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WE SERVE - INFORM - ADVERTISE THE TECHNOLOGY PLANET Virginia State Library VOLUME XXXIX, NO. 32 RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1922 RACE STUDENTS STILL WINNING PRIZES IN MIXED SCHOOLS RACE STUDENTS STILL WINNING PRIZES IN MIXED SCHOOLS (By Francis H. Warren) By crunching the numbers in my last article I told of five race girls who won gold watch prizes for their Pentathlon records in the great contest between 600 g rd students on the Detroit Public Schools on May 27. On June 3, the boy students of the Detroit schools held their great annual Decathlon or athletic contest. Out of a possible 10,000 points two Race boys Merritt Buckner, Lincoln School, won 9,347 points and Thomas Reeves, Hutton ins School 9,107 points. Only two other contestants attained a higher percentage than Merritt Buckner, and while our race boys did not do as well in no portion as our Race girls it may be said that they had a larger fleet to contend against being about 2,000 entries for prize honors. Besides securing gold watches each of the highest ten - also received gold medals for their splendid work. The other winners in the Decathlon contest were Alex Kreucki; Alex LaBelle; Montieth School; Engene Tierney; Monteith School; Norman Teeblow; Miller School; Herman Coleman, Cooper school; Carl Mencey, Eastern High School; Frank Kennedy, Webster School; Arthur Wakeford, Moore School. Mr. Joseph C. Cooney is Assistant Supervisor of the Department of Health Education for the boys whose Mrs. Esther Sherman is Assistant Supervisor for the girls. Mr. Loren M. Post is Supervisor of the Department of Health Education in the Decathlon Public Schools and much credit is due all of them for the, apparent fairness in the conduct of the athletic contests shared each year. On Friday June 9th Annual Field Day will be held in which 9,000 boys and girls will participate for prizes, medals and trophies, given by the Detroit Free Press. This is the big annual athletic event of the Detroit Public Schools and we hope to be able to report that Race students are still winning prizes, when our next letter is issued. Race students also are high in their praise of the Detroit Free Press in the fairness of that great daily pub fishing the pictures of Race prize winners as well as those of Caucasian per saason, and are given equal treatment in every way, in awarding prizes and in reporting these events. --- SPECIAL SERVICE AT EBENEZER Special Services at the Ehenzeen Baptist Church Sunday, June 15th, $30 P. M., benefit of Missions. Undp. the auspices of Over-Sears and Layman's Missionary Society's PROGRAMMME—Music, Over-Sears Chorus, Devotionalals, Rev. Wm. H. Stokes, Ph. D., Pastor; Music, Gloria from Mozarts' 12th Mass by Over-Sears Chorus; Music, Glorious is Thy Name Almighty Lord, by Hyndan, Over-Sears Chorus; Oeffert, Messrs. W. R. Allen and Geo. N. Epps; Music, Over-Sears Chorus; Special Sermon, Rev. E. W. Langen; Benediction, Rev. Wm. H. Stokes, Ph. D., Pastor; Music, Over-Sears Chorus; Mrs. Bettie G. Conshus, President Over-Sears Missionary Society; Mr. C. M. Kemp, President Layman's Missionary Movement; Mrs. Ida Hosely, Chairman Program Committee, Over-Sears Society; Mr. George W. Howell, Director of Over-Sears Chorus. REV. Wm. H. STOKES, Ph. D., Pastor. MR. WALLACE EPPS, Church Chers MR. B. L. JORDAN, Master of Ceremonies --- YOUNG JORDAN'S TREATMENT Mr. William A. Jordan is greatly wrought up over the treatment of his son, William A. Jordan, Jr., who was arrested by Officer Howell for disorderly conduct near the corner of Fourth and Clay streets and subsequently discharged by Justice Ricks. It seems that the officer had been jeered by a set of boys in the neighborhood and these boys ran away, while young Jordan who happened to be in the neighborhood at the time, visiting relatives did not run and was caught, taken by a patrol to the Second Police Station, after being denied the opportunity to immediate bail. The Department sustained Officer Howell in a voluminous correspondence, which Mr. Jordan in connection with his own has transmitted to us. Young Jordan, although innocent was subjected to all of the ill treatment of a criminal with absolutely no redress in the premises, Mr. Jordan is accordingly very indignant over the affair. STREET CAR CONDUCTOR LAREN BURLESON KILLED KNOCKS DRUNKEN PASSENGER SENSELESS. COLORED MEN RESENTFUL. A Sunday Afternoon Tragedy--Men Arrested Protest Innocence--A Report from All Angles. White Folks Unconcerned Now... Colored Folks Quiet. Laren H. Burleson, white, a conductor on the Hull Street line of the Virginia Power and Passenger Co. attempted to put H. A. Pugh, a colored passenger off the car and in doing so telemonously assaulted him with a switch bar, knocking him unconscious. A crowd of colored people took up the fight and in the midday, which followed, the conductor was stabbed in the thigh. The main artery was severed and in a few minutes, he bled to death dropping dead on Hull Street. Much excitement was caused. The affair took place Sunday afternoon, June 11th between 1 and 6 o'clock. Going over to South Richmond, Monday morning, His Honor Judge H. A. Maurice was on the bench, presiding with his usual ease and grace, while the courtroom in the Third Police Station was quiet. A small number of colored people were gathered on the outside of the building and they seemingly spoke in whisper. DESPONDENT OVER MARKS MISS GRAHAM, HOWARD STUDENT, ATTEMPTS SUICIDE. Daughter of Rev. W. F. Graham Fires Bullet Into Her Breast. (Washington Tribune, June 10, 1922.) Failure to pass the rigid test of some of the instructors at Howard University, in her final examinations. Miss Otte Beatrice Graham, of Philadelphia, fired a shot from a 35 caliber pistol into her right breast in her room at Miner Hall about 10 o'clock. Fruits, morning, June 2. She is now improving and is out of danger. Miss Graham is of a highly nervous temperament and had inquired of the Dean to whether she could world grade. FOUR LINES. (Robert Dangerfield Crawley) O victims black! whose ashes burn Forever fresh in Memory's arm. It is not ours that thou should die. They names are writ in yonders sky! June, 1922. "IS THE MODERN MIND TUPNING FROM THE CHURCH?" Under the auspices of the F. A. P. Council of Richmond a very interesting meeting was held at the Ebenezer Baptist Church last Sunday afternoon. Three speakers were scheduled to attend. GRAND LODGE, K. OF P. MEETS AT BRISTOL NEXT WEEK. The Grand Lodge, Knights on Pythias of Virginia and the Grand Court, Order of Calamite will convene at Bristol, Va. Tuesday, June 20th. Delegates from Richmond will leave Monday morning at 9 A. M., from the Broad Street Station on via N. and W. R. R., for that point. The rate will be one straight far, to be paid when going and one half of the one way fare to be paid at Bristol on returning on the certificate plan. A large attendance is expected. Mr. D. J. Farrar, the well-known contractor is again confined to his bed at 610 N. First street. JULY 20 LAST DAY WANT Candidates for B. Must Get in Few W. There are but a few which to send in your Reeve puzzle, time if you get busy. The lists are along but yours are. What we want is to contest a "hummer" swarm" so that the story in the bee." Send in your answer. JUDGE MAURICE'S COURT Editor John Mitchell, Jr., seated himself until the business had been completed and then he requested permission to see the colored men, who were held on suspicion of being a meeted with the affair. There were six of them. Permission was readily granted to him to see them, the Judge remarking that he could see them in the presence of an officer, "I do not expect to see them in any other way" was the smiling refoinder. Entering the look up, he saw six colored men there, some seated and the others standing. Editor Mitchell was readily recognized by them. He took down their names and addresses as follows: Matthew Shaw 1711 Evelyn street, works for the via Passenger and Power Co., H. A. Pugh 7 Railroad street, assistant contractor INTERVIEWING THE SUSPEC1S Robert E. Crosby, 2312 Cerskey St. works for the Virginia Leather Co. P. H. Christian, 100 W. 29th St. blacksmith, Nathaniel Jones, 116 E. Short Madison St. well digger, John Harris works for the American Railway Express Co. lives at 2405 Lee street. "What do you know about the affair was the query to each of them. They did not know anything. Then the question was propounded to H. L. Pugh, who had been assaulted by the conductor and his head was swathed in bandages. He had been knocked senseless by the blows. His reply was "nothing." The conductor can tell you more about if than I can," "Were you drunk?" was the next query. "Yes, sir." was the response. He referred me to Mrs. Han kins, a white lady, who lives at 29th and Hall streets, and who saw the atr MRS. HANKINS' STATEMENT Copies of the Planet were left unknot. Editor Mitchell passed out to his chair and hastened to the store of Mrs. Hamins. Upon enquiring about the affair, she looked at the editor suspiciously and then bluntly asked, "Who are you?" She wanted to know if he was a lawyer. A gentleman, who was in the rear of the store came forward and said to her, "You do not know what had taken place before the car got here." She was told that Editor Mitchell was a newspaper man. Then she said, "From what I saw the conductor was at fault, I have known Pugh ever since he was nine years of age. The worst he is, is to himself. He is drunk most of the time. He harms nobody and I have never known him to be in any trouble of this kind. When the conductor put him off, he struck him with a bar, knocking him down. Then the colored people got wild. They went after the conductor." THE CONDUCTOR'S BLUNDER An officer entered the store and Editor Mitchell greeted him cordially. "I have always noticed." remarked the Editor, that when trouble occurs on a street-car, the conductor waits until he (Greg) (Continued on Fifth Page) RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1922 DESPONDENT OVER MARKS MISS GRAHAM, HOWARD STUDENT, ATTEMPTS SUICIDE. Daughter of Rev, W. F. Graham Fire Bullet Into Her Breast. (Washington Tribune, June 10, 1922.) Failure to pass the rigid test of some of the instructors at Howard University, in her final examinations, Miss Otie Beatrice Graham, of Philadelphia, fired a shot from a 28 caliber pistol into her right breast in her room at Miner Hall about 10 o'clock Frum morning, June 2. She is now improving and is out of danger. Miss Graham is of a highly nervous temperament and had inquired of the Dean as to whether she would graduate or not. He did not give her any satisfaction and she went to the Registrar, who gave her some documents and told her to bring up certain works before he could inform her as to her graduation. She might expect an answer possibly, about Tuesday, afternoon the 6th with graduation set for Friday, the 9th. Upon examination of the pistol which Miss Graham used it was found that all of the cartridges had been snapped, so the theory is advanced that she must have snapped them all, the last one exploding, which accounts for the shot in the right instead of in the left breast. Dr. A. M. Curtis, the attending physician, said the ball had been extracted and that it did not enter her lungs. He excused her from confinement to the bed Wednesday and no thought she would fully recover in short time. It is said at the University that Miss Graham was a very brilliant young woman. She was specializing in Dramatic Art and was an outstanding pupil in this department; in fact she was the leading factor in the development of the entertainment that was scheduled for Thursday night. The first half of the play was Miss Graham's own creation and she was to have been the leading character in it. It is said that she worked hard from 8 to 11 and 12 o'clock at night in rehearsals and directing the others in the rehearsals for Thursday night's entertainment by the Howard Players. In addition to dramatic work, Miss Graham did Literary work for the various University publications including The Journal, The Record, The Skyway and the Minerva, the latter being the year book for 1922. Miss Graham was popular with student organizations. She was vice-president of the French Club in 1921 and vice-president of the Students' Council in 1921. With her regular studies her Literary work and her dramatic work, by which the University benefited, Miss Graham was kept very busy. She was such an outstanding character in her dramatic work that it had already been decided that she would go to Paris, France to finish her course in this art. With the anticipated trip to Europe depending on her graduation here this year, she was anxious to know if she was to finish; therefore, the interview with the Dean and Registrar. Obtaining little satisfaction, she returned to her room from the Registrar's office. There the intended fatal shot was fired. However, Miss Graham is not a suicide. It is said that this is the first suicide attempt by a student of Howard University. Her deficiency, it is learned from authoritative sources was one-tenth of a unit in Physical Culture, a subject in which she was supposed to be thoroughly proficient. It is stated that she will not be able to graduate until her deficiency has been made up. Miss Graham is the daughter of the Rev. Graham pastor of one of the largest Baptist churches in Philadelphia. She is a graduate of the William Penn High School of Philadelphia and came on to Howard from that school. FOUR LINES. (Robert Dangerfield Crawley) O victims black! whose ashes burn Forever fresh in Memory's arm. It is not ours that thou should die. Thy names are writ in yonders sky! —june 1937 "IS THE MODERN MIND TUPNING FROM THE CHURCH" Under the auspices on 12. 06. 19. P. U. Council of Richmond a very interesting meeting was held at the Ebenezer Baptist Church last Sunday afternoon. Three speakers were scheduled to discuss the topic, "Is the Modern Mind Turning from the Church?" All phases of this question were touched upon by Lawyer C. H. McKenzie, Prof. Nelson Williams and Prof. Bernard L. Allen. Lawyer McKenzie in forceful language, supported the affirmative and laid the blame for the turning of the modern mind from the church at the door of the preachers, whom he charged with ignorance and greed. Prof. Williams in a splendid analytical dissertation outlined suggested remedies for bringing the modern mind and the church into closer juxtaposition. He suggested that the church supervise the play-life and amusements of the community. "Mr. B. L. Allen delivered a studied defense of the church and pleaded for a greater conservation to the duties assigned to the church and the creation of a bulwark against certain modernism cults and doctrines which are seeping into the church of today. Mrs. Julia C. Easley is president of the council and Mr. R. P. Daniel, secretary. Miss M. Kate Doyle was mistress of ceremonies. Music was furnished by the Girl's Glee Club of Fifth Street B. Y. P. E. --- Mrs. Walker Passes Away. The funeral of Mrs. Rosa Lee Cogbill Walker, who departed this life Friday, June 9, 1922, at her home in Chester, Va. took place last Sunday evening at 2 o'clock at her residence. The deceased was well known and held in high esteem by the entire community, as was shown by the large number of sorrowing friends present. Rev. W. H. Gill, the efficient pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, Petersburg, Np. delivered a very sympathetic eulogy over the remains. "None knew her, but to love her, Nor named her but to praise." --- KARRETT CONCERT ORCHESTRA AT ST. LUKE HALL The Barrett Concert Orchestra will appear at St. Lake Hull, Sunday, June 25, at 4 P. M., benefit of the Excelsior Bible Class of the First Baptist Church. The following program will be rendered: Quaker City (march), F. Hoffman; Sparklets (intermezzo) Theo. M. Tohano; Traumerie (recerie) R. Schumann; The Flight of Ages, (cornet solo) F. Bevan, Mr. Charles Washington; vocal solo (selected) Mr. Waverly Hopkins; intertission. La Paloma (Spanish fantasia) Rowman; Ages; Death (Peer Elynt Suit L. L. ) Ed Grieg; Song of the Volga Boatmen, arr. M. L. Lake; The Thunderster (march) John P. Sousa. Do not miss this rare treat. Be on time and secure a good seat. A silver offering will be taken at the door. GRAND LODGE, K. OF P. MEETS JULY 20 LAST DAY FOR FILING AT BRISTOL NEXT WEEK. The Grand Lodge, Knights in Pythias of Virginia and the Grand Court, Order of Calamute will convene at Bristol, Va. Tuesday, June 20th. Delegates from Richmond will leave Monday morning at 9 A. M., from the Broad Street Station, via N. and W. R. for that point. The rate will be one straight far, to be paid when going and one half of the one way fare to be paid at Bristol on returning on the certificate plan. A large attendance is expect Candidates for Reeive Coronation Must Get Into Line in a Few Weeks. There are but a few weeks left in which to send in your solution to the Reeive puzzle, but there is plenty time if you get busy. The main idea is to get into the game. The lists are coming in right along but yours are not yet arrived. --- Mr. D. J. Farrar, the well known contractor is again confined to his bed at 610 N. First street. —Mr. E. R. Jefferson has returned to the city. —Dr. George W. White who injured his eye in a game is much improved. —Mrs. Betsy Brown and Mrs. George W. Brown are both indisposed. —Mr. John T. Taylor, Jr., took a trip to Manakin last week in his Oldsmobile, carrying with him his mother. On the return trip an accident to the car caused him to call for help and Machinist Abeck Alexander responded and brought in the party; the car returning under its own power. —Mrs. Maggie L. Walker has remodelled her mansion in a manner that is attracting universal attention. Contractor Robert Archer had the contract and Architect Charles T. Russdrew the plans, Mrs. Walker has purchased one of the latest twin-six Packard touring cars to replace the one destroyed some time ago. Dr. W. H. Stokes was painfully injured last week by being thrown from a street car as he was about to board the same. The accident occurred at Fourteenth and Main streets. He is able to be about. —Paper Carrier,Tom Byrd, is going his rounds again. He has had his hair cut and has been the recipient of a new hat and is looking well. —Proprietor William Morris has given up Morris's Cafeteria and has returned to his old job on the railroad. —Mr. S W. Robinson has a new Oldsmobile car that attracts much attention. Dr. J. H. Blackwell, Jr., of South Richmond is attending the Medical Association, which meets at Danville, Va. this week. Prof. J. H. Blackwell, Mr. Naithandel Allen, Mrs. L. G. King, Mr. Seth Robinson and many others of South Richmond are attending the Samaritan Convention at Danville, Va. this week. —Rev. D. C. Hunter, D. D., President of Trussee Board of W. Va. Seminary and College, who is located at Sylvia, West Va., has issued a most interesting biography of his great work. He is a power for good in West Virginia. In Memory. In memory of our dear son and brother, Edgar Ellis Cogbill, Jr., who departed this life June 19, 1921. Gone, but not forgotten. Off from our hearts come a bitter cry, "Why, oh why did our brother die?" Then comes the answer so solemn and sweet. He's not dead, but only asleep." —His Father, Mother, Sisters and Brother. Candidates for Receive Coronation Must Get Into Line in a Few Weeks. There are but a few weeks lett in which to send in your solution to the Beehive puzzle, but there is plenty time if you get busy. The main idea is to get into the game. The lists are coming in right along but yours has not yet arrived. What we want is to make this "bee" contest a "hummer." Let's have "swarm" so that there will be some glory in being the "queen (or king) bee." Send in your answers whetpee you send in a subscription or not. But you not send in not only your own subscription but go out and get a new subscriber, and win the biggest prize? As a matter of fact, don't you owe it to your home paper, a little boost like this aside from any puzzle contest? Isn't the Planet plugging every week for the best interests of the brome community? Did you ever, aside from paying your subscription, regularly, go out of your way to give your home paper a little boost? May be you never thought of such a thing. We're not complaining. The people of Richmond have treated us well. What we are trying to get at is this, that our big puzzle contest is on, and we want to make it a big success. Even if you should not be the winner, you are really not a loser. But why talk of losing? You stand just as good show of winning as somebody else. We have it from the artist who made the beehive picture puzzle that the difficult thing about this puzzle is that it is made up of simple everyday things and not loaded down with a lot of unheard of words or scientific and technical terms, that only highly educated persons would know. Of the many answers already received we find some of which we think that it is too bad that their compilers have not qualified for bigger prizes. They ought to do so sure by July 2014. No one in this office or connected with it has seen the master list. It yet in safe keeping with the artist who drew the Beehive puzzle for the Planet. Therefore, there can be no "leaking" of information and no one has the least advantage over anybody else. The appointment of the judges for the contest assures everyone an also lately square deal. --- MAX SHOT AND KILLED (Preston News Service.) Edgefield, Ala., June 7. On Tuesday, Boll Strom was shot. It is alleged by Elish Adams. Strom died from the effects of the wound on Tuesday afternoon and Adams was held to answer the crime of murder. The shooting occurred at the Hamilton Saw Mill about eight miles north of here. The facts attending the homicide are meagre, but it is said, the men became involved in a quarrel and hot words followed in Strom finally made for Adams with a heavy stick, when the latter drew a pistol and fired, the bullet taking effect in Strom's stomach. Adams has employed counsel and will be tried at the summer term of the court. INCE - COUNTRY - WORLD NEWS PRICE, FIVE CENTS HARRY WILLS POSTS A FORFEIT FOR FIGHT WITH DEMPSEY (By Charles P. M. Methison, N. Y. Mercad June 13, 1922) For the first time since the question of a match between Jack Dempsey and Harry Wills was broached, the giant Negro is about to issue a formal challenge to world's champion. Wills's manager P. J. Mullins who up to the present has adopted a stand at a tide, on the ground that he did not care to annoy the title holder, has finally reached the conclusion that he has been playing Dempsey's game for him. Therefore, he has decided to go to the office of the Boxing Commission this morning and post a check as an evidence of sincerity and issue a formal challenge to Dempsey to meet Wills in a bout for the world's championship. In fact, Mullins, after a campaign in which moral sanction has been employed has decided, to take an aggressive attitude from this on. He will insist that Dempsey accept a challenge and defend his title against Willis, step aside and permit the Negro to feed it against all comers. Mullins will ask that the Boxing Commission take the same action in the matter of Willis Dempsey that it pursued in the Durkee-Kibane and Wilson cases. The commissions sent formal, notes to Kibane and Wilson in which they were required to defend their titles or suffer the loss of their licenses to box in the State. If the licenses of Kibane and Wilson are revoked by the New York commission these titleholders would be automatically barred in Massachusetts. New Jersey, Connecticut, Louisiana and in the cities of Philadelphia and St. Louis. As the district's meant are the most profitable spots for boxers it can be seen that the champions would be pugilistically quarantined. --- New York, June 13. - Badly multimanager of Harry Wills the Negro boxer, today formally challenged Jace Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the world, to a contest for the title and posted a $2,500 forfeit with the New York State Boxing Commission, in accordance with its regulations. Whether the commission would permit such a mixed bout was not decided. A delegation of Negro sportsmen, including George Moore, of Oregon was told that when such a match was made the commission "would follow the usual procedure, "but would not pass upon the matter in advance. --- HARRY WILLS BUYS HOME (Preston News Service.) New York City., June 9.—Hurry Wills, "The Silent" has recently known the public that he is a form believer in the old adage that it is good "to make hay while the sun shines." A few weeks ago the "Bronze Panther" ought himself a home in Harlem which is further proof that while Henry is happy, or was so in the day, when he did his work "long shore," he isn't going to continue to be the victim of those rats which infest Hurley today and known by the term hard lords. The colored fighter, while waiting for his chance to meet Jack Dempsey, continues to keep in training, but the pragmatic horizon is without the least semblance of any sign of a Dempsey. Wills fight and it must be very annoying to Harry to go through the daily grind hoping for that which would have been his if he were not unattunate enough to be of African descent. In the meantime they are allowing Filipino students to enter the United States naval and military academy while the announcement of a real American of color, to enter creates the same old spasm North, South, East, and West in "The land of the free and the home of the brave. Never would we have the timidity after reading of our lynchings of recent date to arise and change the sentence to "The land of the spree and the home of the knave-nix! nix! We leave that for excited Europeans with all the chances in the world to enjoy the things which America is most faithful black citizens are denied. Wills has an awful brace to go up against if his efforts to meet Dempsey "watchful waiting" may win out, but the course seems so hard and unfair. Patience is indeed a virtue. --- WANTED—FIRST CLASS BARBER wanted at once. Good pay for good barber. Write JAMES HUT- TON, 139 S. Queen St., Martins- burg, W. Va. THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library VOLUME XXXIX, NO. 32 RACE STUDENTS STILL WINNING PRIZES IN MIXED SCHOOLS RACE STUDENTS STILL WINNING PRIZES IN MIXED SCHOOLS (By Francis H. Warren.) In my last article I told of five race girls who won gold watch prizes for their Pentathlon records in the great contest between 800 girl students on the Detroit Public Schools on May 27. On June 3, the boy students of the Detroit schools held their great annual Decathlon or athletic contest. Out or a possible 10,000 points two Race boys Merritt Buckner, Lincoln School, won 9,347 points and Thomas Reese, Hutchins School 9,107 points Only two other contestants attained a higher percentage than Merritt Buckner, and while our race boys did not do as well in pro portion as our Race girls it may be said that they had a larger field to contend against there being about 2,000 entries for prize honors. Besides securing gold watches each of the highest ten * also received gold modals for their splendid work. The other winners in the Decenthion contest were Alex Krenckli; Alex LaBelle; Montioth School; Eugene Tierney; Montioth School; Norman Teichow; Miller School; Herman Coleman, Cooper school;! Carl Menge, Eastern High School; Frank Kennedy, Webster School; Arthur Wakeford, Moore School. Mr. Joseph C. Cooney is Assistant Supervisor of the Department of Health Education for the boys while Miss Esther Sherman is Assistant Supervisor for the girls. Mr. Loren M. Post is Supervisor of the Department of Health Education in the Deroitoff Public Schools and much credit is due all of them for the apparent fairness in the conduct of the athletic contests staged each year. On Friday, June 9th, Annual Field Day will be held in which 9,000 boys and girls will participate for prizes, medals and trophies given by the Detroit Free Press. This is the big annual athletic event of the Detroit Public Schools and we hope to be able to report that Race students are still win ning prizes when our next letter in penned. Race students also are high in their praise of the Detroit Free Press in the fairness of that great daily pub fishing the pictures of Race prize winners as well as those of Caucasian per suasion, and are given equal treatment in every way, in awarding prizes and in reporting these events. SPECIAL SERVICE AT EBENEZER Special Services at the Ebenezer Baptist Church Sunday, June 15th, 8:30 P. M., benefit of Missions. Under the auspices of Over-Seas and Layman's Missionary Society¹. **PROGRAMME:**—Music, Over-Seas Chorus; Devotionals, Rev. Wm. H. Stokes, Ph. D., Pastor; Music, Gloria from Mozart's 12th Mass by Over-Seas Chorus; Music, Glorious is Thy Name Almighty Lord, by Huynd, Over-Seas Chorus; Offertory, Mosss. W. R. Allen and Geo. N. Epps; Music, Over-Seas Chorus; Special Sermon, Rev. E. W. Langon; Benediction, Rev. Wm. H. Stokes, Ph. D. Pastor; Music, Over-Seas Chorus; Mrs. Becke G. Cousins, President Over-Seas Missionary Society; Mr. C. M. Kemp, President Layman's Missionary Movement; Mrs. Ida Hosely, Chairman Program Committee, Over-Seas Society; Mt. George W. Howell, Director of Over-Seas Chorus. REV. WM. H. STOKES, Ph. D., Boston YOUNG JORDAN'S TREATMENT. Mr. William A. Jordan is greatly wrought up over the treatment of his son, William A. Jordan, Jr., who was arrested by Officer Howell for disorderly conduct near the corner of Fourth and Clay streets and subsequently discharged by Justice Ricks. It seems that the officer had been jeered by a set of boys in the neighborhood and these boys ran away, while young Jordan who happened to be in the neighborhood at the time, visiting relatives did not run and was caught, taken to a patrol to the Second Police Station, after being denied the opportunity to immediate ball. The Department sustained Officer Howell in a voluminous correspondence, which Mr. Jordan in connection with his own has transmitted to us. Young Jordan, although innocent was subjected to all of the ill treatment of a criminal with absolutely no redress in the premises. Mr. Jordan is accordingly vory indignant over the affair. STREET CAR CONDUCTOR LAREN BURLESON KILLED KNOCKS DRUNKEN PASSENGER SENSELESS. COLORED MEN RESENTFUL. A Sunday Afternoon Tragedy--Men Arrested Protest Innocence--A Report from All Angles. White Folks Unconcerned Now Colored Folks Quiet. Laren H. Burleson, white, a conductor on the Hull Street line of the Virginia Power and Passenger Co. attempted to put H. A. Haugh, a colored passenger off the car and in doing so feloniously assaulted him with a switch bar, knocking him unconscious. A crowd of colored people took up the fight and in the mace, which followed, the conductor was stabbed in the thigh. The main artery was severed and in a few minutes, he bleed to death dropping dead on Hull Street. Much excitement was caused. The affair took place sun day afternoon, June 11th between 1 and 6 o'clock. Going over to South Richmond, Monday morning, His Honor Judge H. A. Maurice was on the bench, presiding with his usual ease and grace, while the court-room in the Third Police Station was quiet. A small number of colored people were gathered on the outside of the building and they seemingly spoke in whispers. JUDGE MAURICE'S COURT Editor John Mitchell, Jr., seated himself until the business had been completed and then he requested permission to see the colored men, who were held on suspicion of being co-connected with the affair. There were six of them. Permission was readily granted to him to see them, the Judge remarking that he could see them in the presence of an officer. "I do not expect to see them in any other way," was the smiling reolender. Entering the look-up, he saw six colored men there, some seated and the others standing. Editor Mitchell was readily recognized by them. He took down their names and addresses as follows: Matthew Shaw, 1711 Everette street, works for the va Passenger and Power Co. H. A. Pugh, 7 Railroad street, assistant contractor. INTERVIEWING THE SUSPECTS Robert E. Crosby. 2312 Cersley St. works for the Virginia Leather Co. P., H. Christian, 100 W. 29th St., blacksmith. Nathaniel Jones, 116 E. Short Madison St., well-digger. John Harris works for the American Railway Express Co. lives at 2405 Lee street. "What do you know about the affair was the query to each of them. They did not know anything. Then the question was propounded to H. L. rugn, who had been assaulted by the conductor and his head was swathed in band ages. He had been knocked senseless by the blows. His reply was "nothing." The conductor can tell you more about it than I can." "Were you drunk?" was the next query. "Yes, sir." was the response. He referred me to Mrs. Han kins, a white lady, who lives at 20th and Hull streets and who saw the afair. MRS. HANKINS' STATEMENT Copies of the Planet were left, and Editor Mitchell passed out to his car, and hastened to the store of Mrs. Han kins. Upon enquiring about the affair, she looked at the editor suspiciously and then bluntly asked, "Who are you?" She wanted to know if he was a lawyer. A gentleman, who was in the rear of the store came forward and said to her. "You do not know what had taken place before the car got here." She was told that Editor Mitchell was a newspaper man. Then she said, "From what I saw the conductor was at fault. I have known Pugh ever since he was nine years of age. The worst he is, is to himself. He is drunk most of the time. He harms nobody and I have never known him to be in any trouble of this kind. When the conductor put him off, he struck him with a bar, knocking him down. Then the colored people got wild. They went after the conductor." THE CONDUCTOR'S BLUNDER An officer entered the store and Editor Mitchell greeted him cordially. "I have always noticed," remarked the Editor, that when trouble occurs on a street-car, the conductor waits until he (Continued on Fifth Page.) RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1922 DESPONDENT OVER MARKS MISS GRAHAM, HOWARD STUDENT, ATTEMPTS SUICIDE. Daughter of Rev, W. F. Graham Fires Bullet Into Her Breast. (Washington Tribune, June 10, 1922.) Failure to pass the rigid test of some of the instructors at Howard University, in her final examinations, Miss Otte Beatrice Graham, of Philadelphia, fired a shot from a 38 caliber pistol into her right breast in her room at Miner Hall about 10 o'clock Frual, morning, June 2. She is now improving and is out of danger. Miss Graham is of a highly nervous temperament and had inquired of the Dean as to whether she would graduate or not. He did not give her any satisfaction and she went to the Registrar, who gave her some documents and told her to bring up certain work before he could inform her as to her graduation. She might expect an answer possibly, about Tuesday, afternoon, the 6th with graduation set for Friday, the 9th. Upon examination of the pistol, which Miss Graham used it was found that all of the cartridges had been snapped, so the theory is advanced that she must have snapped them all, the last one exploding, which accounts for the shot in the right instead of in the left breast. Dr. A. M. Curtis, the attending physician, said the ball had been extracted and that it did not enter her lungs. He excused her from confinement to the bed Wednesday and he thought she would fully recover in short time. It is said at the university that Miss Graham was a very brilliant young woman. She was specializing in Dramatic Art and was an outstanding pupa in this department; in fact she was the leading factor in the development of the entertainment that was scheduled for Thursday night. The first half of the play was Miss Graham's own creation and she was to have been the leading character in it. It is said that she worked hard from 8 to 11 and 12 o'clock at night in rehearsing and directing the others in the rehearsals for Thursday night's entertainment by the Howard Players. In addition to dramatic work, Miss Graham did literary work for the various University publications, including The Journal, The Record, The Stylus and the Minerva, the latter being two year book for 1922. Miss Graham was popular with student organizations. She was vice-president of the French Club in 1921 and vice-president of the Students' Council in 1921. With her regular studies her literary work and her dramatic work, by which the University benefited, Miss Graham was kept very busy. She was such an outstanding character in her dramatic work that it had already been decided that she would go to Paris, France to finish her course in this art. With the anticipated trip to Europe depending on her graduation here this year, she was anxious to know if she was to finish; therefore, the interview with the Dean and Registrar. Obtaining little satisfaction, she returned to her room from the Registrar's office. There the intended fatal shot was fired. However, Miss Graham is not a suicide. It is said that this is the first suicide attempt by a student of Howard University. . . . Her deficiency, it is learned from authoritative sources was one-tenth of a unit in Physical Culture, a subject in which she was supposed to be thoroughly proficient. It is stated that she will not be able to graduate until her deficiency has been made up. Miss Graham is the daughter of the Rev. Graham pastor of one of the largest Baptist churches in Philadelphia. She is a graduate of the William Penn High School of Philadelphia and came on to Howard from that school. FOUR LINES (Robert Dangerfield Crawley) O victims black; whose ashes burn Forever fresh in Memory's urn, It is not ours that thou should die Thy names are writ in yonders sky —June 1922 "IS THE MODERN MIND TURNING FROM THE CHURCH?" Under the auspices of the I.T. Y. P. U. Council of Richmond a very interesting meeting was held at the Ebonezer Baptist Church last Sunday afternoon. Three speakers were scheduled to discuss the topic, "Is the Modern Mind Turning from the Church?" All phases of this question were touched upon by Lawyer C. H. McKenzie, Prof. Nelson Williams and Prof. Bernard L. Allen. Lawyer McKenzie in forceful language, supported the affirmative and laid the blame for the turning of the modern mind from the church at the door of the preachers, whom he charged with ignorance and greed. Prof. Williams in a splendid analytical dissertation outlined suggested remedies for bringing the modern mind and the church into closer juxtaposition. He suggested that the church superviso the play-life and amusements of the community. Mr. B. L. Allon delivered a studied defense of the church and pleaded for a greater consecration to the duties assigned to the church and the creation of a bulwark against certain modernism cults and doctrines which are seeping into the church of today. Mrs. Julia C. Easley is president of the council and Mr. R. P. Daniel, secretary. Miss M. Kate Doyle was mastress of ceremonies. Music was furnished by the Girl's Gloe Club of Fifth Street B. Y. P. U. Mrs. Walker Passes Away; The funeral of Mrs. Rosa Lee Coghill Walker, who departed this life Friday, June 9, 1922, at her home in Chester, Va. took place last Sunday evening at 2 o'clock at her residence. The deceased was well known and held in high esteem by the entire community, as was shown by the large number of sorrowing friends present. Rev. W. H. Gill, the efficient pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, Potorsburg, Vp. delivered a very sympathetic cology over the remains. "None knew her, but to love her, Nor named her but to praise." RARRETT CONCERT ORCHESTRA AT ST. LUKE HALL. The Barrett Concert Orchestra will appear at St. Lake Hall, Sunday, June 25, at 4 P. M., benefit of the Excelsior Bible Class of the First Baptist Church. The following program will be rendered: Quaker City (march), F. Hoffman; Sparlets (intermezzo) Theo. M. Tobano; Traumerie (reverlo) R. Schumann; The Flight of Ages, (cornet solo) F. Bevan, Mr Charles Washington; vocal solo (selected) Mr. Waverly Hopkins; offertory, intermission. La Paloma (Spanish fantasia) Bowman; Ases: Death (Peer Kynt Suit L, L.) Ed Grieg; Song of the Volga Boatmen, arr. M. L. Lake; The Thunderer (march) John P. Sousa. Do not miss this rare treat. Be on time and secure a good seat. A silver offering will be taken at the door. GRAND LODGE, K. OF P. MEETS AT BRISTOL NEXT WEEK. The Grand Lodge, Knights on Pythias of Virginia and the Grand Court, Order of Calanthe will convene at Bristol, Va. Tuesday, June 20th. Delegates from Richmond will leave Monday morning at 9 A. M., from the Broad Street Station, via N. and W. R., for that point. The rate will be one straight far, to be paid when going and one half of the one way fare to be paid at Bristol on returning on the certificate plan. A large attendance is expect JULY 20 LAST DAY FOR FILING. WANTED. Candidates for Beehive Coronation Must Get Into Dine in a Few Weeks. There are but a few weeks left in which to send in your solution to the Beehive puzzle, but there is plenty time if you get busy. The main idea is to get into the game. The lists are coming in right along but --- —Mr. D. J. Farrar, the well-known contractor is again confined to his bed at 610 N. First street. —Mrs. E. R. Jefferson has returned to the city. —Dr. George W. White who injured his eye in a game is much improved. —Mrs. Betsy, Brown and Mrs. George W. Brown are both indisposed. —Mr. John T. Taylor, Jr., took a trip to Manakln last week in his Oldsmobile, carrying with him his mother. On the return trip an accident to the car caused him to call for help and Macbainst Aleck Alexander responded and brought in the party; the car re-turning under its own power. —Mrs. Maggie L. Walker has remodelled her mansion in a manner that is attracting universal attention. Contractor Robert Archer had the contract and Architect Charles T. Russell drew the plans. Mrs. Walker has purchased one of the latest twin-six Pack-and touring cars to replace the one destroyed some time ago. Dr. W. H. Stokes was painfully injured last week by being thrown from a street car as he was about to board the same. The accident occurred at Fourteenth and Main streets. He is able to be about. —Paper Carrier, Tom Byrd, is going his rounds again. He has had his hair cut and has been the recipient of a new hat and is looking well. —Proprietor William Morris has given up Morris's Cafeteria and has returned to his old job on the railroad. —Mr. S W. Robinson has a new Olds mobile car that attracts much attention. Dr. J. H. Blackwell, Jr., of South Richmond is attending the Medical Association, which meets at Danville, Va. this week. Prof. J. H. Blackwell, Mr. Nathaniel Allen, Mrs. L. G. King, Mr. Susie Robinson and many others of South Richmond are attending the Samaritan Convention at Danville, Va. this week. —Rev. D. C. Hunter, D. D., President of Trustee Board of W. Va. Seminary and College, who is located at Sylvia, West Va., has issued a most interesting biography of his great work. He is a power for good in West Virginia. In Memory. In memory of our dear son and brother, Edgar Ellis Cogbill, Jr., who departed this life June 19, 1921. Gone, but not forgotten. "Why, oh why did our brother die?" Then comes the answer so solemn and sweet, He's not dead, but only asleep." —His Father, Mother, Sisters and Brother. Candidates for Receive Coronation Must Get Into Line in a Few Weeks. There are but a few weeks left in which to send in your solution to the Beehive puzzle, but there is plenty time if you get busy. The main idea is to get into the game. The lists are coming in right along but yours has not yet arrived. What we want is to make this "bee" contest a "hummer." Let's have "swarm" so that there will be some glory in being the "queen (or king) bee." Send in your answers whether you send in a subscription or not. But why not send in not only your own subscription but go out and get a new subscriber, and win the biggest prize? As a matter of fact, don't you owe it to your home paper, a little boost like this aside from any puzzle contest? Isn't the Planet plugging every week for the best interests of the home community? Did you ever, aside from paying your subscription, regularly, go out of your way to give your home paper a little boost? May be you never thought of such a thing. We're not complaining. The people of Richmond have treated us well. What we are trying to get at is this, that our big puzzle contest is on, and we want to make it a big success. Even if you should not be the winner, you are really not a loser. But why talk of losing? You stand just as good show of winning as some body else. We have it from the artist who made the beehive picture puzzle that the disinguishing thing about this puzzle is that it is made up of simple everyday things; and not loaded down with a lot of unheard of words or scientific and technical terms that only highly educated persons would know. Of the many answers already received we find some of which we think that it is too bad that their compilers have not qualified for bigger prizes. They ought to do so sure by July 2014. No one in this office or connected with it has seen the master list. It is yet in safe keeping with the artist who drew the Beehive puzzle for the Planet. Therefore, there can be no "leaking" of information and no one has the least advantage over anybody else. The appointment of the judges for the contest assures everyone an absolutely square deal. --- MAN SHOT AND KILLED Edgefield; Ala., June 7—On Tuesday. Boll Strom was shot. It is alleged by Elisah Adams. Strom died from the effects of the wound on Tuesday afternoon and Adams was held to answer the crime of murder. The shooting occurred at the Hamilton Saw Mill about eight miles north of here. The facts attending the homicide are meagre, but it is said, the men became involved in a quarrel and hot words followed and Strom finally made for Adams with a heavy stick, when the latter drew a pistol and fired, the bullet taking effect in Strom's stomach). Adams has employed counsel and will be tried at the summer term of the court. PRICE, FIVE CENTS HARRY WILLS POSTS A FORFEIT FOR FIGHT WITH DEMPSEY (By Charles P. Mathison, N. Y. Merald June 13. 1922.) For the first time since the question of a match between Jack Dempsey and Harry Wills was broached, the giant Negro is about to issue a formal challenge to world's champion. Wills's manager, P. J. Mullins who up to the present has adopted a stand aloft at a tude, on the ground that he did not care to annoy the title holder, has finally reached the conclusion that he has been playing Dempsey's game for him. Therefore, he has decided to go to the office of the Boxing Commission this morning and post a check as an evidence of sincerity and issue a form al challenge to Dempsey to meet Wills in a bout for the world's championship. In fact, Mullins, after a campaign in which moral sassion has been employed has decided to take an aggressive attitude from this on. He will insist that Dempsey accept a challenge and defend his title against Wills or step aside and permit the Negro to defend it against all comers. Mullins will ask that the Boxing Commission take the same action in the matter of Wills Dempsey that it pursued in the Durkee-Kibane and Wilson cases. The commissions sent formal, notes to Kibane and Wilson in which they were required to defend their titles or suffer the loss of their licenses to box in this State. If the licenses of Kibane and Wilson are revoked by the New York commission those titleholders would be automatically barred in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut, Louisiana and in the cities of Philadelphia and St. Louis. As the districts mentioned are the most profitable spots for boxers it can be seen that the champions would be pugilistically quarantined. New York, June 13.—Paddy Multina- manager of Harry Wills the Negro box- er, today formally challenged Jacke Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the world, to a contest for the title and posted a $2,500 forfeit with the New York State Boxing Commission, in a cordance with its regulations. Whether the commission would permit such a mixed bout was not decided. A delegation of Negro sportsmen, including George Moore, of Oregon was told that when such a match was made the commission "would follow the usual procedure, "but would not pass upon the matter in advance. HARRY WILLS BUYS HOME. (Preston News Service) Now York City., June 9.—Harry Wills, "The Silent" has recently shown in the public that he is a firm believer in the old adage that it is good to "make hay while the sun shines." A tow weeks ago the "Bronze Panther"ought himself a home in Harlem which is further proof that while Harry is happy, or was so in the days, when he did his work "long shore," he isn't going to continue to be the victim of those rats which infest Harlem today and known by the term land lords. The colored fighter, while waiting for his chance to meet Jack Dempsey, continues to keep in training, but the pugilistic horizon is without the least semblance of any sign of a Dempsey-Wills fight and it must be very annoying to Harry to go through the daily grind hoping for that which would have been his if he were not unfortunate enough to be of African descent. In the meantime they are allowing Filipino students to enter the United States naval and military academy while the announcement of a real American of color, to enter creates the same old spasm North, South, East and West in 'The land of the free and the home of the brave. Never would we have the timidity after reading of the lynchings of recent date to arise and change the sentence to "The land of the spree and the home of the knave—nix! nix! We leave that for Europeans with all the chances in the world to enjoy the things which America's most faithful black citizens are denied. Wills has an awful brace to go up against ii his efforts to meet Dempsey "Watchful waiting" may win out, but the course seems so hard and unfair. Patience is indeed a virtue WANTED—FIRST CLASS BARBER wanted at once. Good pay for good barber. Write JAMES HUTTON, 139 S. Queen St., Martinsburg, W. Va. 2t HON. MOOREFIELD STOREY'S GREAT BRIEF IN SUPPORT OF DYER ANTI-LYNCHING BILL IMMINENT BAR AUTHORITY PRESENTS GRUESOME FACTS AND POINTS THE WAY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RELIEF—DYER BILL IN HARMONY WITH THE CONSTITUTION. TWO (Continued from last week.) Jim Mellherron, the Negro who shot and killed Pierce Rodgers and Josse Tigort, two white men, at Estill Springs, last Friday, and wounded Frank Tigert, was tortured with a red hot crowbar and then burned to death here tonight at 7:40 by twelve masked men. A crowd of approximately 2,000 persons, among whom were women and children, witnessed the burning. Mellherron who was badly wounded and unable to walk, was carried to the scene of the murder, where preparation for a funeral pyre was begun. The captors proceeded to a spot about a quarter of a mile from the rail road station and prepared the death fire. The crowd followed and remained throughout the horrible proceedings. The Negro was led to a hickory tree, to which they chained him. After souring him to the tree a fire was laid. A short distance away another fire was kindled, and into it was put an iron bar to heat. When the bar became red hot a moun- ber of the mob jabbed it toward the Negro's body. Crazed with fright, the black grabbed hold of it, and as it was pulled through his hands the atmos- phemer was filled with the odor of burn- ing flesh. This was the first time the murderer gave evidence of his will be broken. Scream after scream rent the air. As the hot iron was applied to various parts of his body his yolls and cries for mercy could be heard in the town. After torturing the Negro several minutes one of the masked men poured coal oil on his feet and trousers and applied a match to the pyre. As the flames rose, enveloping the black's body, he begged that he be shot. Yelia of derision greeted his request. The angry flames consumed his clothing and little blue blazes shot upward from his burning hair before he lost consciousness. The example to these lynchers was set in Memphis, and I quote the following statement from Rt. Rev. Thomas P. Gallor, Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee, a Southern white man, who wrood in the Nashville Banner: "I realize that it is futile to attempt by any written word to stem the tide of what seems to be the popular will; but a man can, at least declare his abhorrence of such atrotties. This kind of lynching seems to be becoming epidemic in our State. About two years ago a Negro from Fayette County was lynched most barbarously near Memphis, and parts of his body, according to the newspapers, carried away as souvenirs. Many citizens of Memphis protested, but they were ignored. Last winter a Negro man near Memphis was burned at the stake gasoline was poured over his body and his head was cut off and taken through the city streets as a trophy. Last fall a Negro was burned to death in Dyersburg, and thousands of white people stood by and gloated over his agonies. And now, at Eatall Springs, we have another burning, where the white man in charge first tortured the miserable creature with a red-hot iron to break his will, while the victim, already shot nearly to death, with 1 eye hanging out, screamed for mercy, and a thousand white men with hundreds of women and children looked on and were not ashamed. These details are revolting, and you may ask me why they are recited. Because unless the hideous horror of the disease is brought home to the people of this country, they will not rouse themselves to find the remedy. The massacre of East St. Louis is fresh in our memories, and its horrors are well known at the South, as appears by the article in the Greenville, News, published at Greenville, S. C. of all days, on July 4, 1917, under the title "The Banner Lynching": "Twenty Negroes have been killed, three hundred are injured, and more than one hundred and fifty of their homes have been burned. This was the work of a mob that showed no Negro mercy, that did not stop to discriminate between the good and the bad. All that could be caught were beaten, if not slain, and battered into pulp. White women caught Negro women and tore their clothes off, beat them and ran them away. As the Negroes ran out of their burning houses, fired by the mob, they were shot down line dogs. One thousand five hundred soldiers do not suffice to control the situation. Hundreds of Negroes, many of them carrying babies, are fleeing from their former homes. Five hundred of the mob are in fail. The Memphis burning of a Negro at the stake, the Abboville lynching of Crawford, seem insignificant when compared with the East St. Louis shambles, when the streets ran red with Negro blood, when Negro women, innocent and unoffending were brutally beaten, when Negro men were shot down for competing with white labor. These crimes have gone on for years and very few instances can be found in which even an attempt has been made to punish the lynchers. Rarely have officers resisted them, and practically no lyncher has been punished. They have made no attempt to conceal their identity. Their neighbors have not condemned them, and they have walked unashamed in the communities where they dwelt. Women and children have been brought to see men burned alive, and bits of bone or other parts of the victims are treasured as souvenirs. The whole vicinity where actors and spectators live has been degraded and barbarized by these crimes. Of late years the anti-racial feeling which has prompted these outrages has become more aggressive, and the disease has spread all over the country till today five of the New England States are the only ones which have not been the scene of at least one lynching. Chicago, Washington, Omaha, East St. Louis, Springfield, the home of Lincoln, Atlanta, Tulsa, Coatoville in Pennsylvania and other cities have been the scenes of race riots resulting in the killing of Negroes, the destruction of property belonging to them, and outrages against them of every kind. The authorities have been prompt to blame the Negroes, but one has only to compare the losses of life or property suffered by whites with those inflicted on Negroes to see who were the aggressors. In no case has the punishment been adequate to discourage such disorders. The authorities never seem to have been in dead earnest. Now the feeling which prompts these outbreaks has organized, a society professing a determination to uphold law and order, but which among its objects names the preservation of "white supremacy." It considers the law inadequate and proposes to condemn and override it by dealing what it calls justice directly. Its purposes are carried out by disguised and masked men, which practice condemns the whole society, for no man who is doing anything of which he is proud resorts to disguise. Masks are the shields of criminals. The excuse offered for these barbarties is dealt with by a South Carolina gentleman, Archibald Rutledge, in the "Landmark" of March, 1922. He says: "I was born and have lived on a plantation in South Carolina where there are scores of Negro families. What I know of the Negro I have learned from intimate and, I trust, sympathetic, contact with him during nearly forty years. Of the menace of the Negro man to the white woman it is possible dissonately to speak. This crime is supposed to be rampant in the South. As a matter of fact, it is excessively rare; and that in the face of the double provocation of the outnumbering (in many places) of the whites by the Negroes, and the somewhat general loneliness of the country. Yet in many counties such a crime has never occurred. In many wide sections it is not even feared. Where there are upwards of ten million people of one race, it is reasonable to expect a few degenerates and such persons are found. But I am willing to maintain that they commit the crime of rape not because they are black, but because they are degenerate human beings. * * * No man can do the Negro a worse. a more cruel injustice than to regard him as essentially an incipient and inherent rapist. Those who hold this view do not know his story—much less the Negro. For when the four million slaves were freed in 1863 and were suddenly and wildly afforded every opportunity to attack the families of their former masters who were fighting at the front, they behaved—woll, I do not think it is too much to say that they behaved like gentlemen. I for one shall always remember that fact to the everlasting credit of the American Negro." The men upon whom these outrages are visited are citizens of the United States. When the country engaged in war it called them into its armies and sent them to risk and often lose their lives on the plains of France. They were taxed to pay the expenses of the war and the other public charges. All the burdens of citizens rest upon them but they are denied the essential rights of citizens. No one for a moment can pretend that this situation can be defended. One-tenth of our people are too important a factor in our national life to be trampled upon with impunity. Everyone can tell how they feel by asking himself how he would feel were he and his race exposed to such treatment, and he can imagine what the end must be if the government which he served could not or would not protect him against it. The attempt legally to hold in slavery four million men cost us a civil war in which the best white blood of the nation was spilled in rivers. We may ask ourselves what must be the result of tramping upon the rights of ten million citizens. The present state of things cannot endure. It is a disgrace to the country and ruinous to white and black alike. Lynchman has been criminal under State laws from the beginning, but it is a disgrace to the country and ruin has never been treated as such. For more than a generation mob-murders have been going on and murderers have gone unpunished. Every State has abundant law against these crimes but the law has not been enforced and the public has been content. They have elected prosecutors., judges, governors, and the whole official force of the State but these officers have not acted, and no public opinion has forced them to do their duty. No action by the states is to be expected, and the debates over this bill in the House of Representatives and the speeches made by those who represent states where the crime is common show that stoppage of the practice is not desired by their people. That lynchers need fear no punishment is well-recognized as appears from the words of Henry Watterson: Lynch should not be misconstrued. It is not an effort to punish crime. It is a sport which has as its excuse the fact that a crime, of greater or less gravity, has been committed or is alleged. A lynching party rarely is made up of citizens indignant at the law's delays or failures. It often is made up of a mob bent upon diversion, and proceeding in a mood of rather frottoesome ferocity, to have a thoroughly good time. Lynchers are not persons who strive from day to day toward social bettlement. Neither are they always drunken ruffians. Ottentelmas they are ruffians wholly sober in so far as alcoholic indulgence is concerned, but highly stimulated by an opportunity to indulge in spectacular murder when there is no fear that the next grand jury will return murder indict. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA ments against them.' Unless the United States, whose citizens are suffering these wrongs, the United States, which claims their allegiance which taxes them and which makes them its soldiers and sailors, will recognize its duty to protect them, lynching will continue and the Ku Klux Klan will flourish. If one of these black men were injured by a mob in Mexico, our government would protest and demand reparation. Can it protect them abroad and not at home? THE REMEDIES. It is clearly idle to hope that the Con sultation can be amended as to as to increase the powers of Congress in this matter. The States where racial prejudice prevails are too numerous. The alternative therfore is clear: Either Congress has the power to pass effective legislation against lynching, or the United States cannot protect its own citizens from murder and their property from destruction at the hands of fellow-citizens who are subject to as jurisdiction. It can impose burdens, but it cannot defend rights. It can tax but it cannot save the tax-payer. That lynching is a nation-wide evil, that no action by the States can be expected, and that the evil should be abated for the sake of the nation quite as much as for the sake of those who suffer by it. must be conceded. To admit that the nation is powerless to abate such an evil and to protect its own citizens is to admit that our government is weaker than any other civilized government. This is an admission which we should be ashamed to make. We should therefore expect to find that the national legislature has power to end a national abuse in the interest of the nation. Salus poulls suprema lex is the rule which should control our actions. There are three sources from which the power to pass this law may be derived. THE POURTEENTH AMENDMENT The one which is generally considered first in any discussion of the question is the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, of which the first section reads as follows: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privilege or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty or property without the process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." The last section of the amendment expressly gives Congress the "power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this article." This grant of power cannot be ignored. It is not necessary to point out that this amendment was adopted in order to assure to the freed men the rights of American citizens. The language of the amendment makes them American citizens, first, and apparently as a concession citizens of the state in which they reside. It forbids the abridgment of the rights belonging to "American citizens," and it is evident that importance was attached to their position as citizens of the United States. The situation which tibs amendment was intended to meet was a very practical one, and the amendment should receive a construction equally practical, a construction calculated to accomplish its purpose, not to defeat it. The enfranchised Negroes were dwelling in communities where they had been held as slaves, and in those communities had been regarded and treated as chattels, not as men. Their elevation to the rank of citizens was regarded with absolute hostility, and it was clear that their rights would not be respected unless they were maintained by the United States. The amendment was passed to secure these rights and to give Congress the power to maintain them. It never was the intention of the people who adopted the amendment that the states so recently in rebellion should be able to nullify the amendment, by simple non-action, and should be able to plead that the persons who trampled on the new citizens were merely private persons for whose acts the State was not responsible. The rule laid down by 'Chief Justice Must should be applied. When snacking spending of the constitution he said: "This instrument contains an enumeration of powers expressly granted by the people to their government. It has been said that these powers ought to be construed strictly, but why ought they to be so construed? Is there one instance in the Constitution which gives countenance to this rule * * * . If from the imperfection of human language here should be serious doubts respecting the extent of any given power it is a well-settled rule that the objects for which it was given, especially when those objects are expressed in the instrument itself, should have great influence in the construction. * * * We know of no rule for construing the extent of such powers other than is given by the language of the instrument which confers them taken in connection with the purposes for which they are conferred." Gibbons V. Ogden 9 Wheaton 187. 188. Speaking of the power to regulate commeree, he says at page 196: "This power, like all others vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed by the Constitution. ** * The wisdom and the discretion of Congress, their identity with the people and the influence which their constitutents possess at elections are in this as in many other instances as that for example of declaring war the sole restraints on which they have relied to secure them from its abuse. They are the restraints on which the people must often rely solely in all representative governments." Again at page 204: "It is obvious that the government of the Union in the exercise of its ex press powers ** * * may use means that may also be employed by a State in the exercise of its powers." We must inquire what action by the State was contemplated and forbidden. How could the State deprive a person of life? No one could have supposed that these words were intended to forbid a law decreeing the death of an individual or a group of individuals nor was a law directly taking liberty or property at all probable. "The denial of rights given by the Fourteenth Amendment need not be by legislation." Saunders V. Shaw, 244 U. S. 317, p. 320. The judicial power ex vl terms could not act without process of law. The action forbidden by these words must be the acts of individuals who, whether officers of the State or private persons would under the laws of any State be criminals if they took either life, liberty or property without due process of law. Such acts are murder, assault, and robbery or larceny. No words better describing lynching and mob violence can be framed than "taking life, liberty or property without due process of law." This difficulty was met very early. In Ex parte Virginia (100 U. S., 339, 346,) the Supreme Court in an unanimous opinion by Mr. Justice Strong, speaking of the prohibitions of the Fourteenth Amendment, says: (To Be Continued) "COME YE ASIDE AND REST AWHILE." Rest Essential to Continual Efficiency (Rey, T. Q. Fuller, D. D.) After more than thirty years of strenuous service as school teacher, pastor, school principal, citizen and business man, for the first time, like a railroad engine, I have backed into the round-house for repairs. The spot selected was Dawson Springs, Kentucky, where I found physical conditions exceedingly favorable for absolute rest and recuperation and whose waters are remarkably and wonderfully curative in their properties. Like many other public men, I have too long neglected to make rest a part of my regular program. I unconsciously over-loaded myself, and then allowed my zeal to lead me to over exertion, and in a grill that was far too continue ours and exacting for health and vigor of body and mind. Sometimes we overload for financial considerations and over tax through the plaudits of admiring friends. It's make this address, deliver this sermon, attend this meeting do this and do that, until we too often find ourselves exhausted, and unfit for efficient service. Many of our churches fail to provide a short vacation for their hard-worked pastor, not knowing how necessary such a thing is and how much it would do toward preserving its energies and even the life of the man they claim to love so well. Some churches feel that they cannot spare the pastor from the pulpit, while he is yet alive, and other churches re guard the pastor's vacation as a waste of time and money. Why even a steam engine is allowed to make only a small part of a long journey. A shift is made so that the engine used at the start may be oiled and rubbed and tightened here and there, preparatory to the next trip. How much more does the human man machinery need rest, and oiling, and rubbing and strengthening. If the accustomed speed and capacity for service are to be maintained. The minister, the teacher, the lawyer, the doctor, the banker, the business man and especially those men and women who think and plan, and direct, and construct, need time for rest and relaxation, so that the nerve tension may be released and the brain cells given opportunity to rebuild and the whole body refresh ed. Many people attempt to pay them selves a compliment by saying: "I had much rather wear out than to rust out. It is not absolutely necessary that elf or one should happen. The "wearing out" occurs when prope, repairs and adjustments are neglected. The "rusting out" occurs when there is needless exposure, or when greasing and rubbing have been left off. Good judgment properly exercised would prevent both—the "wearing out." prematurely, and also the "rusting out." The Master requires only a "reasonable service" from our minds and bodies. This fact was evidenced when he called his tired disciples aside to "rest awhile." Workers need a change of task, and often find ourselves able to plan better when away from the noise of everyday routine. There is opportunity for reflection. A time for the study of one's self; to correct false estimates and impressions and to see what others can do without our actual presence, which is a splendid remedy for conceit. I shall leave my temporary retreat a new man, in many respects. I know myself better and understand my duty to both body and mind better than ever before. I have been able to appraise companionship and the devotion of friends as never before. A letter received from a white friend since being here, contains the following admiination: "Doctor, you owe it to yourself as well as to the people you represent in the South, to take care of yourself, for you know some times they lose the pattern after a really good man is developed." I quote this, not to give publicity to a private compliment, but to pass the suggestion along as a reminder to others who might not give sufficient thought and attention to rest and recreation. Some people are so serious that they regard it as almost a sin to be jolly or to take recreation in any form. Such persons may either die early or become incapacitated. When a really good and useful man dies, his career is cut short, his church or business suffers, and the whole community or even the race suffers loss. Is it not wise then, for us to give more attention to health and life? I am writing from the Wing Hotel where everything is neat, clean and inviting, and the best of food, well cooked, is available. If these lines should come under the eye of man or woman, North or South; who is tired and in need of rest, don't overlook DAWSON SPRINGS, Kentucky, Nor the Wing Hotel. Read The Planet and keep informed as to what our Race is doing in world and domestic affairs COMMENCEMENT AT CHRISTIANSBURG COMMENCEMENT AT CHRISTIANSBURG The closing of the Christiansburg Industrial Institute which marked the 25th Anniversary of Principal E. A. Long's connection with the school, was observed with appropriate ceremonies, beginning Sunday, May 28th with the baccalaureate sermon by Rev. A. D. James, D. D., pastor of the First Baptist Church, Roanoke, Va. The usual exercises incident to the closing of the Grammar School and the anniversar, of the Douglass Literary Society, were allowed during the week. The Alumni Association presented to the school in cash $145 towards its scholarship fund. With this amount there has been paid in cash on this fund $300 and $300 more offered in pledges. The address to the Alumni Association was delivered by Rev. Henry C. Gregory, a graduate of the class of 1891, the first class to go out from the school. There were present at the reunion two other members of this class; R. C. McNorton and Mrs. Lockie Green,nee Taylor. A large number of the Alumni was present. The Alumni Association under the presidency of Rev. Thomas G. Howard of Bluefield, W. Va. is very active. The Old Students' Association of which J. W. Lester is president is an organization among former students who did not complete the course of study at Chris tinsburg'. Its aim is to keep a lively interest in the work of the school on the part of those who have come under its influence. It is thought that this could be best done in a separate organization from the Alumni Association though working in co-operation with it. Commencement Day, Thursday, June 1st, following the program by the graduating class, was an extraordinary occasion. On behalf of the Board of Managers, J. H. Scattergood presented Principal and Mrs. Long a bundle some Westminster Chine Clock bearing the following inscription on a silver plate: "To Edgar A. and Anna L. Long in appreciation of twenty-five years devotion to the cause of education at the Christiansburg Industrial Institute, From the Board of Managers." Mrs. R. B. Spindle of Christiansout, on behalf of the white citizens of Cambrin and Christiansburg presented a beautiful hammered silver pitcher with a monogram, taking occasion in the course of her address to pay a high tribute to the value of the school in this community and its good influence in education throughout the State and the South. Mrs. L. E. McNorton on behalt to the colored citizens presented a set on Community silver ware that was offered in testimony of appreciation of Prof Long's work by his own people. Follow ing this, Miss Pattie Thomas of the graduating class presented three sets of spoons and a jelly spoon on behalf of the student body. While the Alumani presented a silver tray and a cut glass flower dish. Since Prof. Long began work at the school in 1897, it has grown from one building and one half acre of land to 11 buildings and 185 acres with a total valuation of $150,000 for plant and equipment. Besides this it has an endowment of $70,000 all of which progress has been made in the quarter century which the close of the present year marks. More than three thous and students have come under the influence of the school. Many of its graduates are engaged in various professions and a large number who did not complete the course continued their studies in other schools, while others bought homes and settled down to use ful lives in the many communities where they have located. The excellence of Christiansburg consists not in the great height it has lifted a few but in the larger number that have been raised a little. Ten members of the graduating class were awarded diplomas; five girls and five boys. The gold medal prize for scholarship and deportment was awarded Nerissa Long. The Bank of Christiansburg Prize of ten dollars in gold went to Ulysses C. Shaughter, for spirit and effort in all school work. A large number of prizes were distributed to students in the industrial department, given by the merchants of Christiansburg and Cambria. LAST CALL. The Virginia War History Commission The Virginia War History Commission is using every effort to secure the records of all Virginians of distinguished service. All available publications have been used and several calls have been sent out through the press. The list will be closed on the fifteenth of June. This volume of source material is most important and all Virginians having honors or citations of any sort are urged to send the record or certified copy to the Virginia War History Commission, State Capitol, Richmond, Va. 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If two year's subscription is sent in with the answer. FOUR “ as 3 La So) See pez ert an EASED Wie ore ulien 4 en i i \\ NG: fe Wi ‘ ba e pectic lense scaspronenqumrocennsennnndinnes Published Every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr., | AL UL North Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. | EPITOR, - JOHN MITCHBLL, JR. 41 communications intended for publication fowl be sent to reach us by Wellewlay.— | Soteel ut the Post Ole at Richt, Vieglaka paper eaertis SUmSCIUPTION KATES ibeesfban:cansarccetcccoenuiccteaccsaepem Bie beth. qessaeceveceecsswicscitocae’ AAD Tee Mouths s-sssscscscreeresncteeeeess 08 Parcsn Sibsctiptionssccccceseccceescee 08 espe aes ee ee, | SATURDAY.......JUNE 17, 19221 I Uatred is prominent in some people 1nd love in some others, | Golting in trouble is easy; getting ‘out of trouble, dificult, Blundeving at mes is a part of this life. We should avoid blunders You cannot trust some people be- hind a five cent piece. Some people Ket eredit for virtues, which they do not possess. “Going upward is all right. Going downward causes the trouble. Some people, who conduct business cat up wil the profit themselves. \ Dead-beats are as numerous now as they were during the Lime of Christ. ‘The ‘vessels leaving for Africa are “not carrying many people these days. Good wirite people are on tho in- crease. Bad while folks are on the In- crease also . Jealous people are constantly cong, ‘Unings one moment that they regret soon afterwards. Some people abhor wrong in other people and they practice wrong-doing themselves. Some people lout most of their time and then get angry because industrious people will not loan them money. Farming is profitable at times and then again it is unprofitable. It is the most independent lite there Is. ! ‘Teachers are receiving better pay, ‘but most of them are not receiving enough salary yet. Some poople smile when they win Money and make all kinds of noises when they lose money, Friondships casily broken have meu fheon truo friendships, although bot partios may have thought so. ‘Tho Domocratic machine sooms te he about as badly split aa the Republi eam naachine. | Some poople with powor know how to abuse it and they use their knowkago with a vengeance. | — Hen, Samuol Gompers is an old man now, but so far as his mouth is con corned, ho is just “sweet sixteen.” Many of our people, who are for the race-gccount themsolves the race for whonr they are shouting. Yan cannot reach heaven on a stey ‘laden, but you cau get to the other placo on a toboggan slide, Some peopto rest as easy in Jail as ‘some 'pooplo. rest outside of tt, Tt is‘all yest and no work.- ‘at is THE TROUBLE IN SOUTH RICHMOND, | It isa gratifying fact that tho | tragedy, whieh took placo Sunday att: Hernoon in the vicinity of Twentieth sand Hull streets, South Richmond ts boing dealt with in a cool and cautions | manner both by the white poople, the colored people and the officers of the jaw as thind party. Al) rightthink- Ving citizens regret that the tragedy took place. It was the result of poor judgment and an impulsive tempers. ment of the mind on the part of the victim and on Uo part of others cv. nected with the affalr, So far as we have boen able to find out after a care: ‘ful investigation, H. 14. Pugh, a “ne'er do well” colored man was druna, “gloriously drunk." during theso hap. py prohibition times, when the whole country is legally “bone dry.” He admits this himself, for he dovs not even know what took place and ie is willing to take the statements-of hic aceusers as to what actually happened -at the time. ‘Those who know him say that he 18 @ hatmoss chap at all tiny and he is usually regarded with ders. fon and unconcern hy those, who know him best. Ho was on his way home in ‘hts condition and he felt as though he was on a pienic and huppiness relgn ed supreme, Street car conductor L. It. Burleson, who was praetienlly a nex ‘camer in these parts beeame irritaies and despite the fact that st is always a ‘custom if not the rule of the Virginian Passenger and Power Company to havo Hts conductors eail an officer to take off An obstreperous passenger, he attempt ‘ed to do the Job himself. A few blocks from where tho trouble took place, an officer was stationed, 10 be exact, one is on duty constantly vat ‘Twelfth and Hull streets and he passed this po'nt and at Twentieth and Hult streets ejected H, 14. Pugh, admittedly drunk And after Pugh had gotten to Ure gvound’ jumped off and struck the drunken passenger with an Iron switeh bar, Knocking him senseless in the midst of a crowd of colored men, wh gathered and many of whom. were friends of Pugh. What followed has passed into history. When he saw the anger of the men, Burleson left. his car and jumped on the running board of a two-seat Pord car, whose white oc- | Colored people, who respect them: selves are usually respected by the peo- pie with whom they come in contnet, Some people are of the opinion that pleasure is the only object and aimin life. Tn this, they fool themselves: A man, who tells (re trath and tries todo right has a hard time in this world and this applies toa woman two. 6 commana srmeretie tn me ‘The Dye, Antilynehing bi is not dying in the United States Senate as some people seemed to think it would do. When colored people learn to help each other and each others enterpris- es they will find more white people willing to help them. Being a turn-coat is popular with somo people. It isa self-evident fact though that there are no “turn-coats” in heaven. Some women beiieve in getting a husband, No matter what kind of a husband it is, they beliove in getting, a husband, » satietl |The only way to deal with’ the Ku Klux Kian fs te deal with that organ’ zation just as it deals with other peo-- ple. SY reenact : | Sconting troubte and gotting out the way of it is all right, when it docs not saerifico both friends and friendship» of a lifetime. Somo people lke to pay their debts wien they havo the money an somo others like to make other debts when thoy have the money. Tho groatost cause of trouble in this world is the disposition of somo people to tako what belongs to somebody else, ‘They will not play fairly, © Some of this “moonshine” Mquor would mako a child fight its srand- mother, a rabbit fly at a bull-dog. Still some people continue to drink it, ‘Talking about the pearly gates of tho Now Jerusalem and making uo Htangible effort to get there will not “get us any where in this world or in . the world to come except at the plazo whore no effort is necded. BN LN cas Sak MN _THE RIOHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA jcupants had offered him a refuge, lwo cut him,” will always be a ques: Who cut him?? will always be a ques ial prejudices, all colored men look alike und as a result Robert H, Crosby has been identified as the man, who cut Burleson after be reached the run. ning board of the Ford car, althougn he was not in the crowd at the timo and although his white employees give him an excellent record. Kyidently, the Police Department has its own views about tho matter, Had that Department been entrusted with the task of performing its duty, the incident would long since Inve been closed. Pugh would have been ser: ving his time for disorderly conduct and L. 1. Burleson would still be per forming hiduties on tho strect cars of the Virginia Passenger and Power Company. ‘The truth about the matter is that no one knows wao cut Burle- son. It ts doubtful if he was called to Mfe gain that he knows for the wound was made at a timo that he was exelt- ed and the testimony of the witnesses goes to show that he did not himself know that he had been cut, until his attention was called to ft by the spurt ing blood. . It is also evident that the person, who cut him did not intend to kill him, for the wound was in the log. But the blow was inadvertently delivered ata vital spot where an artery was severed and he bled to death, There is a lesson in all of this. Let colored pen ple keep off the strect-cars as mutch ng possible and avoid racial frietinn. ‘Times are critical now. The unthink- ing elements of both races are “keyed” to a high pitch. An impromptu battle would result in the killing of vome white people and many colored ones: The lawless elements of both races would “run riot” and then arson and murder would follow in its wake with millions of dollars worth of property, endangered asa result of the unre- strained passions of a’ mob, Viewing tho situation from a dispassionate stind-point, 11. 1, Pugh was drunk, harmlessly drunk and L, TI. Burleson blundered egregiously blundered an} his life has been the forfeit. Selah. You cannot ride two horses with ove Koing iM an opposite direction. You can not favor and oppose n proposition at ‘one and the same timo. Whito folks are all right, when you ket on the right side of them. But God help you shoutd you got on the wrong sido of this samo class of people. You cannot tell pure corn whiskey from pure spring water by eye-sissht unless you are a seer or a prophet or you know the men, who retail oth. Living away from a woman will sometimes improve your opinion of her, but rarely living away froma man will improve your opinion of trim, They say tuece will be no night mn heaven, That is why somo of the peo- ple In this world cannot affart to go there. Tey work only In the dark, We are wondering what has heconn of the five million dollar Liberian Loan. 1t is hoped that this measure may be resurrected and passed by the present congress. ‘The action of the Administration In maintaining one thousand United States troops on the Rhine after prom Ising to withdraw oup armod forecs from Burope is inexplicable. ‘Two whito men havo identified tho wrong colored man as having cut and killed Gonductor Burleson. When they locate the one who did cut him, wo pre sume that they will identity him too. ‘Thoro aro certain classes ‘of~people, both white and colored who desorve no citizenship rights and thero are othor classes of peoplo, both whito and color- cd who desorvo all of their citizonship rights. § ‘We must oxercise a restraining in fluence upon the lawless colored folks, amongst us, eso, sooner or later all classes of us will suffer from nogloct- ing this most important part of our duty... | Tho average ‘upper class of colored people like to see a member of ‘uelr race succeed up to a certain point and then when ho roaches that point they are ready to pull him down to the ground level, ‘ ‘The law is ono thing and executing the low is another, Some people seen (o think that they can run the world with law, ‘Poo much law causes a disre spect and a disregard for laws already’ enacted, Some people want to reap all of tae profits from a concern without sbariag any of the Hiabiiities or the responsibil ities. This class of people will not las. Jong and they will not go far. WU pays sume of theso colored folks to keep drunk all the (ime. They keep eut of trouble only when they are in ‘hat condition arid their friends find it cheaper (0 purchase “moonstfne liquor for them than it is to pay their fines. President Harding and his support: ers did not seem to have any time deal with tre Negro question, but from the returns from Indiana, Lowa and Pennsylvania, it seems as though the Negro question seems to have found time to deal with them, O, the pity of itt Some people believe that the women are all right and itis the men, who cause the trouble, Some others believe that the men are all right and it is te women, who cause the trouble, ‘Tho (ruth about the matter fs that both statements are only balf-traths, Hon. William J, Bryan will never be President, but he possesses ehatae + teristics that no President ever possess ed and he has the faeility of saying Just what he thinks and of having mit lions of people b- lieve in him although many of them would not vote for him: for any office. ‘Taking whiskey out of this country caused the price of genuine stu to so up tnd stay up. Th caused ruinous de coctions to Ko up and to stay up too, ‘The “dramster" will have his dram if he bay to make it himself or pay a high price (o somebody else to make it for him. Cultivate a taste for whiskey and you WIM drink whiskey. Cultivate a taste fur soft drinks aud you wilt drink soft drinks. You have no need 4 cultivate in taste for pure water for most of iin the cities ts as high as xenuine whiskey used to be. * { peesom cere ree NEE ‘Tho admission ts now being: mado (hat the real ringleaders of the trouble in South viclmond have eseaped the Arne-net of Lhe Police Department, We take IC that the suspects will he releas: cl ima few days, although others may ho arrested. All of this comes from not trusting and relying upon the Pollee Department in tho first instance. If you get on the wrong side of some of these white folks, you are in trouble all the fime. If you keep on the right sido of some of these white folks, you walk In poaco and sleep in security, Witen you get on the wrong side of somie of these colored folks, you are tn danger all tho timo. Hon, William Howard ‘Taft's opm: fons were woll-known before he was elevated to the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States. Io 1s bo: ing commended by tho capitalistic classes and condemned by the labor elements. As he has a life-time job ho can afford to smile and to continu to look happy. As for tho colored folks, they are gmiling too. ‘Tho members of the Supreme Court of the United States have apparontly een frightened by tho throatoned up rising of tho people, but they do not seem to bo frightened now. Thoy are rendering decisions, that aro as revo Intfonary as tho actions of the people havo boon. ome cennere memes rte ‘Tho fact that Miss Ottie B. Graham, tho brillant danghter of tho vory ablo Rev. W. F. Graham, D, D., of Philadelphia, attompted sulctte geome to indicato that she needs rest. Sho should be sent away for Teenper= ation or abroad for treatment. Sie has attempted too mach and accom- Plished too little according to hor way of thinking. Hor mtnd must hava giv: en away and her Intellect broken down. ‘The family has our sympathy. ‘The National Association for the 44 vancemont of Colored People reports that racial discrimination oxtsted at. the Lincoln Memorial Bxerctses, This $s almost unbelievable, Conditions are getting worse and worse along thoso Hines and better along financial Ines, Only everlasting and continual\agita- ion can better conditions. There are White men, even in the Southland who Will not countenance theso diserimina: tions against one of the Aumblest rac-~ ws of people on the globe. Wiection Committee No, 1, of the Houso of Representatives has decided that Hon, John Paul was elected to tix seat now held by Judge ‘Thomas W. Harrison of the Seventh Congressional District. The election took placo Nov- ember, 1920 and John Paul has veen deprived of his rights and privileges for that length of time. The unseating of the democratic representative 18 Waxed primarily upon the wrecktess disregard of tho provisions of the Vir- sinit constitution. ‘The Democrats are determined to re-elect Judge Harrison at the November election. ‘The Shipping Board, through tts chairman has ruled that its ships can dispense whiskey outside of the three mile limit, As a matter of fact, vessels have been overhauled outside of the three mile Hmit and attempts made to confiscate their cargoes of Intoxicants by United States officials. The legal de- partment under President. Woodrow Wilson rnted that prohibition followed the fing and that liquor could not bo sold on any vessel flying the Unitea States flag. ‘The legal department un- der President Warren @, Harding has rnted Uru prohibition does not follow the flag und Chat when n vessel gets on the higly seas, itis not subject to the restrictions of the Volstend act. It is an interesting question, mate more interesting and serious from the fact that passengers travel on ships which grant them the most privileges and the Shipping Board finds that {t cannot make avy money unless privt- leges of a similap character are exten ed to paszengers on thelr ships. OPPOSING ‘TINS SUPREME COUR, he American Federation ef Labor is launching a movement whieh scoms tous to be fraught with many dangers, M proposes to eur the power of the Supreme Court of the United States, denylag to it Uhe right to interpret tne lows ax passed by the Congress. Tt seems (ous that (his steikes at Gea basic prinetples of the Republie ana endangers the guaranteed rights of tie minority, Under our Constitution, there are constitutional restraints to the power of the majority and constita Uioned safessmards for the rights of the humority, When you remove either ot these safeguards, you endanger (he life of the republic ftself and make a bid for anarchy, Unit {8 for irrespon- sible government. ‘The (rouble [5 not with the Consttta tion of the U.S, or with the Su: promo Court, but with the class and calibre of fhe men named to sit upon the Supreme Court bench. Many ot them are simple politicians, who disee. xard fundamental prieiples and who pander {6 the opinions of the mob. Our representative system of government has virtuatly broken down and what we need {san improvement in the enit- bre of men put in high places. The Su. preme Court 1s supposed to be far re moved from political influences and fs decisions are presumed to he tinal. ‘The proposals now being made aro revolutionary In character and om: brace suggestions which would carry with them the abolition of our present form of govornment. THE SUPREME COURT, No class of people has suffered more from the compromise decisions of tha Supreme Court of tho United States than the colored people of these United Statos. They have made repeated at- tempts to secure tholr rights under tho Conatitatjon of the United States and havo boen repeatodly set back and whon tho {ssues were incontrovertiblo and plain, olther no decision was rend- ered or a systomatic rulo of evasion was put {nto oporation. The legalizing of tho “Jim Crow” Jaw by tho declara- tion that equal privileges upon an absolutely separate basia was legal way followed by othor decisions, which om- Dhagirod tho fact that the Négro was a social pariah tm his own land, Tho Iaboring elements of the coan- try had nothing to say to the denial to ns of fundamental rights and by thofr silence approved of the rnlings of thiv samo tribunal. It is labor's turn now and the howl coming from that quarter emphsires tho fact that they cannot stend ponishment. Some of the langn: ago used by the!r leadors should be ro- forved for the uso of the lender of the colored folks. It emyhasizes the fact that you cannot take away the rights and privilegos of colored people with ont oventually taking away the rights and privileges of white people as wali. President Woodrow Wilson feared a revolution in this country and he mada drastic conceasions to avold it. Prost dent Warren G. Harding is confident that tho crisis has passed and he is driving ahead along tho roads selected for him by his politcal advisors, COL, ANDERSON GETS A JOB, Mon. Henry W. anderson has been successful in making his political a: ventures pay. He has been appointed Special Assistant United States Attor- ney General in the prosecution of the War Fraud cases, the Congress havi mutde & special appropriation of halt million dollars for this purpose. Col. Anderson's antipathy to colored peopte is well known and as lie is to prosceute whito people in these matters, it may be that he will experience a change of mind and heart before he completes the job. He was the candidate of the whee Republican organization for Governor of this State and was swamped by an avalanche of votes. TO ERECE HUGE ARENA rot BIG OMIO MATCH, Preston News Service.) Columbus, Ohio, June 9¥—Preparat- fons for the Tutt Juckson-dack Jolin son holiday fistie debate to be skagen Jat Washington Court House Ohio, ot the afternoon of July Ath are practies! Jy complete, according to latest poports ‘The proposed bout is ereating natton- wide interest, and when the exportenre ‘of the two schools of manty art stey nto the ring on Urtt date, it is fully expected that more than twenty-five thousand persons will firn out to wit ness the bout. A special arena is be ing built, which when compiteted wilt have a seating capacity of 20,000 peo ple. It fs estimated that the contest Will draw hii the neighborhood of $16U, 000 in receipts. ‘The Ohio Hosing Commission had placed it4 stamp of approval on the amen meeting in the Scite. ‘The only possible chanee of prevention may come from Governor Davis, However, he fis am enthusiastic boxing fan and it is helioved he will not stop the con test. Opponents (o mixed bouts in the state are said to be making a strony effort to have the Governor stop the fight, ‘Those close to Governor Davis UxnK he will not interfere. MONTREAU STILE ABTER Pn DEMPSEY—WILLS FIGHT, (Preston News Service.) New York City, Juno S.--Frank Ptourney has annotineed that negottiny ions for a Wills-Dempsey bout in Mon- {real Camada are not finished by a long shot, He claims that tie original date selected, "Dominion Day, Jurys has been setback, heeanse of inability to give the mateh sufficient publicity fo make ita success, but Canadian sportsmen are ckimoring for a imaten hotween Wills and Dempsey, and it Is Just possible that the fight will be staged in the Velodrome, providing Donipsey ean be persiisded to mite. Wills, If ts reported, ts auisions to meet the champ under practieally any terms 1 | WANTED. First Class Colored Barhor—White ‘Trade—Apply 0. G. CONN, Acme Shiv: ing Parlor, 205 1-2 8, Main Street, Charlottesville, Va a FOR sane, HWEMSTITCHING AND picoTING ATTACHMENT. Works on any sowing machine, Kasily adjust: ed. Price, $2.50 with tall tnstene- lions, ORIENTAL NOVELTY CO., Box 11, Corpus Christi, ‘Texas. $2 NORVOLK GETS DECISION OVER JOHNSON | (Preston News Service.) Covington, Ky., June 9—Kid Nov folk, the battering ram of New Yorle City, outpointed John Lester Johnson, Kenerally considered as the hest heavy weight of color next to Harry Wills, last Friday night here before a record attendance. The fight was one of tha best ever staged In this town, hoth men displaying tho best. that was in thom, and fighting hard all the way. ‘Tho contest was so close, that many persons In the audience ' were of the opinion that it should havo been » draw, but the referee's decision, award Ing the bout to Norfolk was popuiarly recoivod. Norfolk's wonderful showing has falsed the question as to his chances of a match against Harry Grob, of Pittsburgh, Pa., present light hoavy: welght champion. Norfolk is ono of tho fow men in recont years who nas been ablo lo outpaint the Smoky City Jumping jack, and many tight fans aro of Aho opinion that Greb should cloarly show his superiority In his class betord ho moots Georgos Carpentior, the Freneh idol, ina mateh for tho light hoavy-weight champlonship of — the world. eae ERAGE LRADERS TO MEPT REYSTONES. (Preston Nowa Services ) Pittsburgh, Pa., Jane 5.—Taylor's A. B. C’seleadors of tho Negro National Leaguo ares chedniod to met tho Pitts burgh Keystones Ina 4 games sarios at Central Park boginning next Wed- nesday. The coming series aro cront- Ing sh immense amount of interest 10 caily, as the Hoosier boys havo been setting a great pace so far, Managor Ben Taylor, Charleston, Mackey and many other Hoosier stars have played sensational ball all thia season. KEYSTONES WIN SERTMS AGAINSY CLEVELAND, ‘Tho local hoys won threo of the five Ramos played here Inst week against the Tate Stars of Cleveland, Tho con- tosts wore hard fought. This is the see ond time these teama have mot in a serios with Keystones winning a major ity of games each timo. Superb fleld- ing, good pitching featured each game. HOWARD UNIVERSITY FINNS Wositington, D.C, June 10.—Dr. Ba- Win H, Slosson, editor of Science Ser view and contributing editor of the New York Independent, detiver ed the prinetpal uddiess to the rradnates of Howard) Untversity on Mriday morning. ‘The subject of De. Slosson’s address was “Looking Baek ward and Living Forward." Dr, Slos- son has beow associated with education al work for a arent many years, hav hy served for twelve years as profes sor of Chemistry in the University of Wyoming and “having been connected witl the Columbia University Sehool of Journalism since its establishment, Fatlowing the commencement exer cises a commencement dinner was sory cdl in the new $201,000 dining hall to. the Alumni and friends of Howard University ‘The entire week was filled witi edu cational and social xctivitiesy whieh brought together former graduites sid undergraduates, faculty members and Fricnds who enjoyed to the fullest. these intellectual and social feasts. ‘The dramatic plays written and pra sented by students of the university at (acted much favorable comment, THIS DOINGS’ OF TIE Y. a. CG. A, ‘The campus of the YL MLC, Avis a warm spot with Woodson and Dan.el the winners, Last Sunday was a Cull day for sory ice to others. 9:20 A, M, at the build’ng: workers mot. for business and much was aecom plished Phe work with the women of the pea ftentiary was a success 10 A.M. Ong woman necepted Jesus. OAL M. the work fn the Jatt ana, celty home by the committees was not forgotten. The address to the boys 4 P.M. at tho Imfding: was one of great worth, f:20 P.M. Ure open ineeting for men Bt the YOM. CA. was enjoyed. Subject Father, The somes weve warm ‘Today 5 P.M. at the putiding you and cone frtent are invited to hear Dr. W. IL Stokes ty special reanest. question that the world wants lo know, Come and be helped, Be on time, Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man ! I At tho building 9:30 A.M. the work: ers. : i AM boys aro invited to the Y. MG! A.4 P.M. to hear what: Something for (heiz good. On time | Committcoman J.C. Young wilt speak to te men 5:30 P.M. at the ¥. Me CoA, Come. Live skiing Remember the YM. C. A. in your prayers. SPINGARN MEDNL GOES TOAWOMAN Mary B. Talbert, former president of tho National Association of Colored Women, has been chosen to receive the Spingarn Medal on Tuesday, Juno 20, at the Newark Conference of tira Natfonal Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People, it was announce ed Lollay. The committee on the awara Issued the following statement: “Tho award was made to Mrs, Mary B. Talbert, and this award was given in consideration of her services in or ganizing tho women of the coun- try “so that tho “dobt was paid off the homo — of‘ Frederiok Douglass, tho homo restored and made a shrino fn memory of tho great Douglass; also beeanso of the fact that sho represented the colored wo- men of America at the International Connetl at Womon held in Norway. “The award was made specifically for the nbovo reasons. However, tne Committes could not fail to tako into consideration also tho tact that Mrs. ‘Talbort was Lwvico Prosident of the Nat lonal Association of Colored ‘Women fond that all her Lito she has been {den {tiod with uplift wor, rotons and civle, and has been a leader of the Wor ‘mon of hor raca.”” ‘The Committoo making tho awara consisted of Bishop Turst, Dr, Dulard and Mr. Hope. Rabbi Solomon Foster ot Nowark has boon invited and hag accepted tho invitation to present tho modal to Mrs. ‘Talbort at the Nowark Contoronco Qualtty and Service tn BLBOFRIC SHON REPAIRING at tho Lowest Possible Prices, NEW YORK PLECTRIO s1ron REPAIR SHOP foson Brown, Manager. Phonen—Mad. 7101-3; Mad. 9841 515 1. Clay St. Richmond, Va. Work called for and delivered, eT U SHOULD GET BUSY WITH THE PLANET'S B-WORD CONTEST AND GET SOMM EASY MONBY. Read the rules of tho contest on’ page 3. and get your ;pencil and paper, . --- (Continued from First Page) sees an officer and then he calls him to the car to remove the passenger. The officer confirmed this and remarked that an officer was always stationed at 12th and Hull streets and could have been called for that purpose. The affair occurred at 20th and Hull streets and the car passed the point a few minutes before the killing took place. Leaving the store and thanking all parties for the information, Editor Mitchell was soon back at the Planet Office. The conductor had only been in the service of the street-car company a few months and is reported to be a northerner by birth. He is not a member of the local street car union. (News Leader, June 12, 1922.) Five colored men are held at Third Police station on suspicion in connection with the killing of Laren H. Burleson, aged 25, conductor on the Hull St. car line, who was stabbed to death by one of a crowd of colored people who attacked him at Nineteenth and Hull streets Sunday afternoon after he had put one of them off the car, charged with being drunk and disorderly. The give are H. A. Pugh, Matthew Shaw, Nathaniel Jones, John Harris and Robert Crosby. They are held without bail. It is expected the case will be continued several days to allow the police time in which to establish identity. Motorman A. L. Huband, who was on the troley just behind Burleson's, has notified the police that he saw the stabbing and can identify the man who committed the murder. The man be said, with knife in hand, jumped a fence and made his way across a field opposite the cutting took place. CORONDIES INQUEST TOMORROW. Dr. John W. Brodnax, coroner of South Ridgway, today announced that he will hold an inquest into the death of Conductor Burleson at the Third Police station at 10:30 o'clock to morrow morning, Captain Zimmer, of the third station, today said that the report that Croshy one of the suspects held, had made a confession is erroneous—that the man is wanted and word has been sent out to bring him to the station and that he simply came voluntarily, but that he did not make any admission of guilt. The stabbing occurred about 6:23 o'clock. Conductor Burleson was taking fares and one of the colored men alleged to have been Pugh, who, in addition to being charged with being a suspicious character, is charged with being drunk and disorderly on the car because so violent that the conductor was compelled to elect him. The car had reached Nineteenth and Hull Sts. As soon as Conductor Burleson had put the man off, a crowd of about seventy-five colored people seemed to spring up as it from the ground. Knives made the appearance and the conductor was compelled to fly. JUMPED ON PASSING AUTO. R. C. Elllett, 1311 North Twentwetaile street on whose auto running board Conductor Burdson jumped in an effort to chide his pursuers today described the occurrence as follows: "My auto was standing on the north east corner of Twentwetaile and Hull Sts, when I heard a commotion in the direction of the street car which was be tween Nineteenth and Twentwetaile on Hull. The conductor climbed over the railing on the east side of the car—it being one of the summer cars—and he ran toward my car and jumped on the running board. As he did so he said "Get a cop." I was just starting the car and I gave it gas and moved off as rapidly as possible, but the crowd was right behind. I could not see exactly what was happening when he was as the running board because my brother in-law, W. P. Worrell and a little chid were in the seat between me and the conductor. These appeared to be fully seventy-five colored people. About six of them were in the lead and were endeavoring to take hold of the conductor. My brother-in-law said he saw one of them make a pass at the conductor and he saw blood appear on the clothing of the conductor. The conductor clasped his hand to his side and said, 'O, my Goc. "As soon as the crowd of people saw the blood they turned and fled in the opposite direction. The motorman of the car had been fighting others off the front of the car with a crowbar. We had gone just half a block when a man in front of my car waved his hand and stopped us and a policeman came up. "The conductor walked six steps after leaving the runningboard of the car and dropped dead. He did not say any thing at all after he was cut except the one exclamation. The street car headed toward Swans boro, going south and the car of Mr. Elllett was headed north. The conductor had to climb over the guard rail of the street car to get away and then run across street. ANOTHER EYE WITNESS. W. P. Worrell, 1911 Fairmount avenue who was in the car with Mr. Elllett when Conductor Burleson jumped on the running board of the car, gave the following account: "My brother-in-law and myself were in a Ford roadster and were coming South on Hull street when we saw a commotion at the car. We saw many colored people but we thought at first it was only a colored picnic and that they had chartered a special car. As we approached nearer we heard curing and saw that the affair was of a different nature. The conductor was on the inside of the car and the motorman was on the front of the car fighting them off with a crowbar. Soon the conductor climbed over the side of the car over the guard rail on the east side and ran around the front of the car, getting on the running board beside of the auto. He grasped the windshield with his right hand. He was facing south and we were going north on Hull. "He was stabbed near the hip. It seemed to me it must have been a left handed person who did it. I saw several colored people pursuing the conductor and several of them caught up with the car. I did not see any one of them with a knife, but my right hand was hanging over the side of the car and I tilt the warm blood pouring over it and when I looked at it my hand was covered with blood. I then said to the conductor 'Man, you are cut,' and he looked down at the place and said 'O, my God,' and clapped his hand over the place. We had not gone far when a man motioned us to stop and look behind and we saw a police man. The conductor then jumped off the running board to the curb and walked about six steps and fell down. Some one who had come up tried to get him to a telephone pole, so that he could sit up, but he was dead already." CROWD GATHERS. Following the stabbing a large crowd of citizens gathered at the scene, and for a time a racial clash was feared. The police, however, took the situation in hand and sentiment soon became more quiet. Five arrests were made. Four men were almost immediately arrested on suspicion and Robert Crosby colored, who was also under suspicion, came to the station last night when he heard he was wanted and submitted t-arrest. He did not make any ronfession and denies having a part in the stabbing. The police, however, allege that both he and Harris were at the scene, and they believe that one or both of them may be implicated in the stabbing. Captain Alexander S. Wright today said Crosby heard a warrant was out for him and came to the station and gave himself up. In police court, Part I, the cases of all five of the men were continued to June 22. They are held without bail. OF GOOD CHARACTER Conductor Burleson was the son of G. L. Burleson, well-to-do farmer living about six miles from Williamsburg Conductor Burleson stood well there and here. Mrs. H. A. Burke, with whom he boarded at 1720 Winder St. said today that he was a man of high character and was always pleasant and not given to quarrels of any kind. He came here from his home near Williamsburg March 29, of this year. He has no relatives here. TROLLEY OFFICIAL NOTIFIED F. W. Mulford, general claim agent of the Virginia Railway and Power Co., was notified as soon as the report of the stabbing was made to the railway offices. He questioned Motorman Murphy, who was on Burleson's car; also Motorman A. L. Huband on the car which followed Burleson's car. Huband, it is said was the stabbing and saw the man with the kulfe in his hand jump a fence and run across the field. He has given the police a good description of the man and said he will be able to identify him. According to Murphy's story, car No. 335 left Seventh and Broad streets partly filled, the majority of the passengers being colored. When it got about half way across the Fourteenth street bridge Conductor Burleson notified the motorman that there was a colored man lying on the rear bench and that he was drunk. He asked Murphy what he should do. The car proceeded until it got to Twentleth and Hull street and Burleson, according to Murphy, being unable to collect the man's fare or to make him leave the car, finally succeeded in getting him to the street. Several other colored people, Murphy said were holding the drunken passerger up. In the meantime, the motorman stated, Burleson was surrounded by a group, who had come from the side walk. Murphy said he heard one of them call Burleson a vile name with which the conductor grabbed the switch iron and struck at the group. CAR SURROUNDED "By the time, Murphy said, "the car was surrounded. All of the passengers had got off. The crowd surged around Burleson and he jumped into the car climbed over the rail on the wrong side and jumped on the running board of an automobile which had come up. Thinking he was safe from the mob I pulled my car ahead and reached the next block." Murphy said he pulled out of the way because the mob was assuming angry proportions and thinking his conductor was safe thought it was the best way to break up the gathering. I did not know that Burleson was stabbed just as he jumped on the running board of the automobile or that he had fallen to the street in a dying condition. By the time Murphy had pulled his car out of the way Motorman Hubb and's car came up. Hubb saw the stabbing. He said that he saw Burleson leap to the automobile from the car with the crowd surging around him and saw the one of them brandish a knife. He said he saw the man make three or four stabs; saw Burleson fall from the automobile which was making a futile attempt to get away. Hubb grabbed his reverse lever from the controller and started into the mob. He grabbed one of them by the collar and held him until he got to the curbstone when the man broke away and fled. The man with the knife, he said, broke from the crowd, jumped over a fence and ran across a field. He said he can identify the man and has given the police a good description. BURLESON'S FAMILY NOTIFTED. Claim Agent Mulford made an effort to locate Burleson's people immediately after the accident. He heard that the man's relatives lived in Williamsburg, and a wire was dispatched to the chief of police there. Later last night Mr. Mulford heard from the police of Williamsburg that Burleson's family had been notified. Burleson was employed by the traction company on January 31 last, while the street car strike was on. He was born in Jefferson, Wis., the record showed and was 23 years old. He was an exceptionally good man, Mr. Mulford said and had been commended several times for courtesy. Robert E. Crosby, yesterday identified by A. L. Huband as the man whom he saw run across a field with a knife in his hand immediately after condone THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. Please find enclosed ($2.00) Two Dollars for one year's subscription to The Planet, to be sent to M. ```markdown ``` or L. H. Burleson had been fatally wounded by a knife thrust in the thigh, during the brave which followed ejection of H. A. Pugh, a drunken colored man from a Hull Street ear, was today pointed out from the suspects by State Examiner of Automobiles Dewey C. Flaugher as the man whom he has seen strike at the conductor with his fist in a position to indicate that he held a knife, though he did not see the blade itself. Mr. Flaugher was driving by at a time that Burleson was struck, and says that he saw Crosby near the man, and he struck with a stabbing motion of his hand just before Burleson eroded out. He states that he did not see the knife in Crosby's hand, but the manner in which he struck would indicate that he held one. On his way to the station with gnoth or man he described the man, who as he recalled it, had struck at Burleson. Upon seeing the men, Crosby's resemblance to the description was immediate discernible, and Flaugher, almost without hesitation designated him as the man he had seen. WITH KEEN BLADED KNIFE From the descriptions: of various witnesses of the fight and those who were with Burleson immediately after the blow was struck, it was evident that the conductor did not realize that he had been struck as soon as the blow was landed. According to the testimony of T. G. Worrel, who was in the automobile on the side of which Burleson leaped in his flight from the crowd, Worrel, feeling blood upon his hand, said: "Man, you are cut," whereupon Burleson, realizing his injury for the first time, put his hand to his side and cried, 'Oh my God.' Indications from this would seem to be that the knife was a very sharp one, almost of razor-like sharpness. The knife had to pass through the clothing as well and the wound was a slit about (two inches long, extending down and a little forward, as though the blade have been a little curved at the end). Such knives as these are used in leather factories, keen, long, with a slightly curved blade. Croshy works in a leather factory. CROSBY CLAIMS ALIBI Crosby seemed puzzled at the turn affairs had taken. "They say I did it? Why I was at my sister's house, and I didn't get down there until the thing was over and the crowd was standing around." Investigation proved that Annie Branch, sister of Crosby, at whose home the accused man was staying could not say definitively what time her husband and the other two, "Pat" Christin, who is a lame blacksmith and her brother, left the house. She know that it was after 6:15 o'clock, but could not say exactly how much later it was. As nearly as it may be determined, the actual murder took place about 6:25 and the fight began about 6:20. The house of Crosby's sister is located on West Twenty-ninth street, which is between nine and ten squares from the scene of the murder. So far as known Crosby has no police record. He was placed on the list of suspects because one of the men held and who was afterwards dismissed, stated that he had seen Crosby in the crowd immediately after the murder. Crosby states that he had just arived at that time. CROSBY HAS GOOD RECORD He has a good record among his employers, both present and past. B. M. Nunnally, who employed him some years ago, said: "We never had any cause to complain of his honesty and I never knew him to be even drunk while in my employ." He is at present employed by the Virginia Leather Company and they speak of him in the same manner, saying that they are very much surprised that he should be accused of the crime. Crossby voluntarily surrendered Sunday night upon being informed by his sister that two policemen had been to her house asking for him. The police, however, attached consid erable importance to his arrest. Following the statement of Captain of Detectives A. S. Wright, that police investigation and the arrests on suspects be continued. Willis Hockaday was brought to the Third Police Station this morning. He has been trans ferred to the city jail and is there awaiting the examination of the spects, which has been set for June 22. INQUEST POSTPONED Coroner J. W. Broadnax and Com BUY YOUR COAL FROM THE CRUMP AND WEST COAL CO. MADISON 83 AND 84 You will be pleased with their Clean Burning and High Grade Coal and their Quick, Efficient' and Courteous Service. 1811 EAST CARY STREET, RICHMOND, VA. newwalth's Attorney Willis C. Pullman speaking in behalf of the pot stated that they wished to postpone the formal inquest into the death of Durben until June 23 at 10:30 A. at After viewing the body the jury was adjourned to meet again on the date set. Those who were impaired for the jury are M. L. Blackburn, Joseph G. Tolker, J. M. Granger, W. F. Robinson J. P. Myers and W. E. Pittun. Captain Wright Says Negro Suspected Is Well Known to Authorities. That the man suspected of the killing of L. H. Burleson, conductor employed by the Virginia Railway and Power Company, who was stabbed to death at Twentyth and Hull streets Sunday afternoon, is known to police and detectives who have been assigned to the case are working on a definite line of inquiry that they have reasons to believe will shortly lead to his arrest, was the statement of Captain of Detectives Alexander S. Wright as night. Burleson was fatally stabbed while attempting to escape from a band of colored people who were pursuing him after he had been forced to defend himself from the attacks of a disorderly colored man he had ejected from his trotle car. Evidence developed by detectives through their examination of several colored people at the Third station who are known to have been in the vicinity of the murder when the attack was made on the conductor, caused police yesterday to confine their investigations into the killing to the apprehension of the man "known to them". Captain Wright said. Whether he had issued a warrant charging the man directly with the murder Captain Wright "died to say". He admitted the man lives in Swansboro, near where the crime was committed—that he was generally known as a "bad man" in that section and that he had caused police of South Richmond considerable trouble. Coroner Broadnax said he had decided to postpone formal inquest into the killing of the conductor to allow police fully to investigate the case and produce all possible evidence. (Richmond Times-Dispatch June 14.) (Richmond Times-Dispatch, June 14.) FIRST MT. OLIVE NOTES. Newtown, Va. June 13.—Mr. H. M. Ruffin preached to a large and appreciative audience last Sunday at Mt. Olive. The funeral of Mr. James Alsop, who died several days ago was conducted at Jerusalem Baptist church by the pastor, Dr. Young assisted by Rev. R. N. Lawson. Mr. Wesley Morgan of Washington, D. C., after spending the week end in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Baylor returned home yesterday. Several from this section attended the Parkerel Sunday School, Convention which held its sessions with the Union Shiloh Baptist Church of Middle sex County. Rev. Wm. Harris is delivering a ser Rev. Wm. Harris is delivering a series of lectures at Mt. Olive. Mrs. Addle Hill, the wife of Rev. W. W. D. 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C., June 5—In tac name of more than a hundred and ten million Americans, President Harding accepted the great Lincoln Memorial at the dedication ceremonies held here last Tuesday afternoon at the foot of 23rd street in the presence of more than 50,000 people. The magnificent temple, in which a great statue of Lincoln is enshrined was formerly delivered to the nation by Chief Justice William Howard Taft, as chairman of the Lincoln Memorial commission in the simple and solemn exercises which marked the occasion. Ambassadors from many lands, members of the President's cabinet, members of the Senate and House, Dr. Robert Russia Moton, Edwin Markham, Rev. Dr. Wallace Radeille, Robert T. Lincoln, son of the martyred President and other special guests occupied the platform where the exercises were held. The invocation was delivered by Dr. Radeliffe, former pastor of Lincoln. Ed win Markham read his own poem, entitled, "Lincoln, The Man of The People." DR. MOTON SPEAKS IN BEHALF OF THE RACE. Dr. Robert Russa Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute, spoke on behalf of Colored Americans, "I speak, for the colored race." he said, "Upon us, per haps, more than upon any other group of the nation rests the immediate obligation to justify so dear a price for our emancipation." "Lincoln's death" he declared, "was the last and costiest sacrifice upon the altar of freedom." Dr. Moton said, "No one is more sensible than the Negro himself of his incongruous position in the American republic. But he it recorded to his everlasting credit that no failure to cap the full reward of his sacrifice has ever in the least degree qualified his loyalty $_{\text{O}}$ cooled his patriotic fer vor." Dr. Moton told of the educational and economic progress of the Negro in the last half century, and declared that "the Negro has gone far to justify his amanagement and the nation, where such achievement is possible to fully worthy of heroic sacrifice." 12,000,000 NEGROES REJOICE "Twelve million black Americans share in the rejoicing of this day, Dr. Watson said. "As yet, no other name so warms the heart or stops the depths of their gratitude as that of Abrahams Lincoln. To him, all others, we owe the privilege of sharing as fellow citizens in the consecration of this spot and the dedication of this shrine. In the name of Lincoln 12,000,000 black Americans pledge to the nation their continued loyalty and their unreserved co-operation in every effort to realize in deeds the lofty principles established by his martyrdum. AUTO TRUCK OVERTURNS. (Preston News Service.) Washington. D. C. June 6. Overturning of a motor truck in which a number of persons were participating in a holiday outing in Rock Creek park last Tuesday evening caused 4 persons to be seriously injured. The truck wont over a 25 foot embankment and then caught afire. An ambulance from the Emergency hospital was summoned and those who were injured were taken to hospital. Miss Marie Delaney, aged 99 years, sustained injuries to both legs and was badly bruised about the body. She was taken to the Emergency hospital. Alvin Fields, aged 19 and Albert Coleman, aged 19 were taken to Freedman's hospital; while Mrs. Anne Brown, aged 35 was taken to Garton hospital. The truck was driven by Henry Jackson, who it is said took the truck from his employer's garage with out permission. He was arrested. MODERN SCHOOL FOR NEGRO EMPLOYEES CLOSES. (Preston News Service.) Empire, Ala. June 8.—Illustrative of the deep interest manifested in the general welfare of their Negro employees by industrial corporations in this district is the large modern, well attended and successful school at Empire Coal Mines. Prof. David W. Parker, principal, has made an enviable record as a teacher here. He received his training at Raleigh, N. C., and has proven a great factor in bringing about better race relations in this community. The closing exercises were held in the Empire Theatre and attended by members of both races. Among the prominent white persons who delivered addresses were: Prof. J. Alexander Moore, president of the Alabama Education Association; Charles P. and Walter Moore. The school owes its existence to the generosity of Walter and C. P. Moore. They erected this handsome modernly equipped school at a cost of $75,000. The school is heated by the Acrobat box system and is electrically equipped. --- Read The Richmond Planet --- THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA SON WOUNDS FATHER AFTER REPRIMAND. Pittsburgh, Pa., June 9.—Reprimand ed by his father for coming home late for supper, James Hart, aged 17, police say, fired four shots at his father in their home in Harvard street, last Wednesday night, one of the bullets taking effect in the man's leg. The father, Granville Hart, aged 41, was taken to the West Penn hospital. The boy, a student at Peabody High School returned to his home after 9 o'clock according to the police and the father scolded him and slapped his face. A short time later, police say, Hart obtained a revolver from his father's room and then dared his parent to approach him. As the father walked towards the child, he fired one shot and ran out the front door of his home followed by his father. Three shots were fired in the scuffle that followed, on taking effect. The boy was taken to the Frankstown police station. PROSBYTERIANS RAISED OFFER HALF MILLION LAST YEAR, (Preston News Service) Des Moines, Iowa, June 6.—The Colored Presbyterian churches in the south during last year raised $582,500 for their own support and church benevolence was the report of Dr. J. S. Fisher, president of the Presbyterian Board of Missions for Freedmen, before the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States of American. Dr. Fisher's report showed that despite reduced contributions and a decrease in income of $183,063 for 1921-22 as compared with 1920-21, the 147 schools and 448 churches, directed by the board, were in fine conditon, with more than 18,000 pupils and 27,000 communicants. P. JUHUS SIDBURY INSTANTLY KILLED BY AUTOMOBILIST. ( Preston News Service ) Wilmington, N. C., June 7—Tragedy ushered in the first official Decoration Day celebration ever staged in this city during the morning parade. While the parade for Memorial Day exercises was forming at Front and Chestnut streets, Julius Sidbury, aged 25 years, was run down and instantly killed by J. E. Wilson, (white) who fled in his machine. Thousands of persons who lined the streets for the celebration witnessed the killing and great excitement seized the throng because Wilson was driving recklessly and then put the gas to mourn and sped away after running over Sidbury. A policeman commanecered an automobile and gave chase to the shayer. Wilson was caught about a mile away and lodged in jail, charged with murder. --- THE A. AND T. COLLEGE CLOSES SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL YEAR. THE A. AND T. COLLEGE CLOSES SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL YEAR. (Preston News Service.) Greensboro, N. C., June 5—Much interest was manifested by the public during the commencement exercises at A. and T., College during last week On commencement day proper the program consisted of music by the college choral society, industrial demonstrations and exhibits, oration by A. Types of the graduating class, presentation of diplomas, certificates, prizes and awarding scholarships, and the commencement address, delivered by His Excellency, Gov. Cameron Morrison, in which he assured President Dudley and the spectators that the things he has done thus far for the educational purposes of Negroes in comparison, with the greater things he is hoping and striving to do, are but mere exercise for him. He thrilled the audience when he declared, "I dedicate myself anew today to make this institution the glory of your race." The address to the graduating class of Sunday School Teachers was delivered by Judge Gilbert T. Stephenson, Bishop Henry B. Delaney of the Episcopal church, preached the baccalaureate sermon. The address to the A. and T. Societies was delivered by Roscoe Conkling Simmons of Chicago, a former student of A. and T. Rev R. E. Burn Class of 1910 delivered the address to the alumni. DIPLOMAS ARE GIVEN TO 150 NORMAL GRADUATES. (Preston News Service.) Nashville, Tenn. June 7.—One hundred and fifty graduates were awarded diplomas and certificates at the tenth Annual Commencement Exercises at the A. and L. State Normal School here last Tuesday. The graduates were presented by President W. J. Hale and J. B. Brown, superintendent of public instruction, presented the diplomas, President P. L. Harned of the State Board of Education presented prizes to a number of students who won honors during the year in the different departments of the school. "How doth the busy little B Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every pening flower." 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Miss Johnella Frazier, a teacher at the V. N. and I. L. Petersburg, Va. will come to the city immediately at the close of the school, June 9th, to be with her father, who is very ill. Mrs. Anna Flowers, 226 W. Schiller street is somewhat better at County Hospital where she was taken several days ago seriously ill. Mrs. Grace W. Netherland, 3558 Federal street left the city during the week for the cast to visit friends and then will go to Richmond, Va., where she will spend a greater part of the summer with her mother, Mrs. Georgia Walker. Richmond is Mrs. Netherland's native home. She is secretary of the Virginia Society of this city. Miss Aclie Baxter, 420 E. 48th Place has just returned to the city from Colp Illinois', where she taught in the pub. school the entire session. Miss Baxter contemplates taking up special work at the University of Chicago during the summer. WRITE FOR AGENTS' ATTRACTIVE PROPOSITION M. T. Bailey, 3638 S. State street, President the Alumni Association of the V. N. and I. Petersburg, Va., who left the city on his (Sunday) curate a the bi-ennial meeting of the Association, stopped at Washington, D. C., to visit old friends and school-mates. He was joined by Hon. Arthur G. Free, reorder of Deeds, an old school-mate, while at the V. N. and I. I., who made the trip to Virginia with him. Progressive Club No. 1, will meet June 18th at the residence of Mrs. Sarah Stratton. 3257 Cottage Grove at which time a program will be given. Ave., at which time a program will be given. Mrs. Grace Patillo is president. The regular meeting of the Virginia Society will take place June 21st, at 3638 S. State street. A program has been prepared for this meeting and re refreshments will be served. Every mem ber is urged to be present and bring a friend. WOMAN, AGED 134 YEARS, DIES IN LOUISVILLE. Louisville, Ky., June 6.—Mrs. Mille Mulligan, aged 131 years died here last Tuesday. 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DJ We have so arranged it that you can begin saving with as low amount as one cent, if you join the Christmas Savings Clubs. We have a polite corn of book-keepers and clerks. We will invest your money in any way you indicate. We have a few houses which we can sell on longtime payments. Call and see us about them. Small cash payment taken. We are making a drive for a Million Dollars in deposits. We have now about half that amount and we want you to help us to reach the goal, which we have set. We live in a friendly community and we want to greet our friends. Our Burglar-Proof Round Door Vault. BANKING HOURS SATURDAYS: Mechanics Savings B 9 A. M. TO 2 P. M. 9 A. M. TO 8 P. M. BANKING HOURS: 9 A.M. TO 2 P.M. SATURDAYS: - - 9 A.M. TO 8 P.M. Mechanics Savings Bank, Richmond, Virginia John Mitchell, Jr., President A. V. NORRELL, JR., Cashier A. A. Tennant, Vice-Pres. ```markdown ``` Our Bank--Erected 1910 SEVEN --- ROANOKE NEWS ROANOKE, VIRGINIA, June 13—Sunday was connectional day at M. Zion A. M. E. Church and the sum of $104 was lifted as an offering. There was one accession, and one man came forward for prayer. The Sunshine Club hold its monthly meeting at the parsonage Monday June 12, in which their reports were vory encouraging. Rev. James S. Hatcher, B. D. D. D. of M. Zion A. M. E. Church left this afternoon for Wiberforce, Ohio to attend the commencement exercises of that institution of learning. He is trustee from Virginia. M. Stanfield is still on the road with Salvasena, The Planet, Plastors, Pills and a large assortment of wonderful remedies for immediate help. 163 Wells Alloy. Mr. Thomas Griggs, of 12 Third Avenue, N. W. was called home May 11, to the burial of his father, Mr. Thomas Griggs, Sr. at Farnville, Va. He had lived to the ripe age of 66, an octogenarian. The funeral of James Lewis, of Nighth Avenue, N. W. took place from the First Baptist Church at 2 o'clock Monday evening, June 12. C. C. Williams had charge. Mr. George Steptoe of Gainsboro Avenue departed this life June 11. The funeral services will be held on Wednesday afternoon at the First Baptist Church. The funeral of Brother Richard Paulkner took place Sunday evening, June 11, at 3 o'clock. He died as the result of an accident, having sustained a fall from a porch raft while repairing the home of Mr. William Newton on Fifth Avenue. Mr. Paulkner was born in Halftax County, Va. in 1852. He was soundly converted the first Sunday in July 1919. It was communion, but we did not have communion until night. The fire of the Holy Ghost took possession of the|Rev. George P. Miller, who offered a vory fervent prayer. Rev. James S. Hatcher read Scripture lesson, St. John 12: 1-17, using for a text, verse 9. Rev. Hatcher delivered a very belfitting eulogy of this noble man, for he was a strong Christian. Mt. Zion will miss Richard Faulkner. He leaves a loving and devoted wife, one daughter, one son-in-law, Rev. W. R. Howerton, of Richmond, five grandchildren and a host of friends. The remains were interred in Midway cemetery. The floral designs were very beautiful and belfitting. The greatest bargains in the Coma raincoats, the best on the market, can be found at Mrs. Dorothy Sims, 331 Ninth Avenue, N. W. Consult Mrs. Sims before you decide on purchasing elsewhere. She will deal justly and equally as an agent. Call on her at the above address. Mr. Samuel Bruce, 153 Wolla Alloy, N. W. returned home Tuesday evening from Glon Rogers, W. Va. The children's day exercises of Mt Zion A. M. E. Sunday School were well rendered by the pupils last Sunday at 8 o'clock, when all participants performed their parts with credit to the superintendent, Rev. G. P. Miller and his corps of efficient teachers. Mrs. Lizzie Polindexter, of No. 1 Lynchburg Avenue, will leave for Braddock, Pa. Sunday morning to visit Mr. and Mrs. George C. Grave. She will spend two weeks. Mr. C. B. Barlow died here Friday, June 9, at his home after a short illness. He was a member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church. The funeral services took place Monday, June 15. Roy. W. W. Hicka pastor, officiated in a most befitting eulogy. He leaves a loving father, Mr. David Barlow, four sisters, one brother and a host of friends to mourn their loss. Mr. W. F. Hughes, the polite funeral director and ombalmer had charge. Inter- MOB ATTACKS WHITE MINISTER IN LOUISA Attack Is Connected With Assault on Herbert Buckley, Who Now Is Hole as Participant In Shooting—Rigid Probe in Progress. Excitement is said to be running high, and much bitter talk is being indulged in in Louisa County as the result of the actions of one of two so-called factions in applying a coat of tar and feathers to a man, said to be a member of the opposing faction, and the alleged retaliatory tactics of the latter in an apparent attempt on the life and the destruction of the property of a minister, who, some seem to have gained the impression, had he some way instigated the tarring and feathering. "Thursday night a party of masked men visited the home of Herbert Buckley, at Pendleton near Mineral, and took him to the woods, where they applied a coat of tar and feathers. Prior to this, he was given a beating. HOUSE IS SHOT UP. Another party, believed to be friends of Buckley, on the succeeding night, paid a visit to the home of Rev. x. h. Glenn, and fired several charges from shotguns into the house, several narrowly missing the minister. In the party according to Mr. Glenn, were two white men and two colored ones. The colored men asked to be directed to a mine known as the Donald mine. Mr. Glenn went to the door in his night clothes and was standing on the back porch when, he says, two men fired on him from ambush. No shot hit him, but both loads struck the house EIGHT --- ment in Midway Cemetery. Mrs. Sydartha Dabnoy, of 256 N. Ohio Avenue has been visiting her father and sister, Mr. Thomas Stan- field and Mrs. C. Croane. W. B. F. C. and the delegation for the Grand Lodge of Virginia, K. of P. and Courts of Calanthe will be in waiting to join the Eastern Delegation for Bristol, Va. The Cadets in full strength will meet you on the war path at Bristol. W. B. F. Crowell is a little disfigured but still in the ring. Look out, for he will be on hand and a hard knot from the old tar state, too. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Wade wish to announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Sarah Wade, of Boone's Mill, Va. to Mr. Price Walden, of Springwood, Va., at their home, on the morning of June 11, 1922, at 10:30 o'clock. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Arthur Sivolle, of Princess Anne County. The Sabbath School Union of Roanoke, Salem, Vinton and vicinity holds its regular monthly meeting with the Jerusalem Baptist Sunday School, Sunday, June 11, at 3 P. M. A special program has been arranged for this occasion. Each school is requested to send a large representation. --Miss Georgia Hairston, Secy. The Young Mon's Christian Association Club of the city of Roanoke holds its regular weekly meeting at its headquarters, 105 High Street, N. W. last Sunday evening, at five o'clock. The meeting was largely attended. The President, Mr. W. E. Davis expressed himself as being much pleased with the present progress. After devotionals had conducted and other matters of importance disposed of we then listened to a most eloquent address delivered by Mr. A. F. Brooks, one of Roanoke's most prominent business men. His subject was, "Our Moral Obligations to Our Followmen." He dealt strongly on the duty of reciprocity. He held his audience spellbound during his discourse with his logical conclusions. The next place of meeting will be the St. Paul M. E. Church, Sunday June 18, at five o'clock. —F. A. Morchant. Secy Mrs. Henry Miles was born June 10, 1897, Burkville, Va., and died June 2, 1922, age 25 years. She professed faith in Christ at the age of 10 years and from that time until hor death was a devoted Christian. She married Mr. Henry Miles, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Miles, of 401 Grove Street. She told her husband that she was ready and willing to die. She told Mrs. Bertha Watkins that the Lord came for her at four o'clock and wehn He comes again, I am going. She tried to show them those dressed in white and said to hor Mother Miles, as she always called her, "I want you to keep the children together." Her mother, Mrs. Mary Jones, of 1317 Wise Street, Lynchburg, was down to see her ten days before she died and she was rejoicing in the Lord and said, "I know my Lord will hear me pray." She leaves a husband, three children, mother and two brothers, many relatives and a host of friends to mourn their loss. Mr. Paul Anderson, of Stamford, Conn. and Miss Belle Miles, brother and sister-in-law, came a day after her death. At midnight came the cry, To meet the Lord prepare. She woke and caught her Captain's eye There strong in faith, and prayer Her spirit with a bound, Left the encumbering clay, Her tent at noonday on the groun A darkened ruin lay. near the spot where he was standing. He ran into the house and was fired on three times through a side window. He went upstairs and procured a rifle, but when he returned the attackers had retired. SAID TO HAVE IDENTIFIED MEN Mr. Glenn is said to have positive identified the white men as Buckley and C. E. Via. Buckley is in jail, with two colored men, William Hughes and Jim Ivest, both of whom, Mr. Glenn beaves, he will be able to identify as the colored men who came to his door and sought directions to the Donald mine. Via is out on $2,000 bail, with a preliminary hearing set for next Tuesday. Commonwealth's Attorney W. C. Bibb, of Louis County who is conducting an investigation is of the opinion that more than the four under arrests were implicated in the attack on Mr. Glenn, and efforts are being made to round up others believed to have been involved. Earlier the same evening a party composed of three white men drove up to Mr. Glenn's house in an automobile and are said to have talked to the minister in threatening tones. They are said to have been under the influence of whisky. Buckley is said to have been seen with the party shortly afterwards. CITIZENS ARE INCENSED. The citizens of Louisa are said to be incensed at the treatment accorded Mr. Glenn, who is said to be highly respected in the community, and they are said to declare their determination to do everything in their power to bring the guilty parties to justice. On the other hand, friends of Buckley, who is employed by H. H. Walton, Louisa County supervisor and who conduits a store and has large lumber in interests in Pendleton, are bitter over his arrest, declaring that the action first should have been taken by the authorities against those who took part in the tar-and-feather episode. (Times Dispatch, June 13, 1922.) From the Family THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA We are having excellent services in our Sunday School. Last Sabbath we were graced with the presence of Rev. J. L. Marable, the blind preacher. He taught the Baracca Bible Class. We also listened to some very encouraging remarks from Rev. A. D. Clarke, one of our own Sunday School Teachers. Splendid scripture quotations were recited by the various members of the school which is a part of our regular programme every Sunday morning. J. H. Foster, Superintendent. 11:30 A. M. the services at Mt. Calvary Baptist church were of great inspiration. Our pastor preached from the 4th chapter of Prov., and the first verse. Invocation by Rev. C. B. Jefferon. Mutt Fuller and Rev. Marable also took an active part in the devotionals. We had a good many visitors present, including some of the officers of the Moore St. Baptist church and Mr. Cary Jones. Come we are glad to have you. 3:30 P. M. we enjoyed ourselves at the Sacred concert given by Mrs. Jenelle Boxley and others. Live singing was given by the Female Quartette of Petersburg and the Cobbs Quartette of Fulton. Many thanks to all who had a part in the concert. From 7 to 8 P. M. if you had been present you would have enjoyed your self to listen to the program carried out by the members of the B. Y. P. U. Remarks were had by Mrs. Oliver Williams. 8:30 P. M. we realized a spiritual and financial success in the Pew Rally, given by the Friends Club, Mrs. E. Cobbs leader. The music was rendered by the William's orchestra of which Mr. Oliver Williams is leader. We also had selections from the Cobbs quartette, a splendid set of youth's ranging between the ages of 14 and 16 years. So you can see we had a really good time all day. Tomorrow at 11:30 A. M. our pastor has a special message for the people of Fulton and the vicinity. Come and hear this man of God for yourself. Be early and get a comfortable seat. Live singing by the choir. Monday, June 19th, 8 P. M. there will be a Grand Candle Rally at the Church, given by the Sons and Daughters of Peace Choir. A prize will be given to the one having the largest amount over two dollars in their envel ope. A unique program has been arranged for the occasion. Mr. Frank Jot er is musical director. Dont forget the Lawn Party on the Church ground. Refreshments sold. Our Rally terminates on the 4th Sunday in June and each and every member is requested to give $5.00. We would like for the friends to join hands with us. Mrs. Cora Lewis of 2101 9th street, N. W., Washington, D. C., is spending her vacation with her mother, Mrs. Melvina Holmes, 3710 Lester street. Mrs. Lewis is looking well, also nor two childre Wm. and Marion, who are companled her. Rev. C. A. Cobbs, the pastor of the Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, graduated last week from the Theological Department of Virginia Union University. We dont think there is any one in the city can preach any better than Rev. Cobbs, for a young man he needs to be encouraged in every respect. The members of the Fulton Beneficial club No. 1 are requested to be present June 20th, inst. Election of officers. Mrs. Ida Sensabaugh of Portsmouth, is here visiting her relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Logan of Fulton, Mrs. Sensabaugh is the aunt of Miss Alua Logan. Y. W. C. A. NOTES. The Girl Reserves invite the citizens and friends to be present at the Vesper services on Sunday evenings, June 18, and 25th from 6 to 7 o'clock. At whentime a Silver offering will be taken for the benefit of the Reserves Conference Fund. Conference to be held at Kittrell College., Kittrell, N. C., August 9th-19th. The Comrades and O'Cherie Corps of which Miss Beatrice Edmunds an. Mrs. R. O. Mundin are leaders will have charge of the program on Sunday June 18th, and will present Mrs. Carrie Dean in vocal solo and the following girls in a program consisting of vocal and instrumental selections. A Story, Mrs. Grace Jones; Vocac Solo, Miss H. Barrett; Paper, Miss Cori ino Daniels; Duet, Misses Elsie Galine and E. Burwell; Instrumental solo, Miss Barco; "Some Conference Experi ences" Miss Elsie Gains; Instrumental Solo, Miss Annette Hucles; Recitation Miss Annette Hucles; Vocal Solo, Mis- Mary Mayo. It is hoped that the parents and those interested in the girlhood of Richmond will be present Sunday and make their contribution toward sendi ing at least one girl to Conference. The object of these conferences which the National Y. W. C. A. holds all over the country for city girls is: To widen the reach of girl's love and friendship. To study the Bible. To live in the great Outdoors. To change thinking. To break down harriers. The following lines from one of the girls tell simply just what it means to the girls and just how they expect these friends to assist on Sunday. A gift of silver is all we ask, (So please be very kind) To send a "Y" girl to Conference And—do bear this in mind, We girls need some enjoyment and con- tact. So to Kittrell, we'll go. To study, to sing, to hike From morn to night; If YOU will but make it so Affords protection against infectious diseases. All prudent persons should avail themselves of this dependable germicide. AT DRUG STORIES EVERYWHERE OUR SLOGAN 2,500 NEW MEMBERS Interest in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is continually growing and memberships are coming in, however we are far from the 2,500 mark. On next Sunday afternoon, June 18, at 3 o'clock there will be a meeting in interest of our Drive at the 1st Baptist Church, South 34chmond, Corner 16th and Decatur Streets, Rev. W. L. Ransom, D D., will deliver the address and it is hoped that the meeting will be attended by citizens from both the North and South sides of the city. Come out and lend your interest and co-operation to the organization that has for its aim the stamping out of injustice to the Negro, which injustice continues within the bounds of our own city. W. F. DENNY, Pres. MRS. L. L. STANARD, Sec. --- THE WOMAN'S BAPSTIST STATE EDUCATIONAL CONVENTION. The Woman's Baptist State Educational Convention of Virginia will meet June 21st, 1922 at the Washington Street Baptist Church, of Bedford City, Va. Rev. Gray, pastor. Mrs. Ellus Davis, president of Alding Society, 55th South street. All persons expecting to attend, should send in their names at once. Board and lodging will be one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) per day. Those coming over the Chesapeake or the Southern Railroads will change at Lynchburg, Va. Fare from there is Ninety (90) Cents. MRS. M. W. RICHARDSON, Corresponding Secretary. HON. MARCUS GARVEY TO SPEAK HERE. Meeting extraordinary to be addressed by the greatest Negro orator of the Twentieth Century, Hon. Marcus Garvey, the man who is taiked about or five continents. Hear this man and be inspired. To hear this man is to have a new hope and to live a new life. Big musical program. Provisional President of Africa and President General Universal Negro Improvement Association at the True Reformers Hall June 30th, 1922. Admission 50 cents. Doors open at 8:15 P. M. S. H. GREEN, Pres. U. N. I. A. Richmond Div MEMORIAL DAY EXERCISES A SUCCESS. The Memorial and Decoration Day at the National Cemetery, May 30th was a decided success and the best one in many years. G. A. Custer Post, No. 11; Grand Army of the Republic, with Richard Davis, Commander; William A. Hanking Camp, No. 1, United Spanish-American War Veterans, Joseph Poindexter, Commander, and Hankins Camp Auxiliary, forming the Memorial Association, take this means to thank the friends and congregations of the various Churches for their Liberal donations in helping to defray the expense of that day. Friday, June 2, all bills were paid and by a rising vote, thanks were tendered the various Uniform Ranks and Cadets who took part in the parade, Cadets of Pufton and St. Joseph's School were After returning from the cemetery William A. Hankins Camp Auxiliary served supper to all who took part in the parade. 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