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THE RICHMOND PLANET SIKI LOSES BY UNFAVORABLE DECISION. BATTLING SIKI FIGHTS MIKE MC TIGUE TO A TWENTY ROUND FINISH, REFEREE GIVING A DOUBTFUL DECISION TO IRISH FIGHTER VOL. XL. NO. 19 SIKI L BATTLING SIKI FIGHTS A TWENTY ROUND FI A DOUBTFUL DECIS Bomb Exploded Just Before Fight, Near Theatre. Dublin, March 17.—A mine exploded here tonight near the theatre in whiche the Skii-McTigue championship bout was held. Republican irreconcilables had declared a period of national mourning and forbidden the fight. Two children were injured as the explosive let go just before the princeals stepped into the ring windows in the neighborhood were shattered and the rumble of the explosion penetrated the packed arena, but beyond a momentary stir of uneasiness the spectators ignored the interruption and the St. Patrick's Day match went on. Fought to a conclusion of its twenty rounds without other untoward incident thanks to heavy policing and extraordinary precautions, the bout was won on points by Mike McTigue, the Irish-American middleweight, who thus wrested away the crown of the bat-megalese and became light-heavyweight champion of the world. George Carpentier the dethroned French champion, who lost to the black man last Fall. stepped into the ring before the main bout went on to challenge the winner, and his managers now will try to arrange a meeting with McTigue. The fight was a tame affair of easy blows throughout in which both men lent their feet, but the 2000 persons who jammed the Scala Theatre in O'Connell street in the end overlooked everything in their delirious joy that the white man in green tights had beaten blim of ebony hue with the tricolor of France belted about his midle. CROWD JOYFUL4 POLICE WATCHFUL From the moment that Eamon de Valera, through the republican self-styled Minister of Home Affairs, had decreed on Wednesday last an indent nite period of national mourning "in view of the murder" of prisoners of war and the bereavement of the families of men recently executed. Dublin had been at a high pitch of excitement Theatres and moving picture houses had closed for a day and then reopened and promoters of one of the great est matches ever staged in Ireland (Continued on Second Page) Senate Okeyed Mammy Statue Over Protests. Weekly Says "There Are More Ways of Killing a Dog That Hanging Him." Washington, D. C., March 15. (Special.)—"Let the Daughters of the Confederacy erect a monument to the 'Black Mammies of the South' in defiance of our wishes and we will put a bomb under it." This is the talk that is heard on the street corners of the Capital City since the Senate before adjourning Sunday passed the bill authorizing the Confederate body to erect a monument in honor of the old slaves who nursed their children. Hundreds of protests from organizations and individuals sent to members of the Senate were disregarded. One who is familiar with Senate affairs said this week that the bill was passed out of respect to John Sharp Williams, (Dem. Miss.) who was on the point of retiring after long service in the Senate. Senator Williams introduced the bill and requested its passage as the last measure he should ever introduce. The Senator has a strong personality and many friends among both parties. The Washington Eagle, more outspoken than many in denunciation of the proposed monument, said editorially. "A single bomb can remove a monument more rapidly than sculptors and builders can erect it. There are more ways of killing a dog than by hanging it." The Eagle also stated that the very existence of the Daughters of the Confederacy is "treason and smells to heaven.....Don't forget that you have seen rebel flags flying in Washington, the capital of the Federal nation and ornamenting its buildings." "The 'Mammy' monument is another rubble move to stamp upon the minds of future generations the lowly station once occupied by people of Color." (Baltimore, Afro-American.) Missouri Whites Drive Out Colored Laborers. Caruthersville, Mo., March 15.—A carefully organized campaign of intimidation has driven more than 2,000 Negro workers from the cotton fields of South-Eastern Missouri within the last 30 days, according to complaints made to local officials here today. Negro leaders charged that threats and warnings were sent to Negroes by white laborers fearful of losing their jobs by the influx of Negroes in to the recently reclaimed sections. Many young colored people appealed for protection after receiving warnings. "Nigger, get to hell out of here. This is a white man's country," was one notice delivered by five hooded men. Young said. "The next morning I found another note on my front porch, weighted down with a cartridge box. It said: "Nigger, if you can't read—run. If you can't run, you're as good as dead." Youth Outwits Bandits: Saves Thousand Dollars. Messenger Carries $1 400 in Pockets and Assailants Get Empty Box. Buffalo, N. Y., March 14, A messenger boy's strategy saved the Gates-Lathe High Valley Coal Sales Company $1,400 today. Harold Cunningham, 18 years old, was sent on his daily trip from an east side branch to the main office downtown with the receipts. He was waiting for a street car when two men drove up in an automobile knocked him down and fled with the cash box. Because of numerous holdups Cunningham had made it a practice to transfer the bulk of the money to his pockets. He did so today and the cash box which the bandits carried off contained only a few dollars in silver. NATIONAL BAPTIST LITERATURE HAS NEW FEATURES. We have just received some periodicals edited, printed and published by the National Baptist Publishing Board located in Nashville Tenn. This institution for more than twenty-seven years has specialized in producing modern Sunday School literature for such Sunday Schools as desire to get on the frontline basis. The literature for this quarter has some new and distinctive features that in a measure make it peculiarly adapted to the Baptist Sunday Schools everywhere. The music section with two songs words and music, has placed this literature above that of any produced by any other denation in that it gives the Sunday School scholar the advantage of a musical, as well as, a literary insight to the Sunday studier. The new Secretary of the Publishing Board, Henry A. Boyd, elected to succeed his father, the late Dr. R. H. Boyd, together with the Editorial Secretary, Dr. D. J. Hull, has decided to lift as as possible the standards by bringing every school up to a high mark. We especially refer to the Advance Quarterly, Intermediate Quarterly and the Primary Quarterly with the Easter Program or Greetings that have reached our desk recently. Senate Rejects Naming of Colored Customs Officer. (Crusader News Service) Washington. March 15.—The contest ed nomination of Walter L. Cohen. Negro Republican of Louisiana, to be Custom Comptroller at New Orleans, was finally defeated today by the Senate, which rejected the President's nomination. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1923 SENATOR BORAH AND I. W. W. ORATOR VOICE DEMAND FOR GENERAL AMNESTY FOR ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS AT MASS MEETING While President Harding was speaking to Florida for a month's vacation, the official publicity announcing that he was leaving "a virtually clean desk," a group of working people in New York City were completing preparations for what proved to be the most impressive demonstration yet made to remind the President, that his desk—and his record—will not be "clean" until he issues the order that will set free the last of the 53 working men still being held in federal prisons ostensibly for "opposing the war," but in reality because of their past activities in championing the cause of labor. Over 3,000 people crowded the Lexington Theatre on Sunday, March 11, and cheered repeatedly the insistent demand that the much-boosted claim of the United States to be "the land of the free" be transformed from a sickening hypocrisy to at least a temporary reality by the release of these men, im prisoned solely for having been true to their ideals and having done what they could to make the world a fit place to live in. The meeting was roused to a high-pitch of emotion by the first speaker, Sam Scarlett, an I. W. W., sentenced to 20 years but recently released subject to deportation to Scotland, who held his audience spell-bound for an hour while he pictured the long struggle of the workers of the west and northwest to improve conditions in the logging and construction camps mines and harvest fields, the systematical persecution by the powerful financial interests controlling the machinery of government and so-called justice in those sections, the brutal treatment of I. W. W. prisoners in the jail awaiting trials, the mockery of justice in the court proceedings, the inhuman sentences inflicted by capitalistically minded judges the unfinishing stand of the men in the face of fendish cruelty behind the prison walls and their refusal to sue for mercy or break the solidarity of the group by asking for individual pardon. "Those 53 fellow workers of ours are not being held in jail for what they did in the past," Scarlett said, "but for fear of what they would do if released. The authorities know that prison has not broken their spirit or changed their opinions one whit. The financial interests that own the big industries of the west know that every one of those men will, as soon as he comes out of prison, go right back to the spot where he was arrested and take up his work as a labor organizer where he left off when taken to jail in 1917. That is why the Washington officials turn a deaf ear to all appeals to their supposed—and purely imaginary—sense of justice or feelings of humanity, and that is also why it is plainly and squarely up to the working class to wake up and take such action as will force open the prison doors for these men who are being victimized solely because they dared to stand in the front ranks in labor's battle. "It is because these men were capable speakers, writers and organizers for the workers that they were put in prison nearly six years ago and it is for the same reason that the workers must set them free so that they can go on with their work in the interest of labor." Senator Borah, the prosecutor of the former I. W. W., leader, Bill Haywood in the famous Haywood-Moyer-Petitbone case, started his hearers by bringing out the same point namely, that these men are in prison because of their activities in the I. W. W. He protested against the injustice of holding men in prison for something not mentioned in the indictment and not recognized in law as a crime. "What," he asked, "is the controlling reason for keeping these men in prison? It is not, in my opinion, because of the offenses for which they were convicted but for another offense unknown to criminal code, namely, because they are members of the I. W. W. They are not in prison by reason of any acts of violence to person or property. They are political prisoners. It is not right to put men in prison and keep them there solely because they (Continued on Page 4.) CUE GAMES SIN IN S. CAROLINA (Crusader News Service) Columbia, S. C. March 15—A bill prohibiting the playing of pool or billi- dling. S. C. was passed to day by the State House of Representatives and sent to the Senate. WOODMEN HEAD PASSES' AWAY Hon. C. M. White, Supreme Commander of the American Woodmen died in Denver, Colo.. Wednesday, March 21 1923 following an operation. Mr. White had been on a country-wide tour in interest of the Woodmen and had just returned to Denver. His ability as an organizer and business genius was recognized as foremost in America. Court Orders Names of Klan Members Revealed (Crusader News Service) Topeka, Kan., March 15.—The Supreme Court of Kansas dealt a hard blow to the ku klux klan this afternoon when it ordered H. H. Kitchen, a klan organizer, to answer a question put to him Saturday in the ouster proceedings against the K. K. K. being conducted by Attorney General Griffith before S. M. Vrevster, Commissioner appointed by the court to take the testimony. Kitchen was asked by the State to produce an application for membership in the klan supposed to have been signed by 140 citizens of Topeka. He refused, declaring he had "taken an oath before God not to divulge the names of any members of the order." Attorney General Griffith then brought action in the Supreme Court to compel him to answer the question or be punished for contempt. Hearing will be resumed Thursday when Kitchen will again be asked to produce the document. Steals 75c. Worth of Coal; 15 Lashes. Year in Jail. (Crusader News Service.) Wilmington, Del., March. 15.—For stealing 75 cents worth of coal which he returned after his capture, Burt Qualies, *Negro*, received 15 lashes from the public cat-o-nine-tails and was sentenced to a year in the workhouse. This is not a record of slavery days; it happened here today. Qualies it was shown had to steal the coal or go without during the recent cold spell, and have his family freeze to death. However, he was a Negro and was given the maximum penalty. The coal was stolen from a car on the sliding of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. WEDDING RECEPTION The wedding reception of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Price, Jr., will be held Friday, March 30th, 1923 from eight-thirty to eleven-thirty at their residence, 210 East Leigh Street. Friends are invited. No cards. EASTER APPEAL MADE BY N.A. ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York, today made an Eastertime appeal to colored citizens throughout the United States to support the work of the Association. The appeal, which is signed by James Weldon Johnson, is as follows: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People goes before the colored people of America, standing on its record of accomplishments, and asks that they further the work by liberal financial support. Most readers of the colored newspapers, which have fully and generously reported the Association's activities are familiar with its accomplishments. Let me only briefly recall a few of them: 1. We have delivered a body blow at peonage in America by fighting the cases of the condemned Arkansas farmers through the United States Supreme Court, winning a reversal in the cases of five defendants upon which the cases of 74 others in prison now hinge and holding up he iniquitous practices in the cotton-raising sections of the country before the gaze of the entire world. 2. American lynching has been made a world-wide issue. The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, though it failed of passage in the Senate after being forced through the House of Representatives, is not yet dead. An overwhelming sentiment against lynching has been and still is being created by the N. A. A. C. P., which is the first organization in America to conduct a systematic and persistent campaign against this evil. Money is needed, and now, to continue this fight as it should be continued, until a federal anti-lynching law is enacted and enforced. 3. We have taught the Southern States that they cannot extradite colored men where there is danger of lynching instead of prospect of a fair trial. 4. In every part of the country, the N. A. A. C. P., interests itself in legal defense, advises colored people, and as far as its meager means permit, employs lawyers to defend them and prevents gross injustice against the Negro in America. If the colored people of America want this work to go on, if they want an organization resolutely and unfinchingly safeguard their interests and letting them know of every step in the forward progress, then let them support the N. A. A. C. P. This work costs money. We do not believe it costs what it is worth. If it is to con tinue as it has in the past, then colored Americans must give and give generously. The N. A. A. C. P. publicly accounts each year for every cent received and expended. We make this Easter-time appeal, confident that the record of our achievement will speak for itself. Although there are some well-disposed and generous white people, more and more the task of self-help falls to the Negro himself. The Branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People throughout the country are now conducting their spring drive for membership. You can help the Association by joining the branch in your community. If there is no branch there, you can help by sending your contribution, by check or money order to J. F. Spingarn, Treasurer 7) Fifth Avenue New York City. (Signed:) JAMES W. JOHNSON Secretary National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. N. C. Senate Goes on Record for Ku Klux Klan. (Crusader News Service) Raleigh, N. C., March 15.—Takins up various measures designed to regulate masked bands, the North Carolina Senate today voted down the Milliken bill to make secret organizations register the names of their members, refusing a substitute to make appearance in masks a misdemeanor, and then, 36 to 11, passed the Armfield bill, advocated by those who praised the ku klux klan. The galleries were crowded, and there was frequent applause at compilatory references to the klan. WHITE GIRL, AFTER MORTALLY WOUNDING HER CONSORT, FRAMES ASSAULT CASE TO BAFFLE POLICE, BUT THEY FAIL TO FALL Dunbar Society Wins at the Hampton Institute. Administration Ship Subsidy Bill Wins A Victory. Hampton, Va., March 22.—The annual Adams Prize Debate on "Resolved: That the Administration Ship Subsidy Bill should be Passed by the Congress," recently held in Ogden Hall, Hampton Institute, was won by the affirmative team of the Dunbar Literary Society, consisting of Thomas W. Young, Norfolk, Va., Thomas H. Shields, Jr., Charles City, Va., and Edwin S. Tate, Charlotte N. C. These men received gold medals at the hands of the presiding officer, Elbridge L. Adams of New York, a well-known lawyer, who for thirteen years has given medals to the Hampton winners in the annual debate and in the annual essay contest. The negative side of the debate was presented by D.Coaken Jones, Savannah, Ga., Clarence H. Richmond, Salem, Va., and Paul W. O. Cardozo, Lagos, Nigeria, West Africa. The judges were: John Weymuth, Hampton, Va.; W. R. Walker, Newport News, Va.; and Rev. R. H. Bowling Norfolk. Mr. Adams announced the following medal winners in the essay contest Gold, John T. Jones, Montgomery, Ala., "Military Training in Secondary Schools"; Silver, Wesley D. Elam; Waverly, Va., "Needs of my community; Bronze Charles L. Cooper, Harrisburg, Pa.; "Electricity Our Great Servant." Music was furnished by the Girls' Glee Club, under the direction of Wilhelmina B. Patterson; Fritz Spiadler a "Cavalry Song," arranged by N. Clifford Page, and "The Bees" by Nealeels sohn-Silver. Special Conference April 3 for National Baptists. L. K. Williams, D. D., President, 3101 South Park Avenue, Chicago, Ill. My Dear Sir and Brother:— I am planning a conference for Memphis, Tenn., April 3rd at 10 A. M. at Beale Avenue Baptist church. This Conference will be attended by interested laymen, patriotic pastors, and general denominational workers of the States and the National Baptist Convention. The purpose of it is to have a better understanding of our National Bap- ist Convention, its needs and require- ments, to plan a campaign that will free the Convention of debt at Los Angeles and to adopt plans to collect enough money to guarantee the con- struction of our Publishing House. I am writing to ask you to invite the general denominational workers in your State patriotic pastors, laymen and sisters of the Missionary Circles. Ask them to be present without fail The meeting will last one day and night. Memphis is a good town, well located and they will give us royal en toulment. Notify me if you will correspond with the leaders of your state and help to influence them to attend this Con- ference. Would be glad to have you make such publicity of it in the col- umns of your State papers as will help make the meeting a success. L. K. WILLIAMS, President National Baptist Convention White Woman Forged a Colored Veteran's Check (Preston News Service) Washington, D. C., March 22.—Mrs. Margaret B. Buchannan, former private secretary to Representative Kendall of Pennsylvania, was held for grand jury last Thursday afternoon on charges of having forged indorsements on three veterans' bureau checks payable to Mrs. Martha Warf, whose son died overseas during the World War. These checks aggregated $1,600 and were drawn to the order of Mrs. Warf. Warf who was a servant in Mrs. Buchanan's home. ISION. ORTALLY WOUNDING ES ASSAULT CASE TO BUT THEY FAIL TO FALL (Preston News Service) Little Ark, March 21.—Al though deputy sheriffs arrested 10 Negroes last Thursday in connection with the attack on a young woman on the Mabelvale plike Tuesday night and the serious slashing of her escort, Sidney Ford the young woman whose name is withheld, was unable to identify any of the Negroes taken into custody. Six of them were released, while the other four were held in the county jail, but probably will be released in a day or so, Sheriff Adkins said. Sheriff Adkins said last Thursday night that he had exhausted every clue given him. He said that after the girl failed to recognize her assailant among those arrested the case appeared to be hopeless. He as much as intimated the probability of a fight between the couple and for fear that her companion would die the best thing to do was to trump up some sort of story about being attacked by Negro highwaymen. When a report from the hospital reached the young lady that Fior would recover it is said that she told a slightly different story. According to Sheriff Adkins she appeared to be more collected and gave a more complete description of the Negro, en saying that he had two upper teeth missing. Her story is, according to officers, full of small details and this makes the officers suspect that it is largely one of imagination. Sheriff Adkins said that he would exhaust every clue given him. Harding Urges Education of Negroes. (Preston News Service) Washington, D. C., March 12—Education is "precisely the right approach to the great problem of the Negro race's place in our American civilization." President Harding told the Negro Educational Congress in a letter at the opening session of its five-day conference here. "It is true, indeed" continued the letter, "that the same might be said of every other race or national or social element that goes to make up the total of our citizenship. But it is peculiarly true of the Colored people, because they have been so little favored with educational opportunity and therefore have a great deficit in this regard to make up. "I have always felt that the right kind of effort along educational and industrial lines among the Colored people is certain to be productive of the most useful results, both to them and to the national interest in general." Kills Wife; Wounds Stepson; Commits Suicide. (Preston News Service) Oklahoma City, Okla., March 15— Using a pistol a knife, a razor and an ax. A. B. Dowen, killed his wife, Mrs. Rbody Bowen, fatally wounded his stepson, and then killed himself. The slayings occurred at the home of Mrs. Bowen, who had sued for divorce and had obtained a restraining order to keep Bowen away from the premises. British Army Office in Cairo Bombed; One Killed. (Crusader News Service) (Ussler News Service.) Cairo, Egypt., March 15.—British military headquarters here were attacked by unidentified bombers today. Egyptian patriots dashing through the city in a motor car, hurled a bomb into the headquarters building itself and another into an adjacent cafe. The second eroded, killing one Egyptian soldier and wounding three British. Cairo City is astounded at the daring nature of the attack, which was the third in three weeks. Guards were too surprised by the suddenness to take any action. The unexploded bomb penetrated the heart of the signal headquarters. Had it fulminated it would have disorganized British army communications in the district. BATTLING SIKI FIGHTS MIKE MC TIGUE TO A FINISH AND SHOULD HAVE HAD DECISION TWO ```markdown ``` ИОИ PLANES TOUCH IN TAG GAME. Remarkable view of two airplanes which participated in demonstration of how messages and fuel could be transferred in midair. They touched eight times in midair. BATTLING SIKI FIGHTS A FINISH AND SHOU (Continued from First Page) had announced that they would ig nore the rebel ban, which was directe particularly at the fight, and put on the bout. Anonymous letters had ap peared earlier in the Dublin newspapers, protesting against the bout on a Catholic national holiday and a civil guard had been thrown around the Claremont Hotel, Howth, where Siki was awaking the day of the fight. But Irishmen habitually take St. Pa- rick's Day as one of joyful celebration and when it dawned this year Dublin, a city already revered by the prospect of a great fight forgot its alarms and floored out to make holiday. Not so, however wi thed responsible authori- ties. Threats of tr eased by then the crowd, were remem- and organized and elaborate pro- tions were taken lest some outrage with in the theatre precipitate a terrible panic. The Scala Theatre was surrounded by uniformed metropolitan policemen through whom those armed with tickets were allowed to filter slowly, only to be confronted at the entrances by members of the Criminal Investigation Department, who made strict examination of every single person who entered lest some one get in with fire arms or explosives. While this double line of pickets was guarding the theatre and its immediate approaches alert patrols were combing the nearby streets, ready to quell any attempt at violence. was past all these guards that a crowd far beyond the capacity of the theatre, a moving picture place, which stands in a side street near the old ruined Post office, inside its way nearly every person in it bedecked with shamrocks, yet momentarily for getting the importance of the green in his eagerness to discuss whether white or black would win, whether the evening would end with the French Jack Johnson once more supreme or whether Ireland would be boasting a champion. GREETINGS FOR CARPENTIER. Slowly the ringside seats filled, the whole amphetheatre was packed the disappointed overflow was banked out side, as near as the police would allow. Then there came the first great outlet for enthusiasm with the arrival just before 8 o'clock of Carpentier from Paris to see the man who beat him last year in such decisive and dramatic fashion. He had a tremendous reception from these Irishmen, who can forget for a moment even their civil war in sport. Carpentier has only recently fully recovered from the punishment he took when he lost his title. He began training this week for his prospective contests which include a return match with Siki, and his right eye shows the signs of the damage which it received. Carpentier stepped into the ring and was roundly cheered as he was introduced to the house. He announced his intention of challenging the winner, Beckett was next introduced, and Frank Moran next; both receiving oyations. Cheers were raised when Postmaster General Walsh and the chief law agent of the Free State, O'Kennedy, took ringside seats. Then came the contestants, each guarded as he entered the theatre by a police patrol. First McFigue the chat lenger for the Negro's title to the light heavyweight championship of the world. There is no need to write of his reception. Although, owing to the lim --- PICTORIAL REVIEW OF THE CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WORLD M. SAILING ON GEO. WASHINGTON. Honorable Alexander P. Moore, American Ambassador to Spain, who sailed on the S. S. George Washington recently. THLETI MIKE MC TIGUE TO LD HAVE HAD DECISION itted capacity, prices were high, there were nearly two thousand present and a great roar went.up. MEN IN THEIR CORNERS. After a few preliminary bouts, one of which was won by Stuber, Siki's sparring partner, on points, the principals took their corners at 8:15 both looking in the pink of physical fitness. While Siki had the advantage in weight and reach and the glamour of his recent notable achievement, McTigue counterbalance this with a long record of successes, which included the defeat of several colored pugilists. Both men had trained hard on the out skirts of Dublin and the impression generally gained by the public exhibition of each was reflected in the betting, which ruled at evens. In some quarters there was a disposition in favor of McTigue, but nationality would have had its influence here. Experts like Carrier, Carter and Major Wilson an English promoter, were in the Irishman. McTigue was the first to enter, wearing a slate blue coat. The Negro followed quickly, smiling and enveloped in a purple dressing gown. He shook McTigue by the band. As the gong sounded for the open- BATTLING SIKI ing round and the two leaped from their corners, they presented a striking contrast. The Irishman's white skin and green beeches showed up under the strong electric light and made the Negro, who wore he French tricolor or as his belt look yet more black. Siki was the aggressor in the first round. McFigue fencing him away with his left and offering a difficult target as he retreated. Siki's blows (Continued on 6th page) THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA M. T. DOME By J. M. Baer AS IVE SAID, EMPTY, WEALTH IS ALL IN A MAN'S MIND! GUESS I'M ABSENT-C MINDED! WELL YOUR MIND MAY BE ABSENT BUT BEING RICH IS NOT MERE LUCK! IT IS A MATTER OF PLUCK! WELL, SHOW ME SOMEONE TO PLUCK! THE FASHION OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY FROM LAND OF A HAREM. A charming afternoon gown of Turkish print silk with side drape of eyeleth embroidered batiste. CS M. T. DOME AS IVE SAID, EMPTY, WEALTH IS ALL IN A MAN'S MIND! IT IS A MATTER O Basket-Ball Results COLORED TEAM WINS THE CITY CHAMPIONSHIP OF XENIA, OHIO. (M. C. Wright, Jr.) XENIA, O., March 21. The John Poane Post, American Legion Basket ball Quintette won the Xenia cham- pionship from the Famous Autos (a white five) by score of 24 to 16. The colored boys outplayed the white team from start to finish. Sol. But- ler and Capt. Winters were the out- standing players. Dean Mohr is coach and manager of the John Roan outfit. John Roan Post Famous Autos Noel J. Anderson F Barlow Winters (Capt.) F Mark Duff C Solmano Butler G Kohely Ward G Solowitz Morehouse Wins National Intercollegiate Crown. Morehouse Wins National Intercollegiate Crown. 40 Atlanta Y. M. C. A. . . . 18 44 Clark University . . . . 19 36 Morris Brown University 20 40 Tuskegee Institute . . . 12 43 Clark University . . . 15 43 Tuskegee Institute . . . 14 45 Hampton Institute . . . 20 39 Newport News Y. M. C. A 10 22 St. Chris. A. C. (N. Y.) 34 28 Raven A. C., Engle- wood, N. J. 20 OY 1 Parade of the new guard passing Government House with the Guard of the National Army presenting arms as they pass, HAMPTON AWARDS H B B TO CAGERS. (By Reuben F. Jones.) Hampeon, Va., March 21.—At an informal meeting of the varsity men who constituted the Hampton Institute basketball team for the season just closed J. T. Langston of Whaleville, was selected by his team-mates to lead them next year. "J. T." as he is known to his comrades, plays guard. He has played that position for two years. He is well liked, and, incidentally, he is all-round athlete. He played half-back on the football squad for two years and won his letter last year in track. As a 440-man "J. T." ran sec ond to Jimmy Moore of Penn State at Washington last May. In the same race at Hampton, held the following week he showed his heels to the entire field. The following men were awarded the "H. B. J."; David L. Gunn, ex-captain; M. Alfred McNichols Jr.; Georgia W. Frazier; W. Warrick Cardoz; David B. Burrell; Chester R. Jones; and Junius T. Langston, captain. All of these men will be at Hampton next year. Coaches Parker and Brown have predicted a championship team for Hampton. Interest is now turned toward baseball, track, and tennis. Fifty-four men reported for baseball and fifty reports for track work. Hampton's nine should be the fastest that she has had for several seasons. There are many promising candidates that are working out daily. That mighty championship track team of 1922, with the exception of Captain Watley, who graduated last June has reported this year. There are several new men that have reported who have the form of veterans on the clinder path. The "Seasiders" relay team is the fastest ever produced at Hampton. Howard will have her hands full in defeating this team, although she has the advantage of experience. Wilberforce Teams Won All Their Games. Wilberforce Teams Won All Their Games. (Preston News Service) WILBERFORCE, OHIO. March 17. Thus far neither the boys nor the girls basketball teams has lost a game this season. The scores for the two 0 Alumni ..... 14 1 Dayoon Y. M. C. A. ..... 5 2 Indianapolis Y. M. C. A. 10 3 Morris Brown Univ. ..... 13 4 Indianapolis Y. M. C. A. 28 5 Springfield Y. M. C. A. 15 GIRLS Fiberforce 0 Cincinnati Girl Scouts ..... 6 1 Simmons University ..... 7 2 Cincinnati Girl Scouts ..... 3 3 Kentucky State Normal ..... 0 104 HAMPTON ATHLETES REPORT FOR TRACK AND BASEBALL. 104 HAMPTON ATHLETES REPORT FOR TRACK AND BASEBALL. Championship Meet May 19 (By Gideon E. Smith, Acting Physical Director Hampton Institute.) Hampton, Va., March 17—A call for Hampton Institute candidates was answered by 54 candidates who signed up for track and 50 for baseball. With the exception of ex-Captain Wattley of the track team all the members of the successful team of last year reported. Light work in track will commence this week. Captain Reuben F. Jones of Baltimore will lead his men out each day for the daily work-outs. Hampton has some excellent pole vaulters and half milers. The track team will participate in two important meets—at Howard, on May 12, and at the second annual championship meet, on Armstrong Field. Hampton Institute, on May 19. The Hampton inter-class track meet will be held during the last part of April or early in May. A large number of colleges and secondary schools are planning to be represented at the Hampton track and field meet on May 19th. Wilberforce University of Ohio and Livingstone College of North Carolina have given assurance that they will enter teams. It is expected that all members of the Colored Inter-collegiate Athletic A-sociation will enter teams. Hampton hopes to have a large number of our other colleges and schools enter teams for the championship meet. 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Captain T. T. Coleman, Cumberland, Va., of the famous 1922 squad, will be in charge of this group. THE GIANTS MAY JOIN EASTERN ASSOCIATION Richmond fans will welcome the news that Captain Pettus of the Richmond Giants will report to Manager James T. Frye here next week and complete all arrangements for the baseball season here for the professionals. It was noised abroad that Captain Pettus would not sign a Richmond contract this year and the wires were kept hot between here and New York, making sure of the return of this efficient leader. The prospects are bright for professional ball here this season and it is rumored that the Giants have been offered a berth in Bolden's Eastern Association. If this materializes, and it seems very probable, Richmond will be placed high upon the baseball map. Plans for the new park at Hovey Field are materializing, only a few legal technicalities interfering, but the Giants will not be able to start the season there. 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Reports coming from all corners of the State point to a record-breaking attendance at this initial classic; a riot of collegiate colors intense enthusiasm, the salendor and gaiety of the Easter fashions adorning the fairer sex, the anxiety of the players to make an impressive debut at the season's opener, and the importance of the game all promise to make this clash a memorable one. A thirty piece band, spirited student bodies from both institutions and well-trained teams will in all probability make historic Hovey Park a picturesque scene. Special trains will run from outlying sections, autos and cars will bring others, and it is expected that a mass of humanity will pour into the spacious park. Monday, April 2nd to await the Umpires' delightful bellow: "PLAY BALL" Then, two worthy foes will cross bats. Almost 50 candidates compose Union's squad and many show promise in practice workouts. 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SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ..... $ 2.00 Monthly ..... 1.50 Three Months ..... 4.00 Foreign Subscriptions ..... 2.50 SATURDAY ..... MARCH 24, 1923 An upright life is a valuable asset in time of trouble. You should do right even though the people around you do wrong. 'Climbing a hill is all right, but keep on climbing. You will reach heaven after a while. Every State seems to be praying for relief from its law-makers and the country at large is doing the same thing with reference to the Congress A good colored person is a jewel that even white folks value, but a bad colored person is a devil that should not remain long upon the earth. Our friends have been sending us renewal subscriptions, for they know we have been in the midst of a struggle that comes but once in a life-time We know the white folks around about here and some of them deserve a front seat in heaven, while some others are entitled to back seats in the other place. President Warren G. Harding wants a second term or at least those office holders appointed by him want it for him. He is entitled to this kind of recognition. The legacy handed down to him will require more than eight years to get even on the way to an adjustment. MR. BRYAN AND THE NEGRO. There cannot be any longer a double as to the fact that Hon. William Jennings Bryan, now a resident of Miami Florida is a candidate for office in that State. It was announced sometime ago that he aspired to be United States Senator from this peninsula State. When a white man moves South from the North or West, in order to emphasize his position and to popularize him self with his southern neighbors, he starts out abusing, misrepresenting or attacking Negroes. In this attitude, he antagonizes a most influential element of the Southland, who was raised with and by this class of people. Hon. William J. Bryan is no exception to the rule and as a result, he will have this black contingent working among the most influential classes of southerners against him. A southern white man will abuse and maltreat at times his own Negroes, but he does not want a northern or western white man to do it. This is why outsiders, white men from other sections never understand the relationship between the southern white man and his Negroes. He will eat with his own Negroes, sleep with them, quarrel with them and even punish them severely, but he is not going to stand for that kind of treatment to his black friends by this outside class of white people. But, what did Hon, William J, Brigan say and why did he say it? Here it is as it appeared in the New York Times of Sunday, March 18, 1985 under the caption of "Bryan Says North Would Act as South on Negro Question." Late last month I spoke at a banquet of the Southern Society. I was not on the printed program, but was called upon when the advertised list of speakers was completed. One of the speakers, in emphasizing the importance of that part of the Declaration of Independence which affirms that all men are created equal criticised the limitations that have been placed upon suffrage in some of the Southern States. I referred to the subject of this dinner, as I have referred to it before during the last twenty-five years in order to point out that these limitations are not based upon a repudiation of the Declaration of Independence, but rest upon a principle—the first law of nature—everywhere recognized, namely, the right of self preservation, which includes the right to preserve civilization and progress made in the science of government. This is a plea in extinction. Leave --- ing fundamental right principles in the back-ground. He continues Back in 1898 when we were discussing imperialism a public man from the South cautioned me against laying too much emphasis upon the Declaration of Independence, adding that in the States where the blacks manaced white supremacy it had been found necessary to ignore the doctrine that all men were created equal. I replied that limitations upon the exercise of suffrage by the black race ought not to be based upon a denial of the doctrine of equality as found in the Declaration of Independence, but upon the real foundation, which in no way contradicts or weakens the Declaration of Independence. I defended the doctrine of equality in the inallenable rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence and explained to him that the problem which the whites of the South had to solve did not involve the question of equality before the law; that no one denied that the blacks were entitled to equal protection in their rights. The question is, which race shall control the Government and make the laws under which both shall live? The more advanced race will always control as a matter of self preservation not only for the benefit of the advanced race, but for the benefit of the backward race also. This is a distinction with a difference that the average Negro-hater will not understand. If Mr. Bryan had based his contention upon intelligence rather than upon race, his argument would stand four-square. Intelligence will rule and as the white man is more intelligent and progressive than the average Negro, he will keep in the forefront until the conditions of intelligence change. But he bases it upon race. He holds back the most intelligent of the black race to step with their more backward brothers. He continues: In the States where restrictions are placed upon suffrage for the purpose of excluding enough blacks to preserve white supremacy, the blacks have the advantage of living under laws that the white man makes for himself as well as for the black man. The laws make no distinction in the matter of crime between whites and blacks. Suppose, for the sake of argument, that no limitations were placed upon suffrage and that the blacks, voting in masses for officials of their own color, took charge of the Government and made laws for both blacks and whites; is there any white man who believes that the laws made under these circumstances would be better for both, or administered with more fairness than now? Hon. William Jennings Bryan, not having lived in the Southland long enough does not seem to know that when the Negroes exercised the right of suffrage they elected white men to office and were controlled by white men and these white men were condemned by white men of their own race and kind. Gen. William Mahone an ex-Confederate had a devoted black following which were never surpassed by any white man during the palestines days of "carpet-bag" rule. These Negroes never voted in masse ten years after the war to the extent of electing all of the men of their own race and I color to office. Southern Negroes have always shown a disposition to accept the leadership of white men and it has been only in late years that colored leaders have secured the control of their black followers in aspiring to leading public offices. It was the Mahone rule to have white men for elective offices and black men for some of the appointive ones. Mr. Bryan continues: At the Southern banquet, I enforced my argument by suggesting that Massa chsets would do exactly as Virginia and South Carolina had done if confronted by the same conditions. There is not a State in the Union in which the whites would permit black supremacy. This ought to be admitted without argument but it could be easily proved if proof were necessary. Republicans are constantly coming South and they at once adopt the Southern view on the race question, as soon as they have to meet the race problem as a practical question. The fact that the Republican States of the North never send black men to the United States Senate and House of Representatives is conclusive proof either that the blacks are inferior or that race prejudice keeps them in the background. The race riots in Illinois, the home of Lincoln and Grant, showed that race feeling is just as strong in the North as in the South when a condition arises that gives it expression. This then is the statement of a fact. With all Mr. Byran's religion and his weekly dissertations upon the saying of the blessed Master, he does not ask if this position is right and he does not argue that it is wrong. He accepts what is observed by him and he bows to the Bail of race prejudice. As he is approaching the evening of life, all we have to say is that it is so much the worse for Mr. Bryan. It would have been far better for him to have kept his opinions to himself. He is out to win public approval and no doubt he has had his hand pressed by many an individual, who doubts his sincerity. So far as the Southland is concerned, the Negro situation is taking care of itself. White men and women are by their inter-radial movements bringing about a better feeling between the races without touching upon questions which constitute an aggravating situation. There is no "Force Bill" before the Congress and there is no proposed legislation to change conditions. Why then should Hon. William Jennings Bryan proceed to aggravate the pre- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA ent situation? We answered it at the outset. He must be a prospective candidate for the United States Senate from Florida. When it comes to bestowing this honor, he will find that this comment upon the Negro situation will prove to be a boomerang which will land some native southerner in the position which he desires. We may deal with this situation further in our next issue. Negroes Are Proud of the Old North State Negroes Are Proud of the Old North State President Dudley Gets Diamond Ring and Other Gifts. Throughout my five-hundred mile tour, mostly in the Piedmont, Section of the State. I could hear on every hand expressions of appreciation for what the General Assembly has done for the A. and T., College. The liberality with which it dealt out appropriations for permanent improvements and maintenance for our Negro State Agricultural and Technical College, for the education and training of the Negro youth, the safest and quickest way to make him a good citizen and a greater asset to the State, evoked expressions of gratitude and commendation for the men who turned the tide in our favor during the last General Assembly. Even those in the most humble walks of life expressed themselves very freely in thanking the Legislature for funds to educate their sons. President Dudley has letters and telegrams from prominent men and women from all parts of the country and particularly North Carolina, expressing appreciation for the liberality of the Legislature and congratulating him for his efficient management which has brought him the peculiar distinction of being the recipient of the greatest recognition given by any State in the Union to the Negro head of a State in situation. It is something for which the whole race should be proud. A SURPRISE. On last Friday night, the Faculty and students rendered one of the finest and most inspiring programs ever witnessed in the A. and T. College Auditorium in honor of President and Mrs. Dudley for their twenty-seven years of laudable work in this institution. It was not only an expression of their appreciation for the services these two distinguished characters have given the race and the State, but an appreciation also of the gift and support of this institution for the training of the Negro youth and particularly the Generosity of the last General Assembly. The program was prepared secretly, and given as a complete surprise to the President and Mrs. Dudley. The Theme of the program was "A Greater A. and T. College." Professor F. D. Bluford, Head of the Academic Department, who had played a conspicuous part in the arrangement of this program, presided at the meeting. Every department of the college had a representative to speak in support of the new movement. Mr. J. T. McDonald, the trade school; Mr. C. Williams, the high school; Mr. J. B. Hicks, the college department; Professor D. K. Chry, the academic department; Professor A. A. Turner, the agricultural department; Professor W. P. Nelson, the mechanical department, and Professor B. F. Bullock, the extension department. Professor E. F. Colson represented the alumni; Mr. A. Blaine the Y. M. C. A., and Dr. S. P. Sebastian, the President and his work. President Dudley was then called upon for remarks. After expressing very great appreciation for the wonderfully inspiring program, he stressed in a most eloquent address the future plans of the college. At the close of the President's address he was literally taken off his feet when Dr. S. P. Sebastian the college physician called Mrs. Dudley to the stage and presented her a Bouton niere of choice flowers that would have done credit to a queen. But before he could recover from this surprise he was called to the stage by Dr. Sebastian and presented a gold-colored silver lead pencil, a fountain pen and a diamond ring. These tokens were given by the faculty and students as an expression of their gratification and appreciation for the unseen fish service this couple has given the race and State during the period of their most faithful, useful career in life. They were both so overcome by this unexpected expression of good-will and gratitude from those who love, honor and esteem them so much, that they were without words to express themselves for the time being. Finally, in most appreciative and affectionate expressions, they both thanked the faculty and students for these gifts and the eventful and memorial evening, which will ever live in their memory and cheer hem on in the great work they have so well begun. I feel that it would be ungrateful in this connection, for me to fail to express in behalf of the Alumni Association our profound thanks to every member of the General Assembly for their support of the A. and T. College. We feel greatly encouraged. The faculty and students are also encouraged. It seems that the whole school has been stimulated and everything is taking on new life as a result of this generous contribution by the State. JOHN D. WRAY. Chairman of the Legislative Com Mississippi Legislature Honors Colored Porter. (Preston News Service) Jackson, Miss. March 22—Govor nlee M. Russell, issued a proclamation last Thursday ordering a suspension of public business in the capital buildings on Friday during the funer al hour of "Uncle Lewis" Mahoney, a Negro porter at the State House for the past twenty-five years. Mahoney it is said, went violently insane Wed needday and died Thursday morning He is said to have been about 76 years old. Colored Americans of the Philippines Present Dyer Bill Sponsor With a Cane Representative Leonidas C. Dyer of Missouri, who introduced the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill in the House of Representatives has written to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York City, telling how, on a recent visit to the Philippine Islands, he was presented with a beautiful cane by colored citizens, resident in Manila in recognition of his services in behalf of the Anti-Lynching Bill. Mr. Dyer's letter is as follows: Mr. James Weldon Johnson Sec.. Nat. Asso. for the A. of C. P. 70 Fifth Ave.; New York City. Dear Sir;--During my recent visit to the Orient and while at Manila, P. I. I was waited upon by a Committee of colored citizens of the United States resident in Manila, who presented to me a very beautiful cane. I am enclosing for your information copies of their statements at the time. I thought you might be interested in this. It was very much appreciated by me. Yours very truly, (Signed:) L. C. DYER. The memorials presented to Repres- sentative Dyer by the colored Amer- ican residents of Manila are as follows: Congressman L. C. Dyer. We have come as a Committee of the colored citizens of the United States, resident in Manila, to pay our respects to you, and express in their behalf our high appreciation and heart felt thanks to you for your efforts in the American Congress toward having the bill known as the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, of which you are the author, enacted into law. This we, do not alone because we are members of the race this law is designed more especially to protect, but because we are equally interested in the good name and honor of the great Nation to which we and you belong. We have long resided here in the Far East and are too painfully aware of the shocking impression created among the inhabitants of these regions by the frequent Associate Press reports of lynching, orgles, which, as Congressman Burton so aptly said, are excelled in downright depravity and brutality only by the hideous rites of cannibalism. So we beseech you upon your return to America, to reddouble your efforts to have the Dyer Bill be the law of the land to the end that the stigma of lynching may be removed from the fair name and fame of the great American Nation. Congressman Dyer: From our hearts we thank you. (Signed:) MAJOR W. H. LOVING. J. W. CALLOWAY. R. B. CABBELL. R. G. WOODS. W. A. CALDWELL. Congressman L. C. Dyer: This Committee wishes to thank you for the work you are doing for the sake of humanity, and trusts that your efforts will not cease until the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill shall have passed both legislative bodies of our Great Republic. And should you become old and feeble from your arduous labors, we have provided for you this little souvenir, designed and carved by the Igoretes of the Mountain Province, which we hope will serve you as a prop after you shall have reached your four score years and twenty. God bless you, good luck and bon voyage. (Signed:) MAJOR W. H. LOVING. J. W. CALLOWAY. R. B. CABBELL. R. G. WOODS. W. A. CALDWELL. Orange Fire Chief Dies After a 'Run. ' Michael Savage Stricken With Apoplexy at Headquarters Returning From a Blaze. Orange, N. J., March 18.—"Boys I feel that is the last call I will ever answer." remarked Fire Chief Michael Savage to his men tonight after his company had returned from a "run." where an automobile was on fire. "Oh, that's all nonense, Chief." replied Captain McMillan. "No, Jim; I feel very bad, I guess I'll go upstairs, change my clothes and go home," said the chief, as he left the others and went to a room on the floor above. A short time later the men heard groans and hurrying upstairs found the chief dying on the floor. An ambulance was summoned from the Memorial Hospital but when it reached the fire house there was no doctor on it. "Hurry back and get a doctor," said Captain McMillan to the driver. When the ambulance returned Captain Savage was dead. "Apoplexy," the doctor said. Chief Savage was 63 years old, had held his office three years. His wife died two years ago. He is survived by nine sons and twenty-nine grand-children. One of the sons Daniel is boxing instructor at the Friars' Club in New York City. Another son, "Big Jim" a pugilist was one of Willard's trainers in his fight with Jack Johnson. Posse Surrounds and Slays Lewis Douglass, Convict (Preston News Service) Sparta, Tenn.. March 14—Late Saturday night the posse that has been endeavoring to capture Lewis Douglass, paroled convict alleged to have shot five persons last Monday and escaped into swamp, finally surrounded him and shot him to death. Duugherty's Million Dollar Negro Labor Scheme Goes SENATOR BORAH AND (Preston News Service) Washington D. C., March 13.—Harry V. Daugherty, said to be a detective and a labor agent, while in France a few weeks ago conceived an idea of increasing his ban knot a million dollars by supplying American Negro laborers to the French as miners in the Ruhr district on which he would make a net profit of 50 cents a day on each laborer he furnished. He is said to have telegraphed his brother George to round up three to five thousand Negroes from the West Virginia and the Pennsylvania coal regions for transportation to France. George is said to have gotten busy and was able to get less than 100 Negroes to consent to go to France. The Daughertys stated that all international difficulties had been adjudged between the governments as Ambus sador Jesaureed and assurance from Secretary Hughes that it would be perfectly all right to transport Negro laborers to France. HUGHES DENIES ANY Secretary Hughes authorized a statement last Friday night that he never had heard of a plan to transport American Negroes to Europe to work in the coal mines in the Rzhr. It was stated that no such proposition, or any of similar nature, had been discussed with Mr. Hughes by Ambassador Jesaurand or anyone else. FRENCH EMBASSY BRANDS IT A PURE FABRICATION At the French Embassy, it was declared that nothing was known of the Dougherty plan or of Dougherty. A statement was authorized that any anouncement by Dougherty that the proposal had been laid before Secretary Hughes by the French Ambassador was pure fabrication. Tries to Search Man; Is Stabbed to Death. (Preston News Service) Ashland. Miss., March 14.—John Rimmer is in jail here following the death of P. C. Byrd, (white) who accused Rimmer of having stole money from him. According to the police Rimmer resented Byrd's accusations and when Byrd attempted to search him for the money, he is said to have denied knowing anything about the money and would not submit to being searched. Byrd seized him and a fight followed in which Rimmer is alleged to have thrust the blade of a pocket knife into Byrd's stomach, causing death almost instantly. Denied Social Equality; Sets Fire to Building. Washington, D. C., March 15—A few weeks ago when Albert W. Shaw employed as a laborer at the Government printing office, attempted to join dancers in the cafeteria of the building during the lunch hour the music was stopped, and Shaw is alleged to have been told that this form of entertainment was for the recreation of white employees. It is said that Shaw was greatly humiliated and expressed his indignance in no measured terms. Last Monday a fire broke out in the Government printing office and destroyed documents valued at $15 000. Government authorities declare the fire was of incendiary origin. Shaw was arrested and held by the police in connection with the fire. It is thought by officials that Shaw probably set fire to the building because of the grievance he is alleged to hold against officials and employees in the printing office. Shaw stoutly maintains his innocence, but admits that he has a grievance. WILL OPPGSE THE RUHR OCCUPATION. If French and Belgians Stay in Ruhr, Field Marshal Would Smite Them. GREAT BRITAIN HAS ANSWER- ED "FEELERS" Turkey and Allies May Again Meet at Lausanne to Discuss Treaty. Hanover, Ger., March 15—"If the French and Belgians insist upon staying in the Ruhr then we must take arms in our hands and smite them." Field Marshal von Hindenberg declared today in a speech, while an audience of 5,000 cheered. We dont want to stir up war the field marshal continued "but it must be remembered the best of us cannot continue to live in peace when bad neighbors don't wish it." German Ruhr Workers Disobey French Orders. (Crusader News Service) Cologne, March 15.—Gen. Degoutte has issued a proclamation that all Germanans in the Ruhr who obey the orders of the French military authorities and pay the taxes being levied upon them will be protected from charges of treason on by the Government. Despite Gen. Degoutte's offer, it seems unlikely that his orders will be obeyed by the populace. 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It is manifestly unjust, it is an act of tyranny to punish men for an offense of which they have not been convicted." In support of his contention, Senator Borah quoted from a statement made to President Harding by Major Lanier, an army officer and lawyer detained by the War Department to go over the court records in the I. W. W. Chicago case and analyze the evidence. "These men," Major Lanier reported "were convicted contrary to the law and evidence and solely because they were leaders in an organization against which public sentiment was in censed. I do not think that if I had been in the jury. I would have convicted a single one of them." Declaring that "liberty means the right to express oneself" and that "if a man thinks a war is unjust or improvident, it is his absolute right to say so." Borah quoted anti-war utterances of Daniel Webster and Abraham Lincoln and pointed out that these two great Americans would be in Leav enworth Penitentiary today, serving sentences of 10 and 20 years if they had uttered such remarks during the period of the late war. At the close of Borah's speech, a ring declaration in favor of the release of the political prisoners was presented by Rev. Richard W. Hogue, of the Church League for Industrial Democracy, and unanimously adopted. This statement called attention to the fact that these men were convicted during a period of war hysteria when fair trial was impossible, that they were given brutal sentences unheard-of in any other country in the world for political offenses, that the spies and protectors were released long ago, as well as the political prisoners in all other countries engaged in the war. It also pointed out that influential business men like Charles W. Morse, the financier and F. H. 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They will be accompanied by a representative of the World War Veterans, whose national president, Jack Bradon, made the trip from Minneapolis to speak at the mass meeting and voice the demand of the ex-servile men of that organization for "the immediate and unconditional release of all the political prisoners." H HAIR MAKES FUL WOMEN What is more charming—more pleasing to the eye than a woman with a really beautiful head of hair—hair is woman crowning glory—Make your hair beautiful. You can easily Beautify your Hair by using HI-JA'S QUININE HAIR DRESSING It will make short, ugly, kinky Hair grow long, soft and manageable, it is a kinky perfumed Scalp and hair dressing, will dignity, daffeffiness, itching of the scalp and make the Hair grow Long, Straight and pretty. Send 25 cents for a can of Hair Dressing or $1.80 for four cans Hair Dressing and receive one bottle of Hi-Ja's Shampoo free. Agents Wanted---Write Ser Terms We Teach Hi-Ja's System of Beauty Culture. Hi-Ja Chemical Co. 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Church convened here Wednesday morning at St. Paul's Memorial M. E. Church. Ministers and delegates have been coming in all day and many more will come on the night trains. The people will spare no pain in caring for the Conference. The committee has made ample preparations for feeding the delegation in the basement of the Church, with some of the best business men of one city at its head. The Bishop of the Conference will preach Sunday at 11 A. M. at the Academy of Music, in order to accommodate the general public Mrs. Berta Beverly, of Ninth Avenue, who has been quite indisposed is able to be about. Mrs. Elza Clayor of Wells Alley is somewhat improved. Mrs. Lucy Taylor who has been quite sick, is much improved. Miss Maggie Dehaven of Seventh Avenue is improved. The funeral services of Mrs. Hattie Shelton, wife of Sr H. L. Shelton took place Wednesday afternoon at Hollins, Va., the original home of the deceased. She departed this life Saturday, March 18th, at a few minutes to 5 o'clock. W. F. Hughes had charge. Mr. Morrissey Whales, 152 High Street, died almost suddenly Sunday morning. He was a young man loved and respected by all who knew him. He had worked many years for Mr. R. A. Buckner, the express man. He leaves a loving wife, mother and father and a host of friends in both races. Funeral Thursday at 2 P. M. W. F. Hughes in charge. Miss Harriet Hundley, 1115 4th Street, N. E. celebrated the thirty-sixth anniversary of her birth on March 7th from 6 to 8:30. Those present: Rev. W. W. Hicks and wife, Mrs. Helen Kidd, Mrs. L. J. White, Minnie White, Miss Ethel Johnson, Miss Mary Burks of Buchanan, Mrs. Richard Hayden, Miss Gertrude Smith and Mrs. Elisle Hundley. The affair was greatly enjoyed. Mr. Samuel Manns, 401 Seventh Avenue, N. W., who has been sick for about seven weeks, is critically ill at this writing. Mr. James Grimes, of 234 Eighth Avenue, N. W., who underwent an operation at Burrell Memorial Hospital is reported vee indisposed. Mrs. Susie M. Kates, of 415 Ninth Avenue, N. W. wishes to use this method in thanking her many friends for their kindness during her sickness of a month and a half. Mrs. Sellers and Traynham, Mrs. W. W. Hicks, Mrs. Mary Rice and the Community Bible Club and especially Mrs. Josephine Sellers and Dr. J. H. Roberts. Mr. Thomas Gurst, of 236 Eighth Avenue, N. W. was seriously injured Saturday night while operating his motorcycle near his home. He lost control and the cycle passed across his thigh. He hopes to be out soon. Rev. James S. Hatcher, D. D. delivered two wonderful sermons to his people Sunday at Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church. There were two accessions at the night service. Four men came forward to be prayed for at the morning service. Collection was $101.08 for the day. At 1 o'clock Rev. A. L. James and his choir and congregation were present and worshipped with Mt. Zion. Dr. James preached a most exce'lent sermon. The renditions by the choir were fine. An offering of $16 was given. C. R. Mitchell, 210 Fourth Street, S. W. is a paper hanger, plasterer, kalsom'ner and general repairer. Work guaranteed. Phone 4460. Leave orders at above address. Remember, M. Stannfield handles the tonics for springtime as all well know. He has plasters for corns and warts, for your body, and Salvasena, Bukers Pills, in fact a remedy for most all your aches and lills. Those mean shaking chills. Pills for every woman. Try them and be your own judge of what is best. Rev. James S. Hatcher, D. D. will leave Friday to lecture at Staunton for Rev. J. J. Benjamin, who has been quite indisposed. WYTHEVILLE NEWS. The spirit of justice, that exists in our land is questionable. Many hearts were made glad during our Sunday services. Practical sermons are necessary. Why not have them more often? The Eureka Choral Club gave an entertainment at Ivanhoe, Tuesday night to a large and appreciative audience. Mr. Edgar Goins of Grayson, Co., is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Mitchell in North Wytheville. Miss Edith Howard of Pulaski, is visiting her sister Mrs. Carrie Chaffin. Mr. and Mrs. James Chapman were visiting in Pulaski Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Kylie Johnson and daughter who have been spending a few months in Bluefield, W. Va., are at home on Monroe street. The Choral Club was given a banquet after the entertainment Tuesday night by Mr. Richard Holliday manager at the home of his sister and brother. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Cockett of Ivanhoe the eatables were excellently prepared and enjoyed by all. After dinner sneeches were made by Mr. Richard Holliday, Rev. T. W. Hebron, Mr. Chas Chapman and Mr. Homer Hairston. Mrs. Glady Hairston who has been ill ventured out to make the entertain- ment a success. Mr. Garland Chapman made a flying trip to Pulaski and Dablin Sunday visiting relatives. Mrs. Jannie Peoples of Aflex, Ky., is home visiting her aunt, Mrs. Katie Sawyers who has been quite ill. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Scott of Ivanhoe, hal the Eureka Choral Club to a six o'clock dinner the evening of the entertain- ment. Mr. Chas. Gibson is on the sick list. We trust Mr. Robt. Green will not fail to make connection Sunday. Any one having news of interest or desirous of taking THE PLANET, will please call or phine Mrs. Ethyl Hebron. Mrs. Mary Kelly after a short stay in W. Va., has returned to the city. Mrs. M. J. Stepteau received a message announcing the serious illness of her sister, Mrs. Fannie Robinson of Clarksburg, W. Va. Don't fall to hear the sermons of the Mock Annual Conference, Mrs. Ethyl Hebron preaches the annual sermon and Mrs. R. V. Perry preaches the educational sermon. FULTON NOTES We were blessed with the privilege of having Rev. C. M. Childress of the Fulton Baptist church (white) in our midst. He gave an excellent address on the Radio and Heaven. 11:30 A. M. Rev. B. W. Bowlden, pastor of the Fountain Baptist church N. Y., preached for us. Subject: "Test. On the rostrum were Revs. Fuller. Coleman, Jefferson, J. C. Allen and our pastor. Rev. Allen is pastor of the New Vine Baptist church, Charles City, Co. the choir sang very beautifully. We had two young men to accept Christ as their personal Saviour. 1:30 P. M. Rev. Cobbs was on his way to preach at the Second Bethel Baptist church in company with Revs. Coleman, Jefferson and J. C. Allen. Rev. Cobbs preached a wonderful serenom. The people of the church seemed to be progressive. 3:30 P. M. the Prosperity Lodge No. 170, of National Ideal Benefit Society held their first anniversary services at the church. Mistress of Ceremonies, Miss E. A. Logan. Welcome Address Miss Edna Clarke. Remarks by Mr. A. W. Holmes S. M. and Rev. C. A. Colba. Others were on the rostrum including Mrs. Fannie V. Robinson, Bros. Hicks, Alston, T. L. Beverly and Mrs. Rosa Atkins. 8:30 P. M. our pastor preached on the "Judgment." On the 10rstrum were Revs. A. D. Clarke and Jefferson. We had a great time in the name of the Lord. Tomorrow we are urging all the members to be present no later than 12 o'clock for morning services, business of importance. A great sermon by our pastor. B. Y. P. U. 6:30 P. M. all the members and friends are asked to be present Program will be rendered by vartious talents of several Union's from the West End. 8 P. M. Preaching services. The fire is still buring at Calvary, so far our revival has been a great success. We have had up to the 19th inst., a little over 40 converts. May God bless those who are giving us their time in these services. All of our workers are volunteers. We were glad to have sister Lottie Randolph in our midst last Sunday night. We are glad to have our many visitors at all times. We do hope that some one in the T. E. L. Bible Class, will see the Supt., we desire about 2 volunteer workers for some important work pertaining to the school. RISING MT. ZION NOTES There is an increasing demand for a larger membership in the Sunday School. The Easter rehearsals are still in progress. The date of the performance will be announced later. There was a capacity audience last Sunday at 11:30 A. M. The fiery sermon that was delivered by the pastor sank deep into the heart of every one present. After the sermon the pastor invited the ungodly to come forward that a special prayer might be offered to the Almighty in their behalf. This is being done in preparation for the revival that will be conducted early in April. Sunday at 3:30 P. M. the pastor preached again in St. James but was with us at 8:00 P. M. and delivered a wonderful sermon. Tuesday Prof. Milan exhibited a wonderful art performance and lecture. Prof. Milan has toured the entire country being formerly a Mohammed丹 but later became a follower of Christ makes his lectures very interesting. An interesting discussion with the pastor as catechiser was held last Friday night. Be on out time this Friday to discuss this interesting subject for next Sunday. AFRICANS ARE BECOMING CIVILIZED RAPIDLY. (Preston News Service) Washington D. C., March 22—According to Rev. F. H. Hope, director of the Frank James Industrial School at Elkhorn, West Africa, the natives are rapidly being won away from the traditions of their life in the bush and from their savage Bulu instincts and are being educated to the point where their industrial and agricultural development may soon have international significance. This is a gist of his report to the Presbyterian board of forign missions. The report shows that the Presbyterian connection has 17,000 professing Christians, and that the natives are becoming independent upon importations. The school is producing sufficient manufactured articles and agricultur- THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA Yes, the owners of the Mechanics Savings Bank, representing approximately three hundred individuals, the depositors, representing about three thousand, not including the holders of Christmas Savings Club Cards, the white and colored people of this city, who are vitally interested in retaining the confidence of the colored people of this community and the good opinion of the white and colored people of the United States, are waiting. They all want to know the approximate amount of the assets to re-open the Mechanics Savings Bank. The amount is stated in the following extract from the decree signed by the able Judge of the Richmond Chancery Court- But how much more is needed? The Receivers assert that they cannot determine this amount until all the pass-books of the depositors have been turned in and balanced. To meet this condition the depositors, in meeting assembled, by unanimous vote, decided to share in any liability in excess of the amount already ascertained. This relieves the situation and enables the Receivers to strike a balance and submit the same to the Court with such a recommendation as may, in their judgment be fair to the people whom they represent. This then will necessarily end the delay as the Receivers have been unofficially reported to be in favor of re-opening the Bank and willing to do all in their power to help the colored people of this community. The issue is plain. Personal feeling and animosities should not figure in this matter. Let us re-open the Mechanics Savings Bank in order that those depositors who are urgently in need of some of their money may be able to get it and those who wish to deposit their savings may be permitted so to do. The depositors stand pledged not to make any run on the Bank Other issues and conditions can be met as they are presented The primary purpose at this time is to do business again. Let us ascertain the approximate amount of liability, put up the assets necessary and with the aid and support of the good white people and the self-sacrificing colored ones, backed by an abiding faith in the Almighty God. let us re-open the Bank. --- al products to amply supply the needs of the locality. Rev. Hope says the greatest difficulty which the mission has had to contend with is the availance of some of the younger men under training who have fallen victims to the temptation to adopt the savage idea of riches, and who have each taken several young women as wives. To cope with these savage tendencies, Mr. Hope said, the young women are being taught not only for domestic life but also agricultural work. They are taught to raise cassava, tania, corn, cotton, sugar cane, plantains; squash and negon. Mr. Hope explains that negon is a strange fruit. It is a gourdlike food which, by cross pollenation, has been developed into a fruit with seeds that are tasty to both native and civilized palates. He believes that this fruit can be introduced into America and Europe and sold on a large scale. "The natives are making rapid strides in agricultural skill and in the development of industrial craftsmanship so that a large amount of the natural resources of the Camerouns, hirto wasted is being utilized. Flax is being grown and linen woven, vanilla extract brooms furniture, shoes and a diversity of other objects manufactured by natives who have become highly competent carpenters, blacksmiths, mechanics, shoemakers, and tailors whose services are now in great demand among the whites. "The school's experimental farm and gardens have actually benefited the whole people not only by raising important products, but by waging successful war against the cassava leaf disease, which previously ruined nearly all Bulu gardens." "Or you get a native interested in anything his intensity and industry is remarkable. They learn rapidly and possess remarkable endurance." --- WHEN PATRONIZING OUR ADVERTISERS TELL THEM YOU SAW THE ADVERTISEMENT IN THIS PAPER. THIS HELPS US AND IS APPRECIATED BY THE ADVERTISER. 'And it being represented to the Court that the closing of said bank by the plaintiff was because of the presence in its assets of obligations of the Bonded Realty Company, Inc., amounting to the sum of $83,500.00, which are not secured to the satisfaction of the plaintiff and it being further represented to the Court that there is a reasonable prospect of the defendant being able, within a short time, of satisfying the plaintiff as to said obligations of the Bonded Realty Company, Inc., and as to the entire solvency of said bank, it is further ordered that said receivers be authorized and instructed to report to the Court, at the earliest possible date, together with a statement of the assets and liabilities of said bank, such offers and plans as may be submitted to them by the defendants, or others on its behalf, with a view of satisfying the requirements of the plaintiff and effecting a prompt discharge of said receivers, and the return of the assets of said Mechanics' Savings Bank, of Richmond, Va. to its proper authorities.' (Preston News Service) New Orueans, La., March 20—Joon Ferdinand, said to have been sought for more than two years as a "missing" witness in a manslaughter case against Harold Normandale, a wealty white man, the most arrested man in this city, was found last Wednesday by the police. The case is which Ferdinand was wanted as a witness was that in which August Vala aged 55 years, was knocked down and killed by an automobile January 15, 1921. The driver of the car sped on after the victim was struck, and the machine crashed into a wagon which was a short distance away. The wagon was in charge of Ferdinand who according to the police identified Normandale as the driver of the death car. Normandale was arrested and charged with manslaughter. When the case came up for trial it was nolle proclaimed, the district attorney's office saying that Ferdinand could not be found. Ferdinand will appear before the grand jury early this week when investigation of Normandale's record of immunity will be resumed. Once Ferdinand was in the hands of the police, Superintendent Maloney said he take no chances, and ordered him held until time to tell his story to the investigators. It is said that Ferdinand told the police that at the time of Vala's death he was living at 430 South Franklin street but moved to another address soon afterwards. When he moved he said he instructed the landlady at his old address to save all mail for him particularly course notices. Although he has called there for his mail several times he has not received any court notice he declared. It is claimed that with the change of administrations a determination has been made to break up wreckless driving and especially such characters as Normandale. When it was actually decided that Ferdinand was wanted the police went out and got him in less than twenty minutes. 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PHONE MADISON 577—Man On Duty All Night—RICHMOND, VA (RESIDENCE NEXT DOOR) HOODED KLUXERS ESCAPE INDICTMENT BY GRAND JURY IN MER ROUGE MURDERS AND GOVERMENT WILL ASK CHANGE OF VENUE SIX Baston, La., March 15.—No indictments were returned today by the Morehouse Parish Grand Jury for the kidnapping, torture and slaying of Watt Daniel and T. F Richards at Mer Rouge on August 24 last and various other outrages committed by hooded bands in the parish which the jury has been investigating for the last ten days. The jury before which Attorney General Coco appeared with the evidence taken at the hearing into the Mer Rouge outrages held here in January made its report to District Judge Odom, who presided at that hearing. In its report the Grand Jury referred to the masked hand case as "the deplorable crime of August 24," and stated that while it had gone thoroughly into the affair, it could find no evidence that would warrant the indictment of any individuals. Attorney General Coco, who left he fore the Grand Jury reported, stated that if no indictments were returned he would file bills of information against certain persons named at the open hearing as having participated in mob activities. A violent storm raged the greater part of the afternoon and when the judge entered the court room at 4:50 P. M., there were few spectators present. The report was what many had expected and little comment was offered by citizens. After the report had been made known, Captain J. K. Skipwith, exalted cyclops of the Morehouse ku klux klan made this comment: "It is needless to say that I am highly elated. The State has done its duty and I hope it is satisfied and will let the matter rest." Numerous other crimes charged to hooded bands were not mentioned in Grand Jury report. More than 125 wives were heard by the jury during the ten days' session. Judge Odom made no comment on the report. He dismissed the jury after saying they had been in session a long time and he knew it was more or less of hardship, but it was a duty some one had to perform. This was the third Grand Jury since the first of the hooded band kidnapings in Morehouse Parish, none of them finding indictments for the crimes. GOVERNOR PARKER STARTED INQUIRY On August 24, 1922, five citizens of Mer Rouge, T. F. Richards, Watt Daniel, his father J. L. Daniel; W. O. Andrews and Tot Davenport were abducted on the Bastrop-Mer Rouge Road while returning by automobile from a picnic celebration at Bastrop. The abductors estimated at from fifteen to twenty men, one in a white robe and the remainder wearing black boots placed the five in a truck and drove away. Late that night J. L. Daniel and Andrews were released after being flogged, while Davenport was released without punishment. Richards and Watt Daniel disappeared. Relatives of the missing men instilled they had been murdered and enlisted the aid of Governor Parker in the search for them. In September Department of Justice agents appeared in Morehouse Parish to investigate and their deductions were that Richards and Daniel had been murdered and their bodies cast into Lake La Fourche, twenty five miles from here. In November Governor Parker visit ed Washington where he had an inter view with President Harding and At torney General Daughter, and request ed additional Federal aid in the case. On December 21. Governor Parker or ordered a company of infantry to More house to drag lakes for the bodies. In the early morning hours two days later, the troops engaged in a skirmish with a boatload of men on Lake Cooper. While this was in progress, dynamite was exploded in Lake La Fourche twenty miles away, and the next morning the bodies of two men, bound with telephone wires and badly mutilated, were found floating on the surface of the lake. The bodies were identified as those of Richards and Daniel. Governor Parker immediately ordered an additional company of infantry and a machine gun company into Morehouse and set January 5, as the date for an open hearing at the court house at Bastrop to investigate the staying of the two men and the activities of masked bands in the parish, which the Governor attributed to the ku klux klan. The open hearing revealed abductions, deportations, floggings, the sending of threatening notes and details of the circumstances leading to the disappearance of the man, who were murdered. These crimes were charged to bands of black hooded men accused of being members of the Morehouse ku klux klan. The names of many klansmen were associated with the crimes. The black hood was identified as part of the "raiding" regalia of the parish klansmen. A previous Grand Jury, composed largely of klansmen, had failed to take any action on the disappearance of the slain men and it was openly charged that the Grand Jury which reported today numbered among its members klansmen or their sympathizers. New Orleans March 15—Assistant Attorney General Walmsley said to night he believed the State would present at once affidavits against persons suspected of being implicated in the Mer Rouge outrages. "I am very much surprised at the news," Mr. Walmsley said. "The State had counted on indictments at least for the lesser offenses. The publie can feel assured that Attorney General Coco will take prompt action in the matter. There are several cours es open to the State." He believed there was ground on which the State could obtain a new Grand Jury. In the case of persons against whom affidavits would probably be made, he said, the State would request a change of venue. Decision would rset with Judge Odom. Mr. Walsmley intimated that affidavits its charging more than forty-five persons with such crimes as "lying in wait with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery, deporting persons from the State" and other lesser offenses would be filed immediately. SIKI LOSES DOUBTFUL DECISION TO MGTISUE were aimed viciously but lacked direction. Round two was a repetition of the first. McTigue once making his opponent shake his head with a left to jaw. Siki tried hard for a knockout, but was constantly foiled in searching for an opening. The same sort of exchang es continued in round three, when McTigue's body showed some signs of angry blotches of red. He frequently stopped Siki's rushes with his left arm and was showing better ring craft, always keeping at arm's length. Round four was very tame. McTigue was a little more active with his right. He received nasty jabs but seemed to treat them with disdain. Siki was obviously puzzled by McTigue's defense and once in round five started to look hopelessly for the Irishman. As the gang went Siki swung a vicious left which missed by inches. STIFF PUNCHES LAND So far Siki appeared to be leading on points, but neither had suffered any real damage. Rounds six and seven were similar to their predecessors, the Negro attacking and McTigue being content to act on the defensive. Once, however, he got over a straight left on Siki's head, making him wince, but the blows of both seemed to be lacking in strength. In round eight McTigue began to an noy Siki by nasty jabs on his nose with his left and the Negro tried repeatedly to strike his arm down. McTigue was evidently looking for an opening for a knockout, but he only succeeded in rousing Siki, who was fiercely attacking back as the bell rang. In round nine Siki's lefts never got there, while McTigue got in two right uppercasts which the colored man felt. Before the round closed Siki was twice warned for hitting low. When the tenth round came McTigue went into his man, who seemed somewhat exhausted, puffing and sniffing hard. Half distance had now been traveled and McTigue had his man coughing hard. Although he was probably well ahead on points then, in the eleventh McTigue met with a serious misfortune. Siki landed a heavy punch over his left eye and opened a cut which bled freely. Blood was also coming from his mouth. The next round, the twelfth, was clearly Siki's. McTigue came up freshly from that punch, but the cut gave Siki a mark and he kept playing upon it. The Irishman resisted gallantly, but he was clearly harried by the torr of blows. THINGS LIVEN AT THE END McTigue recovered gamey in round thirteen. After Siki had missed with a wild right swing, the Irishman stop red him with a straight left, flush to the mouth. So far as this observer could discern, however, the Senegalese was undamaged. The following round was uneventful. Both men were fighting cleanly. As McTigue retired to his corner his eye was again bleeding. He had been jabbing Siki's nose freely but was certainly relieved as the bell sounded just after Siki had landed a heavy one to his face. In the fifteenth they clinched. As they were breaking, Siki got to the white man's face, after which Siki was hammered to the ropes and the round finished with McTigue quite fresh and hitting Siki, while a thin stream of blood came from the Negro's mouth. In the sixteenth round both were looking for a knockout but the black seemed to be the wearier of the two. In round seventeen McTigue uppercut the black who followed with a fierce left swing which McTigue locked. Two rounds to go with Siki well ahead on points. In the eighteenth he opened fast. McTigue sent his left hand to the black's mouth, drawing blood and compelling Siki to clinch. The round ended in McTigue's favor. The penultimate round began badly for Siki who was now getting all the punishment. It was neither's round but McTigue stepped from his chair a much fresher man for the last go. He fought hard for a decision, uppercutting frequently. It was a hot and fast battle when the final bell rang and McTigue was declared the winner on points. SIKI MAY CHALLENGE DECISION Dublin, March 17.—Mike McTierne the Irish American fighter, won the decision from the Senegalese Battling Ski at the Scala Theatre in a twenty-round contest here tonight. The reference awarded him the decision on points but later Ski was reported to have disrespected vigorously and to have expressed his intention of challenging the decision. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA As a ring battle the fight proved da appointing. There was much swinging and sidestepping, but no knockdowns were scored and neither man showed any particular sign of battle at the end. One of the most exciting features of the whole affair was the possibility that the Irish irregulars would interrupt the proceedings with a bomb, but the Government had taken precautions, with soldiers stationed at various points around the theatre, and, beyond one explosion a short distance from the battleground, there was no trouble, and the fight proceeded on its long and tiresome way. The men entered the ring at 8:15 and although both were well received the Irishman, naturally, was the favorite. It was evident from the start that McTigue bad a prearranged plan aimed at letting the Senegalese tire himself out. He let Siki do the swing, ing, he did the ducking and dancing about. Siki tried many times during the early rounds with long and vicious right and left swings, but they found no mark. He was clearly puzzled at the tactics of his opponent. Then when he forced McTigue to the ropes, which he did several times, the Irishman came back with hard punches and managed to work out to the centre of the ring without having received material damage. CROWD YELLS FOR KNOCKOUT McTigue used his left to jab at Siki's face, but put little force into his efforts which were apparently directed mainly at irritating the Senegalese and to give him an opportunity to wear himself out with continual swinging; McTigue slid or hopped around the ring for so many rounds that his sup porters became anxious or discouraged and shouted: "Hit him, Mike, put him out!" Siki, whose wrath, it was expected, would rise quickly under these tactics held his temper admirably and showed signs of surprise when McTigue succeeded in avoiding his fiercest blows. It was not until the eleventh round that first blood was drawn, the Irishman's forehead showing a slight gash. Soon after that Siki was bleeding from the lips. The Senegalese tried hard to get at McTigue in the twelfth round but McTigue's ability at slidestepping kept him out of danger and Siki was unable to reach him effectively. In the thirteenth the Irishman ducked to avoid a vicious left swing and hooked Siki with his right. He seemed to be saving his right for some special opportunity at all stages of the battle. MCTIGUE STARTS TO FIGHT. After the fourteenth McTigue began to fight. He forced the pace, and Siki made a pretty steadyyaacquaintance with the ropes. McTigue evidently figured that the time for making his bid had come and he got home many times on the black man's ribs. In the eighteenth Siki showed a rising tempter and was stamping viciously on the floor while McTigue kept worrying him with vicious right jabs. Cheers crested the sudden awakening of the Irish favorite, and there were sign of depression on the face of the Senegalese. When he came up for the nineteenth Siki, showed signs of punishment. He had, lost some of his dash and was as enterprising as had been the case in the early rounds. McTigue was wary and took no chances. He had distinctly the better of this round, though his opponent reached his ribs a number of times. In the twentieth and last round Mc Tigue went in hard and punished Siki severely in the face. He was still on the offensive when the bell rang. The announcement of his victory was the occasion for enthusiastic cheering for the Irishman. About 1500 spectators saw the contest, among them being Attorney General Kennedy, Postmaster General Walsh. Minister of Commerce McGratt and General Dalton. McTIGUE'S HAND IS INJURED. London, March 17.—The Dublin corspondent of the Press Association says that shortly after the fight McTigue was taken to a hospital with a painful injury of the hand. An examination revealed that his right thumb had been broken. This occurred in the fourth round, and explains, according to the correspondent, why the eventual victor so persistently used his left and kept his right in comparative idleness. The experts consider that McTigue's injury renders his victory all the more striking, as for sixteen rounds he had the full use of only one hand. BECKETT WOULD FIGHT SIKL. (By Joe Beckett, British Heavyweight Champion.) Dublin, March 17.—The fight was full of interest and kept us all wondering as to what the outcome would be until McTigue began piling up points in the closing rounds. Up to then near all of us thought that the Irishman was going to be beaten. He took things just a bit too easily in the sense that he relied too much on his defense and he has a jolly good defense at that. He repeatedly missed chances when he ought to have scored. In the earlier rounds particularly he had some good openings for his left, but somehow he refused to take them. He might have thought that he could win by this plan but I didn't. Up to the tenth round and in fact beyond that, I think Siki took most of the points only for the way he forced the attack. Mark you. I am not saying that, he put up a brilliant fight but for more than half the journey the Senecales, did all of the forcing. If McTigue fought to a plan, and I have no doubt that he did, he took a very big risk in leaving his spurt until so late in the fight. At the end of the sixteenth round most of us thought that Skii was sure to win and we had given up all hope of seeing a knock-out. Then McTigue did give us a thrash and the first real big one of the fight. He caught Skii with a long right that landed square on the jaw, and forowed it up with two other punches that were so quick that Skii could not dodge them. All three blows landed well, and if McTigue had had a punch He added that if the Government preferred not to employ black troops in the Ruhr at the present time it was because it was deemed wiser "not to furnish any protest for propaganda, which unfortunately has penetrated even among friendly peoples." New York. March 14.—Jazz must be paid for, a jury in the City Court decided yesterday in the case of William Isles. Negro, against the Universal Negro Improvement Association and the African Committees League. On behalf of eighteen fellow dispensers of syncopated harmony, Isles sued for $1,000 due the Black Star Line Band for providing the above mentioned harmony at association meetings in Liberty Hall. The President General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association Marcus Garvey, agreed the band had missed on wages, but contended it should sue the Black Star Line instead of the association. The president of the Black Star Line is Marcus Garvey. Marcus Garvey is also "Provisional President of the Republic of Africa." The musical director the Grand Chancellor and the Secretary General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association backed up their President General in claiming the band had originally been hired by the Black Star Line and therefore the Black Star Line was responsible for wages. The band servered relations with the association last fall. It had been playing every night for meetings in Liberty Hall, but objected when asked to play at a Democratic meeting in the same place—nothing against the Democrats just a case of not believing in overtime work without overtime wages. But when the matter was settled by the band's disbanding there was still some $1.700 in wages due. The jury took twenty-five minutes to announce a verdict of $1,739.57 for the plaintiff. Moscow, Russia. March 14—A feature of the recent sessions of the third international, at this city, has been the encouragement of revolutionary propaganda and agitation among Negroes, especially those living in the United States. Mr. Billings fathered a proposal that a careful study of the Negro question be immediately taken up, and that all existing Negro organizations should be invited to a congress to be held in Moscow with the aim of establishing a united front in a persistent war against capitalism and imperialism. Claude McKap, a delegate, said to be a poet and writer from New York City, but not a citizen of the United States, a native of the West Indies, concluded a firey speech by saying, "in order to symbolize their revolutionary relationship with Russia, many Negroes would be willing to enter the red fleet, and the worthiest army of the world—the red army." --- powerful enough to jut Ski to sleep he would have done it then. It was after that that McTigue won the fight. He certainly did show us some good boxing in the last rounds. In my opinion McTigue's margin was very small at the finish. I did not like the look of Ski when I saw him enter the ring. Why, I could not say, but he seemed to lack something. McTigue looked more hardened and more fit. In the first round it was evident that Ski is easily fooled and is too wild. McTigue is crafty. That让 tapping left of his is very clever and he often made Ski miss. However, Ski is always dangerous and is strong. Throughout the fight McTigue kept showing us what he can do, but would have liked to see him do it. From that viewpoint he was disappointing. Every round showed me that Siki really does know a lot. During the round in which he cut McTigue's eye, I thought the Trishman was going to lose the fight, but they doctored him up in his corner of the ring and he commenced to worry Siki more than ever. Siki was always flashing more blows and even if he missed with a lot, those that landed must have hurt. Well, McTigue has won and I think he was the cleverest boxer and did cleaner work. As to Siki's form. I would only say one thing. I am more sorry than ever after having seen him fight that our match was prevented in London. As I say, he is strong and crafty but I have not the slightest doubt that if we ever do meet, I shall beat him decisively. McTIGUE A CLEVER BOXER. In This Country Since 1915. Mike McTigue, veteran Irish-American pugilist, who captured the world's light heavyweight championship last night by defeating Battling Sikl on points in a 20-round bout at Dublin never reached the championship class in the United States, although he had claim to both the Irish and Canadian middleweight titles. His claim to the Canadian title was disputed by Jeff Smith, who gained a decision over him in Halifax in 1921. He won the championship in 1920 when he knocked out Gene Brosseau, the recognized Dominion titleholder at that time, in five rounds. McTigue, a crafty ring general and clever boxer, fought most of the leading middle and light-heavyweight pugilists in this country, where he started his professional career in 1915. According to record books, he past eight years and holds two decisive but three out of 101 bouts in the past eight years and holds two decisions over Harry Greb, former American light-heavy weight champion. He won forty-seven of his fights by knockouts and twenty-one by decision, records reveal, while twenty-eight others were no-decision affairs and one a draw. Besides his victories over Greb one a newspaper verdict in 1919 and the other a referee's decision in 1920. McTigue defeated Battling Levin sky, former world's light heavyweight champion and Augie Ratner and Tom my Robson, two prominent middleweights. He was never matched with either Mike O'Dowd or Johnny Wilson. DIVERTED CHALLENGE TO SIKL McTigue however was believed by critics to be past the zenith of his career when he left the United States last June for France to seek a match with Georges Carpentier, then holder of the world's light-heavyweight title. He diverted his challenge to Ski when the Senegalese lifted the crown from Carpentier, but the bout was not finitely arranged until last month. McTigue engaged in six bouts last year before sailing for abroad, losing to and winning from Young Fisher of Syracuse boxing a draw with Lou Boga, a no-decision bout with Tommy Loughran and defeating Tommy Robinson and Billy Beckett. Ski, apparently outgeneraled by his more experienced opponent and not in proper condition, according to cabled reports of the bout, was defending for the first time the title he won by stopping Georges Carpentier in the sixth round of a bout at Paris, September 24. 1922. The Senegalese, a picturesque figure of the Paris cabarets who boasted that he trained on wine and "high life," has been a storm centre in French boxing circles since his sensational rise to pugilistic fame. Colored French Deputies are Pained. Regret Poincare Was Influenced by Slandering of Black Troops. Paris, March 12.—(Associated Press—Deputies Diagne of Senegal and Boisneuf of Guadeloupe have written Premier Poincare, thanking him for the sentiments expressed in his letter of last Thursday to Gratier Candae another colored member of the Chamber from the Island, concerning the withdrawal of colored soldiers from the Ruhr but expressing pain that France could have been influenced by calumnious propaganda to an extent sufficient to bring about the withdrawal of the black men. "We are absolutely indifferent," says the letter "to the calumnies peddled by the Germans against our fellow-citizens as well as to the hypocritical and ill-natured complaints from Germans recruited among certain neutrals. "On the other hand we are deeply pained at the thought that our Government could allow itself to be influenced by these calumnies and seem to give them a semblance of justification by an attitude which at the same time is irreconcilable with proper regard for our national independence and in compatible with the dignity of the constituents we represent." M. 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Morris, who recently returned from a great tour of six months, conducting revivals in the largest churches of Canada and his gifted son, Charles Satchell Morris, Jr. will be the star attractions. Dr. Morris spoke on Lincoln's birthday in the great Calvary Baptist Church (white) of New York, where Dr. Stratton is pastor. Snuday, March 11th, the son in the spoke in the City Armory at Norfolk to a great crowd that packed the hall. Special musical numbers have been arranged and the program merits an overflow audience. Indications point to an immense crowd of both races. The object of this meeting is to encourage a better feeling between the races here. Young Morris's address is entitled, "The Bright Side of a Dark Subject." The high point are "What the Southern white man is doing for the Southern Negro; what the white man and the Negro are doing for each other; what the Southern Negro is doing for the Southern Negro is doing for himself." THE DOINGS OF THE Y. M. C. A The Y. M. C. A. means the other man by example—serving. 5 P. M. last Saturday the class for the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson was well attended. Last Sunday was a day crowded with a full day of fellowship with both boys and men. The building swung wide open 9:30 A. M. with a workers' meeting. Happy to see strangers. The work in the penitentiary 10 A. M. was cheerfully received and all were helped. Good bye was the happy word with those who were going out to lead new lives. Thank you for your help. 10 A. M. the work in the city jail and home was remembered by the com mittees. The boys program was a good one 4 P. M. and the building was crowded. The quartette of boys sang songs in keeping with the hour and all were glad to hear them. Nothing like giving the boy the right start and following him. 5:30 P. M. the men gathered to hear Mr. R. R. Fahler托勒 Superintender of the Fifth Street Baptist Church Sunday School and he gave an address that was filled with many rich thoughts. Subject: "The Master's Inquiry of You. The select quartette led by Mr. James H. Walls sang from the soul. A good meeting and the strengers were at home. Today he at the Y. M. C. A. 5 P. M. to hear the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson. Bring a friend. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. At the building for the workers 9:30 A. M. All boys are invited to the meeting for boys 4 P. M. at the building. for boys 4 P. M. at the building. Women and men to the 6th Mt. Zlon 3:30 P. M. a great gospel service. Rev. O. B. Simms pastor of the Rising Mt. Zlon Baptist Church will preach special sermon. Subject: The Open Windows. The League Choir will sing Director Mr. W. E. Brown. Be a committee for this hour. Prayer is what keeps the Y. M. C. A. in touch with God then do not forget to have special prayer. Y. W. C. A. NOTES. CALENDAR OF EVENTS Every Tuesday 6:30 to 7 P. M. Bible Class. How new is the Girl Reserve Code. A study on the Life of Christ as a manifestation of the principles set forth in the Girl Reserve Code. Cabinet Training Course 7 to 7:45. For officers and advisers of the Girl Reserve Department. Full of interest; and peep to the last minutes and very instructive. Both of these groups are led by Miss Viola Chaplain, Secretary of Reserves. The New Minister, March 27th. "Y. W." Conference Fund. Friday March 30, 8 P. M. "His last week on earth." A portrayal of Christ's last week on earth, in song and story. Calendar of Events. April 1, The Easter King. Story Cantata. The Triple "T" Club. Mrs. N. W. Winston. Adviser. Who is the New Minister? ? ? True Reformers Hall. Tuesday March 27th. Barrettes' Orchestra. Last week the Service Committee of the Girl Reserves Executive Council sent the Associated Charities a check for $40 to go towards getting legs for Robert a colored cripple boy at the Friends Asylum. The Reserves thank their friends who assisted them in the raising of this amount. The Religious Education committee will present the Coronella Literary Society at the Vesper Hour. Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock in an excellent program: "An Evening with Colored Composers." Mrs. Pearl Smith Jones will CLEAN-UP WEEK TO BE HELD BY NEGRO ORGANIZATION SOC Through the efforts of Mr. L. C. White, Local Agent of the Negro Organization Society, a number of citizens met at St. Phillips P. E. church Thursday night March 15th, to consider the advisability of conducting in Richmond during the week of April 1. to 7th, a clean up campaign. Following devotionals, by Dr. J. L. Taylor, Rector of Church and Dr. A. A. Hector Mr. White explained the Nation and State-wide campaigns for a clean up week and urged that a local committee be appointed to cooperate in the movement. The meeting indorsed the movement and selected the following persons: Mrs. J. W. Chambers Drs. J. L. Taylor T. J. King, A. A. Hector, W. H. Hughes, J. H. Blackwell, Jr. W. H. Rower and Geo. N. Evans, to perfect plans and to interest the churches, schools homes, and citizens in general to cooperate in this necessary health movement. The following citizens:—Drs. W. H. Hughes, J. H. Blackwell, Jr., and T. J. King were selected to wait on the Mayor and other city officials, and to invite their cooperation in carrying out the local program. These citizens earnestly request the active participation of all ministers, principals, teachers, officers of organizations and heads of families in the effort to have a thorough clean up of the houses and premises of every colored resident in our city. Mr. White's office—Room 300 Mechanics Bank Building—will be general headquarters of Com. and workers, but information will be given by any of the above committeemen; and the public is asked to attend future meetings, same will be announced through the churches and press. Committee on Publicity. W. A. JORDAN. GEO. W. EPPS. preside. The program being directed by Mrs. Mable M. Winston. An institute of unusual interest will be conducted at the "Y" March 23-26 with Misses Grace L. Osborne Louise Leonard, Adela F. Ruffin of National Staff as speakers. Two popular meetings will be held; one Friday and the other Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. You are cordially invited to attend. TENTH ANNUAL CLEAN UP As a means of cooperating with those who are directing the work of National Negro Health Week, the Negro Organization Society has decided to conduct its Tenth Annual Clean-Up Campaign during the week of April 1, 7, 1923. The State Board of Health is cooperating with the movement by publishing 25,000 special Health Bulletins which give full directions as to the work to be done and which are now being distributed to our people in all parts of the State. The State Board of Education, thought Supt. Harris Hart, has asked Local Superintendents to allow Colored School children observe health day in their schools, Monday, April 2nd, and the following persons have agreed to direct the work in their respective cities: Rev. L. L. Downing, Roanoke; Major or William H. Johnson, Petersburg; Dr. E. Dickerson Harrisonburg; Dr. R.C. Woods, Lynchburg; Mr. R. F. Clay, Bristol; Mr. R. B. Goode, Abingdon; Rev. J. W. Patterson, Hampton; Also a committee consisting of Rev. J. L. Taylor, A. A. Actor, Mrs. W. H. Chambers, Mr. Geo. Evans, Dr. W. R. Howerton Dr. W. H. Hughes, J. H. Blackwell Jr., and Rev. T. J. King have been appointed to direct the campaign in Richmond. School improvement leagues have been requested to direct the work in their respective communities. The work to be done is essentially as follows: 1. Make the toillets fly proof and sources of drinking water sanitary. 2. Remove all manure, filth and rubbish well away from the house, burn all useless rubbish. 3. Thoroughly clean homes, stables, outhouses and yards. 4. Screen houses, paint or white wash all outhouses and fences. 8. Put everything in perfect repair. Ministers are being asked to preach a special sermon on health Sunday April 1st, and lift a collection for the society to help finance its program for education and health. —Mrs. J. L. Adams of Claysville, Va., called on us. —Mrs. Lucinda J. Carter of Glen Allen, Va., visited the office this week. —Mrs. Henry B. Claiborne was called from the city last week on account of the illness of her mother, who resides in Albany, N. Y. Her mother has improved considerably since she has been there. The funeral of Mr. James Henderson took place last Sunday afternoon from the First Baptist Church of South Richmond. Rev. Dr. W. L Ransom official. He was a member of the Elks and Southside Independent Club. The interment was made in Maury's Cemetery. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Religious Notes REV. DR. BROOKS HERE. Rev. Dr. W. H. Brooks, pastor of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church of Washington, D. C. preached one of the ablest sermons ever heard in this section last Sunday night upon the occasion of the 34th anniversary of Rev. Dr. Z. D. Lewis ae the Second Baptist Church. He is the picture of health and shows no sign of the loss of his vigor. The church was packed and that he is a favorite in this section was again demonstrated. MEMORIAL SERVICES IN HONOR OF THE LATE D. WEBSTER DAVIS Second Baptist Church (South Rich mond 22nd and Holly Streets.) Sunday, March 25th at 8:00 P. M. Program:—Master of Ceremonies Mr. B. F. Vaughan, president Richmond Colored Teachers' Association; hymn, "All Hall the Power of Jesus' Name" Congregation; invocation, the Pastor; selection, Division of Sabbath Glee Club; recitation, Mrs. Alice Holmes Harris; solo, Mrs. Mildred A. Cross; offertory Messrs. G. H Reid Jno. L. Nixon; solo, Mr. W. T. White; presentation of speaker, Prof. Miles W Connor; eulogy. Rev. J. Andrew Bowl; solo, Miss Margaret Tinsley; remarks, Rev. E. Smith. Pastor; selection, Sabbath Glee Club. Auspices of Richmond Colored Teachers' Association, B. F. Vaughan, president; H. S. Crawford, Recording Secretary; B. L. Allen, Corresponding Secretary; A. V. Norrell, Sr., Treasurer. SERVICES AT SHARON Sunday, March 25th. Location: Corner Leigh and First Streets. Sunday School Lesson, Review. Jesus The World's Saviour 10:00 A. M. Preaching at 11:30 A. M. and 8:15 P. M. by the pastor Rev. R. H. Johnson. Jr., B. D. Morning Subject: "The Unchangeable Son of God." Evening Subject: "Our Perfect Savior." Sacred Program The Queen of Sheba Beneficial Club No. 1. 3:30 P. M. Young People's Meeting 6:00 P. M. Regular Prayer Service (Weekly) Wednesday, 8:00 P. M. You are welcome to our services at all times. The series of sermons on the Divinity of Christ recently delivered by the pastor will be continued at the regular services Sunday. These Soul-stirring, God-inspired messages are doing much to allay our doubts and fears, and are real contributions to the fundamental religious thought of our times. Our evangelistic meetings will begin on Monday, April 2, 1923. We desire the prayers and co-operation of all Christian forces to the end that God may be glorified, and sinners led to repentance and salvation. We thank our friends for their attendance and support. W. L. Johnson, Church Clerk. REVIVAL ON SOUTHSIDE Rev. Dr. W. L. Ransom, pastor of the First Baptist Church of So. Richmond has been untiring in his efforts to bring souls to Christ in the last two weeks. He is ably assisted by many local preachers and many have confessed religion during this revival campaign. The church has been crowded each night. DR. MORRIS AT FIFTH STREET Dr. Charles S. Morris preached to a packed house every night this week at the Fifth Street Baptist Church. Much enthusiasm was manifested. The Doctor is a great favorite here among church-goers. He lectures at the City Auditorium Sunday afternoon. SUNDAY SCHOOL ORCHESTRAS Several of the Sunday Schools of the city have orchestras or other instruments to augment the piano and organ. This has proven to be quite an improvement to the music of the schools, as well as to the attendance and added interest. All Sunday Schools who have not tried this innovation, should try it wherever possible; not only for the advantage to the school, but for the benefit to the individuals in exercising their talent. TOPICS FOR SUNDAY International Sunday School Lesson: "Jesus the Saviour of the World," (Review). Motto Text: "Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners." I Timothy 1:15. Young People's Union Topic: "Educational Missions at Home and Abroad," Acts 19:8-20; Deuteronomy 11:18-21. "LE CRITIQUE CLUB." Unfortunately Richmond has long been conspicuous for its intellectual stagnation. Leaders in the various fields of social work have constantly complained of the difficulty of getting an appreciative audience out to near any speaker of intellectual attainment and prominence. After a critical analysis of this situation, a group of liberal students at Virginia Union University among whom were Messrs. Abram L. Harris, Jr. F. D. Johnson, Jas. W. Ivey, Thos. L. Dahney and L. R. Best decided that as a means of arousing some interest in important questions, there should be a club in the city, the chief purpose of which should be the study and discussion of the pertinent problems of society. It was thought that such a club would awaken slothful Richmond and inject into the body politic the spirit of intellectualism and thirst for knowledge. In keeping with the idea expressed above, a group of students from Virginia Union University and City teachers met at the residence of Misses Rose and Marian Hayes, March 11, 1922 and organized "Le Critique Club." The object of the club is to study and discuss all questions pertinent to the welfare of society. The discussions are usually pregnant with thought and steeped in dispassionate intellectualism. On last Saturday night, Mr. L. R. Best discussed "Birth Control." It was one of the most intellectual and scientific dissertations that the public of Richmond has ever heard. Saturday of this week the club meets at 8:30, at 00 West Clay Street. Prof. H. J. McGuin will discuss "Marriage and Divorce." The public is invited. National Race Congress U. S. A. at Washington The National Race Congress, U. S. A., to convene in Eighth annual session at the Mt. Carnel Baptist church 3rd and I streets N. W., Dr. W. H. Jernagin, pastor, May 2-4, 1923. To be known as Fraternal Session. All fraternities, benevolent societies, local units, churches, clubs and conventions of the race requested to send delegates. Representation fee for other than Chartered units, $5.00 per delegate. Expecting largest representation in history. Leaders from different parts of country try to be in attendance. Disappointments of present administration provoke momentous questions—These and other important matters to be aired. Annual sermon by Bishop I. N. Ross. Tuesday, May 1. 8:00 P. M. Addresses by eminent race leaders. All persons planning to attend should send names and addresses to Rev. H. J. Callis, Chairman Executive Committee, 619 M. street, N. W. Washington, D. C. For further information address: W. H. JERNAGIN, Pres. 1341 3rd Street, N. W. H. H. PRICE, Executive Sec. Richmond, Va. SMALLPOX IS RAGING IN FARRELL, PA. (Preston News Service) Farrell, Pa., March 23.—George C. Dyer, who came from North Carolina a few weeks ago, was removed to the detention hospital by health authorities, suffering with smallpox. It is said that health officials are alarmed for fear of an epidemic of this disease. In this city and special attention is being given to the large number of Negroes being important here to wor kin the mills. During the past week several cases of the disease have been reported. Man Leaping From Mail Train is Killed by Guard. --- (Preston News Service) Omaha, Neb., March 21.—An uniden tiffed Negro was fatally wounded last Thursday night by a mail guard on the Union Pacific mail train No. 6 Ogden to Omaha, when the guard discovered him jumping from one of the mail cars with a suitcase. The shooting took place near Summit, Neb. The man died when the train reached here, A white man who gave his name as John Dengar, of Buffalo, N. Y., was taken off the tender of the train after the shooting and was turned over to the Omaha police, who are holding him for investigation. It is thought the two men were robbers. --- ATTY, WILBUR E. KING LOSES CASE IN POLICE COURT. (Preston News Service) Columbus, Ohio. March 21.—Charles Morgan, a state employee, arrested for drunkenness took no chances of being deficient in the matter of being ably represented by legal talent at the hearing before Judge Mabefey last Thursday morning. His corps of legal advisers consisted of Attorney Wilber E King, assisted by Attorneyneys Randolph Walton, Charles Doll, Carl Reynolds and Judge Samuel Osborn. Attorney King, the leading counsel declared that Morgan was well known in this city for a number of years, but his foot accidently slipped. Judge Mabefey asked if it was customary for members of the Ohio legislature to be found in the condition that the member from Summit county was found, to which Attorney King replied: "it is not the usual thing, your honor, but it is not the first time that a member of the assembly has slipped in this regard." The court then assessed Morgan the costs of the case. The General Education Board, which recently gave Shaw University $65,000 for the improvement of its science work has recently awarded a scholarship of $500 to Prof. Dennis A. Forbes STARTLING METHOD TO BANISH WORRY IS TAKING NEW YORK YORK BY STORM. It will be mailed to any address before Easter for Twenty-five (25) cents. After Easter $1.00. Just send your name and address, inclosing 25 cents and if you are not satisfied, or think it doesn't worth 25 cents, return it and get your money back. S. PHILEMON GREENE, 346 W. 16th Street, New York City.—Adv. weapons. DO YOU KNOW THEM? I am trying to find the address of my grand-mother, Caroline Henrick. She has been located in Richmond, Va., but I do not know the street. I am the daughter of her son Logan Henrick. Address, Miss Annie Henrick 607 Hancock Street, Lynchburg, Va. A DISASTROUS FIRE IN PORT AU PRINCE. (Preston News Service) Port Au Prince, Haiti, March 22. One killed and forty persons injured last Wednesday afternoon when a spark from a soldering iron which was being used to close a hole in a gasoline tank started a fire in the Texas Oil Company's building. The building was completely destroyed and the flames spread to and razed more than two-thirds of the block, in the business and commercial district. The loss is estimated at $450,000 most of which was covered by insurance. A high wind and failure of the electric pump service to supply water in the high-pressure mains together with exploding gasoline tanks, hampered firemen gendarmes and volunteers in fighting the stubborn blaze. The fire had burned for more than four hours before the pumps were put in working order and the blaze placed under control. During the height of the conflagration exploding gasoline incapacitated horsemen and more than 30 volunteers. One of the volunteers, a Haltiian laborer, was fatally burned. WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE? Read the book called, "The Life of the Hebrews," and don't mind the heathen exalting themselves, because there be no original Jews but black people, even Jesus Christ. Himself was like a bottle in the smoke. And the only way that any other people can be Jews, that is, they will have to be baptized into Jesus Christ. There are not really but two nations, the chosen people of God is one, and all the rest of the world is fulfilled in one word, namely this. (heathen.) This book proves by the Bible that the Jews are black people, and they have got to go back to their own land again; and it also shows that the Bible is being destroyed by the heathens. This book is delivered by mail throughout the United States. Price Fifteen (15) Cents. Send one and two cent stamps, not money. Write your name and address plainly and mail to Fl-ming Aytes, 1006-A. Bacon Street Richmond Va. With every order for a book on "The Life of the Hebrews," I will send you a book free, containing a sermon. The Gospel of Jesus Christ, which I wrote myself, and I do firmly believe that I can beat any man on earth preaching the Gospel. No Agents. Mail Orders only. Notice send in your order now, no more orders taken after July 1st, 1923. Aften then I will heal the sick and raise the dead in the name of Jesus. ATTENTION! To the United Order of the Four and Twenty Elders and Friends. There will be a Great Get Together Meeting of the United Order of the Four and Twenty Elders, Sunday, March 25, 1923 at Price's Hall at 3 P. M. Every subordinate lodge of Richmond and South Richmond is urged to be present. A rare treat in store for all who attend. MAJOR JOHNSON. 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