Richmond Planet
Saturday, July 25, 1925
Richmond, Virginia
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This may be our last battle. We believe that it is the beginning of our final triumph. MAY 17, 1923 JOHN MITCHELL, IR
Virginia State Library. THE RICHMOND PLANET
GRUESOME MURDER IN FULTON
WILLIAM YATES KILLS SHEPHERD GRAY----NO HELP FOR THE VICTIM--INHUMAN CUTTING.
Trivial Excuse Given---Ex-inmate of Lunatic Asylum.
VOLUME XLII, NO. 37
GRUES
WILLIAM
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A gruesome tragedy took place in Fulton late Saturday night, 18th inst., when William Yates disembowelled and cut to death Shepherd Gray, an employee at the Federal Reserva Bank. John Mitchell, Jr. called at the city jail-Monday afternoon, where Deputy City Sargeant Saunders was in active charge. In the grated enclosure stood a brown-skinned man, tall and of medium build. He wore a shirt, which was bloodshedred. He said that he was born in Dawndie County, Va. and was 41 years of age.
OWED HIM SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS
He stated that a man owed him 75 cents and there was some dispute over it. The man finally paid him the 75 cents. This took place in Burnell Jeffress' store after 11 o'clock Saturday night. He had a dispute with Shepherd Gray. Gray cut him with with a butcher knife and he pointed to his bloody shirt. He then cut Gray with the razor. Being pressed to state what the dispute was about, he only responded that they had a dispute. Yates said he had been married. He was living alone now. He resided at 910 State Street, Fulton.
FUNERAL PREPARATIONS
A visit to Robert C. Scott's undertaking establishment revealed the fact that Shepherd Gray, whose remains were there, had a wife, two sons and three grandchildren and also a sister, Mrs. Sarah Burley, who resides in Petersburg, Va. The widow was making arrangements then for the funeral. She selected a fine couch casket. In the morgue were Shepherd Grays' remains. His face did not disclose any evidence of the terrible experience through which he had passed. He was a large, clean faced plethoric man of dark complexion.
WITNESSES ABSENT.
H₀ reminded one of the old fashioned, well trained servant class of other days. The coroner's jury, with Coroner Whitfield presiding me at the City Hall, coroner's office Tuesday afternoon at 3:30. Owing to some misunderstanding the witnesses did not appear. After much delay, Officer F. A. Campodonico testified: "I arrested William Yates, Sunday morning about 1 o'clock, 19th inst, at Fulton Cafeteria, 830 Denny St. for cutting Shepherd Gray. He was out at the door, coming in.
BOASTED HE CUT HIM.
"Gray at that time was in St. Philips Hospital." Yates said I cut the son of a b.... as long as I could see a piece of him. I cut him. Him and Tom had some trouble, both being bootleggers. Tom went home to get his gun and he had gone home to get his razor. Shepherd took it up and stuck him with a butch-knife as he passed. Gray had one of those little thin cuts on one side in front. He said he overtook Gray and cut the son of a b.... as long as he could see a piece of him.
TOOK TOM'S PART
He said Shepherd Gray didn't have anything to do with it. He took Tom's part. Yates had been drinking. He was wild, when I arrested him. He reminded me somewhat of a crazy man. I notified Yates that Gray was dead. He said, Is he dead? I made a good job of it, didn't I? He seemed to be very mad when I arrested him. I arrested him about 30 or 40 minutes after the cutting. I couldn't find the razor.
He had dropped it.
TRIED TO SAVE GRAY.
Burnell Jeffress said, "I saw William Yates cut Shepherd Gray Saturday night. The cutting was done on Gilliam Street near Denny Street. I was in the store and saw the man cutting so much, I ran out and tried to stop him. I run the Fulton Cafeteria. 830 Denny Street. About 12:35 A. M., 19th. Yates came in and ran Shepherd Gray out of the place, with a razor. William Yates cut himself in lunging at Shepherd with the razor over an oval table. He leaned over the table, while Shepherd yas trying to avoid him.
PREPARING SANDWICHES.
"Gray was back in the kitchen and Yates ran Gray out, cutting at Gray. Yates said, 'He has cut me.' I said. No, he didn't you cut yourself. Gray ran out to the street with Yates following him. He caught up with him after crossing the street and cut him in the back. Gray fell in the car track. Then he cut him again. After he got up at the side of a house, Yates held him up against the side of the house and cut him in front. He gets away from the side of the house. I shoved him from Gray, when Gray started again across the track, holding him self up in front.
FELL, IN CAR TRACK.
"He fell in the car track again and Yates cut him in the back again. Yates' brother was there and he was afraid to go to him. He said. 'Don't cut that man'. Shepherd got up and tried to get into my store. I shoved Yates away and he started to cut me. He tried to get into the door to cut him again."
"Why was it that some one didn't shoot him?" enquired the coroner.
"No one seemed willing to do it. Jeffress had no gun. Gray came in and asked me for a drink of water. He fell over on the floor. Then the ambulance came. Two or three fellows were talking to Yates and he went home, where he got rid of the razor.
DETERMINED TO KILL HIM
"Gray ran out of the kitchen with a butcher knife in his hand. He had been preparing sandwiches with it. He lost the knife in the street. He made no attempt to use it. He said Willie, what's the matter, are you crazy. Yates said. Yes, I'm crazy until I kill you. Gray never struck at Yates with the knife. I did not see Gray drink. Yates was a quarrel some man. Gray was not quarrelsome and he would not hurt anybody. Yates has been to the lunatic asylum at Petersburg. He broke out from there and walked all the way to Richmond.
The jury found that Gray came to his death at the hands of William Yates.
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RICHMOND VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1925
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MRS. A. G. THOMPSON, Founder and Grand Worthy Ruler. Imperial Order of King David.
Abolition OF CIVIL SERVICE PHONES WITH TELEFIL-
CATION LUGED.
(Preston News Service)
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 24—Guests of the local Postoffice Mutual Welfare Association, delegates to the convention of the National Alliance of Postal Employees sailed down the Potomac last Tuesday night on a moonlight trip. They combined business with pleasure, making a drive for membership in the alliance anon. workers in the local postoffice. Estimating 22,000 as its total potential membership, the Alliance launched a drive for 100 per cent. enrollment. Matters of litigation and equitable adjustment, attracted considerable attention. The legal adviser's report, submitted by R. L. Bailey, of Indianapolis, was adopted in an executive session of several hour's duration. The report of the committee on redistricting was referred to the committee on constitution, and that of the committee on official organ adopted.
SEEK REMOVAL OF THE PHOTOGRAPH STIGMA.
Abolition of the photograph as a means of identification in civil service examinations was strongly recommended by the committee on the address of the president. The committee on resolutions was directed to prepare a digest on this subject. By reason of present uncertainty of legal status surrounding operation here, the matter of headquarters in this city was deferred to a future session. An amendment was ordered drawn up providing that funds of the alliance be deposited in National banks only.
ASSOCIATION ENLISTS AID OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS; WILL PICKET AT TERM OPENING.
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 23—Howard University general alumni association announced last Monday night completion of a program aiming to effect removal of Dr. J. Stanley Durkee from the presency of Howard University. Local alumni are meeting regularly in the summer months in preparation for a picketing campaign, it was stated, to begin the opening of the university in September. It is considered likely that the entire matter will be thrashed out in congressional investigation.
Rev. George Frazier Miller, of Brooklyn, president of the general association of alumni, together with the executive committee, has formulated a bill of complaint against the university administration, attacking principally Dr. Durkee's methods.
The association has sent several members into Northern and Western States to interview and secure support of senators and congressmen for their cause, it is said.
After several public meetings. Dr. William A. Sinclair, of Philadelphia, on itinerary, has succeeded in securing indorsement of the alumni program from alumni bodies in New York and other Eastern cities which formerly supported the university administration. In the West he has received pledges of cooperation from alumni bodies in Milwaukee and Chicago according to officials of the association.
The Public Library will be opened at Phyllis Wheatley Branch Y. W. C. A. Monday, July 27, at 8 P. M. There are 1100 books fully cataloged and a capacity of 40 readers and 4,000 volumes. John Stewart Bryan and Mayor J Fulmer Bright will make the presentation addresses:
ANSWERS THE WILBERFORCE
ALUMN LCHARGES.
(Preston News Service.)
WILBERFORCE, O. July 24—In a statement issued Saturday by Dr. Gilbert Haven Hones, president of Wilberforce University, he answered charges made in a published article recently published by an official of Alumni Association of the school. Among the points stressed in President Jones' statement are:
Alumni in general all right. Doing well by school and helping it in its efforts to grow and expand. School nor inefficiently run, nor is it the victim of church politics. Institution has just come through a wonderful year carrying successfully unprecedented financial responsibilities, closing with a splendid commencement. Everybody at the institution happy and looking forward to a still greater year. Charge that school is declining in scholarship False. Meets every requirement of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools—a standardizing association—except the requirement for an endowment.
Exchanges students on par with most of leading white institutions of the country. Put in class "A" by State Department of Public Instruction in 1917—which gives it similar rating in 34 other States. Only this year such States as North Carolina, Virginia, Illinois, etc. etc. have given it the much coveted "A" rating. Has secured a place on nearly all the accredited school lists since it was put in Class "D" in 1914. Rated "A" by all colleges in Ohio except Oberlin. Schools such as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Ohio State, Pennsylvania, Northwestern, Temple, Cornell. University of Pittsburgh, etc., etc., all give it "A" rating.
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The Good Will Baptist Church announces a change in the hour of Sunday School and Holy Communion service beginning Sunday, July 26; Sunday School at 10 A. M.; Communion first Sundays 3:30 P. M.
REV. W. B. BALL. Pastor.
NOTICE
The Good Will Baptist Church presents Rev. William H. Skipwith the national and much loved evangelist, under tent on Brook Avenue, beginning Monday, July 27 at 8 P.M. The public is cordially invited.
DO YOU KNOW HIM?
I desire to know the whereabouts of Fred Johnson, a resident of Richmond, Va. In 1897 he lived on one of the Florida Keys and was burned while working in one of the coal kills. Valuable information for him, if living, or his heirs, if dead, is now available. Write at once to The Planet Office, 311 N. Fourth St., Richmond, Va.
I.O.OF KING DAVID.
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Richmond Division, U. N. L. A. will run a Trolley Party to Petersburg, Monday, July 27, 1925. Special cars leave 7th and Perry Sts. 7:30 P4 M. Fare Round Trip 55 cents. Let everybody go
Rev. C. P. Dixon, the Colored Billy Sunday is reaching many unsaved backsliders and hypocrites at the tent on Brook Road. The last and special services will be Sunday, the 26th, 4 P. M. Subject. "The Negro of Today". 8:00 P. M. "A Dead Dog Chasing a Flea."
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The Grand Lodge, Imperial Order of King David staged a most successful 17th annual session Tuesday and Wednesday at the Sharon Baptist Church with Mrs. Adelalde G. Thompson, G. W. Ruler, presiding. There was a large attendance from Virginia and elsewhere. The reports showed an increase of 900 in membership and $13,000 in the treasury with all death claims paid.
In recognition of her great work, the Order presented Mrs. Thompson with a handsome automobile to enable her to more readily reach the various subordinate lodges.
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DR. HOLMES LOSES SON
John H. Holmes, M. D. of Winchester, Ky. sent us the following telegram, which explains itself:
"Winchester, Ky., July 18, 1925. Hon. John Mitchell, Jr. Care The Planet, Fourth St., Richmond, Va. John Jr. died this morning. Burial Tuesday. JOHN H. HOLMES, M. D."
Young Holmes graduated recently from the Medical Department of Howard University and had won distinction there. Dr' Holmes, Sr. is the son of the late Rev. James H. Holmes, D. D. of this city.
Rev. J. H. Bainford is not much improved.
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OUR BRILLIANT FRIEND, Attor
ay J. Thomas Newsome seems to
have propounded a tew questions to
one of the leading white journalists
in Vitgin'a, Hon. W. S. Copeland,
editor of the Newport News, Va.
Daliy Press that have caused him no
end of trouble and he has made an
effort to reply to the same. As to the
force and togie of hs argument, the
publle will judge. The peculfar part
of the whole matter ts that this dis:
tingu'shed Virginfan has lost his
usnal equilibrium and permitted his
vaclal passions to get the better part
of his Judgment.
The pity of the whole affa'r ie
thet he is ranked amoug the best
frionds of the Negro trom a Southern
‘yiewpo:nt, while as a matter of fact,
he is lining up with the worst ene
aves of this same class of people.
He says: 5
* “In the People’s Forum this morn
ing, a colored correspondent asks:
‘fs it the opinion of The Daily Press
that racial strife helps to make ether
the white race or the black racd
etter men and women, obeying the
@ivine injunction of love one anoth”
ert”
= .sWho is stirring up ractal strifet
It has come to a pretty pass, surely,
when newspaper cannot contend
for the integrity of the Anglo-Saxon
race aud protest against racial
equality without being accused of
<ehivetne up strifa’.””
Stitt, it has come to that “pretty
pass”, Editor Copeland evades the
qvestion prosounded. Colored lead
ors in the Southland know it and for
t $08 re not pressing to
the front fundamental, constitutional
Helts, whieh they skowld muke frst
remost, but ate holding these
matters in abeyance in order to cut
tivate friendly fealing among the re
tive races umd co operating In
the tn ‘al movement in order
the two classes of people may
nite to grow to love and respect
‘Tho issues raised by this Virgin-
lan have no bearing whatever upon
raolal integrity, No love escapades
have ever origmated at Hampton
between the races and none existed
among the white planters and their
familfes aud Negroes and their fam
i'es prior to the war. A Negro, male
or female, could gaze upon the nude
ness of white females without having
any of the baser passions aroused.
Hampton Institute was founded with
the approvul of Southern whites and
the haste purposes for whieh it was
founded have always been subserved
and respected,
_ White females, North or South and
Viack males intermingling im this
section means “rope” and plenty of
it and practically 100 per cont. of
the colored people in this section of
the woods have a horror of “rope”
and persistently seek to avoid it. ‘The
violation of the integrity of the An
glo Saxon race comes not from socia\
equality but rather from sexua
quality. It has been the white man
who has been foremost in bringin
the latter into force and practice it
this southern country of ours.
Hon. W. 8. Copeland should ac
cordingly “turn his guns” upon hi
‘own people and let these helples
Negroes, who he claims to desire t
teach and help, severely alone. 1
Major Copeland is aa Anglo Saxor
et him count the white people in hi
immediate neighborhood and find ov
how many can claim a similar di
tnction. The Amertean Republi
has been and is ths “thelting pot
for the races of the whole world.
‘The lexicographer defines Angle
Saxon as
“The low German tribes wk'¢
invaded and occupied southern ar
eastern England and southern Seo
land in the sth and 6th centurle
A imember of the Anglo-Saxon nation
which fm Enslant was ereated by the
cousoldat.on of these tribes, togeth-
ov with native Danish elements and
“which continted as the ruling power
‘of England umil the Norman Con-
aquest”.
| An Anglo Saxon then must be a
yerson belonging to the mixed race
/whfeh forms the English nation, An
“Anglo Saxon must be a person de-
scended from any of the races of the
British Isles, If then the integrity
of the Anglo-Saxon race is to be
maintained, then an amalgamation
with any of the other races must be
prevented and denied by law.
Tf Fditor Copeland has no prejw
le ‘a this matter, why should he
attack a Negro school and endeavor
to impa'y its usefulness for the reas
fon that @ whts person sits on the
tie bench with a colored gue or
vicwsrea, when white and colored
ce Jor more than two hundred
ars luv? been living under the
ne rooss m some of the most px
Jatial and aristecratle mansions in
Vreinia and have been sitting ‘n the
ae nulroag trains and sid’ng in
he same carrfages for nearly the
th of time. ft seems to
y ig seeing “blood on tha
n therg is notte there to
Srevehin Hat'ans, Spaniards,’
‘ Rossians, Turks, Austrians,
ns. Japanese, Ch’nese, Tn
Tex(ans and south Americans
{ Anglo-Saxons and_ strictly
king even the progressive Ger
mans do net claim to be actually
cended from\th’s race of people.
Why leave these races out of th’e
sur-splitting ctusnde? ‘They have
Government4, most of them, to back
‘emt, Why play upon racia! preju®
ces and attack the poor, harmless,
jofensolesh, pence loving Negro?
‘The edi’or c2 The Newport’ News
Daily Press continues: |
| "Gur colored correspondent knows
hotter, perhaps. than any other col-
ored man in th’s community, that
the colored race has no more sincera
friend in Virginia than the editor of
"The Daily Press and that there is no
man in the Suite more desirous of
maintaining friendly relations _be-
tween the White ard colored races.
‘Ths is no demagogic gusa, but the
plain truth whfeh ur colored cor-
respondent wEl not deny, and to
which, we belleve, he would testify
in court. to the best of h’s knowledge
and belief. We believe the samo
testimony would be given by Matt
N. Lewis, ed’tor of the Newport News
Star", !
He proceeds to pay a tribute
to the Hampton Instituge and then
proceeds to null'fy the effect of all
that he has sail. The Seriptures say,
“By their fru:t, ye shalt know them’?
‘This is as true of institutions as it ts
of ind:viduals. If then this great
uatetn/ as ueaet out students,
not q one of whom has ever been
arrested for erime, why try to dictate
to the producers of this kind of
tvained material? The faculty knows
[its buses. Editor Copeland is not
on ialaasioe a the class room, He
ix assiduously laboring to impair the
usefulness of the institutfon by mist
leo ng its aims and purposes.
This Wieck
(By Ernest Rice McKinney)
(Preston bews Serv ce.)
of one’s raters and em”
piosers, weuld make ft
possible for un untrained
or lazy man to accupy a
higher posi‘on tha he
did before.
‘Phe Negrovs who want
to be white seem to feel
that “he mere changing
of tne color wll make a
wise man of a fool, a
qwet unassuming gentle
auan of an ‘gnorant.
monkey shine tounge lis
arg, or a sensible refined
young woman from a
sum-chewing, painted.
nalf naked flapper
Many sincere Negroes
|-—not i the above cat”
‘esury—seem to fee! that
tere is some over
wneming and inevitable
ang sure advantage in
peng white. That is
tmey fect that somehow.
cn some way, if they
coud only be white
their troubles, financial.
mdustrial, social and
cu'tural would be over
‘They seem to feel that
the white race 'e where
< ts simply because of
the color of its skin.
‘They are fatalists living
atways in the grip o}
tae belief that blacknes:
<a curse from which nc
WHY DOES ANY av
evage Negro of only av"
erage ‘niell’gence, aver
age abilky, average in”
cination to hard work
and average grit bemoan
the fact that he is black
and spend good time
w'shing that he were
wh to? This Negro will
roll out endless words
to inform you that he
would be g great man if
he were only white. Ho
wil tell you that he
would have been at the
head of this or that had
1 not been for his color.
He usually ends his wall
with, “but of course thev
would not give it to me
hecause I am colored’
in_th's same conner
tion I am reminded of
the Garvey'tes who for
rome years now have
been preparing to_ be
cabinet officers, field
marshals, admirals, and
whatnot. Tt seemed t
matier not to any Gar
yeyite that aman whe
is a hod carrier in th’
country would probabl
be a hodearrier in
strictly Negro country.
‘They seemed to fee
that by simply changins
ones geographical loca
tion, changing the colo
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| A frieng will tell one of his faults
but he will not take the public hust
jings as the place to do it, When
Editor Copeland and his supporters
failed to address a communication to
the Principal and failing there, sent
the same to the Board of Trustees,
for an investigation to be put under
Way without any public outery, in
order to determine whether or not
the pollcy of the institution was
leading to the amalgamation of the
races, they nullified their friendship.
‘We are disposed to believe that if this
distinguished Virginian will level his
Journalistic guns upon the immorality
between the races existing within
the municipal confines of his own
jeity and take steps to correct the
same. he wil not find time to injure
fone of the best and most progressive
racial institutions im the United
States of Amer ca.
Here gt Hampton Institute, self:
coifie’ng, patriotie white mea and
women are giving some of the best
years of their aves to the elevation
of the colored people of the South-
land. ‘They are vistnally social
parets, able omly to breathe fully
tle wir of frosdem anl/roe'al inter:
course during thes priet vecation
viste ta 9 northern limo. Some of
them may be Angly Srxons and some
Coria’n it ieethut not a breath
not @ \whisper of susplelon have at-
tuched to the'r high moral sts‘ading.
fs it not erie! for @ Virsintan of the
Gopelnad tyne to make thes lot less
nourabler ; a
Editor Copeland's attitude is in
Givect opposition to the terehings of
the Seviptures. If these Anglo-Saxon
enthusiasts, who «re ievously th
the minority in this and every other
country, but the British Islas meant
well, they would haye confined their
eiforts to auiet systemat’e work and
not caused a hue and ery against one
of the Mumblest and kindiiest races
of neople on the fae of the globe
and those of our white friends, who |
ate slowly ebbing ther Hves away,
n the service of God and g seiously
handicapped portion of humanity.
“Cosmus, Duke of Fforenc., was
wont to say of perfidious friends,
that ‘We read that we ongkt ‘0 for-|
sive our enemies; but we do not read
that we ovght to forgive cur fr ona"
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He cannot +eseape this
curse, say they. as long
as his skin is black.
‘These people, Hoth the
sincere and the merely
ioot'sh. do not seem able
to envisage the true sit:
uation. Ability does
count regardless of tace
or color. Brains do win
Geswte the co’neldence
that tliry may he en-
gosed in a peculiarly
shaped skull crowned
with crinkly hair. Soft
speech will benefit. one
even though it rolls a
cross lips not so thin as
those of the Nordic. ~
\
And on the other hand
there are white men who
are common Inborers
and white women whe
‘are dishers. They are on
the same mental level as
most of the Negroes whe
feel that they would be
something great if they
were only white.
| 1am reminded of 2
saying of Charlie
Schwab's, “It you have
| done your best you have
done everything; if you
jhe done less than yout
|best you have done
“nothing”.
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COLORFUL NEWS “MOVIES”
1 :
Py “THE CAMERAMAN.”
1—COTTON Ig NOT KING. 2-WHEN MARIAN SINGS.
4—THE MOB GOES NORTH. y—GOOD EVENIN’, MISTER DEMPSEY.
(Preston News Service)
Frank Bohn (white), feature ayriter and
economic specialist. gloomily writes from New
York that Cotton is no longer king of the,
Southland. “Our cotton states’, says Mr.
Hohn “face the second great change of their
history since their labor system was destroyed
during the Civil War" Lamentingly, Mr.
Bohn continues by saying: “A totally false
notion obtains in the North that the South is
prosperous, This is true only of a very small
class of citics. The job of teaching the ma-
jority ‘under present conditions, is a task be
fore which anybody might despair. Consider
ably more than half the workers “in th:
uithern fields east of the Mississippi are
Negroes. About the half the remainder are
white tenant farmers, Both these classes are
generally incapable of modern farm practices.
* Mr. Bohn concludes his lamentations
by saying that ‘the South deserves what she
has never received from the North—She de
serves to be understood, She has been looked
upén as thongh the burdens which have
bowed her down for a century sprang from a
moral and not an économie evil”,
. A painstaking check-up sof Mr, Bohn’s
assertions reveals grave inconsistencies. While
the South is having great difficulty in apply-
ing modern agricultural methods to its cotton
cultivation ant cther similar pursuits, Ne-
grocs who have abandoned the old time
cotton fields of the South for new ones in
iton states farther north» Missouri for itr
stance, have readily acquired a working”
knowledge of modern methods. This is openly
attested to by the jump which Missouri is
taking, under Negro labor: in cotton produc
tion. It is axiomatic: of course, that manual
labor is distasteful to the white man of the
South, who is still grieving over Abraham
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and its
resultant constitutional amendments.
| The hide bound South is equally dormant
in installing modern cotton and farming
machinery. The experiment which was made
by North Carolina, in the textile industry,
within a five year period brught that State
and industry ttp to a near parity with Massa
chusetts: Tt is no one’s fault but the South’s
that it is still half asleep as to the efficacy of
modern farm methods now in constant use
North and West. Low wages, long hours:
the dephivation of its black citizenry of mod
etn training and education will never produce
a labor army of efficiency.
Where the South has done otherwise, in
the steel industry, for instance, her progress
has heen marked. With much respect for Mr.
Bohn, we think that the North does understand
the South, and suggest that for the last half
century the effort has been made to create in
the South full respect for the U. S. Constitu
tion and its amendments, the evasion of which
has raised the South's moral backwardness to
mountain size, and her economic dormancy to
mole hill dimensions, And the fact that Cotton
is no longer king in Dixieland is directly due
to the former evilfrather than the latter. Mod’
ernism in ethics and Jaw is the parent of
modernism in agriculture, and even in cotton
cultivation, itself.
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Once more the great white world of music
has had to doff its hat to the voice of color,
and word comes from Little Old New York
that the dofting was done with grace and
congratulations Our own Marian Anderson,
mezzo soprano, in a contest with three hum
dyed singers, who were competing in the New
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claimed to be the winner, According to the
judges, Miss Anderson “Possesses a phenom
enal yoice”, and her voice when carefully com
pared with 3oo !other natural and trained
soprano voices of artists laying claim to world
honors, was unanimously selected as being
entitled to first honors, ‘Thereafter Miss An
derson was selected to head a list of soloists
which wil later tour the country with the
Philharmonic Orchestra, comprised of such
musical premiers as Dorys Le Vene, Nina
Wulfe, Kathcrine Bacon, Parbara Tall, and
ther white musical celebrities of international
listinction, f
Miss Anderson's triumph reminds us that
syong Europ-an critics Hazel Harrison,
sianiste, of Chicago, another colored girl who
- a musical genius, is rated as ranking among
he world’s five greatest pianists. It is ad-
niitted, at least outside of America, that the
German and Italian music crities ate the most
learned in the world, Those schools of music
ciass Miss Harrison along with Harold Bauer,
Josef Hoffman, Ignace Paderewski and Clad-
imir de Pachmana, to say nothing of Ossip
Gabrilowitch, Rachmaninoff and Madame
Olga Samaroff.
‘Phose who worship at the shrine of musical
art should make an inventory of how art toils
not, neither does it spin. ‘They should note
that skulf formations, finger tips, and vocal
cords seem to know no bounds of color, in
their allotment of interpretative musical art
and natural ability, Apparently the only con.
ditions necessary to place color in art, at least
in the musical world’ is a fair board of judges
and an unbiased promotional orchestra, stich
as the Philharmonic, What a moving lar
show i$ life, when void of God-given attri
butes. In the dark, where musical art rises
to its greatest heights, who would know
whether brown Marian Anderson or white
Anna Case were singing? Last, but not least,
the great white news dailies of Little Old
New York were neither unafraid nor ashamed
to print, in conspicuous position, Miss An.
Gerson’s three-quarter photograph-
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THE MOR GOES NORTH.
Last week the mob went North, first to
Detroit, Mich., where it sought to annihilate
the life and property of a Race man who had
yought and occupied a home in a white neigh.
borhood. ‘Then the mob journeyed to Toledo,
Oregno, where 200 strong, it ‘attacked 35
Japanese who were peaceably at work in a
wood mill, the employees of a corporation,
which though un-American in its employment
poficies, was one hundred per cent. more
American than the mob, Comforting news
comes from Oregon in the arrest of fifty ot
more offenders, who, says the District Attor-
ney, will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of
the law. From Detroit comes the report of
bitterness not unline that which followed in
the wake of the. Chicago and Washington
riots, Thus went the mob.
‘The remedy which the mob sought to apply
was, as usual, an ill one and badly adminis.
tered, In Detroit, it had no justification. In
Oregon, the proximate cause of the mob’s
fury was an unscrupulous American employer
who ricrochetted Japanese labor in the face of
Amrican labor, An appeal to the American.
ism of such employers, of whom there are
hundreds, and not to the mob spirit, is the
one and only appropriate method of handling
stich infractions upon American independence.
Colorfully speaking, Americanism formed no
part of the mob’s motivations for its similar
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onslaughts have been too many times spent
upon Americans themselves. Witness Ches-
ter, Pa., and East St. Louis, Ii. Thus went
the mob
In Detroit—and we speak from personal
Imowledge—the advance agents of the mob
should have delved down into the interracial
admixture of gay. night life on East Adams
and in other localities of that city, and peace.
fully estopped the exploitation of vice by local
distorters of white Christianization and civil.
ization, Then, perchance, such hatred might
not grow against one who sought merely to
raise an edifice of home, pointing Heaven.
ward, A mob, though, the most cowardly
ensemble of human counterparts ever wrought
by fury, never reasons, never thinks, Hence,
the mob is the masterpiece of ignorant perse.
cution, the instrumentality of a perfect bar.
harism. Isn't it a shame that the mob is such
an outstanding institution in this Christian
Nation? Thus went the mob.
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GOOD EVENIN’,
MISTER DEMPSEY.
‘The loquacious Jack Dempsey, heavyweight
boxing champion of the world (with reser.
vations) has returned from abroad full of
smiles and overburdened with diplomacy, but
apparently with as much desire as ever to
keep on the outside of any prize ring ropes
which might enclose him and a brown-hued
gentleman from Louisiana, by the name of.
Mister Harry Wills. Life on the Montemarte
has, however, made Jack a bit talkative and
he adntits that for a sufficient number of rocks
to float a bank, he is willing to fight’ any of
the white second raters, with which the pug-
ilistic market is now surfeited.
Will he fight Mister Wills? Well, says
Mister Dempsey, on a “never do today that
which you can put off until tomorrow basis”
‘after a while.”
Once upon a time (ignoring race as we
always do whenever we can) we believed
that Mr. Dempsey was a-better man than
Mister Wills; but, actions speak louder than
words, and after all these months of stalling,
We are convinced that deep down in his heart
Jack mows that Harry could knick the cham.
pion into the solar system. Jack is a better
runner than Tommy Burns, a better talker
than Gentleman Jim Corbett. a superior di.
plomat to Kid Lavigne; but as a shock ab-
sorber, sportsman and fighter. the comparison
is odious; and we are forced to admit, without
reservations, that our belief in Jack’s pugil-
istic prowess has waned down to zero.
We dare not prophesy that the champion
will ever agree to put on the gloves with
Marry Wills, who is running the gamut of
disappointment in his challenges to Dempsey.
White supremacy must not, cannot fail; and
when it might fail—well, the law of evasion
steps in and makes it duit, cold, knocked down
to the mat, as it were, by Fear, the disturber
of the peace of men and the undeniable master
of near-men,
«.The spectacle of the slick-footed, globe
trotting Dempsey is the saddest picture of
might we have ever seen, Had such evasions
been condoned in the days of Peter Jackson,
George Dixon, John 1, Sullivan, Bob Fitz-
simmons and ‘Tom Sharkey, the Marquis of
Kucensbury would have committed hari-kari
and Kid McCoy would now be the undisputed
champion of the world, And if it were not
condoned by the white sport world of today,
it would probably be “Good Evenin’ Mister
Dempsey—the stars are shining’.
Roanoke Items
VIRGINIA:
In the Law and Equity Court of
the City of Richmond, the 26th
day of June, 1925.
HELLEN SANDERS .....Plaintiff
against
In Chancery
FOREST SANDERS.....Defendant
The object of this suit is to obtain
an absolute divorce from the bond of
matrimony by the plaintiff from the
defendant upon the ground of wilful
desecration and abandonment for three
years and more.
And an affidavit having been made
and filed that the defendant, Forest
Sanders, is not a resident of the State
of Virginia, it is ordered that the
sold defendant. Forest Sanders, appear
here within ten days after the
due publication of this order and do
what may be necessary to protect his
interest in this suit.
Teste: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk.
By E. M. Edwards, D. C.
J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, p. q.
1117 E. Marshall St.
Richmond, Virginia.
VIRGINIA:
In the Law and Equity Court of
the City of Richmond, the 29th
day of June, 1925.
ROSA SHEPPERSON.....Plaintiff
against
In Chancery
HORACE SHEPPERSON.Defendant
The object of this suit is to obtain
an absolute divorce from the bond of
matrimony by the plaintiff from the
defendant upon the ground of wilful
desertion and abandonment for three
years and more.
And an affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant, Horace Shepperson, is not a resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that the said defendant, Horace Shepperson, appear here within ten days after the due publication of this order and do what may be necessary to protect his interest in this suit.
A Copy,
Teste: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk.
By E. M. Edwards, D. C.
J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, p. q.
1117 E. Marshall St.
Richmond, Virginia.
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The Goodwill Baptist Church, 410
N. Monroe street is a new unit to the
Baptist Church, with a very broad
program. Rev. W. E. Bail, pastor
invites the public and his many
friends to worship Sunday, July
26th. 11:30 A. M. and 8:30 P. M.
Communion, 1st Sundays, 3:30 P. M.
M Sunday School, 10:00 A. M. Special
music. All are invited.
If you are in the market for a car don't buy until you see PAUL SMITH. Drop a card on save you money. Drop a card on phone Madison 5559 or Blvd. 8022.
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ROANOKE, VA., July 21.—Mr. J.
C. Dugger. 207 Fifth Avenue. N. E.
is much improved.
Your correspondent has been indisposed, but is still on the field of duty. Help him increase The Planet's circulation.
James Hayden's death two weeks ago was generally regretted by his many friends here.
Mrs. M. K. Stanfield will furnish you with millinery, toilet supplies and ready to wear garments. 630 Peachtree Road is the place. Call and see her. She also handles M. Stanfield's guaranteed preparations. Get The Planet there, too.
Mrs. Caroline Stutz mother of Mrs. C. J. Dickerson had a sudden attack of illness, which necessitated the return of her daughter from her district work. She is improving.
Mrs. Lizzie Dupdixter, 1 Lynchburg Avenue, N. W. was taken to Burrell's Hospital. She died the next day. She had been sick two years.
Mr. L. L. Brown left for Douglas Arizona.
Mrs. Maffa Davies has been indisposed.
The eighth anniversary of the pastorate of Rev. W. W. Hicks, pastor of the Mt. Zon Baptist Church was appropriately celebrated at the church and hall on the 20th. 350 members have been added to the church.
Rev. W. R. Howerton, D. D. is making a great success here. He preached at the Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church Sunday morning. At 8 P. M. he delivered another powerful discourse.
Addison Young died here on the
18th.
Mrs. Ed. Hairston is critically ill.
290 Tenth Avenue, N. E.
FLORENCE. S. C. July 21—In a certain town near here, the pastor and his female members were not within speaking distance. The pastor called them bolsevists and the men bers at once gave him his walking ticket.
The following members contributed at the grand rally here of the Trinity Baptist Church: Mrs. Ruth W. Boone and little son, Francis. Jr. of New York; Miss Leona May Webster of the city, graded school, and father, E. B. Webster; David Watson I, and wife, Mrs. Ella Wathon.
Rev. J. W. Easley of Graelysville S. C. occupied the pulpit at Mr. Olive Baptist Church at Mullins. S. c. last Sunday during the day. Rev. Jenkins, the pastor being sick. Miss Bessie L. McIntyre, of Evansville, Ind. was enroute to Fayetteville, N. C.
The Help and Aid Society of S. C. is now in annual session here at the New Joint Stock Hall.
Miss Bertha Mitchell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Mitchell of Hallsbury, N. C. is interested in Sunday School work. Miss Bertha has the correct idea of the work.
Mrs. Ruth Webster Boone. Miss Leona May Webster and Master France Boone spends the afternoon at Mrs. C. E. Godbolt's residence.
Delegates from the Sunday School Convention at Laurens, S. C. report a successful meeting. Rev. A. W. Wright, of Georgetown, S. C. has gone to Philadelphia to assist Rev. Dr. Jordan in a ten day revival.
The Robinson Brothers, Lazarus
Shan and Clayton are gladly serving
the' patrons.
Rev. C. M. Simmons, the successful
divina is now pastoring the Ebengzer Baptist Church here
Mrs. R. Wheeler and her daughters
M sses Marsaret and Hartie May have
returned here.
Mrs. Mamie L. Williams of Marvin.
S. C. has gone to Newbern. N. C.
Miss Pauline Best is attending
Summer school.
Miss Estelle Brockington is visiting
Atlantic City. N. J.
WYTHEVILLE ITEMS
WYTHEVILLE. VA. July 21—Mr. and Mrs. James M. Crockett and son James M. Jr. of Washington, D. C. motored on Sunday morning and are the guest of his parents Mrh. Lizzie P. Johnson.
Miss Dice Thompson of Russell. Ky is visiting her mother, Mrs. Ellen Patterson on Boyd's Hill.
Mrs. J. Ryle Dungee of Norfolk. Va. who has been visiting Mrs. R. V. Perry for the past two weeks left Saturday for her home.
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The Late Ben Gwyn
Tom Lee
Modame Mame Hogswor
MEMPHIS, Tennessee—Never in the history of Memphis have so many or so signal honors been paid to members of our race as in the past four months, and most particularly in the last two months. Great has been the service rendered the entire community by members of our Group and the city has appreciated it as never before in its life of more than 105 years. The Memphis Commercial Appeal, which has the largest circulation of any white newspaper in the entire South, has given large space daily for more than six weeks past to raising funds to buy a home for Tom Lee, the hero of the "Norman" disaster when that boat sank in the Mississippi in May. Mr. Lee, passing in a launch, pulled back to the sinking ship and saved life after life, carrying a load to shore and then hurrying back to the doomed hulk. In all, single-handed, the hero rescued thirty-two men, women and children. To date the Commercial Appeal has raised nearly three thousands dollars towards the Lee home.
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formed it when to fail would have meant 32 more lives lost in the horrible disaster. The late Ben Gwyn. has also received front-page notice because of his noble character and unselfish devotion to church and city during his long life. He was a member of the Episcopal Church. Spending 47 years on two jobs, at the time of his death Mr. Gwyn was head of the shipping and delivery departments of Ridgely's, the finest tailor's house in the oldest in the United States. In the past ten years with Ridgely's, Mr. Gwyn handled more than $1,000,000 of bank deposits and pay roll money, according to President Quin of the Ridgely Company. He knew nearly all of the prominent men of Memphis and of Mississippi by name. He is survived by five daughters and one son.
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because the headliners in Tennessee's court trial against the
theory of evolution in public schools. Left to right:—
Wilson for the State; Judge Ralston, presiding; and Clarence
Darrow for the Defense. Insert is of John T. Scopes, the young
Dawson teacher who is charged with teaching the theory. The
difference between Bryan and Darrow is of national interest and it
believed affair as the picture shows.
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England dislikes President Coolidge's Fourth of July address and says there is nothing in it to "show that the President has tried to master the facts concerning Europe."
That, however, isn't what interests the United States. The President HAS mastered facts concerning THIS country. He has mastered the fact that when you lend money you expect to get it back.
And he seems to have mastered the fact that the business of the United States and of the President is to attend to the United States and keep out of foreign complications.
THAT SUITS THE UNITED STATES.
A little girl of seven set fire to six houses and was sent to an industrial school for correction.
Not long ago this child would have been punished with death, perhaps by burning, first being encouraged to denounce the "witch" whose evil spirits had compelled her to set the fires. The world is not so bad as it was once, even if it seems less religious.
The Government will sell great cannliers that don't pay, including the Leviathan. Suppose the most country in the world would win its ships without extravagant ties, brass bands, etc., and allow school teachers, high school and college students to go to Europe and back at cost, or, better still, FREE of cost. How much would it be worth to this nation to have 20,000 teachers and young students and study Europe every year? But nothing of that kind could be done, would be eradicated.
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Deyton teacher who is charged
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Brig.-Gen. L. C. Andrews, Assistant-Seecy of the Treasury, who August 1st puts into effect a new system of prohibition enforcement. Disregarding state line the nation has filed a 22 districts and divisional heads supreme authority to stop drink "at the head."
Bring-Gen. L. C. Andrews, Assistant-See'y of the Treasury, who August 1st puts into effect a new system of prohibition enforcement. Disregarding state lines, the nation will be divided into 22 districts and divisional heads given supreme authority to stop drink "at the source."
seeks "a pretty refined girl fourteen years old, for adoption." He has one adopted daughter and wants another to keep her company. He will give the adopted girl every opportunity, education, travel, kindness, care, love." Of course he will, all perhaps EXCEPT opportunity. Opportunity to eat, dress, travel and live free of work is not OPPORTUNITY.
What would Rosa Bonheur have amounted to had a rich man adopted her. Her girl friend painted fruit boxes to buy food for two, while Rosa Bonheur painted pictures that made her famous, and undoubtedly gave her self-sacrificing friend a place in Heaven. Who would have known Rosa Bonheur had a rich man adopted her?
With lights shining along the road, Uncle Sam's flying mail ships go by night between New York and Chicago. That is progress. And, because it means development of the flying ship, it means safety for the nation. Credit Postmaster New and President Coolidge.
John D. Rockefeller is eighty-six years old. He plays his usual round of golf, weather permitting, quite content with 43 for 9 holes, and with his milk and seltzer, toast and perhaps two ounces of meat. It is hard for some to realize that golf, exercise that anybody can take with a stick and a round pebble, not more than 20 cents worth of food a day and a bed to sleep in are all that Mr. Rockefeller gets from his great fortune.
What will history say of John D. Rockefeller, whose work and success better than that of any other man, with the possible exception of Henry Ford, typifies this industrial age?
He will be praised because he has never set a bad example of ostentation and extravagance to embitter the poor.
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enches, at Dayton
Tennessee's court trial against the
in public schools. Left to right:
— Joe Ralston, presiding; and Clarence
is of John T. Scopes, the young
with teaching the theory. The
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Mrs. Johanna Gregg, member of Chicago School Board, thinks the second city needs a municipal housekeeper to "clean-up." She has the party support and is out for the Republican nomination as mayor. A rapid fire campaign is planned.
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Uncle John
While murder, just an 'thievery has got us by the hair, our optimistic friend butts in and sez there's nothin' there. The gloomy prospeck brightens every time he takes a look—an he wants to call the doctor if we think we see a spook. There isn't no durability to optimistic paint, when it makes a rotten structure look like somethin' that it ain't. And, there's nothin' more disgustin' than the optimistic guess which would turn a dismal failure into unachieved success!
I don't deny the optimist is nice to have aong, on a voyage where the undertow is tuggin' at us strong—and I don't consider optimism a very grievous fault,—only when it starts to lyn'—then it's time to call a halt.
So—we reckon that the optimist may help to banish dread—regardless of the dairy-fat that's stored inside his head. But, until the rule is altered that, a man is born to die, you can't postpone the funeral with an optimistic lie!
the Judge's Josh
I CONSULTED A SPIRITUALIST LAST WEEK, WHO SAID SHE WAS A "MEDIUM"—
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In Leonard's Shoes
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Jimmy Goodrich, Buffalo, an un- known newsboy one year ago—in the new lightweight champion of the world—if Benny Leonard stay in- retirement. Goodrich won title by knocking out of Chile in the finals of tourney.
The SKELETON FINGER
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© 1925 by NEA Service Inc.
Try Your Luck With This Deep One
Credit for this week's cross-word puzzle goes to Waldo E. Frohart. It contains mostly very simple words, and the ones that aren't simple are words that you should know anyway; so if you don't know them, this is an excellent opportunity to learn them. You should be getting used to the large crossword puzzles by this time, so we are going to allow you only 25 minutes for working this one. Of course, we realize that the time we give you—and the time you take—are two different things.
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SIR DUDLEY GLENISTER,
English baronet, recently come
into the title through the death of
a cousin, is suspected of the murder
of the cousin by—
KATHLEEN GLENISTER,
sister of the dead man, when a
crow drops a SKELETON FINGER,
bearing her brother's signet
ring, in the midst of a picnic party
on the estate. She enlists the assistance of her lover—
NORMAN SLATER, captain in the Rifle Brigade, in obtaining evidence to convict Sir Dudley.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
"Perhaps you would oblige this worthy officer's longing for the weird." Sir Dudley addressed Willoughby Melville, who rose and left the room. "My friend, Doctor Melville, has been making a private autopsy on the bit of bone," Sir Dudley rattled on. "Have a glass of port, servant?"
CHAPTER III
Mrs. Coningsby Peeps
KATHLEEN'S bedroom was on the main landing at the head of the fine old staircase, at the Grange.
It was still quite early, for the house party had retired for the night soon after dinner, spending but little time in the drawing-room, where an air of constraint had prevailed.
Kathleen was in no hurry to undress. Seating herself in an easy-chair she strove to recall every phase of the mystery surrounding her brother's fate. The process carried her back to a period about a year before the death of Sir Philip Glenister, her father. There had suddenly arisen a violent quarrel between the old baronet, and his heir, the cause of which had been carefully concealed from her. George had left the Grange in high dudgeon, taking a tender farewell of his sister, but merely telling her that he was going to the western states of America.
Six months later she had had a letter from him dated from Lone Wolf City in Montana, informing her that he was well and engaged in prospecting for gold. Kathleen remembered that she had mentioned this letter, and the place whence it was written, to her cousin Dudley when he had spent a week-end at Beechwood Grange.
Shortly afterwards Sir Philip had been struck with a mortal sickness which killed him in three days, and during which he had been too ill to allude to his son and heir.
by the time the leisurely, old-fashioned lawyers had sent out a representative to Montana and procured evidence which after the law's delays established the fact of George Glenstein's death and gave the baronety and Beechwood Grange to Dudley, the latter's cousin sympathy had merged into something warmer. He had begged her to suit her own convenience in leaving her own home, hinting that there was a very simple plan by which she need not leave it all. The result had been that with all speed she had put herself under the protection of her relative, Lady Marmules, and had gone to live with that eccentric dowager in Cudogan Gardens.
What would Dudley's next move be, Kathleen asked herself, if he had murdered George and left his body so lightly hidden that a caribird bird could molest it? He would go out that very night, and under cover of the darkness, hide it more effectively before the two searches, one by the
Try Your Luck With
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A male child.
County (Abbr.)
Like.
Fence pickets.
An illiberal adherent of a creed
College degree.
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estate laborers and the other by the police, began on the morrow. He must either be prevented or caught in the act.
Having changed into outdoor garments and put on stout boots and a tweed cap, she opened her bedroom door by a few inches. The light on the landing had been extinguished, a sure sign that the master of the house had come up to bed. The girl closed her own door noiselessly and tiptoed over the thick carpet into one of several passages that branched from the landing. She drummed lightly but insistently on one of the doors till it was opened to her by Norman Slater, still dressed and smoking a cigaret. After one glance at her face he stood aside for her to
"LOOK HERE, MY FRIEND," MUCH AND I ADMIRE YOUR HON
enter, and gently shutting the door turned the key.
"Don't look so scared," she whispered. "It's me, not you, that's up against Mrs. Grundy if we're spotted. Don't ask questions, but put on some boots and come to my room on the 'anding."
Seeing that his ladylove was in no mood for argument, with a soldier's promptness in face of an emergency Norman did as he was bid, and they stole to Kathleen's room. There in bated tones she explained what she wanted. Dudley would sneak out to hide the traces of his crime, and they would follow and confound him.
She had hardly finished the breathless recital of her project when it was justified by an almost inaudible sound across the landing. Probably they would not have heard it at all if they had not been staring in silence at each other for a decision. The sound was unmistakably the cautious opening and shutting of a door.
"You've hit it," whispered Norman. He's on the move. "We had better give him a good start." said Kathleen. "He is sure with This Deep One
I puzzle goes to Waldo E. Frohard and the ones that aren't simp
to leave the house by the side entrance through the gun-room."
THE moon had lifted well over the trees surrounding the glade where the crow had dropped its slender burden. On leaving the house by the gun-room door, Kathleen and her companion had seen no sign of Sir Dudley Glenister, and they had agreed to make for this place of evil omen. There they would be the better able to get their bearings as to the direction whence the predatory bird had flown. So they came to the borders of the glade and in eager expectancy peered into the open space. At any other time they might have been struck by the contrast between the earlier scene—the profuse lunch table with its crowd of chattering guests—and the silent vista of tree-girt, moonlit solitude, carpeted with moss and ferns.
"There he is!" Kathleen scarcely breathed, clutching Norman's arm. "On that stump to the left."
Sure enough, on the trunk of an oak that had been felled, a man was
SHE SAID. "I LIKE YOU VERY NESTY."
"He must have heard us following and is waiting for us to come up," Kathleen added. "Shall we show ourselves and openly accuse him, or go back?" But Norman was slow to reply. "That is not Sir Dudley," he said at length. "Not so tall by six inches, and he is wearing an inerness cape—a thing I don't believe your cousin possesses." "Doctor Melville has got an inerness," rejoined Kathleen tentatively. "It isn't Melville," said Norman. Motionless as a graven image, the man on the stump watched their advance as they broke cover and emerged into the moonlight. As soon as they were near enough for recognition he rose and took off his cap. "Miss Glenister" he exclaimed. "I was wondering who was 'abroad in the woods. For some little time I have heard some one moving about." "Why, it's my Coine." said Kathleen. "We too have been wondering. We thought you were—"
She broke off suddenly, and the cabinet minister tactfully helped to cover her indiscretion.
23 Decay.
24 Employ.
25 Devil.
26 An artificial basin for vessels.
27 To cut irregularly into small
28 Garment worn by Jewish priest
29 of ancient times.
30 A flower.
31 To run away with a lover.
32 Algonkian tribe of Indians.
33 A diphong. ..
34 A speck. ..
35 A river in Italy.
36 Call to attract artention.
37 Sen or (Abbr.)
38 Common Council (Abbr.)
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HAS ENJOYED SUCH UNEXPECTED SUCCESS IN THE PAST YEARTH AT WE HAVE DECIDED TO ADD A FEW MORE BEAUTIFYING PREPARATIONS TO OUR LIMITED BUT EFFECTIVE LINE
The following is our complete list
Strait-Tex Hair Refining Tonic
$1.00 Refine kinks, frizzy, coarse hair or
per bottle medium; medium hair to good.
Strait-Tex Hair Grower
25c Not only promotes growth of the
per cap, but makes it soft, pliable and
luxurious. An excellent preping oil.
Gloss-Tex Brilliantine
50c Makes the hair soft and glossy and
per bottle keeps it in good condition without
leaving it oily or gummy.
Strait-Tex Herbs
$1.00 In a vegetable preparation the coarse
per cap, and rests the original color to gray or faded hair.
Color permanent—positively will not
be shampooed, even when the hair is
shampooed. Three shades. Black, Brown, Chestnut-Brown.
Eokomo Shampoo
90c In made from pure coconut oil;
cleans the scalp and roots of the hair in a natural, healthy manner.
Bronze Beauty Vanishing Cream
50c In a soothing, greaseless vanishing
face cream that will not grow hair.
Bronze Beauty Lemon Cream
50c per jar
It is nourishing, softening and stimulates the skin it is applied with a triple strength of oil of lemon making it a mild, bleaching cream.
Bronze Beauty Face Powders
50c per box
It are suited to all complexions. Can be successfully used on dry or oil skins. The shade: High Brown and Bronze Glow are favors.
Mollyglosco
$1.00 per jar
It is a special hair straightener for men per jar
It is the most sunburned from 10 to 20 minutes without the use of hot irons. Will not injure the scalp or turn the hair red.
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600 FIFTH AVENUE
PITTSBURGH, PA, U.S.A.
5 Pertaining to or like the base.
9 The note of the dove.
The note of the dove.
Title used in India by natives in speaking of European gentleman.
Hazy condition of atmosphere.
Upon.
A part of the body.
Plural of I.
A step.
Musical instrument.
Plural (Abbr.)
Past tense of s't.
A river in Southern China.
To soak through.
A curved contour of surface.
Depart.
A greeting.
Theater.
Yellowish red complexion.
At that place.
A man's nickname.
Affirmative.
Township (Abbr.)
Deeds.
To be in want or need of.
Like
Also.
Perform.
Doze.
A great number or quantity.
A fish.
Hue.
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stroying the germs of infectious
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Prizes For Hustling Workers
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Vacation Trips will be included. If you wish to go to Any Place in this country, let us know where it is and we shall tell you just how many Coupons will be necessary for us to give you a round trip ticket to go there.
We will also give you a typewriter of any make and will furnish you with a fire-proof safe, if you so desire
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The Outstanding Success of the Southern Aid Society of Va., Inc., attests anew the age old Bible truth that, "The liberal soul shall be made fat."
The Society's superior 3 in 1 contract of Insurance, providing Protection against Sickness, Accident and Death--All for One Small Premium--is meeting daily with increasing appreciation from the Good People of Virginia and the District of Columbia. This is clearly shown by an average increase of $100.00 per month in New Business Production and $1,000.00 per month in Premium Collections over the high water marks of the previous year.
Space will permit the reproduction of only a word or two from some of those who have tested our policy and methods.
BEHIND THE SOCIETY'S SUPERIOR POLICY and SERVICE STAND---
32 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN SATISFYING POLICY-HOLDERS.
OVER $3,500,000.00 PAID TO CLAIMANTS.
OVER $500,000.00 INVESTED IN MODERN BUILDINGS AND LOANS TO OUR PEOPLE TO PURCHASE HOMES
OVER $700,000.00 IN STABLE ASSETS.
OVER $800,000.00 ANNUAL INCOME.
A COMPETENT MANAGEMENT AND AN EFFICIENT FIELD STAFF.
DIGNIFIED EMPLOYMENT GIVEN TO OVER 500 YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN
FIGHT
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A TESTIMONIAL FROM A PROMINENT MERCHANT.
Norfolk, Virginia, July 17, 1925.
Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc.,
District Office, 526-528 530 Brambleton Avenue,
Norfolk, Virginia.
Gentlemen:
This is to advise that I have been a member of your Company for many years and have the highest appreciation of the businesslike way you handle your sick and death claims.
I do not hesitate to recommend the Southern Aid Society to
I do not hesitate to recommend the Southern Aid Society to any one.
Signed:
JOHN MARTIN, JR.,
1128 Church Street,
Norfolk, Virginia
EXPRESSION FROM WELL-KNOWN AND DISTINGUISHED DENTIST
Washington, D. C., July 15, 1925.
Southern AiJ Society of Virginia, Inc.
District Office: 1901-03 7th Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
I herewith record my commendation of your businesslike method in paying benefits to my late wife, Mrs. Georgianna Hamilton: Also for your promptness in paying the death claim. Your Company was the first to notify me that check awaited my call. Very truly yours, W. E. HAMILTON, D. D. S
The Outside Southern attests anew
"The libe
The Society's superb against Sickness, Accident daily with increasing appearances District of Columbia. The per month in New Business Collections over the high
Space will permit the repro policy and methods.
BEHIND THE SO
32 YEARS OF EMPLOYMENT
OVER $3,500,000.00
OVER $500,000.00
OVER $700,000.00
OVER $800,000.00
A COMPETENT DIGNIFIED EMPLOYEE
612 Jackson St., Lynchburg, Va., June 12, 1925.
Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc.,
527 North Second Street.
Richmond, Va.
Dear Sirs:
Your letter of the 10th inst., advising me that a check of Three Hundred and Sixty-five Dollars ($365.00) had been mailed to me in full settlement of the death claim of my husband George E. Reide, has been received. Your representative, Mr. R. D. Burton, gave me your check for Three Hundred and Sixty-five Dollars ($365.00), which was the full amount covering the life of my husband, George E. Reide. Your Company was the first one to respond out of the many that he belonged to.
I heartily thank you for your prompt co-operation in such matters and I wish for your Company all of the success that is due it.
VIRGINIA' J. REIDE.
THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
BAR SOCIETY
WESTERN
& AFRICAN
BANK
INFORMAL
BANK
BEST COUNTRY
BANK
SECURITY SAFE
HOME OFFICE BUILDINGS
525-527-529 NORTH SECOND STREET
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA ..
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SEVENTH AND TEA STREETS, N. W.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
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WORDS OF COMMENDATION FROM A DISTINGUISHED MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL.
Richmond, Virginia, July 14, 1925.
Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc.
City.
Gentlemen:
I hereby wish to state that I appreciate most highly the splendid services and courteous treatment rendered me by the Southern Aid Society of Va., Inc., during my present illness.
I have been on the Society's sick list for 19 continuous weeks and have been paid promptly and courteously each week.
I cannot speak too highly of the kind of protection and service rendered by the Southern Aid Society and wish for you much success in the continuation of your great work.
Again thanking you. I am
Yours very truly,
REV. JOHN O. COOKE
715 Bowe Street,
Richmond, Va.
less of the
of Va., Inc.,
the truth that,
trade fat."
ence, providing Protection
all Premium--is meeting
ple of Virginia and the
average increase of $100.00
per month in Premium
year.
e of those who have tested our
SERVICE STAND--
O PURCHASE HOMES
OFFICERS AND BOARD
J. T. CARTER. President and General Counsel
EDWARD STEWART, Vice President.
B. A. CEPHAS Vice President.
A. WASHINGTON. Vice President.
B. L. JORDAN, Secretary-Manager.
W. A. JORDAN, Assistant Secretary-Manager.
W. E. BAKER, Treasurer
CHARLES N. JACKSON, W. E. RANDOLPH,
A. D. PRICE, JR.
SOUTHERN AID SOCIETY OF VA., Inc.,
HOME OFFICES: 525-27-29 N. 2ND ST. RICHMOND VA.