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THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library. VIRGINIA DEC 27 1925 STATE LIBRARY ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` VOLUME XLIII, NO. 7 CHAIRMAN STE Employs Counsel Exalted Ruler Will Widen Br CHAIRMAN M. A. NORRELL STRIKES BACK. Employs Counsel==Disputes Legal Right of Grand Exalted Ruler==Declares Matter Local Affair. Will Widen Breach Between Two Lodges. The following correspondence has been received from Chairman M. A. Norrell: Richmond, Va., Dec. 18, 1925. To the Grand Officers of the Grand Lodge, Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, and Members of the Grand Lodge: Dear Brothers:— I am herewith appending for your information the full record to date, as result of the unprecedented action of the Grand Exalted Ruler in issuing what is termed by his paper, a "Solem Mandate" regarding the management of the Convention of the last Grand Lodge of Elks. A SERIOUS SITUATION He has precipitated a serious situation, the results of which cannot be foreseen, and I want those who Mr. M. A. Norrell, who led the committee, which entertained the Grand Lodge of Elks, when asked to comment on publications appearing in the Richmond papers last Saturday, made the following statement: "It is a grand parade of ignorance eny and jealousy. The men responsible for it should have monuments erected and placed on the grounds of every public school in Richmond. They are veritable fog horns. Whenever their names or voices are heard in the future, sensible people will exclaim, 'Beware of ignorance'. It is a significant fact that the Grand Exalted Ruler was present and presided at the meeting in which the resolution was adopted. But this is Christmas time, and I am too busy, doing my bit to help the unfortunate, to be bothered with such nonsense." are in$^{i}$ interested in the future well-being of the Order to be in possession of the facts in order that they may be ab'e to pass upon them in an impartial manner and fix the responsibility for whatever may happen upon the responsible person. NO QUARREL WITH CAPITAL CITY LODGE. I wish, further, to advise you that our committee, has no quarrel with Capital City Lodge as such, for their conduct in this affair has been inspired and such resolution, as purports to represent sentiment of Capital City Lodge, has been the deliberate act of someone who had no other object in view but to provoke strife between two (2) flourishing Lodges of Eksa. We respectfully submit the record and request your most thoughtful consideration of some. THE GRAND EXALTED RULER'S SOLEMN MANDATE Chairman of the General Committee of the Past Grand Lodge Session at Richmond, Va., which closed August 29th. My dear Sir and Brother: It has (Continued on page 4) MAY 17,1923 ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` SAYS PLANET IS INTERESTING. Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. 29, 1925 Dear Mr. Mitchell: I find your Planet very interesting for the past ten years. I really enjoy reading it. I am sending you an order for $4.00 for my subscription for the past and present year. May God's Blessing continue to drop on you and as you pray, remember the Widows and Orphans. I am an Old Roanoker. Yours truly, (MRS.) CLARA WADE, 2938 Crookett Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. MR. HENRY JACKSON DIES IN HANOVER COUNTY. STUDLEY. Hanover Co., Va.— Brother Henry Jackson departed this CHAIRMAN M. A. NORRELL life December 1, 1925, at 2:20 A. M. He was a member and officer of the Second Union Baptist Church. He had been a member for 35 years and was highly esteemed and appreciated by all his church brethren. He had many white friends, who spoke we.1 of him. Mr. W. W. Redd, one of the largest merchants in Hanover County said he was one of the best colored citizens found in his neighborhood. He leaves a wife, one son, daugh fer-in-law, one grandchild, three brothers and two sisters to mourn their loss. Their loss is his eternal gain. Done by the committee of the Second Union Baptist Church. REV. J. H. PAYNE, Pastor, W. R. TAYLOR, Church Clerk. --- HARRIS—Sacred to the memory of our Mother and Grandmother, Anna Harris, who departed this life December 24th, 1924: One year has passed, our hearts still sore, As time goes on we miss you more; Our family circle is broken, Our mother's voice is still; A vacant place in our hearts This world can never fill. RICHMOND VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1925 W. S. SELDEN PASSES AWAY A SCENIC ACCOUNT—SOLOMON MARABLE'S BODY—TWO MEDICAL COLLEGES FIGURE—EDITOR MITCHELL'S EFFORT SUCCESSFUL The death of W. S. Selden, Richmond's oldest undertaker, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Theresa Carters, 719 Buchan street, in this city December 13, 1925 at 8:20 A.M. brings to mind the celebrated Lunenburg Case in which he figured in a minor capacity Mrs. Lucy Jane Polard was found dead by her husband, having been murdered and a belt containing about $600 having been taken from her person. Solomon Marable was arrested and upon his alleged confession, Pokey Barnes, Mary Abernathy and Pokey's mother, Mary Barnes were arrested and charged with being accomplices in the crime. NOT GUILTY. Marable subsequently recanted this confession and said that the women were not guilty. Editor John Mitchell, Jr. became interested in the case and for 18 months, having empoyed Hon. George D. Wise, Judge Henry W. Flournoy and Capt. Alexander B. Guigon to defend the women fought in the courts for a reversal of the verdict, which was that Marable and two of the women should die on the gallows and that Mary Barnes should be confined in the Virginia Penitentiary for ten years. WHITE MAN GOT THE MONEY. But it is the Marable case that deals with Seldon. The release of the women was finally secured, Marable before going to the gallows testified that a relative of the PolLard's got him to kill the woman and that this white man got the money and gave him only a $20 note for his services. It was this large denomination note that led to his arrest and conviction. The other money was never located. Editor Mitchell went to Farmville, Va. on the 20th day of September, 1895 to witness the execution of Solomon Marable WEPT BITTERLY. Marable had lost his nerve and was weeping bitterly as the editor approached him in his iron barred cage. Jailer Matthews was a colored man and he had immediate charge of the prisoner. In talking with Marable, Editor Mitchell learned from him that his home was (Continued on page 4) CHRISTMAS Christmas leads us to a cradle, Wrapped in swaddling bands we find All the world's predicted Saviour, Man in flesh, but God in mind. —Robert Dangerfield Crawley LAWRENCEVILLE, VA., Dec. 14 The funeral of Mr. Frank W. Davis took pace yesterday. Mr. Davis was one of the best known white citizens and business men in the county, being at the time of his death president of the local telephone company and interested also in other business ventures. Mr. Davis was a staunch friend and supporter of St. Paul Normal and Industrial School and was greatly interested in its work of uplift and its efforts to promote better race relations. A short white before his death he expressed a wish, in which his wife joined, that Archdeacon Russell and singers from St. Paul's be invited to take some part at his funeral. He died Saturday morning. Archdeacon Russell was in Norfolk to fill Sunday engagements in Norfolk and Hampton. At the request of the family he was wired to return as he was desired as an honorary pall-bearer. Archdeacon Russell came up Saturday night and both he and his son, Rev. J. Alvin Russell', attended the funeral as honorary pall-bearers. The funeral services were held at the house, the Rev M. Gayle, pastor of the M. E. Church South, was the officiating minister. By request of Mrs. Davis a mixed sextette from St. Paul's School sang two selections at the house. "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" and "Nearer My God To Thee", and "Lead Kindy Light" at the grave. The incident is worth noting at showing the excellent race relations existing. The requests came entirely unsolicited by the school and were in the nature of a surprise. A large number of friends and business associates of Mr. Davis were present and there seemed to be perfect acquiescence in the arrangement. Mr. Davis was one of the best men in the county and was highly thought of by both white and black for his integrity, broad mindedness and likable personality. It was the first time in the history of the county that Negroes had been known to act as a pal-p bearers at a white funeral or Negro singers to appear. It is another incident that shows that it is possible for the races to live together in peace harmony and good feeling. Dr. John H. H. Hdmes, of Winchester, Ky. was in the city last week. He had been away from home since November 24th. The loss of his favorite son had affected him greatly and recreation was needed. The young man was precocious and had prepared himself for the practice of medicine. He left a wife and three children. They are living with Dr. and Mrs. Holmes and are happy. Major R. B. Jordan, Chief of Police received a communication from Mrs. Eva Disney, 618 W. Saratoga Street, Baltimore, Md., enquiries if Albert Johnson, about 5 feet 11 inches, light brown skin, lived in this city. He died a few weeks ago at her home and she is anxious to find his relatives DIED—Reuben C. Carter, Friday December 18th in New Kent County, Va., after a brief illness from paralysis. His funeral took place at his residence, Sunday, December 20, 1925 Rev. Tunstall Banks officiating. Rev. M. M. Fisher, of Virginia Union University, the pastor, being present. He leaves a devoted widow, three girls and ten sons to mourn their loss. Mr. G. B. Carter, 404 N. Fifth Street is one of the sons SUES HIS WHITE NEIGHBORS (Preston News Service.) NEW YORK CITY: Dec. 18— Samuel Browne, 'letter carrier and the centre of a race controversy in the Castellon Hill district of Stateu Island on Thursday filed in the Richmond County Clerk's office at St. George complaint in a suit asking $100,000 damages from nine white neighbors on the ground that they sought to deprive him of his home n Mrs. Browne is joint plaintiff in the action, and the first of those named in the complaint is Musco M Robertson, wealthy real estate dealer and head of the Robertson Devel- opment Company, which founded the Castellon Hill development. Mr. Robertson is a next-door neighbor of the letter carrier, and last August was indicted for conspiracy to oust Browne from the community. Five others were named as "John Doe" at the same time EIGHT OTHERS NAMED. Whether six of the nine named in the civil suit Thursday pre these "John Does" is a matter for speculation. Those named by Mr. and Mrs. Browne in addition to Robertson are Lewis M. Robertson, his son; Charles A. Price, Harry V. Carlier, Louis Spamer, Charles A. Kneisel, William Buen, John Schime, Jr. and Edward Hess. The suburb of Castleton Hill awoke to the spectre of a race problem two years ago. It was at that time that Browne, with his wife and three children moved into the white house at No. 67 Fairview Avenue, which he had bought for $8,500. Brown is six feet tall, museur and a veteran of the Spanish-American War. Mrs Browne is a graduate of Columbia University and teaches school. When the family moved in, neighbors decided something must be done and Browne was offered $9,000 for his house. Later he was offered $10,000. It was according to Mrs. Browne, while this off r—representing a profit of $1,500—was being considered, that a gang of six or seven men descended upon the property early one morning and destroyed some shrubbery and broke several windows. PATROLMAN STILL ON GUARD. Since that time a patrolman has constantly been on guard. Robertson has been indicted and held in $500 ball. The chief surprise was the naming of the eight other residents of Cast'eon Hill. The complaint charges specifically that the defendants comprised to have the mortgage on the house foreclosed, to have his insurance policies cancelled, to have the attack made upon the house, which resulted in damage to his flower beds and windows and also to have him transferred from the Stap'eton Post Office to some "other remote office." Brown's insists that he was willing to sell the house for a fair price until the intimidation tactics were employed and that then he felt as a matter of principle that he must not move. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is understood to have stood back of him in the protest. Browne is the only Negro resident in the neighborhood. Musco Robertson emphatically denied all allegations in the complaint as did the other eight defendants. The other eight men admitted they had met to discuss the situation, but said they had in no way conspired against Browne but had merely discussed the purchase of his property. All said that violence against him was the last thing they desired. PRICE, FIVE CENTS A CHRISTMAS HYMN. (By Rev. James S. Hatcher, D. D., Author "I Cannot Drift", Pastor Third Street A. M. E. Church, Richmond, Va.) The shepherd keep their flock by night out on a lone plain; All Nature sleeps but to a light! The Star of Bethlehem. Be not afraid. Awake, Arise, Until thine eyes, Behold the skies Put on the blushing smile of morn, All Nature smiles, The Christ is born. The wise men come with Tarsus' gold from Persia's distant strand, Long tho the search—their hearts are bold, and with a tender hand Present the Arab's Frankincense, and Egypt's costy Myrr, And worship Him with love intense, then turning, seek their star But find it not, for here they learn that they who give their best Are blest with brighter lights ...that burn, and lead to joy and rest Great God of Light and Truth and Love, display Thy power grand! Zephyr's command, and bid them move to ecstacy their hand, And make Lebanon's Cedars sing, the Palms upon the brine, Make all in Jordan's Valley ring, make all the earth His shrine. Let ancient Hermon grey with snows bow down his lordy head In praise to Him, Forget your woes, Gilboah, forget your dead! Let Zion, Shechem, Mecca, all their songs to Him ascribe That love which ransoms from the fall give all men to imbibe See Jupiter, Mohammed, Jove, yield to His love their sway. Signe the rest, not best content to Sins knows no rest but costant rove, the forts of hell decay; But brighter shines His golden Star, and louder angels sing: "Good will to men", peace near and far,—praise Jesus Christ the King. We as the wise men, would adore, in homage now we bow; Take Lord, our hearts and cleanse them thorough, dear Lord, accept them now. For Tarsus' gold, rich Charity and Spiritual Gifts were given; For Arab's Incense, Purity; for Egypt's Myrr, Truth, Heaven. O Prince of Peace, O Star of Day, O Dayspring from on high. Accept our song of praise, we pray, and grant this prayer, this cry. For some the hermit's hut will choose and in seclusion dwell; And some will wear ascetic's shoes, and macerate right well; And many a mystic boast him charmed by spirits from above: But we prefer our lives embalmed with Self-Renouncing Love PRESIDENT L. K. WILLIAMS SENDS HELP Chicago, Ill., December 11, 1925. Editor John Mitchell, Richmond, Va. Dear Sir and Brother: I am sending you the $2.00 due for my subscription. Thanking you, I am L. K. WILLIAMS, Pres. National Baptist Convention. The Richmond Medical Society announces that the new scale of fees as published in the daily press will go into effect on and after January first, nineteen twenty six. RICHMOND MEDICAL SOCIETY. Mr. E. Saunders had the misfortune to lose his daughter at Clifton Forge, Va. She died in New Jersey last October and Mr. Saunders has gone to Clifton Forge, Va. to live. We wish him success. Mr. Saunders formerly lived in Lynchburg, Va. ANNOUNCEMENT ```markdown ``` STATION S-A-N-T-A BROADCASTING By A. B. CHAPIN A MERRY CHRISTMAS HAPPY NEW YEAR HAPPY ALL HELLO THERE SANDY CLAWS! I JEST WANNA TELL YA THAT I'M ALL SET FER CRISSMUS—MY STOCKIN' S HUNG UP AN' POP'S PUT TH' TREE UP TA BE TRIMMED— MAKE 'ER SNAPPY, OLD TOP! GOO' BYE! ALL RIGHT ALBERT! GO TA BED RIGHT AWAY AN' I'LL BE THERE-ER- I MEAN HERE IN TWO SHAKES OF A LAMB'S TAIL— IMITATING THE OLD BOY SMALL FINAL INSTRUCTIONS Too Strenuous Even to Think About By "Rube" Goldberg LET'S JOIN A GYMNASIUM CLASS AND REDUCE - ILL MEET YOU THERE AT NINE TOMORROW MORNING FINE - I'M ALL ENTHUSIASIC ABOUT IT - I'LL BE THERE AT NINE SHARP THIS BED IS TOO COMFORTABLE TO LEAVE IT FOR THE BEST GYMNASIUM IN THE WORLD 9 A.M. NEXT MORNING I'll let the GYMNASIUM go today. Maybe I'll start to morrow. I THINK ILL TRY DIETING - I'M AFRAID GYMNASIUM WORK IS BAD FOR MY HEART IT'S FUNNY - I Just Thinking of the Same Thing too. FOOLISH QUESTIONS-NO.301,817 GRANDPA, ARE YOU READING WITHOUT YOUR GLASSES AGAIN? NO, MY NOSE ITCHES AND I'M SCRATCHING IT WITH THE PAPER rw0 7 3 Wins Hike Bet C Eleanor Searn, Boston society leader and athlete, biked from Providence, R. I., to Boston to win a bat. she walked the 44 miles in 11 hours. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND' VIRGINIA Smithsonian Experts Engaged in Squabble About the Weather THE complaint that no one ever does anything about the weather is being answered today. Two learned and august agencies under the government right now are engaged—in a perfectly nice and dignified way—in an old-fashioned capable about the weather. The Smithsonian Institute says that by observing variations in solar radiation, which means the amount of heat traveling earthward from the sun, it is possible to predict the weather far in advance. The Weather Bureau, in origin a child of the Smithsonian, doubts if there is any variation whatever in the sun's intensity. Furthermore, it declares there is no known method of predicting the weather accurately more than 36 hours ahead. Forecasting Sure Charles F. Marvin, chief of the weather bureau, cites the established record of his system, based upon numerous reports from stations all over the country. When areas of high and low pressure are defined by such reports, forecasting can be rather sure because storms are known to travel definite routes. The bureau score is more than 85 percent accuracy as to rise and fall of temperature and moisture, 80 percent as to storm. Dr. G. Abbot, assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, enthusiastically favors the solar radiation theory. The institute already has solar radiation observatories on Table Mountain in the southern California desert and another on Mount Zemtuza in Chile. Dr. Abbot left early in November to select a site for a third. It will be either in Morocco, Belachistan or southwest Africa. The Argentine weather bureau alerted the variations in solar radiation as the basis for its forecasts, obtaining its data from the Chile station. Correct Method Advocates of long distance forecasting agree that the weather bureau has the correct method of predicting tomorrow's weather. But they claim it doesn't go far enough. They assert that the sun is one of the well-known class of variable stars brighter so some of them can heat up by 1 per cent more heat may come from the sun at maximum strength than at minimum. These powerful differences they say, so affect the atmosphere M. J. The above photograph shows L. B. Aldrich, Smithsonian Institute, with a pyrheometer, an instrument used in measuring the intensity of the sun's rays. Inset is Dr. C. G. Abbot, assistant secretary of the institute. that trained forecasters can tell in advance what the data at weather observatories is going to be. In measuring the sun's radiation, the principal instrument an extremely sensitive thermometer is used to measure pyrheometer. It is made to record variations in temperature of one hundred millionths of a degree. It is located in a cavern un- derground and the sunlight is reflected to down a long shaft. The pyrheometer is so delicately adjusted that if you hold out your hand in its path a hundred feet away, there will be a big jump in it," says a Smithsonian expert, L. B. Aldrich, who returned recently from two and a half years in charge of the Chile station. ground and the sunlight is redirected to it down a long shaft. "The pyrellometer is so delicately adjusted that if you hold out your hand in its path, a hundred feet away, there will be a big jump in it," says a Smithsonian expert, L. B. Aldrich, who returned recently from two and a half years in charge of the Chile站. --- JOHN H. HARRIS Sergt. G. B. Cornwell. Tennallytown (D. C.) police force, is one of the foremost firearms experts in this country. He often is called to solve mysteries by his knowledge of firearms. 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Your children will draw an inspiration that will repay you and them ten-fold. AN AMERICAN DOLLAR is now worth about 40 cents in this count try. If you would prove it, try and go shopping with one. WE HAVE HAD a rather mild winter, despite gloomy predictions to the contrary and the prevalence of an anthracite coal strike. COLORED FOLKS, teach your children politeness. If they are polite and obliging to white folks, they will be $ \mathrm{o} $ the same way towards colored ones. PROSPERITY Is here. If you would know it, read the newspapers. Any other way will convince you that times are hard and that they are getting harder. WHITE FOLKS are becoming more friend y towards the colored ones and the colored ones are realizing that they have staunch friends and supporters among white ones. It would be well for some of these people hereabouts to realize that wrong-doing, injustice and the like will return to plague them even before they go the way of all the earth THE ELKS of this city have been "scrapping" among themselves. The mandate of the Grand Exalted Ruler indicates that the controversy will later be transferred to the floor of the Grand Lodge at Cleveland, Ohio next year. GOV. E LEE, TRINKLE'S address at the Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church last Sunday afternoon was practical, wholesome and timely. If the colored folks could put into effect all that he was kind enough to say, a veritable reformation and a new day would dawn for them all over this country IT DOES SEEM strange that a commutation of sentence should be issued to Gerald Chapman, admittedly the most notorious crook in the country, who does not want it and who persistently refuses to accept it and that a pardon or commutation of sentence should not be granted to Marcus Garvey, who does want it one who would willingly accept it. WE HAVE RECEIVED from the Department of Commerce at Washington the farm census for Hanover County, Va. It shows that there are 1,772 white farmers in Hanover County and 899 colored. In 1920, there were 1,787 white farmers and 869 colored. The farm acreage has been reduced, it being 222,018 acres this year, while it was 243,999 acres in 1920. The value of the land and buildings is $10271,070. in North Carolina and that he had a wife and two children. These two boys seemed to have caused a song on his part to live. By this time, they have grown to manhood. After doing what he could to console him, Editor Mitchell promised him that he would se₉ to it that his body was shipped to his wife in North Carolina THE HANGING OF MARABLE He had no idea as to the cost and trouble that would be entailed in carrying out this promise. Marabe's was hanged inside of the jail. A gallows had been built on the stairway opening and, being six feet tall when the trap was sprung, Marabe's feet touched the steps below and his slowly strangled to death. When application was made for the body, it had been turned over to the Anatomical Board in this State and the secretary refused to permit the removal of the same to North Carolina. He assigned it to the Medical Department of the Medical College of Virginia, corner 12th and Clay streets, Richmond, Va THE BODY ARRIVES Not to be outdone, Editor Mitchell called up President Hunter McGuire and he authorized the deiview of the body to John Mitchell, Jr. When the body arrived on the grounds, Editor Mitchell had Funeral Director W. S. Selden present and he carried the body to his establishment and prepared it for burial. The secretary then changed the order to the Richmond Medical College. They went down to W. S. Selden's establishment and took the body away and carried it up to the Richmond Medical College, threatening Selden and Mitchell with arrest. Editor Mitchell informed Understaker Selden that he would back him and Selden carried out orders. THE BODY IN A BARREL. Editor Mitchell then made an appeal to President Christopher C Tompkins and he directed that the body be turned over to Mitchell It was after 12 o'clock at night that Undertaker Selden and Editor Mitchell entered the embalming department of the college and the well-known Chris Baker was apparently in his glory as he rolled a barrel out, in which Solomon Marable had been "pickled". He got the body out of the barrel and turned it over to William S. Selden, who in turn took it back to his pace of business, prepared it for burial in a zinc container. SHIPPED TO NORTH CAROLINA He shipped it to North Carolina, going with the remains and Editor Mitched paid the expense of the funeral out of the funds he had raised. Many a time after this, Editor Mitchell would discuss this picturesque incident. His undertaking business is now operated by his grandson, the Randolph Brothers. It was more than thirty years ago, and on the morning of December 13th, 1925 another of the remarkable characters in this autobiographical drama "drew the drapery of his couch about him and laid down to pleasant dreams" CHAIR. NORRELL been brought to my attention that you have and you are now collecting funds from the genera public for the purpose of covering alleged expenses of our past Grand Lodge session in the city of Richmond, Virginia. A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT. "Now, Brother M. A. Nerrell, be advised and informed that you are setting a dangerous precedent and one that is a reflection upon the first Convention that we have here, and do not an injustice to your Lodge, and your sister Lodge and every Lodge in the State as well as every Lodge in the jurisdiction including the Grand Lodge, the Grand Exalted Ruler and his cabinet and Grand Lodge Officers. WITHOUT OFFICIAL AUTHORITY "I want to further advise you that this collecting of funds is unauthorized by you or any other brother or person in the name of the General' Committee and you will forthwith and immediately desist from collecting from collecting. "I hereby as Grand Exated Ruler direct that you make to me at once a ful, correct and accurate report of all monies received by you, from every source and what disposition you have made of the funds co- AN OFFICIAL ORDER "Given under my hand and seal this 9th day of December, 1925 December 11. 1925 Hon. J. Finley Wilson. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND' VIRGINIA What Has It in Store for You? 1926 ```markdown ``` Grand Exalted Ruler, I. B. P. Q. E. of W, '907 You Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. My dear Sir:—I wish to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of December 9th, 1925, over your signature as Grand Exalted Ruler of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, in which you charge that some act of mine is an injustice to the Grand Exalted Ruler and others. EMPLOYS COUNSEL In view of the covert threat con-tained therein I have determined in order that my rights both as a member of the Order and as a citizen of Richmond, Virginia, will be fuly protected, that I should avail myself of legal advice before submitting to the distinguished Grand Exalted Ruler a detailed answer. As a consequence thereof, I have retained the services of Mr. Armond W. Scott, of Washington, D. C., who will have associated with him, my loca attorney, Colonel John A. Cutchins. SEEKS DELAY. I, therefore, request the indulgence of the distinguished Grand Exalted Ruler until after I can have a conference with my lawyers, which will probably occur on Monday, since Mr. Scott will not arrive in Richmond on Saturday early enough to arrange a conference with Colone Cutchins. I presume, however, that the distinguished Grand Exalted Ruler will not object to furnishing the names of his informants who have brought the matter to his attention and who have inspired, his unprecedented interference in the business matters of a local committee composed, as it is of Citizens of Richmond, Virginia, some of whom are Elks and some of whom are not. WANTS INFORMATION I am convinced that the distinguished Grand Exwalt Ruler will gladly furnish this information, since he can have no motive for his action except that exact justice be done to all parties concerned in this matter. This information is necessary for the record, which should be complete when my answer is submitted and thus avoid extended correspondence. I am sending copies of this correspondence to all of the Grand Lodge Officers and to our Grand Legal Adviser, Honorable Perry Howard. Awaiting your advice on this and assuring you of my most distinguished consideration. I am Respectfully yours. M. A. NORRELL. (Washington, D. C. Eag'e) GRAND EXALTED RULER ISSUES SOLEMN MANDATE. Tells Richmond Committee That Grand Lodge Is Over As Far As That Burg Is Concerned. Warns Against Public Begging. By Bill Lawson, Fraternal Editor. Big headlines in the Richmond News-Leader, "Negro Erik Convention Fund now Lacks $3.367", followed by the significant underline, "Contributions for Payment of Ert entertainment Excesses Being Sought by Local Committee", caused the office of the Fraterna Editor to look for the Richmond Times Disp patch to see if it were general talk in the Virginia Capita" that the Grand Lodge was so soliciting funds to pay the expense of its 'ate con- vention THAT TIMES DISPATCH HEAD-LINE. The Times Dispatch had a define that would have made old BF Howard turn over in his mausoleum. It read, "Meeting to Wipe Out Elks' Deficit," and then under neath the broom was indicated by which the wiping might be effectively done—"Roscoe Simmons, Leading Negro Writer, to Speak Here November 23". THAT RICHMOND COMMITTEE. Here is more of the truck paraded around in the white newspaper: "America's Colored Elks trekked to Richmond last August. Forty thousand persons were added to Richmond's population for several days. The Richmond Committee in charge of arrangements collected all the money possible from their people. They gave entertainments and tried by all means to get enough to pay expenses. THOSE WHITE RESERVATIONS. "However, when all the bills were in and the tumult and the shouting died the Richmond Committee faced an indebtedness of $4,000.00. At a public meeting to be held in Richmond auditorium on November 23, where Colonel Simmons will speak, special reservations are to be made for white people". DANGEROUS PRECEDENT All of this activity in Richmond is regarded as a very dangerous precedent. It is opposed by Capital City Lodge and is the subject of caustic comment in all parts of the city of Richmond where M. A. Norrell, who headed the unsuccessful convention, is recipient of the principal blame for its failure. CANDIDATE FOR GRAND EXALTED BULER It is said that if Norrell had attended to business and not spent so much convention and pre-convention time endeavoring to be elected Grand Exalted Ruler, it was at together possible for expenses to have been made. But all through the convention, while Norrell was causing to defeat the men who had made him, there was no one to tell the crowd where to go to spend their money. AN ACCURATE ACCOUNT A full and accurate account of all monies received to defray the Grand Lodge expense must be made forthwith to the office of the Grand Exalted Ruler by Chairman Norrell together with a statement as to authority for procedure in collecting funds without proper dispensation. A REPLY TO BILL LAWSON Dear Sir:—I have before me an article published in the Washington Eagle, under the caption, "Grand Exalted Ruler Issues Solemn Mandate." A CROWNING SHAME. I wish to advise you that you and the publisher of the Washington Eagle will be held to strict accountability for this article and for any other reference you make of me in this yellow sheet. It is a crowning shame, Lawson that a young man of your ability should be willing to sulfify himsef for the poor pay you receive, and all the more shameful that you brazenly sign your name to these puerle distresses which have so clearly appeared in The Eagle You have dishonored yourself and disgraced the great profession, which is poorer, because of your identification with it. Of course, the motive behind this article is too palpable to seeely any pers n with common sense. This is an age of thought though I must admit that there is a little thought in evide around "1907. You Street N W Washington D C." IN ABLE HANDS The affairs of the General Com- IS IT TOO BIG A HANDICAP? "HO HUM" FRANCE POLITICS POST WAR FINANCIAL DESERT mittee are in able hands and will be taken care of. In regard to the "Solemn Mandate," I wish you and the Brotherhood, to know that the Committee has nothing to fear from any source; it has the solid backing of the best thinking people of this community and that, at the proper time, it will put to eternal shame and condemnation all scyphomans like this "Fraternal Editor" who cares nothing for fact and truth but, like a scavenger, feeds on the things which decent people abhor. WORKED FAITHFULLY FOR WILSON. If you are in doubt as to what really happened, at the Richmond Convention, ask the Grand Exalted Ruler and he will tell you that instead of campaigning for myself as you algee I worked faithfully for the re-election of the present Grand Exalted Ruler. He will tell you that with tears in his eyes, he told me he was "heart-broken" and requested that I do what I could to have the vote of Virginia cast in his favor. The record speaks for itself. I cast the solid vote of Williams' Lodge No. 11, twenty (20) in number, for him, and led the way by which he received the vast majority of the vote of the Virginia Delegation. The wisdom of my course is a matter of debate but the fact, nevertheless, remains. ABLE TO PAY BILLS Richmond, Virginia, or that "Burg as Lawson contemptuously refers to it, gave its best to entertain our guest, the recent Grand Lodge of Elks. She is willing and able to pay the bills. She is asking no fvrs. She is not disturbed over "Solomn Mandates." She knows her right in the premises and will sternly resist any interference or meddling in her affairs. Let the "Fraternal (Continued on page 5) C. P. HAYES, (Successor to A. Hayes & Son) 727 N. 2d St., Richmond, Va. LATEST IMPROVEMENTS IN FUNERAL EQUIPMENT. Automobiles Furnished for Funerals, Social Affairs or Short or Long Distance Trips—Fine Caskets—Chapel Service Free. Country Orders Solicited—Prompt and Satisfactory Service Phone Madison 2778. 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Leonard Kip Rhinelander was very near a breakdown when he left the witness stand on the fifth day of his gruelling examination in his suit for annulment of his marriage to Alice Jones, which suit he lost in Jusice Morshauser's Court at White Plains N. Y. recently. His voice had be,come husky and at times was a mere mumble; he stuttered so that his lips fluttered vainly in the effort to speak and tremblingly held his foded arms, together as he fought for control. Burning, scathing words had been hurled & him for hours by Lee Parsons Davis, his wife's counsel. He had been forced to admit deception and lies to his wife's mother; he had been made to tell of things which indicated a deliberate attempt to bring about intimacy with Alice Jones. To the accusations of Mr. Davis, made with withering effect, he had only one reply, that his wife had deceived him as to her color, or that his deceptions had been sug gested, or at least concurred in by her, until Mr. Davis roared at him, shaking his extended hand: 2 "Is there anything in this case that is vile that you are not putting up to this girl?" 1 Rhinelander had been held up to ridicule on the very things which he might have been expected to know most about, little matters of social etiquette, such as when an engagement actually was made. Rhinelander contended it was not until a girl got a ring; Mr. Davis that it was when a girl was asked to marry, the ring being merely the announcement. Mr. Davis couched his questions in such satiric tones that Rhinelander was made to appear as one who knew very little about social customs ADMITTED DECEIVING HER MOTHER An automobile trip through New York and New Erg and with Alice to which her mother's consent had been obtained by his assurance that a Mr. and Mrs. Matthews would accompany them as chaperones, was dealt with exhaustively by Mr. Davis Rhinelander unblushingly admitted that he had deceived Mrs. Jones, that Mr. and Mrs. Matthews did not exist, that all the accounts of that mythical couples enjoyment of the trip had been invented by him and sent home to satisfy the mother. It was all right as long as the girl was willing, he said, just as the deception the night they were to the Marie Antoinette was justified by his plea that Alice did not object after he had persuaded her for twenty minutes. But his account of that persuasion was embarrassed so much so that former Judge Isaac N. M'is', his counsel interested and obtained an adjournment to permit Rhinelander to pull himself together. The question of Mrs. Rhinelanders color came up again early in the day, when Mr. Davis, after a few questions regarding a mysterious message sent her, suddenly asked: "What is the color of your wife's body?" "Dark" said Rhinelander. "How dark?" "Fairly dark." "Is it very pronounced?" "It felt any darker than the arms of women I have seen in Havana," he said. Mr. Davis asked Mrs. Rhine'ander to hold up her hands, and as she did so her eaves fell down so that her arms could be seen to the elbow. They seemed at a short distance to be an ash brown. "Is it as dark as her hands?" asked Mr. Davis. "Yes." NOT COLOR BLIND. HE SAYS. Rhinelander admitted that he first saw the color of his wife's body in December, 1921, and then said that even after that, and knowing how dark her father was, he had no suspicion that she was partly Negro. He never gave it a thought, he said, until after he was married. "You say that not once from 1921 until the first newspaper stories were printed in 1924, you had suspicions that your wife was colored?" "I did not," said Rhinelander. "Your brain was working?" "I think so." "How's your eyesight? Are you color blind?" "I don't think so." "You can distinguish black, from white and white from brown?" "Yes." Mnl Davks then touched on the engagement and Rhinetander said that "every woman ought to know" that she is not engaged until she gets a ring. A long letter from Rhinelander to Alice, written in 1822, when he was in Panama, was then read by Mr. Davis, to prove his concession that any woman receiving such a letter would consider herself engaged, and expect the writer of it to marry her, or at least to be desirous of marrying her. LETTER FROM CANAL ZONE. It was a clean love letter, with nothing in it to which any one could take exception. It contained nearly 3,000 words, and Rhinelander wrote that it occupied an entire morning. In part it read: My Dear, As I told you in letter No. 10, your cheerful note arrived just as we were about to leave Coon for Panama City. Can you imagine Alice, love, how happy and surprised your boy was to hear from you again? Well, dear, after reading your wonderful letter I went straight down to the writing room and hur- ried off a few lines, just to let you know your letter had found its way to the one you had sent it. Yes, I was leaving in a half hour, so I had to make the best of my time. Oh! dear heart, that letter didn't half express my great joy and gladness, and how differently I felt when yours arrived. I wonder, sweetheart when my lovely letters reach you; if you go to your little room where you can be alone and are as happy to hear from me as I was when that letter of yours came to me. If you really care as much to get my letter as I did hearing from you, you, no doubt, can appreciate what your note meant to me and how happy and overjoyed I was. Supposing, daring, you hadn't heard from me for three weeks and wasn't sure if you wouldn't get even a line for six mouths and, then as if a gift from God, a letter arrived. How woud' you feel? Well. Alice. If you can answer that question, and if you have been as one'v and as lonesome for me, as I have been for you, why you won't have the least trouble in guessing how I felt when your 'etter came. Just to know, dear, that you wrote it was enough to turn nighttime into dytime, but after reading and repeating your words, phrases, clauses and sentences, and finally coming to the point that has been worrying me a great deal, and learning in your letter that I needn't worry any longer set my heart at rest and will carry me on no matter how long the fight lasts. I wonder, Alice if you think I am raving and what can I possibly be referring to in the above sentence. I don't blame you, love one, for becoming a bit confused. as I will grant you it is quite difficult to see what I really have in mind. MEMORIES OF HAPPY DAYS. Your letter, darling, was just full of pictures, if you understand what I mean. It brought back memories of the good old days when you and I were so happy together. Yes, dear girl, as you said very few people are as happy as we have been and when you told me our happiness will always continue as far as your part is concerned. I am going to add here that you can rely on me to do my share and never let anything, no matter what it may be, come between us. Well, darling, to get back to where I was raving maybe you thought so. I will try to explain what I was referring to. Two things, sweetheart, in your letter stood out like a shining light above all the other nice sayings you told me. Can you guess what those two things were, that you wrote me and to'd me yourself? Of course, you know, dear, what you said—"that I am now your only one and that you will be true to me." Oh! Alice, dear I was worrying a little not hearing a word for three weeks and wondering if you were keeping your promise. You can't blame me, Alice, sweetheart, when I am feeling blue, lonely and lonesome to think if you are being true and having me as your only one. Can you, dear? CIVILIZATION IN FLORIDA (Richmond, Va. Times Dispatch) Florida has been flooding the country with stories of the golden opportunities that await mankind in the State of the everglades. It pictures itself as the wonder and of the world, with which there is none to compare. Of late, little news has come out of Florida that did not glorify the place. A few days ago, however, the State's record of a perfect score in advertising was considerably marred. In New York the whereabouts of THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Kip Rhinelander's Negro wife was shrouded in mystery. Press associations sent out stories of the disappearance. Finally the report spread through the country that the woman was either in Florida or on her way there. Here are two interesting Associated Press dispatches bearing upon the Rhinelander matter: "Fort Pierce, Fla., Dec. 14—Members of the local Ku Klux Klan tonight invaded four local hotels in quest of Mrs. Kip Rhinelander, who was reported to have arrived in the city from New York." "West Palm Beach, Fla., Dec. 15—Members of a secret organization shortly after midnight began visiting local hotels after it was reported, that Mrs. Kip Rhinelander was reported to be in this section of the State." There were other stories in which it was related that hotel-keepers were warned not to register the Rhinelander woman — warned by members of a "secret organization." What did this body of men have to do with the situation? Whence did they derive their authority to map out the courses of hotel-keepers? If the Rhinelander woman was a menace to the morals of the community, and Florida enjoyed a state of civilization, it was clearly the business of the police to act, if action there was to be. If the hotels, in accepting a woman of Negro blood as a guest, violated either a State law or a city ordinance, it was again clearly the duty of the police to enforce the statute. And if keeping undesirables out of public lodging places was merely a matter of policy, the burden of acting rested upon the shoulders of the hotel men, who, presumably, are citizens capable of conducting their own business in the proper manner. In no case would a "secret organization" be responsible under our theory of government. While Florida is advertising itself to the world it should certainly keep step with civilization as we know it in this country. CHURCH DIRECTORY CHURCH DIRECTORY FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. (Broad and College Streets) Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D., Pastor. Residence, 621 N. 8th St. Services: Sundays, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. (Byrd St., between 1st and 2nd Sts.) Rev. Z. D. Lewis, D. D., Pastor. Residence, 202 E. Leigh St. Services: Sundays, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome@. EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH, (Leigh and Judah Streets.) Rev. W. H. Stokes Ph. D., Pastor. Residence, 1607 Brook Road. Services: Sundays, 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9 A. M. The public is invited. FOURTH BAPTIST CHURCH. (28th and P Streets.) Rev. Evans Payne, D. D., Pastor Residence, 1209 N. 24th St. Services: Sunday, 11:30 A. M and 8 P. M Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. FIFTH ST. BAPTIST CHURCH. (Temporary location pending re-build- ing. True Reformers Hall. 2nd St.) Rev. T J Kng, D. D., Pastor Resid- ence, 1005 N. 4th St. Services: Sundays, 11:30 A. M and 8 P. M Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. B. Y. P. U 6 P. M. Public'c invited. ST. MARK BAPTIST CHURCH, (Glen Va., Va.) MT. SALEM BAPTIST CHURCH, (Penola, Va.) Rev. M. C. Ruffin, Pastor Residence, 611 St. Peter gf. Services at Glen Allen, 2nd and 4th Sundays at 1 P. M. At Penola, services on the 3rd Sunday at 12:30 P. M. Sunday School every Sunday at both places at 11:30 A. M. MT. GLEAD BAPTIST CHURCH. (Chesterfield County) Rev; W. H. Liggins, Pastor, Residence, 1835 Taylor St. Services, 1st and 3rd Sundays at 12:30 P. M. Sunday School every Sunday at 10:30 A. M. MT. CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH, (717 Orleans Street, Fulton) Rev. C. A. Cobbs, Pastor, Residence, 819 Nicholson St. Services: 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. The public is invited FIFTH BAPTIST CHURCH. (1400 West Cary Street) Rev. A. D. Daly, Pastor, Residence 1412 W. Cary St. Services: 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sanday School, 10:00 A. M. All are welcome. IST BAPT. CHURCH S. RICHGMGD (Corner 15th and Decatur Sta.) Rev. W. L. Ransome, D. D., Pastor, Parsonage 1507 Decatur Street. Services: Sunday, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. MOORE ST. BAPTIST CHURCH. (1408 West Leigh Street) Rev. Gordon R. Hancock, A. M. Pastor, Residence Virginia Union University. Services: Sunday, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. SHARON BAPTIST CHURCH. (Corner First and Leigh Sts.) Rev. R. H. Johnson, B. D. Pastor Residence, 11 P. Clay Street. Services: Sunday, 11:30 A. M. and 8:15 P. M. Sunday School, 10 A. M. All are invited. RISING MT. ZION BAPT. CHURCH. (800 Depuy Street, Fulton) Rev. O. B. Shmms. B. Th., Pastor, Residence, 728 Denny St. Services: Sunday, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. MT. CARMEL BAPTIST CHURCH, (1300 North First Street) Rev. Berryman H. Johnson, Pastor, Sunday 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. CLAY STREET BAPTIST CHURCH, (Formerly New Baptist Church, Clay Street, opposite St. James St.) Rev. J. A. Brinkley, A. B. B. D. Pasor, Services: Sunday, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M., Sunday School 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH (South Richmond) Rev. E. C. Smith, A. B., Pastor, residence, 1704 Stockton St. Services Sundays. 11:30 A. M. and 8:00 P. M.; Sunday School, 9:30 A. M.; B. Y. P. U., 6:30 P. M. All are welcome. MT. OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, (251b. and s. Streets) Rev. J. Andrew Bowler, Pastor Residence, 112 E. Leigh Street. Services: Sunday, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. MT. VERNON BAPTIST CHURCH. (1902 Wallace Street) Rev. M. H Payne, Pastor, Residence, 1900 Wallace Street. Services: Sunday, 11:30 A. M and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. MT. TABOR BAPTIST CHURCH. (North 22nd Street, Woodville) Rev. R J Pass, Pastor, Residence 15 E. Duval Street. Services: Sunday, 11:30 A. M and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. LEIGH STREET M. E. CHURCH. (N. E. Corner Fifth and Leigh Sts.) Rev R. M. Williams, Pastor, re- idence 616 North 5th Street. Serv- ices: Sundays, Sunday School 9:30 A. M.; Morning service, 11 o'clock; Evening service, 8 o'clock. The public is invited. RIVERVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH. (Jacquelin and Lombardy Streets) Rev. E. D. Lewis, Pastor, Resi- dence 316 S. Lombardy Street. Serv- ices: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. PROVIDENCE BAPTIST CHURCH. (518 Lady Mile Road) Rev. J. J. Woodson, Pastor. Residence, 1116 St. John Street. Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are invited. . . HUSBAND WANTED. An Industrial, Business, Woman wants to correspond with a well educated man between the ages of 45 and 50 years; a refined Christian one who loves music Address LILLIE CAPERS, Wilson, Ark. WANTED—Transient or Permanent BOARDERS. Furnished Rooms with or without board. Home like surroundings. Apply to MRS, ELLEN N. JONES, 108 East Leigh Street, Richmond, Va. JIMMY BLAKE'S MY RIVA EH?--HERE'S THE DIME!! --- CHAIR. NORRELL Edition" and the Washington Eagle beware. TO LEADING JOURNALS. I am sending this letter to the leading Negro Journals, of this country, and I hope you will have the manhood to give it the same prominence, in The Eagle, that you gave the article of which I am complaining. Very respectfully. M. A. NORRELL. (Copy) 525 North Second Street, Richmond, Virginia DOES NOT DESIRE NEWSPAPER CONTROVERSY. We have no disposition to enter into a newspaper controversy with any person or persons identified with the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, for we have consistently adhered to the theory that the Order has set up competent tribunals to pass rightly upon disputed questions The responsibility for this violation of the spirit and intent of the laws of the Order must rest upon the person or persons responsible therefor. RELY UPON THE RECORD. We can rely upon the record in this entire matter and have no ap prehension as to the outcome. We are, therefore, publishing the correspondence between the Chairman of the Entertainment Committee and the members of the committee, who are responsible for the resolution purporting to represent the sentiment of Capital City Lodge. The answer to the letters of the Chairman was the publication of the resolution in the Richmond Planet and the Saint Luke Herald of this city. BREACH WIDENED While we have no quarrel with Capita' City Lodge as such, unquestionably the breach between the two Lodges in this city has been widened by this uncalled for, indepensible and chilish act on the part of the committee representing Capital City Lodge. The surprising part of the whole affair is the statement in the resolution that Capital City Lodge would pay its part of the deficit, if so requested. No such proffer has ever been made for, as a matter of fact, such dissatisfaction as existed prior to the publication was occasioned by the demand of certain influential members of the Lodge to have returned to them the money the Lodge had donated, together with the other 6'k units for the entertainment of the recent Grand Lodge. Of course, this was absurd as gifts should not be made with gifts tied to them. THAT OFFICIAL ORDER. In regard to the official order of the Grand Excited Ruler, it is our opinion that the matter is a local affair, and upon that assumption we rest our case. He can try his case in the newspapers. If he feels to, but we will submit ours to the proper tribunals. He is a candidate for re-election in Cleveland, and is running true to form. Endorsements must be had. The record, however, speaks for itself. M. A. NORRELL. CAPITAL CITY WANTED REPORT. Dear Sir:—At the last regular meetings of Capital City Lodge of Elks No. 11, I B. P. O. E. of W., and Benjamin Temple, No. 20, I. B. P. O. E. of W., committees were appointed to petition the General Committee on Entertainments to make its report to the lodge and temple mentioned above We are of the opinion that suf ALL WORK GUARANTEED. L. J. H WE SELL A Watches, Clock fident time has been given the committee: therefore we feel that the committee, through the chairman Mr. M. A. Norrall should make this report immediately. WANT FINANCIAL RESULTS We wish to be informed of the financial results of the committee on entertainments, as to receipts and disbursements of all the finance handled by this committee leading up to and immediately following the convention Respectfully yours, (Signed) WM. R. JOHNSON, Chair. (Signed) R. B. JACKSON, Sec'y. (Signed) W. P. WILLIAMS. (Signed) LOUIS HARRIS. (Signed) LILLIAN B WARE, D. R. Capital City, Lodge, No. 11. I. B. P. O. E. of W. Richmond, Virginia. THAT RESOLUTION 1026 North Second Street, Richmond, Va., Dec. 5, 1925. To Whom These Presents May Come—Greetings: Capital City Lodge of Elks, No. 11, L.B.P.O.E of W., at its last regular meeting December 3, 1925, because of its failure to get due consideration and recognition, being equally responsible for the Grand Lodge Convention, and its entertainment in Richmond last August; Whereas the General Committee of Entertainment composed of members of Capital City and Williams' Lodge of Elks has not and did not (Continued on page 8.) DoYou Have Neuralgia? Why be miserable,when this plaster will quiet the pain? The severe suffering, that sharp pain that sometimes is felt with neuralgia, can be quickly relieved by the simple and harmless use of Johnson's Belladonna Plaster. It helps to quiet the pain and costs so little. These plasters are also recommended for the relief of backache, humbago, kidney troubles, cramps, pains in the chest and local pains in any part of the body. 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About Your Health Things You Should Know by John Joseph Gaines, M.D. ALCOHOL I am aware of treating dangerous ground in discussing alcohol even as medicine, it has no other legitimate use, but that any agent good for sickness should be destroyed, I emphatically deny. Gold leads the world as a basic instigator of crime. But no zealot would abolish gold. It must be endured for the good it may do. More aged people die of pneumonia than of any other disease. It is here that alcohol in medical administration, is at its best as a life-saver. It has added years of life to those for whom life is most precious. Alcohol is nearer a specific in the dreaded influenza than any other drug we possess. Alcohol has supported the typhoid victim over the crisis, and started him on the highway of health. These virtues should maintain it in the ranks of our most valuable medicines. Opium kills. Its habit is the most tenacious and degrading—yet we never hear about prohibition and destruction of the poppy. The politician cannot use opium as a monkey-wrench to throw into somebody's political machinery, so he permits it to be regulated in a logical, legal way without ostentation, as is being done today. The abuse of alcohol is well-known, making of it a very bad master, instead of a most valuable servant. Next Week:— "FACIAL ERUPTIONS" New Cue Champ AUTOCASTER Here is Edward Horemans, Belgian one sensation whose skill wrestled the World's Billiard Crown from the brow of young Jake Shaeffer. This is the same crown that Willie Hoppe held for so many years. Who's next? Gives Her Home A Frances, Countess of Warwick, has given Easton Lodge, her Essex, England, home, as a foundation for an international labor university. Frances, Countess of Warwick, has given Easton Lodge, her Essex, England, home, as a foundation for an international labor university. AUTOCASTER Here is Congressman Nicholas Longworth, new speaker of the House of Representatives, showing his little daughter Paulina the Capitol in Washington, where her grandfather Theodore Roosevelt made history. Practical Instructions In HOME SEWING By Ruth Wyeh Spears B A C RWS Cut a little triangular shaped piece of cardboard to use as a guide in marking. After marking around the arrowhead bring the thread through at the lower left hand corner of the triangle as shown at A in the sketch. Then short straight stitch under the point of the triangle as at B. Next take a long stitch at the base as at C. For this stitch bring the needle out as near as possible to the place where the thread was first brought through. Take a stitch at the top of the triangle just below the first stitch and another at the base bringing the needle in and out just inside of the previous stitches. Continue until the entire space is filled in as shown in the sketch of the finished stitch. AUTODASTER Billie Hill, only seven years of age, lives in Los Angeles and is predicted to be the "coming genius of the violin," by Efrem Zimbali. Such words coming from so great a master is praise indeed. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND' VIBGINIA Magazine Page QUIZ Editor's Note: Through special arrangement with The Educational Book Co. N. X., this newspaper now offers its readers this interesting feature, "QUIZ!" and extracts from that book, endorsed by Eugene C. Gibney, Director of Extension Activities, New York Board of Education. These notes will be found intellectual as well as instructive. Arrange these figures so they form two multiplications, and the product in both cases to be the same. Puzzle No. 24 How is the best way to make a coat last? Thank you very much for sending me "Hitecasmar Distrese." Could you lend me "A icdils Hsiytor for Gelnadn?" In these "Dhar Mitse," I cannot obtain it. I met "Iro Tauum Defrn," "Lervoi tsiw," "vesterday; he was with "Yabarbn Drug," "the Culnonemcal Latrreve," Did you know that "Tillet Ridrot" has been turned out of "Het Dlo Utyicorsi Hpos" and "Medboydan Osn," is written over the door? Your friend "Tamri Huzticew" has "Tager Xtpatecosm" about his book "A eatfo wo Sictis." Have you heard about "Eht Ymytretsw Wnedi Ddoor?" He is said to have stolen several copies of "Cwickki Rappse," and "Kstschee yb Ozb." Much love from, "HLANCIOS KYLINCEBY." Solutions of Last Week Puzzle: Puzzle No. 21. The Squares are arranged this way so that every line totals 48: 36 38 8 32 26 6 26 23 34 12 24 30 14 18 15 22 10 16 20 Send your answers to this newspaper. The first five solutions received to each set of puzzles will receive ten credits; when such winner has obtained 100 credits he will be entitled to a "QUIZ BUB" button or pin. Credits will entitle the winner to receive an attractive prize and also have his name printed on the honor roll. AUTOCASTER To win the World's speed typist's championship, Albert Tangora clicked the keys at the rate of 130 and a quarter words per minute. George Hosfeld, former champion was but a fraction of a word slower than Tangora's lightning fingers. The SKELETON FINGER by Headon Hall © 1925 by NEA Service Inc "The One Who Forgot" BEGIN HERE TODAY SIR DUDLEY GLENISTER, believed to have been the murderer of James Glenister, is proven innocent by— JAMES WRAGGE, Scotland Yard detective, who fastens the guilt on Stephen Colne, former cabinet minister. Colne takes his own life while Wragge explains to— KATHELEEN GLENISTER, sister of James Glenister, Kathleen's doubt of Wragge's ability to clear up the mystery vanishes. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "And a lot of other things which don't touch the main line of this inquiry," Wragge continued. "You will hear of them later, but let us keep to the point. By ordinary defective work I got hold of a diary which Mrs. Coningsby had stolen from Trickley, and it gave me my first real insight into the case, though for a while it strengthened the suspicion that Sir Dudley had killed his cousin. "Here are the facts. Your brother, Miss Glenister, went away to America to escape the consequences of a harmless flirtation with sally C. James. That young person, greatly caring, had built on a few careless compliments the hope that she might merry the then heir to the baronage. She even went so far as to go to Sir Philip and threaten a breach of promise action. Sir Philip took the matter seriously, and father and son were not on good terms when they parted. It is probable that Mr. George went away as much to avoid the strained relations at home as from fear of legal proceedings which would certainly have gone in his favor. "Then Sir Philip died and George either never heard of his death or he was too absorbed in his gold-mining venture to return and claim the title. Be that as it may, when time went on and the title remained in abeyence, Dudley, the next in succession, sent his clerk Trickey out to America to trace him. He located George Glenister at Lone Wolf City, a mining camp in Montana. Trickey cabled to his employer for instruction and received a reply ordering him to return home without communicating with George. "On his arrival in London, Dudley told Trichett that he would deal with the matter by letter. After much trouble I got at the contents of that letter, and a copy exists which will be available as evidence. In it Dudley informed George that if he would come home and meet him at Beechwood at ten o'clock on the evening of the 7th of June two years ago he was prepared to make an offer for financing the gold mine by floating it as a company. "On the face of it that was fairly conclusive that Sir Dudley had lured Mr. George back to England and murdered him so that he might succeed to the baronety. After the episode of the skeleton finger Sir Dudley saw the danger that this view might be accepted by a judge and jury, and your activities, Miss Kathleen, eventually drove him to extremes which constitute him a murderer in intent, though not, thank God, in fact. "For though I was misled for a while into a belief that he killed George Glenister, all he had set out to do in the beginning was to swindle his cousin out of the gold mine. Hinkley has a record that Dudley was at Beehcwood on the 7th of June that year, and the diary states that on the 9th he again sent Trickey to America with instructions to manufacture evidence of George Glenister's death at Lone Wolf City. Trickey carried out his mission so cleverly that the family solicits, who went out later to verify the facts, were deceived and in turn deceived the High Court into granting leave to presume George Glenister's death. "My trouble after these discoveries was that though I had an emple evil dence for convicting Sir Dudley for murdering his convict him for murdering his cou "WHAT A PERFECT FOOL I HAVE BEEN." SHE-SAID. sin. And all the time Mr. Colne was urging and threatening me. I felt a nervous breakdown coming on, and in a fortunate moment I consulted Doctor Willoughby Melville, who had cured me when Mr. Colne nearly drove me off my head years ago. Then he did it with physics. This time he did it by handing me a scrap of paper on which he had written the name of the Beechwood murderer. It was that of the Right Honorable Stephen Cone, oracketed with that of Sally Grimes." "Perhaps he was pulling your leg," said Kathleen rather hysterically. "No, miss, he wasn't." Wrugge replied with firmness. "At first I had as much difficulty in bringing the crime home to Mr. Colne as I had in the case of your cousin. He fought like a corned rat to the last. He had suspected that Sir Dudley was holding you prisoner at the mill and he clutched at that to convince me of Sir Dudley's guilt in the murder affair. Probably he would have had you released before if he had not been keeping the outrage in reserve as a last weapon of defense. When Doctor Mellville gave me that scrap of paper he might have known something, for Sally Grymes, alias Mrs. Simon Trickey, alias Miss Mand Blair, made things clear clear night. Whether she did it because she thought she was going to die and wanted to; ease her conscience, or from a desire to square accounts with a gentleman who had thwarted her matrimonial aims, is beyond my reasoning powers. "Miss Sally Grimes, always ambitious, had two strings to her bow—Mr. George Glenister and Mr. Stephen Colne. Mr. Glenister, rather than be embroiled with her, fled to America. Mr. Colne, living a double life—that of the austerely-respectable statesman in London, and that of a middle-aged debauchee in the country—had much closer relations with the future cinema actress than the rival, who was never really a rival. When Mr. Glenister arrived at Beechwood Station late on the evening of the 7th of June, Mr. Colne and Sally met him by chance on the road, and Colne told the girl to leave them. She went off home, but before she had gone very far she heard a shot. Colne as good as admitted to her the next day that he had killed Mr. Glenister from jealousy, thinking that his return would disturb their pleasant relations. "This, of course, gave Miss Grimes a tremendous pull over the Right Honorable Stephen, but she failed to push it so far as to become the wife of a cabinet minister. Being a wise wench, knowing the right side for butter on her bread, she accepted the only terms she could exact—a handsome pension which would enable her to embark on a career of adventure in London. There, by one of those queer kinks in the web of Fate which even the Yard cannot unravel, she met and married Mr. Simon Trickey, the blackmiler of the other villain in the case." Kathleen extended her right hand to Wragge and rested the other on Norman's shoulder. "What a perfect fool I have been," she said. "I am almost too ashamed to ask your pardon, Mr. Wragge. Perhaps the fact of my folly having nearly cost me my life will make you magnanimous. You, too, Norman, must have been cursing me for a vindictive idiot." "You have not much to reproach yourself for," the inspector made smiling answer. "Indirectly you added the solution by convincing Sir Dudley that he was liable to be suspected of the murder, and more than suspected if his fraudulent conspiracy with Trickey came to light. The resulting fear drove him to the outrageous conduct which, by causing tonight's catastrophe, was the means of obtaining final proof from the mouth of the keeper's daughter." "Will Simon Trickey be arrested?" asked Norman. "That will be for the chief of my department to decide," replied Wragge. "But I should surmise not. Simon is of the kidney that is pretty sure to round on his partner by turning King's evidence. He has practically done so already by informing me of the contents of Sir Dudley's letter and by promising me a press copy of it. "I should be inclined to let Mr. Trickey off," remarked Kathie Deenurely. "You see, to some extent he is in the same boat as myself. He had got his knife into Dudley and meant to make things hot for him." Al Grinstead loosed off a great guffaw. "Then I reckon, miss, I'm in that boat along of you and the bloke you are talking of. Lord! but I made it fair 'ot for that swab on the stone floor and I'd have made it 'otter if I'd had my service boots on." They all laughed, and Kathleen proposed that after their strenuous day bed was the best place for them. Inspector Wregge was a long time going to sleep. His brain was busy in an attempt to conjure up an answer to the question which plued his professional curiosity. He had family ties. He was a good husband and a good father. But before everything he was a detective. How had Doctor McElville managed to write on that scrap of paper the name of the Beechwood murderer and in so doing freed him forever from the ruthless thrall of Mr. Stephen Coline? THE END. 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John R. Prentice won it. He is the grandson of John D. Rockefeller and is working as a telephone operator to pay his way through college. WANT NOTICES for persons desir ing employment will hereafter b published free of charge. Person seeking help will pay full rates. THE RIGHMOND PLANET, RIGHMOND, VIRGINIA given --- --- GOOD-BYE 1925! FRANK PARKER 2. ```markdown ``` RIGHT (Continued from page $) through its chairman and secretary submit to the Capital City Lodge a full report as to receipts and disbursements leading up to, during and following the Convention, we the Capital City Lodge of Elks feel that all indebtedness, if there be any, is solely the burden of the above Lodges, and that when a report is made to them they will be willing and ready to liquidate such indebtedness pro rata. Whereas, the public has loyally supported our every movement we feel that undue advantage is being taken of them to carry this supposed indebtedness, until, at least the claim is known to exist by Capital City Lodge, I. B. P. O. E. of W. Whereas the Capital City Lodge of Elks knows nothing about such indebtedness, we being grateful to the public for the support a ready given, protest, to further contributions and subscriptions from the public, until such indebtedness is indorsed by Capital City Lodge of Elks, I. B. P. O. E. of W. Done by the order of Capital City Lodge of Elks, No. 11, I. B. P. O. E. of W. William E. Johnson, Chairman; R. B. Jackson, Secretary; W. A. Hopkins, E. R. A. J. Brown, Sec. COMMITTEE WANTED INFORMATION Then follows a letter from Chairman M. A. Norrell, under date of November 16th, 1925, in which he agrees to appear before Capital City Lodge, No. 11 at its regular meeting and give to it "such information as may be at my disposal". Under date of November 30th, 1925 William E. Johnson, chairman, R. R. Jackson, secretary, W. F. Williams and Lillian B. Ware D. R. replied: "The lodge has appointed a committee to bring such report to them. We are asking you to make your report th us instead of the lodge. We would like to have this report in hand by Thursday, night as that is our regular meeting night, then we would be able to submit the report to the lodge. Send fun report of Committee." To this Chairman Norrell replied: (December 3, 1935) "December 3, 1925. "Mr. William E. Johnson, Chairman "1020 North Second Street. "Richmond, Virginia. "My dear Mr. Johnson:—I wish to acknowledge receipt of your letter of November 30, 1925, which reached me upon my return to this city. "I wish to advise you that at a regularly called meeting of the General Committee, of which I am chairman, I submitted a statement of the receipts, and disbursements incident to the entertainment of our last Grand Lodge Session. SUBSTANTIALLY CORRECT "The Statement is substantially correct and, as soon as the accounts of the committee can be adjusted and all outstanding claims paid, I will call the General Committee in session and have reports made to that body. NOT THE PROPER COMMITTEE. "While I have no disposition to withhold any facts regarding this matter, I must remind you that your committee is not the proper body for me to make any report to. I repeat again, however that if Capital City Lodge wishes any advanced information I shall be glad to appear in person and answer such questions that might be submitted "Assuring you of my kindest personal regards, I am "Very truly yours, "M. A. NORRELL". INSISTS ON DETAILED REPORT It seems that Capital City Lodge No. 11 wants a detailed report of the receipts and expenditures of the General Committee and wishes this report made through the committee from the lodge authorized to receive it, which committee in turn is to examine the same and make the report direct to the lodge. Until this is done, it declines to recognize the existence of a deficit, which deficit is to be made up by the lodges here or by anyone else. It contributed $1,000.00 towards the entertainment of the Grand Lodge and the female department contributed $500.00. APPEALS DISCONTINUED. It claims that when this information is forthcoming, it stands to go fifty-fifty in eliminating the shortage without an appeal to the public for aid. This view is shared by Grand Exalted Ruler J. Finley Wilson of Washington, who has officially injected himself into the controversy and who is upholding the contentions of Capital City Lodge, No. 11. In the meantime, the Richmond, Va. News Leader, whose management from the goodness of their hearts and their interest in the colored people began movement to pay off the shortage, has discontinued its efforts to raise further funds for the elimination of the deficit. "Ana there ye aire." --- MILLION DOLLARS FOR THE LOUISVILLE COLORED SCHOOLS LOUISVILLE, KY., Dec. 20—The colored school system of Louisville will profit by more than a million dollars, providing for many improvements and extensions, as a result of two school bond issues recently voted by a majority of almost five so one. The first, an issue of one million dollars for the University of Louisville, will provide $200,000 to establish a colored department of the University, which will be maintained by taxation as a part of the city's university system. A suitable site will be selected and a handsome building erected at THE BARBER SHOP 605 Brook Avenue, Richmond, Va Expert Tonsorial Artists Hair Cutting, Shaving and Bobbing Hair for Children or Adults a speciality once, where courses will be given in pre-medical training, English, modern languages, mathematics, pedagogy, and the sciences. Credits and degrees in this department will be conferred by the University. From the larger bond issue of five million dollars for the improvement of the common schools, the colored people here will get two new junior high schools, an element ary school, the transfer of three schools from the white to the colored department, and the enquiry of two others. The building program involved will run to $800,000 or more, and the three schools to be transferred will carry the total beyond a million dollars. In the case of the University bond issue, the movement for a colored department was initiated and successfully followed through by the Interracial Committee, under the leadership of Dr. James Bond. The needs of the common schools were presented by representatives of the principal Negro organizations and were cheerfully recognized, by the school authorities. Everybody is happy over the result. SPECIAL SERVICE AT THE GOOD WILL BAPTIST CHURCH A rare treat for all at The Good Will Baptist Church, Sunday, December 27, 3:30 P. M. Mrs. Elizabeth Coles Bouey, the returned Missionary will speak. An interesting program has been arranged. Don't miss it. December 16— John Brown, age 42, 119 E. Byrd William S. Selden, age 77, 719 Buchanan Street. William Stuart, Jr., age 1 year, 1809 E. Marshall Street. William Yates, age 38, 611 W. Marshall Street. Wallace P. Epps, age 53, 110 W. Duval Street. December 17— Bertha Hatcher, age 27, 42 W. 22na Street. Laura Pettus Allen, age 45, 814 N. 31st Street. 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