio in which this combination may be made. The Food Administrator is selecting this week his sub-administrator for each county in the state. He will form a committee from these sub-administrators to aid him in carrying out the rulings and plans of the Food Administration Bureau. The Food Administrator has also taken up the matter with the War De partment of the waste of foodstuffs in the cantonments. This matter is being looked into with much interest by the War Department, and there is no doubt but that the waste will be checked. HOOVER EXPLAINS LICENSING SYSTEM. Richmond, Va., Nov. 27.—The following telegram relating to licenses has been received by Food Administrator White from Mr. Hoover: "The trades covered in the president's proclamation of October 8, should have applied for licenses to the license division of the United States Food Administration, Washington, D. C., before November 1. "Some firms have not applied, and proceedings will be immediately instituted to suspend the trading operations of such firms unless applications are received at once." This list of licenses will be published. Complaints of infringements by trades covered in the president's proclamation by Rule 22 of regulations should be sent to the Federal Food Administrator at Richmond, Va. Rule 22 read: The licensee shall place on every contract, order, acceptance order, Invoice price list and quotation issued or signed by him relating to food commodities the words, U. S. Food Administration License number, followed by the number of his license. No licensee shall knowingly buy any food commodities, from, or sell any such commodities to, or handle any such commodities for any person required to have a license who has not secured such license or compiled with the provisions of this rule. EVERY HOUSEWIFE IS FOOD ADMINISTRATOR. Richmond, Va., Nov. 27.—In his speech before the Housewives' League, Food Administrator White said in part. "It is not true that there is only one Food Administrator in Virginia. There are at least 185,000 food administrators. Every woman who has signed the food card pledge is a food administrator in her own right. Women do 90 per cent, of the buying. If they know how to buy and are wise in their selection of food they are exerting their right as food administrators. Women should make a study of food values. They should understand what is meant by a well balanced rat ion. Food buying and food combinations are a science. Much food is wasted in our Southern kitchens, some of it by had cooking, some of it by extravagance, and quantities of foods that could be utilized go into the garbage pails in stead. Every woman can Hooverize her kitchen by gaining the cooperation and sympathetic understanding of her cook. The Food Administrator in every State has formed or is forming machinery such as will insure the sale of food of all kinds to the consumer at reasonable prices, considering, of course, the high cost of production. In every town in every state women have been appointed to find out each week prices of staple commodities and report them to the central bureau or statistics at Washington. You can all aid in this work. The Food Administrator of Virginia will be only too glad to receive. REGULATE FOOD PRICES. Richmond, Va., December 1.—State Food Administrator White hold an important meeting yesterday of the wholesale dealers of this city, and appointed a committee of representative wholesalers to confer with a like committee of retail merchants to draw up some plan for the arrangement of prices on staple articles to the mutual satisfaction of producer and consumer. The outstanding feature of the commissée is the plan for the publication in daily papers of whole sale and retail prices on all foodstuffs. --- THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA SEVEN Jeffries No. 1 COUGH MIXTURE Our National Government ```markdown ``` NO.1 TRADE MARK 7 HAS RECOGNIZED THE IMPORTANCE OF LIFE Insurance for the National Army to protect dependent widows children, mothers and fathers, and for the future protection of the living against the heavy toll of Pensions, and will insist on every soldier carrying the protection. NO CIVILIAN WILL BE INSURED BY THE GOVERNMENT under these policies, but Guaranteed Pure and Reliable The North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association is prepared COUGHS, COLDS, HOARSENESS LEAD TO BRONCHITIS PNEUOMonia AND WEAK LUNGS. Protect Yourself By Taking JEFFRIES NO. 1 COUGH MIXTURE ALL DRUGGISTS, 25c----50c----$1.00 Especially recommended to Speakers and Singers. It relieves the Throat and Strengthens the Voice. If your Druggist hasn't it, write to TO ISSUE POLICIES ON ALL CIVILIANS AT ages from 6 Months to 50 Years. 214 E. BROAD ST., RICHMOND, VA. IF LIFE INSURANCE IS RECOGNIZED BY OUR government as necessary for America's future financial protection, now much more important is it that you protect yourself and your own household under a policy issued by Enclosing Stamps or Money Order and the goods will be sent to you by parcel post or express The Negro Agricultural @ Technical College of North Carolina The North Carolina Mutual & Provident Ass'n. (Formerly the Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race) The Largest and Strongest Negro Life Insurance Company in the World. GREENSBORO, N. CAROLINA SUMMER SCHOOL For Progressive Teachers SEVENTEENTH Annual Session JUNE 20—JULY 29, 1911 Easy terms, practical courses, pleasant surroundings. For terms or catalog, address Dr. S. B. Jones, Director. Read & secure lodging in advance. JAS. B. DUDLEY, President Greensboro, N. C. INSURANCE IN FORCE.....OVER $10,000,000 --- --- BANKING Thousands of colored people in this city have been made happy this week by having observed a simple rule for savings. They paid on a little Christmas Savings Club Card and they were just as happy getting what was due them without interest as some of them were who drew what was coming to them with interest. They have learned the lesson of thrift and they now realize from practical experience that it brings its reward. Those who tried saving money at home, where they could get it when needed had no money when the pinch came this week and the snow was on the ground. Some folks try saving in an old trunk. One of these kind of people had a man arrested for stealing the money in the trunk bank, but he did not get the money back. The person, who stole it had spent it and the only satisfaction coming is his own punishment. Hiding money in a tree hollow, in a hole in the ground meets the same fate. Patronize some bank, not a sand or an ash bank, but a regularly incorporated institution and when Christmas comes from year to year and the final Christmas of old age is upon you, the result will be as gratifying to you as drawing the money on a Christmas Savings Club this year. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President, Mechanics Savings Bank.