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THE RICHMOND PLANET ANOTHER FRIGHTFUL TRAGEDY. Josie Day Kills Daisy Poindexter with Knife----Had Been Cut Before----Relatives Claim Body. VOLUME XLIV, NO. 25 ANOT Josie Day with Kni Bef (Special by John Mitchell, Jr.) Daisy Poindexter, nee Howard, of 120 Pulliam Street was killed by Josie Day of 413 N. Madison Street Friday night, April 15th, at about 10:30 o'clock. The knife used cut the large vein in her neck, causing her death before she reached St. Philips Hospital. The woman charged with the crime, presented a peculiar appearance in the lock-up in the Police Court Saturday morning 16th inst., as she sat there with uncombed bushy hair, while Attorney Edgar B. English conversed with her. CLAIMS SELF-DEFENSE. She said that Daisy Poindexter came to her house after her, and she became so violent that she started to the station-house to have her arrested. On the way Daisy stabbed her in the back with a knife. She wrenched the knife from her, injuring her hand and then in the struggle she stabbed her in the throat. She claimed she had to do this in order to protect herself. The witnesses named in the case were Purnett Coleman, P. L. Tiller, L. H. Kellam, R. M. Rouse, F. W. Brown, J. T. Riddell, G. P. Smith HAD BEEN CUT BEFORE A visit to St. Phillips Hospital was made in Funeral Price's car. The surgeon said that Daisy Poindexter was dead when the patrol reached there. He had recognized her as being the same woman who had been entered there and cured of knife wounds. Josie Day was the one who cut her. This time, however, Daisy was beyond medical aid. Then followed a visit to 120 Pulliam Street, where the landlady, Virginia West, was in a high state of excitement. Daisy had been living with her two months. She was a good girl. She had warned her about running with Josie Day. WOULDN'T STAY AWAY. Josie would not stay away from the house. When Daisy did not go there, she would come to her house. She got so she would not admit her to the house. She got after Daisy yesterday about drinking urging her to quit it. She said she had only taken one drink. She went out yesterday evening and said she would return at 10:30. THE DEAD WOMAN'S CLOTHES "I was expecting her when some one came here and told me that Josie Day had cut her to death. Then Virginia West unlocked a wardrobe and displayed an attractive gown, hose and new shoes owned by the dead woman. She was loud in her condemnation of Josie Day. As she was talking a young man entered. He looked like a white man. She arose from her chair and offered him the seat. He had been listening intently. Then he remarked that he was Daisy Poindexter's brother. His name was Harry Howard. THE QUIET STRANGER. Virginia West became more voluble as she continued her story. Howard said that his brothers, George Howard, from Peakes Turnout and Aleek Howard from Newport News, Va. would be here during the afternoon. They had been trying to locate the relatives. A few moments later, Harry Howard was sitting in the office of Funeral Director A. D. Price, Jr. and still later was in a car enroute to the C. and O. Station to meet his brothers, Daisy Howard Poindexter's mother resides at Peakes Turnout. She is about 79 years of age and has 8 children. Have The Planet sent to your home It will be a welcome visitor. MONEY DUMPED. Cash Bonds Are Forthcoming—The Whiskey Business In the Police Court last Saturday morning, among the cases heard was that of Ernest Harrington, 619 N. 3rd Street, charged with having liquor. Jars were in the court and a crows bag also with liquor of the corn variety was in evidence. Those arrested were Mattie Trent, Mattie Hall, Joseph Hall, Peter Fisher, Ernest Mitchell and Ernest Hooper, but only Harrington on Hall and Trent were held Mattie Trent was charged with resisting, assauling and wounding Officer J. F. Bagley. ROUGH HANDLING. It was reported that the officer handled the girl roughly. However, the case was continued and Harrington was held in a thousand dollar bond. Mattie Hall in a thousand dollar bond and Mattie Trent in a five hundred dollar bond. Ernest Harrington, who is said to be nicknamed Rockefeller, told the Planet man that he had left one thousand dollars at the station-house the day before. An investigation revealed this and he put this amount up, a cash bond of $1,000 and walked out of the Court a free man for the time being. Mattie Trent put up a cash bond of $500. ANOTHER BONDSMAN. A country-man announced that he would go on Mattele Hall's bond. When asked the value of his property, he placed it at ten thousand dollars. Judge Ingram required the production of his tax receipts. He went to get them. As he lived on Petersburg Pike, it was sometime before he returned. LODESTONE SECRETS. Send $3 for $1 worth lodestone, $1 worth Magnetic Sand, 25c worth John the Conqueror Roots, 75c for Secret Book of Luck, and I will send you free my Mystic Lucky Glass with instructions. Used by many to insure success in all undertakings and against evil influences. I will not send this order C. O. D. unless you send 25c to pay postage and fee. Money refunded if this order is not satisfactory and returned. R. D. WESTER, 457 E. 47th St., Chicago Illinois. PEW RALLY Pew Rally at Good Will Baptist Church, Sunday, April 24, 1927 at 3:30 P. M. Rev. W. C. Allen, D. d. will preach a special sermon accompanied by his friends. Madam Savilla Briggs will sing. REV. W. B. BALL, Pastor Mrs. Annie Watkins, of Chicago, Ill, is in the city. She will be glad to see her many friends at the old home, 515 N. Adams Street. Trustee E. J. Johnson left last Tuesday with the delegation to attend the Annual Conference of the A. M. E. Church in Norfolk, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert O. Ball, of Kilmarnock, Va. were in the city recently. Mr. Louis Thomas, formerly of Richmond, who has been residing in New York for some time, is in the city visiting his sisters, Mrs. Halle T. Callahan of North Fifth Street and Mrs. Marie T. Jones, of West Leigh Street. Mrs. Alice M. Lucas, 1909 13th Street N. W., Washington, D. C., sister of Mrs. Georgia A. Price, died at her residence Wednesday, April 20, 6 P. M. She belonged to the well-known Gibbons family of Charlottesville RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1927 The Time is at Hand (Gordon B. Hancock) The time is at hand when the Negro must face certain facts which are pressing upon him. If the Negro would aspire to higher education he may as well make up his mind to pay for it himself. Those magnanimous whites who founded the schools that form the backbone of higher education for Negroes have maintained these schools; but with in the last generation there has been but little increase in their number. This may indicate a changed conception of what education for Negroes commands and in its last analysis it may be the white man's silent attitudem to the Negro to prepare to pay his own way in the matter of his higher education. And why not? The Negro's economic status is rising with an encouraging rapidity and his social life is expanding in some instances with a pretentiousness that commands the attention of the world. This improvement among Negroes is bound to raise the question of the Negro's increasing ability to should er the responsibility of financing his own educational enterprises. And philanthropic whites are inclining more and more to pass the burden of Negro education to the Negroes themselves. Again, Negro speakers and writers are loud in their praise of the Negro achievements and of his ability to compete with white men on equal terms. In far too many instances our newspapers are extravaganzas of praise for the Negro and his accomplishments are extolled in season and out of season and the world is called upon to "sit up and take notice." Just what reaction the white philanthropist gives to the Negro's estimate of the Negro's progress is easy to imagine; for the white man doubles feels as many Negroes feel that the Negro's accomplishments and capabilities should be registered in a willingness to assume ever larger responsibilities for his own education. The Negro need not hope to extol his greatness and expect the white whites to finance his education. If we are great in our achievements we should also be great in fostering the education that affords the basis of these achievements. If we are the equal of the white man, as we so loudly proclaim and so honestly believe, we must be willing to assert it with dollars to finance our own education. (To be continued) FOUNTAIN BAPTIST NEWS. Rev. A. R. Vanlandingham, Pastor M. V. Johnson, Church Clerk Sunday, April 17 was a high day at Fountain Baptist Church. 9:30 A. M. Sunday School was largely attended. At 11:30 the members and friends turned out in full strength. The pastor, Rev. A. R. Vanlandingham delivered the sermon. Subject, "The Empty Tomb." The people went out from the morning services saying, "Didn't our pastor preach." 3:30 P. M. Rev. E. D. Caffee, pastor of St. Luke Baptist Church, accompanied by his choir, preached a powerful sermon. Subject "Walking With God." He gave us a great message. 8:00 P. M. our pastor delivered a powerful sermon. Subject "Perfect Satisfaction." Two came forward and united with the church. The Easter offering amounted to $97.45. Sunday, April 24 is Communion day. The members and friends are asked to be present. -Richetta Fields. Church Reporter Two Colored Men's Plea. Governor Visits Death Chamber Tragic Scene at Virginia Penit'ntiary. Rev. Gordon B. Hancock's Remarkable Letter---Times-Dispatch Editor Makes Reply. 2 CRINGING FELONS GRANTED LAST-MINUTE AUDIENCE WITH GOVERNOR FAIL TO FORESTALL GOOD FRIDAY DOOM. (By Wm. B. Southall in The Times-Dispatch) Drama more real, more tense, more gripping than any ever offered in the mimicry of the theater_was staged last night between the walls of the Virginia State Penitentiary. Two condemned felons, frightened cringing, pleading for lives that would pass out with the rising of another sun, appeared before Governor Byrd to invoke a quality of mercy they had denied to others. Both of them—the Negro men, Henry Perfey and William Thomas—are in eternity now. In executive clemency they caught at a slender thread of hope which faded with the coming of Good Friday. It was tragedy in essence—this appearance of Perfey and Thomas before the only man on earth who could save them their lives. The men denied their guilt. One of them was convicted of murder in the Circuit Court of Norfolk County. On a whiskey expedition an automobile tire was needed. His companion, Perfey said, did the shooting. The other was tried in Madison County for a crime that is regarded everywhere as the unpardonable slim. He was innocent. It was a piece of bread he went for, Thomas said. No thought of wrong doing crossed his mind. But, without the fortifying innocence of Jean Valjean, Thomas went this morning to pay the penalty for hunger. Both Negroes were fearfully ignorant. They were born into an unkind world; they were ushered out of it because they could never understand what it expended of them. As Perfey rose before the Governor, pleading, and turned to walk back to the place of his doom, a bugler, unconscious of the moving drama within the drab walls of the penitentiary, blew taps. A long, long good-night to Perfey. Another dawn, and it would be utter darkness for him. The curtain had been rung down on a stirring scene in the drama. The felons had asked that the Governor grant them the opportunity to plead for their lives. He left the light and happiness of the Executive Mansion for the sordidness "over the hill," in order that he might satisfy himself that the scales of justice had been correctly adjusted. He went back convinced the majesty of the law would be upheld this morning when Perfey and Thomas had paid the extreme penalty. "WOULD BE GOOD." If one Negro was more ignorant than the other, that distinction belonged to Thomas. He was extremely nervous. The oppressive hand of fate was bearing upon him. Often he cracked the joints of his fingers as the shadow of the electric chair crossed his line of vision. His language was almost incoherent. All he knew was that he was facing disaster, that each tick of the clock brought doom appreciably nearer. Time and time again he 'old the Governor that if he would save him from the electric chair he would be willing to spend the rest of his days in the penitentiary. "And I sho' ain't goin' to be sassy to nobody," he said, "and I'll do my work." It was to this declaration that he pinned a childish faith and it was by way of this promise that he pursued a forlorn hope. The Governor listened attentively solemnly The minutes were passing quickly. In the prison other felons were asleep. They would awake as Thomas walked to his doom. STORY SEEMED UNREAL. It was plain the man was not telling the truth. Thomas knew he was guilty, but Thomas was guided by the laws of nature, of which the first is self-preservation. The Governor was kindly in his audience to the condemned men. "Did you wish to see me?" he asked each of them as he came into the room. "Yassah, I want to see if you can do something for me," was the answer both Perfey and Thomas gave. CALLS ATTORNEY. Then the executive would ask the man to tell his s'ory. Frequently the narrator was-interrogated. In the case of Perfey, Governor Byrd called A. C. Carney, Commonwealth Attorney of Norfolk County, by telephone and talked to him about the case. There was nothing the Governor could do. Society had been outraged; the evidence was there; the courts had acted under the law. And so on this Good Friday morn, Perfey and Thomas went out of a world to whose ways they could never conform. PROF. HANCOCK'S LETTER. To Editor of The Times-Dispatch: Sir.-Your valuable paper of the fifteenth instant carries the account of the execution of two Negroes, one being convicted for murder and the other for rape. The Governor went in person to their death-cell to hear their last plea for life, which he refused to grant; and both Negroes therefore paid with their lives the penalty which Virginia exacted. So far as the doomed Negroes are concerned, the incident is closed but there is left occasion for the community's solemn reflection in a bare allusion of the reporter who said that "The two Negroes were fearfully ignorant," and in this allusion is contained a tragic story. We are going to assume that the grand jury that indicted them acted in accordance with the testimony given; that they were tried and convicted "beyond a reasonable doubt," that the sentence imposed by the court was the only just one after it had been established that they were of sound mind; that Governor Byrd was wisely using executive prerogatives when he denied the doomed men their last plea; that Richmond and Virginia will not long remember the unhappy end of two Negro felons. Yet there is something tragic in the justice that calls for the lives of the "fearfully ignorant," and it matters little that they are the lives of black or white men. That our lives and our homes are endangered so long as a felon is at large in our community is too apparent to need discussion here; that our community's common safety demands the cooperation of all citizens white and colored, in the apprehension and punishment of criminals who are ever a threat to every home and happiness in our fair land is equally obvious, but the execution of the "tearfully ignorant" as a means of conserving our sacred institutions is at best a solemn procedure. To be sure, it satisfies a community's cry for vengeance and may apparently register a community's grim determination to protect itself against its rebellious elements; but it can hardly subserve the higher ends of justice; neither can it inspire respect and reverence for the laws of the land. There is something strikingly pathetic in the plea of one of these "feearfully ignorant" Negroes as he stands in the shadow of death. He promises that if spared he will not be "sassy to nobody", and that he will do his work. He is accused and convicted of one of the foulest crimes to which mankind is liable: the crime against womanhood; yet in the moments that should have been filled with argument's relative to the deeper and more serious side of life this poor Negro thinks of "sass" and holding down a "job." It is true there is a connection between these and the serious plight in which he found himself, yet the connection is hardly as immediate as his words suggest and the steps between "sass" and the crime for which he was about to die were too tortuous to be traversed by the mind of one of such "fearful ignorance." "They were fearfully ignorant." This can be said of thousands of those executed in his country in the past and of the thousands that will be executed in the future and especially is it a commentary on the fate of thousands of Negroes lynched and of others consigned to death by the law's decree. Should "fearfully ignorant" be made to pay the supreme price for their folly? Does not fearful ignorance constitute a mitigating circumstance for any doomed man? Whose is the fault when a man is "fearfully ignorant"? If ever "here is warrant for the jury's recommending mercy it should be in a culprit's "fearful ignorance" and if ever executive elemency should be righteously invoked it should be in behalf of the "fearfully ignorant" doomed to die, and if ever a community should lift its voice against capital punishment it should be inspired by the lot of the "fearfully ignorant." God forbid that he should ever escape the law's strong arm who lays unholy hands on woman and may God also forbid that the execution of the "fearfully ignorant" in Virginia should be regarded as merely a matter of course and a rival incident calling for only a passing thought. The business of executing the "fearfully ignorant"—even though these be Negroes—is tragic and fearful and can never be a satisfactory safeguard to the nobler sentiments of a community. "The two Negroes were fearfully ignorant" is the subject of a tragic story. To plead for the thousands of "fearfully ignorant" Negroes done to death by mobs and consigned to death by the courts of the land were futtle, but to plead for the thousands that now live and who may share a like fate is a bounden duty that is a challenge to the powers that be. Every cent invested in Negro education, every opportunity given Negroes to make good citizens of themselves, every upright Negro armed with a ballot, are so many attacks on the "fearful ignorance" that menaces the peace and safety of our common land and which hangs like a mill-stone about the neck of the Negro race in its upward struggles. When the School Board of Richmond hears the petition of the Negro teachers of Richmond for the small increase of 25 per cent in salaries may it be remembered that it is a plea for a more efficient teaching staff and a direct attack on the problem of the "fearful ignorance" that augments the ranks of Negro criminals, "The two Negroes were fearfully ignorant." GORDON B. HANCOCK. Richmond. Va. April 16, 1927. "FEARFULLY IGNORANT." "Elsewhere on this page today is printed a letter from the Rev. Gordon B. Hancock, an able and devout man who serves his people as pastor of the Moore Street Baptist Church and as professor in Virginia Union University. The letter deals with so tragic a subject and it is in itself so extremely well written and so impressive that any possible fallacies it may contain are virtually obscured: "Grant at the outset that 'there is something tragic in the justice that calls for the lives of the 'fearfully ignorant', and it matters little that they are the lives of white or black men.' Grant, 'oo, as we must that there was something strikingly (Continued on page 8) PRICE, FIVE CENTS. Richmond Awaits Construction of New Hospital At a largely attended membership meeting, which was held at Southern Ald Building, 527 N. 2nd Street, on Wednesday night, March 30, 1927, the new Board of Directors was elected and Officers for the ensuing year. The Directors: Dr. W. H. Stokes, Dr. W. T. Johnson, Dr. M. B. Jones, Dr. O. B. H. Bowers, Dr. I. A. Jackson, Dr. A. A. Tennant, Rev. L. H. Dickerson, Rev. A. D. Daly, Mr. Charles N. Jackson, Mr. Jacob Wright, Mr. B. L. Jordan, Mr. James M. Frayer, Mr. James T. Carter, M. Vera Bolling, Mrs. Eliza Norrell, Mrs. Mary Binga and Miss Rosa Taylor. The Officers: Dr. W. H. Stokes, President; Mr. Charles N. Jackson, first Vice-President; Mrs. Vera Belling, Second Vice-President; Mrs. Eliza Norrell, Third Vice-President; Rev. L. H. Dickerson, Fourth Vice-President; Mr. Jacob Wright, Fifth Vice-President; Mr. B. L. Jordan, Treasurer; Dr. W. T. Johnson, Secretary; Rev. A. D. Daly, First Assistant Secretary; Miss Rosa Taylor, Second Assistant Secretary. This meeting was the most enthusiastic yet held; many new members qualified, among them being some of our leading physicians. A resolution prevailed as to amending the charter, so as to increase the number on the Board of Directors from fourteen to thirty members, and other matters requiring attention. The date of the next membership meeting is the 4. urth Wednesday in April, which is the 27th day. Every one in the whole community is cordially invited to attend. Place of meeting: Southern Aid Building, 527 N. 2nd Street, Richmond, Va. at 9 o'clock P. M. Subscriptions received at last Membership Meeting: Dr. Wm. H. Hughes; $100; Dr. Fred D. Brown; $100; Dr. I. A. Jackson $100; Mr. Charles N. Jackson; $50; Dr. E. Sheridan Roane; $100; Mr. Bernard L. Peterson; $10; Dr. O. B. H. Bowser; $100; Dr. D. W. Davis Jr. $100; Dr. George W. White; $100; Miss Rosa A. Taylor; $100. Total $860.00. WOMAN DIES ON NEW YORK EXCUBSION TRAIN Returning to Philadelphia from Richmond on the excursion train Sunday P. M. a light-skinned, grey hair unknown woman, weighing about 185 pounds, wearing a black hat and coat, was taken ill, and removed from the train at Ashland, Va. and died in the depot. She carried a brown Boston bag, a paper bag containing two pounds of corn meal, two cups and saucers with pink rim. Information of her identity will be gladly received by John C. Winston, Undertaker, Ashland Va. or A. D. Price Jr., Richmond, Va. Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York papers please copy. FULTON NOTES Pastor Cobbs preached on The Resurrection last Sunday. Deacon Taylor of the Queen Street Baptist Church and others were present. The I. O. St. Luke of the East end held their anniversary service at Mt. Calvary at 3:30. Rev. Cobbs preached the sermon. There were several conversions at Calvary during the revival conducted by Rev. Doc Cotman of Charles City County, Va. Rev. C. B. Jefferson preached at Shiloh Baptist Church last Sunday at 3:30. P. M., or which time the revival ended. It had been conducted by Rev. W. E. Brown, assisted by Rev. Jefferson. The pastor will bapize tomorrow after the morning service in the creek over by the Government Road. Fulton Lodge, No. 42, K. of P., will hold their 2&h Anniversary at Shiloh Baptist Church tomorrow at 3:30 P. M. UNION LEVEL NOTES. Rev. B. J. Ruffin preached Sunday morning on the subject, "He has Been Here and Gone." The Sunrise Frayer Meeting was good. Communion was served in the afternoon. The pastor will call the financial roll tomorrow morning. Each person is expected to pay their $10. Rev. W. L. Tuck, pastor of Gravel Hill Baptist Church will preach at night. Mrs. Virginia Porter and her folks are home again. GRAVEL HILL NOTES. The pastor, Rev. W. L. Tuck will preach tomorrow morning. After services the Communion will be served. The pastor and choir will render services at the Union Level Baptist Church at night. IT'S CLEAN-UP, PAINT-UP TIME By PAUL ROBINSON TO SEE YOU STANDING THERE WATCHING ME — ANY- BODY WOULD THINK YOU HAD NOTHING TO DO! MOTHER NATURE MOST OF US AUTOCASTER PAUL ROBINSON Coolies Thought Oil Burners Were American Machine Guns "Boom!" Shanghai coolies considered a bowl of rice apiece ample payment for transporting and helping install American oil burners until China's growing war troubles lured them to service as soldiers, with its opportunity for looting added to the inducements of food, clothing and wages. When communication lines were cut and local shortage developed, there was an ample demand for oil burners in such centers as Shanghai, headquarters for General Smedley D. Butler and his detachment of American marines, a city that already is using 200 burners of one American make alone, including eight in the Chinese postoffice. But it was difficult to find natives content to work at the proslaic task of handling them. Those who did when they seized the first of liege and marble the outdoor test of the burners, sending native police to confiscate the "American machine guns." "I wish I had had a few of the burners along when I took a boat up the Yangtse River," Beverly Miles, foreign secretary of the WHITE OIL-O-Matic Heating Corporation of Bloomington, Illi- BEVERLY MILES Williams. On his boat pllying the same stream on which the Ameri can destroyer, John D. Ford, was fired at recently by Nationalist troops, Mr. Miles reports the rail was lined with sand bags and the bridge was armored with three-eighth inch steel plates. "Notices posted around the boat said 'When (not if) firing from the shore starts, come to the bridge.' Mr. Miles stated. "A few of our machine gun' oil-burners, like those that frightened the coolies in Shanghai, could have been lined up along the rail on our craft, and I think the extra 'armament' might have discouraged the sniping, we had to under o just a few days." Greatest Natural Highway in the World Herewith a most unusual picture, forty automobiles abreast at speed on Ocean Beach, nature's greatest natural highway which is 50 miles long, between Jacksonville and St. Augustine, Fla. It was here that Major Segrave in his "Mystery" car set a world record last month of 203 miles per hour. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND' VIRGINIA Do You Know Her? AVOCASTER Twont be long now until you will again be rooting for her to defend U. S. tennis honors. It is little "Poker-Face" Helen Wills, who is reported to be in excellent condition for the season's campaign. the Judge's Josh MAN IS CAPTAIN OF HIS SOUL UNTIL HE WALKS THE GANGPLANK OF COURTWARD --- Famous College Athlete Eats Candy Before Hard Race PRINGETON'S CRACK RELAY TEAM CHICAGO — Captain Charles McGinnis of the University of Wisconsin track team is hailed as one of the greatest athletes ever developed in the middle west. He won the all around championship of the Illinois relays at Urbana and two weeks later, at the annual indoor track and field meet of the Western Conference, won three events, set a new conference record, and gave his university the championship by ten points over its nearest competitor. When "Chuck" McGinnis competes, he is such a consumer of energy that he eats a sack full of tandy before every meet. It is known that candy is a concentrated food that is transformed into power in the human machine. Gertrude Ederle engraves the English channel on Twelve Year These three seem to be the Left is Lillian Snyder of Orville, Ohio, (right) Man have a perfect attendance school or being tardy. (better record) Twelve Years Without School Contest These three seem to be the champions left is Lillian Snyder of Hundred, W. Orville, Ohio, (right) Mabel Seal of Pi have a perfect attendance of 12 years school or being tardy. Is there a boy better record? Twelve Years Without Missing Day School Contest AUTOCASTER Three three seem to be the champions in the National School Contest. Left is Lillian Snyder of Hundred. W. Va., (center) George Irvin, Jr., Orville, Ohio, (right) Mabel Seal of Picayune, Miss., all three of whom have a perfect attendance of 12 years without having missed a day at school or being tardy. Is there a boy or girl in this territory with a better record? Sheriff 56 Years AUTOBASTER P. H. Boisseau of claims the record for having been in office was deputy from 1871 cheriff ever since. H descendant of a Jam settler. P. H. Boisseau of Danville, Va., claims the record for sheriffship, having been in office 56 years. He was deputy from 1871 to 1888, and sheriff per ainse. He is a direct descendant of a Jamestown colony settler. 1927 candy and George Young consumed sweets as he made the Caitlin Without Missing Day School Contest AVIOCASTER the champions in the National School Hundred, W. Va., (center) George Bel Seal of Picayune, Miss., all three of 12 years without having missed there a boy or girl in this territo ```markdown ``` Missing Day AVIOCASTER in the National School Contest. Va., (center) George Irvin, Jr., ayune, Miss., all three of whom without having missed a day at or girl in this territory with a His Plea Stirs Nation AUTOCASTER Bart Vanzetti, whose plea against death sentence in Massachusetts, after 5 years in court, has caused communists the world over to protest to the U. S. and steps taken in state and federal quarters to prevent violent outbreaks. Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco have been sentenced to die July 10—for murder. swim, but these were feats of endurance while McGinnis is the outstanding exemplar of turning candy into sued. At the conference championship, the candy eating captain carried Wisconsin's cardinal to victory in the 60 vards high hurdles, cleared the bar at 12 feet 10 inches to win the pole vault and after these great efforts made a new conference record with a high jumpe of 6 feet inches. In the Northwestern meet, Mr. Cinnis won every event in which he competed. At the Illinois relay he won four events. 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Most of the children are raising themselves. Those who are raised by their parents, forget all about the raising when they associate and mix with those who have raised themselves. --- While it may be impossible to elect a Roman Catholic President of these United States, there seems to be a large proportion of the American people known as Democrats who seem determined to give the experiment a trial. It looks like Governor Al Smith will be the Democratic nominee for President and that President Calvin Coolidge will head the Republican hosts in the same contest. It is an open question as to which one will win as there are powerful underground influences at work to bring about a change of affairs at Washington. President W. H. R. Powell is certain to inspire confidence, if we are to judge by the manner in which he is keeping tab on every cent received and expended by him. We base this upon a monthly statement of receipts and disbursements at the Virginia Theological Seminary and College, at Lynchburg, Va. He seems to be the right man in the right place. Rev. Edward H. Bowling of the First Baptist Church and Rev. C. P. Madison of the Second Calvary Baptist Church recently engaged in a financial race for votes. Rev. Bowling won, but from this viewpoint, both of them won in Norfolk. Va.. as the proceeds were used in the payment of the debts of the two churches. ST. MARK BAPTIST CHURCH, *Glen Allen, Va.* Rov. M. C. Ruffin, Pastor Residence 611 St. Peter St. 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 11.20 A. M. FOURTH BAPTIST CHURCH. (28th and P Streets) Services in charge of the Deacon Board, pending successor to Dr. E. Payne, lamented pastor Visiting Divines each Sunday. Services: 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School 9:30 A. M. All are invited. FIFTH ST. BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev. Charles S. Morris, Sr. Pastor "The Devil's Five Lies About the Resurrection." A large crowd of both races was present at the City Auditorium last Sunday afternoon, to hear the pastor preach on, "Did Christ Rise From the Dead?" The Devil's five lies: That Christ's friends sole His body, That His enemies stole it, That He did not die, That He did not live, That His body did not rise only His spirit rase, and other claims held by modernists of today were completely refuted by the overwhelming proofs of the empy' tomb and the testimonies of His disciples who saw Him, talked with Him, saw Him eat, and met with Him again and again, until every doubt of the whole doubting crowd disappeared with the adoring cry of Thomas, "My Lord and my God." Dr. Morris preached a special Easter sermon Sunday morning. At 8 o'clock Rev. Dr. H. N. Jeter, of Newport, R. I., a well known evangelist who devotes his time to the improvement of the life and service of the colored people throughout the United States, delivered the message Next Sunday Dr. Morris will preach on "The Seven Wonderful Things That the Resurrection of Christ Guarantees." "The Duty of Parents to Their Children and the Duty of Children to Their Parents" will be his subject, for the 8 P. M. service. Dr. Morris, out of his great generous heart and unstinted efforts to encourage and inspire the young folks, opened the doors of our church on Tuesday night, April 19, for a reception for the graduating class of Armstrong High School. A unique program was rendered, consisting of an address by Dr. Morris, several musical selections and other The Lord's Supper and Fellowship of new members at 3:30 P. M. addresses. The class was then ushered to the assembly room of our church where the church supper had been prepared for them and a group of our young ladies under Miss Esther Scott, waiting to serve them. The great lesson Dr. Morris is so earnestly driving to emplant in the hearts of our young folks that the greatest education and inspiration that can prepare them for life's pilgrimage comes from God through His Church and out of His Holy Word. Trustee L. C. White was chairman of the affair. Sister Elizabeth McNell, 749 N. 5th Street; Sister Rosa Loving, 207 E. Leigh and Sister Annie Henderson, 1392 Compromise Street, are on the sick list. Dr. Morris prescheduled the funeral sermon of Sister W. F. Wade, 941 N. 4th Street Tuesday. List of those paying the first $2 continued from last week: M. J. Epps, Julia Beard, Andrew Armstead, Porselline Gaddy, Lou Garrett Joseph Griffin, Dr. J. R. Griffin Bessie Griffin, Geneva Hamilion, Elliott Hamilion, Lula Hamilion, Lillie B. 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This entertainment promises to be one of the most unique and interesting entertainment's ever staged in the city of Richmond. The program under the direction of Mr. S. Brown Stokes, Mrs. S. Sparrow, Misses Emily O. Lewis and Kulah N. Cunningham and others is an elaborate affair. PROGRAM THE OPENING OF KING TUT'S TOMB, ARMSTRONG HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM, April 25, 26, and 28, 8 o'clock P.M. Moral: Sing and the world sings w' you: Sob and you sob alone; Join the Shepherds and be happy forever more. PART I King Tut.....Mr Junius Shelton Queen Tut.....Mrs. Louise Lewis Egyptian Princes.....Mr. Herndon, Cleopatra.....Miss Susie R. Baker Three Little Egyptian Girls PART II Herald.....Mrs. L. L. W. Barco King and Queen of England. Mr. and Mrs. John Jackson Lord and Lady Astor. Mr. H. H. R. R. Givings Queen of Spain and Attendants. Queen of Spain and Attendants Mrs. Harriett Minnis and others Violin Solo.....Mrs. P. T. Williams Lady from France Mrs. Addie J. Johnson King and Queen of Boumania Mrs. Mamie Fairley Lady from Italy, Mrs. Belle Taylor and attendan's Japanese...Mrs. Winifred Harris, Mrs. K. De. Turner and others Liberty...Mrs. Betty Muse Queen of America, Mrs. Eliza A Berkley and attendants Indian Tribes, Mrs. A. I. Johnson Mrs. G. A. Harris, Mrs. M. Mr. Hunter and Mrs. Bolling Mr. and Mrs. Virginia, 4 Mr. and Mrs. James E. Wood College Boys Uniform Ranks, Mr. Thomas Lecoss and others Two Section Excursion Avictors Mr. Goo. Bailey and others Gypsies . Mrs. Marha Ryland, Mrs. Emma Winn, Mrs. Eliza Lecoss, Mrs. Mary E. White and others Williams, Miss Mary Thompson Flapper.....Miss Elizabeth Burley Music Girl.....Miss Erma Ralney Modern Margy Miss Lenora W. Coleman Queen of Fairies. Mrs. Lillie Baskerville and her attendants Clown Aunt Jemima.....Mrs. Baker Uncle Remus and Aunt Cloe Slabtown Convention, Miss Martha Powers and others Recitation.....Mrs. Isabelle Pettia Song.....Mrs. Hattie Montague Promenade PART III. Searching in the Tomb for Gifts. We have already begun to make arrangements for our Annual Shekkerds Excursion to Bay Shore, which will go on the 19th of July, which is the third Tuesday. You know our reputation for carrying nice, quiet and large excursions. Get ready to go with us. REV. H. N. JETER. D. D. Rev. H. N. Jeter, D. D., the well known preacher, missionary and community worker is in the city and has had much success here. He visited Norfolk, Va. last Monday. He is the guess of Dr. Charles S. Morris and his Madame, Mrs. H. N. Jeter is accompanying him. He is the originator of the "Jeter Movement", The Evangelical Humane and Reform Association for the improvement of the conditions of the life and service of the Negro Race throughout this country. He has addressed the Baptist Ministerial Conference of Richmond and Vicinity. His organization has branches throughout the country. He has issued a pamphlet entitled "Forty-two Years as Pastor, Evangelical, Humane and Reform Activities with a brief 50 year History of the New England Baptist Missionary Convention." He is open # engagements and his widespread experience will prove interesting to the good people of the country. REV. DR. MORRIS PREACHES AT THE CITY AUDITORIUM. Rev. Charles S. Morris, one of the most polished pulpit orators and lecturers in this country entertained a large audience of white and colored citizens of the City Auditorium last Sunday afternoon. He was rapturously applauded as he proceeded and won generous praise at the close. The silver-toned gospel preacher and singer, Rev. W. H. Skipwith, D. D. rendered selections as did also the Sabbath Club Club Get this FREE Book from your dealer or write us direct. How to Have Beautiful Han Learn how Miss Marie No girl can be smart with unlovely hair. 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Dr. Morris's subject was well chosen and he handled it with consummate ability. An agreeable, and pleasant surprise was led on Mrs. Zenobia C. Mercer at her residence, 1518 West Cary Street, on Tuesday evening the 12h inst. An enjoyable birthday party was hers for the night. Many and beautiful were the tokens of the happy occasion Mr. Richard H. Bachelor, special representative from the parent body, U. N. I. A. will be the guest of the Richmond Division, 193 for the week of April 24th to 29th. He will speak at the 26th Street Hall, 1212 N. 26th Street on Sunday night, April 24th, on Wednesday night, April 27th, and on Thursday night, April 28th at the Asbury M. E. Church on 25th Street beween N and O; on Monday night, April 25th at Good Shepherd Baptist Church, corner 32nd and O Streets on Tuesday night, April 26th and B. Bethlehem Baptist Church, corner Buchanan and Washington Sts. on Friday night, April 29th. Everybody is cordially invited to be present and make his visit to Richmond a crowning success. We are asking all unfinancial members to be present at 1212 N. 26th St. on Wednesday night, April 27th. RICHMOND DIVISION 193. Mrs. Racilia W. S. Jones, Reporter In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 21st day of April, 1927. IDA WALLER.....Plaintiff against In Chancery MAJOR WALLER.....Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony on the ground of willful desertion and abandonment of the plaintiff by the defendant Major Waller for a period of three years. And an affidavit having been made and filed that the sold Major Waller the defendant is not a resident of the State of Virginia and whose last known Post Office address was Scranton, Pa.; it is therefore ordered that Major Waller do appear here within ten days after the due publication of this order and do whatever may be necessary to protect his interest in this suit. LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk. By B. M. EDWARDS, D. C. WM. F. DENYN, p. q. VIRGINIA: In the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond, April 20, 1927. MARY L. MASSEY.....Plaintiff against In Chancery WILLIAM MASSEY.....Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony on the ground of willful desertion and abandonment of the plaintiff by the defendant William Massey for a period of three years. And an affidavit having been made and filed that said William Massey the defendant is not a resident of the State of Virginia and whose Learn how Miss Marie Burton gains this smart bobbed hair effect. appends on the hair unlovely hair. Particularly is she know that hair can be made to arrange in the newest styles. g with lustrous lights, always and beauty. g and be proud of your hair. of our FREE book "How to shows many new ways of dressing you, write us direct. G COMPANY, Richmond, Va. ELSON'S DRESSING are you get the original - Nelson's metal box, in a cardboard container. last known Post Office address was Philadelphia, Pa.; it is therefore orced that William Massey do appear here within ten days after the due publication of this order and do whatever may be necessary to protect his interest in this suit. A Copy Teste: E. M. ROWELLE, Clerk WM. F. DENNY, P. CAN YOU PAY $100 CASH? If you can, we can place you in touch with the owner of houses on Venable Street, in the 2300 block. They are fitted with all modern improvements and have six rooms with improvement. Rental, at $25.00 per month will pay for them. Call Rendolph 2213 or stop at The Planet Office, 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. 1ST BAPT CHURCH S RICHMOND (Center 15th and Decatur Sts.) Rev W. L. Ransome, D. D., Pastor, Personage 1507 Decatur School Services. Sunday, 11:30 A. M. and P.M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. are welcome. SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH (Center Street, Fulton) Rev S. L. Bush, pastor; residence 907 Center Street. Services: Sunday, Sunday School, 9:30 A. M., Preaching, 11:30 A. M. and 8:30 P. Communion every fourth Sunday at 8:30 P. M. 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. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH (Byrd St. between 1st and 2nd Sts.) Pulpit in charge of Pulpit Committee pending successor to the late Dr. Z. D. Lewis, Services: Sundays, 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, Res- dence, 1900 Wallace Street; Services: Sunday, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D., Pastor, Residence, 123 N. 8th St. Services. Sundays, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. FIFTH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH (Fifth and Jackson Streets) Rev. Charles S. Morris, D. D., Pastor, Residence, 1401 Idlewood Ave. Services: Sundays, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. B. Y. P. U. 6 P. M. Public invited. is necessary to protect his interest in this suit. A Copy—Teste: GARLAND B. TAYLOR, D. C. WILLIAM F. DENNY, p. Q. 119 East Eagle Street. VIRGINIA: In the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond, Tuesday, April 12, 1927. JULIAN BELL....Plaintiff against Order of Publication LIZZIE BELL....Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matri- mony by the plaintiff from the defendant on the ground of desertion. And an affidavit having been made and filed that the said Lizzie Bell, the defendant is not a resident of the State of Virginia, and whose last known post-office address was Sparrows Point, Md., it is there- fore ordered that Lizzie Bell do appear here within ten days after the due publication of this order and do whatever may be necessary to protect his interest in this suit. A Copy—Teste: GARLAND B. TAYLOR, D. C. WILLIAM F. DENNY, p.q. 119 East Leigh Street. In the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Count of the City of Richmond Tuesday, April 19, 1927. OPAL M. DRAKEFORD...Plaintiff against WALTER DRAKEFORD, Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony by the plaintiff from the defendant on the ground of wilful desertion and abandonment, and an affidavit having been made and filed that the said defendant is not a resident of the State of Virginia, and that his last post-office address was R. F. D. 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BOLLING.....Plaintiff against JOSEPH BOLLING.....Defendant ...The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony by the plaintiff from the defendant on the ground of wilful desorption and abandonment, and an affidavit having been made and filed that the said defendant is not a resident of the State of Virginia, and that his last known postoffice address was Pittsburgh, Pa., it is hereby ordered that the said Joseph Bolling appear here within 10 days after due publication of this order and do what is necessary to protect his interest in this suit. A Copy Tente: E. M. ROWELLE, Clerk. C. A. M.KENZIE, P. In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 4th day of April, 1927. ESTELLE WILLIAMS. ... Plaintiff against In Chancery FRANK WILLIAMS, ... Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain an absolute divorce from the bond of matrimony by the plaintiff from the defendant, on the ground of desertion for more than three years. And an affidavit having been made and filed that the defend ant is not a resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that he appear here within ten days after due publication of this order and do what may be necessary to protect his interest herein. A Copy—Teste: LUTHER LIBBY. Clerk. by E. M. EDWARDS. D.C. J. E. BYRD, p.q. In the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond, Tuesday, April 12, 1927. ALICE LILLY ..... Plaintiff against (In Chancery order of publication) EDGAR LILLY ..... Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony by the plaintiff from the defendant, Edgar Lilly upon the grounds of desertion. And an affidavit having been made and fled that the defendant, Edgar Lilly is not a resident of this State it is ordered that he do appear within ten days after due publication of this order and do what A Copy Teste: BARBER WANTED AN ANNOUNCEMENT ee ee ee ae Te | Por, welo ere, ; 5 LISSBN , PoP, Nicest Lirne 4 4 @ }WHe is tHe BOY IN THE WoRED,|| P NICEST LITTLE AN How Come .* E \30% IN THA = NA Hine TAM? =f? v7 = SS ‘ by > . ts 2. : = SS, x | 2S OP FiO iS K ne | Agu “Way : dD. leit) 2% Bia | ar WW «hg Bo est iS <F LS r eo " ee 4 eS se Ca Weg bs Zi WY THAT BABY YOUVE LONGED FOR. Mrs. Burton Advisse Women on Srschacisod’ aad Companionship “for several yearn 1 was denied the blesig of mother,” artes Mew Margaret. Burt Sf Kamen Oty. “Iwas. terribly ‘nervous ant “tubject to periods of terrible “sulering tnd Thetoncholia. "Now 1 am the proud mother of omit ttle Jaoghter and ‘a true. companion toa impirton to my noshand. T belive ba dreua'of other women would iike to koow the Siac ‘ot cy bappinea, and Iwill gladly re Sear eto way sturicd’ woman who wil write eb ade “Becton eter er, Evie ott ihoct chars” sothing to ai. Let Fae Ghoul “be aden! “to. Ay "Mareares Garton, RT Mamachowetts, “Kans” City, Mo te rice ail be wirictly confdestial. HF KLOLHSSHHHSHSS & 2 2 2 2 # DEATHS REPORTED # ® * & & SFRKPCSHAASHVEHS & ‘The following is a list of deaths of colored people reported to the Richmond Bureau of Health trom April 12 to April 19, 1927, with da‘o of death: | April 9—Henry Irby, 35; 513 Cabell April 12—James Epps, 56; 1651 Claiborne Street. Aprit_1{—Maggie Henderson, 2 days 304 E. Leigh Street. | April 14—Armistead Robinson, 11; 2616 P Streat. April 14—Widiam Thomas, 23; Virginia Penitentiary. April 15—Henry Perfey, 21: Virginia Penitentiary. ee April_14—John White, 32; Millers ‘Tavern, Va. April. 15—Thomas Jefferson, 60; op 3, Mayotown. Avril 15—Doris Johnson, 4 months; 413 W. Baker Street April 15—-Ruth Martin, 10; 301 S. Lombardy Street. April 15—Thomas Lonon, 28; | 1214 Page Street. April. 15—John B. Hutcherson, 54; 310 E. Leigh Street, Apzil_16—Martha Smith, 59; 309 EB. 14th Qreet. April 15—Benjamin Dickerson, 33: 1910 Short P Street. April 18—Andrew S. Jackson, 10 months; 3107 Q Street. April 16—Carrie Miles, 10- hours: 3218 N Street. April 17—Amanda Carter, 65; 1103 Catherine Street. April 17—Mamie T. Wade, 42; 941-A N. 4th Street. SION BAPTIST CHURCH, (20ty and Decatur. So. Richmond.) Rev J. W. Dudley. D. D., Pastor: Parsonage 1715 Rverett Street, Ser- vices: Sunday, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A M The public is welcome. FAIRFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH (Fairfield Street) Rev. P. Phillips, pastor, 712 E. Clay St. Services: 11:80 A‘ M. and 8.00 P. M. Sunday School, 3:00 P. MM. The public is invited. EBENEZBR BAPTIST CHURCH, (Leigh aud Judah Streets.) Rev, W. H. stokes Ph. D., Pastor, Residence, 1607 Brook Road. Ser. vices: Sundays, 11 A. 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For herself the New Brunswick THE ALBONQUIN St. Andrews-by-the-Sea — the very name has suggestions of the seaside, of wind-blown lilks along the shore, of sea bathing, yachtier, all manner of water sports, and trout fishing in the near-by streams—yet this St. Andrews is not in Scotland but is a few hours ride from New York. Boston and Montreal, on the shores of Pamamaquoddy Bay, an estuary of the Bay of Maine, from which the Maimonides plainly visible. "Bill" Van Horne, who started as a telegrapher in Illinois and wound up as Sir William Van Horne, one of the big builders of the Canadian Pacific Railway and its second president, discovered this beauty spot in New Brunswick, made his summer home there, was followed by a houghtheaven, a coaster, and a dog. St. Andrews, in New Brunswick, got far from Saint John, in one of the best known resorts in Eastern Canada. 6. Set. Andrew has an 18-hole link of jousting wear for the expo- surement. 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Dennis who commanded Dennis' Scores during the Riel Rebellion. This big show where the Last Great War shoulders with the Calgary, East will be staged in Calgary, July 11-16 in the Foothills. The greatest of its kind in North America, it has among its patrons the Prince of Wales, whose E-P Ranch is near-by and the Governor General of Canada. This year Pavane Bill (Maj. Gordon W. Lille), Will Rogers, the famous cowboy humorist, and Edward P. Al while Gloria Swanson receives $7.40 a minute for an eight hour day," said Mr. Hays. "Babe Ruth gets $7.29 per minute while he works. Fifty to sixty cents a minute is average pay for railroad presidents, heads of insurance companies, and leading bankers. When your time is worth fifty cents a minute, you are in the right place, why is why men of this class have clocks in every room in their houses and value accuracy and punctuality above all things. When all the mass of American workers ovede, the Renaissance EDWARD F ALBEE bee, president of the Keith-Albea Vaudeville Circuit, have donated trophies for various events through Guy Weedick, originator of the "Stampede" and Stampede Manager. The "Stampede" starts the first day with its wonderfully interesting and colorful parade through Calgary's streets. Miles long, the paraders include hundreds of Indians in full war regalia, old timers of the prairies, with their Red River carts, veterans of the famous North-West Mounted Police, cowboys and cowgirls and chuckwagon outfits with bears and other live animals as mascots. This year there will be ten man-made in line, including the Australian National Earth. The regular pro 亦 atching the Clock: JUDGE K.M. LANDIS . 43 waste a second it costs $9,980. "Incomes per minute like that of President Coolidge look small besides those of Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin who are paid eleven cents a second, or $6.67 a minute. 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DUVAL, Clerk. By A. I. DUVAL, D.C. C. MIMMS, p. g. In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, Part 2, the 12th day of April, 1927. ROOSEVELT WILSON....Plaintiff against In Chancery CLARA WILSON....Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony on the ground of wilful desertion and abandonment by the plaintiff from the defendant. And an affidavit having been made and filed that the said Clara Wilson, the defendant, is not a resident of the State of Virginia, and whose last known address was Philadelphia, Pa., it is, therefore ordered that Clara Wilson do appear here within ten days after the due publication of this order and do whatever may be necessary to protect her interest in this suit. LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk. By B. H. TURNBULL, Deputy Clerk. WILLIAM F. DENNY, p.g. In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 12th day of April, 1927. JAMES ROBINSON .....Plaintiff vs. In Chancery NETTIE ROBINSON'...Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony by the plaintiff from the defendant on the ground of desertion for more than three years. And an affidavit having been made and fled that the said Nettie Robinson is not a resident of the State of Virginia and that her last post-office is unknown, it is therefore ordered that Nettie Robinson do appear here within ten days after the due publication of this order and do whatever may be necessary to protect her interest in this suit. A Copy—Teste: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk. By E. M. EDWARDS, D. C. WILLIAM F. DENNY, p. g. In the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond, Tuesday, April 12, 1927. BETTIE HACKNEY.....Plaintiff against Order of Publication ARMSTEAD HACKNEY, Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony by the plaintiff from the defendant on the ground of desertion. 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Just go to any drug store and ask for Johnson's the big Red Cross Kidney Plaster with the red flannel back. 2 Colored Men's Plea (Continued from page 1) parhetic in the plea of the ignorant man who talked about not being 'sassy to nobody' ever again if he were not put to death. Our correspondent asks: "Should the 'fearfully ignorant' be made to pay the supremest price for their folly? Does not fearful ignorance constitute a mitigating circumstance for any doomed man? Whose is the fault when a man is 'fearlessly ignorant'? "Put aside for the moment the thought of these particular men and the crimes for which they were executed, and consider only the general application of these questions. Our theory in this country demands the extension of education facilities to all; in so far, then, as a man is 'fearfully ignorant' because he has had no educational opportunities, the fault is the State's. Let's grant 'oo', although the State cannot actually compel a man to learn. Then is fearful ignorance a mitigating circumstance? And should the State impose the final penalty on the 'fearfully ignorant'? In part, the answer depends on what theory of punishment is accepted; and, in part on the nature of crime. "If punishment is merely a response to 'n community's cry for vengeance,' as our correspondent puts it, then the 'fearfully ignorant' do not in good morals merit the same measure of punishment as the educated and informed. In so far as the criminal himself is affected, his fearful ignorance should serve as a mitigating circumstance. But punishment under modern civilization is destined to act as a deterrent; we punish criminals to prevent others from committing crime. And the more ignorant a man is, the further down in the scale of humanity, the harder or the more animal, the more necessary is it to hold fear before him as a deterrent. When reason and morality and intelligence will not deter, stark fear of punishment must be relied upon to deter. "The nature of the crime referred to above, involves understanding on the part of the criminal. Some of the less obvious, less crude, offenses against the criminal laws are not understood by the "fearfully ignorant." For that reason and for the further reason that such crimes are not highly charged with danger to society, it may be admitted that justice should not be blind in administering punishment in such cases. "Bu—and here the thought of the two 'fearfully ignorant' men and their crimes must be caught up in there are crimes which are so abhorrent to nature that the serious savages, let alone the 'fearfully ignorant/ recognize their criminal character.' Fearfully ignorant' though the executed men were, "they were not so ignorant that they did not know that murder and depraved criminal assault were hideous crimes. "Fearful ignorance is, indeed, a pitiful and tragic and sorrowful thing, a thing to be obliterated from a civilized Stake. 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