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THE RICHMOND PLANET CHARLES GREEN GETS NEW TRIAL FROM SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS COLORED LAWYER, W. F. DENNY VICTOR IN LONG LEGAL BATTLE. A REVIEW OF THE ROBBERY CASE. A Clean Fight for Right and Justice--Activities of the Richmond Branch of the N. A. A. C. P. Full Text of the Court's Opinion Handed Down by Judge Martin P. Burke. --- VOLUME XXXIX, NO. 36 CHARLE FR COLORED A Clean Fight Ful (Written exclusively for The Rich- mond Planet, by Franz Noillah.) Blichmond, Va., July 1922.—Charles Green, the colored man convicted of Highway robbery by the Chesterfield Circuit Court under Judge Southall, has been granted a new trial by the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia and will not have to serve the 15 year penitentiary sentence passed up on him by Judge Southall of the lower court. On May 14th, 1921 somebody attacked a white woman near Stop 17 of the Petersburg Electric Line and struck her down with a stick, according to evidence brought out at the trial. Charles Green, and Green was apprehended near Stop 12 of the same car line that same day and haled before the court charged with highway robbery. On June 2nd, 1921, Green was tried in the Chesterfield Circuit Court amid a scene of mixed feeling and rages. Away out in the county secluded from police protection, with only a handful of his own race on the scene, the little court house at Chesterfield was crowded to see a black man tried for an attack on a white woman, where, as the white newspapers are want to say "feeling was running high." Under these untoward circumstances Charles Green faced his accusers with the only protection he could master, and that was William F. Deny, noted criminal lawyer of this place, who was assisted by another and younger colored man of ability, C. A. McKenzie. Lawyer Denny plunged into the defense and stood by his man until late in the night and it was noon midnight when the jury finally brought in the verdict of "Guilty" and Judge Southall pronounced sentence. Undismayed, Denny moved the Court to set aside the verdict and a date was set for argument. Argument was had before Judge Southball who refused to interfere with the verdict of the jury and Green was "Porded" back to Richmond for safe keeping, where he has been "safe" ever since. At the time of the trial Frank Howard Hallion was employed by the owners of the Richmond Daily Colored American to give a story of the case, and with Lawyer Denny and Lawyer McKenzie he went out to the pretty little court-house in the woods. "The Colored American" took up the fight to do what it could for Green and to help his attorneys in his defense and created much public sentiment in his favor. The interest of The American caused the editor of the News Leader to make some investigations and the News Leader showed a kindly spirit of fairness toward the accused. Richmond people will remember the sensational article in the American which called upon the Commonwealth of Virginia to produce a certain receipt which was taken off Charles Green's person at the time his arrest by the authorities. This receipt "disappeared" and the American accused the State of being negligent in its duty to help protect its prisoner. The position taken by the American has been vindicative in the opinion of the Supreme Court as will be seen at the end of this article. Possibly the most spectacular incident connected with the whole affair was the argument of lawyer Denny at the trial, and his shrewd ability to keep his head under trying circumstances and yet say to a hostile environment just what he wanted to say. Few men have that capacity. Denny captivated his jury and the spectators in his opening remarks by a laudatory reference to the great Woodrow Wilson, and the effect his compliment to this Democrat had on the entire court room was at once perceptible. This one incident made the whole trial much easier and relieved a certain tension which can be imagine much better than described. Then Lawyer McKenzie looked square into the faces of his jury and told that group that he had made it a custom of his practice not to defend a man in a capital charge unless he himself had first been convinced of the man's innocence. These two important statements by these 2 black lawyers were all that stood between a black man and the gallows. The American made special mention of the universal courtesy and hospitality of the white people of Chesterfield toward the colored accused and his black defenders. Ball was asked for Green and bound was fixed at $2500 which of course in Green's case was prohibitive. Green is a young man with a small family. At the time of his arrest he was the father of one child and since he has been in jail another has been added to his family. He had no funds to detain himself and the Richmond Branch of the N. A. A. C. P., took charge of his case and held meetings to raise money to defend him. Lawyer Denny was employed, but hardly enough money has been raised to pay the expenses of the trial. It can be seen when a handcake the fight was made under when meeting after meeting was called and little more than the expenses of the meeting was realized. Green has been in jail in Richmond ever since the verdict of the Chesterfield Court, and is now there waiting the outcome of his new trial. Already 14 months in jail with the prospect of having to wait until a new trial can be had, unless a nominal bail can be had on account of the findings of the Supreme Court, makes a long drawn out legal contest waged between the Commonwealth, interesting, at least to the bar if not Green. It is, however a far cry from the days when a Negro charged with a crime against a white woman would have been hanged to the most convenient tree, to a day when a Negro against any sort of crime against any sort of a woman, he has a fair trial, thus saving the law from being lynched as well as the man. Until the day of fighting Negro lawyers, this latter day was never seen and unless Negro lawyers are given the important cases at court, we will again slip back into the dark days of unprotection at the hands of the law. It has been said that when a black man charged with a crime of a grave nature, gets a colored lawyer to defend him, he does so because he hasn't got the money to hire a white lawyer. It may truly be said that a white lawyer cannot defend a colored man who is charged with a crime against a white woman any more than a Southern white man can be a true Republican, politically speaking. Then, if black man expect to get equal justice before the law, they must look to the black lawyer to get it for him; for there are few lawyers who can successfully defend themselves before a pure white court, and a white lawyer's heredity and training will not permit him to give the sort of protection a black man must have when he faces a white politeman to arrest him, a white prosecuting lawyer to jail him, a white jury to mistry him and a white judge sitting on his case to see that he gets "What's coming to him." This case of Charles Green, along with the case of Fletcher Moody, let scot free of a murder charge on the plea of the unwritten law, along with the Patterson case in Petersburg, all of which have been fought successfully so far by a black lawyer, conclusively prove that a black lawyer is respect ed before the bench, at the bar just as well as a white one and has as much "pull" as anybody else. Few people recognize what little value "pull" is before a court of law and justice, and many of us harp on the fact that a white lawyer "stands" well and consequently can "put a man on the streets" quicker than a colored lawyer. Ability is neither black nor white, and the . (Continued on Second Page.) PACE PHONOGRAPH CORPORATION OF VA. DECLARES FIRST SEMI-ANNUAL DIVIDEND. At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Pace Phonograph Corporation of Virginia on Saturday, June 17th, the first semi-annual dividend of three and one half per cent was de clared on referred stock. The dividend stated above will be paid on all stock of record of July 25th, dividends pay able on July 27th. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1922 KILLED IN A COLLISION CLARENCE ALLEN LOSES HIS LIFE--FORD CAR WRECKED. CHAFFEUR INJURED. One of the most gruesome tragedies ever witnessed in this city took place Friday afternoon, July 7, when a First street car, going North street a Ford car going west and destroyed the rear left wheel, throwing Clarence Allen, who roomed with his wife at 746 North Third street, through the windshield, cutting the left side of his throat, severing the external jugular vein and tearing a wound that was frightful. It was large enough for one to put his flat in the opening. The doomed man ran through the alloy to a garage, begging some one to stop the flow of blood and thus prevent his bleeding to death. He finally came around to First and Jackson streets, where the accident happened and sat down upon the sewer opening on the south-west corner of the street. A COVERED BODY Three physicists, Dr. George W. White, Dr. Herbert Allen and the ambulance surgeon arrived, but the man had lost too much blood and he expired. In the meantime, his body lay there for about two hours awaiting the arrival of the coroner. Blood was in evidence. A sheet was thrown over the body and the police kept the streets clear. In the meantime, men were at work on the Ford car with its bloody windshield. Robert Jeffress, the colored man, who was driving the car was also injured and conveyed to St. Phillips Hospital, where he is reported to be still under treatment. Funeral Director C. P. Hayes had been given charge of the body by the wife and his handsome hearse was at the spot for a long time. CHANGED UNDERTAKERS Then some one got the wife to change the order and the body was delivered to Funeral Director Frank Hayes, Johnson's wagon removing the body, which gave many people the impression that W. I. Johnson's Sons had charge of the remains. The chauffeur resides at 1401 W. Leigh St. The dead man worked for Mr. Lliphart in Ginter Park. He was 22 years of age October 15, 1921. He left a mother and a step-father. Mrs. Lee Smith rented apartments to the couple. His mother's name is Mrs. Irene Page and she resides on Duval street between Second and Third streets. COULD HAVE SAVED LIFE In speaking of the death of Clarence Allen, Coroner Whitfield stated that his life might have been saved, had some one had the presence of mind to have made him lie down and put pressure on the severed vein at the proper place and check the flow of blood until the physicians came. As a matter of fact, Allen had lost too much blood, when assistance came and even had the wound been closed and sewed up, he would have died from exhaustion before morning. PUBLIC INSTALLATION The installation of the officers of the various courts and lodges of Richmond, will take place at the Fifth Street Baptist Church Tuesday night, July 18, 1922, at 8:30 o'clock. Come out and hear the reports from the session held at Bristol, Va. All members of the Order are requested to be present. The public is invited Get Busy! as this bee and B the winner IN THE Big Bee Puzzle CONTEST CLOSES JULY 20, 1922. Candidates for Beechie Coronation Must Get Answers in Next Week. Three Judges Appointed. There are but a few weeks left in which to send in your solution to the Beechie 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 subscri- ption but go out and get a new subscri- ment, 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 com- munity? Did you ever, aside from pay- ing 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 20th. 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. JUDGES IN BEE CONTEST. The Bee Contest closes July 20, 1922. The following gentlemen have been named as the judges: MERCEDES Dr. A. A. Tennant, Wes-President Mechanics, Sayings, Bank William A. Jordan, Southern Aid Society. Emmet C. Burke, Cashier, St. Luke Penny Savings Bank. KING DAVID CAMPAIGN CLOSED AT SHARON BAPTIST CHURCH JUNE 20, 1922. The Imperial Order of King David closed with a great success in their first campaign for the year with 1230 new members added Ao the Order and 175 children added to King David Bible Circle. Prizes were awarded the following: A. J. Williams, first prize, 100 pounds sugar; James Scott, second, 50 pounds of sugar; Harriet Blunt, third, 25 pounds of sugar. Gold Pins: Nannie Graham, Mary Dabney, Lelia L. Williams, Victoria Alexander, Alico E. Williams, Julia Coleman, Fannie M. Scott, Sallie Ruffin, Thomas Williams. Silver Pins: Alberta Lawson, M. E. Harris, Nora Saddler, Thomas Dunston, Amos Williams, Mary Holmes, Amie Wilson, Mary Holmes George Rogers, Nellie Stone, Lucy B. Cousins, and George Tyler. NEW LODGE IN PHILADELPHIA A new lodge was organized in Philadelphia, Pa., known as Friendship Lodge. The following are the officers: W. G., Ellis White; W. V., Ellen Alexander; W. F. S., Rachel C. Bond; W. R. S., Laura Anderson; W. T., Annie C. Callender; W. C., Garfield Carter; W. G., William Bond; W. I. G., Charles C. White; W. O. G., James Lewis, W. K. W., Joseph T. Callender; C. S. C., Nannie C. Lewis; P. W. G., C. Smith. A. G. Thompson, G. W., R.; Mary M. Scott, G. W. S. Dr. S. T Oldridge, of Petersburg, has been conducting successful revival meetings at Fifth St. Church. On the morning of June 3rd, 1922 at 3:45 A.M. There entered into eternal rest the soul of Mrs. Lizzie Pace. The mother of Mrs. Isabella Betts, a member of White Oak Court. No. 133 of which she was a dutiful member. She leaves to mourn their lost, one daughter. Mrs. Isabella Betts and a number of grand children, great grand children, two brothers and a host of relatives and friends. Death came after an illness of about one week. She bore her illness with a remarkable degree of Christian courage, not trust in the Lord never faulted. She said she was willing and wanted to go. And said I have a building not made by hand, but eternal in the heaven. The funeral services were conducted by her pastor, Rev. Wm. Ewell. He preached a most touching and timely sermon. He paid a fitting tribute to life. Her body was interred by the Court No. 133 in the White Oak Cemetery in a throng of devoted relatives and friends. Sleep on beloved, sleep on and take thy rest. We love thee well, but God loved thee best. ISABELLA BETTS. Her daughter. ODD FELLOWS NOTICE. A Mass meeting of all members and Ruths will oe hold at Hood Temple Church, Friday night July 28th, at 2 P. M. to talk over building an Odd Fellows Temple. Odd Fellows Edifice Corporation Incorporated. W. H. TYLER, Pres. R. W. ANDERSON, Sec. A SACRED MUSICAL REVIEW. Special services at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Sunday, July 16, 1822 at 8:15 P. M. The Junior Choir of Leigh Street Memorial M. E. Church presents a Sacred Musical Review. Benefit of Missions, under the auspices of Over-Seas and Layman's Missionary Societies. Mrs. Nannie B. Jackson, Directress; Mr. Walter Mayo Organist. A rare treat for all who attend these services. Mrs. Bettie G. Cousins, President Over-Seas Missionary Society; Mr. C. M. Kemp President Layman's Missionary Movement; Mrs. Ida Hoseley, Chairman Program Committee, Over-Seas Society; Mr. George W. Howell, Director of Over-Seas Chorus. Rev. Wm. H. Stokes, Ph. D., Pastor; Mr. Wallace Epus, Church Clerk; Mr. B. L. Jordan, Master of Ceremonies. IDEAL DAY AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, SOUTH RICHMOND. The Lodges of South Richmond, Va. will hold their 10th Anniversary at First Baptist Church, South Richmond Sunday, July 16th, at 11:30 o'clock. Rev. W. L. Ransome, D. D., the Pastor will preach. Address by Mr. A. W. Holmes Supreme Master. Mrs. S. B. Cogbill will preside. Introductory remarks by Mrs. S. H. Robinson. Male members will assemble at the ball at 10:30 o'clock and march to the church. Female members will assemble in the basement of the church at 11 o'clock sharp. Winters Puzzles Keystones (Preston News Service.) Pittsburgh, Pa., July 8—Long, tall and lean, with a world of speed and a baffling curve-ball, Winters, the Baco arach's southpaw proved an enigma to the Keystone batters here Thursday while the Easterners took kindly to the offerings of Owens, with the result that on their first game of the Western invasion, the visitors won 15 to 5. Batteries were: Bacharachs, Winters and Rojo and Keystones, Owens and Burnett. PRICE, FIVE CENTS PEALS BATTLE. N. A. A. C. P. rke. REV. DR. PEYTON IN RICHMOND PREACHES TO IMMENSE CROWDS AT SIXTH MT. ZION—SPECIAL MEETING MONDAY NIGHT. Indications That He Will Remain in Richmond. Rev. Randolph V. Peyton has come back to this city for either a brief stay or a long one. Interesting information has developed. He is only temporarily in charge of the St. Paul Baptist Church, of Montclair, N. J. and arrangements for the installation will be made after he finally leaves here should he be able to overcome the heavy pressure now being exerted to hold him in Richmond. He officiated all day last Sunday and incidentally referred to his resignation. He could not see why his action should have caused such a sensation. All the congregation had to do was to accept it, bid him God-speed and let him go. THAT SPECIAL MEETING But there are hundreds of members, especially the women, who are unwilling to do this and they are exerting all kinds of pressure to have him remain here. A special meeting of the Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church will be held next Monday night to decide the question, at which time a special committee which was named to confer with Dr. Peyton and find out just what he will do, will make its report. The indications are that if the overwhelming vote of the members of the church is in favor of his remaining here, he will give up the call at Montclair, N. J. and if it is simply a majority vote, he will not remain. KIND WORDS. Rev. Dr. Peyton has nothing but the kindest words for the church. In his resignation and a letter addressed to the Deacon Bond, he expressed regret that the work had become too heavy for him and he felt the need of a charge that would not so heavily tax his energies. Large crowds packed the church all day last Sunday and the indications are that they will be in evidence again tomorrow. NATIONAL IDEAL SOCIETY TO CELEBRATE 10TH ANNIVERSARY AT MOORE ST. BAPTIST CHURCH SUNDAY, JULY 16 AT 3:30 P. M. All male members of Richmond District will meet at the Ideal Hall, No 210 E. Clay Street, at 2:00 o'clock with regalia and march to the church. Female members will meet in the basement of the church at 2:30 o'clock. Sermon by Rev. W. L. Anderson, Vice Supreme Master of Beaverdam, Va., Mr. A. W. Holmes will briefly review the progress of the order for ten years. All members are not invited to be present. Friends are also invited. The National Ideal choir will furnish music. Mrs. B. N. Hatcher and adopted daughter, Miss Ophelia Young, of Clinton, S. C. are visiting her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. George Jefferson, 1415 McDonough Street. Dr. B. N. Hatcher is still in Clinton, S. C. with a large practice. He will be in Richmond to visit his friends and parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hatcher in August. CHAMPION JACK DEMPSEY ACCEPTS THE CHALLENGE FROM HARRY WILLS, BUT FIGHT AGREEMENT NOT SIGNED AT FIRST MEETING TWO Writes Through Jack Kearns Asking Negro's Manager to Call and Sign Up. MILLER APPROVES FIGHT Favors 'Best Man. White or Black'- Promotion Privilege Goes to Highest Bidder. Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the world, yesterday accepted the challenge of Harry Wills, leading contender for the title, and announced himself ready to talk terms for a battle. This was the first definite move made in a proposition which has been before Dempsey and the boxing public for more than a year ever since the Negro challenger came to the fore with a quick victory over Fred Fulton in Newark. Now that Dempsey is ready to fight Wills and has eliminated the color line and the suspicion that the followers of boxing in this country did now care to see the title holder enter the ring with a Negro antagonist it may be assumed that the men virtually are matched. Jack Kearns, manager of the champion, said yesterday that he expected a merry scramble for the privilege of staging the battle. When Governor Miller was asked about the fight he replied, "May the best man win!" "How do you feel about a Negro fighting a white man?" "I can see no objection to it," said the Governor. "I am in favor of the best man, white or black." MULLINS EAGER TO SIGN Dempsey accepted the challenge through Kearns, who sent a written statement to William Muldon, chair man of the New York State Boxes Commission. Kearns not only indicated the willingness of the champion to meet Wills, but to assure such an encounter he suggested to P. J. Mullins, manager of Wills a time and place for the signing of articles of agreement. Kearns had suggested Madison Square Garden as a desirable location for the conference but in his letter to the com mission he proposed that Mullins call at his office at 1455 Broadway to complete the match. When Mullins was notified of the action of Kearns he said: "I am ready to sign articles as soon as a meeting can be arranged, and I have no object to going to the office of Kearns to complete arrangements for the contest. The sooner the articles are signed and the boys begin training the pastor will I like it." When Muldloon was asked if he was satisfied with the acceptance by Demp say he replied: "Assuredly! It was just what I expected of the champion and I am well satisfied. In fact nearly all the title holders are getting in line with the policy of the commission, and championship contests soon will be all the fashion, BIDDING OPEN TO ALL "In one particular this match will differ from others and that is in the matter of the selection of a promoter. The procedure in recent matches has been to arrange with one promoter and not give the others a chance to bid. In the present instance the men will agree on conditions for the contest, sign articles of agreement, and post forfeits of $5,000 each to guard tee appearance in the ring. Naturally the exact date of the encounter will not be set down in the articles, for the promoter would need to have something to say about that essential. "The articles no doubt would set forth that the men would meet in the ring between certain dates, and the promoter would be required to name a period in the interval of which he will guarantee to put the contest in the ring. "Having made the match by signing articles and posting forfeits and nouncement will then be made that the promotion of the bout will go (to the highest bidder. No doubt there are several promoters throughout the country who will want to put in a bid and it will be up to Kearns and Mullins to sift them and pick out the best one." RICKARD INSISTS UPON DELAY When Tex Rickard was made acquainted with the situation he said he would not be a bidders unless the fighters consented to postpone the contest until next summer. Rickard reiterated his declaration, made several days ago, that it would not be possible to prepare for so important a contest inside of six to eight months Kearns also recently declared that Dempsey would need several preparatory fights to assure good condition for the title contest. Muldoon speaking unofficially, made a suggestion to Dempsey that the champion may be induced to get on. "Dempsey, who takes good care of himself," said Muldoon, "is in splendid health and strength at the present time. But he is not in fighting form. There is a simple and effective method by which he could get himself into first class fighting condition. It is aburd to even talk of championship matches between Dempsey and me, like Greb, Brenan, Williard, Martin and others. Yet if the champion met these men in handicap matches the forest in the contests would be great. "For example, Dempsey could make a match with Greb, under the conditions of which the champion would undertake to stop Greb in a six, eight or ten round limit. If Dempsey failed to stop his man it would be so much glory for Greb and Dempsey would not lose his title." New York, July 8.—Jack Dempsey and Harry Wills, colored challenger for the heavyweight championship, failed to get together at a conference called here today for the signing of a contract for the contest and the meeting broke up without result. Paddy Mullin presented one contract, which Dempsey refused to sign. The champion in turn offered the bout would have to be held within ninety days at the most, providing some one "financially responsible offered to stage it," the promotion to be done by the highest bidder. Mullins also insisted that the articles of agreement, to be drawn when a promoter is found by under the New York Athletic Commission's rules. Kearns' chief objection was that Wills' document placed both boxers "at the mercy of promoters," his construction being that regardless how small the best purse offered might be, it would have to be accepted. Mullins' argument was blinding would be spirited enough to force a big purse was counteracted by Kearns' assertion that a combination of promoters could force the boxers to meet for an inadequate purse. The Dempsey document provided that the bout be held within sixty days after a promoter's contract was signed. In addition to that, Mullins' proposal placed a thirty-day limit from today for the obtaining of bids. Mullins said his first object was to arrange the bout for this summer regardless of the size of the purse, but the Dempsey contract permitted the refusal of all bids if none was satisfactory. A battery of cameramen waited 4 hours while the wrangling proceeded in the hope of recording the signing. --- "THE MIND IN THE MAKING" Book Chat by Mary White Ovington Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People --- (By James Harvey Robinson, Published by Harper and Brothers, New York City, Price $2.50, Postage Ten Cents. "Creative intelligence, in its various forms and activities, is what makes man." So says one of the wisest writers of today in his book, "The Mind In The Making," a book which has the great asset of making us use our minds when we read it. There is nothing in Professor Kinnison's book directly on the race question, but his whole argument is a criticalism of prejudice and a demand for intelligent thought. We have, he tells us, first, "reverey," that spontaneous form of thinking when we allow our mind to travel where it will. Next comes "rationalizing" which believes its name since it is very irrational. It is the effort to make everything square with our ready-made, little thought out, conclusions. Much rationalizing "consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do." And hastly we have creative thinking, the highest form of thought, the thought which has transformed the world. To the creative thinker nothing is sacred, that is nothing is right just because it has been. "That an idea is ancient and that it has been widely received is no argument in its favor, and should immediately suggest the necessity of carefully testing it as a probable instance of rationalization." The creative thinker is the one who is ready to change his mind. Professor Robinson fills his book with interesting examples of creative thinkers who have shown their greatness by questioning the past, and thinking new thoughts for the future. He reviews Greek history pointing out that the Greeks were great be cause of their inquisitiveness, their readiness to accept new things. They had no mass of precedent back of them, and were thus better able than the churchman of the Middle Ages or the politician of today to look keenly into life and to tell honestly what they found. Their weakness lay in their notion of aristocracy which prevented their studying mechanics or mechanical things. Science was closed to the gentleman and left to the slave. That they were, however, amazingly modern, anyone familiar with Greek literature knows well. With the Dark Ages knowledge became altogether rationalizing. Men started with the proposition of Aristotle and worked from them. The eternal postulates were always there. And now we are in an age when along the lines of science men think creatively, but when along the lines of economies of politics of the relation of man to man, men still largely rationalize. Professor Robinson does not use the South as an illustration but it would be an excellent one. The South assumes that a certain attitude toward the Negro, the assumption that he is inferior, that black and white must not intermingle, is an absolute truth. It is an eternal proposition, not to be questioned, but always to be defeated. Starting out with this proposition stops creative thinking and the South becomes as Menken has said a desert of Sahara. And what is true of the Southern attitude on the race question is true of us all in various ways. Unless we have an open mind, ready to search for the truth no matter what it costs us, we do not live the full life of man. We are back at the stage of the animal from which we have recently come. "Believing is far easier than thinking." One could quote for pages in this clearly written, beautifully printed, persuasive book. We all need to read it, for we all have our pet subjects which we fail to think through. We like to bolster up our beliefs, not to challenge. But, to give a last quote. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA tion, "unless thought be raised to a far higher plans than hither to some great setback to civilization is inevitable." NEGRO FARMERS MEET AT HAMPTON 25 Virginia Counties Send Representatives to Annual Conference at Hampton. SECRETARY PUGSLEY SPEAKS States Relations Service Officials, Both Federal and State, Make Progress Reports. (By Wm. Anthony Aery.) Hampton, Va., July.—John B. Pierce Field Agent of the States Relations Service, who suprevises the Negro extension work in Virginia and seven other Southern states, reported at the recent two-day Hampton Institute Farmers' Conference that there are work among Negroes in Virginia 24 farm and 7 home-demonstrator agents who are in touch with 28,000 Negro farm families and who, with 28 county advisory boards, have organized 305 community clubs in which there are enrolled 7400 families. In 28 Virginia counties there are Negro farmers' conferences, whose officers are the officers of county advisory boards, which co-operate with the extension workers to help improve the economic and educational conditions of rural Negroes. Every year in Virginia there are held twenty-odd county faira, which serve as educational exhibits for the work of Negroes. CONFERENCE MEMBERSHIP Charles W. Pursley, assistant secretary of agriculture. Dr. C. B. Smith, chief of extension work for the States Rotations Service, William B. Mercia, agriculturist, extension work and Miss Grace E. Frysinger, who is in charge of extension methods in home economies,—all of Washington, D. C.,—represented the U. S. Department of Agriculture. John R. Hutcheson and W. P. Moore both of Blackburg, Va., the State and assistant State directors of extension work, represented the Virginia College of Agriculture and Polytechnic Institute. The remainder of the official conference membership of 146 in addition to the demonstration agents, was distributed as follows: 1 Field Agent; 4 District Agents; 49 Representatives of Clubs; 18 Members of county advisory committees; 40 members at large. This conference represented the vital interests of Negro farm families in 25 Virginia counties. RURAL-LIFE IMPROVEMENTS The home and farm demonstration agents gave detailed progress reports on the constructive work which has been done in helping rural Negro screen, paint, whitewash, and repair their homes; buy better livestock; im prove their flocks of chickens and their poultry houses; buy labor saving devices for the home; can and preserve vegetables and fruits; cultivate home gardens; organize clubs for boys and girls, as well as for men and women, hold outings for boys and girls; buy pure-bred seed-corn; preserve eggs; arrange attractive exhibits; develop co operative buying and selling organizations; build new schoolhouses and extend school terms. AFRICAN CHIEFS TAKE MANY WIVES TO PARIS. Party Includes 27 Rulers, All Over Six Feet. Paris, July 9.—Twenty-seven African chiefs, the sovereigns of various French colonies or protectorates in the Sudan, Senegal, Dahomey, Mauritania and the Ivory and Gulinea coasts arrived in Paris today. The huge black men were dressed in multi-colored sik gala costumes. Some of them carried immense spears, and all wore swords. Many of them had been decorated with the insignia of officers or knights of the Legion of Honor for distinguished services on behalf of France during the war. The chiefs presented a picturesque appearance as they faced batteries of photographers at the Lyons station. Chiefs Baloum Naba, conqueror of Togoland, and Adadji Abdoukane of Senegal, who were active in the enlistment of their followers and in the preparations for fitting them out for service in the European war, were most prominent. The chiefs were accompanied by their wives, each having from two to five. All the men were more than six feet tall, muscular and beautiful specimens of manhood, especially the young er among them. --- COLORED VETS ARE BARRED FROM MEETING. San Francisco, Cal., July 7.—Three colored veterans of the World War, journeyed from Texas to San Francisco to protest that they represented the Fairview chapter of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War, in annual convention here, were not given seats in the convention. According to the Texas order, held at Waco, Texas the charter of the chapter had been revoked. The order refusing to seat the men was issued from the headquarters of Judge Robert S. Marx national commander of the disabled veterans. "It is not a question for the national officers to determine," was the state ment. It is a state matter and has been ruled on by the Texas department." CHARLES GREEN CASE CHARLES GREEN CASE (Continued from First Page.) man who hns it can beat the man who hasn't it, whether in the church or in police court. The whole case was reversed and sent back for a new trial on the cross examination of Mr. Denny of the Com monwealth's star witness, the woman upon whom it is alleged the attack was made, as may be seen from the Supreme Court opinion, which reads as follows: Opinion by Judge Martin P. Burks, Wytheville, Va., June 15, 1922. GREEN VS. COMMONWEALTH. Circuit Court of Chesterfield County. The plaintiff in error was convicted of robbing Mrs. Lillie Priddy, and sentenced to the penitentiary for eighteen years. The petition for the writ of error is so inartificially drawn that it is difficult to say what errors are assigned. Giving the petitioner the benefit of all doubt on this question, he assigns as error that the verdict is contrary to the evidence, and possible that there was error in not compelling the Commonwealth to produce a receipt for $2.00 from the A. and B. Clothing Co., given to the accused on the day of the alleged offense, and which he had on his person when a rested but was taken from him and was not produced at the trial. On cross-examination she testified as follows: Q. "When the pocket-book was found there, it had the ring in it, didn't it? A. "Had everything in it. Q. "Did you see him put the pocket book down? A. "No. I did not. Q. "Didn't see him with it at all, did you? A. "No, I did not. Q. "Did you know whether the pock ot-book fell from your hand? A. "No, it didn't fall. Q. "How far was it from you when it was picked up? A. "Just right across the road. Q. "I asked you how far it was. A. "I don't know how far it was. I think it was about 5 or 6 feet. Q. "Mrs. Priddy, do you know wheth or not this pocket-book was taken from your hand, or whether it fell when you fell. A. "It must have been snatched from my hand because it could not have fallen because I had the chain wrapped around my wrist like this (demonstrating) and somebody pulled the pocket-book and broke the chain." Of course, if she was unconscious at the time she could not know, and her answer to the question was a very opinion, conclusion or deduction, which she had no right to give. The only fact stated is that she had the chain wrapped around her wrist and that the chain was broken. There is nothing in the record to indicate what the strength of the chain was. The testimony does not show that the acused ever, for a moment of time had the pocket-book and its contents in his absolute control. The testimony of Mrs. Priddy, if credited by the jury, showed a very violent assault and birty upon her by the plaintiff in court, but does not establish a robbery. Hobbery is the taking, with the intent to deprive the owner permanently of personal property, from his person, or in his presence, against his will, by violence or intimidation. Clark's Cr. Law (3d ed.) 373; 2 Bish. Cr. Law (7th ed.) pp. 654, 655. The taking must be the securing dominion or ab solute control of the property. The as solute dominion must exist at some time, though it be only momentary. Clark's Cr. Law (3d ed.) 337-8. "Again in robbery, as in larceny, there must be an asportation. Consequently, if the one assaulted merely drops the thing, the other, who is apprehended before he takes it up, does not commit robbery. And, says Lord Hale, 'if a have his purse tied to his girdle and B assaults him to rob him and in the struggling the girdle breaks, and the purse falls to the ground, this is no robbery, because no taking. But if B takes up the purse, or if B has the purse in his hand, and then the girdle breaks, and striving lets the purse to the ground and never takes it up again this is a taking and robbery." 2 Bish "111" cigarettes They are GOOD! 10¢ Buy this Cigarette and Save Money Cr. Law (7th ed.) Sec. 1161. Cr. Law (11th ed.) Sec. 101. The testimony in this case does not measure up to these requirements, hence the judgment of the Circuit Court of Chessfield county must be reversed, the verdict of the jury set as de, and the case remanded to said Circuit Court for a new trial. Reversed. A Copy. Tette: (Signed: J. M. KELLY, Clerk. CONGRESSMAN SLEMP RETIRES FROM THE POLITICAL ARENA Ronoke, Va., July 7.—Congressman C. Bassom Slemp, of the Ninth District of Virginia, in a statement for the Ronoke Times today said that unless no circumstances would he make the race for Congress again. "I say this definitely and positively he said, 'because I must get this matter behind me and because the Republicans of the district should settle down to the selection of another man without including me in any way in the calculation." "I am advised that I should take a long period of rest and I hope my friends will not begrudge it to me. To disregard the advice that I have received might not be fatal to me, but it is certainly unwise for me to do so. No friend of mine can or will, I am sure, ask me to do otherwise than I am doing if they have any concern in the truth of what I say. I feel that an absolutely definite, positive statement is required and it is that under no circumstances whatever, can I, or will I, make he race for Congress again. SHOULD SETTLE ON ANOTHER Man. "I say this definitely and positively because I must get the matter behind me and because the Republicans of which there are 30,000 in the Ninth District, should settle down to the selection of another man without including me in my way in the calculation. "I have tried to work this out through personal conference and through correspondence, but all that I get is that. I will be nominated a Norton, whether I desire it or not. I appreciate the friendship and flattery involved in the suggestions I have received but I simply cannot yield my convictions in the matter. God knows I do not wish to be unresponsive to any request of my friends but surely twenty years of faithful service, under all circumstances of organization, is an assurance of my good faith in this subject of such importance. I may be exaggerating in the friendship supposed to exist for me, but if so, it is because I cannot fairly permit any chances to be taken. It is silly to think that I am the only Republican in that district that can be elected. "Peery, outside the money he may advance, is the least attractive of all the candidates the Democrats have offered to the district. He is nearly 50 years of age and his life is not connected with any unselfish service of any kind, either in society at large or to individuals outside the narrow range of his business associations. If he were elected, there is no service he could reorder the district or State, and the part of the district it would be simply suicide. "The delay in making this announcement has been due to my desire to protect the succeeding nominee from the burden of the preliminary stages of the campaign and to clear up all demands on me before leaving." 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Some people complain about hot weather and grumble about cold weath er, on —_—_——— Some people are successful in spend ing arloncy and some others in earning it. wi a — EE ‘Some people are loved by some oth- er people and are disliked by some others, People, who worry suffer the pangs of death long before the dreaded mie ster visits them, An automobile is the shertest and auickest route to either the bankrupt station or io the poor-house. =e Some people believe in going hait naked, even though if what they wear is of te finest toxture, Nome married people, who aro not Happy are foremost in making ott People believe that they are. ‘We cannot forget those of our peo ple, who are sending in their subserip- tion dues without too much notifying. een ‘The “good-time’ crowd Is still having, A good time. When winter comes they will have a hard time, ‘You can slide into trouble, but you have to “work like the devil” to get out of the trouble juto which you have siidden . Many people start to Henven, but never get there. Those, who start to the other place, always arrive on sehedule time, ‘Mhousands of people say one thing ‘and do another, ‘These kind of people need watching, but who has the thaw to watch them? ‘Women like to talk and so do somo men. The trouble about it all is that both like to talk about other people's ‘Dusiness, or at least most of them do, —_—_—_—_—_—— ‘To accomplish anything In this life, ‘one must engage in a life-long atrug- ‘ele with its handicaps and embarrass: ‘ments and with its set-backs and suc: wosses. w ‘Tite monoyed men are still making money and they are slways succes ful In paying the Government out of ‘one pocket and getting it back in the ther, DR. MILLER AND THE “BOOTLEGGERS.” ‘The Pittsburgh American with Mr, Ernest’ Rice McKinney an editor is severe In its critleism of Dr, Kelly Mn ler, in his argument for a greater 14: spect for law and the constitution, ft charges that the learned doctor “dee. sdine peculiar reasoning in speaking of the violations of the 18U1-Amend- ment to the Constitution, It quotes iim as follows: q | “Phe Negro bootlegger is the great- est enemy of his race.” It comments as follows: We do not think that this statement is anywhere near tho truth, We are be set by a number of enemies and it ts more than difleult to pick that vay which ts the “greatest enemy." ‘The Negro bovi-legger is no greater evil to Negrocs than {s the white v-n- legger to Caucasians. He is a lawless Individual the samo as any other law breaker and is no More harmful thar any other. Mr. Miller seems to put the Negro boot-legger in the same class that Mr. Henry Ford places tire Jewish hoot-legger. We are of the poinion that the Negro politician, bootleggers of the Republi can Party, and Negro leaders such os Robert H{ussa Moton, are far greater enemies of ours than any group of Negro boot-leggers. But Prof. Miller goes on with a ling of sophistry and {logical reasoning ‘that is truly romarkable, He says: *.1 the Negro in order to gratify his greet for gain or passion for pleasure vio- lates the Eighteenth Amendment, with what logical consistency can he denounce the Southern white men for overthrowing the Fifteenth Amend- ment for political and racial advant- age?” For absurdity and crassness this argument stands in a class alow. How Kelly Miller, scholar that he fs, can make comparison between the fa- dividual Negro law-breaker ana une organized and legallzed diseriminar- fon against Negroes, in the Soutn, ts a mystory indeed. The mass of Negro: es ave nol boot-leggers and (hre!r viola tion of the law at this point fs the ram? as any Inw-breaking. Also, it {8 not directed at any class or race. But the overthrow of the Fifteenth Amena ment is mass action of Southerners directed sololy at Negro citizens. One would think from reading Prof. Miller's: argument that boot-legging Was under the control of colored peo- ple as a group and that Ukey had con- spired to abrogate the 18th Amend-- ment to Ure detriment of some parti- cular group, for example, white South erners, It is the kind of argument that Jone hears from white demagogues and our own barbershop loungers. | We are of the opinion that this able editor “leans too far backward,” that 0 is as radical in fils assertions ia: ‘he alleges Dr. Kelly Miller to be am Should the people of these United States decide to elect a Demoernite Congress to replace this Republican one, iL will be a enso of “swapping the devil for the witelt.” ‘The Hon, Marcus Garvey, is “leather lunged” and with his gift of spoech, he is able to tall all the time during his waking hours and we presume that he does not sleep much, pene People, who complain about earthly financial losses should remember thot they came into this world without any thing and that they will go out in the same way. Dr. W. 8. B, Du Bois in tho launch. ing of his movement and the propaga- Uion of his scheme is dealing with thousands of dollars, while the Hou, Mareus Garvey in promoting htis world wide propaganda is dealing with mil Kons. ai — Mr. Garvey says that when one Negro succeeds, he ts of the opinion that the whole race {s succoeding. This is the truth, "When the ma- Jority of tho individual Negroes sue- cood, then the whole race succeeds even though each one of them be- Leves himself to be tho whole race. People from all over the country are sonding in answers for {he Boo Puzzle. ‘Tho more subseribers sent in. with the money tho greater the prize. If you havo sent In names without the subseribers, you ean sond in the aub- seribers and we shall change your rat- ing. When it comes to appointing white falks to office, it seems that President Harding {s as lithe as a panther and ‘as active as a leopart. When it comes ‘to appointing colored folks to office, ‘he is slow-moving as a bear and as methodical as an olephant. ‘The outlook for pence in Burope 1s not bright, The World War ended, but there are other wars now in progress. The commercial world has not recov- ered and tho Indications are that some time wilt elapse before it will have done so. ' ‘Tho Ku Klux Klan has beon making donations to colored people in some sections. This is a caso of “feeding LHE RICHMOND: PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA ‘his utterances. ‘The quostion as te [which 1s the greatest and which ts the least was propounsed to Jesus Christ |whon upon thts enrth. It 4s still a do batuble question, deponding altogeth or upon the plitform from which you view: it, We are of the opinion that uz on general principles, Dr. Miller's position is sound,, atthough he may ‘have extreme views upon this liquor question, He, no doubt was consider ing the dangerous decoctions now be ing peddled and sold for Nquor and which carry insanity and death tn their wake. This is but the logleal of: fect of a constitutional requirement that taken in all js too drastic anu te now being mado the “plaything” as well us source of profit for the lawlo3s clements, Certainly, if we are to be consist- ent, we must advocate tlre enforce- ment of all constitutional provisions, {f wo intend to msist upon the enforce ment of any one of them in our faver, We do not approve of drastic critl- cism of our own leaders, It tends to disrupt our organization and to weaken our efforts to secure for ous: solves rights denied, Wo are free to say that we regard Dr. Robert Rugsa Moton as one of our leading racial ad- vorates who has borne himself well in our effort to secure for ourselves, rights denied, There are many of them deserving criticism, but there 28 a proper way to mote it. Wo should confine our eritictems ‘uside our own lines and reach a work ing agreoment. Certainly Dr. Kelly Millor has in recent years spoken boblly in behalf of the fundamenta, principles, for whicly we as leaders have long contended. As such ho {s en ttled to due consideration in all that he is bold enough to say. An invited discussion on his part of tho issues raised might have brought out much {information from his view-point, H: is a prohibitionist advocate und most of this class of people “wear green G9RBles,” so to speak. They aro funda mentally right at all times and practl- cally wrong at some other times. Still, we must recognize thom as stand ing forth as champions of the right as in contravention to the defenders of te wrong. This prohibition legislation has reached the stage where it is not on- ly a joke, but a dangerous menace to (he fundamental rights of the citi zens. That its errors will be corrected we fervently hope, but such correct- fons can best be brought about by a strict enforcement of the law. vou with the soft corn and choking you with the husks.” ‘The organtza- tion is “rotten {o tho core," go far as colored folks aro cencerned and as dangerous to the race as a dose of strychnine fy to the human body, J. R. Pollard, 1sq., chairman of tho Vopublican State Committee of Vir ginia has Issued a call for a meeting to be held at Bay Shore Motel, Buck- roo Bench, Va., August 6th 1922 to con sider and determine the advisability vf calling a Stato Converition for the purpose of nominating candidates tor coagressmen In exch congressional dis trict in this State and a candidate wi United States Senator, That the meet ing will be well attended goos without question. Jack Dempsey, the white heavy- weight champion of the world has siga cd, to meot and fight Harry Wills, the most powerful colored heavy-wolght champion before the Amerfcan people. Dempsey wants a year’s time, in which to meet the colored tighter and the {n- ications are thi. he will bo given the time ho wants, In the meantimo, he evidently hopes that something win take placo to extend the time to the year afterwards. Tho Hon, Marcus Garvey did noz speak at Louisville recontly although ho was there to speak and ho was erltt- cised for disappointing the people. 11 might have been known ard under stood that the local authorities no something to do with the affair and that ho was not to blame. Nothing would have given the Kentuckians grenter pleasure than to have beon able to sing the tune, “Ho fe in tls jail house now.” He came to Rich- mond, whore regardless of his strango doctrine and his stranger opin ons, free speech is permitted. We must admit that wo cannot un- Seratand conditions in Ohlo, the home of the President of the United States Hon. Harry C, Smith ig a candidate In the Republican primaries for the nomination as Governor and he baa had the time of his life getting hin name on the ticket, in a mannor that his friends will know his name when they see Jt. One of the white candi. datos has a similar name, The claim in a formor contest was that some Persons, whd wanted to vote for the colored candidate and vice voraa woré unable to do 80, Suffice it to say, that the editor of the Cleveland Gazette 1s now known in his fighting pojitical togs as Harry Clay Smith, The public will be gov- erned accordingly. ‘The Dyer AntlLynching bill has ven reported out and $s now on the United States Senate calendar for act: ion. We have never been ablo to un- derstand why this measure should not bo at once enacted Into Taw. Current events are so shaping themselves and go to prove Urat the measure jg as o3- ‘catuily necessary for white eltizens as for colored ones and ig as much needed in Tiinols as It ts im Texus, ‘There should he a combination of effort to the ond that {t should be pine ed upon the statute books at the earll- est possible moment. ‘The provis'on that it shall be oper- ative in States only that fail to pro- tect {ts citizens or those of other States residing within | its confines demonstrates conclusively that eact, Stute should place upon its statute books a law of a similar kind and char acter and which copies closely the Ohio Antt-Lynching BIN sponsored by Hon. Harry CG, Smith, This lynching evil has become so dangerous that radi cal steps must at once be taken to meet the issue, LynchJaw must got CONGRESSMAN BASCOM SLEMP'S WETIREMENT, | Hon. C. Bascom Slomp, the congress man from the Ninth Virginia District has announced that he will not unde. any circumstances be a candidate tor renomination and will not stand for election this Fall, This presents 9 ‘most remarkable condition of affairs in this Republicnn District, Hon. L. 'P. Summers, the most popular Repub- ‘Atean in the same District announcos that he will not spire to the office. In spite of all of this, the party leaders i that District announce that they will nominate Congressman Slemp any how., | ‘This will result fn his declining the ‘nomination and necessitate the nam- ing of some one olse, Wo are of the ‘opinion that Mr. Slemp means what he says. The well-known congressman insists ‘that the organization is intact ‘and that it is a mistake to coneludo ‘that no one else other than himsett can make a stecesstul race for con- gress. Just what effect this retirement will have upon political conditions tx ‘this Slate is problematical. While Hon, C. Bascom Slemp’s attitude in dealing with colored Republicans is not sutis- factory, it is a known fact that tho attitude of ‘other members of the Re- publican Party Is far more intolerant, ‘The anti-Negro element of tho Re- publican Party “has the ear,” 80 te spenk of President Warren @. Harding snd from present day conditions, the colored people of the State have just as mich to expect from the Demoera ‘ic leaders as from the Republican ones. ‘This is why an independent courso has been adopted and the meet Ing called August Gth, 1922 by tho Chairman of the colored wing of the Republican Party in this Stato is for the purpose of analyzing this situation and to reach an agreement ag to tM host course to pursue in the premises. THE STRIKE SUTUATION, ‘The coal strikes sinking Into in- significance along side of the shop men's strike, Tho charge that thy strike is now boing made against the United States Government fmasmuch us the U. S. Labor Board that order- ed a reduction of wages is a branch ot the Gor -nment fs not without its ef fect. . all of theso strikes, the mass es of the people bave eventually been the ones to pay the bill. The increase in the cost of living has been so heavy that the placing of additional burdens upon the people seems to be out of the question. Groups have been formed, which have insisted upon special consideia- tion for each special group at the ox pense of other people, who are en- gaged in other kinds of labor and who are not organized. Ratlroad fares and frelght charges havo beon heavily sm creased. Coal has been increased in irice to such an extent that mary people have been forced to use substt- tutes, which are not satisfactory. fe duction in the freight rates has been made. ‘The people have beon called up on to vdvance huge sums of money to the rallroads and the only return therefor came recently in the reduc fon of freight rates with railroad pas- senger fares lilgh up above formu Jevels. Now comes a demand for a reduct: fon in the cost of labor and as a result a bitter fight 1s ahead, The United States Government, tn the meantime 4s levying taxes upon practically overy thing and gtfording no observable re Nef. The outlook at present is that tho clash bas come and that nothing remains, but for. the iskue to be clesh ly drawn and fought out with the peo- ple of these United States as a deold- ing factor. Selfishness 1a at the bot- tom of the whole business with the general good secondary. There is much to be sald upon both sides, but in the meantime, the people are the suffer. ers. Wea! Lawyers who Fought to Save Charles Green from a Long Term in the Virginia Penitentiary. , ‘ , ‘ , ‘ | STUNG AGAIN? , r , r , r , —_—— r > "3 . 4 Ge > Qa ea fk ; ae LS : SF PRN 4 AB fon WS ey > Ga P > 4 : You thought this was the advertisement of some apiary, while itis only to call your attention to the ‘ ‘ “Bee Hive” puzzle on page three of thisissue. You . won't get “stung” even if you don’t win a prize in this 4 : game. It's worth your time from an educational stand- 2 . point and for the fun and pleasure you get out of it. : : But someone is going to win. Why can’t it be YOU ? i , . ‘ . 4 vate ate-cteate sto ate Seete-otei So-ote-ofe ete ato-ate deste ate ate te stocte oteateateateateateateateateateateatectecteateste or a oe at RE Rate pod RET ee aR LS ible NR ane ieee Ok See cages a eee Soe se PR GAMO ee) SR Eager uae a ae ai ye Sus i ce AE ST W. F. DENNY, Chief Counsel for Green. HARRY WILLS AND DEMPSEY, New York City, July 1d.—It's con ing! ‘That Wills-Dempsey bout for the Reavy-woight championship of the world, Just how soon and what the ar rungements are, no one, right at te present time, fs in position Lo say. But a meeting is to be held in’ the very near future at Madison Squire Garden, Dempsey and Kearns are eX- pected to drop in for a chat with ‘Tex Rickard, veteran matchmaker anu promoter. Incidentally, Harry Wills and his manager, Paddy Mullins will be there. Then the details will be ar- ranged, the time, and the place of the hout agreed on, the purse for each or the main participants and other may. ters pertaining to a bout, which will without a doubt be the greatest heavy weight match In a decade. Writing for the Preston News Sery- ice Willlam G. Nunn has the follow- Ing to say, “Things right now are’at a stan stilf, Dempsey and Kearns are away on an extended tour of the West, but ‘it is expected that they will be back most any time. Then look out for the fireworks. ~ And now that a Wills-Dempsey bout ‘is practically sewod up, one cannot but help admire the diplomatic policy of the ‘only logical contender.’ Did ho flood newspaper offices with challeng ‘es for a title bout? Did le boast of hi ability to porform in the ring? Did he flaunt bis feats, and they are many, before the oyes of a none-to-susceptl. ble public? No, Wills did none of these things. He was too wise and crafty. Last year when faterviewed here, be stated that he would lot public opinion mould it solf and when the people discover. ed his truo worth, they would force Dempsey into a match. Quiet, but none-the-less determined Wills’ atti- tudo has made a distinctiy favorable impression, The result ‘has been that newspaper writers are sport critics fro mall over the country, finally agreed that Wills was the only man qualified to meet Demprey. The result? You can see it for your self, ‘Theso writers took up the at and hewed close to the line, Did their action have the dosired effect?? Well here's what has happened. Last mont the New York State Boxing Commis sion, headed by Muldoon, demandec that Wills, who, with the foresight of a field marshal, had issued his chal lenge at the psychological moment, bi given a chance. Dempsey Inughed’ at first, then seeing the far-reaching ef foct of the organization, hemmed ani hawed, but finally accepted the chal lenge. Now the bout {s certainly, but fow wo feel, havo ever realized what ¢ aulet, patient, watchful, but none-the toss diplomatic policy Mr, Wills usec to olnch affatra.”” RACH FARMERS RAISE 90,000 AORES OF CORN. (Proston News Service.) Washington, D, C., July 16.—Accord aS Rate Se GT othe aes oe Pe ee Se LAE ME, 9 io. SCO EL eect of ee ue eee ee: ea “gy Rea ae ea Le RA BG eee 8 bo nat ac Nees ong Sint» Aimee SF FE eS gs Ce 3 Mer NPS SR bea ERR OR Gree Fag BN Se A es Cc. A. McKENZIE, Associate Counsel for Groen. ing to a recent report from the U.S Agricultural Department more than 14,000 Negro farmers in Southern suites raised 99,000 aeres of core, and the average yield was 35 bushels to Ue. acre, It is said Chat the work was done under the general supervision of state agricultural colleges and government farm extension workers. It ts estimated that a larger ere: age for 1922 has heen planted and the crop for this year will exceed 90,000 acres. ee Ideals at Centralia, ‘Tube Rose Lodge and ‘Tube Reso Nursery of the National Ideal Benefit Soeioty held thoir second anniversary Sunday, Inly 9th, 1922 at First Bapt- ist Chureh, Rov. J. H. Binford, pastor. A beautiful program was renderey ‘Pho welcome address by Mrs. M. W. Blake, was responded to by Mrs, Sal- He B. CoghiN, Assistant Supremo See retary. Mr. A. W. Holmes delivered the addross of the day, which as usual was very helpful and inspiring. ‘The Ideal Choir furnished music, which was enjoyed by all, Each nunt: ber was well rendered. “ Mrs. Williana White was Mistress of Ceremonies. HAWAIIAN RACH NOT DYING OUT BUT MARRYING OUT, (Preston News Service.) Washington, D. C., July 16.—Miss M. H. Lemon, registrar of vital statistics in Honolulu, T, H. says “Tho Hawar tan race is not dying out ag is genera. ly supposed and reported, but is in reality marrying out of existence.” During the fiscal year 1921, there were 169 marriages between pure Ha: wallan men married women of other races and 142 Hawaiian women were married to men of other groups, “It will be seon readily that this practice will tend to increnso the par Hawaiian population and at the same time decrease the pure Hawaiian pop wlation in so far as the future is con- cerned,’ she said. “CUM” POSEY NGAIN BEING PILLORIED, (Preston Nows Service.) New York City, July 14.—"I am tor clean athlotics and manly principles in all athletic sports, declared Romeo L. Dougherty last Monday after read ing an account in tho Pittsburgh Colrler in reference to the action of Gumberland Posey at baseball game in the Smoky City. Continuing, Mr. Doughorty sald: “ In spite of the fact that “Cum” Posey, famous basketball player, ig what writers would call th. “Native Son.” Pittsburgh rose in arms against him, tho othor day for using methods which we here in Grent ne cir One { oe ae FA | Berea eet ie — aes: ee acreage a a we | Basra ae Pee ea CHARLES GRWEN, ‘Tho Accused Man. er New York recognize as Cumberlon- fun in basketball but which we never suspected Cumberiand would try (0 use.in baseball, ‘Time after time Gun betland kins threatened to disappoint New York: tans, refusing point blenic to KO on with Ure game Unless the vie tims did as he would have them do. “Knowing full well that Cumberland could castiy hike back t¢ Smoketown and forget the unpleasantries while we hndto remain here and face the music, even such a power as the St. Christopher Club has had to bow Posey. As told in the New York News. last week, Posey refused to listen to reason and tried to wenken his a “site (hing-man,” and to make — matters worse the police had to be called in to Hineup the people at the box office 50 they conld get back their money which ther had passed Into the box offlce to Kee a game that never camo off, | “{ doubt seriously if Loendi Giuy fair well in these parts the coming sea xon, und much of the blame can be laid at the door of those in basketbalr who could not seo farther than n your ulead. T predict now that the coming basketball season will be frahght with disaster for many teams and Posoy s trouble in Pittsburgh 1s but a foro- runner of what we can expect in that other branch of nthleties wherein the great Ilttle Pittsburgher at one uae held the spotlight.” New York City, July 16.—It ever a club was shown tho error of its ways in basket ball. It was that club which lust weok accepted sorvice in a suit brought by ono of tho simon puros for $200 for appearing with the sald club in basket ball and whiely the player claims he never récelved. The desire for victory by hook or crook will cer tainly bo shown if this caso ever 14- celves publicity, which would force tho A. A. U. to throw this club ont of the association. a VIRGINIAs—In the Circuit Court of " The County of Henrico, July 11th,, 1922, ' IRENE JOHNSON, Plaintitt vs. In Chancery BEN JOHNSON, Defendany ‘Tho object of this suit is to obtain a Aivorce trom the bond of matrimony by the plaintiff from the defendant, on the grounds of desertion and aban: donment for more than three years without cause, reason or excuse, And aMdait havving been made and filed that the defendant Bon Johnson, iv not a resident of the State of Virginta it is ordered that he do appear here within ten days after due publication of this order and do what {9 necessary to protect his interest in this sult. And that this order be published once a week for four successive weeks In the Planet a newspaper published in the City of Richmond, Va. BE. M. ROSCHER, Attorney. A Copy.— Testo: SAMUEL P, WADDILL, Clork. --- HARRY WILLS SIGNS UP Merely Means He Is Willing To Fight Satisfies Local Boxing Commission Which Forced Him to Sign Up. BOUT NOW OPEN FOR BIDS Rickard Will Seek Battle After They Fight Themselves Into Condition. (By Charles F. Matbison.) Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the world, and Harry Wills, who casts a dark, six feet three inch shadow across the pathway of the title holder yesterday signed an agreement by the terms of which they will settle their differences with six ounce gloves instead of the verbal uppercuts that have been flying so thickly for the last week. Dempsey through his manager, Jack Kearns, signed an agreement last Monday to box Harry Wills for the heavyweight championship of the world, but P. J. Mullins, not being satisfied with the terms of the document, withheld his signature and slept over the proposal. When Mullins arrived at the Kearns office yesterday afternoon he was still in an obdurate frame of mind, and the discussion to bween him and Kearns was loud and vehement. Finally, a friend of Mullins took him to a quiet corner and said: "You are making a serious mistake by refusing to sign this agreement. It is merely a formal notification to the public that your man is willing to meet Dempsey in the ring. It will sitify the commission, as you will be acceding to the requirements of that body. The instant you put your name to the paper Wills will become an important figure in the world of pugilism and the fact that he is matched to box the heavyweight champion of the world will bring him sharply to the attention of boxing enthusiasts all over the world. The time for you to exercise your argumentative powers will be when a promoter's bid is considered. WELCOME ALL BIDS Mullins then signed his name to the paper. After this ceremony the cameraman became active and photographed Mullins and Kearns shaking hands and smiling as though they were the best of friends. As the case stands, the match now is open for bids, and as soon as an offer has been accepted the principals and promoter will sign an agreement covering all the conditions for the rings engagement. Under the agreement the time and place for the contest are to be mutually toby the parties to the contract. It is set forth that the contest must take place within a period of sixty days from the date of acceptance of bid from the successful promoter. It is also agreed that pending the life of this contract Dumpsey and Wills may engage in bouts with other boxes. When Kearns was asked how much time Dempsey would require to fit him self for a contest with Wils, he replied: "Thirty days would be sufficient. He is in splendid physical condition and would be ready to enter the ring after four weeks of work." TEX RICKARD NOT IN A HURRY. When Tax Kickard was asked it he would put in a bid he said he probably would but not in the immediate future. It will be a good idea for the boys to fight themselves into good condition by a bout or two, and I fail to see how Dempsey could do better than take on Jess Willard for a bout. "I have heard a great deal of talks about Willard being out of condition and fat. Such is not the case. On the contrary, he is in excellent condition, and he will give a better account of himself than he did at Toledo." Dempsey, and Kearns now that the agreement has been signed, will start for Canada where they have a two weeks' engagement to fill. Wills for the present will continue his work as a stevedore, but it is expected he will get some lucrative engagements and will be billed as the man who may take the title away from Dempsey. Mullins expressed himself as satisfied with the outcome of the negotiations and said he felt confident the Boxing Commission would protect him against any injustice in the final arrangements for the contest. Ghalman Muldoon said last night he was glad the principals had some to terms, and he felt sure the match would be completed in a manner that would be perfectly fair to champion and challenger. FIRST MT. OLIVE NOTES. Newtown, Va., July 11.—The Missionary Sisters of Pinetop Section held a spolnild meeting last Sunday night. Rev. George F. Holmes preached at Mt. Olive last Sunday to a very large and appreciative audience. Rev. R. N. Lawson and family attended the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Agnes Jones last Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Annie Roane is still on our sick list. Mr. Wm. Holmes has been sick for the past few days. Mr. Joshua Broaddug has purchased a new car. Miss Delma Burnette, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Burnette has returned to her home in Essex, after spending a week in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Hill. Mrs. James Broaddus has been confined to her bed for the past few days. U SHOULD GET BUSY WITH THE PLANET'S B-WORD CONTEST AND GET SOME EASY MONEY. Read the rules of the contest on page 3, and get your pencil and paper. LEAGUE DEMANDS DYER BILL AT THIS SESSION. Silent Parade in Boston, Home of The Abolitionists, and of Senate Leader Lodge, The Dramatic Climax of 15th Annual Meeting. Boston, Mass., July 8, 1922. With election of national officers late this afternoon, the 15th Annual meeting of the National Equal Rights League closed as "one of the most perfect annual meetings ever held by the raceleague," in the words of the national presider, Rev. M. A. N. Shaw, speaking Friday night from the rostrum of Faneuil Halt. The Rev. M. C. N. Shaw of Boston was re-elected president. The other officers elected are the Rev. T. J. Mepphus to St. Louis, vice-president; James L. Neill of Washington, recording secretary; William Monroe Trotter of Boston, corresponding secretary; Maurice W. Spencer of Washington, treasurer; the Rev. E. A. Abbott of New York, chaplain; A. J. Smitherman, field set retary; with a board of directors consisting of the Rev. M. A. N. Shaw, chairman, Dr. Julia T. H. Coleman of Washington; A. G. Wolff, the Rev. D. Klugh, A. J. Smitherman, E. A. Abbott, J. L. Neill. Resolutions were adopted urging Congress to renew its activities against the Ku Klux Klan, urging the U. S. Senate to pass the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill calling upon Senator Lodge to use all his power as party Senate leader to have the bill passed at this session and condemning t. color line policy for Harvard's freshmen dormitories. C. H. MACCARTHY DIES AFTER BRIEF HLLNESS. (Preston News Service.) Albany, Ga., July 14—Charles H. MacCarthy, aged 49 years, died at his home here in Jackson street, Tuesday morning following an illness of three months and a gradual decline in health for the past year. Mr. MacCarthy was secretary-treasurer of the K. of P. Endowment Bureau for the State of Georgia and a faithful and active member of the A. M. E. Church. In the death of Mr. MacCarthy the race has lost a great and true race man. He took an active and aggressive part in every movement among his people for the improvement and betterment of conditions. Besides his widow, here he leaves two daughters, who reside in Chicago Ill. note. SUPREME LIFE INSURANCE CO CELEBRATES FIRST YEAR. (Proston News Service.) Columbus, Ohio, July 14.—An interesting and unique program was carried out here on July 12th and 13th in celebration of the first anniversary of the Supreme Life and Casualty Company of which T. H. Gibson is president. Among the prominent out of town speakers appearing on the program were: Hon. B. W. Gearheart, superintendent of insurance for the State of Ohio; Hon. Harry M. Pace, founder of the Black Swan Phonograph Company of New York City; Hon. B. M. Roddy Cashier of the Solvent Savings Bank, Memphis, Tenn.; Hon. Wilson Lovett President First Standard Bank, Louisville, Ky., and many others. The exercises were held in the auditorium of the Chamber of Commerce building. A basket picnic was held at Glennary Park and a reception was also given. The affair was a grand success. Akron, Ohio Wants Cooks. (Preston News Service.) Akron, O., July 14.—There is an alarming shortage of efficient cooks here according to Miss Martha Chuso head of the Y. W. C. A. employment bureau. "We can't begin to fill the orders for culinary experts" she says. CLARENCE ALLEN KILLED WHEN CAR HITS AUTO. One man was killed and another injured when a street car struck an automobile Friday, July 7th, at First and Jackson streets. Clarence Allen colored of 747 North Third street, staggered for half a block before dropping dead when a severed jugular wound received when he was thrown through the windshield of the automobile. Robert Jeffries, colored of 1401 West Leigh street driver of the automobile received minor injuries and was taken to St. Philip's Hospital.. Motorman L. Lauroy, in charge of the street car, was arrested on charge of involuntary manslaughter by Captain C. B. Samuels. An inquest will be held some time next week by Coroner J. M. Whitfield. Jeffries was driving west on Jackson street and the Street car was proceeding north of First when the accident happened. The driver was thrown forward, breaking the steering wheel, and Allen was thrown through the windshield according to witnesses. Several doctors reached the scene shortly after the accident, and although treatment was given Allen, it was to no avail. Arising from the street, he staggered forward for nearly a block, bleeding profusely from the wound that nearly severed his head. Blame for the accident has not been fixed. TWO MEN ARE SENT ON IN THE BURLESON MURDER CASE. Charged on a warrant with the murder of L. H. Burleson, who was fatally stabbed June 11 while defending himself from an attack by a mob of Negroes over the ejection of one of their number from a street car, Her- THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA THE PLANET, 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 I am in the contest for the Bee Hive Puzzle Prize. Name bort Brooks, colored, was sent on to the grand jury following a preliminary hearing before Judge Maurice Friday, July 7th. Robert Cosby was sent on to the grand jury charged with being inplicated in the case. Brooks denies the charge, alleging that he saw "Buck" Wilmer Rock another man arrested in the case cut the conductor with a knife. H. A. Pugh, colored who was put off the car was fined $50 and put under $250 bond for twelve months. Following a hearing yesterday afternoon, Robert E. Cosby, colored, also was held for the grand jury on a warrant charging murder and William Hockaday and Matthew Shaw, both colored were put under $250 bond white Willem Rock, Patrick H. Christian Nathaniel Jones and John Harris, all colored were dismissed. FRAT PIN IDENTIFIES PORTER KILLED IN WRECK. (Preston News Service.) Philadelphia, Pa., July 13—Theodore Milton Seldon, aged 24 years, a victim of the wreck on the Reading railroad at Winslow Junction last week, was identified by means of a Phi Beta Kappa key which lay best his dead body. The inscription on the key was "T. M. Seldon, Dartmouth 1921." When the key was found immediately following the wreck investigators supposed it belonged to one o. the passengers and no one suspected that it belonged to Seldon, who was employed as a porter on the train. A thorough investigation showed that the key belonged to Seldon, a graduate of several institutions of learning and an honor student at Dartmouth. He was a native of Norfolk, Va., and had attended Lincoln University graduating with honors and then entered Dartmouth in the class of 1921. It is said that all through his college career he had maintained the highest rank, and finally won the distinction of the Phi Beta Kappa. Seldon, according to reports, had worked his way through the various schools he had attended and was working as a porter on the Reading railroad to defray his school expenses for another year. Washington, D. 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All kind of Job Work done at this office. Our linotypes are busy, but we can still do job work. THE PLANET, 311 N. Fourth Street Long Distance Telephone, Randolph 2213. Richmond, Va. WHITE TEXAN DESCRIBES STAKE BURNING; EVIDENCE POINTED TO WHITE FIENDS Indicates White Men, Not Negroes Burned, We've Gulty of Assault Speaking at Thursday's meeting on the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in Bethany Baptist Church, 269 Bank street Newark, Daniel Kelly, white Texan from Waco, toad a dramatic story on the burning to death by a mob of innocent Negroes in Kirvin, Texas, on May 7, 1922. Mr. Kelly said in pardon, "Three Negroes were burned at the stake in Kirvin, Texas, May 7, 1922, for the alleged offense of brutally asaulting and killing a seventeen year old white girl, Eula Ausley. A week later I personally investigated this affair and found the facts to be as follows: "Between the family of John King, grandfather of Eula Ausley, and a neighboring family of Prowells there had been a bitter feud in which one of the King boys had been matmed and two Prowells driven from the County. "From the thicket where the girl's body was found foot tracks led to the Prowell's and the two Prowell boys disappeared while the posse was hunting for the perpetrators of the murder. After the burning of the Negroes the Prowells were arrested and hat or released when they explained that they had been making brand mush in the thicket. The truth of their story was not investigated and it was not as certain whether the brand mash was there or not. John King said he was certain that white men were implicated in the crime. "Of the three Negroes burned the Sheriff said that one was innocent in his opinion, and the evidence shows that not more than 3 could have done the act although five were mobbed to death for jit. "The sentiment of the people generally was that an 'example' had been made, it was of small consequence whether the Negroes were guilty or innocent." Mr. Kelly was sent to Texas by and made his investigation for the Nation al Association for the Advancement of Colored People. CHICAGO NOTES. Mrs. Gertrude Dixon of St. Louis, Mo., who came to the city to witness the graduating exercises of the UM university of Chicago on June 13th at which time her daughter, Melba Dixon, received the degree of B. S. She Read The Richmond Planet --- has returned to her home after spending some time as the guest of Attorney and Mrs. Walter M. Farmer,4761 Champlain avenue. Miss Meiba Dixon is visiting friends at Cumberland, Md. and Harpers Ferry, W. Va. Mrs. Lucille G. Robinson. 3747 Elmwood avenue has gone to Ironington Ohio where she will remain indefinitely. Cornell Charity Club of which Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas is president met on Friday afternoon; June 30th at the residence of Mrs. Lou Ella Young 4114 Calumet avenue and after transacting much business held an enjoyable entertainment. The club is doing a good work in the community. Mrs. Grace Patillo who has resided at 3741 Indiana avenue some time has moved to 3810 Grand Blvd. where she will be pleased to have her many friends visit her. Mrs. Patillo is most excellent queen of Fidelity Council A. U. K. and D. of A. Mrs. Leonore Graves, 15 W. 36th St. who served as chairman of the Program Committee for the Virginia Society at its last regular meeting, is being complimented for the splendid program rendered. The Society is showing ingincrease in membership and every Virginian is urged to attend the meetings on the third Wednesday evening at Bailey's Hall 3638 State street. Rev. H. W. Jameson of Peoria, Ill., national grand master of U. B. F. aunt S. M. T. spent two busy days in the city during the past week en route to his home from Pittsburgh, Pa. While here, Rev. Jameson stopped at the Y. M. C. A. Mrs. Elliza Johnson of Ravenswood spent a week in the city as the guess of Mrs. Lou Ella Ydung, 4114 Calumbe avenue head of the Households of Ruth of Illinois and jurisdiction. M. T. Bailey, president The Battecy Realty Co., 3638 S. State street is much pleased with the time spent in Morgan Park July 4th in which he was able to assist hundreds of members of the Race to select sites as future homes during a special sale of lots on this date. Mr. and Mrs. Hilliard Settles of Morgan Park; Mrs. Elizabeth Settles and Mrs. Alice Johnson of Ripley, Ohio were the luncheon guest of Mr. and Mrs. Earnest K. Settles, 44th St., and Langley avenue on Sunday after noon. Attorney Walter M. Farmer has moved his office from suite 708 to suite 705 184 W. Washington street, where he will have more and larger space for the accommodations of his clients. Attorney Farmer had been in suite 708 for the past sixteen years. MARCUS GARVEY RUNS less the Cl he made h The ent porters wh but praisew THE DOINGS OF THE Y. M. C. A. During the extreme warm days the boys and men found a cool place at the Y. M. C. A. and the contest was high. Watch Woodson and Edwards. Every boy and man was in his place last Sunday thus the day was a full one. The workers met at the building 9. 30 A. M. and a good meeting was held. The meeting in the penitentiary 10 A. M. for the women was a great blessing and one accepted Carrist. 10 A. M. Committeemen Thomas and Johnson did the work in the city fall and every prisoner was helpea. The address to the boys 4 P. M. at the building by President Robert P. Daniel went right to the hearts of the boys. A good one. 5:30 P. M. a live open meeting for men was held and every man was very active. Subject; Watch Your Sleep. Songs were warm. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. At the building a get together meeting 9:30 A. M. for the workers. Every boy to the building 4 P. M. and get yours. A good time. 5:30 P. M. at the building Mr. C. L. Anderson will speak to the men Be on time. Songs of life. The Mt. Carmel Baptist church will give the Y. M. C. A. a voluntary offering 11 A. M. the regular service Rev. E. D. Coffee pastor will preach The choir of the church will sing. Come and be one of the number. Please do not stop praying for the Y. M. C. A. GRANTED RESPIE A ninety days' stay of execution was accorded to James "Bossy" Patterson, colored of Petersburg by Judge R. R. Prontiss, of the Supreme Court of Appeals, Thursday, July 6th. Patterson was to have gone to the electric chair this morning for the murder of Irvin Seid, a Petersburg merchant. The condemned man's attorney filed a petition for a writ of error, and the higher court granted the respite in order to review the facts in the case. MARCUS GARVEY RUNS FOUL IN LOUISVILLE HUNDREDS PAID 50 CENTS AND ARE SADLY DISAPPOINTED. Marcus Garvey, president and promoter of the Negro Universal Improvement Association was billed to speak in this city Tuesday night at Lyon Garden. The local committee made extensive preparations for the occasion. Special advertisement was scattered broadcast thru out the city. His coming was announced from the pubs and thru the newspapers. Tuesday afternoon a parade headed by a brass band moved over the city to do honor to the coming noble king. A pleince was arranged for the afternoon, and about 500 persons gathered on the ground. Many among the crowd asked where and when Mr. Garvey would arrive—the answer was passed around that he would arrive about the time of the opening of the night session, which was satisfactory to those who came early. The night session was opened after some delay and when other speakers were introduced, some explanation had to be made. It was then said he missed his train, and might arrive before the conclusion of the program. He did arrive however, and on schedule time, but for some reason his stay was brief notwithstanding he was billed to speak. He came in at the Tenth St. Depot, got a taxi for Lyon, Garden, did not get out on his arrival and was driven immediately to the 7th Street Depot where he took a C. and O., train. Thus about 700 people who had gathered to hear him were disappointed and why, no one assumed the responsibility to say. The people were not alone, even the local promoters were equally as much at sea. Meanwhile the "Back to Africa" movement got a set back in Louisville which it is doubtful whether Mr. Garvey can ever set right again. (Louisville, Ky., Reporter.) "GARVEY COMES TO TOWN." (Louisville Kentucky Reporter), The Hon. Marcus Garvey, president of the Universal Negro Improvement Association was billed to make a speech in this city last Tuesday and several of his followers had been duped to pay the price of 50 cents admission to hear him. The distinguished speaker arrived a little late and made his way to the park, but did not even leave his taxi—just summoned one of his lieutenants to his side and bent a hustle retreat to the depot, for parts unknown. It seems that the past record of Mr. Garvey had preceded him and there was something in the wind, for it is reported that the Chief Bragg had his special men working Doubt less the Chleftain scented this, hence he made his getaway. The enthusiasm of his ardent supporters who had been singing nothing but praises, when they heard of what he had done began to say ugly things of the Hon. Mr. Garvey and now they are damenting the fact that they have been buncoed again. --- PROTESTS LYNCHINGS AFTER A RESPITE BY GEORGIA'S GOVERNOR. How two young colored boys, James Harvey and Joe Jorgan, who were accused of attempted criminal assault while on a hiking tour through Georgia, were tried, convicted, and sentenced to death, and then lynched after Governor Thomas W. Hardwick had granted a respite of thirty days, was revealed here today when the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People made a letter to Governor Hardwick. The letter, signed by James Weldon Johnson Secretary, recites the fact given above pointing out that both of the youths came from respectable families and that the Advancement Association investigated their case, secured convincing proof of their innocence, employed counsel, which counsel had presented the facts to the governor while gave him sufficient ground to delay their execution set for June 30. A mob determined not to be cheated of their prey, had seized the boys and lynched them at Lane's Bridge, Georgia, on July 1. The Association's letter calls upon the Governor to institute action against Deputy Sheriff J. R. Tyre who allowed the prisoners to be taken from him as he was carrying them from Jesup to Savannah for safe-keeping and against Tyre and his immediate superiors for furnishing so inadequate protection to the men in view of the feeling against them. It also emphasized the fact that evidence against the men must have been indeed slight if he as governor had seen fit to grant the requested respite. This action was particularly urged in view of Governor Hardwick's recent public declaration that there would be no mob rule in Georgia while he was governor. --- N. A. A. C. P. WARNS REPUBLIC CAN PARTY LEADERS --- The reports of an all-night conference in Washington at the home of once in Washington at the home Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts on July 6 of Republican leaders in the Senate, at which it was decided that the Anti-Lynch Bill, the Sibbuls'dy, and other measures should not be acted on during the present session of Congress brought prompt action from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Upon receipt of reports of the center COUNT YOUR BEES BEFORE THEY HATCH ON JULY THE TWENTIETH. COUNT THEM CLOSE AND YOU MAY WIN. ence, James Weldon Johnson, Secretary of the Association wired Senator Lodge, Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, Senator William M. Calder of New York; Senator Medill M.Cormickel of Illinois; Senator Samuel M. Short ridge of California; and other Republicans leaders that if such a report were true it would be a very serious matter and one which colored voters bitterly resent. Mr. Johnson pointed out that the political effect would be worse than if the bill had been allowed to die in committee, that some plausible excuse could have been put forth the committee found, insurmountable difficulties in reporting the bill on accurate constitutional questions, but, "now that the committee has decided to report the bill, a decision in conference on the part of Republicans, in the Senate to abandon it, without any attempt to pass it, could not be justified upon any grounds whatsoever." Finally, he stated the decision is solely and squarely up to the Republican majority to pass the bill. Mr. Johnson is holding himself in readiness to go to Washington at any time to do all that can possibly be done to prevent any unfavorable action that may be attempted. --- Hopewell, Va., July 6.—A colored fish fry and frolic, held Tuesday night near Jordan's Point, on the James, the celebration of the "Fourth" broke up in a riot in which razors, iron pipes and similar weapons featured prominently, it was announced soon after the party, when Theodore Williams, one of the merrymakers reported a Judge H. F. Minter's office at Hopewell, bleeding from several razor wounds, and asked for warrants for the arrest of John Allen and John Knox. Following the arrival of Williams, another man limped in, saying that he had been struck on the toe with an iron pipe, nearly fracturing it, but that he did not know who hit him. Warrants were issued for the arrest of Knox and Allen and Allen was taken near the scene of the party, and released under $300 bond to appear before Judge Minter to answer to a charge of felony. Knox was arrested at his home and stated that he na- gone home early suffering from seven allows over the head with a piece of The Most Exquisite of all Skin Whitener Preparations You owe it to yourself and your friends to make yourself as attractive as possible at all times, and here are a few suggestions for improving your looks generally. To Whiten the Skin, no matter how dark your complexion, Dr. Paul Palmer's Skin Whitener Ointment bleaches quickly, is perfectly safe and delightful to use. At your druggist or sent postpaid upon re- ceipt of price. 25c. If your complexion is chinny or bumpy, you can make it soft and smooth by using Dr. Fred Palmer's Skin Whitener Soap, followed by his Face Powder. At your drugrist or sent postpaid upon receipt of price, 22 each. 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