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THE RICHMOND PLANET $1000 REWARD! GOV. BYRD GOES AFTER THE LYNCHERS Grants Petition to Hold Up Fight at Philadelphia VOLUME XLIII, NO. 45 $10 GOV. Grants The Injuno Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 13.—The petition of the Chicago Coliseum Club for an injunction to prevent the Jack Dempsey-Gene Tunney world's heavyweight championship bout at Philadelphia, September 23, was granted tonight by Judge Clinton H. Givan, in superior court here. Judge Givan held that the ownership of the contract by the Chicago club represented a property right. He said further that although a prize fight is not sanctioned by Indiana law, and that an Indiana court cannot properly take judicial cognizance of a contract for a "prize fight, contrary to Indiana law," the State does recognize property rights and that is what he construed the contract to be. Judge Givan's opinion, rendered after a day of wrangling by attorneys for Dempsey and the club, did not mention the manner in which an Indiana court's injunction would be operative in Pennsylvania, where the Dempsey-Tunney fight is scheduled to be held. B. E. Clements, president of the Coliseum Club, and Sol Esarey and James A. Farahaugh, Clements' attorneys have maintained during the hearing that courts of Pennsylvania would be bound constitutionally to enforce the Indiana injunction, although sharp issue has been taken on this contention by local disinterested lawyers. Clements asserted that the Indiana injunction will be made the basis of a Pennsylvania action to stop the fight. Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 11.—Tex Rickard, promoter of the Dempsey-Tunney fight, does not believe the action of Judge Clinton H. Givan, of the Indiana superior court, will be operative in Pennsylvania. Granting of the injunction by the Indiana court to prevent the fight, Rickard asserted, would have no effect on his plans for the bout, which he stated, rapidly were nearing completion. 'I am going right to the limit to put the fight on as planned,' said Rickard, 'and I see no reason why it should not go on. 'Before signing Dempsey, I went thoroughly into the claim of the Chicago Coliseum Club and was convinced it was without merit. The club promised Dempsey a million-dollar purse, but did not put up a nickel. It tried to hold the champion up. 'I am unfamiliar with the legal aspects of the injunction suit, and was not represented at the hearing by counsel. I do not see, however, how the injunction can be operative in Pennsylvania.' Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 15.—Gene Normile, manager of Jack Dempsey, tonight expressed the view that the granting of an injunction today to the Chicago Coliseum Club to prevent the Dempsey/Tunney heavyweight championship fight would not interfere with the bout. Normile pointed out that there was the right of an appeal from an injunction and does not consider the present proceedings as obstructive to the holding of the fight. GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs. John H. Harvey will celebrate the Fiftieth Anniversary of their marriage Wednesday, September 29, at 8:30 P. m. at their residence, 1210 North 323rd Street. Friends are invited. No cards. Pres. R. C. Woods Resigns His Post. Brilliant President of Va. Theo Seminary and College Goes to Ohio--A Fine Record. Placed Institution in High Rank Lynchburg, Va. Sept 13—Dr. R. C Woods, President of Virginia Theological Seminary and College, has accepted appointment as director of the Religious and Social Research Sept 13—Dr. R. C. Woods, President of Virginia Theological Seminary and College, has accepted appointment as Director of the Religious and Social Research of the Negro, with headquarters at Columbus, Ohio, under the auspices of a special commission. A liberal fund has been provided to make a special study of the religious and social phases of Negro life, dealing especially with the Negro who has migrated to the great centers, taking in such cities as Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, St. Louis and other mid-western cities. In addition to the study of these problems provided for, it is contemplated to render financial assistance to worthy church organizations in these centers, that have established themselves in their respective communities as constructive working units, teaching proper ideals of religion, life and citizenship. It is planned to encourage industry, thrift and conservative teachings as opposed to the rise of boishevism and socialism in congested American cities. Other excellent offers in Nashville and Chicago have been made to Dr. Woods. Columbus is accepted because of the advantages offered as a university center and the mass of data for the work available there. In the fifteen years of Dr. Woods' connection, the institution has made great progress. Coming to the school when there was one incomplete building, he leaves it with six, four of them commodious brick structures, two of them excellent residences, one as president's home and the other teachers' cottage. The original building was completed at considerable cost. All buildings have been modernized, equipped with steam heat, hot and cold water facilities. An outlay of more than two hundred thousand dollars added to the fixed assets. The institution now meets thirteen of the sixteen requirements for grade A college, which necessitated an expenditure of more than ten thousand dollars in laboratory equipment. While several thousand more had to be expended to meet the requirements. The faculty was increased from twelve to twenty-eight. Salaries have been increased to meet the requirements. Student body, that numbered about two hundred, now approximate five hundred. Fifteen years ago, it cost less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) annually to operate it, now costs more than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) annually to operate. A tenfold increase. The in- RICHMOND VIRGINIA. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1926 situation now enjoys a high ranking by the rating boards. by the rating boards. The good will of the splendid white citizens of this city has proved to be one of the best assets of the institution. Dr. Woods expressed himself as keenly mindful and appreciative of the consistent and moral, as well (Continued on page 41) IN MEMORIAM. South Richmond, Va., Sept. 14, 1926 In loving memory of my son and our brother, Langston L. King, who departed this life four years ago, September 13, 1922: "Not now, but in the coming years. It may be in the better land, We'll read the meaning of our tears, Ah, then, up there, we'll understand." Mother and Father "As time goes on and faces chang And loved ones from us sever. Some may fall to think of thee; Dear brother, we forget thee never." Sisters, FRENCHIE and BERTHEL. HARTSHORN TO HAVE A KINDERGARTEN For some time there has been felt the need of a Kindergarten for the colored children of Richmond. This great need has not been met by the public schools of the city and thus, it is with considerable pride that charge of Hartshorne, there has been lishment of the first Kindergarten in Richmond. Since President Mullison has taken charge of Hartshorn, there has been considerable pressure brought to bear upon him for the establishment of this great child-training department, and, as a result, he has definitely promised that the department will open on November 1st, the lateness of the opening being due to the necessity of redecorating the room and buying the necessary supplies incident to its new beginning. Children, both boys and girls, will be admitted to the Kindergarten at the age of five years. The tuition will be $25.00 for the full year. It may be paid in full or in two installments of $12.50 each: the first installment due on November 1st and the second on January 31st. Mrs. Mullison, wife of the President, will be the teacher. She is well prepared for this work as she was engaged in kindergarten teaching in the North before her marriage. President Mullison will be glad for those who wish to enter their children to write him concerning their intentions. Governor Harry Flood, Byrd offered a reward of $1000.00 supplemental to the $100.00 offered by the Wythe County officials for the arrest and conviction of the lynchers of Raymond Bird, the colored man who was forcibly taken from his cell in the jail at Wytheville, Va. dragged down the road for about nine miles and hanged to a tree. It is alleged that he was shot and killed before being removed from the jail. The reward will be operative for six months. Dr. H. A. Allen spent a pleasant week's vacation recently at Smithfield, Va. Mr. J. B. Willis, the popular tailor and Mr. C. V. Kelley toured to Atlantic City, N. J. and Philadelphia recently. You may stumble and fall and get up again, but should you fall to get up, Funeral Director A. D. Price, Jr. will be on hand to give you the best attention his line of business affords. Your friends will find in his large warehouse caskets for the rich and poor, from the beggar to the President, and the service rendered is in keeping. Mrs. M. E. Jackson, of New York City is spending her vacation with Mrs. H. J. Westray, at 103 East Leigh Street. Mr. T. R. Scott has returned to the city from Woodford, Va., where he spent his vacation with his relatives. He will be glad to see his many patrons at 727 N. 3d St. Mr. and Mrs. John Powell, of Idlewood Ave., have returned home from a recent motor trip North and are giving a card party in honor of their little daughter, Mary. The local chapter of the N. A. A. C. P. will hold a meeting Sunday evening, 6 to 7, at 00 Clay Street. The recent intelligence tests, which have raised a furore in school circles here will be discussed. Mr. James B. Page, Chairman of the Deacon Board of the Fifth Street Baptist Church and Mrs. Cora Smith were quietly married, Thursday, September 9, 1926 by Rev. I. H. Hines, pastor of St. Paul Baptist Church. The deacon gets his meals at home again now. The Improved Order of Shepherds and Daughters of Bethlehem have been in session in Philadelphia this week, with Mrs. Ora B. Stokes presiding. Mr. J. H. McGrew, secretary of the National Council of the Y. M. C. A. with headquarters in Atlanta, Ga., was in the city this week. He is looking well. Mr. George W. Morris, Mr. Charlie Morris and Mr. L. R. Dickerson, of Nesting, Va. called on us, Editor Mitchell promised to speak at Nesting, Thursday afternoon, September 30th. Mrs. Lelia Williams Bankett, Field Secretary of the I. O. of St. Luke, has returned to the city after spending her vacation with Mrs A. B. To; of Colonial Beach, Va. Her husband Mr. John Bankett motored to the beach and accompanied her kine. Mrs. Gertrude L. Hatcher, the accomplished wife of Rev. James S. Hatcher, author "I Cannot Drift", pastor Third Street Bethel A. M. E. Church of Richmond, Va., who, with Mrs. Bulah Berry, wife of Dr. L. L. Berry, pastor St. John A. M. E. Church, Norfolk, Va., Leader of the Virginia Annual Conference, leads the Virginia delegation of Women to the Quadrennial Convention of the Parent Mite Missionary Society which will convene at Columbus, O. next October. Mrs. Hatcher is greatly beloved and highly respected by the women of this State. She is a State officer, Secretary Treasurer, of The Young People's Department of the Virginia Annual Conference Branch, of which Mrs. Jennie Hinter is president. Mrs. Hatcher was a delegate to the last Convention, which met in Brooklyn N. Y. in 1923. The Missionary Society of Third St. A. M. E. Church takes pride in the leadership of Mrs. Hatcher, both in her local church and in the state delegation. She has been a great help to us in our church work here. She is a product of the Ann Arbor High School (Ann Arbor, Michigan) and of Wilberforce University from which she graduated in 1911. She is a most helpful wife and helps to her husband, an ideal mother, a wise administrator and an untiring worker. On September 2, 1926 at Farmville, the State Missionary Convention of the A. M. E. Church, by secret ballot, gave her a large majority of the suffrage which resulted in her being the first to receive the highest number of votes. On the same ballot Mrs. Bulah Berry received the same number. —By Annie E. Johnson, Vice President Missionary Society, Third St. Bethel A. M. E. Church. PLAYGROUND CLOSES The Southside Playground held its closing program on Friday, September 10th. A large crowd gathered to witness the exercises of the children. Each child taking a part wore a beautiful paper dress, which was made on the ground. Games, folk dances and stunts were the chief features. The children were well trained under the management of Miss Florine Cogbill. The playground has certainly played a great part in the community in training the children for future citizens. National Ideal Society Meets-Phila. Stirred. 14th Annual Session --- 33,000 Enrollment and Assets of $60,000 Reported. (By L. C. White.) PHILADELPHIA, PA., September 9.—With a banquet in the lecture room of the Allen A. M. E. Church at 17th and Bainbridge Streets, given by the Philadelphia convention in honor of Supreme Master A. W. Holmes, the 14th Annual Session of the National Ideal Benefit Society was brought to a close. It is the opinion throughout the brotherhood that this was the most successful session in its history and judging from the public statements of such outstanding citizens as Assistant U. S. District Attorney E. W. Washington Rhodes, editor of the Philadelphia Tribune; Hon. Samuel B. Hart, a member of the Pennsylvania State Legislature and Mr. W. H. Fuller, holding a similar position, judging by the expressions from these and others who spoke publicly in the meetings, namely, Magistrate Edward Henry, Mrs. Maude Morrisite as well as by the splendid hospitality which the delegates and visitors enjoyed throughout their stay in the city, the people of Philadelphia were profoundly impressed by the proceedings of this meeting. While the first meeting of the order was not held until Tuesday morning, September 7, most of the 200 delegates from Virginia, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia arrived in Philadelphia Monday and Monday night. This enabled the Board of Directors to hold its annual meeting on Monday night. This meeting was held at the home of Sister E. B. Taylor, 725 S. 16th Street, and was taken up with business of vital concern to the order. After the meeting a delicious supper was served by Mrs. Taylor, the Philadelphia deputy and her co-workers. The sessions of the Supreme Lodge and of the nursery were held in the Allen A. M. E. Church, of which Rev. Mr. Stewart is pastor, September 7-9 inclusive. The sessions of the first day were featured by addresses of welcome and response and the address of the Supreme Master, A. W. Holmes. The addresses of welcome were delivered by Mrs. Sarah Wilhelm and Mrs. Docketry (white) of the juvenile court of the city of Philadelphia. These ladies were introduced by Mrs. Maude A. Morrisette, the only colored woman who is an officer in the said court. State Statistician, Mr. Davis, represented Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick. Mr. Davis paid a tribute of respect to the successful leadership of Supreme Master A. W. Holmes, saying, "I congratulate you upon having formed such an organization as the National Ideal Benefit Society to help your people in the time of their need." Here the speaker touched briefly upon modern theories of evolution and criticized them severely. He said also, I have no faith in any doctrine of race superiority or inferiority, as I believe the Bible when it says God has made of one blood all the nations to dwell on the face of the earth. Continuing he said, (Continued on page 5) PRICE, FIVE CENTS D! CHERS Philadelphia Disney Battle Ideal Societyila. Stirred. session --- 33,000 and Assets of Reported. BIG EDUCATIONAL SYMPOSIUM AT BETHEL SUNDAY. A Great Educational Symposium of Negro Enterprise and Racial Progress will be held at Third Street Bethel A. M. E. Church, Sunday night, September 19, 1926, Rev. James S. Hatcher, pastor. Prominent heads of Negro Enterprises, Secret Orders and Distinguished Professionals will appear on this program. Music by the leading Glee Clubs of Richmond. Come and help us raise $250.00 for Kittrell College and connection claims. The program begins at 8 o'clock, and is as follows: Processional, "Litt Every Voice and Sing," Bethel Choir; Apostles Creed, hymn and prayer; The Meaning of This Symposium, Mrs. Alice Eowser; The Evolution of Negro Dentistry, Dr. J. M. Tinsley; The History and Status of The Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company, Mr. C. B. Gilpin; Music by the Sabbath Glee Club, Prot. Joseph Matthews, director; The Accompagnements of the St. Luke Order, Mr. C. V. Kelly; The Saint John Watchmen by Grand Master Wright. The Offering, music by Ethel Choir; The Negro Medicine Man, from Root Doctor to M. D., Dr. A. A. Tennant; The True Reformers, an Inspiration, Mr. Lee Trent, G. M.; Music, Richmond Male Choral Club, Prof. M. P. Tyler, director; The Rise of The Southern Aid Society, Mr. W. B. Allen; The Negro and Crime, Lawyer C. A. McKenzie; The Policy of The American Woodmen, Mr. G. C. Grant; Music by St. Luke's Female Choral Club; Thanking the Participants, by the Pastor, Dr. Watcher; *Recessional*, "Evening Blessing," Choir and Congregation, Mr. N. B. Duke, the tobacco millionaire, has given over one million dollars to educate Negro Youth thru Kittrell College. Let us do our part. Note Bene—Each speaker will use ten minutes or less. Each person is asked to give at least $1.00. "Come thou with us and we will do thee good." Committee: A. C. Edmunds, Thos. Walker, Gertrude Hatcher, Jamie Hayes. LUCINDA PRICE PAROLED Lucinda Price, wife of Funeral Director W. A. Price arrived in this city by automobile last Monday afternoon from the Portsmouth, Va. jail, where she had been confined upon a charge of selling 'coke.' She was under a three year sentence, but was paroled and will be absolutely free of any restraint whatsoever after next August. Although she has been very ill since her incarceration, she is now the 'picture of health' and her neigh bors in Seventeenth Street express pleasure and satisfaction at having her with them again. The success in securing her release is due to the persistent efforts of a Norfolk attorney, who expressed confidence in his ability to accomplish the task. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND' VIRGINIA WHO WEARS IT NEXT? By A. B. CHAPIN WHO'S GOING TO TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME, SAYS HEAVY WEIGHT CROWN I AM, SAYS JACK DEMPSEY HERE IS A SCARCITY OF SHARING POTENTIAL IN THE CHAMP'S TRAINING CAMP DURING TO HIS STRENGTH WORKOUTS GENE TUNNEY THERE IS NO JACK OF PEP AS THE CHALLENGER AFTER THE FRAME ON NOSES — WAS OR OTHERWISE. IF THERE ANY CONNECTION BETWEEN THE POCONOB MIS, WHERE HE TRAINS, AND POKES A MOSE ATLANTIC CITY AUS A SCARCITY OF TRUNNING BASE BUT NOT A SCARCITY OR BUDGET — BECAUSE HE DOES HIS DAILY ROAD WORK DOWN BY THE SAD SEA WAVES GENE TUNNEY TRAINS ON BOOKS, DEVELOPING THEOLD PSYCHOLOGY STUFF GENE GOES HIS ROAD WORK UP AND DOWN THE MOVEMENT — AND HE GOES ALONE — HIS SPEED LEAVES THE CROUND BEHIND CHAPIN ATWATER KENT HIS OWN DECKHAND. GOV. AL SMITH SMACKS ONE AT FRENCH LICK. CHARLEY SCHWAB NURSING AN IDEA. JOHN D. JF GETS AWAY FROM GASOLINE. LIFE PURDYS Paul Robinson • PUBLISHERS • ADTOCASTER SERVICE REG. U.S. PAL. OFFICE YOU'RE GETTING LAZIER EVERY DAY YOU LIVE—WHY ON EARTH DON'T YOU SHAVE YOUR REALITY? IMAGINE PAYIN' A BARBER!—YOU'RE— FOR GOODNESS SAKE KEEP QUIET! NO I WON'T KEEP QUIET—I CAN TALK IF I WANT TO—AND NOBODY'S GOIN' TO STOP ME EITHER! HANDS UP! DON'T MAKE A SOUND! THERE! NOW FOR A NICE QUIET PEACEFUL EVENING! The value of playtime as an aid to worktime never was as generally recognized as it is today. There's a time for work and a time for play is no longer merely a nursery fingle. It has been adopted as a creed for grownups and it is observed by no groun more zealously than by the capitals of industry who direct America's great financial and business organizations. Industrial heads and executives generally are coming to regard their periods of relaxation and reapplication as in fact the most productive. Fresh ideas, new initiative, revived enthusiasm and vigor that are immediately reflected in increased efficiency, are achieved more effectively by well-spaced periods of play than by unbroken work and sustained application. Charley Schwab, king of steel dominates his job by virtue of frequent and strenuous rounds of golf. John D. Rockefeller, eazar of oil, destroids a horse and goes for a ride where no scent of gasoline can reach him. Henry Ford, auto autocrat goes skating or joins in a round of old-time dancing. A. Atwater Kent, radio chief and prince of broadcasters leaves the air for the water and sails one of his fleet of speedboats. Those octogenarian patriarchs of finance and industry, George F. Baker and John D. sr., swear by golf, despite the fact that their years almost equal their scores. This growing acceptance of outdoor sport and recreation as a necessary adjunct to a busy business life is resulting in the development of a new type of resort where quiet and restful surroundings are supplemented with facilities for golf, riding, tennis, swimming and similar pleasures. One of the first men to recognize this trend and to encourage it was former U. S. Senator Taggart, of Indiana. Being a good business man himself, as well as a politician, Taggart has developed his big hotel resort at French Lick Springs, Ind. to fit particularly the --- THE GREAT AMERICAN HOME. BE HERE, YOUNG NEXT WHAT'S ALL THIS POCKET BOUT, ANYWAY? AW NOTHIN', ONLY THAT TWIN BROTHER O'MINE'S TRYIN' TA PUT ONE OVER ON ME! HE'S REFUSIN' TA SAY OUR PRAYERS FER US T'NIGHT AN' IT'S HIS TURN, TOO! A BROKEN AGREEMENT Muzzled So He Can't Eat Load THE WORLD'S FINEST WIREWORKER recreation needs and demands & business men. The result has proven his perspicacity, for French Lick has become one of the most popular resorts in the whole country, not withstanding it is neither on a mountain top nor by the seashore. It does offer, however, the breeze, exhilarating air of the rolling, southern Indiana hill country, two fine golf courses, miles upon miles of shaded bridle paths, footpaths for bikers, tennis and swimming for horsemen and relief for the motley crowds that throng the average shore or near-city resort. Even Gov. Al Smith, dearly as he loves the sidewalks of New York, goes to French Lick when he wants a real rest. While Taggart's resort is perhaps the outstanding example of the specialized rest-and-recreation retreat developed for leaders in business and industry, the success of others conceived along similar lines proves that there is a very distinct and growing demand for that sort of play place. THE PLANET Published Every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr. at 811 North Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. All communications intended for publication should be sent to reach us by Wednesday. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Virginia, as second class matter. One Year ..... $ 2.00 Six Months ..... 1.10 Three Months ..... .00 Five Month Subscriptions ..... 2.50 Penguin Advertising Representative, W. B. Zion Gouwey, V. B. Beanen Street, Chicago; 221 Victoria Building, St. Louis, Mo.; 420 Longueville Building, New York. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1926 A COMMENDABLE REWARD. When Governor Harry Flood Byrd offered a reward of one thousand dollars for the arrest and conviction of the lynchers of the colored man, Raymond Bird, or for the conviction of any one of them, he took a long step forward in upholding the law "as it is writ" in this commonwealth. Some of these narrow minded people, both white and colored, will gradually be able to make a distinction and understand the difference between executing a guilty man on their own motion and to permit the law to do it. When these murderers proceeded to kill this colored man, the crime was primarily against the legal authority in this State and it demands punishment. The more heinous the crime charged against the unfortunate victim, the less excuse could there be for a lawless mob's action in usurping the authority of the constitutional powers of the State itself. Governor Byrd took his own time in acting, but he has dealt a sledgehammer blow at these miscreants. They will think a long time before this kind of an outrage will be repeated. Sending able attorney to Wytheville to ferret out the criminals was a fine movement. Supplementing the reward of one hundred dollars offered by Wythe county with one thousand dollars offered by the State will have a wholesome effect and carry consternation to evil doers. We congratulate the Chief Executive of Virginia. Some people may say that he should receive no commendation for doing his duty, but he is an age in which statesmen should be praised for doing their duty, even though it is known that they will do it without praise. We have received a copy of "The Mind of the Negro as Reflected in Letters Written During the Crisis, 1800-1860," and it is published by The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History with Carter G. Woodson as author and compiler. This literary genius is doing a great work for his own race of people in particular and for the citizens of this country in general. The pages xxix to xxxii give the peace plans of Benjamin Bannaker, the noted Negro Mathematician and Astronomer of the Eighteenth Century. Then follow letters from colored men of exceptional intelligence and learning, which will prove to be of inestimable interest and value to the average citizen of color seeking knowledge. Prof. Woodson's field of endeavor is unique and of transcendent importance and will prove to be one of the greatest agencies for establishing the place of the Negro in history. The compiling of these letters was evidently a monumental task and this volume of 672 pages will prove to be the means of not only establishing the place of the colored people of this country in history, but will give Carter G. Woodson a place in the niche of fame as well. The book can be obtained by addressing the corporation or the compiler at 1538 Ninth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. The price is $5.00 net. It is worth many times that amount. BOOKKEEPER WANTED Woman with experience preferred, Must be an energetic worker, in good health and able to furnish A-1 references, as to ability in accounting and character. Apply THE GUIDE PUBLISHING CO., INC., 711 E. Olney Road, Norfolk, Va. Watch for the coming of S. L. McCaskill, a colored singer, at the City Auditorium, October 22. Rev. W. E. Ball, chairman. Pres.R.C. Woods Pres.R.C. Woods as financial support, given by the white citizenship to assist in improving the condition of the Negro. He expresses gratitude to the management of the Press for their generous and helpful attitude. Grateful acknowledgment is made to all. RESOLUTIONS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF VIRGINIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY AND COLLEGE The Board of Trustees of Virginia Theological Seminary and College in session assembled, being informed, by Dr. R. C. Woods, president of the institution, of his desire to retire from the presidency, after fifteen years of faithful, earnest and eminent service, submits the following testimony of his worth and services: First. It is to the Board and the constituency of our several conventions, maintaining Virginia Theological Seminary and College a source of profound regret, that Dr. Woods has reached the decision to retire from the institution. His years of efficient and capabe service have endeared him to all and his wise leadership in our educational and denominational work, has contributed to the progress of our people and work in a marvelous place and has given him an exalted place in the affections and affairs of our race group in Virginia and the nation. Second. The institution, under his direction, has enjoyed an era of progress entirely peculiar to his administration. The physical enlargement of the plant by the addition of three splendid buildings on the immediate campus, and adding more ground and a home for the president, adjacent to the campus, enlargements valued at more than two hundred thousand dollars with additional outlays for the thorough equipment of scientific laboratories and the modernizing of the entire plant are among the worthy achievements. The faculty has been increased from twelve to twenty-seven. He has brought to the institution a strong and brilliant array of teachers, representing the leading American Universities. The student body has increased from about two hundred to five hundred. The standards of the institution have been raised to high ranking, so today it is in the group of our best institutions. Third. We realize that the rapid expansion in buildings and equipment; the increase in faculty and increased costs in salaries; the increased expense for maintenance because of the enormous advance in prices of all commodities used by the institution and the growth of the student body and the considerable outlay in money in the efforts to bring our College to the standard of grade A, are problems that have taxed the mental and physical strength of our president and very probably prompted him to his decision. While the expansion of our institution, coupled with the growth of educational standards and requirements in our State and nation in the last decade have made it more difficult to operate and our efforts to measure up as an A grade College have increased our debt, we desire to commend our president for his vision, ideals and outstanding service and assure him of the institution's affairs. Again, expressing our regret over his decision to leave our school and State, we extend, him a cordial and standing welcome to Virginia, our pulpits and denominational councils. Signed: Special, Committee of Board. A. A. Galvin, Chairman of Board, and Committee. A. L James, President of Virginia Bapt. State Convention and Secretary of Committee. CHICAGO, ILL. The members of Fort Dearborn Lodge No. 44, Elks and the 1926 Marching Club have completed the business of the 1926 Club and organized the 1927 Marching Club, electing J. B. Deveaux as president; P. A. Glanton, secretary and David Bishop, treasurer. Mr. Glanton and Mr. Bishop were each given $50, as a donation for their efficient services Miss Helen V. Branch has returned, to her school work in New Jersey after spending a very pleasant week in the city with her sister, Miss Mary E. Branch who was graduated from the University of Chicago, receiving the degree of Master of English. Miss Willene Hudson Shanklin, well known in fraternal circles, has returned home after attending the district Household meeting at Rockford, Ill., and the grand session of Elks at Cleveland, Ohio. Miss Beatrice Odell Green who was graduated from the University of Chicago on Sept. 3rd with the degree of Ph.B., returned to her duties at the Virginia State Normal College at Petersburg, Va., as librarian and teacher. Clarence H. Haack, 4423 S. Dearborn St., has returned to his home after spending the week-end in Memphis, Tenn., with relatives and old friends. Miss Mary E. Branch is visiting with her brother, Prof. Samuel J. Branch of St. Louis, Mo., prior to entering upon her school work later. Miss Branch was graduated from the University of Chicago on Sept. 3rd, receiving the degree of Master of Arts in English. Mrs. Alleen Gregory, 11327 S. Carpenter St., has gone to Nashville, Tenn., on business matters and will be away two weeks. Ambrose H. 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It was very elaborately served. Miss Eva Taylor, of New York City is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Florence Mitchell, after being absent from the city for a year. Miss Taylor is reported sick at this writing. Mr. David R. Traynham, the popular organist of the First Baptist Church is away on a ten days vacation. While away he will visit Washington, Philadelphia, New York and Boston, Mass. Mrs. Mattie Jones, of Northwest Fifth Avenue was taken to Burrell Memorial Hospital Saturday and her condition is said to be serious. Rev. Edgar E. Ricks, Ph. D., of Newark, N. J. delivered a great address Sunday afternoon at Springwood Park Auditorium. His subject was, Fight and Not Flight. He assured his hearers that the surest way to fight was on our knees, petitioning the favor of Almighty God. He spoke at the invitation of Rev. W. R. Howerton, D. D., Mr. George A. Thornton and members of the Board of Trustees of Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church. Mr. S. W. Howard, 203 Seventh Avenue, N. W. has returned from his vacation in Richmond, Washington, Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia and Columbus, O. Mrs. L. V. Fultz reports a fine time at the St. Luke Convention, which she attended. Mr. Ralph Harris, of Pittsburgh, Pa., who has been absent for a long while, is visiting here. He is looking well. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Traynham have just returned from their trip to Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore and Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. Ruffin Sowers, of Louden Avenue, who has been confined to his room for a long while, is quite feeble at this writing. Mr. Junius Colvin, 418 Tenth Avenue has been sick since Spring. He is under the care of Dr. Luck. Mrs. Nigel Geerly and so first. They Gravely and son, who by ARMAMENTS EUROPE HAVE PITY ON THE POOR DORNANTH. SMITH Watch for the reopening of the Private Kindergarten and School at The Goodwill Community Center. 410 N. Monroe Street about September 28, 1926. Call Rev. W. B. Ball, Boulevard 3738. 8t take the package! 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Call at their home, 153 Madison Avenue N. W. A successful revival is in progress at High Street Baptist Church under Rev. W. E. Lee, pastor and the assisting minister and sweet singers. ATTENDANT OF PRESIDENT COOLIDGE IS DEAD (Preston News Service.) Washington, Sept. 16. —Arthur Brooks, aged 66, custodian of White House property and personal attendant to presidents since 1909, died Tuesday after a long illness. Although suffering from a heart ailment for the last two years, Brooks continued to perform his duties and even went with President Coolidge to the Summer White House. Brooks was a bonded official as custodian of the executive mansion and was responsible for all movable property there. For this capacity he was in touch with former presidents. He had charge of the presidents wardrobe and advised in matters of dress. He was brought to the White House by President Taft. LATEST IMPROVEMENTS IN FUNERAL EQUIPMENT. 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The property is said to be owned by Gustay Breitke, vice-president of the Oaklawn Dairy Co. About 8 o'clock George Cope appeared at police headquarters and inquired of the sergeant how much it would cost to plead guilty of fighting. He explained that he and his neighbors had protested to Breitke against renting the property in that neighborhood to Negroes. A heated discussion followed and Cope admitted that he knocked down Breitke Cope was advised to return home and wait until complaint was made. About midnight the owner of the property complained that several men were attacking his Negro tenants. 'The police went to the scene but said that the evacuation had been effected when they arrived. Breitke has sworn out a warrant against Cope and others. TION ASKS GOV. TO EXTEND ROSS' BEPRIEVE (Preston News Service.) Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 17.—For the second time within a fortnight the Cleveland Federated Colored Women's clubs Thursday presented an eleventh-hour plea to Governor Donahay to save Emmanuel Ross, Cleveland's boy slayer, from going to his death in the electric chair Friday night. Mrs. Lethia Fleming, wife of the councilman, and president of the Cleveland Federated Colored Women's clubs, sought a recommendation from Common Pleas Judge Walter McMahon to the governor to save Ross. McMahon refused, declaring he had no course other than to follow the recommendation of the jury that found Ross guilty of murdering Isidore Steech, grocer. Mrs. Fleming went to Columbus to seek the commutation to Ross to a life sentence. Governor Donahay, following a refusal by McMahon to reopen the case here, already has declared he would not save Ross. START BIG SUITS ON WOMAN'S ESTATE (Preston News Service) Henderson, N. C., Sept. 17—An aggregate sum of more than $30,000 is sought by Vance county and the City of Henderson from the estate of the late Melissa Townes, in suits separately by the city and county in Vance county superior court last TOBEY AND·TYKE TOBEY= STAND UP AND SING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM= WELL = WHAT'S THE BEST KNOWN PATRIOTIC SONG? ER = I DON'T KNOW= week for recover of taxes, forfeitures and penalties which it is alleged have not been paid. The estate of the woman -was said to be worth around $30,000, more than $25,000 of which was in cash on deposit in the Mechanics and Farmers Bank, a Negro bank, in Durham. The county is seeking $2,634.83 in alleged unpaid taxes which it claims have not been paid, and in addition to that sum is asking for $14 210 in forfeitures on property not listed. The city's suit is for slightly less than that on account of the difference in the tax rate, which was less for the city than the county. It is claimed that the woman had extensive property in this city which she did not list for taxation over a period of six years, and that the money on deposit in the Durham bank was never listed for taxation. The cases have both been docketed in superior court, and, if reached will be tried, at the October term, which is presided over by Judge Thomas H. Calvert, of Raleigh. PITTSBIRGH SINGER GOING ABROAD FOR TWO YEARS' VOICE CULTURE (Preaton News Service) Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 17.—Ralph E. Banks, brother of Miss Ruth Banks, the accomplished pianist, has received considerable praise from local white musical critics through the white press. Burt McMurtie, writing in the Pittsburgh Press calls Banks 'Pittsburgh's Hayes'. McMurtie says in part: The heading Pittsburgh's Hayes is a bit mawkish, and yet in speaking of Ralph E. Banks, Negro tenor, one immediately associates his position in the musical field with that of Hayes who has risen to a position of eminence in the concert field during the last three years. Banks is a young singer, a former pupil of McClurg Miller, under whom he learned the first essentals of good singing. Following his work with Miller he went to New York where he studied with Charles Tamme. He possesses a tenor voice of rich, warm quality, a tone that is at once lovely and entirely masculine. There 's imagination in his reading and color to his singing. The singer leaves this fall for Italy where he will spend the next two years in study. One feels that Banks will do much to increase the respect that Hayes has already raised to such a high degree toward the seriousness of the Negro voice. MINISTERS' UNION FLAYS MOB RULE Local Body Condemns Wytheville Mobbing and Kidnapping of Priest A resolution deprecating the kidnapping of Father Vincent D. Warren, Roman Catholic priest, at Norfolk, on September 1, and the lynching of Raymond Bird, colored, at Wytheville on August 15, was unanimously adopted by the Richmond Ministerial Union, representing the Protestant churches of the city, at its opening fall meeting September 13, at the Central Y. M. C. A. The resolution follows: 'From the reports in the public press touching the action of persons unknown, in Princess Anne county, in interfering by physical force with a Roman Catholic clergyman in the discharge of a service to a school of a colored race, and also in respect to the lynching by a mob at Wytheville. "Be it resolved, That we, the Ministerial Union of Richmond, depreciate such conduct as being a violation of the rights of free citizens and of religious liberty, and view these actions as a reflection upon the state of Virginia, and hereby express our sincere regret that such actions occurred." W. H. Stansell, president of the Business Men's Evangelistic Club, outlined the work of his organization before the union and expressed the desire of the club to cooperate with the churches in the city-wide evangelical campaign next March. Rev. Dr. W. S. Campbell called the attention of the union to the fact that the question of opening the city playgrounds on Sunday would come up again before city council, and the matter was referred to the committee on Sunday observance. Dr. A. B. Rudd, Northern Baptist missionary to Mexico, addressed the union on "The Mexican situation." Dr. Rudd contended that the Mexican government is treating all de nominations alike, and that there is no persecution in Mexico. OFFICES FOR RENT Cool, well-lighted offices, with elevator service, light, heat etc. now available in Mechanics Bank Building at a price that will save the professional man money and afford him exceptional opportunities. Safety Deposit Boxes also for rent. These Offices will be handsomely renovated and window-lettering will be a feature. For information and terms, apply to your real estate agent or to John Mitchel', Jr., 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. The Roof Garden can also be leased or rented for entertainments. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA National Ideal Society. National Ideal Society. (Continued from Page 1.) "If your race is to rise to the heights of which I think it capable, it must do so by its own strength. In the past 56 years, in the face of adverse circumstances, it has produced great lawyers, judges, doctors, artists and inventors, but if I am to judge from the reports I've heard today, the singing of this audience, and the intelligence which I see man ifested in your countenances I must conclude that you will make still greater progress in the next 56 years." Hon. S. B. Hart, one of the two Negro representatives in the Penn sylvania State Legislature, praised Mr. Holmes for having had the vision to see the need of, as well as the courage to found such an organization, and Magistrate Edward W. Henry said, "I will gladly do my hat to any man who can bring and hold together 33,000 of our people in a single organization for their mutual benefit and uplift. The address of Supreme Master A. W. Holmes was a masterpiece of fraternal philosophy. It showed that he is thoroughly familiar with most of the problems which perplex the officers of subordinate lodges, the district deputies, and the Supreme Officers; that he is ever watchful to protect the good name of the National Ideal Benefit Society as a whole; and that he has a clear vision of the possibilities of its future. He showed that in 14 years the Society had built up a membership of 33,000 persons, extended its activities to all parts of Virginia as well as to Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and the District of Columbia, and that it has accumulated assets in excess of $60,000. This address was roundly applauded by officers and members of the Society. The reports of the Supreme Secretary, Mrs. M. S. Payne; Supreme Treasurer, Mr. T. L. Beverly and the Supreme Auditors, Mrs. Alma Chapman and Mr. L. C. White showed that the business of the order is in a high state of efficiency, every penny collected, and expended being properly accounted for. In addition bank books and other books of account were open to inspection to any member who might desire to do so. The reports from the field showed that enthusiasm runs high throughout the Brotherhood and that the subordinate lodges are vieing with each other in bringing in new members. The hearts of the officers and members of the Society were saddened when a telegram was read from Mrs. Cora L. Jenkins and Mrs. Daisy L. Cook of Newport News, stating that the automobile in which they were riding had gone over an embankment near Baltimore, Md. and that several of their party were hurt. The convention voted to send them a proper letter of sympathy. RECREATIONAL FEATURES. On Wednesday afternoon the delegates were invited to inspect the great Elverson Building, the home of the Philadelphia Inquirer, said to be the largest and best equipped newspaper plant in the world. Here they were met at the door by officials of the plant, furnished with guides who showed them through the plant and who showed them every courtesy in explaining details of the work of this great institution. The plant itself cost $7,000,000. The daily circulation of The Inquirer is 300,000 while the Sunday circulation is 700,000. On the following day the delegation visited the offices of the Philadelphia Tribune and was shown through the plant from cellar to garret. They expressed themselves as highly pleased with what they saw. On that same afternoon the Philadelphia Committee of the National Ideal Benefit Society, headed by Mrs. Maude A. Morrissett and Mrs. Ellen B. Taylor took the delegation in busses on a sight-seeing trip thru the city, which included a circle of the Sesqui-Centennial Grounds, a view of the principal business and residential sections of the city and the Great $40,000,000 Bridge across the Delaware River. The next meeting will be held in Washington, D. C. 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. 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Our Many Y Conduct All Funerals in a Most E More However by Lcorporating pathetic Understending 1. JOHNSON'S SONS, EXPERIENCED MORTICIANS CONDUCT Funerals Flawlessly. Our Many Years of Experience Enables us to Conduct All Funerals in a Most Efficient Manner. We Try to Give More However by Icorporating in Our Service a Spirit of Sympathetic Understanding. Rev. R. M. Williams, Pastor, residence, 616 North 51st Street. Services: Sundays, Sunday School 9:30 A. M.; Morning service, 11 o'clock; Evening service, 8 o'clock. The public is invited 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. Rev, R, J Eas, Pastor, Resilience 15 E. Duval Street, Services, Sunday 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. 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. Rev. A. D. Daly, Pastor, Residence 1412 W. Cary St, Services: 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 10:00 A. M. All are welcome. 1ST BAPT. CHURCH S. RICHMOND (Corner 15th and Decatur Sts.) 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. WHAT!! YOU DON'T KNOW? TOBEY= WHAT SONG WO SING IF YOU WERE A SO BEING SENT TO BATTL DON'T KNOW?! THINK SONG WOULD YOU HERE A SOLDIER, O BATTLE? LET'S SEE= = I'D SING= WHAT!! YOU DON'T KNOW?! THINK TOBEV= WHAT SONG WOULD YOU SING (IF YOU WERE A SOLDIER, BEING SENT TO BATTLE?) LET'S SEE= = ID SING= 1426 E. Main St. 10 W. LEIGH STREET LEIGH STREET M. E. CHURCH (N. E. Corner Fifth and Leigh Sts. PROVIDENCE BAPTIST CHURCH, (518 Lady Mile Road) MT. TABOR BAPTIST CHURCH. (North 22nd Street, Woodville) FIFTH BAPTIST CHURCH (1400 West Cary Street) RED HER "SHOW ME THE WAY TO GO HOME"!! 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Pt Lo...9:00 pm 7:00 pm..Cincinnati & West...4:00 pm 11:15 pm..Cincinnati and Louvi 500-Mile Marine Route for Florida; Much of It Now Open THE FAMOUS ORMOND-DAYTONA BEACH 1 A.G. GULBRANSEN HARPER HALL, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CHICAGO—Fitting the college student for the job is the real task PRESIDENT MAX MASON OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Will Include Famous St 'Augustine and Ormond- Sections of road which will complete a wonderful marine auto route, 522 miles long, from Jacksonville to Key West, embracing hundreds of miles of picturesque THE FAMOUS ORMOND-DAVTONA BEACH FORTY TWO CARS scenery along the Atlantic Ocean the dahlfax and Indian Rivers and Lake Worth, when are great arms of the sea and across the Gulf of Florida are under construction The drive is the Southernmost link of the projected Atlantic Coast Highway from Maine to Key West. Hundreds of notes of the new marine route in Florida will be published this all by existing roads and new ones have just been over the whole Urges Practical A.G. GULBRANSEN CHICAGO—Fitting the college student for the job is the real task of our universities and colleges according to A. G. Gulbransen, piano manufacturer, in an address here in which he urged courses in salesmanship by institutions of higher learning. "Educational tragedy of the present day is the university graduate who does not know how to make his living," said Mr. Gulbransen. "It is all wrong that a man or woman should have gone to school four years at a cost of between $6,000 and $10,000 and at the end have no equipment to earn his way in the world. "The large percentage of college men and women who make sales- route. Nowhere is there another like it. The Northernmost stretch of Florida's long marine route will be the Ocean Boulevard skirting the Atlantic between the latitudes of Jacksonville and Daytona Beach and the southernmost and northern of the sea by bridges nearing completion. That part of the boulevard which extends between St. ABREAST ON ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH BRIDGES TO CONNECT MILES OF OCEAN BEACH No. 1 Villanueva Bridge connecting St. Augustine with St. Augustine Beach and Villanueva Beach with St. Augustine No. 2 Annastasia Bridge connecting St. Augustine Beach with St. Augustine Beach No. 3 Matanzana Bridge connecting the Ocean Boulevard and 15 mile drive down St. Augustine Beach with Phyllis Beach and home of Orlando Beach Augustine and Christmas Beach will be open to motorists by Christmas Day 1926. I will not the time between these cities from about 4 to 52 miles. Drive Down Beach Sands The Ocean Boulevard a wide rock base road, will connect three famous ocean beaches available for mitoring except at high tide and affording an optional drive or rare scenic charm. The beaches are paralleled throughout their lengths by the Ocean Boulevard, a stone's throw away. At these stretches, the motorist can leave Salesmanship Course PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVER manship their profession indicates the opportunity for the colleges to put in schools of practical salesmanship. President Max Mason of the University of Chicago recently declared that a close hook-up between industry and the university was essential. He asserted that the students must be equipped for practical life. By their own choice of careers after leaving college the students have shown that what they want is schools of salesmanship. "Distribution division of business is a market calling for a constant supply of trained men and women. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA FENIDOR BARTCOAST ORIGINAL MAP TO KEEP WATCH the boulevard and continue his way on the beach sands, resuming his course on the boulevard, to the next beach. The beaches from North to South, are the stretch along the Atlantic Ocean from Jacksonville Beach, opposite back, south to Villanueva Beach opposite St Augustine—St Augustine Beach on Anastasia island, where 42 cars have ridden abreast—and the world famous speedway Ormond-Daytona Beach 600 feet wide at low tide, and smooth as a billiard table. The total length of the Ocean Boulevard from Jacksonville South to Inlet Terrace, below Daytona Beach, will be 125 miles, much of it available along the beach and all along the water. The Ocean Boulevard will not be finished next winter between Jacksonville and St. Augustine which motorists will by the Dixie Highway. From Daytona Beach follow theixie Highway South. At Titucawille over the grandest of roads with lawful speed at 45 miles per hour you pick up the water again, and for more than 150 miles, follow the palm-fringed inland waterway, an estuary of the sea, past picturesque Pier Place where the shaded road runs on bluffs right above the water and on to West Palm Beach busy Fort Lauderdale which has just voted a new harbor to accommodate Miami. Keeping on South at Florida City, 242 miles from Daytona Beach, that marvelous road the Overpass Highway to Key West begins. This road is under construction and marvelous progress is being made along the route. It is possible that some of the islands nearest the mainland will be reached next spring. For most of the way this auto route will follow the Florida East Coast Railway extension, the Eighth Wonder of the World, across the ocean to Key West. ses in Universities HARPER HALL, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ST. MAX MASON UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO the salesman is the missionary civilization. As it was pointed at the National music convention in New York, the salesman of pianos adds permanent values to it. When he puts a registering piano in a home he has put something in that home to bind it together in ties of happiness and culture. This is a social service that would be making good use of a college education to say nothing of the satisfaction to the student of being prepared with a good money making profession as he steps out of the college waters. Marines Give Tunney Welcome Marines Give Tunney Welcome A man raises a hammer over his head in a celebratory pose, surrounded by other men in military uniforms. When Gene Tunney, former "Devil-Dog," arrived at Camp Anthons Wayne, Philadelphia, his former buddies gave him a rousing welcome. Gene is in training to meet Jack Dempsey Sept. 23 for the world's heavy weight championship. Jack's Wife WATCH YOU NKA, Los Angeles Bureau Lance Taylor (Mrs. Jack Demp- tier) has press rights although her champion. So, on the side of her team, she intends to help her mate with Tunney in event But the team soon despond now over the prospect. NKA, Los Angeles Bureau Lance Taylor (Mrs. Jack Demp- tier) has press rights although her champion. So, on the side of her team, she intends to help her mate with Tunney in event But the team soon despond now over the prospect. Street Coat NEA, New York Bureau A new double-breasted street cont for fall. This is tailored in a fancy brown tweed mixture and trimmed with nutrals collar and cuffs. Lawson's Big Double-Decker Air Craft Would Carry 110 Passengers Delve for Tomb of Ancient King in Land of Mound Builders AVIATION is ready to begin to take all the passenger business away from the railroads and to relocate the automobile into the desistude to which it sent the bicycle. Alfred W. Lawson says this. Lawson has just been telling his big ideas to the army air service in Washington. He has been connected with flying for 20 years, he claims to have originated the carrying of passengers by air and now he is planning a great fleet of mammoth air liners. "Trains have all the advantage when they compete with airships that can carry but one or two passengers," says Lawson. "Even in Europe where commercial aviation is most highly developed the limit for a single trip is from 16 to 24 passengers. Anyone can see the expense of that, and the futility of competing by such means with trains which carry hundreds at one trip. For 110 Passengers "I am ready to start immediately to build an airship which can carry 110 passengers comfortably and safely at an average speed of 100 miles an hour at a cost of 3 cents a mile. Such a ship, of course, is large enough to compare with the capacity of a train. It is economically the better means of transportation. It allows the railroads to confine themselves to the freight haulage business." Lawson says his first airship of the improved commercial type will be ready to fly next spring. It will BY NEA Service INTO a great heap of earth near Chillicothe, O., now scarcely discernible after the erosion of many centuries, four archaeologists are delving for knowledge of a little-known people—the mound builders. Basing his expectations upon the discovery of last year, Professor Harvey Shotople, Curator of the Ohio State Historical and Archaeological Museum, says: "If previous discoveries are any criterion of what the rest of the mound contains, it is going to be the best ever." Curator Strehner is enthusiastic and believes, with many other archaeologists of the country, that the "Great Pearl Burial," or Pricer mound will reveal the greatest discoveries of the mound builders' age of any yet touched in the United States. Tomb of King With four-fifths of the great mound yet untouched, the excavators have uncovered finds claimed to be the greatest in the history of the exploration of the ancient earthworks. The big discovery of last year was the uncovering of the burial of a king and three of his subjects; an interment strewed with thousands of fresh water pearls and rich in artifacts. Copper noses and richly carved pieces of silver, copper and tortoise shell were also included in the finds. This year Professor Shetrone is added two experts: Milton M. Krogman, who studied the four inches, is a graduate of the department of anthropology of Chicago University; Frank M. Setzler, second in command, is a student of anthropology at the Ohio State University and was with Shetrone last year; John Blosser, graduate of the department of anthropology of Harvard College, will handle all of the skeleton examination and reconstruction. Preseed Cautiously Crowds of tourists already have been gun their plightigment down the yest THE FIELD The archaeologists on the mound. Left to right: Milton M. Krogman, University of Chicago; Professor Harry C. Shetrother, curator of the Ohio state museum, and Frank Setzler, student of anthropology. Here's Some Redskin Pulchritude Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Stukin were elected the most beautiful couple of the Yakima tribe of Washington. Note that the hair is not bobbed. C. have wing spread of 200 feet and will weigh about 50 tons. Today's big Barling bombers and Hendley-Pages flattering around such a monster will take on the proportions of mosquitoes. The Lawson airliner, its designer declares, will have ten Liberty motor of 400 horsepower each. Only seven of these will be necessary to run, the others being in reserve. Stability and safety were the first considerations in its design, and it is expected to plough through almost any omb of Ancestor of Mound B The archaeologists on the mound University of Chicago; Professor H state museum, and Frank Setzler, st dant "Ross County Valley of the Kings" to view the work of the plodding excavators. Recent cuts into the mound have revealed a new series of strata that are puzzling to Shetrone and his assistants and causing them to protrude more cautiously than before. The size of the mound shows several distinct changes in the color of the dirt. The lowest stratum is covered by a layer of coarse gravel several inches in thickness. --- BFV storm or tornado that disturts the heavens. Refueling will be done in midair. Tender planes, like tugboats in a harbor, will fly up to meet the big liners as they pass over secondary points on route, putting on and taking off passengers and mail. All of these promises sound large to the public still terrific to the natural sphere for human activity. Lawson has taken to the air, in both body and spirit. Flying Standardized "Aviation is a great deal farther along than was the automobile twenty-five years ago," he says. "Then the simplest principles of automobile structure were experimental. People wouldn't get into the things for fear they would blow up. Aviation design on the other hand is much more complex. You can draw a blue print according to known laws of flying and be quite sure what the resulting airship will do. "What will be needed at the outset of our airliner service is education. It must become a natural thing to take the airship for the ordinary journey instead of going by train. Probably our first regular airplane will be between New York and Chicago, and we'll soon have people in the mood to travel by air." "This big alirship we are building is not so much a triumph of aviation design, because we already knew how to fly. But it can carry two passengers spaciously where only one could sit before and give them a place to sleep and shower both. It is an economic achievement. Now we can take passengers away from the railroads on equal terms. It is just a step beyond to the whole of passenger business. ient King in builders Left to right: Milton M. Krogman, Barry C. Shefrone, curator of the Ohio student of anthropology. It is below this gravel that Shetrone believes the greatest wills will be made, although he is counting heavily on burials in the upper layers of earth. Meanwhile the workers are proceeding daily expecting to reach burials that will, through their artifacts, enhance the knowledge of the archaeologists in regard to the daily and religious life of this little known group of people, the mound builders. --- "Within Prison Walls." Wins Fame Behind Prison WallsRemarkable Experience of a Brilliant Colored Man. SIGHT By An Insider (Reprint and publishing rights reserved exclusively by the author.) "WITHIN PRISON WALLS.' (Editor's Note: "Within Prison Walls' in this issue was written by a young colored man, of good family and training, who for obvious reas- ons is withholding his real identity and who due to his ability, served (during a course of ten years) in his positions (as an inmate) one of which has never been filled by any other inmate of any race. During this series he will dwell intimately on certain phases of prison life that are rarely, if ever, dis- closed to the public.) (Continued from last week.) The capitalist was so sure of his ground that he went direct to the Governor, got the intrepid inventor a commutation of sentence and parole and took him to his home town where he raised the capital to install a laboratory and otherwise prepared for the fame and millions that should pour to him. It was not long after however before the miraculous inventor decamped from his laboratory taking with him the thousands in cash that were on hand for experimental use. ARRESTED IN CANADA When he was next heard from was on his arrest in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where he had changed roles from that of the world's greatest inventor to the Vice-President of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. It just happened however that he could not manage a railway with the same degree of success that he did his inventions and he soon found his way back in Marquette Prison. When I talked to him and tried to show how foolish he was not to wait till we could have protected the proposition ourselves he still put on that indigent expression that the small town capitalist and his friends were going to double-cross him on his patents and so he took everything before they got a chance. THE MOST REMARKABLE THING The most remarkable thing about this fellow is that right back on the same stamping grounds he darted into a new invention and then I left Marquette he had granted to him an entire floor of a large building on which he had built tracks, yards and switches and otherwise made a complete railroad center out of same and had invented a safety control whereby he could place himself at any one given point and control every movement of every train in the entire system. So strong were his arguments that I know positively that engineers of the greatest roads in America came up there to investigate same and on the strength of their attentions he had a firm of Chicago stock brokers incorporate and sell stock for a $10,000,000 concern and while that was three years ago and I haven't yet read of his universal success I venture to say that even if the control invention fizzled through he is now demonstrating something even greater. At any rate as a Professor and an Inventor under trying circumstances he is without a peer. ANOTHER CHARACTER Another character who made himself prominent, only along a different line, about this time was the young life* whom we will call "Bill" and whose name was Bill. He was of the typical gangster type and although I do not remember the details of his case I believe he was mixed up in some kind of vendetta slavings in and around Detroit. Bill was sent up for life but he had no intentions of doing it or at least not in its natural course. As Bill is still doing life I cannot go too deeply into the facts partly through a possible injury to him and mostly because I am not in possession of all of them. At any rate he conceived the idea of escape. His only method of warfare was to fight it out with guns. It is presumed that either through "underground" messages or a visit that he had with his sister or sweetheart I forget just which he contrived a plan to get some guns in the prison. All went well. Some time later he was called from the box factory to the hall-office to get a victoria that friends had sent him. PASSED INSPECTION It had passed inspection and he was at liberty to take it to his cell which he did and not having time to further examine it then he thought it perfectly safe to let it stand the way it was till night. Shortly after he returned to the box shop another inmate whom we will call the "squealer" took a trip to the hall-office. Shortly thereafter the hall-master again went up to Bill's cell to re examine the victrola. This time taking a screw driver him. He hadn't been investigating laying before two distinct revolver shots shot through the prison and it was much through buck than good judgment that the official was alive to tell his experience as in some manner his screw driver got tangled up with the trigger of the automates that were in the victoria and it was fortunate that it was the ceiling that got punctured instead of his anatomy. REFUSED TO ANSWER Bill was sent for, questioned and of course refused to answer. He was placed in the bullpen there to stay till he would answer and after waiting six months for him to talk they recognized that their task was use less and again liberated him to start life over within the prison. In the interval the "squealer" was transferred to another prison and subsequently paroled. The very first week of his freedom however proved, his death as he was found dead in an alley and his death was but one more of the many unsolved problems that infests the police departments of the country. Bill managed to play leading roles in many other adventurous incidents, some of which will be related in later chapters. ANOTHER EPISODE Another interesting episode was that in which six colored boys participated. Their plans were made months ahead and through one subterfuge and another they managed to get adjoining cells on the base fronting an outside exposure. One of them was an expert stone mason one a small slim fellow who could crawl through a knot-hole. Others were string musicians and would play continuously and loudly while the stone mason was digging a tunnel from his cell to the outer wall. The young slim fellow would crawl through and take out the dirt a hand-full at a time. This went on for several weeks, carrying the dirt out in their buckets and carefully concealinv the aperture of the hole. On a certain Sunday afternoon when the tunnel had reached the outer wall and they were ready to make their dash a most peculiar incident occurred which in itself tipped the play off. COULD CRAWL THROUGH The men had previously removed sufficient bricks in the walls between their cells so that they could crawl through to the stone mason's cell and thence through the tunnel. A guard happened to stroll by and saw the young slim fellow sitting idly in his cell. Not thinking anything he made another round and thought it peculiar that he didn't see the young fellow on this trip. Knowing that all the cells were locked and that he had not been drinking he couldn't understand how the cell could be occupied on one trip and vacant on the next and the door still locked. He reported his suspicions to the deputy's office and an investigation ensued which disclosed the complete tunneling plans with the young fellow then in the tunnel. They had planned and cautiously worked for months only to be caught and trapped when within a few hours of freedom. Similarly did three white boys come to grief merely through a strange coincidence which was duly reported by a guard. They all worked in the box shop and through keen observance found a good hide-out spot and the three of them crawled in pulling some boards over them. At count time they of course showed up missing and a systematic search was instituted for them but so cleverly was their plant and so dogmatic was the search by the officials that the entire prison population was locked up for three days while every effort was bent towards finding the hide-outs. They had figured that after the first twenty-four hours the search would cease and at night they could crawl out of their seclusion and go over the walls. At the end of the third day however they were famished for lack of both food and water. At this time one of the searchers left a pail of water standing on a spot which he intended to come back and take to one of the post-guards. TEMPTATION TOO GREAT Temptation proved the undoing for the three hide-outs and when one of them peered above and saw the water he crawled out of his hiding place and the three of them quank the pail dry. When the officer returned for his pail of water and finding it empty and knowing that all the prisoners were locked the mystery proved too puzzling for him and he reported same to the deputy who wisely knew that the hide outs were in that immediate vicinity and it was only a matter of a few hours when after a systematic search they were discovered and another dream of freedom was vanished. Many there were of the fool hardy chances taken by some of the unthinking and impetuous youths that were frustrated but plans like those enumerated above involving careful thought and planning are the only ones worth while to enumerate. THAT GREAT SCANDAL It was during this period that the famous 'Hundred thousand' dollar scandal arose at Marquette. The prison clerk as some of the readers may remember got himself involved and was arrested, accused of embez- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA sing $100,000 off the institution's and prisoners' money. In fairness to the clerk he was never convicted. BISHOP W. SAMPSON BROOKS & RETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH Things are going on in a great way at Third Street. Last week the block party took in $195, clearing about $100. Sunday, September 5th, Mr. L. P. Gibson, a young man recently come from South Carolina, was happily converted, while we had 4 accessions. Sunday, September 12, we had a high day and 1 accession. The ex pository sermons being delivered by Dr. Hatcher are greatly enjoyed Tuesday night Bishop Brooks, of West Africa delivered a great sermon. Mrs. Lucie Coles and Dr. C. Boon, both returned from Africa, graced the pulpit and spoke in glowing terms of Bishop's work. The audience gave him $109.80. Hurrah for Third Street and her friends. Be sure to be at Third, Street Sunday, September 19th. The Grand Educational Symposium Sunday night. Dr. Hatcher will tell the beautiful stories in exposition of The Centurion's Servant, The Window's Son Restored and Jesus in Simon's House. Hear him. MAN BURIED ALIVE SAVED BY AIR PITE (Preston News Serv ce.) New York, Sept. 10.—Buried in a sand bin for one hour and 35 minutes Thursday morning, William Clark, 35, was saved by the cleverness of fellow workers who, while digging for him inserted a pipe in the tightly packed sand, through which Clark was enabled to breathe. Clark was at work on the new Eighth Avenue subway at Central Park West and 181st St. His duty was to control the chute which allows sand to flow into the concrete mixer to clog. He climbed in and soon was buried, his eight carrying him to the bottom of the pit and the loose sand packing tightly about and covering him over. Workmen, realizing his danger, began hacking at the stout sides of the bin hoping to break it open. For an hour and fifteen minutes the workmen dug at the sand, which seemed to grow deeper, not knowing whether they were digging for a corpse or man. Then their labor was rewarded. Clark's head and shoulders appeared and he was conscious, though carefully saving his breath. A barrel was jammed down over his head and shoulders to prevent the sand again sliding and undoing the work of his fellows. Fifteen minutes later the crew were able to move the entombed man. By this time, a harness and swing had been rigged so that Clark would be hoisted out of the treacherous, clinging, stifling sand. He was swung in the air and lowered to the ground. MAXWELL TOURING CAR. GOOD Condition. Cash or Credit. Call Madison 5797. Residence Phone. Boulevard 8629-w. 666 is a prescription for Colds, Grippe, Flu, Denque Bilious Fever and Malaria It Kills the Germs. VIRGINIA—In the Hustings Court, Part II. City of Richmond, Sep tember 2, 1926. (In Vacation) The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matri- mony by the plaintiff from the de fendant upon the grounds of deser- tion for more than 3 years prior to the commencement of this suit. 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