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THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library HOME XXXIX, NO. 11 RICHMOND, VIRGINIA SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1923 YS A TRIBUTE TO THE AMERICAN NEGRO Council of Boards of Benevolence. Methodist Episcopal Church, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York City. January 12th, 1922. To The Editor: The capture of Luther Boddy, the man who murdered in cold blood two detective sergeants in New York, are compelled through the courage of Magistrate Amos Scott of Philadelphia is an event which might not to pass an ordinary news story to people of his race. It is true that there are many thousands of Negroes who would have acted exactly as did Magistrate Scott. After a lifelong contact with the Negro I am convinced that this is true. The Magistrate's deed has been emulated many times in the past by men of his own race and will be increasingly in future. But it is just the fact, that all this is true that I think the act of Amos Scott, newly and first selected Negro Magistrate of Philadelphia should be given its rightful place in the current history of his race. ENTERPRISE AND COURAGE It took enterprise and courage to do what he did, qualities which the new Negro is developing beyond his own estimation of former times. Amos Scott had been intrusted with a sacred duty in public office and he responded to its demands with a high idealism. It was not technically necessary for him to place himself in jeopardy of his life and face the most desperate criminal of the day. But he wanted to make sure that this man was taken. I believe Mug. Scott felt a certain race responsibility in that act. A man of his own race had committed a crime which in itself was a weapon of those opposed to the progress of the Negro. It was surely not chance that brought him opportunity to offset the dark deed with one which would illuminate the whole unfortunate incident to the everlasting credit and dignity of his race. The Reverend Charles A. Tindley of Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia was not one to intrust the information of the man's whereabouts to any man of any race who would do other than his full duty. Dr. Tindley surely knew his man in Amos Scott. STOOD THE TEST The new Negro Magistrate not only stood for law and order in an academic (and safe) way as a judge on the city bench. He was willing to risk his own life to perform the high trust on public office. No doubt he knew that to succeed would win apprehension. I hope he did. For I believe Amos Scott also felt that such a deed would be more far-reaching than the mere praise of one man. I believe he felt that he could show the world what the Negro would do in the performance of duty when given a position of trust. This trait is a prominent one in the Negro character. Amos Scott felt the invincible urge to a task adorned by all he held sacred. And stern though it was—and dangerous—he did not quail. He went to that rooming house willin—and in view of Boddy's known record, surely half expecting—to lay down his life for these things. That Providence aided him hardly be doubted under the circumstances, but that detracts no whit from the sheer magnificence of his act. With deadly earnestness the Magistrate representing by virtue of his position as first Negro Magistrate the huge majority of law-abiding Negroes, was determined that the man whose crime had hurt the good name of his race, should be brought to justice. HONOR THE DEED His race should honor the deed of Amos Scott, Magistrate. He is a heroic spokesman for Negro rights. He has done more by that act than a hundred hired orators could do in showing the world what to expect of the new Negro today and in the act to come. Negroes everywhere should remember that and treasure it in their hearts. The act it self will be emulated many times by men of his own race. It has been equal led many times in the past. But the more such acts of heroism are noted and given their due measure of admiration, the more they inspire others to respond to the call of duty when it comes to them. The deed of Amos Scott was not done in the excitement of battle or in sight of a multitude. It was deliberate and called for far more courage. He knew he was walking into death and had plenty of time to think it over and decide to do only his official, prescribed duty. MADE PROFOUND IMPRESSION The fact that Boddy was captured through three men of his own race has made a profound impression upon epinion in New York. It has made people here sit up and take notice in a way possibly gratifying to institutions such as the Methodist Episcopal Church which have always given substantial proof of faith in the Negro. I am aware that every one of the 2,000,000 members of this denomination who joined of the part played by Dr. Timley will be册员 than ever that here is one of them in Christian faith. He is among the most prominent and honored men of the Methodist Episcopal Church and is the pastor of the largest congregation in Methodism. Very cordially yours, H. C. FOSTER Editorial Department, Methodist Episcopal Church. --- BRIEFS AND SPICES. (By S. J. C.) Some men are wise, others get married. Honesty is a good policy, but it does not pay a death claim. In all probability those future wars predicted by the Seers will be fought between tenants and landlords. Reformers claim that wine and beer have no medicinal value—neither has peach pie. The most wholesome complaint against the new dollars is: "They won't stack up"—"Sounds plausible. Let's hope that the front page publicly given the youthful N. Y. criminal by the Negro Weeklies was intended to reform the criminally inclined. When a man buys an automobile to satiate his craving to run something, he usually finds that he's stung and is still being run—into debt. "We heard your wife was dollin' quite a bit of canning nowadays"—"Yes," replied prof. Brainstorm—"Every time I emply a peach of a stenographer, my wife cans her." A fool there was and he made a home brew, even as you and L. He forge it, to put on the bottle tops, he also left the cellar door unlocked and in there waked a Federal cop even as you—not L. LYNCHED BY MOB OF 4,000 MEN Follows Th'Day Day of a Countrywide Hunt for Slayer. Mayo, Fla., Jan. 17. A mob of 40 approximately 1,000 persons over posed officials here today, took the man who killed W. R. Taylor, Saturday night and lynched him on the outskirts of the town. The lynching came on the third day of a countrywide man hunt, after the man had been captured in the woods a few miles from town. News of the capture spread rapidly and before officers could get him to jail he was taken from them by the mob, hanged to a tree and his body riddled with bullets. Taylor, the son of a well-known navalistors operator was shot and killed late Saturday night when he entered the man' home to investigate a quarrel. --- —Martha Jefferson of 1415 Me Donald street has been called to Clinton S. C., on account of the illness of her daughter, Mrs. Bernard Hatcher Death of Mrs. Georgiana Robinson In sad but loving remembrance of our mother, Mrs. Georgiana Robinson, who departed this Life December 22, 1921 at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Alice Edwards, 1015 Heliory Street. She was a devoted mother and a faithful christian lady, she leaves to mourn their loss, two daughters, one son, one son-in-law; two daughters-in-law and a host of relatives and friends. We believe our loss is her eternal gain. She was a member of Mt. Calvary Baptist Church for eight years, from which the funeral services were conducted, her pastor, Rev. C. A. Cobbs officiating. O for a look on that sweet face, A touch of that vanished hand, That passed away one month today. To that Eternal Land. Our family circle is broken now, A voice we loved, is still, A place is vacant in our heart, This world can never fill. Her children, ALICE BDWARDS. JULIA AND RICHARD ROBINSON. In Memory. In sacred memory of our dear husband, father and grand-father, Richard T. Cogbill, Sr., who entered into rest nine years ago, January 16th, 1913. The 16th of January is here, To us the saddest of the year, For well we remember on that day Dear husband passed so quietly away. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1922 COL. CHARLES YOUNG DIES IN LIBERIA COL. CHARLES YOUNG DIES IN LIBERIA Colonel Charles Young, whose death was reported Friday by a cable message from Monrovia, Liberia, had the gift of being the only Negro in the Regular Army service to reach the mark of Colonel of hosts one of three, Negroes to be graduated from the United States Military Academy and of serving with credit in the army from his commission as a Second Lieutenant to his retirement for disability early in the world war. Young was appointed to West Point from Ohio; he won his appointment by gaining the highest marks in a competitive examination held by a Congressman of his district. He came to the Academy when the Whittaker inducted him was still fresh in the minds of authorities and cadets. This incident was a lesson to him; he accepted the social limitations imposed by his race. He was unmolested by the cadets and he had no complaints to make regarding his treatment by the cadet corps or the officers of the Academy. He studied hard and accepted without a murmur the severe discipline of the Academy. He was graduated well up in the class of 1889. His career as a cadet was closely followed, especially by those persons who had interested themselves in the case of Cadet Whittaker. This cadet was found in big room one morning in April, 1880. I lying bound on his cot, with cuts on his ears and other marks of violence. He said that the injuries had been inflicted by fellow students; the authorities were from the first convinced that Whittaker's story was untrue and that he had himself inflicted the injuries for the purpose of abusing exemption from certain examinations or for some other motive. An investigation cleared the authorities from the charge of discrimination and exonerated the cadets from the charge of hazing Whittaker. He was afterwards tried by court-martial and dismissed from the Academy. Whittaker was the eleventh Negro to be appointed to the Academy; he was the third to pass the entrance examination. General Schofield in his report on the Whittakes incident said that the white cadets respect the legal rights of colored cadets more seriously than those of each other. He acknowledged, though, that the colored cadet was "without social recognition; that the white cadet was no more disposed to make him a social equal at the Academy than he was at his own home. It was this isolation from companionship which no doubt made Young's four years at the Academy a severe trial. Only two other colored soldiers withstood the test to the end. Alexander, who died soon after graduation and Flipper, who was discharged from the army. Young's attitude at the Military Academy on the question of racial equality was unchanged while he was an officer in the army. He was assigned to Negro regiments, and served long with the famous "Tenth Cavalry," although for ten months he was First Lieutenant in the Seventh Cavalry. He sides his military service he was detailed as superintendent of national parks in California and in 1912 he was sent as military attached to Liberia. He organized and trained the Liberian constabulary and for this service in 1916 he receive the Springarm medal. Young had rare tact and common sense; white officers who served with him considered him an interesting and picturesque character. He was the last Negro officer who was a graduate of West Point and he was the one whose service redounded with the most credit to his race. FIRE AT MILLER'S HOTEL Fire was discovered at Miller's Hotel last Saturday and much damage was done by the smoke and water. The origin was found to be in the cellar directly under Dr. Peter's Pharmacy and when he opened the door the blaze shot up to the third floor. No one was injured. The damage will be immediately repaired. The building was insulted. Millionaires at Funeral of Faithful Bank Messenger. Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 18.—For thirty-three years William Henry Shores colored guarded the door of the president's room in a local bank and carried bank funds through the streets; He never was late at his work and never was short a penny. Yesterday bank presidents, millionaires and important figures $_{1n}$ the city's financial circles, attended his funeral in a church for colored people and mingled costly floral gifts with the humber tribute of members of his race on his coffin. 3000 YELL LOYALTY TO GARVEY Promoter Gets Promises of Money Aid and Sweeps He Hos Done No Wrong. More than 3,000. Negros, members of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and other organizations promoted by Marcel Garvey, swore loyalty to him last night at a meeting in Liberty Hall in 1920. West Thirty-eighth street then shouted vowes their opinion that he is bound out of wrongly using the mails, a charge on which he was arrested on Thursday by a United States Marshal. The Negroes have Garvey a vote of confidence and said that they would solicit by him to the last cent and the last man. Garvey was the principal speaker at the meeting. While he did not go defiantly into details, he said he had sufficient proof to show that the charges were the result of a plot laid by his enemies while he was in the West Indies last summer. He denied everything that has been charged and vowed that when the time came he would prove that he had not done anything wrong. "I never defrauded anybody out of anything," said Garvey. "I don't need to do anything like that. It is not needy. I have the brains to create something out of nothing. I do not have to be dishonest." Besides Garvey the speakers were the Rev. C. H. Duvall who said that he spoke as an expert on the human race by virtue of having baptized 14,000 or them and Mrs. Henrietta Baylless. Both are officers of the Improvement Association and have been associated with Garvey in his enterprises for several years. They praised Garvey as the Negro Moses who would lead the black race out of the wilderness into the promised land of Africa and urged the members of the Improvement Association not to believe any charges against him. From the offices of the association in 56 West 127th street in 64 afternoon, Garvey gave out a long typewritten statement, headed, "Cause of Arrest of Marcus Garvey by Plotters of His Own Race" in which he traced the progress of the Negro race from the days of slavery to the present time, deploring the fact that the race never has had a group consciousness and has been exploited by Negro politicians and preachers. The Negro politicians M. N. members he declared, plotted against him and now have succeeded in having him arrested. They used "contemptible methods," he said, but he said he would circumvent them and that right would triumph. "I applaud to the American people for justice," he added. GARVEY'S ARREST BY FEDERAL AUTHORITIES CAUSED BY EX-OFFICIALS AND DISMISSED EMPLOYEES. They Being Discharged Employee and Discharged Officials; Some now Awaiting Trial for Crime. Urged for a statement, Mr. Garvey says: "My arrest is but the starting point of a great International conflict that will one day show the Negro not the worse off for the result. Enemies of the Negro race and enemies of my Movement within the race have been plotting for sometime to besmirch my character is, order to hold me up to public ridicule and to cause me to lose favour among my people. The villains will have to go far to condemn or convict the conscience that is honest and true, to itself to man and to God. Let the combined forces of the world be mobilized on the principle of injustice and 400,000,000 Negroes, under the leadership of Jesus Christ, shall put them to flight. My race has suffered much and for long, and the fight of the Universal Negro Improvement Association is for our liberation everywhere and for freeing of Africa from the grasp of the exploiting tyrant. Cheap, vilified parasitic members of my race have to discredit me, because the Universal has made an inroad into their schemes of exploiting the people. Several Negro organizations and a goodly number of preachers and politicians are fighting me. They fought and crucified Jesus Christ, yet Christianity succeeded. Let them erucify me and the Universal Negro Improvement Association shall succeed the more. The fight is on and it will end only when Gabriel blows his horn. The New Negro, through the Universal Negro Improvement Association shall teach the wicked a signal lesson. I welcome the fight to damage my character. Watch the result between here and Africa. The Negro shall be free through the Heavens fall and the mercies of human liberty and Justice rage. Among those who are opposing the Universal Negro Improvement Association are the leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the paper organization known as the African Blood Brotherhood of which Cyril Briggs, Editor of the "Crusader" a monthly magazine, is the paramount Chief and active working head and who is out on ball for criminal libel against Marcua Garvey." THE HAMPTON SINGERS PLEASE RICHMOND Dr. J. E. Gregg, Principal, Pays A Tribute to Negdo Music. 3000 Attend Hampton Concert; Hurdres Turned Away for Lack of Room. Richmond, Va., Jan 14. There were so many white and colored citizens of Richmond, come 3,000 with attendee the recent Hampton Institute concert, which was given in the First Baptist Church. (Dr. Rev. W. T. Johnson, pastor.) that the singers had to do double and entertained an overflow audience in the church's lecture room. Between 400 and 500 persons had to be turned away on account of the lack of room. Many men and women heard the singers from windows in neighboring buildings. The singers and speakers were received with great enthusiasm, by the large audience. Dr. James E. Gregg principal of Hampton Institute stated that the concert aimed to interpted through music something of the message of Hampton. The program consisted chiefly of well-known plantation hymns, either in their simply and more primitive or in their technically more developed form. "Certain elements of Negro folk music," said Doctor Gregg, "should be taken up and incorporated in anthems and dabber conventional compositions, just as the folk song of Europe have been utilized by some of the great composers. TRIBUTE TO NEGRO FOLK SONGS "We also believe that the plantation melodies in their reign I style because of their simplicity, their ex-pressiveness, their artistic beauty, and their spiritual depth and power, are in disputably worthy to be preserved and cherished. Their unique value as principally our only native American 'languages in the English language, is nowadays being more and more widely recognized by musical authorities. As Americans, we all should prize them and love them. "When we listen to the words of these old 'spirituals,' we are irresistibly impressed, moved, persuaded, convinced by their paths, their cheerfulness, their courage, their hope faith, and love. Their message is the message of Christianity itself. "If Hampton Institute can teach this, along with all the other things that it teaches to its students, and through them to others, it will have done something toward the establishment of God's kingdom of righteousness, peace and good-will." The program included the following plantation melodies: "There's a Meeting Here Tonight," "Tide On, Jesus! "Little David, Play on Your Harp! "Keep Me From Shaking Down! "Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray! "Every Time I Feel the Spirit! "Wasn't that a Witness; and 'Fare Ye Well.' Several modern chorales by Harry T. Burleigh and R. Nathaniel Dett were included. Three colored members of the Humpon Institute staff—Wilhemina R. Patterson, soprano, who sang Johnson's "The Awakening," R. Nataniel Dett, composer pianist, who played his own composition, "Incarnation," and Paige L. Lancaster, harbite who sang Buck's "Fare Not Ye, O Israel,"—assisted representatives from the Hampton Institute Choir, Quartet, and Girl's Glee club. Y. W. C. A. NOTES. The meaning of "personal loyalty to Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord" was very clearly defined by Mr. E. L. Murchison in the address made at Vespers on last Sunday. Some of the excellent points given were. To be loyal to a cause one must believe fully in the cause, he must have a thorough knowledge and an implicit faith in the cause, he must be willing to make sacrifices for this cause. Mr. Murchison showed how if the members of the Y. W.C. A. were going to associate young women in personal loyalty to Jesus, that they must themselves first be in close personal touch with our Saviour. On Sunday afternoon, Mrs. Mary E. Carter will speak on the second part of the purpose "To promote growth in Christian character through physical, social, mental and spiritual training." Among the musical numbers will be a vocal solo by Dr. R. O. Mundin. OFFICERS TO BE INSTALLED. The installation of the officers of the subordinate lodges of the Inights of Pythias, N. A.; S. A.; E.; A. and A. will take place Tuesday, January 24, 1922 at the Sharon Baptist church, First and Leigh Streets at 8:30 P. M. All elected officers are required to be present and the members of the Order are invited. The installation of the officers of the subordinate courts will take place at the same time. FULTON NOTES. The Barnea Bible class of the M. Calvary Baptist Sunday School, was graced with the presence of Rev. Powells of the Gifted Baptist church of Petersburg, Va., who is now attending the Va. Union University of this city. We also had present Mr. Charles Johnson. The Barnea class includes visitors at all times. Let each and every member of the church become a member of this great class. At 11:20 A. M. we listened to a brief formation, coming from the Rev. of M. Philips, the pastor of the Earfield Baptist church and one who went out from Calvary and established the syn. He preached from the Earfield church. Many visitors were present including some out of town ones. We are glad to have you at all times. Mrs. Alice Edwards sent a letter of thanks to the church, expressing her thanks to the pastor, friends and members of Calvary for their sympathy shown towards her in their sad bereavement. Tomorrow at 11:30 A. M. our pastor will preach from the "Piedicau Son." 3:20 P. M. Rev. Cobbs preached at the Macedonia Baptist church. Rev. Cobbs is growing to be a strong gospel trumpeter, both spiritually and educationally. He is assisted a great deal by his Madam, Mrs. Elizabeth Cobbs. The installation exercises of the officers of the Sunday School were held at $30 P. M. A beautiful recitation was rendered by Mrs. Laura Best, one who is fully able to meet the occasion Solo by the great Star singer, Mrs. Sisretta Washington, Sermon by Rev W. E. Brown, officers installed by Rev. Walter Johnson, Prayer by Rev A. D. Clarke, Selection by Cobb's Glee club, which are composed of only youngsters You surely would enjoy yourself to hear them sing, Mrs. Ruth Fliets Mistress of ceremonies, Let us not forget the slick. remember the end of the Barnes Bible class of the Mt. Calvary Baptist Sunday school. We ought to have at least 100 men, will you be one? The good people of the Rising Mt. Zion Baptist church, Hennert County, presented their pastor, Rev W. L. Tuck with a large purse of money, a large supply of sugar, coffee, eggs and several hams. O, praise my Master, Mrs. Cooper, the teacher of the County school at Bermuda Hundreds spent a delightful Nuxus, with her pet people at Middletown, Va. She is booked at her post of duty. She is liked very much by all the people of Bermuda, Mrs. Lloe Eps of Bermuda spent part of the Nuxus holidays visiting Rev Mrs. Tuck and Rev, Mrs. Florine Clarke of Richmond, Va. RISING MT. ZION NOTES Our Church and Sunday School are in a prosperous condition. With the increase of scholars and capable teachers the Sunday school will reach the desired quota at the end of the year. We desire to comment on the spiritual prayer meetings that are held each Wednesday night. This attendance is also increasing and the people are enthusiastic in lifting their voices to the Almighty in prayer. As usual our morning service was well attended. The increasing interest is forever prevalent in all the meetings of our church. C. L. DILLARD, Reporter. REV. O. R. SIMS, Pastor --- A Birthday Party. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bagby, 1824 Taylor street was the scene of much pleasure on the night of January 12, 1922. The occasion was the birthday of their daughter, Mrs Mary A. Bagby. The merry party began to assemble about 8:20 and parlor games and other amusements were indulged in until the small hours of morn. All left well satisfied with the enjoyable time spent. --- NINE $100 BILLS LOST AS FIRE SWEETES HER HOME. Nine $100 bills, representing the life's savings of a colored woman, were destroyed in a fire discovered in her home, at 1515 Decatur street last night. The money deposited as a savings at count in a local bank, was drawn by the woman shortly before the bank closed for the day. She hid the money among clothing in a wardrobe on the second floor. When the fire was discovered three hours later, the article of furniture was a mass of flames. The damage to the building was estimated at $200. (Times Dispatch, Richmond, Va., Jan. 17, 1922.) —Mrs. Ida Gordon of Englewood, N. J., is in the city the guest of her sister, Mrs. John T. Taylor. —Mrs. Mildred Johnson, continues sick at her residence, 609 N. 4th street. —Mrs. Ellen Johnson, 411 W. Clay street has been indisposed for several weeks. RACE - COUNTRY - WORLD NEWS PRICE, FIVE CENTS LUTHER BODDY TRIAL SET FOR 23RD INST. Tonda, Officials. Never Take Eyes Of Slayer of Two Detectives. Nero Brought From Phantomophila, Gee Specific Attainment. Adults He Is Doomed Receives to Express Regret for Murders. New York, January 13, 1922. All last night a dim but obscure light constantly revealed the interior of Cell tot in the Tomb. Before the deer of that, cell armed guards paced continually, some only made incessant upon a slight figure, no bigger than that of an average woman, lying upon the half shadowed cot. With this prisoner they were taking no chances whatever, and neither stone walls nor steel bars nor massive bocks, even were solely relied upon. The best of all securities, the watchful human eye, was employed to supplement all ordinary devices. The prisoner was Luther Boddy, coiled desperately not yet of age, the killer of Detectives Miller and Buckley, caught in a lodging house in Philadelphia on Monday morning and returned here yesterday, to be arraigned for murder in the first degree and to be consigned to the Tomb. It was not escape the wardens feared. Not even a superman could have break $e_4$ from that ring of light to win freedom through wall's and bars. It was suicide. Nobody realize more closely than the killer that he is, he can straight for the electric chair and his guards feared he might attempt to trick justice. His description flashed forth as a Pennsyvania train was bringing handcuffed to Detective Sergeant Ewin Win England, to New York. Soon after the train left Philadelphia a trooper of the Pennsyvania State Constabulary came through the last car, in which Bobby and his police guards were riding. At his hip turned Bobby's way as he stopped to talk with England, swung a big revolver in its holster. EYE CATCHES TROOPERS GEN England led the outside seat, Bodily being maneuved to his right wrist, and Bodily in the inside seat had a two right hand, which was at that moment moving invisibly upon the window still. While the trooper moved at Bodily's side Bodily's elbow turned in steadily toward the big gun. Enquiry described it thus: "In his eye I saw a perfect picture of what he planned to do. Turn suddenly toward me and the trooper, notice the gun from the trooper's helmet and shoot his way out. I showed the trooper back and gave Bodily a shove near the window. 'Don't think about it.' I said to him. He made no reply and turned to the scenery." As it turned out the killer was brought to to New York, taken to Harlem and questioned, moved to Police Headquarters for finger printing. Bertillion measurements and photographs and then hurried before Justice Wasservogel in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court, without any untoward incident on Bodily's port or directs against him. Wherever he went there were curious crowds, much jostling against police lines and murmurs of anger and dismay—nothing more. New York detectives with Sergeants Steve Donohue and Edwin England in principal custody of Bodily, left Philadelphia with him at 11 A.M. yesterday. He had been landed in England but wherever the linked pair went down oblique was also, close at Bodily's right side. The detectives traveled in the last ear and Boddy and England were in the last seat in the car. For the most part Boddy kept silent, gazing meldly out of the window. He did not see afraid or nervous. He seemed mostly regretful and disgusted with himself first for getting into such trouble and then getting caught. On the way to New York he admitted his original story about having bid in a dark doorway near the scene of his murders for nearly twenty-four hours before fleeing to New Jersey was a lie. What really happened was that Boddy ran to Seventh avenue and all the way south in Seventh avenue to 116th street where he took the subway to Jersey City to begin the wanderings of a hunted animal. It annoyed him that one of his own race, Magistrate Amos Scott of Philadelphia, arrested him after other colored people, fellow lodgers, had betrayed him. "I never was more ashamed of being colored," was the way he put it. Resentment against the police and sullen acceptance of his fate were other moods revealed as he approached the city. "You've always tried to beat me up—always had it in for me," he said. They used to drag me around to the West Sixty-eight street station when (Continued on Third Page.) THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library. OLUME XXXIX, NO. 11 YS A TRIBUTE TO THE AMERICAN NEGRO Council of Boards of Benevolence, Methodist Episcopal Church, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York City, TO THE EDITOR: The capture of Luther Roddy, the man who infiltrated in cold blood two detective sergeants in New York, accomplished through the courage of Magistrate Amos Scott of Philadelphia is an event which ought not to pass as an ordinary news story to people of his race. It is true that there are many thousands of Negroes who would have acted exactly as did Magistrate Scott. After a life-long contact with the Negro I am convinced that this is true. The Magistrate's deed has been cumulated many times in the past by men of his own race and will be remembered in the future. But the fact that all this is true that I think the act of Amos Scott, newly and first selected Negro 'Magistrate of Philadelphia' should be given its rightful place in the current history of his race. ENTERPRISE AND COURAGE It took enterprise and courage to do what he did, qualities which the now Negro is developing beyond his own estimation of former times. Amos Scott had been intrusted with a sacre duty in public office and he responded to its demands with a high idealism. It was not technically necessary for him to place himself in jeopardy of his life and face the most desperate criminal trials. He was not sure that this man was taken. I believe Mag. Scott felt a certain race responsibility in that act. A man of his own race had committed a crime which in itself was a weapon of those opposed to the progress of the Negro. It was surely not chance that brought him opportunity to offset the dark deed with one which would illuminate the whole unfortunate incident to the everlasting credit and dignity of his race. The Reverend Charles A. Tindell, Courtesy Methodist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, not to entrust the information of the man's whereabouts to any man of any race who would do other than his full duty. Dr. Tindley surely knew his man in Amos Scott. STOOD THE TEST The new Negro Magistrate not only stood for law and order in an academic (and safe) way as a judge on the city bench. He was willing to risk his own life to perform the high trust on public office. No doubt he knew that to succeed would win apprehension! I hope he did. For I believe Amos Scott also felt that such a deed would be more far-reaching than the mere praise of one man. I believe he felt the world would what the Negro would do that the world duty when given a position of trust. This trait is a prominent one in the Negro character. Amos Scott felt the invincible urge to a task adorned by all he held sacred. And stern though it was—and dangerous—he did not quail. He went to that rooming house willow—and in view of Boddy's known record, surely half-expecting—to lay down his life for these things. That Providence aided him can hardly be doubted under the circumstances, but that detracts no whit from the sheer magnificence of his act. With deadly power the Negro magistrate representing by value of his life the huge Negro Magistrate the huge majority of law-abiding Negroes, was determined that the man whose crime had hurt the good name of his race, should be brought to justice. HONOR THE DEED His race should honor the deed of Amos Scott, Magistrate. He is a heroic spokesman for Negro rights. It has done more by that act than a hundred hired creators could do in showing the world what to expect of the new Negro today and in the age to come. Negroes everywhere should remember that and self will be emulated many times by men of his own race. It has been equal led many times in the past. But the more such acts of heroism are noted and given their due measure of admiration, the more they inspire others to respond to the call of duty when it comes to them. The deed of Amos Scott was not done in the excitement of hatred, the sight of a maltitude. It was deliberate, not coercive. He knew he was walking into death and had plenty of time to think it over and decide to do only his official, prescribed duty. MADE PROFOUND IMPRESSION The fact that Boddy was captured through three men of his own race has made a profound impression upon epiphon in New York. It has made people here sit up and take notice in a way peculiarly - gratifying to institutions such as the Methodist Episcopal Church which have always given substantial proof of faith in the Negro. I am sure that every one of the 3,000,000 members of this denomination who read of the part played by Dr. Tindley will be preponderant then ever that he is one of them in Christian faith. He is among the most prominent and honored men of the Methodist Episcopal Church and is the pastor of the largest congregation in Methodism. Very personally yours. HILC. FOSTER. Editorial Department, Methodist Episcopal Church. --- BRIEFS AND SPICES. (By S. J. C.) Some men are wise, others get married. Honesty is a good policy, but it does not pay a death claim. In all probability those future wars predicted by the Seers will he fought between tenants and landlords. Reformers claim that wine and beer have no medicinal value—neither has peach ple. The most wholesome complaint against the new dollars is: "They won't stack up"—"Sounds plausible. Let's hope that the front page publicity given the youthful N. Y. criminal by the Negro Weeklies was intended to reform the criminally inclined. When a man buys an automobile to satirize his craving to run something, he usually finds that he's stung and is still being run—into debt. "We heard your wife was dolls quite a bit of canning nowadays"—"Yes," replied Prof. Brainstorm—"Every time I emply a peach of a stenographer, my wife cans her." A fool there was and we made home brew, even as you and I. He forgo; to put on the bottle tops, he also left the cellar door unlocked and in there walked a Federal cop even as you—not I. LYNCHED BY MOB OF 1,000 MEEN. Follows Third Day of a Countrywide Hunt for Shayer. Mayo, Fla., Jan. 17—A mob of approximately 1,000 persons over powder officials here today, took the man who killed W. R. Taylor, Saturday night and lynched him on the outskirts of the town. The lynching came on the third day of a country-wide man hunt, after the man had been captured in the woods a few miles from town. News of the capture spread rapidly and before officers could get him to jail he was taken from them by the mob, hanged to a tree and his body riddled with bullets. Taylor, the son of a well-known naval stores operator was shot and killed late Saturday night when he entered the man's home to investigate a quarrel. --- -Martha Jefferson of 1415 McDonald street has been called to Clinton, S. C., on account of the illness of her daughter, Mrs. Bernard Hatcher Death of Mrs. Georgiana Robinson. In sad but loving remembrance of our mother, Mrs. Georgianna Robinson, who departed this life December 22, 1921 at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Alice Edwards, 1015 Hickory Street. She was a devoted mother and a faithful Christian lady. She leaves to mourn her loss, two daughters, one mother coming, two daughters and a host of relatives and friends. We believe our loss is her eternal gain. She was a member of Mt. Calvary Baptist Church for eight years, from which the funeral services were conduited, her pastor, Rev. C. A. Cobbs officiating. O for a look on that sweet face, A touch of that vanished hand, That passed away one month today, To that Eternal Land. Our family circle is broken now, A voice we loved, is still, A place is vacant in our hearts. This world can now fill. Her children, ALICE EDWARDS, JULIA AND RICHARD ROBINSON. In Memory. In sacred memory of our dear husband, father and grand-father, Richard T. Cogbill, Sr., who entered into rest nine years ago, January 16th, 1913. The 16th of January is here. To us the gaddet of the year. For well we remember on that day Dear husband passed so quietly away. —BY WIFE, CHILDREN —BY DAD, DOWNSTREAM RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1922 COL. CHARLES YOUNG DIES IN LIBERIA COL. CHARLES YOUNG DIES IN LIBERIA Colonel Charles Young, whose death was reported Friday by a cable message from Monrovia, Liberia, had the distinction of being the only Negro in the Regular Army service to reach the rank of Colonel of being one of three Negroes to be graduated from the United States Military Academy and of serving with credit in the army from his commission as a Second Leutenant to his retirement for disability early in the war. Young was appointed to West Point from Ohio; he won his appointment by gaining the highest marks in a competitive examination held by a Congressman of his district. He came to the Academy when the Whittaker incld in was still fresh in the minds of authorities and cadets. This incident was a lesson to him; he accepted the social limitations imposed by his race. He was unmolested by the cadets and he had no complaints to make regarding his treatment by the cadet corps or the hard and accustomed Academy. He studied hard and accustomed a murmur the severe discipline of the Academy. He was graduated well up in the class of 1889. His career as a cadet was closely followed, especially by those persons who had interested themselves in the case of Cadet Whittaker. This cadet was found in his room one morning in April, 1880, lying bound on his cot, with cuts on $_{0}$ his cars and other marks of violence. He said that the injuries had been inflicted by fellow students; the authorities were from the first conceived that Whittaker's story was untrue and that he had himself inflicted the injuries by the purpose of obliteration examination from certain examinations or for some other purpose in investigation cleared the authors from the charge of discrimination and exonerated the cadets from the charge of hazing Whittaker. He was afterwards tried by court-martial and dismissed from the academy. Whittaker was the eleventh Negro to be appointed to the Academy; he was the third to pass the entrance examination. General Schofield in his report on the Whittakes incident said that "the white cadets respect the legal rights of colored cadets more scrupulously than those of each other." He acknowledged, though, that the colored cadet was "without social recognition"; that the cadet was no more disposed to make him a social equal at the Academy than he was at his own home. It was this isolation from companionship which no doubt made Young's four years at the Academy a severe trial. Only two other colored soldiers withstood the test to the end, Alexander, who died soon after graduation and Flipper, who was discharged from the army. Young's attitude at the Military Academy on the question of racial equality was unchanged while he was an officer in the army. He was assigned to Negro regiments, and served long with the famous Tenth Cavalry, although for ten months he was First Lieutenant in the Seventh Cavalry. He sides his military service he was detailed as superintendent of national parks in California and in 1912 he was sent as military attached to Liberia. He recognized and trained the Liberian contingent and for this service in 1916 he received Springing medal. Young had a rare tact and common sense; white officers who served with him considered him an interesting picturesque character. He was the last Negro officer who was a graduate of West Point and he was the one whose service redoubled with the most credit to his race. FIRE AT MILLER'S HOTEL Fire was discovered et Miller's Hotel last Saturday and much damage was done by the smoke and water. The origin was found to be in the collar directly under Dr. Peter's Pharmacy and when he opened the door the blaze shot up to the third floor. No one was injured. The damage will be immediately repaired. The building was insured. --- Millionaire at Funeral of Faithful Bank Messenger. Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 18.—For thirty-three years William Henry Shores, colored guarded the door of the president's room in a local bank and carried bank funds through the streets: He never was at his work and never was short a penny. Yesterday bank presidents, millionaires and important figures in the city's financial circles, attended his funeral in a church for colored people and mingled costly floral gifts with the humble tribute of members of his race on his coffin. 3000 YELL LOYALTY TO GARVEY Promoter Gets Promises of Money Aid and Money Has Done No Wrong. More than 3,000 Negroes, members of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and other organizations promoted by Marcus Garvey, swore fealty to him last, night at a meeting in Liberty Hall in 120 West Thirty-eighth street then shoutingly voice their opinion that he is indict of wrongfully using the mails, a charge on which he was arrested on Thursday by a United States Marshal. The Negroes gave Garvey a vote of confidence and said that they would stick by him to the last cent and the last man. Garvey was the principal speaker, or the meeting. While he did not go definitely into details he said he had suffered proof to show that the charges enunciated while he in the West Indies last summer. He knew something that has been charged and said that when the time came he would prove that he had not done anything wrong. "I never defrauded anybody out of anything," said Garvey. "I don't need to do anything like that. It is not necessary. I have the brains to create something out of nothing. I do not have to dishonest." Besides Garvey the speakers were the Rev. C. H. Duvall who said that he spoke as an expert on the human race virtue of having baptized 14,000 of them and Mrs. Henrietta Bayllas. Both are officers of the Improvement Association and have been associated with Garvey in his enterprises for several years. They praised Garvey as the Negro Moses who would lead the black race out of the wilderness into the promised land of Africa, and urged the members of the Improvement Association not to believe any chivalry. FROM the offices of the association in 156 Worth 137th street in his afternoon, Garvey gave out a long typewritten statement, headed, "Cause of Arrest of Marcus Garvey by Plotters of His Own Race" in which he traced the progress of the Negro race from the days of slavery to the present time, deploring the fact that the race never had had a group consciousness and has been exploited by Negro politicians and preachers. The Negro politicians M. N preachers he declared, plotted against him and now have succeeded in having him arrested. They used "contemptious methods," he said, but he said he would circumvent them and that right would triumph. "I appeal to the American people for justice," he added. (New York Herald.) GARVEY'S ARREST BY FEDERAL AUTHORITIES CAUSED BY EXOFFICIALS AND DISMISSED EMPLOYEES. They Being Discharged Employees and Discharged Officials; Some new Awaiting Trial for Crime. Urged for a statement, Mr. Garvey says: "My arrest is but the starting point of a great International conflict that will one day show the Negro not the worse off for the result. Enemies of the Negro race and enemies of my Movement within the race have been plotting for sometime to besmirch my character in order to hold me up to public ridicule and to cause me to lose face among my people. "The Nazis will have to go far to condemn or contempt the resistance that is honest and true to itself a man and to God. Let the combined forces of the world be mobilized on the principle of injustice and 400,000,000 Negroes, under the leadership of Jesus Christ, shall put them to flight. My race has suffered much and for long, and the fight of the Universal Negro Improvement Association is for our liberation everywhere and for their freeing of Africa from the grasp of the exploiting tyrant. Cheap, vilious parasitic members of my race have made me, because the Universal Negro has made an art of exploiting the people. Several Negro organizations and a good number of preachers and politicians are fighting me. They fought and crucified Jesus Christ, yet Christianity succeeded et. Let them crucify me and the Universal Negro Improvement Association shall succeed the more. The fight is on and it will end only when Gabriel blows his horn. The New Negro, through the Universal Negro Improvement Association shall teach the wicked a signal lesson. I welcome the fight to damage my character. Watch the result between here and Africa. The Negro shall be free though the Heavens fall and the enemies of human liberty and justice rage. Among those who are opposing the Universal Negro Improvement Association are the leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the paper organization known as the African Blood Brotherhood of which Crusader Briggs, Editor of the "Crusader" a monthly magazine, is the paramount Chief and active working head and who is out on ball for criminal libel against Mareus Garvey." THE HAMPTON SINGERS PLEASE RICHMOND Dr. J. E. Gregg, Principal, Pays A Tribute to Nego Music. 3000 Attend Hampton Concert; Hundreds Turned Away for Lack of Room. Richmond, Va., Jan. 14. There were so many white and colored citizens of Richmond, some 3,000 who attended the recent Hampton Institute concert, which was given in the First Baptist Church, (Hev. Dr. W. T. Johnson, pastor) that the singers had to do double duty and entertained an overflow audience and the entertainment room. Between 400 and 500 people had to be turned away on account of the lack of room. Many men and women heard the singers from windows in neighboring buildings. The singers and speakers were received with great enthusiasm by the large audience. Dr. James E. Gregg principal of Hampton Institute stated that the concert aimed to interpret through music something of the message of Hampton. The program consisted chiefly of well-known plantation hymns, either in their simply and more primitive or in their technically more developed form. Certain elements of Negro folk music had doctor Gregg "should be taken up and incorporated into hymns and dblr conventional compositions just as the folk song of Europe have been utilized by some of the great composers. TIBUTE TO NEGRO FOLK-SONGS "We also believe that the plantation melodies in their original style because of their simplicity, their expressiveness, their artistic beauty, and their spiritual depth and power, are in disputably worthy to be preserved and cherished. Their unique value as practically our only native American *k-lysongs in the English language, is nowadays being more and more widely reorganized by musical authorities. As Americans, we all should prize them and love them. "When we listen to the words of these old spirituals, we are irresistibly impressed, moved, persuaded, convinced by their paths, their cheerfulness, their courage, their hope, faith, and love. Their message is the message of Christianity itself." "If Haunton Institute can teach this, along with all the other things that it teaches to its students and through them to others, it will have done something toward the establishment of God's kingdom of righteousness, peace and good-will." The program included the following plantation melodies: "There's a Meeting here Tonight," "Ride On, Jesus," "Little David, Play on Your Harp," "Keep Me From Sinking Down," "Near Nobody Pray," "Every Time I Feel Good," "I want that a Witness," and "Fare Ye Well." Modern ceralal charies by Harry T. Burleigh and R. Nathaniel Dett were included. Three colored members of the Humpton institute staff,—Willemina R. Patterson, soprano, who sang Johnson's "The Awakening," R. Nathaniel Dett, composer-pianist, who played his own composition, "Incarnation," and Baldy I. Lancaster, harpione who sang Baldy Pant We, Q'real—assisted representatives from the Hampton Institute Choir, Quartet, and Girls club. Y. W. C. A. NOTES. The meaning of "personal loyalty to Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord" was very clearly defined by Mr. E. L. Murchison in the address made at Vespers on last Sunday. Some of the excellent points given were. To be loyal to a cause one must believe fully in the cause, he must have a thorough knowledge and an implicit faith in the cause, he must be willing to make sacrifices for this cause. Mr. Murchison showed how if the members of the Y. W. C. A. were going to associate young women to help Jesus to loyalty, that they must themselves be in close personal touch with our Sisters. On Sunday afternoon, Mrs. Mary E. Carter will speak on the second part of the purpose "To promote growth in Christian character through physical, social, mental and spiritual training." Among the musical numbers will be a vocal solo by Dr. R. O. Mundin. OFFICERS TO BE INSTALLED. The installation of the officers of the subordinate lodges of the Jnights of Pythias, N. A.; S. A.; E.; A. and A. will take place Tuesday, January 24, 1922 at the Sharon Baptist church, Fire and Lighthouses at 8:30 P. M. All officers are required to be present and the Order are invited. The installation of the officers of the subordinate course will take place at the same time. FULTON NOTES. The Baracea Bible class of the Mr. Calvary Baptist Sunday School, was graced with the presence of Rev. Powells of the Giffield Baptist church of Petersburg, Va., who is now attending the Va. Union University of this city. We also had present Mr. Claude Johnson. The Baracea class invites visitors at all times. Let each and every man of the church, become a member of the class. At 11:30 A.M. we listened to a profound sermon, coming from the Rev. P. Itt, Philips's the pastor of the Fairfield Baptist church and one who went out from Calvary and established the same. He preached from the 5th chapter of Mark and the last clause of the 19th verse. Four individuals were added to the church. Many visitors were present including some out of town ones. We are glad to have you at all times. Mrs. Alice Edwards sent a letter of thanks to the church, expressing her thanks to the pastor, friends and members of Calvary for their sympathy shown towards her in their sad bereavement. Tomorrow at 11:30 A.M. our pastor will proclaim from the "Prodigial Son." will preach from the "Piedical Son." 3:30 P. M. Rev. Cobbs preached at the Macedonia Baptist church. Rev. Cobbs is growing to be a strong gospel trumpeter, both spiritually and educationally. He is assisted a great deal by his Madam, Mrs. Elizabeth Cobbs. The installation exercises of the offices of the Macedonia School were held at 8:30 P. M. A. Rev. Cobbs was rendered by Mrs. Laura Best, one who is fully able to meet the occasion. Solo by the great Star singer, Mrs. Sisetta Washington. Sermon by Rev. W. E. Brown, officers installed by Rev. Walter Johnson. Prayer by Rev. A. D. Clarke. Selection by Cobb's Glee club, which are composed of only youngsters You surely would enjoy yourself to hear them sing. Mrs. Ruth Fields Mistress of ceremonies. Let us not forget the remembrer the call of the Bacrae Bible class of the Mt. Calvary Baptist Sunday school. We ought to have at least 100 men, will you be one? The good people of the Rising Mt. Zion Baptist church, Henrico County, presented their pastor, Rev. W. L. Tuck with a large purse of money, a large supply of sugar, coffee, eggs and several hams, ob praise my Master. Mrs. Cooper, the teacher of the County school at Bermuda Hundreds spent a delightful Xmas, with her per plea at Midlothian, Va. She is back at her post of duty. She is like very much by all the people of Bermuda. Mrs. Ida Epps of Bermuda, spent part of the Xmas holidays visiting Rev. Mrs. Tuck and Rev. Mrs. Florine Clarke of Richmond, Va. RISING MT. ZION NOTES Our Church and Sunday School are in a prospherous condition. With the increase of scholars and capable teachers the Sunday school will reach the desired quota at the end of the year. We desire to comment on the spiritual prayer meetings that are held each Wednesday night. This attendance is also increasing and the people are enthusiastic in lifting their voices to the Almighty in prayer. As usual, the continuing service was well attended. The increasing interest is forever prevalent in all the meetings of our church. C. L. DILLARD, Reporter. REV. O. B. SIMMS, Pastor A Birthday Party. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bagby, 1824 Taylor street was the scene of much pleasure on the night of January 12, 1922. The occasion was the birthday of their daughter, Miss Mary A. Bagby. The merry party began to assemble and party began games and other amusements before the small hours of morn. All left well satisfied with the enjoyable time spent. NINE $100 BILLS LOST AS FIRE SWEEPS HER HOME. Nine $100 bills, representing the life's savings of a colored woman, were destroyed in a fire discovered in her home, at 1515 Decatur street last night. The money deposited as a savings account in a local bank, was drawn by the woman shortly before the bank closed for the day. She shot the money among clothing in a wardrobe on the second floor. When the fire was discovered three hours later, the article of furniture was a mass of flames. The damage to the building was estimated at $200. (Times Dispatch, Rlchmond, Va., Jan. 17, 1922.) — Mrs. Ida Gordon of Englewood, N. J., is in the city the guest of her sister, Mrs. John T. Taylor. — Mrs. Mildred Johnson, continues sick at her residence, 609 N. 4th street. — Mrs. Ellen Johnson, 411 W. Clay street has been indisposed for several weeks. PRICE, FIVE CENTS LUTHER BODDY TRIAL SET FOR 23RD INST. Tombs Officials Never Take Eyes Off Shaver of Two Detectives. Negro Brought From Plumacephila Gets Speedy Arraignment Admits He Is Doomed—Refuses to Express Regret for Murders. New York, January 11, 1922. All last night a dim but sufficient light constantly revealed the interior of Cell 100 in the Tombs. Before the door of that cell armed guards paced continually, some one's gaze incessant upon a slight figure, no bigger than that of an averaged woman, lying upon the half shadowed. With this prisoner they were taking no chances whatever, and neither stone walls nor steel bars nor massive locks, even were solely relied upon. The best of all securities, the watchful human eye, was employed to supplement all ordinary devices. The prisoner was Luther Boddy, coiled desperate not yet of age, the killer of Detectives Miller and Buckley, caught in a lodging house in Philadelphia on Monday morning and returned here yesterday, to be arraigned for murder in the first degree and to be consigned to the Tombs. It was not escape the wardens feared. Not even a superman could have broken from that ring of light to win freedom through walls and bars. It was suicide. Nobody realize more clearly than the killer that he is healed for the electric chair and his guards feared he might attempt to trick justice. His desperation flashed forth as a Pennsylvania train was bringing him hauled off to Detective Sergent Erwin England, to New York. Soon after the train left Philadelphia a trooper of the Pennsylvania State Constabulary came through the last car, which Boddy and his police wore riding. At his hip, turned Boddy's way as he stopped to talk with England, swung a big revolver in its holster. EYE CATCHES TROOPER'S GUN England had the outside seat, Boddy being maneuced to his right wrist, and Boddy in the inside seat had a free right hand, which was at that moment being nervously upon the window sill. I saw the trooper stopped at England's side the trooper glace turned hastily toward the big gun. England described it thus: "In his eye I saw a perfect picture of what he planned to do—turn sunday toward me and the trooper, snatch the gun from the trooper's holster and shove his way out. I shoved the trooper back his way around a shove nearer the window. 'Don't think about it,' I said to him. He made no reply and turned to the scenery." As it turned out the killer was brought to to New York, taken to Harlem and questioned, moved to Police Headquarters for finger printing, Bertillon measurements and photographs and then harried before Justice Was in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court, without any unawtow incident on Bobby part or directal against him. Whereas part of there were curious crowds, murder plotting against police lines and murmurs of anger and disgust—nothing more. New York detectives with Sergeants Steve Donohue and Edwin England in principal custody of Boddy, left Philadelphia with him at 11 A. M. yesterday He had been handcuffed to England but wherever the linked pair went Donohue was also, close at Boddy's right side. The detectives traveled in $_{1}$ the last car and Boddy and England were in the last seat in the car. For the most part Boddy kept silent, gazing out of the window. He did not seem afraid or nervous. He seemed mostly regretful and disgusted with himself first for getting into such trouble and then getting caught. On the way to New York he admitted his original story about having hid in a dark doorway near the scene of his murders for nearly twenty-four hours before fleeing to New Jersey was a before fleeing happened was that Boddy ran to South avenue and all the way south in South avenue to 116th street where he took the subway to Jersey City to begin the wanderings of a hunted animal. It annoys him that one of his own race, Magistrate Amos Scott of Philadelphia, arrested him after other colored people, fellow lodgers, had betrayed him. "I never was more ashamed of being colored," was the way he put it. Resentment against the police and sullen acceptance of his fate were other moods revealed as he approached the city. "You've always tried to beat me up — always had it in for me," he said. They used to drag me around to the West Sixty-eight street station when (Continued on Third Page.) THE PARKER Published Every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr. at 311 North Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. EDITOR, - JOHN MITCHELL, JR. All communications intended for publication should be sent to reach us by Wednesday. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Virginia as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ..... $ 2.00 Six Months ..... 1.10 Three Months ..... 1.60 Foreign Subscriptions ..... 2.50 SATURDAY... JANUARY 21, 1922 You cannot do wrong and expect the same consideration as though you had done right. Colored people as a rule are all right. They have a wrong way of showing it This lawless element amongst our people do not realize or care if they injure the entire race by their bad breaks and by their lawless blunders. We should not antagonize the right thinking white, people, who wish to help us and we should not estrange them by blaming them for all of the anti-Negro actions of those of the white race, who bitterly oppose us. --- The death of Col. Charles Young in Monrovia, Liberia brings to mind his bitter experience in this country in his effort to get into active service during the World War. His enemies won in their battle against him else he would have had the rank of brigadier general in command of the volunteer forces. He bore his persecutions like a true soldier and then accepted a post to Africa, where he was engaged in training the natives in the manual of arms and in proving themselves the peers of the best military forces in Europe. His death is pathetic, but his life in this country of ours was even more so. His troubles, trials and tribulations are over and he will receive his just reward in that land, where "sickness, now, pain and death are felt and feared no more. --- Rev. L. G. Jordan, the veteran missionary worker, who has given the best years of his life for the redemption of Africa has retired from the secretaryship of the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention and he is doing all that he can to promote the success of the movement under new leadership. He is a pulpithee of tireless energy and he has worldwide reputation in religious circles. He has made many sacrifices with only a fair living for his pains. Like many other self-sacrificing divines, he must await his reward until Judgmeat Day. ```markdown ``` KELLY MILLER'S OPEN LETTER Dr. Kelly Miller, Dean of Howard University, Washington, D.C., improves with age and his comment upon prevailing conditions and happenings has built up for him a clientele which awaits his opinion upon most important questions. We have been requested to analyze his open letter, which he has published in pamphlet form and which deals in detail with the momentous deliverances upon the race question at Birmingham, Alabama by the present distinguished occupant of the White House, His Excellency, Warren G. Harding. We have been deeply impressed by Dr. Miller's comments and observations. We were astounded by the holdiness of the President of the United States and to some extent surprised at many declarations, which he made in the "heart" of the Southland. But Dr. Murter has taken high ground in dealing with this subject and his comment savors more of that of a statesman than it does of a man of letters and he is pre-eminent in the latter respect. But what does he say in this truly remarkable deliverance and what is his purpose in making history, so to speak at this particular period of the advent of the Republican Party to power? Let us see. He says: The significance of your proposition is comprehensive and permanent. It possesses little or no news value or journalistic timeliness. The principle which you lay down and the policy which you approve are calculated to have enduring consequences upon the tangled issue of race relationships. In deed, the lasty reaction will probably have no important results, so the race relationship is the same irrespects the same immediately after your delivery as immediately before it. Fundamental principles cannot be judged by instantaneous results. One generation sows the seed, the next enjoys the fruition thereof. This is a terse way of saying much in little. He might have endured his discussion there for what follows is more a matter of detail than any thing else but Dr. Kelly Miller had a purpose in pursuing the discussion further for he continues: The immediate effect of your declaration has been to bring the eternal Negro question once more to the forefront of current discussion. There seems to be a conspiracy of silence $n_0$ part of the $n_0$ organs of public opinion to ignere troublesome or distressing issues. Men are prone by nature to seek casement of conscience by affecting obliviousness of obvious evils which menace private repose and public tranquility. In this way is cherished the vain delusion that we may gain surcause from meaicing conditions which we lack the moral courage to face. But the ghost of evil conditions will not fall at our bidding. The bronchial tickling and the occasional cough remind the over-saying consumeptive of the fatality of the government. From the foundation of the government, now there has been no interval of long repose, the unwelcome issue of race has not forced itself on public thought and action. Just at a time when the South was flattering that its provincial regime of political and civic inequality had received the approval, or at least the coenviance of the nation, and when the North, being so absorbed in economic exploitation, that its car had grown dull to the complaints of the Negro you come forward with the courage—may I say without offense, with the temerity—to lend the weight of your high authority to renewed discussion of an issue which the people, if they could, would gladly relegate to the realm of oblivion. This is the "condition and not a theory, which confronts us." This is an accurate description of present day conditions described by Dr. Kelly Miller with the pen of a philosopher. Who will deny his portrayal of existing conditions? Who will take issue with him on any part of those utterances, which he has been hold enough to say? He continues: The motive which prompted this bold and courageous utterance on your part has given rise to much speculation. Some have been disposed to consider its timeliness with reference to the Disarmament Conference as a preliminary pronouncement on the great issue of race which Hies in the background of the international gathering now sitting in the city of Washington. This conference is a result, of your statesmanship, and the world is looking with anxious expectancy to its effect upon the world-wide adjustment of nations and races. The race problem in America casts a shadow of suspicion upon the claims of democracy as the ideal form of government. A clear clarion pronouncement on this subject coming from the highest authority in the nation, might well serve to ally this feeling of doubt as to the sincerity and truthfulness of America's pretensions with respect to the nations have a right to entertain. Your declaration has been construed in some quarters as the answer which Great Britain and the United States the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race, have agreed to render to Japan's demand for racial equality. It has been suggested that you may have been voicing the sentiment of the more intolerant Teutonic element of the white race in its endeavor to persuade the more liberal Latin element that the whiter races must adopt this policy in dealing with the darker ones. What is the matter with Dr. Kelly Miller? Has he seen the light of liberty and has it blinded him to existing conditions and made him careless and reckless as to his own financial safety? Has he partaken of the fruit from the perennial gardens of truth and justice and has it produced a reflex action to the extent of emboldening him to voice the doctrine of the stoics to all the world? It would seem so. He is voicing eternal truths and propounding confounding questions. But in the midst of it all, unintentionally perhaps he is gripping up trouble, racial trouble and prescribing a solution of one of the most embarrassing questions now confronting the peoples of the world. He says further : On the other hand there are those who are inclined to believe that your chief intention was to extend the influence of the Republican party in the Southern States which has, bitherte, been reduced to a nullity by reason of the race problem. In the last election the Republican party carried the States of Maryland, West Virginia, Mississippi Kentucky, Tennessee and Oklahoma. You would probably have received the electoral vote of every State in the Union if the race issue had no interfered. All genuine effort to remove this question from politics must meet with the approval of all right thinking American citizens. However, the recent overwhelming defeat of the Republican party in Virginia which, to seems, anticipated much of your platform is not reassuring. There is just a bit of sarcasm in the above comment. We may well term it, Kelly Miller sarcasm. But we must proceed further. He says: The sudde^h abortive ending of the Ku Klux Klan investigated by the legislative and executive branches of the government lends color to the suspicion of some that your forthcoming deilitance would be relied on to squitch this farcidous organization, whose mild night wizardry seeks darkness rather than light because its deeds are evil. It is not unreasonable to suppose that it was your purpose to lay down a crum, rehensive platform on which hot, mess can stand and work out, with mutual confidence and cooperation, their common deity. I am disposed to accept this interpretation of THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA your motive. This is a most gracious concession to the statesman, who occupies the 2x2 cultive chair of the nation. He continues. There is all but, universal commendation of your moral courage in infecting an unwelcome issue at so critical a juncture of the world's affairs. It is only the intolerable type of Southern opinion that questions either the wisdom or propriety of your doing so. As a Republican, elected mainly by Northern and Negro votes, you have gone in to the heart of what Mr. Bryan would call the enemy's country, to reaffirm a doctrine which for two generations the white people of that section have united in oath-bound allegiance to combat. Every President of the United States, since Abraham Lincoln, with a single exception has indulged in public declaration in the race question. Mr. Wilson, who relied on the soothing balm of pleasing phonetics to hold a restless, world in poise, is the President who did not delish a single bond on this subject during his tenure of office. He probably felt that any utterance which he could afford to give would be violative of his declared principles of universal liberty and equality, and, therefore, preferred to remain silent rather than convict himself of illogical and ethical inconsistency. The race issue was always shunted by his single track mind. It will not be regarded as ungrateful to say that he roires to private life with the unanimous approval of the Negro race. The esteem of the despised and neglected may seem to be of little import to one who treads the highway of world renown, but it is doubtful whether any American man, whatever his achievements, can receive the highest need of permanent esteem if the least of his fellow citizens justly have aught against him. This declaration in the language of the street is "a cracker jack," and yet who will deny its accuracy or dispute its correctness? Certainly, no one, who is acquainted with present day conditions. He is free in his commendation of President Harding and generous in his analysis of his motives, although he is somewhat merciless in handling some of the distinguished statesman's leading utterances, noticeably that one which pronounces racial differences fundamental and inescapable. What better pronouncement could be made than is here recorded in the following extract? No President has spoken more clearly or with more genuine sincerity or with more evident indication of good will and generous spirit than that which characterizes your Birmingham address. But, Mr. President, any doctrine originated or adopted by one in high authority will not be judged in the future by the intention of its authority in the meaning and significance inherent in the document. A shareholder penned the Declaration of Independence, but the motto "All men are created free and equal" has gained an interpretation and significance that far surpass the restricted intention of its author and his aristocratic compere who adopted it as a revolutionary watchword. Chief Justice Taney was considered a courteous, kindly and well-meaning jurist. His famous obiter dictum, that "the Negro had no rights which the white man was bound to meet," expressed, as he judged, that incarcerated him, despite the state of mind at the period, the undertook to describe; but the phrase itself rendered nugatory his meaning and purpose, and damms the author to 'everlasting fame.' He is citing history and while he does not say in so many words, he is showing in a most positive way that "history repeats itself. There is little room for comment upon these declarations of eternal principles. They speak for themselves. He says further: A phrase may be more potent than a fact. Opinion, crystalized in tenses phrasiology rules the world or shows it into confusion. The term :"Social Equality" conveys deeper meaning and evokes quicker reaction than a volume of argumentation. The treatment which the Negro receives is always the outgrowth of the estimate in which he is held by his white follow-citizens who for the time being occupy the superior position in our social scheme. When the Negro was regarded as a beast with cut a soul to be saved, he was death amputated in accordance with this low as sumptuosity. So long he was held in the estimate to deserving Taunyo's dictum, his legal and social status was adjusted in accordance. It was only by reason of the moral energy aroused by the anti-slavery discussion that the essential human recognition of the Negro found expression in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment to the Constitution. The thought is greater than the thing. Ideals are better than deals. A principle is greater than a program. Feeling is not only the greatest fact, but the greatest force in the world. Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are issues of life. Unless the public mind is held to the greatest fact, we look in vain for righteous public action through the authority lent to the doctrine of distinction by your great office it should prove convincing to the American people, the Negro would be branded with a stigma of inferiority, and laws, customs and practices would be based upon this foundation² so long as its validity remains undisputed. The above is in the nature of a r-buke, diplomatically administered. He pallinates it, though by the following statement without withdrawing or apolizing for anything, which he was bold enough to say.. He continues: Mr. President, I know that it will grieve you to learn that your colored follow citizens whom it was your chief purpose to benefit by your Birmingham platform, place upon it a construction which may be farthest from your intention and purpose. It is only out of a sense of duty to my race and to my nation that I write to my do. By voice and pen, I advocated your election as far as my limited opportunities would allow. I have hoped to have the chance to assist in your re-election three years hence. I am not, therefore, writing in a captious spirit of criticism, but from deep conviction. Unfortunately, I have not yet learned the wisdom of the politician whose first; principle of procedure is never to tell those in superior station the truth unless, perchance, he be first assured of its kindly reception. Candor compels me to say, Mr. President, speaking deliberately on behalf of the thoughtful element of the Negro race, that your platform based upon the assertion of "fundamental, inescapable and eternal dull or race is calculated, in the long run, to do the Negro as great harm as the Troubles would have done, had not the arrogance of the nation neglected the intercession which the author placed upon it. Since the foundation of the government no other President has ever lent the authority of his great office to the doctrine that the rights of American citizens should be conditioned upon recognition of indelible difference of race. But enough for this week. We hesitated to analyze and discuss this able and rather remarkable address, called an "open letter." It is a Bill of Rights, upon which all justice-loving, right-thinking citizens may stand without regard to race or color, politics or religion. We had expected to give our readers only extracts from Dr. Miller's discussion of President Warren G. Harding's Birmingham address, but it is so closely woven and intertwined with truisms and undeniable facts that we find ourselves virtually publishing the entire production with the lone exception of the preface. We hope, in accordance with the author and our readers wishes to deal further with this all important subject in our next issue. BOANOKE NEWS BOANOKE NEWS **JOANOKE** VA., January 17. *Marshall student of Lynchburg,* *Virginia.* va. was a visitor in the city Sunday. Mrs. Goldie Morgan Williams died on April 10, 2014 or a lingering illness. Mrs. Williams is a devout Christian and a faithful member of the St. Paul M. E. Church. Her funeral was held at the above Church and the body was taktn to Christiansburg for burial. Mr. James Williams is out after being confined to his home since November by illness. At the weekly meeting of the Ministers Conference they voted to maintain the findings of the ex-partecember 1, when the included of the High Street Church were declared free-to join any other Baptist Church of the same faith and order. Mrs. Kyles and baby, of Salem, Va., who have been the guest of Rev. Pendleton and wife of Lynchburg the past week has returned to her home accompanied by her mother, Mrs. R. A. Mays. The stork visited the home of Rev. and B. Blake. Va. and left a fine baby boy. Mother and baby are getting along nicely. Mrs. Serenah Oliver of Johnson City, Tenn., who has been the guest of Mrs. W. E. Davis, 411 Second St., N. E. left for her home Saturday after a two weeks pleasant stay. Rev. James S. Hatcher delivered two excellent sermons Sunday morning and night. The financial report for the day was $117.78. Mrs. Sarah Sanders, of Madison Avenue is quite indisposed. Mr. John Nowell of Tenth Street died at the home of his brother, Mr. Flem Nowell after a long illness, having suffered much pain and agony. The funeral service of Miss Louise A. Washington took place Tuesday evening at two o'clock from the First Baptist Church, of which she was with whom member and beloved by all who attended her Rev. A. L. James officiated in her life of the beautiful life and character of this Christian young woman. Rev. Jas. S. Hatcher song by request of the family, "I Cannot Drift Beyond His Care." She had forged her way in school against ill health. The following ministers were pres ent: Reverends C. E. Miller, D. R. Powell, J. J. Jefferson, J. S. Hatcher. The church was packed. The floral designs were beautiful and very num erous as they covered the beautiful casket of artistic workmanship. Rev. Miller made timely remarks and Dr. Hatcher spoke of her fine taste for love and her parental love. The polite funeral director, C. C. Willi nus had charge. Mr. John Dent, of Madison Avenue, N. W. wishes to use this method in thanking the people of Richmond for the kind and helpful assistance rendered him and the father of Miss Sadie Craighead, who departed this life in Richmond while attending school. Mr. West Craighead; the man in thankful wishes to join in thanking his hospitable Richmond for their much appreciated assistance during his hours of sore distress and mourning. Miss Craighead's remains rested in Mt. Zion Baptist-Church, of which she was a faithful member, where many of the people assembled last Thursday afternoon to do honor to one of Roanoke's noble young women. Resolutions of condolence were read and expressions of sympathy expressed for the family. The funeral will be preached later, the pastor, Rev. W. Hicks being in Richmond at the time of her funeral. The Ant's Dramatic Club met at the home of Mrs. Minnie Banks on Sixth Avenue, N. W. Monday evening at 8 o'clock. 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He is general secretary of the Colored Department, N. and W. Railway Y. M. C. A. at Bluefield, W. Va. Mr. Tom G. Becker of Anawalt, W. Va. was in the city this week. He had just been down to see his brother, Mr. E. I. Becker, whom he found much improved in health. He is a patient at the Sanatorium in Petersburg, Va. Mrs. Lillian Jones, of Richmond, Va., who has been attending her ill patient, the city was the guest of Mrs. J. C. Becker. Mr. Sandy Tucker of 205 3rd Avenue, N. W. died Monday the 9th after a brief illness of two weeks. He was a loyal worker in the St. Lukes in this city, a Christian and a member of the High Street Baptist Church, where the funeral was held. He was laid to rest in Midway. Simons, W. Va., January 5.—Mrs. Susan Mosby departed this life on Tuesday night, January 3. During her illness her whole talk was of Jesus and loved ones who had gone on before. She leaves four daughters, one sister and eleven grandchildren and a host of friends to mourn their loss. 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WHATEAT ENDS HIS LIFE IN NEW YORK. Negro Lawyer Was Known to Thousands and Wes Father of the Fifteenth. New York, Jan. 15, 1922.—J. Frank Wheaton, 55 colored lawyer, for more than twenty years a familiar figure in the Magistrates courts in Harlem, where he was known to thousands of his race as "Counsellor" Wheaton, comitted suicide yesterday at his home, 208 West 137 street, by inhaling gas. During the time he lived in Harlem Wheaton befriended many colored peole and his death was brought on by an act of kindness. Two months ago he went on the $5,000 ball of a colored man who had been arrested. Soon after he was freed the man disappeared. The case is due to come up in three days and Wheaton, according to his family had been worrying for several days. In a note left to his wife Wheaton said the case had "ruined his life." Wheaton was a Deputy Assistant Dts trict Attorney under Edward Swann from January to June, 1920 and had been alive in Democratic politics for many years. He was a close friend of Detectives Buckley and Miller, who lived on January 5 by Luther Boddy. While he the search for Boddy was on Wheaton visited the West 135th street police station¹ before dawn every morning to keep in touch with devlopments. The murder of the detectives it was said, increased his despondency. Wheaton was born in Maryland and educated at Shorer College, Harper's Perry, W. Va. Howard University, C. and the University of Minnesota. He practiced law for a time in Minnesota. He served one term in the Minnesota Legislature. He came to New York in 1900. White a member of the Minnesota Legislature, Wheaton introduced a civil rights bill which made it illegal to discriminate against persons because of color, in any restaurant, railway car, theatre or other public or semi-public place. He was Past Grand Exalted Pultor of the Colored Elks. As president of the Congress he obtained from the Legislature the organization of the Fifteenth Infantry, National Guard of New York, made up of colored men. (Continued from First Page.) they couldn't think of anything else to do. Lois of time they have kicked me around like a football, just for the fun of it. Now, of course, it's all out and dried, court, jury, electrich chair." Donohue asked him if he were sorry he killed Miller and Buckley. NO USE TO BE SORRY "What's the use to be sorry?" Boddy nasked wearily. "It's too late to be sorry." He explained among other details he had obtained his disguise of women's clothes from a friend named Belle Davis, or rather from her house in Elizabeth while the woman was in England. She was in the Miller and Buckley was purchased in a hardware shop, though Boddy had no permit to show the dealer. Governor Edwards of New Jersey boarded the train in Trenton and hearing that Boddy was aboard walked back to speak to the detectives and to see the prisoner. When the train came to a standstill in the Pennsylvania Station at 1 P. M. and a cove of Red Caps scurried to the vestibule he showed an amnesiac friend. The Red Caps as a matter of fact did not seem to care for Boddy, and more than one of them said audibly he was headed in the right direction. An eager and curious crowd followed from the trait_n and was augmented rapidly as people in the station realized what was going on. Boddy was walked hastily to the Thirty-second street motor car entrance, where Inspector John J. Coughlin's automobile was waiting. Plumped into this, Boddy was whisked uptow_n to the West 123rd street station, headquarters for the Fifth inspection district, and in the station_n Captain Haupt questioned him for more than an hour as regards his possible complicity in holdups and shooting affrays, such as the killing of the fanator Johnson a few nights ago and the shooting of Policeman Bobdy, who proceeded the kill Hing of Buckley and Miller. Many detectives were at the station house, but Boddy showed no fear of them. He seemed to be glad even to be back in Harlem and throughout the questioning was cool and collected but admitting nothing. This over he was taken to Police Headquarters and to the office of Inpector Coughlin, Police Commissionary, Enright, hearing Boddy was in the building, left his desk and hurried to where the prisoner stood handcuffed to England. About everybody else in the building quit work under the same imps of curiosity. After the detectives had scrutinized Boddy he was take_h to the Criminal Identification Bureau where finger prints and Bertillion measurements were taken and he was photographed in the woman's clothes he wore in his flight, Enright suggested this he done. COURT GETS IMPATIENT It was late in the afternoon by then and at the Criminal Court Building Justice Wasservogel, knowing that the Boddy was in town and recalling that the bench warrant required that he be brought, before him "forthwith," became somewhat impatient, at the course of the police in riding Boddy around town to sail their own ends. Also Pordland Peedra, Chief Assis- sence Attorney and acting pro- secutor while Mr. Buntje, is at the AB bany conference called by Attorney. General Daugherty, was exercised, Eventually Justice Wasservogel sent definite orders to Police Headquarters to produce Boddy and that got the required action. The prisoner was introduced into court from the Tombs by way of the mournful bridge and the prisoner's pen. Mancheled he was led up the alaise to the bar, where he stood, eyes downcast. He wore a raddish brown coat, dawn trousers, new shoes. He had no hair and his shirt was open at the throat. Justice Wasservogel spoke: "Luther Boddy, you are charged with murder in the first degree. Have you counsel?" "No. Boddy replied, half audibly. 'Have you any money?' 'No.' Is it your wish the Court appoint counsel for you?" "Yes." Justice Wasservogel named former Judge Morris Koenig, Frank Aranow, representing Mr. Koenig, interviewed Boddy when Boddy was taken to his cell. Later Aranow said: "We are going to see this man gets a square deal. We may decide he cannot get a squarrel in this county on account of public sentiment belongs at white heat. We are not going to try any tactics merely to delay the case. We want a speedy trial, but we are not going to allow the prisoner to the office chair and a mockery made of justice." Boddy was examined by Dr. Perry Lichtenstein. Tomba physician, who found the prisoner was in good physical condition, appeared to be normal mentally and showed no signs of being a drug user. Chief Assistant District Attorney said last night. Boddy would be placed on trial probably on Monday, January 23. It would take that long to get a special jury impanued and to prepare for the case. A large sum was realized for the families of the murdered detectives by a benefit vaudeville show last night at midnight in the new Douglas Theatre, and colored residents of Harlem had worked earnestly to make the affair successful. The chairman of the benefit committee was Alderman George W. Harris. It was hoped to realize at least $5,000. BILLS TO PENSION WIDOWS Bills to pension the widows of Detectives Francis J. Buckley and Henry Miller, who were killed by Luther Boly, were introduced in the Legislature today. The bill pensioning Mrs. Buckley first was put in by James Matee of New York and by Assemblyman John McLonghill of Kings introduced the bill for Mrs. Miller. Charles D. Donohue minority leader of the Assembly, introduced a bill to pension Mrs. Barbara Neville, the widow of Patrol- man Daniel J. Neville, for whose alleged murder William Hoey is now on trial. Neville left several small children. All three bills authorize Police Co missioner Enright, as trustee of the police pension fund, to pay the widows of the slain police officers an annual salary, exceed the salaries of their husbands. (New York Horald.) BODDY GRINS WHEN AN EARLY TRIAL IS SET. Allenists Called Into Case on Both Allenists—Hice them Treatment . Is Chugged. Luther Boddy appeared before Jus- tice the Wassergovil in the Supreme Court yesterday to answer to the two indict ments which charge him with murder in the first degree for killing Detective Framesis J. Buckley and Detective William A. Miller. The formal plea of not gully murdered and Justice J. Boddy was designated Junior 23 as the date on which the young Negro shah he placed on trial. He announced his decision in spite of a strong protest made by counsel for the prisoner former Judge Morris Koeing, who maintained that ten days was not sufficient time for him to trace possible witnesses or to examine the mind of Boddy himself and to build up or correct the "seekout and formulate" motive by Boddy. District Attorney Bauton, assuring the court that it was a main object of the District Attorney's office to afford every facility to the defense, offered Mr. Koenig the services of whatever process servers or even of Assistant District Attorneys the defense might require in the preparation of its case. But Mr. Koenig deemed, saying, "I will not help with the spirit of the law for the District Attorney to act as associate counsel for the defendant. JUSTICE ADHERES TO DECISION Justice Wasservogel adhered to his decision but gave Mr. Koenig the privilege of moving for an adjournment $w_{h}$ the case comes up one week from next Monday. It was when Banton made his offer that Frank Aranow, Koenig's junior leason forward to Boddy, saying: "What do you think of that, Luther—the District Attorney offering to help prepare your case?" "My God, no!" said Boddy quickly; then laughed. Smiles and jaintness marked his re appearance in the famous trial room of criminal cases in the Supreme Court the room where Nan Patterson, Harry Thaw, Becker and many others faced their juries. His wife and sister had taken to him at the Tombs samples of his best clothing and he came into, court attired like the lilies of the sea as they are viewed in the Slip Strip of the room, providing percant for the few steps from the Tombs to the Criminal Court Building.) silk muffler of the kind known as "nobby" or "classy" in Boddy's set, sack suit cut to the lines of his figure, silk four-in-hand and patent leather shoes. Utterly unperturbed he smiled and glanced around the room with apparent immunity from fear. ALLIENISTS GO TO SEE BODDY Earlier in the day an alienist employed by Mr. Koenig, Dr. Richard H. Hoff man of 1057 Madison avenue had questioned him, but not for long enough to make any definite report, as to the state of his mentality. White Dr. Hoff man was busy two alienists employed by the District Attorney, Dr. M. S. Gregory, superintendent of Bellevue Hospital and Dr. Edward S. Cooley, who had spent his time in Brooklyn, appeared in the Tombs to question the prisoner. His counsel Mr. Koenig objected, however as the defense had a right to do and the alienists for the prosecution withdrew. The impression remains that HMr Koenig will base his main defense on a theory of insanity. Running through his brief address to the court yesterday was a hint that time would be needed to examine many witnesses and to many it seemed a suggestion that paranoid insane could harsh treatment Boddy says he received many times after being arrested by the police. (New York Herald.) BODDY'S CASE BUILT ON PLEA OF INSANITY. New York, Jan. 12.—Morris Koenig, counsel for Luther Boldy, young nugun now in the Tombs for the murder of Detectives Miller and Buckley, imitated last night that he would base the defense on the theory that Boddy is not sane. Mr. Koenig, a former Judge said: "I did not bad as much talk with him as I need to make up my mind conpletely but it appears to me that the boy's mind is much under developed. He seems to have no clearcut concept of the difference between right and wrong. He seems to know little about morality. His memory is poor. He does not seem able to carry an idea very far. It is my duty to the court as well as to the client to study these traits and technologies very carefully, because I will not submit a false or misleading "Boddy says he wont to high school for several years, naming De Witt Clinton and a school in Jersey. I don't believe he is telling the truth. There were no signs of a high school education in his thought. or diction when I talked with him. I doubt very much if he was a good student. I shall make up my mind tomorrow before pleading time as to what the defense will be." QUESTIONED ABOUT HIS LIFE District Attorney Banton had anticipated that a plea of insanity would be Boddy's refuge—the only possible refuge—and it was to meet and forestall such a plea he sent an assistant to Philadelphia the very day (Monday) that Boddy was trapped in that city. Hennis, the assistant, questioned Boddy at great length about his whole career and the circumstances back to babyhood. The questions were as far away from the killing of Millor and Buckley as possible, so that the best possible picture of Boddy's mental operations might be procured. "This statement indicates that Boddy is gone," District Attorney Banton said. last night. "There may be lies in it—probably are—but so far we have detected no traces of an abnormal or subnormal mind. The prosecution will proceed as swiftly as is seemly, and on the theory that Boddy was and is quite sane. I cannot give a precise date for the trial, for that, after all. Iles with the court. I assume that the case will be heard quite soon, however." There was an impression in the District Attorney's office that the trial might begin two weeks from next Monday—January 30. BODDY'S PLEA POSTPONED Boddy did not plead when he appeared at 10 o'clock in the morning before Justice Wasservogel In the Criminal Term of the Supremo Court, because his counsel Mr. Koenig was not yet ready with a basic theory for the case. He asked for an adjournment of ten days to give thorough study to the case. "This is not a case for revengeful justice," Mr. Koenig said to the court" but for cool, calm procedure. I have no desire to impede or injure the intense desire of the State to move for as speedy a trial as possible but in the matter of justice speed is not the malaise I. A real opportunity should begin for the orderly procedure of justice." "There is no desire by this court to rush this case to trial." Justice Wasser vogel replied. "I am going to give every opportunity possible to the defendant as he is entitled to that by law." The justice directed Mr. Koenig to enter a plea and to produce Boddy at 4 P. M. today case there was need to amend the plea. Mr. Koenig objected to pleading at once and drew from District Attorney Banton, who is conducting in person the prosecution of the Negro, the retort | "I know of no hysteria on the part of the District Attorney. All we want is to be as truly as possible." | | :--- | | Mr. Koenig said. | | "I insure the District Attorney that there is no desire to interfere with a speedy trial, but I do want time to find out, among other things, what the impinging motive was for the crime." | CROWDS SEE PRISONER Justice Wasservogel then postponed pleading until 4 P. M. today and the prisoner was taken back to the Tombu. A large crowd glimpsed Boddy coming and going. In the jam were two brothers of one of the men that Boddy killed, Buckley. They had tried to get into the courtroom, but the crowd was too large. Buckley, Cora, and his sister, Mrs. Loishe Richardson, were waiting to see him. He smiled and at first they smiled back. The both began to weep and continued to sob steadily during the proceedings. Boddy seemed little moved, scarcely touched by the gravity of his position. Already it has been demonstrated that he was lying when he said he had attended De Witt Clinton High School for two years, Francis Paul, the principal, said: "I have examined the records thoroughly and no such person ever attended this high school. It is possible, but improbable, that Boddy might have been here under some other name. Moreover we took the trouble to question the high school authorities in Jersey and we could not find a school over there that Boddy ever attended." Several persons, including newspaper reporters tried to get a talk with Boddy in the Tombs, but he declined to see any visitor except Mr. Keenig and Frank Arnow, Keenig's law partner. Philadelphia, Jan. 12.—Threatening letters have been received by Amce Scott, colored Police Magistrate, who participated in the capture of Luther Boddy, colored, charged with the killing of two New York detectives and by the Rev. Charles A. Tindley, colored man who is said to have given in formal warning. Boddy's hiding place. Some of the detectives threats. Magistrate Scott said because he added in handing over to the police a mem ber of his race. DOINGS OF THE Y. M. C. A. The Y. M. C. A. of Richmond has always contended for the letter—C—in the Y. M. C. A. A. Doing things like Christ. Some of us have lost time fooling with the world. "We are the light of the world and the salt of the earth. Last Wednesday our General Secretary Scott C. Burrell was called in a hurry to serve for Dr. W. T. Johnson and the School for Girls. Regardless of the snow and storm our Secretary gladly went out and was more than paid for serving. The meeting was a good one and three of the girls accepted Christ. Everybody weed over the top last Saturday at the Y M. C. A. in the class for the explanation on the Sunny School Lesson. Every time you looked Dr. W. H. Stokes the teacher was in lead. This class is proving to be a great blessing to Richmond and the world. 9.30 A. M. the workers were on the opener for a got ready hour. Chairman Thomas and Dunn were in charge of the day. A great time with the women in the penitentiary 10 A. M. and one was won for Jesus Christ. 10 A. M. the committees held special meeting in the jail and city home. Over 600 $m_e$ were out to hear the great message from the Lord, delivered by Dr. A. D. Bodle of New York. Subject: Every Man in His Place. The doctor gave the men of Richmond just what they were expected to accept Christ. The male chorus directed by Prof. Joseph Matthews sang with the spirit of the Lord. The collection was excellent given freely. 3:30 P. M. at the 6th Street Baptist church Dr. T. J. King pastor and offcers made every body welcome at home. The great evangelistic meetings continued 3:30 P. M. at the Trinity Baptist church Dr. T. J. King pastor, pastor of the church will give the men a personal one. Subject Run Speak to 'That Young Man. The male chorus of the church will sing directed by Prof. James Scott. On time men. Do not stop praying for the Y. M. C. A. 111 one eleven cigarettes Three TURKISH Friendly VIRGINIA Gentlemen BURLEY The perfect blend of the three perfect cigarette tobaccos in one perfect cigarette one-eleven cigarettes 15¢ for 20 By permission by The American Tobacco FIFTH AVE. AFRICA'S PRESIDENT HELD ON U. S. CHARGE. Garvey, Black Belt Line Promoter, Accused of Misuse of Malis. New York, Jan. 12.—Marcus Garvey is in trouble again. He was arrested yesterday by Deputy United States Marshal Bartnek on a warrant charging him with wrongly using the malis in his desire to sell stock in the Black Star Steamship Line and add to the at ready enormous membership in his two principal land organizations—the Universal Negro Improvement Association and the African Communities League. These two organizations are said to have 3 500,000 members. Garvey, unquestionably the most pique-tresses Negro organizer in New York, is president of the Black Star Line, president of the Negro Factories Organization, editor of the Negro and provincial President of Africa (the title in Life Magazine West 138th street, August 1920 while the Universal Negro Improvement Association was in convention there. In addition Garvey is the mortal enemy of Cyril V. Briggs, paramount chief of the African Blood Brotherhood and editor of the Crusader Magazine. Last August Briggs instituted lab proceed Garvey for charging in the Negro World, that Briggs was a white man. Garvey's current tribulations are the outcroping of charges that there is such stealthy as the Phyllis Wheatley which, according to disaffected complaintans, has been advertised since last March as a unit of the Black Star Line and due to sail to Garvey's Ideal Negro colony in YLiberia. Furthermore it is charged by Negroes that they invested money in the Universal Negro Improvement Association and in the African Communities League and failed to get back the benefits they understood Garvey to be guaranteeing. HIRES TAXI WHEN ARRESTED The deputy marshal, accompanied by O. B. Williamson, Post Office inspector found Garvey in his well equipped apartment, 130 West 129th street yesterday, 130 West 129th street ypsersonification of dignity. Wrapping his huge fur ulcer about him, he summed a taxicab and with Bartnek and Williamson rode to the offices of Unit States Commissioner Hitecke, where he was held in $2,500 ball for a hearing next Thursday. Before his alleged resort to the mails in his efforts to sell stock Garvey held a series of meetings in Liberty Hall. Being so enthusiastic, the postal agent asked Garvey to attend the meetings. He organized a band of seventy five pieces and this musical organization magnificent in new uniforms, was stationed aboard the steamship Shady side, chartered by Garvey to make excursions up and down the Hudson. Prospective passengers aboard Black Star liners were carried on these excursions and Garvey's popularity soared despite the insinuations of his enemies Yesterday, after a bonding company posted the required $2,500 Garvey went to the Black Star Line Offices 56 West 135th street swinging his gold head cane and holding his head high. He re fused to discuss his last trouble, but it was evident that he wasn't worried. Garvey is a big man physically and a man of character. He helped his wife Amy sued for an annulment of marriage and it developed that he was suppose to get $12,000 salary for he being Provisional President of Africa $10,000 as president of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. BLACK STAR LINE'S TROUBLES The Black Star Line has always been in more or less trouble. First one of its ships, the Yarmouth was stoped as it was getting under way for Cuba loaded with alcoholic liquor. Then various calls were made for more financial backing. Adrian Richardson, the Negro master of the Kanawah, sued the line for $3,574.90, and in turn Garvey sued the skipper for $1,500 charging that the Kanawah, once H. Rogers's private yacht, was mis handled by Richardson because the latter permitted the crow "to gamble" in a kind of gambling game known as craps" to quote the Garvey and avidit. Richardson said that there was no managing the ship with Garvey aboard as the latter wanted to be purser, master, engineer, steward, president and owner all in one. The Garvey avoided suit for libel about to be brought by Edwin Kill rose, Assistant District Attorney, by retracting charges he had made in his Negro World. In addition Mareus Garvey has been shot at, and missed at least once. The Negro who fired the shot committed suicide. STATEMENT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF MECHANICS Savings Bank OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Located at Rdchmond, in the County of Henrico, State of Virginia, at the close of business, December 31st. 1987, to the State Corporation Commission. RESOURCES Loans and Discounts.....$380,057.19 Overdrafts, unsecured..... 740.83 Bonds, securities, ete owned including premium on same..... 111,157.06 Banking house and lot..... 34,760.06 Other real estate owned..... 63,617.06 Furniture and fixtures..... 4,000.00 Exchanges and checks for next day's clearings..... 4,448.84 Due from Nat. Banks..... 15,963.36 Paper Currency..... 6,850.00 Fractional paper currency, nickles and cents..... 283.43 Gold coin..... 7,027.00 Silver coln..... 2,250.60 Bonds guaranteed..... 4,500.00 All other items of re- sources, viz: Int. notes..... not yet matured..... 13,151.30 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock paid in..... $ 34,870.00 Surplus fund ..... 25,000.00 Undivided profits, los amount paid for interest expenses and taxes ..... 2,108.25 Individual deposits, subje t to check ..... 171,803.49 Savings deposits ..... 257,243.95 Demand certificates of deposit ..... 100.00 Certified checks ..... 531.85 Cashier's checks outstanding ..... 611.41 Total of all deposits ..... 430,290.70 Due to State Banks, Priv ate Bankers and Trust Companies ..... 13,009.26 Bills payable, including certificates of deposit representing money bor- row ..... 123,235.21 Reserved for accrued in- terest on deposits ..... 2,021.18 Reserved for accrued taxes ..... 620.65 Bonds guaranteed ..... 4,500.00 All other items of liability viz: Int. notes not yet... matured ..... 13,151.30 Total ..... $648,806.55 I. Albert V. 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PHONE MADISON 577—Man On Duty All Night—RICHMOND, VA, (RIBSIDENCH NEXT DOOR) DEMPSEY WITHOUT A RIVAL When Georges Carpentier of France heavyweight champion of Europe, knocked out George Cook, the Australian title holder, in four rounds in London on Thursday night the preeminent position of the United States in the world, the boxing once more was emphasized. Charles Cameron, coming in the wake of Jack Dempsey's victory over the idol of Paris in Jersey City last July, placed the American in a position similar to that hold by the old schooner yacht America when she won the international cup in England many years ago. Queen Victoria asked which yacht she would win, the America, your Majesty." And which is second?" she continued. "There is no second," was the reply. With Joe Beckett, heavyweight champion of England, beaten in one round by Carpentier; with Cook, regarded overseas as the superior of Beckett, stopped by the Frenchman in four rounds; with Harry Wills, the Negro who has been clamoring for a chance at the title, held to a draw by Bill Tate, a none too expert boxer of Will's own color, Dempsey stands at the pinnacle, all alone. Never before in the history of the heavyweight class was there a champion whose superiority was so clearly defined by Dempsey's. The great John L. Sullivan, Mitchell and Corbett to contend with, the former would meet Peter Jackson, the Noreg who by many experts is rated as the greatest heavyweight that ever trod a ring. Corbett had Fitzsimmons, Ruby Ruby host of challengers and finally succumbed to Jeffries. The latter had to fight Sharkey, Fitzsimmons, Corbett and Ruhlin at last Johnson. The big Negro was beset with challenges by Langford and McVey, and the first named probably would have beaten him, but he knew enough to keep way from his fellow men of color, men came Willard, a champion who did not force the fighter and who, when forced to do the, flowered up a sorry showing against Moran and as whiphed unmercifully by Dempsey. Dempsey, the Thunderbolt, the Tiger, the Battering Ram, wants to fight. Like Alexander of old he seeks new worlds to conquer. But there is none. As he fingers Time lays his heavy champion, and like many another title, Dempsey will find that Time is the is the king of them all (New York Herald.) THREE $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID. New Church, Va., March 21, 1921. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Van Knights of Fylthas, N. A.; S. A.; Ei; A. and A. ($160.00) One hundred and $100 dollars in payment of the death claim of Brother George H. Wheaton, Jr., who was a member of Mt. Hered Lodge Lodge 67 of New Church, Va. Witnesses: LEONARD NORTHERN, C. C. HARRISON M. BROADWATER JOSEPH AYDELOTTE. Read The Planet for information concerning the world's "doings" and watch our advertisements. May hap you will see the very thing you have been looking for. SORES ON YOUR HORSES, CATTLE OR HOGS? SEND FOR SALLINE SALVE AND CURE THEM. Salline Manufacturing Co., 912 N. 1st St., Richmond. VIRGINIA:—In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 27th day of December 1921. CHARLES GREGORY, ..... Plaintiff against In Chancery ELLA H. GREGORY, Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bonds of matrimony from the defendant by the plaintiff on the grounds of desertion and adultery and if not a divorce from the bond of matrimony, then to obtain a divorce from bed and board and merge and enlarge the same into a divorce from the bond of matrimony as provided by law. And affidavit having been made ana filed that the defendant is not a resident of the State of Virginia, it is orde- ered that she do appear here witten (10) days after du publication of this order, and do what may be nec- sary to protect her interest in this suit. A Copy. Teste: LUTHER LIBBY. Clerk. J. THOMAS HEWIN, p. q. S OF CALANTHE in join. Ages from 30 months to organize new Bands. Special write. FOUR MAJOR OPIE'S STATEMENT. Washington, D. C., Jan. 5.—Taking the stand in his own defense, after mastering his emotion, Colenel Opie told of his movements in the drive which started October 8th and ended, on October 15. The only time he showed hesitancy in answering a question was when Senator Willis asked if he had been decorated. He told the committee he had been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Croix de Guerre with two palms, and the Legion of Honor. The The testimony revealed the fact that, although he was wounded at 8 o'clock in the morning Colenel Opie was not relieved of his command until 5.30 o'clock in the afternoon. DESCRIBES ACTION IN DETAIL Asked by the chairman to describe his actions on the morning of October 9, Colonel Opio said: "On the evening of the 8th, my command was the assault battalion, with the First Battalion in close sup port. When we had taken the three tronches given as our objective, the First Battalion went 'through' us close followed by the Second which advanced beyond the first. I was on the very last line with my headquarters in a dugout. "About daylight of the 9th I left my shelter to look around, previously having unblocked my belt and pistol. I saw a number of men coming from the front. They were obviously exiled and wrought up, some of them yelling 'counterattack!' and "The Bochas are coming!" I halted them as they reached a line with me, working in this manner for perhaps a half hour ca hour. "None of my staff was with me. I was confronted with a situation which I was forced to handle as best I could. Then they began coming back in hawaii or bunches. One group had gone past me, headed for the rear, when I took a rifle from a man and fired one shot over their heads and another at their feet, both shots well ahead of the foremost man. The group hatted. "I was as cool as I am this minute and absolutely positive I did not hit a man. Later, I sent out patrols to find out what was the matter. I found my lines intact and then proceeded to form the stragglers into four columns of two, sending them back into battle in this formation." BRANDS ACCUSATIONS FALSE Colonel Opio branded as deliberate falsehoods every story of his having killed a man. His testimony was corroborated in every detail by the enlisted men and officers who testified in his hobbelf. Captain A. D. Barkdale, who succeeded him in command of the battalion on October 15, sword that he had never heard the stories until the Sonate investigation made publie the accusations. Colonel John A. Cutchins and Colonel Opio left Washington tonight atr planning their line of defense for Tuesday, when C. E. Fox and the other witnesses will be heard. Although the Virginia officer undoubtedly is the winner in his first tilt with his accusers, the investigation which will be taken up next week provides almost a separate case. Charges brought by St. John Withrow and Smith are not connected with the accusation of Fox and other Richmond men. INTEREST GREAT IN NEXT CALL Interest will be greater next Tuesday than at any time of the investigation. Today more than 200 men and women, many of the latter, literally packed the committee room. The only possible explanation of the charges brought by enlisted men of his having shot and killed a runner, afterwards bending over him and removing papers, is found in the accidental killing of Lieutenant Floyd Cunningham, Colonel Opio told Seictor Brandegee in response to the chairman's question. Cunningham, he said, was trying to extract a rifle from a stack of captured arms when the accidental explosion of the piece killed him instantly. TELLS OF CUNINGHAM'S DEATH "I bent over him and felt his heart" Colonel Opio said, "This may be the incident worked by over wrought minds into the alleged killings with which I am charged." Colonel Opio was loath to mention the accident saying that Lieutenant Cunningham had been reportey by him as "killed in action" out of respect to his family. This incident, he said, oc- curred October 14, in the afternoon, but was witnessed by a number of mep- who were going to and from the front. Senator Brandegee questioned each officer who testified as to the probabil- ity of illegal hangings taking place in France without the knowledge of en- listed men and asked would the men have remained silent about such con- ditions. The unanimous verdict was that American soldiers are not sheep. They were perfectly capable of taking care of themselves and such incidents could not have passed unnoticed." Other alleged brutalities will be take_n up by the committee next Tuesday, but the scope of the entire investigation is admittedly dependent on the outcome of the Ople charges. To date none of the testimony has had the effect of shocking either committee or spectators. Summarized, the testimony of form or service men of the One Hundred and Sixteenth Infantry who came to Major Ople's defense today was as follows: NEVER SAW OPIE SHOOT ANY ONE Charles Franklin Cox, of Lynchburg a traveling salesman, liaison sergent of the battalion headquarters was with Major Opie most all the time on October 8 and 9th, when the shootings are alleged to have occurred never saw Major Opie shoot anybody and never heard of such a thing until this Senate inquiry started. Major Opie was a strict disciplinarian but popular with his men. Howard Fifor, freight accountant, Staunton, Va., with a sanitary detachment, One Hundred and Sixteenth Infantry, in battle north of Verdun, saw Major Opie attempt to reform strangers who were retreating. Major Opie fired into the hillside ahead of the men. Did not shoot at any of them. Shot possibly three or four times. Wounded nobody and nobody was wounded at that time to require the aid of the medical, attachment. Major Opie fired at random only after he had yelled halt a number of times at the stragglers. Fired about twelve feet ahead of the forward straggler. Had never heard—and he would have heard of it had it happened—that Major Opie shot an orderly a runner or a machine gun sergeant. Dr. Frederick Vosburgh, leutenant medical corps, of Garfield, N. J., never heard until this investigation of Major Opie shooting at any soldier. ORDERLY NOT KILLED IN WAR Beverly C. Wilkes of Richmond, eli- juant Third Battalion was with Major Ople October 8 and 9, practically all of the time on the first day named. His orderly was not named Woolwine but Silvano Blane, and Blane was not killed in the war. But recently heard of charges against Ople and would have known of such things had they happened. Alfred D. Barksdale attorney, Lynch burg, captain Company M/n battle north of Verdun testified that he had never heard that Major Ople had shot his orderly or anybody else. There were two Woolwines in that engagement he said, Walter and Ernest, both of them were killed in action and neither was shaken by Major Ople. Ernest Woolwine died in the arms of Captain Barksdale. From his knowledge of the army, said Captain Barksdale, no soldier could have been executed in France without court-martial. This was in reference to the broader charges of illegal executions as made by Senator Watson. Charles R. Pollard, lawyer of Washington, now a member of the valuation board of the Navy Department, succeeded Captain Barksdale as temp. orary commander of the Third Battalion after Barksdale had followed Major Opio when Opio was wounded, was with the battalion until October, 1918 until it was demobilized nearly a year later. Knew many of the officers and men and until the Sonato investigation started was never acquainted with any charges whatsoever against Major Opio He testified to the gravifying reception which, no said, "would have pleased any officer, accorded Opio after his return from the hospital and was first seen by his men. (To be continued) THE NATIONAL ADVANCEMENT ASSOCIATION MAKES 12TH ANNUAL REPORT. Fought the Ku Klux Klan and Mob Spirit in America. Anti-Lynching laws enacted in two states during 1921 are announced in the twelfth annual report of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70-Fifth Avenue, New York made public today. One of the laws was enacted in West Virginia and the other in Minnesota. The Minnesotas law makes recoverable from a county in which lynching occurs, the sum of $7,500 and renders officers, permitting prisoners to be lynched, liable to removal by the Governor of the State. The Association further announced that the sum of $33,928.56 had been spent in its ten year fight against lynching in the United States and that in the course of this fight 2,000 public meetings had been held, at attended by more than 3,000,000 persons. According to the Association's report, a number of extraditions of Negroes from northern to southern states have been prevented during the year on the ground that the exorced prisoners might be lynched or would be given fair trials if returned to southern jurisdictions. One case mentioned is that of Thomas Ray, whose extradition to Georgia was refused by Governor Groeschek of Michigan after representations had been made by attorneys for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Extradition of one colored man, Will Whitfield, frqm New York to North Carolina is still being fought, by the Association. Extradition of Ed. Knox from Charleston West Virginia to Tennessee was prevented when it was proved that one man had previously been lynched in the belief that he was the Ed. Knox in question and it was shown he was innocent of the entire charged. The report also states that the Secretary of the Association James Weldon Johnson repeatedly called upon President Harding who was prevailed upon to incorporate an appeal for the ending of lynching in his message of April 12. In the course of the fight conducted by the Association against the Ku Klux Klan the report states, the showing of "The Birth of a Nation" film has been stopped in California, was discontinued in Boston by order of the Mayor, and the right of colored people to picket the theatres in which the film was shown in New York was vindicated in court. Through its countrywide membership the Association collected facts about the Ku Klux Klan many of which were turned over to the New York World for use in its exposes of the Klan's aims and methods. Other activities of the Association included continued appeals for the withdrawal of Marines from the black republic of Haiti legal defense of colored farmers condemned to death for their participation in Arkansas riots of 1919 carrying the cases to the Supreme Court of the United States; investigation and publication of the facts surrounding the Tulsa, Oklahoma riot in which fifteen thousand colored citizens lost their homes by fire. For the physical aid and legal defense of colored citizens of Tulsa, the Association collected and administered a fund of $3,500. Buy Site for a Colored University. Baton Tupge, La., Jan. 16—One hundred and sixty acres of land have been purchased at Baker Louisiana. East of Baton Rouge Parish for $30,000 as a site for Leland University a Baptist in situation for the education of colored people. About $285,000 is now available and immediate construction will begin. The university was formerly located at New Orleans. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA FIRST MT. COLLEGE NOTES. Newtown, Va., Jan. 17.—The Woman's Missionary circle held its regular meeting last Saturday P. M. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Parker arrived from the north a few days ago. Mr. Aron Holmes painfully injured his hand a few days ago. Mrs. Emma Washington left for Phil adelpala last Sunday. Mrs. Frank Hughes returned home last Sunday. Mrs. M. S. Washington the Supervising teacher of King and Queen County has been visiting the schools of this sectio $_{\mathrm{n}}$ for the past few days. You are cordially invited to attend the services at Mt. Olive Sunday. FARMVILLE NEWS Mr. Harvey Strong of Richmond, spent a few days with Rr. and Mrs. Joe Booker. Mr. William Gibson, brother of Mrs. Minnie Reid died in Pennsylvania last week. The Council of Colored Women held a very interesting meeting at the home of Mrs. Margaret Ward. Mr. Lennuel W. Pryor of Lynchburg, Va., licensed embalmer has charge of the Old Fellows Undertaking establishment. Mr. Spencer Joffreys, known to all as "Uncle Glory" was found dead at his home on Main street, Monday, January 9th. His funeral was held at the Pria Baptist church Wednesday, January 11. Rev. Price offclating. Mr. Edward Smith, brother of Mrs. Mary Augustus has improved in health very much since his stay here. When hungry call at the restaurant of Mr. Alfred Farrar, successor to Mr. P. W. Moore. Good service, reasonable prices. Mrs. Nelly Tillis of Hill street is quite sick at this writing. Mr. Welton Scott was called to Norfolk, Va., on account of the illness of his brother. He brought his sick brother back to Farmville with him and he has improved very much. Mr. Daniel Ross brother of Mr. Scott who has been living in Jersey City, N. J. was also in Norfolk. CHICAGO NOTES. The Binga State Bank, corner 36th Place and State street has just closed its first and most successful year as a State bank. A large profit was realized for the stockholders. Officers and directors elected were Jesse Binga, president; John R. Marshall, vice-president C. N. Langston, cashier; directors include C. H. Clark; R. S. Abbott; U. G. Dalley; Oscar DePriest and H. R. Smith. Mrs. Ida Simmons, past officer of S. M. T. of Illinois and State officer of A. U. K. an D. of A. is much pleased with the showing made at Balley's Hall on January 7th when the temple which she had worked up was set to work by Dt. Eliza Jackson, State Vice-Princess of Illinois assisted by Mesdames Eliza beth Rochon, Dora Canon, Serilda Jackson, Pearl Fisher Hill, Huttle Sawyers and others. R. W. Wolls, president the Wells Book Concern 3710 Indiana. Avenue well known fraternally is touring through Colorado, Luoslaina, Texas and Arkansas and sends the season's greetings to his many friends here. Col. J. W. Hull 3743 Federal street was called to Kansas City, Mo., the past week on account of the death of his mother Mrs. Christina Bell. Col. Hall has just returned and has the sympathy of his many friends. He is Colonel of the First Regiment of Illinois, A. U. K. and D. of A. Rev. J. W. Tutt, Davenport, In., State Grand Master of U. B. F. and S. M. ' of Illinois left during the week for his home after being in attendance of the annual session of the Mutual Aid Board which convened at the Vincennes Hotel, January 2nd, Rev. Tutt was pleased with the work of the order and speaks of bright prospects for the future. Mrs. Ella G. Berry 3329 S. State St. D. G. W. N. R. of Households of Ruth of Illinois and Wisconsin left the city a few days ago for Rockford, Illinois, where she will visit the Households. Mrs. Berry will be joined by other dist trict officers and they will visit the entire jurisdiction. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Sullinger are building their future home on lots at 11267 S. May street, Morgan Park, par chased sometime ago through the Bailey Reality Co. 3638 S. State Street WESTHAMPTON NOTES. The home of Mrs. James A. Holmes, was beautifully decorated with Xmas decorations, potted plants, cedar and holly, on the occasion of an elaborate dinner served in honor of her husband, Mr. James A. Holmes who spent the holidays at home after an absence or eight months in Evanston, Illinois. Covers were laid for twelve and love ly music rendered. Among those present were Dr. and Mrs. W. T. Johnson, Prof. and Mrs. J. L. Nixon, Mrs. Adolphus Halistalk, Baltimore, Md. Mr. Holmes left Saturday evening for Evanston, Ill., for the remainder of the year. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Parrish gave a lovely dinner in honor of Mrs. Paun Wyley of Elizabeth, N. J., and Mr James A. Holmes of Evanston, Ill. The decorations were lovely and eight enjoyed the dinner served in courses. Music was rendered by Miss Lucy W. Parrish. Mrs. Maria L. Nixon entertained a number of ladies at luncheon in honor of her sister, Mrs. T. Paul Jackson of Flushing, N. Y. Covers were laid for eight. Mrs. R. Paul Jackson left on Monday last for her home in New York. The annual meeting of the stock- holders of the Mechanics Savings Bank will be held, Tuesday, February 14, 1922, 8:30 P. M. at the Pythian Castle, 727 N. Third Street, JOHN MITCHELL, JR., Press. J. M. O. RAMSBY, Secretrer. Try This Simple Test One Reason Why HILL'S CASCARA BROMINE Quinine Acts On The Spot HILLS C. B. Q. Tablets are best by test. Try this simple experiment: 1. Drop a C. B. Q. Tablet in a glass of clear water. 2. Instantly the tablet begins disintegrating or "breaking up." 3. In 10 seconds the medical properties are thoroughly mixed with water. Thus, Hill's C. B. Q. Tablets act immediately, give relief wilt out delay and begin checking Colds and La Gripe long before ordinary tablets, by actual test, are absorbed by the stomach juices. To prove this, subject other than C. B. Q. Tablets to the test, and observe that in most instances an hour or more is required for complete disintegration. Demand C. B. Q. 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