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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 THE RICHMOND PLANET REV. S. S. MORRIS NOW GRAND MASTER Gov. Trinkle and Mayor Bright Greet Visitors--Present Officers Advance. Grand Master Robertson Successfully Presides During Session-Question of Proper Procedure Blocks Session-Richmond The Storm Centre. VOLUME XLII. NO. 46 REV. S NOW 50TH AN LODGI Gov. Trink tors- Grand Master ing Session- Session The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Virginia. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in this city September 15th, True Reformers' Hall, at 6 P. M., with Grand Master J. C. Robertson, of Richmond, Va., in the chair. The public exercises were well attended. This proved to be one of the largest gatherings in the history of the organization. Right Worthy Deputy Grand Master S. S. Morris, of Portsmouth, Va., succeeded Grand Master Robertson. The office is held only two years. Hotly Contested Case Public exercises were held Tuesday at 8 P. M., and Friday afternoon Gov. E. Lee Trinkle and Major J. Fulmer Bright addressed the body. The session extended into Saturday. The parade was scheduled for Friday afternoon at 3 P. M., but it was late in the afternoon before the organization moved. The body had a case that consumed much time. Most Worshipful Grand Master J. C. Robertson was reported to have been outspoken on the question and although those who favored the report of the committee constituted some of the most influential members of the body, the report was re-committed, much to the gratification of the Grand Master. The Officers It was on a question of regularity in the initiation of a member. There are several subordinate lodges under suspension on account of the failure to obey the endowment law and this matter has not as yet been adjusted. The members of these lodges are barred from affiliation with other members or lodges in this State. The officers in charge here were J. C. Robertson, Esq., M. W. Grand Master; Rev. S. S. Morris, R. W. Deputy Grand Master; Hamlin Nelson, R. W. Grand Warden; Irvin W. Taylor, R. W. Junior Grand Warden; J. B. Evans, R. W. Grand Treasurer; W. H. Harris, R. W. Grand Secretary; J. W. Tyler, R. W. Lecturer; H. C. Johnson, Grand Lecturer; Dr. C. S. Bassette, R. W. Senior Grand Deacon; Rev. L. L. Berry, R. W. J. Grand Deacon. The next session of the Grand Lodge will be held at Roanoke, Va., on the third Tuesday. All of the officers were advanced. Warren W. Lee, of Fredicksburg, was elected R. W. J. G. Deacon. A PECULIAR CASE. Mrs. Sylvia Taliafero, of 305 Bates Street, reports that she cleans up offices at the Law Building, on 9th Street. Her girl, who helps her, offices upstairs had attempted to pull stated that a white man in one of the her into a room. She would not let her go upstairs the next day, but went herself. The same man attempted to pull her in the room. In the struggle, he struck her in the face injuring her. She swore out a warrant for her assailant. The case was called in the Police Court and the excuse given by the man was that the woman had stolen 40 cents from him. Mrs. Taliafero is a hard working woman and is much upset at the reflection upon her honesty and the brutal treatment. DO YOU KNOW HER? E. C. Shenherd, of Bowling Green, Va., has been in Suffolk with his wife, Mary Martin Shenherd for 8 or 10 weeks, until last Sunday night, when she left on the 8:20 P. M. train for Richmond, having with her a baby about 13 or 14 months old. She said she was looking for a woman named Mamie on Second and Clay Streets. She was to meet him at the station Monday morning, and I have not seen or heard from her since. --- DR. RANSONE AT MEN'S BIBLE DAY. Hear Dr. W. L. Ransome, D. D. M. A. discuss "The Bible and Evolution" at the Annual Men's Bible Day Exercises, Sunday, Oct. 4th, 3:30 P. M. in historic Second Baptist Church, under the auspices of the Richmond Sunday School Union. Special music by the following male organizations: Execlel Choral Club, the Metronomic Club, and the Sabbath Glee Club. The public is cordially welcome. Richmond Sunday School Union, J. L. BALLARD, President, S. O. BRAXTON. Rec. Sec'y', C. B. JEFFERSON, Cor. Sec'y'. --- TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. Having qualified as executrix of Thomas H. Briggs, deceased, all persons having claims against his estate will present their claims for payment to Geo. J. Hooper, Attorney-at-Law, State and City Bank, Richmond, Va., and all persons owing claims to his said estate will pay claims to the-said George J. Hooper. ALICE M. HARGRAVE, Executrix of Thomas H. Briggs, deceased. --- WEST—In loving memory of my husband, father and grandfather, LEWIS WEST, who entered in eternal rest one year ago today, September 23, 1924. The happy hours I once enjoyed, How sweet his memory still, But death has left a vacant place This world can never fill. —His Wife. One year has passed since that day When our dear father was called away. He was always patient, loving and kind. What a beautiful remembrance he left behind. —His Children. The 23rd of September once more is here, The saddest of us of the year, For one year ago today Our dear grandfather was called RICHMOND VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1925 C. W. GOVERNOR E. LEE TRINKLE AND MAYOR FULMER BRIGHT, WHO WELCOMED THE GRAND LODGE OF MASONS Personals and Briefs Nelson Williams, M. A., and Madame, announce the arrival of Addie Evelyn Williams, September 8th, 1925, at their home in New York City. The parents are happy. Hon. T. C. Walker, of Gloucester, Va., was in the city this week and called on us. Mr. A. D. Price, who has been visiting New York, returned last week and left again on his summer vacation. Captain and Mrs. Chisholm, officers of the colored branch of the Salvation Army, who have labored in Richmond for five years, got orders to farewell on October 4th and proceed to their new appointment on the 6th. Mrs. Nannie T. Smith, public school teacher of Atlantic City and Mrs. Flonnie W. Ward, of New York spent some time in the city with their parents, Rev. and Mrs. R. Beecher Taylor, North First Street, meeting many friends and enjoying much hospitality. Mrs Jennie B. Taylor is spending some time in Powhatan, Va., the guest of Miss Catherine Harris. Mr Isaac Dyson of Montgomery, W. Va. called on us and paid his subscription. Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Dudley and daughter Miss H. R. Dudley have returned from a motor trip to Washington. D. C. While there they were the guest of Mrs. Gidney, of 1729 You Street N. W., also Mrs. Florence Mingo, of First Street N. W. They also visited Mrs. Dudley's uncle in Burrville D. C. and Rev. Dudley's brother, the contractor and builder. On the way back they motored ten miles in Caroline County and visited his sister. Mrs Kate Lewis and Mrs. Sarah Reynolds. Rev. A. J. Brown, superintendent State Mission Baptist State Convention, Trustee of Memorial College of Tampa. Fla. was in the city this COL. ANDERSON DECLINES THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION S. Harris Hoge of Roanoke Decides to Fill Vacancy. Unanimous Choice of Republican State Executive Committee. Foris-Dementi Photo week enroute from the National Baptist Convention at Baltimore, Md. He will stop over at Savannah, Ga. enroute home. He declared the convention was the best ever held. The next convention will meet at Fort Worth, Texas. Rev. J. Wesley Carter, pastor of the original [Providence Baptist Church of Chicago, Ill. was in the city this week. His daughter, Miss Ruth is taking the senior college work here, having been attending the Ohio State University. We overlooked an announcement of the death of Mrs. Alice J. Flemings, beloved wife of L. R. Flemings. She died April 29th 1924 at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. Md. Her remains were conveyed by boat to Mollusk, Va. Mr. Flemings is one of our most valued subscribers. Her daughters are Mrs. B. Kelly, of Atlantic City and Mrs. Ruth B. Walker, of Baltimore. She has a sis cr, Mrs. Elsia Locker of Washington and Mrs. Polly Webster of Germantown, Pa. We take it that it is better late than never. THE VIRGINIA STATE FAIR With arrangements nearing completion for the annual Virginia State Fair, indications point to the best exposition in the history of the association, according to Manager W. Conway Saunders. "We are investing something like one hundred thousand dollars this year, in premiums and entertainments," said Mr. Saunders. "No effort or expense has been spared and many departments will show considerable improvement over anything of the past. Several new features, including the horse show, have been added. We have never before had so great a volume of entries in all departments this far in advance of the fair and I confidently expect the most successful exposition, both in exhibits and attendance, we have ever had. MEDICINE AGENTS—BIG OFFER Write Quick. Box 2273, Desoto Station, Memphis, Tenn PRICE, FIVE CENTS ON THE POLICAN NATION For Gov'nor ime and lies. des to Fill Vacan- publican State tee. Col. Henry W. Anderson of this city carried a letter in person to the Republican Executive Committee at Alexandria, Saturday, September 19th declining the nomination for Gov. error of Virginia. The committee named S. Harris Hoge of Roanoke as the nominee and he promptly accepted. The place for Attorney General has not been filled. The popularity of the present incumbent, Col. John R. Saunders, of Saluda, Va. is so evident that most lawyers hesitate to offer themselves against him. NO COLORED DELEGATES 请勿 It is now reported that no colored delegates appeared upon the roster of the Republican State Convention at Roanoke. The attitude of the present management is to eliminate all colored people from politics so far as the Republican Party of Virginia is concerned. The hope is to attract enough disgruntled Democrats to the Republican Party to bring about the defeat of the Democratic machine. Up to this moment slow progress is being made in this direction. NOTICE. The season is now open. The Union Working Hall, 501 Orleans Street, can be rented for entertainments of any kind. Apply 510 Orleans Street. Done by the order Union Working Club, Inc. FRANK REED. DEATH OF REV. BRIGGS Rev. Thomas H. Briggs died September 14, 1925, at his residence, 217 E. Leigh Street. The funeral services were held at First Baptist Church, September 17, 1925, Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D., officiating, Interment in Mechanics Cemetery. Dr. A. M. Bowles, the popular pharmacist is opening an establishment on Chamberlayne at Baker St. He will carry a full line of pharmaceutical supplies. Rev J. H. Binford, D. D. has so much improved that he is able to walk about the streets without assistance. His eyesight is coming back. Rev Dr. G. H. Sims, the great New York divine will preach at the Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church next Sunday morning. The Fifth Street Baptist Church is being rapidly dismantled. Funeral Director Robert C. Scott is dinging a great work and his fine branch at 19 West Clay Street is nearing completion. It has been palatially furnished. The Language That Motorcycle Cops Understand By "Rube" Goldberg Autocaster Service Dr. R. L. Goldberg I'M A FRIEND OF JUDGE MEATBALL THIS MAN IS CAUGHT GOING 30 MILES AN HOUR AND GETS OFF- O OFFICER DEAR, YOU WOULDN'T ARREST A POOR LITTLE INnocent GIRL LIKE ME! THIS GIRL KNOCKS DOWN FOUR PEOPLE AND A DOG AND GETS OFF- I'LL SEE YOU TONIGHT AT ELEVEN-THIRTY IN FRONT OF BENNY'S CIGAR STORE THIS MAN IS CAUGHT DRIVING WITHOUT A LICENSE AND GETS OFF- OFFICER, READ THAT BADGE THIS MAN IGNORES ALL TRAFFIC SIGNALS AND GETS OFF- COME WITH ME OUT THIS POOR BOOB CAN'T THINK OF ANY-THING TO SAY, SO HE GETS 10 DAYS BECAUSE THIS REAR LIGHT IS OUT. ```markdown ``` WWW --- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND' VIRGINIA Goldberg's Cartoons for Our Readers AUTOCASTER HOW WE GO IN AND GET ADQUANTED IN THE GRUGE. TOMORROW, WE GO TO HOME. The famous "Rube" Goldberg will now draw a weekly comic strip cartoon for this newspaper, beginning with this issue. Mr. Goldberg has for years been one of America's highest paid cartoonists and we believe that our readers will be highly entertained by his clever and original work. Goldberg has originated more clever series than any other artist. Just now he has the country saying—"It's the boloney!" Look for Goldberg's comic every week in this newspaper. This Week By Arthur Brisbane PRESIDENT ALREADY IN. ARE WE AN OSTRICH? WATCH R. R. HOOKUPS. U. S. PAUPERISM DYING. A Washington correspondent says "President Coolidge will keep out of the Mitchell fight," referring to Colonel Mitchell's charges as to general incompetency in the management of United States air forces and the suggestion that Colonel Mitchell, lowered in rank for telling the truth once, should now be arrested for telling the truth twice. How could the President, who is head of the Army and Navy, keep out of the Mitchell matter? It is not conceivable that his subordinates, knowing of the President's readiness to hear both sides of any question, would undertake any action without his approval. The people do not believe that the President will permit any action against Colonel Mitchell until the entire aviation question shall have been fully thrashed out, including the fiasco in the effort to fly to Hawaii, and the catastrophe of the Shenandoah. It is to be hoped that the inquiry when it comes, will not be a whitewashing enterprise, but a real investigation. The President will want to know why the protest of Commander Lansdowne, an experienced airman who had flown across the Atlantic in a dirigible, was ignored. The President will not want any whitewashing or any offhand suppression of Colonel Mitchell, who isn't easily suppressed, by the way. He will want the facts, and will see the facts get them. WORLD SERIES! Here Comes the Buccaneer and His Jolly Crew— By A. CHAPIN SOCK 'EM. MEN—! DIPES MANAGER BILL MIKECHNIE IN HIS ELLOQUENT ZOTO-PRATICAL MANNER—! GLEN WRICHAM IS S.S. WHICH MEANS SHOOTING STAR— HAND OVER THEM JOOELS! THE PIRATES WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP WASHINGTON ROCK 'EM. MATES—! RAYS FIRED CAPTAIN NAN CAREY AS HE WALKS TO THE PLATE WITH HIS TRUSTY BLUDGEON THEY SHALL PASS PIE 'TREMOR GUNDS WELL THE HOT CORNER 320 BAY THAT GUY "KIKI' CUVYLER IS TOO DURNED FAST FOR AN ORDINARY CARTOONER TO GET A GOOD SKETCH OF, —PUT HERE'S A GOOD IDEA HOW HE LOOKS WHILE HE IS BATTING AND RUNNING-BASES AND CAVORTING GENERALLY— POOCH BARNHART ALSO SLINGS A WICKED WILLOW SHUTTY! THE PIRATE IS NO MEAN SCRAPPER— POCHCH BARNHART ALSO SLINGS A WICKED WILLOW PITCHING STAFF CRACK SHOTS OF THE PIRATE ARTILLERY YDE — Pronounce "EEDIE" BARNEY DREYFUS PLANS TO INSTALL HUGE FACE ON FORERER FIELD TO BLOW BACK THE NEAK BURNING PITTSBURG SMOKE AUTOCASTER- our so-called defense programme is this statement attributed to Judge Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy: "In view of the experience of the navy planes in the Arctic expedition, the failure of the Hawaiian flight and the Shenandoah disaster, we have come to the conclusion that the Atlantic and the Pacific are still our best defenses. "We have nothing to fear from enemy aircraft that is not on this continent." The experience in the Arctic, the failure of the Hawaiian flight, the dreadful Shenandoah disaster had nothing to do with capable air navigation, but a great deal to do with incompetent management of our air force. We should have, indeed, nothing to fear from foreign aircraft if we could give to foreigners such management as our aircraft has. Mr. Wilbur's statement that our oceans are our best defense sounds like the statement of some ostrich saying, "I have nothing to fear, the sand is my best defense. I can stick my head into it." It is suggested that railroads be forced to combine in great transportation units, and that they make their own selections "rather than have the Government do the choosing for them." Why not have a selection of well-informed men, railroad men of course, acquainted with traffic conditions, make a survey of railroads, and let the Government know which combination should be made in the interest of economy and of efficiency? President Coolidge will certainly not think it wise to leave these combinations to selfish interests based on opportunities for stock jobbing, combining broken down roads with good roads for the sake of immediate profit, rather than more efficiency. Perhaps for the sake of unloading unprofitable railroads on the stockholders that own profitable railroads. Pauperism is dying out in the United States thanks to better wages, widows' pensions, more enlightened medical care, and especially campaigns of health advertising, carried on by the great life insurance companies. Of 100,000 in our population, only 71.5 are in poorhouses now. And that is exactly 71.5 too many. In 1914 there were 91.5 out of 100,000 in the mashouses. Things have improved since the war forced up wages. ```markdown ``` Of the many sins against right living, overeating is perhaps the chief, especially in cases of individuals in whom age has laid its restricting hand on bodily activity. Many men have retired from business, only to inaugurate a system of dietary that is an infinitely worse burden. In such cases, a protein, or proteins, become the invisible foe "Baked beans" and "cressants" are heavy protein foods. Fresh meats are laden with protein. Highly-seasoned foods owe their evil effects to protein in excess. Though for you to know, that protein is stimulant and if pushed, a dangerous intoxicant. Aga brings in many people, torpor of the eliminating channels of the body. Obstruction and over-supply of food become a deacry enemy. Stunner after meals, diziness, hurried arteries, heightened blood pressure, auto-intoxication, apoplexy, not a very enticing chapter. Many fatal cases of brain hemorrhage can be traced to overcaring. People just won't stop and think! That neighbor of yours, that died suddenly of paralysis at sixty years of age; he should have lived to eighty—had he lived right Within the past year, I have known of a hair-dozen men, found dead in bed after having eaten a heavy six-o'clock dinner, and retiring "in good health and spirits." Will we never take warning? Increased blood-pressure is a symptom of protein poisoning. Lessen the amount of protein, and it falls. Serious disease of the kidneys may be traced to the banquet-table. Good-work does deserve half the blame it gets, and the innocent-looking sugar-bowl, the seductive nince-pie, and the rare beef-steak are working their havoc. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND' VIRGINIA THR ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` Great $4,000.00 Prize Offer Postponed Until October Owning THE NEW YORK CAR COMPANY HUDSON COACH We have listed here Hudson Super Six Coach or a trip to the Mediterranean, Egypt and the Holy Land or a trip to Germany, France and Great Britain with expenses paid. Look at the car and think about the trip, and if your friends have entered your name for the prizes, let us know which you prefer. A trip to California is also offered. A car or the trip to California or to Europe, which? Enter now. Send all communications to CAMPAIGN CLUB DEPARTMENT, The Planet, 311 North 4th Street Richmond, Va. Call Randolph 2213 Watch For the Great Announcement Published Every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr. at 811 North Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. JOHN MITCHELL, JR....EDITOR all communications intended for publication should be sent to reach us by Wednesday. THE COLORED people who came South went North again and they carried some "mighty" comforting news to those they left behind, when they came here THE WAR IN MOROCCO THE FRENCH Government has sent one of its ablest, if not its ablest military commanders to Mo rocco, Africa to bring about the sub jugalion of the Riffians, before the beginning of the rainy season in that country. The Spanish Government has done the same thing. They were to cooperate in their movements and by converging upon a given point crush the rebellious tribesmen. It has been said that "the best laid plans of mice and the best gang aft agley." It is so in this instance. The French had a difficult task, but made reasonable progress. The Spanish had a more difficult task and from reports are in a position, which will require skillful maneuvering to not only save their supplies but to save their lives. The black Riffians control the water supply, where they have landed and to make bad matters worse, storms are sweeping the Mediterranean Sea at this point, which have caused the retirement of their warships, for fear that they would be driven upon the African rocks at this point and be destroyed. It is also reported that the Spanish have lost heavily in the matter of supplies. The Riffian Africans do not need purchase ammunition and guns any more. They capture them from the French and the Spanish. It is also reported that some 21 French aviators in their flying machines have been shot down by the natives, who are dead shots. Conditions are panicky in the Spanish zone of action and many of these troops are now wearing bullet proof jackets. As the Riffians are for the most part dead shots, this tends to increase the fatalities They shoot at the head and the bullet placed there is usually fatal. In the meantime, there is a back fire in France, where the expense of the war is causing a panic. France must borrow the money or increase taxes or neglect needed improvements at home in order to finance the war abroad and this war is not on French territory. It is carrying on a bloody contest for the Sultan of Morocco against his rebellious subjects. As he is the creature of the French Government, he must be protected. Sooner or later, the demands of the great Rifian leader that he be granted independence and that foreign troops be withdrawn from his territory must be met. Both France and Spain are in a moss embarrassing position, for the defeat of these powers in Africa will be but the beginning of a world-wide revolution in other places. It is an aftermath of the great World War. The end is not yet. COL ANDERSON DECLINES COL. HENRY W. ANDERSON declined the Republican nomination for Governor of this State. In doing so, he sends forth a campaign letter, which will be of much assistance to the Virginian, who has decided to accept what he declined. The trouble with Colonel Anderson is that he is too much lawyer and too little states man and no politician at all. He should never appear before the electorate for office. He is primarily suited for appointive office. He is brutally frank in both his utterances and his dealings. The trait of hypocrisy evidently is neither in him nor his family. He would not suit even for the diplomatic service. But on the firing line --- where the initiative counts and the true state of affairs is recognized, he would be all right. Still, we like a man of this type. You always know just where to find him and equivocations are never seen in his attitude or in his utterances. Colonel Anderson has an antipathy to the Negro, both as a citizen and as a servant. His utterances and his actions bear out this conclusion. This distinguished Virginian made no mistake when he declined the nomination. He embarrassed both his friends and his party when he did not insist upon his declaration at Reanoke, Col. Henry W. Anderson would be an ideal man to lead the disgruntled Democrat's inside of the Democratic Party or out of it for that matter, but he should discard the Republican uniform that he is now wearing and, don either the democratic uniform or that of present day independent Democrat. D's gruntled Democrats are not desirous of electing a Republican Governor unless they can control the Republi can organization so elected What they desire is to frighten the present Democratic bosses into doing just what they want done and to approve such legislation as they want approved. The Republican ticket is now in the field. An increase in the vote will cause the Democratic managers "to sit up and take notice" and take such a kind of notice as will keep the Democratic lines intact and decrease the popular vote for the Republican candidates, when the polls open on election day in November. In plain words, the Republican machine has nominated a ticket "to keep the Republican vote together", while the "kicking" Democrats are favoring the Republican ticket in order to get consideration from the Democratic candidates, who they expect to see elected. ON TO BALTIMORE. National Race Mass Convention, October 7-9. Boston, Mass. Sept. 21.—The National Equal Rights League has issued a stirring call for its 18th Annual Meeting in Holy Trinity Baptist Church, Druid Hill and McMechen, October 7-9, inviting all race-loyal workers, also urging all racial bodies, religious, civics, etc., and every local citizenry to send delegates to an open race mass convention for a real get-together when the race may devise its own definite program as to wrongs and redress, facing the issues. Rev. Luke G. Reynolds, the pastor, as chairman of the local committee is arousing much interest in welcoming the convention. WANTED—LINCTYPE OPERATOR also an active CANVASER. Appl Planet Office, 311 North Fourth St. Richmond, Va. MORRIS' CONFECTIONERY B. M. MORRIS, Proprietor Cigars, Tobacco Soft Drinks Confectioneries, Ice Cream, Bread, Pies, Etc. Phone Madison 6925. THE PUBLIC IS INVITED. 101 EAST LEIGH STREET Richmond, Va. WE START YOU IN A GOOD PROFITABLE BUSINESS of your own selling goods on trust Write for our great offer at once. 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THE SKELETON FINGER By Headon Hall Now Running on Page Six New Albany, Miss., Sept. 21. No arrest had been made early today in connection with the lynching of J. P. Ivy, negro, who was burned at the stake in a farming community eighteen miles from here yesterday afternoon. Sheriff John W. Roberts, from whom the negro was taken by a mob of a thousand persons, declared he did not recognize any of those in the crowd which rushed upon him when the automobile in which he was attempting to take the negro to Holly Springs was stopped on a highway near here. The mob dispersed after the lynching and the negro's story that three other negroes were implicated with him in attacking the daughter of a farmer Friday was discounted when the girl, who is in a serious condition in a local hospital, declared that Ivy alone had attacked her. Ivy was a member of a timber cutting crew working near the field in THE TUCKAHOE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION AND ITS AUXILIARY HOLD GREAT MEETING—THE HOME IS DEDICATED. The Tuckahoe Baptist Association and its Woman's Auxiliary held a great meeting at Quicoascan last week. The occasion was the thirty-first annual session of the association. The first annual session was held here thirty years ago with the late Rev. Royal Smith as moderatorer. These offices are filled now and Elder W. W. Young, vice-mody by Rev. S. P. Robinson and Rev. J. E. Fountain, respectively. This association has for several years contributed to Virginia Seminary, Virginia Union University, Hartshorn Memorial College and the Smallwood Institute. It's an ally to the Lott Carey Convention in doing foreign mission work, and owns one hundred and twelve acres of land upon which it is now operating a home for its superannuated members. Deacon W. H. Johnson is the efficient manager of the home. The sessions were largely attended. The sermons were well up to the standard and the offerings amounted to $1,170.70. Of this amount the Women's Auxiliary led by Mrs. Ollie B. Courtney, reported more than four hundred dollars. A ringing address from President W. J. Clark, of Virginia Union University, and the dedication of the home featured the meeting on Thursday. The program was as follows: Song, led by Rev. Edward Jeffries; Scripture, Rev. A. H. Jackson; prayer, Rev. W. E. Banks; solo, Mrs. Emma Hicks; remarks by chairman of Ways and Means Committee, Rev. J. E. Fountain, B. Th.; dedication sermon, Rev. S. P. Robinson; moderator of association; text, Matt. 10:40, subject, "Our Duty to the Needy"; dedicatory prayer, Rev. I. H. Hines. Brief addresses were delivered as follows: Mrs. Ollie B. Courtney, Rev. A. W. Clark, Rev. D. J. Bradford, Mrs. Annie E. Blackwell, Rev. William Hicks, Deacon E. F. Johnson and Mrs. E. F. Johnson. The bene- which the young girl was attacked. He was arrested Friday and a mob begin to form in New Albany. Claiming that the girl might die, the mob leaders secured a writ from a magistrate's court ordering the sheriff to bring the negro to New Albany for identification, claiming this step was necessary for prosecution if Ivy. Accompanied by Sheriff Reese, of Lee County, Roberts brought the negro to the hospital and after the girl had identified him, Ivy confessed. Escaping with the prisoner through automobiles which had begun to assemble around the hospital, Roberts started for Holly Springs. He declared that automobiles "as far back as he could see" soon were on his trail. Eight miles from New Albany, the sheriff's car ran into a barricade of automobiles which had been thrown across the highway. The mob descended upon him and seized the negro. Ivy was taken to the scene of the diction was pronounced by Rev. Jos. Arrington. All reports and addresses were highly commendable. Prof. Mulison, the new president of Hartshorn, graced us with his presence and spoke. Dr. G. E. Read was also present. This year the sermons were preached by Revs. W. L. Godsey, D. J. Bradford, S. P. Robinson and Rev. M. C. Ruffin, with an eulogy over Rev. W. W. Young and others, delivered by Rev. W. E. Banks. The program for next year calls for sermons by Revs. Wm. Hicks, W. H. Thimas, W. H. Liggins and Rev. W. H. Branch. A committee to write the history of the association was appointed. Next meeting to be held with Gravel Hill Baptist Church, Granite, Va. The officers were elected as follows: Moderator, Rev. S. P. Robinson; Vice, Revvf J. A. E. Fountain; Clerk, Rev. A. W. Clarke; Treasurer, Rev. I. H. Hines; Corresponding Secretary, Rev. D. J. Bradford. Mrs. Ollie B. Courtney was re-elected President of the Auxiliary. OTHER PEOPLE JUDGE YOU NOW BY YOUR FURNITURE When you can get FURNITURE and RUGS from an Old Established House like JURGENS—that's known to sell the best quality goods, just as reasonable as elsewhere—why not give your friends a good impression. 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If I were at the head of an industry famous for its "tips" in the form of automobiles, hams Prince Albert suits, Stetson hats, first Sunday collections, watches $1,000 vacation funds, contributions from politicians and hosts of female satellites—scarlet and otherwise—why. I'd raise the devil if any dead-broke heathen ich us art attenuated to interfere If the truth be told, most persons, I believe would confess that they don't have much respect for the preacher these days. There is no particular reason why we should. As a group the preachers, white and black, are demeanful failures. The world advances in spite of them. It becomes more Christian in spite of them. It becomes more Christian—and by that I mean it becomes more tolerant more intelligent, more decent and more moral—in spite of the obstacles set in its path by the professional dispensers of a brand of superstition ignorance, falsehood and bunk miscalled the Christian religion. Of course, we yawn and sleep in church. 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EXELENTO MEDICINE CO., Atlanta, Ga. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE Write for Particulars THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA The FIGHT IN MOROCCO White Member of Foreign Legion's DiaryAwful Conditions Described. Slaughter Pen For White Troops in Far Away Africa. Poor Pay---Disease and Death Await Recruits There---Black Riffians Dead Shots---Whole Divisions Wiped Out. ETERNAL JUSTICE. ETERNAL JUSTICE. The man is thought a knave or fool, Or bigo plotting crime, Who, for the advancement of his race, Is wiser than his time. For him the hemlock shall distill, For him the axe be bared; For him, the gibbet shall be built; For him the stake prepared. Him shall the scorn and wrath of men Pursue with deadly aim; And malice, envy, spite and lies, Shall desecrate his name. But truth shall conquer at the last, For round and round we run, And ever the right comes uppermost And ever is justice done. Pace through thy cell, old Socrates, Cheerily to and fro; Trust to the impulse of thy soul And let the poison flow. They may shatter to earth the lamp of clay That holds a light divine. But they cannot quench the power of thought By any such deadly wine. They cannot blot thy spoken words From the memory of man. By all the poison ever was brewed Since time its course began. Today, abhorred; tomorrow adored, So round and round we run, And ever the truth comes uppermost, And ever is justice done. By Clarence K. Streit (New York Times) This is the diary of a soldier fighting in the French Foreign Legion against the Riffians. His day by day story of the campaign is told in notes hurriedly jotten down by the light of the bivouac fire when the sweating march was over, the battle ended. Those who seek glamour in war may not find it here. The soldier is a Canadian. His name need not be given. In the Foreign Legion names often mean little, anyway. The recruiting officials ask no embarrassing questions. They accept the name the man gives himself. They do not try to probe the past. They know it is frequently a past which men wish to wipe out on the field of battle. When this Legionary entrusted to me his little diary only a remnant decorated for bravery remained of his battalion (the Sixth Battalion of the First Regiment of the Foreign Legion), which had been sent to the front when the war began. They had seen almost constant fighting. The diary does not cover all of that period. The soldier gave up keeping it after the first month. The first month, however, tells the story. We follow one of a hundred thousand soldiers from his peacetime barracks to the firing line. We see the war beginning. After that the date means little. The life at the front which he records is typical of the life he has led there since he abandoned his diary. He spares himself and us repetition. Monotonous repetition is part of the picture of war, but even a months' campaigning furnishes enough for that. Many Nations Represented. The diary begins with his rejoining the Legionnaires last October at their main camp at Sidi Abbes in Algeria (for he had enlisted once before in the Legion). He tells of his first impressions. "The Legion is composed of 70 per cent Germans, thereainder chiefly Russians, Poles, also a fairly large number of Frenchmen enlisted under false names and false nationalities. Everybody is very reserved about their past life. There is also a fair number of Italians. Each country without exception has one or two of its nationals under the flags of the Legion. The Legionnaires drink as heavily as ever, not from habit, but because of the troubles they have had which they are trying to forget." H gives a list of the men in his section, with their nationalities: "Sergeants: Paulman, German, Jonassart, Belgian, Corporals, Buse, German, Chmaquine, Russian, Versonfel, Belgian, Vercelli, Italian, Privates: Vielfo, Hansen, Diesner, Auser, Holdsmitt, Gaspan, Bauer, Naoul, Germans; Dimitriadis, Kiriakoff, Greeks, Chateaux, Bichet, French; Kasch, Dane, Deimer, Dutch, Hamou, Arab, Goldobordkdo, Russian, Automicel, Italian, Ledjor, Pole, Georgieff, Bulgarian." It is not only a section, it is a typical cross-section of the Legion—its combat units made up of men from all parts of the globe whom the French have known how to weld into an organization renowned for its esprit de corps. I saw these men in action when they recaptured the post of Astan. Five of them were killed that day, eight were wounded. Hansen and Holdsmitt received special citations for exceptional bravery. Our Legionary tells in his diary of their last Christmas, in barracks in Algeria: "Christmas Eve, 1924: Physical culture in the morning and drill as usual. In the afternoon review by Captain Castagny in field uniform. In the evening at 8 we had a Christmas tree in each hall. I won a can of tummy fish. For the whole section of forty-two men there were as prizes for boxes of writing paper with a pencil for each, four litres of red wine, a cake of soap and a mirror, a car of shoe polish, two cigars, two packages of cigarettes with two cigarette holders. The other sections had better prizes; for example, socks. "At 9 there was a concert given by the Legionnaires, with the Captain and all the Lieutenants present and all the non-coms. Priels and Giguel sang; as amateur acts they were tolerable. At 10 I had a fight with Hexamer in the courtyard; gave him a good lesson. At 11 there was chocolate and cookies. No roll calls and those who wanted to go to midnight mass had permission. As for me, I went to bed at midnight. "Christmas Day—Reveille at 7 breakfast at cafe au lait. At 9 a snack of bread with pate de foe gras and a pint of wine. At noon for dinner we had herrings with hard-boiled eggs, bacon with sausages, sauerkraut, prunes, an orange Gorgonzola la cheese and coffee. I stayed in bed all day, feeling blue. In the evening we had macaroni with cheese and pork and coffee with a pint of white wine. The day was very gloomy. Half the men in my room Plod in thy cave, gray Anchorite; Be wiser than thy peers; Augment the range of human power, And trust to coming years. They may call thee wizard and monk accursed, And load thee with dispraise; Thou wert born five hundred years too soon For the comfort of thy days. But not too soon for human kind; Time hath reward in store; And the demons of our sires become The saints that we adore. The blind can see, the slave is lord; So round and round we run, And ever the wrong is proved to be wrong, And ever is justice done. Keep, Galileo, to thy thought, And nerve thy soul to bear; They may gloat over the senseless words they wring From the pangs of thy despair. They may veil their eyes, but they cannot hide The sun's meridian glow; The heel of a priest may tread thee down, And a tyrant work thee woe; But never a truth has been destroyed:— They may curse it and call it a crime; Pervert and betray, or slander and slay Its teachers for a time; But the sunshine, aye, shall light the sky, As round and round we run; And the truth shall ever come uppermost, And justice shall be done. stayed in all day. In general the Legionnaires have the blues. The Christmas of the Legion is not interesting." Here is another entry, written while in barracks at Kreider, Algeria a few days before the Riff war began: Unmarked Graves "Real desert weather today. Went at 3 P. M. with Kimiaktoff to the cemetery in the sand. There were forty tombs of Legionaries. It made an unpleasant impression on me to see that nearly all of them bear no name or date—buried like dogs. Yet those men had families somewhere. I hope I won't have their fate. If I die may my parents at least know where I am. There were also some tombs of soldiers of the battalion in Africa. They, however, were all condemned while civilians—and they all have a little monument. The rest of the day was rather gloomy for me." Now in the diary appears the heading, "Moroccan Campaign." Here are some of his entries: "Wednesday, April 22—Left Kreider today at 6 P. M. for unknown destination in Morocco. Everybody drank a lot, me, too." "Sunday, April 26—Left Oudjad for Guurceif (Morocco) 4 A. M. on very narrow-gauge railway, seven trains for the battalion. Rode all day. "Monday, April 27—Left Guerci 4 A. M., arrived Taza 11 A. M. Very mountainous country. Enemy here too, very close, sometimes fire on city. Taza is a little place divided into distinct Arab and European towns, dominated by high mountains, easy to see the Grand Atlas, covered with snow. Temperature today insupportably hot. In the evening went with puce to drink a liter of wine in the European town "Tuesday, April 28—Telegram came in the night, urgent orders for us to go to Sidi Abdallah on foot. Up 5, at left 6, loading our packs on mules. It is 41 kil meters (25 miles) from Taza to Sidi Abdallah. Terrific heat, men dropping like flies all along the road, overcome by heat and fatigue. Was sent with my section to rear of battalion to pick up the stragglers, Lieutenant F. kicked them to make them march. Made tears come to my eyes. We marched in all ten hours. Was dead tired when we reached Sidi Abdallah at 5 P. M. Thought Id' get some rest then, but not on the night guard. Eighteen men under my orders—had to put out sentinels on the four sides of camp and make the rounds. Slept 4 hours during all the night. Am too tired to hold out longer. "Wednesday, April 29—thought I'd get some sleep early today, but was sent on laundry detail to the oued (creek). They told us we had to clean up, like in barracks, but an hour later a wire came ordering us to by motor truck directly to Fez. 87 kilometers * * * "Thursday, April 30—In the barracks of the military camp of Fez This is the fete of the Legion—the day of Cameroun. Had a little more chow than usual and the history of Cameroun was read to us. We thought we were going to stay in Fez some time, but ordered to go and left on foot at 3 P. M. Frightful heat. We took the road for Tissa. Always frightful heat. Caught up with another battalion—Colonial Infantry—also headed towards the Riff. It is our mobile group which is forming. Made sixteen kilometers heavy marching order. Camped at night along the oued (stream). Many wounded going on by road to Fez. "Sunday, May 3—Marched four kilometers down the valley, the M.G. (Mobile group) in combat formation. Extremely hard day. Three regiments of cavalry led by partisans at the head. They burned all the villages on the hillsides belonging to the Arab rebels. We marched then through the fields, worse than ever. Region very fertile and well cultivated. March in combat formation up to pose of Ain Aicha, which we disengaged. Rest during evening at post. A Day of Battle. "Monday, May 4—Today was day of battle. Legion, the advance guard, my company at head of Legion, my section at head of company and my group at head of section—so that I was first of all the M. G. to come in contact with the enemy. Very hard fighting. We had to relieve the post of Taunat, encircled by the rebels for eight days and without water. Two kilometers from the big hill on which the post stands the enemy opened fire violently. Didn't think I could live through it. Corporal Eristoff hit by bullet in chest, but wound not serious. Our Captain, Villier Moriana, hit in the leg, refused be evacuated; wounded again in stomach. Machine gun section has seven wounded. Hild got two bullets. Corporal Vercelli wounded in hand. (TO BE CONTINUED.) FIVB NEW YORK, September 19—Special dispatch to the National Office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, from its Assistant Secretary, Walter White on the scene of the recent race riot in Detroit, states that Dr. O. H. Sweet and ten other Negroes, who defended Dr. Sweet's home from the attack of a mob on Wednesday, September 9, have been held for trial charged with first degree murder. Mr. White's telegram to the National Office of the N. A. A. C. P. reads: "All eleven defendants held without bail for trial on charge of first degree murder. Judge Faust to hear any argument counsel may choose to present for ball in individual cases Tuesday." Defense of the imprisoned colored people, Dr. Sweet and his wife and two brothers, and seven others, has been taken over by the Detroit Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People which raised $700 at a mass meeting, to which is added $400 raised by colored doctors and which will be augmented by additional sums as they are given. The National Office of the N. A. A. C. P. will contribute financially to the defense. The Advancement Association's Assistant Secretary has been in conference with Judge Ira W. Jayne of the Wayne County Circuit Court who is a member of the N. A. A. C. P. Board of Directors; with the N. A. A. C. P. Branch in Detroit and with local white and colored lawyers as well as with the Chairman of the Interracial Committee appointed by Mayor John W. Smith of Detroit. In connection with the disorders, Mr. White reports the following facts: 1. Mayor Smith charges the disorders were due directly to instigation by the Ku Klux Klan. 2. The Detroit police, said to be honeycombed with Klansmen, are charged with illegally shooting at least 55 citizens of Detroit between January 1 and September 1, 1925. 3. Dr. O'H Sweet, 31 years old, graduate of Wilberforce and Howard Universities, and well known practicing physician, bought a house last Spring at 2905 Garland Avenue, in a middle class white neighborhood, with several colored residents in nearby streets. 4. Detroit's colored population having increased in late years from 8,000 to 65,000 colored people have been overflowing the original co'o'ral neighborhoods. On June 22, the house of a colored physician, Dr. A. L. Turner, was invaded by a mob, which loaded his furniture on vans and returned it to his old home. 5. Dr. Sweet moved into his house on Tuesday, September 8. Having returned a few weeks ago from Vienna where he had been studying. Dr. Sweet reports there was jeering because he had police protection that day. The following day, a crowd congregated until there were by Dr. Sweet's estimate, 1200 people. Stone throwing began at 7 P.M. Windows being broken and threats being shouted. The crowd increased to 2000. Mr. Davis went out with Dr. O. O. Sweet, dentist and brother to Dr. O. H. Sweet. They were stoned and the yard and porch were covered with bricks and stones. At 8:30 shots were fired killing one member of the mob and wounding another. Judge Jayne has been a constant adviser of the N. A. A. C. P. and has been extremely kind and helpful. Mayor Smith has appointed an Infer racial Commission consisting of 8 representatives of both races, among whom are: W. Hayes McKinney, head of the Legal Committee of the Detroit Branch of the N. A. A. C. P. and M. L. Walker, Vice-President of the N. A. A. C. P. Full accounting by certified public accountant, is to be had and published by the N. A. A. C. P. of all sums received and expended in the course of the defense of the colored people tried for defending themselves from the mob. The Planet will be sent to you for one year, price $2.00 or it will be delivered at your door every Saturday for Five Cents per week. EDW. STEWART 203 S. SECOND STREET DEALER IN FANCY GROCERIES, FRESH MEATS. VEGETABLES, FISH AND OYSTERS. Richmond, Va. PHONE MAD. 1637 You pay as you drive. Mr. R. B. Haynes has automobiles to serve you. His demands have been so heavy that he has signed a contract for another big delivery of cars. Read his advertising announcement. His number is 403 N. First Street. Call Randolph 1843 Subscribe to The Richmond Planet. Only $2 per year in advance The SKELETON FINGER by Headon Hall © 1924 by NEA Service Inc. --- --- BEGIN HERE TODAY SIR DUDLEY GLENISTER, suspected of the murder of James Glenister, a cousin, to obtain his title and estate, has a friend in DR. WILLOUGHBY MEL- VILLE, who recognizes James Wragge, Scotland Yard detective, assigned to the case, as one of his former patients, while KATHLEEN GLENISTER, sister of the dead man, in a search for a clew to the murder, calls up Mrs. Simon Trickey. HOW GO ON WITH THE STORY The chatter of the cinema actress meandered on, but with less animation, as if she had accomplished her purpose in concentrating the visitor's attention on herself. But still the husband of this minor star of the film firmament came not, and Kathleen reverted to her old fear that the master of the house had been drinking. The vainglorious boasts of the gamekeeper's daughter suddenly petered out. The same idea had occurred to her. "Whatever is Simon up to!" she exclaimed. She quitted the room, every movement studied as though in front of the camera, and Kathleen anxiously awaited developments. The discovery that John Grime's daughter was the wife of the man who had offered his allegiance against Sir Dudley rather discounted the value of that aid. Kathleen suddenly felt out of her depta and began to wonder if she was the victim of a conspiracy. She wished that she had brought Wragge with her, or even dear, dunder-headed Norman would have been a better companion in that meretricious house than none at all. Then, loud and clear from across the screen, a scream rang out and away in the back of the house an electric bell whirred as though it would never stop. A quick patter of footsteps sounded in the hall, the bell ceased ringing and a confused clatter of women's voices arose in the opposite room. A minute later the beffried and hoydenish maid-servant stood in the doorway, white as paper. "Please, miss," she faltered, "the missis says will you kindly go away. The master's dead." "Dead?" Kathleen repeated blankly. "Seizure or somethink of that. And missis says will you kindly stop your cat at Doctor Wilson's at the end of the street and leave word for him to step round. He's been attending the master for his 'eart.'" There was nothing for it but to comply and Kathleen passed out to her waiting taxi, catching a glimpse of the famous "Maud Blair" bending over a crumpled heap of humanity in the dining room. Mr. Simon Trickey seemed to have started to meet his Maker from a spindle-legged Tottenham Court Road chair. His head lay on the table. Kathleen gave the desired message at the house of the local practitioner and drove back to Cadogan Gardens. As she was paying the driver of the taxi an inspiration came to her. "Did you?" she asked, adding a generous tip, "notice a gentleman come out of the house at Brixton while I was there?" "No, miss." was the prompt reply "Only a lady. Stylish party, and seemed in a bit of a hurry." CHAPTER XII The Purple Algretto ON entering the house, after ascertaining that Lady Mararabies was out gadding as usual, Kathleen rang up Inspector Wragge at Scotland Tard. Within half an Air Defense M.S. Gen. James C. Harbord, U.S.A. retired, who is to head Pres. Coolidge's new committee, named to study our aviatoin defense needs. The committee met the President before going into session. hour he was with me, in warning to her story of what she experienced during her call to the LaPapenne boule. "A bad banniere," was blit. comment. "Mr. Trickler has been very inconsiderate." "But don't you see, sir, Wraggan that my death on the eye of fortune remains is very suspicious," had been could barely unwear her own possession of official stability "Track eye, laugh comes past right to Sir Dulley, and I should not be burdened if he had contrived it." "We wouldn't beg the question Miss Glanvale, but, I must certainly have to see that local medical care replied the inspector. The fact of Mrs. being a biennial girl is a location which will either add lessen the difficulties." "I lad that you see it in that light, Kathleen drytie. "You are concerned that Mrs. Trickey assures that her husband was engaged with a man, whereas you saw a woman leaving the house?" inquired the inspector. "I did not say I saw a woman leave the house," Kathleen rejoined. "I said I heard the swish of a silk skirt. WRAGGE NOTICED THAT HER SMART HAT WAS ADORNED WITH A PURPLE AIGRETTE. in the passage and saw the tip of a purple aigrette departing from the front door. The taxi driver described the wearer as 'a stylish party in a bit of a hurry.' But it might have been a man disguised as a woman." Wragge expressed his thanks and took his departure, alleging the need for haste in seeing the local doctor before the death certificate was given. He found Doctor Wilson to be a sandy-haired young Scotchman, newly established, but with a fund of native shrewdness which Wragge was quick to appreciate. "I see," he said. "Your interest in Mr. Trickey's death is that he would have been an important witness in a case you are working in. Suspicion of foul play? Well. I do you can disabuse your mind of anything of the sort. In fact I have already signed the death certificate indicating cardiac affection. The symptoms of the body point to that and I have been treating Mr. Trickey for heart trouble ever since here." The inspector nodded. "Bit of bad luck then, doctor, and that all there is to it," he said. "We are up against too many coincidences at the Yard to disbelieve in them." "His appearance was a fairly truthful mirror of his habits, inspector," replied the young doctor. "Well, Doctor Wilson," Wragge PEN POINTERS People who rush through their park get things in time to find out they've got to do it your again. Some tell how they're right, and then go ahead and find out they're wrong. When trouble is mostly a stretch of imagination, look out it doesn't snap back on you. The faster you drive in an auto the shorter time it takes you to reach a jail. There is the place where most people wish they were, instead of here. Most wires could tell their husbands where they're going to say they have been, and it's not because they know where they were. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND' VIRGINIA Magazine Page I am very much obliged to or for saving me a wild-goose chase, you have granted a certificate there will be no inquest, and, consequently, no interference by the poison." Drawn by an irresistible impulse, Wragge walked along Lipscombe Road in the direction of Number 16. He knew that the blinds would be drawn at the house of morning, but there was the chance that one of the inmates might be peeping. Sure enough the blinds were all down, but as he walked quickly past he detected no signs of peeping, nor any sound audible from within. He went on toward the end of the room and was nearing the corner where a cab swung into the Lipscombe Road and flashed by him. Looked back, he saw it stop at Number 16 andady got out, paid off the driver and vanished so quickly into the house as to suggest that someone had been waiting to admit her. So quickly, however, that Wragge had failed to notice that her heart hat was adorned with a purple scarlet. From her having dismissed her boss he argued that she was going to remain some time. He dared not use his recognition by banging about himself so he repaired to a public house in the main thoroughfare and phoned headquarters for an assistant. While waiting he kept observation on Number 16 from the end of the street, and when his subordinate arrived he was able to assure him that the lady he had to shadow was still image. "Find out where she lives, Peter, and report to me at the Yard directly you have located her," was his instruction. "Name and address are all I want from you. I will deal with the master then." The young detective, whose spurs were yet to win, promised results. He was as good as his word. About ten o'clock that night he turned up in Wragge's room at Scotland Yard with the information that the lady of the purple gingerie lived in a flat in Teeth Mansions, Grosvenor Gate, and that her name was Mrs. Coningsby. "Fine!" Wragge commended his junior "Goodnight, Peters." But the young detective lingered a moment. "I hope I did right, sir, in bringing this along." he said nervously, laying a book on the desk. "She dropped it as she entered the block of date. I reckoned that it could be returned to her anonymously through the post if you had no use for it." Wragge took up the volume and pleas spanned like stars. "No error there," he said quietly. "Chalk yourself up another twenty points, my son." CHAPTER XIII A Dead Man's Diar HIS assistant having left him, Inspector Wragge quickly confirmed the value of the book which fortune had placed in his hands. His first glance had told him that it might have a bearing on the case. It was a "Scribbling Diary," with the name of Simon Trickey scrawled on the cardboard cover. Further examination showed that it covered the period of Trickey's mission to America disclosed by him to Kathleen Glenister and repeated by her to Wragge himself. A still closer scrutiny showed that six months afterwards, but in the same year, Trickey had paid a second visit to the Montana mining camp, at the instance of his employer, Duncy Glenister. It was this second journey to the west that nearly drew the inspector's eyes out of his head as he perused it. The perusal did not take long. Mr Simon Trickey had no literary style, confining his entries to mere scrappy information, but pieced together it gave a lurid record of what he had been up to in Lone Wolf City on half of the present baronet. (To Be Continued) First father to have the distinction of initiating his own son into the Masonic lodge. Herman E. Bennett, Los Angeles, the father, right; Karl Bennett, son, left. Karl is just 50 years old. First father to have the distinction of initiating his own son into the Masonic lodge. Herman E. Bennett, Los Angeles, the father, right; Karl Bennett, son, left. Karl is just 9 years old. The SKELETON FINGER by Headon Hall © 1925 by NEA Service Inc. BEGIN HERE TODAY SIR DUDLEY GLENISTER is suspected of the murder of his cousin, James Glenister, when a crow drops a skeleton finger on the estate, and— KATHLEEN GLENISTER, sister of the dead man, in her attempt to prove Sir Dudley guilty, calls upon Mrs. Simon Trickey. While there Mrs. Trickey's husband dies suddenly, but before James Wragge, detective, can investigate— DR. WILSON issues a straight death certificate but Wragge gets possession of a small book. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY thirst for vengeance aganist the hypothetical slayer of her brother does not count, but Mr. Stephen Colne mandate lay like lead on Wragge soul. The cabinet minister's scarcely velled threat of ruin in the event of failure was overwhelming. Wragge knew that he had the power to carry it out. CHAPTER XIV The Old Mill House THROUGH the Beechwood properties ran a purpling trout stream broadening in some of it almost into a river. On the bank of one of these wider sections opposite the clearing where stood the head keeper's cottage, a deserted m On his second arrival at the mining camp. Trickey had discovered that George Glenister had disappeared from Lone Wolf City some two months after his first visit. There was a little cemetery, mostly containing the nameless graves of gold-seekers who had died "with their boots on". Bar-row affrays were a nightly occurrence and it had been easy in that careless community to identify from hearsey one of those fallen adventurers with the missing heir to the Glenister baronety. Trickey had put up a wooden cross bearing the name of George Glenister and had paid the editor of the local news-sheet five dollars for inserting a belated paragraph recording the death of the English prospector after a general shindy at the Coyote saloon. Doubless the obituary notice had been planted on the family solicitors, whose representative would have been readily gulled by the inscription on the grave. But here was where the illuminative powers of the diary fell short of the lightning. It contained no proof that George Glenister was dead—to say nothing of his having met a violent end in America or in England. The only link connecting him with the corpse found in the chalk-pit at Beechwood was the ring on the skeleton finger. Wragge had read the pages devoted to Trickey's first mission carelessly and he now turned back and read them over again. One item had escaped his notice, nor had it been included in Kathleen's account of the information Trickey had imparted to her. The entry consisted of only a few words, but the keeper of the diary had underlined them: "It is rumored in Lone Wolf City that G. G. has struck a gold mine but that he is hung up for want of capital." The detective closed the book, lit his trusty briar and leaned back in his chair. Mrs. Coningsby's antecedents would have to be looked up. The lady of the purple algrette! What was her interest in the diary and how did she happen to be there at the time of the ex-clerk's death? Was she there, on behalf of Sir Dudley Glenister, and if so was her motive in serving the baronet financial or amatory? The inspector admitted to himself as he would have admitted to no one else, that he was in a fog, though there were several threads to be followed up. So far as he could see they none of them led with any certainty to a conviction for murder against Sir Dudley Glenister. They could probably get him on a charge of fraud and procuring false evidence, but that—Wragge frowned at the reflection—would not hang the baronet of Beechwood Grange. And that was the task that had been demanded of him by two people, one of whom he could afford to disgrace. Miss Kathleen Glenister's The Judge's Josh OLD MAN PINCHPENNY WAS SO STINGY HE TRIED TO BORROW GAS TO COMMIT SUICIDE! SUICIDE! PAUL MCDONALD AUTOCASTER Your Birthday Is it this week? Sept. 27th—Oct. 3rd If your birthday is this week, you are fascinating in personality, enthusiastic, impulsive and utterly unselfish, always showing the greatest kindness and consideration in both manner and speech. Your happy, amliable disposition wins for you many warm friends, and your success and advancement in life is likely to be all that could be desired. Your intellectual and spiritual qualities are highly developed, and you are broadminded and liberal in your views. You love order and harmony above all things, and if your surroundings are inharmonious you suffer most acutely. Love of the beautiful in all things is very highly developed in your nature. is very highly developed in your life. When you have faults they are pronounced. You are impatient, impulsive, and, apt to form your opinions too quickly. You are egotistical, vain, proud, and place undue value upon the applause and approbation of the multitude. You cannot stand personal criticism even now, you know it is just when you know it is just. MEN born during the dates make excellent mathematicians, salesmen, laymen, and can capably fill any position of authority. The women make devised wives and mothers; and excel in music, dramatic art, designing, and artistry. thirst vengeance against the hypothetical slayer of her brother did not count, but Mr. Stephen Colne's mandate lay like the lead on Wragge's soul. The cabinet minister's scarcely velled threat of ruin in the event of failure was overwhelming. Wragge said that he had the power to carry it out. CHAPTER XIV The Old Mill House THROUGH the Beechwood properties ran a purling trout stream, broadening in some of its reaches almost into a river. On the bank of one of these wider sections, opposite the clearing where stood the head keeper's cottage, a deserted mill recoed its lichen-covered gables amid the tree tops. To this picturesque desolation Sir Dudley Glenister came from the Grange through the woods on the third morning after his thrashing by Nerman Slater Lady Murable's drawing room. John Grimes, who has been watching from his garden, joined his master way of stepping stones across the brook. Grimes took a book from his pocket and un- THEY CAME TO A TRULY GRUESOME PLACE. locked the door of the dwelling house attached to the mill. "You'll have to mind your steps on the ground floor, sir," he said as he led the way into the interior. "The flooring is rotten." "It is the upstairs I want to see," said Sir Dudley shortly. John Grimes mounted a narrow staircase, the baronet following. A big brown rat eyed their ascent from the landing and scampered away squealing when he had got over his surprise. So they came to the bedrooms, long ago occupied by the miller's family, and Sir Dudley looked into them all in turn. Finally he entered the largest room, which looked across the stream towards the keeper's cottage. "This will do," he muttered. Then he turned on the saturnine keeper. "I want this room fixed up to receive a guest," he said. "You will buy some common furniture, just simple necessities, and have them delivered at your cottage as if they were for your own use. Then you can bring them over here after dark." "No need to buy it, sir," was the reply. "There's a roomful of stuff in my place that's been out of use since my daughter went away." "Good!" said Sir Dudley. "That will save incurring the curiosity of outsiders. Now there is another thing. I want a strong lock fitted to the door and iron bars placed across --- the window. Are you competent to do those jobs yourself without calling in help from the town? "I could fix the lock all right," said the keeper. "I can't see about the bars. Seeingly, sir Dudley, your guest isn't one that will take much exercise?" "None at all," was the cart rejoinder. "What about the cars, then?" Grimes walked to the diamond-paned window and looked down. "Unless the party has got wings there ain't no bars needed," he said. "It's a plumb drop into the mill race. No foothold for a ladder, and anyone as jumped would be drowned for sure." Sir Dudley by personal inspection confirmed the statement. Though the mill-itself was rotten the artificial channel that had furnished power to the derelict wheel was as deep and strong as ever. The best of swimmers would have been hard put to it to stem the current without being swept into the wrecked wheel. "We will let the bars go," he said. "The risk will be less than having them made and fitted by a gossiping blacksmith. Now, as to a second guest chamber, Grimes. It may not have to be occupied, and it need not have the modest comforts I am providing for this. Is there any place where a gentleman who is not very friendly to me can be accommodated?" The stolid face of the keeper yielded no sign. "There is the old grain store, on the ground floor of the mill, sir." he replied. "It's got no window and it's swarming with rats, but it would hold anyone as could put up with the damp." "Show it to me." Sir Dudley commanded. They descended the stairs, and, passing into the mill proper, came to a truly gruesome place, a veritable dungeon reeking with foul odors and echoing the lap of the mill-race against its outer walls. Sir Dudley lit a succession of matches and peered round. "This will do," he said. "Better put a new lock here, too. Now when can you be ready, Grimes?" "I ought to have three days, sir." You can have them, and you will get a notice before the place is wanted." Sir Dudley stroiled into the foot-path leading to the Grange, and John Grimes, a sour smile on his lips, turned to close the outer door of the mill. Then the keeper made his way to the bank above the weir and started to recross the shallower stream by way of the stepping-stones. He was about half way over when the shrill voices of women drew his gaze to his cottage door. That stern task-mistress his angular wife, the only being under the stars of whom he stood in dread, was embracing and volubly chattering to a fashionably dressed widow lady, the freshness of whose "weeds" bespoke her bereavement as recent. John Grimes lifted one hand to shade his eyes. "Damned if that widder woman ain't our Sally!" CHAPTER XV The Empty Drawer MISS MAUD BLAIR approached the great front door of Beech- wood Grange with some diffi- dence. Recognition by Sir Dudley had no terrors for her. The present baronet had succeeded to the estates after her departure for fresh fields of con- quest. During his rare visits in Sir Philip's time when he was plain Mr. Dudley Glenister, she had never chanced to meet him. Old Hinkley, the butler, who would probably open the door to her, was a different proposition. He had been familiar with her from childhood and she remembered that he was a shrew observer. With the idea of getting it over, as one makes a dash for the dentist's knocker, she took the last few steps almost at a run and pulled the old- fashioned bell-chain hard. The pon- derous door slid back on well-oil- hinges and Hinkley of the pink far- and white whiskers confronted her. (To Be Continued) ```markdown ``` A STRAIT-TEX TRADE-MARK HAS ENJOYED SUCH UNEX- PECTED SUCCESS IN THE PAST YEARTH AT WE HAVE DECIDED TO ADD A FEW MORE BEAUTIFYING PRE- ARATIONS TO OUR LIMITED BUT EFFECTIVE LINE The following is our complete list Strait-Tex Hair Refining Tonic $1.00 Refines kinky; frizzy, coarse hair for bettle medium; medium hair to good. Strait-Tex Hair Grower 25c Not only promotes growth of the hair, but makes it soft, pliable and luxuriant. An excellent pressing oil. Gloss-Tex Brilliantine 50c Makes the hair soft and glossy and keeps it in good condition without leaving it oily or gummy. 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Call us up over phone, Randolph 2213. Out-of-town Orders Promptly Executed. Workmanship and Quality Materials Guaranteed. the Richmond Plane nd Planet 311 North 4th S The Richmond Planet. 311 North 4th St. Richmond, Va. ```markdown ``` --- Roanoke Items 11:49 (Madron Stanfield. Agent) Mrs. Virginia Blackman, of Kernaway, Pa., has returned home after spending ten days hag looking after some real estate. She visited her mother, Mrs. Lizzie White, 913 Fifth Street, N. W. Mrs. Eliza Woods, of Orange, N. J., has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Maranda Bonds, for three or four weeks. Mrs. Mattie Staples and daughter, Miss Sadie, of 715 Park Street, N. W., spent two weeks of real pleasure in Dauville, Va., the home of her childhood. She visited the house where she was born. The Ants Dramatic Circle monthly meeting was held at the parsonage Monday evening. Mrs. M. B. Howerton entertained the circle. Rev. W. R. Howerton, D. D., of Mt. Zion, A. M. E. Church, delivered an educational sermon last Sunday to the students of his parish. The admonition if remembered and kept will be a wonderful help to all who heard him. Mr. J. C. Dugger, 207 Fifth Avenue, N. W., is still indisposed. Mrs. Hamlet, Eighth Avenue, N. W., is very feeble. Mr. Ruffin Sowers, of High Street, N. W., is very cheerful, but still shut in, being unable to use his limbs for quite awhile. A visit from the members will be a great comfort to him. The 41st anniversary and Mortgage Burning Services of High Street Baptist Church began Sunday, September 13th and closed September 21, 1925. Sunday morning, September 20th, praise services were held and an address by Deacon M. Clayborne. The anniversary sermon was delivered by Dr. W. W. Brown, of the Metropolitan Baptist Church, New York City. 3:30 P. M. sermon by Dr. R. S. Owens, of the Calvary Baptist Church. All the white friends were cordially invited. Jubilee services were held at night, Dr. W. W. Brown preaching. The bonded debt of the church was solemnized and vanished away in smoke. A great work has been finished by a great leader in a great cause. Mrs. Martha Whales will leave Wednesday for New York to visit her cousin, Dr. W. W. Brown. Mr. L. J. White has returned from a business trip to Pennsylvania. He visited his daughter, Miss Mary E. White. All subscribers for the Planet are urged to have their subscription ready by September 30th. M. Stanfield, the agent will certainly appreciate your help along this line. He will be around to see all his patrons before the end of the month. Try it for 12 months at $2.00. WYTHEVILLE NEWS. Mrs. Alice Williams Harden and children, of Roanoke, were the weekend guest of Mrs. Hannah Myers. Mr. George Williams, of Bristol, spent several days in the city the guest of his mother, Mrs. Esther Porter. Miss Rosa Johnson left Monday for Rural Retreat, where she will teach this session. Mr. Mitchell Johnson, of Elk Creek, was the guest of his sister, Mrs. Bell Wills. Mr. Harvey Monroe, of Bluefield, W. Va., is visiting his family in North Wytheville. Prof. R. H. Scott died Monday evening at 5:30 o'clock. He had been sick quite awhile. Funeral arrangements have not been made. Dr. and Mrs. Sam McKorkle have moved to Elk Creek, where they will reside in the future. Mrs. Lucy Bourne left Friday for Elk Creek to visit her daughter, Mrs. Josie McKorkle. Mr. Author Mitchell and family, of Columbus, left by motor last Thursday for home, after visiting Mr. Mitchell's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mitchell in North Wytweille. Mosses, Robert Thompson, James Dinsey, Harvey Monroe, Misses Willie Monroe and Estelle Thompson motored to Bluefield, W. Va., Sunday, the guests of relatives. Madam Carrie Collier, E. M. Hebron and children motored to Kristal Saturday. They were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Henderson, on McDowell Street. Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Rathfield, of New York City, arrived in the city and are guests in the home of Mrs. Rathfield's uncle, Mr. James A. Harper, on Franklin Street. Little Gertrude and Janie Crockett, Master R. A. and T. W. Helson, Willie Price Dylia, motored to Rural Retreat Sunday. They had quite a nice time and were accompanied back by Miss J. N. Sheffey and little Myrtle Chapman, who had spent Saturday and Sunday there. FULTON NOTES. The Sunday school of the Mt. Calvary Baptist Church is taking on one wife since Mr. Daniel visited the Virginia Baptist Sunday School Convention. We can see it pays to send our people to our conventions. The Rev. C. B. Jefferson, corresponding secretary of the Richmond Baptist Sunday School Union, preached in the morning and evening at Calvary. The boy preacher, Master Russell Mason, made a great impression on his hearers at 3:30 P. M. Rev. Jefferson preached in the afternoon at the eScond Bethel Baptist Church, Henrico county. The Rev. G. W. Moseley will preach at Calvary tomorrow. Let us come out in large numbers. CHICAGO NEWS. The City Federation of Clubs, of which Mrs. Carrie Horton is president met in its regular meeting on September 14th at St. Mark's M. E. Church. Among the business transacted was the reading of reports from the local clubs, the State Federation of Women Clubs and The Northwestern Federation of Clubs. All reports showed great progress. Resolutions were authorized sent to the Russian Government and to the widow of the late Henry Lincoln Johnson. Among the visitors present and who addressed the meeting was a representative from The Chi cago Whip who talked on an insurance propositions being sponsored by The Whip; M. T. Bailey of The Bailey Realty Company, who spoke on Morgan Park, 93rd Street, and other subdivisions. The principal officers elected at this time were Mrs. Nannie Reed, president; Mrs. Lula Heath, secretary; Mrs. Helen Brascher, corresponding secretary; Mrs. M. Gainor, treasurer; Mrs. Joanna Snowden Porter, parla-mentarian Mr. and Mrs. James Tann, of Lansing, Mich. motored to the city during the week where they have spent several days on business and visiting with relatives and friends at 3736 Giles Avenue Prof. R. H. Cole of The Simmons School St. Louis, Mo. has returned to his duties at the school after spending a very pleasant stay in Chicago at the close of the doctors' convention, which he attended. A part of his stay was spent as the guest of Attorney and Mrs. Walter M. Farmer, 4751 Champlain Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. William Rice, of Dea Moines, Is. are stopping at 3624 Cottage Grove Avenue during their visit in the city for several days. VIRGINIA: In Husting Court, Part II, City of Richmond, September 21, 1925. In Vacation: Vernell Planter Plaintiff vs. Larry Planter Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bonds of matrimony by the plaintiff from the defendant upon the grounds of wilful desertion and abandonment for more than three years, and an affidavit having been made and filed that the present address of the defendant is unknown, whose last known address was New York, N. Y. It is ordered that he do appear 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: W. E. DUVAL, Clerk. C. MUMMS, p. o. A MEMORIAL TABLET TO WORTHY MINISTER. On the first Sunday in October at 2 P. M., at the Gravel Hill Baptist Church cemetery, Granite, Va., a large memorial tablet will be unveiled to the memory of the late Rev. W. W. Young, who passed away in January of this year, in his 84th year of age. Rev. 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Following are a few of the subjects treated: The Flash that Set the World Afame—Why Americans Entered the War—The Things that Made Men Mad—The Sinking Submarine—The Eyes of Battle—War's Strange Devices—Wonderful War Weapons—The World's Armies—The World's Navies—The Nations at War—Modern War Methods—Women and the War. A volume of general information upon all subjects which have their bearing upon the World Conflict, as well as an authentic account of the Great World War. The Book also includes the following following of Modern Warfare, The Barbary and Merciless Methods Employed to Satisfy the Ambitions of the Kaiser and His Imperial Government. The Ruthless Submarine Warfare Waged to Starve England and France Into Submission. The Story of the Hardships and Horrors which the Belgians and French were Compelled to Suffer. The Billions of Dollars Required to Carry on the Awful Struggle. The Terrible Loss of Human Life and the Desolation of Countries. 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