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THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library. VIRGINIA JUN 3 1927 STATE LIBRARY A MURDERED WIFE A Shot Gun the Weapon----Charges Woman Lied. Two-Hapless Children Motherless--Shot at Wife's Sister Too--A Gruesome Tragedy in the West-end Part of the City--Neighborhood Aroused. VOLUME XLIV. NO. 31 A Shot Two-Haple Trage (Special by John Mitchell, Jr.) Leroy Alexander 1812 Taylor St-shot his wife, Mamie, with a shotgun. Monday afternoon, May 30 1927, mangling the right leg to such an extent as to cause the surgeons to amputate the limb in a vain effort to save her life. She leaves two children a girl 14 months old and a boy, 2 months old. He works for Mann and Brown, the florist. He also shot at his wife's sister Viola Simmons, who resides in Fulton, but who was visiting her sister's home. A single barreled shotgun in the Police Court last Tuesday morning showed the weapon which did the deadly work. DIDN'T INTEND TO KILL HER. Alexander disavowed any intention of killing his wife, citing the fact that he only shot her in the leg. His reason given was that she did not stay at home and told him a falsehood. Judge John L. Ingram had a heavy docket the morning after Memorial Day and had the appearance of a jurist thoroughly tired out from his onerous labors. The usual announcement by "Pop" Tate, the bailiff, brought an end to the proceedings. The court will take a recess for 15 minutes." If you will 15 minutes for it to recover, you will wait a mighty long time, as a rule. So this statement carries with it a vein of humor, which is reflected upon the beaming countenance of Assistant Baillif Folkes. ALEXANDER'S STATEMENT. I crossed over to the lock-up and asked for Leroy Alexander. A small wiry light brown skin individual responded. In reply to queries, he made the following statement: "I came home from work and I saw my wife's sister in the house minding the baby. Her name is Violet Simmons I asked, 'Where is Mamie, my wife?' She said my wife wont down town witch a girl named Janie. I was washing a window glass, when I saw Janie pass the corner of Allen Avenue and Taylor Street. I called her and told her to come to my house. She said she did not have time. I must come there on the corner. DENIED SEEING HER "I asked her where is Mamie. She said she had not seen Mamie today. I said her sister says she went down town with you. She said she could not have done so, for she had not seen her at all that day (Monday). I went back home and continued to wash the windows. My wife did not come home until 3:30 P. M. I. I asked my wife where she had been all of that time. She said she went out with a girl named Janie. I told her she had not, for I had seen Janie and Janie said she had not seen her. GOT SOMETHING "My wife's sister went into the kitchen and got something, which I think was a bottle. My wife called me a liar and I got a gun and shot my wife in the leg. I did not intend to kill her. That is why I shot her in the leg. I have since been told that she is dead. I am from Charleston, South Carolina and I have a mother living there. She lives at Josephine Alexander. My name is Josephine Alexander. My name is Charles Flemming. I belong to the Baptist Church. My wife is from Charleston, S. C. TWO MOTHERLESS CHILDREN. "I have two children, one a girl 14 months old and the other a boy 2 months old. I work for Mann and Brown, the florists." Leroy Alexander has two warrants against him, one for the murder of his wife and another for an attempt to shoot, malm, disfigure and kill his wife's sister, Violet Simmons, it being alleged that he fired the gun at her. AN ECHO FROM BRANCH CASE. A warrant, which was an echo of the W. E. Branch murder case was on the docket, when Irene Hebron's name was called. She was charged with being disorderly on the premises of Mrs. Alease Williams on Baker Street, where her husband boarded. Mrs. Williams said that Mrs. Hebron came to her house yes, terday and used had language on her premises, stalking mules in and looking around. She said that she furnished meals for Mrs. Hebron's husband, but that owing to indisposition, she had told him that she could not cook for him that day. AFTER HER HUSBAND. He had left although his car was parked on the outside of her residence. Irene Hebron staggered that she had been advised to see her husband and endeavor to reach some agreement by which he would stop slamming her. Learning that he was there, she went there to see him. (Continued on page 7) ONE KILLED AS AUTO OVERTURNS ON ROAD Striking a machine parked on the side of the road a few miles from Richmond on the Washington Highway late last night, Ernest tC. Johnson 32, of Washington, was instantly killed. Four other occupants of the auto escaped uninjured, although the machine was completely wrecked. When the car was raised from Johnson's prostrate body it was found his head had been pinned under a brace of the roof. The parked automobile was owned by Lawrence Robinson, of East Byrd Street. Richmond. According to reports received here, Johnson and his four companions were coming to Richmond. In the rain, the parked machine was not seen until too late to avoid an accident, it was stid. Johnson's machine skidded across the roadbed to crash into Robertson's automobile. Several occupants of the parked car also escaped unhurt. The body was turned over to Price's undertaking establishment. SOUTHERN AID PAYS DEATH CLAIM IN 2 HRS The Southern Aid Society, Inc. rendered me and mine "railroad time" in the payment of the death claim of our mother, Mrs. Mary J. Monroe. We filed the death claim Saturday, May 28, 1927, at 11 o'clock and to our great surprise, the Company paid the claim at 1 o'clock the same day. This was done in two hours. As one of us had to return to Chicago and expected to experience delay and have the claim paid there, we were astounded at the promptness and we take this means of chanking the Company. Our advice to all of our people is to patronize this great insurance company, for they can rest assured if the claim is valid, they can secure similar accommodation. CORNELIUS J. MONROE. (MRS.) ANNA UNDERWOOD RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, JUNE 4, 1927 Oligarchy Must Go--Claim Big Vote for Reform Measures--Reduction of Salaries, Change of Officers Demanded "Norfolk, Va., May 30, 1927. Editor of The Newport News Star, Newport News, Virginia. Dear Sir:—The Tidewater Chapter Past Chancellors' Council, K. of P. in regular session assembled in the City of Norfolk, had brought to its attention that afternoon, May 29, 1927, two scurrilous, false and misleading articles appearing on the front page of your issues of May 19, 1927 and May 26, 1927. MR. G. W. COX, OF N. C. MUTUAL VISITS RICHMOND. Mr. G. W. Cox Agency Director of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, was a visitor in Richmond last week. Mr. Cox addressed the Agency Force of Richmond District Friday, May 20th at 10 o'clock, using aa the subject of TEACHERS PRESENT PETITION FOR RAISE IN SALARY SCHEDULE THE OFFENDING ARTICLE. The article appearing in the May 19th issue is camouflaged under the caption, "Mayor Jones will extend welcome to Courts and Pythians at annual meet" and concludes with a paragraph subcaption "Past Chan cellors meet" in which among other things, it is stated: "Expressions were asked for from the various representatives as to their attitude toward the present administration. Many took advantage of this opportunity to tell of their satisfaction with all except three of the present corps of officers: Grand Keeper, F. E. Puryear, Grand Keeper of Records and Seal, Eugene West and Lecturer, W. W. Fore ON RECORD TWICE. The only comment that is necessary for us to make as a rejoinder to the above quotation is that the Tidewater Past Chancellors' Council has on two separate occasions gone or record by an overwhelming vote of more than five to one as being wholly in accord with the stand taken by F. E. Puryear, Grand Vice Chancellor; Eugene West, Grand Keeper of Records and Seal, and W. W. Foreman, Grand Lecturer, and on the other hand we have taken a stand as being totally and unalterably opposed to, and dissatisfied with the three principal officers of the Crowell administration, viz: Grand Chancellor, W. B. F. Crowell; Grand Master of Exchequer, Joseph R. Pollard, and Grand Attorney W. H. C. Brown. Resolutions adopted by this Council and distributed in circular form under and by its authority, to the Knighthood of the State, tell in unmissable terms the reason for our dissatisfaction with the three said principal officers, viz: W. B. F. Crowell, Joseph R. Pollard and W. H. C. Brown. THREE-FOURTHS APPROVE ACTION Replies to 'these circulars which are now in the hand of our secretary, indicate that fully three-fourths of the accredited delegates who will attend the annual session of our grand lodge in Newport News, Virginia, next month, will vote to oust W. B. F. Crowell as Grand Chancellor; W. H. C. Brown, as Grand Attorney and Joseph R. Pollard, as Grand Master of Exchequer, and to assist in formulating a constructive program for the rehabilitation of the Order. OLIGARCHY MUST GO. Upsetting and courageous Pytha (Continued on page 4. MR. G. W. COX, OF N. C. MUTUAI VISITS RICHMOND. Mr. G. W. Cox, Agency Director of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, was a visitor in Richmond last week. Mr. Cox addressed the Agency Force of Richmond District Friday, May 20th at 10 o'clock, using as the subject of his address "Opportunity and Service". He told how the Company had always planned to render the highest possible service to its policy holders and the race, and of its plans for even better service for the immediate future. He stressed the fact that his Company regards it as its greatest privilege to serve its policy-holders and the communities in which it operates. The Company has grown from the bottom to a company of today, with Five Hundred Thousand policy-holders on which, there is more than $45,000,000 in Insurance, and with assets of more than $3,000,000. Mr. Cox was introduced by Mr. D. C. Deans, Regional Supervisor, and was followed with a short talk by Mr. J. Dean, Dean of Monagar. Friday at 8 o'clock a stag banquet was given in honor of Mr. Cox at the Company's office in the Mechanics Bank Building, at which time speeches were made by several officials and guests on subjects of the hour. The prime object of Mr. Cox's visit was to personally present three prizes in the form of nice fat checks to Agents John E. Bankett, Charles B. Case and Jesse A. Brown, for having made the highest increase in business of any agents in their class, in the jurisdiction of the Company. This fact makes all of their friends happy to know that Richmond has the largest number of star agents of any district under the Company, and Richmond is proud of them. Mr. Cox left with a great impression of Richmond and a high appreciation for its citizens. Card of Thanks. A card of thanks from the Charitable Union to our many friends, both white, and colored, who have so kindly given to this worthy cause, for these many years. God bless you. We wish you great success in your business and the best of health. We wish to thank Mr. and Mrs. John Dunn of 411 E. Franklin St. who gave so kindly last year to the communion set one Bible, one hymn book, one nice oak table and one chair to be used in the chapel for this worthy cause. A vote of thanks and praise to them, hoping that some more of our friends may see the cause as they have seen it and do likewise. Yours for the cause of the Union REPUBLICAN MEG 313 E. Baker Street Bring us your job work. It will be promptly and at a reasonable price. TEACHERS PRESENT PETITION FOR RAISE IN SALARY SCHEDULE A delegation of more than 200 Richmond Public School Teachers and citizens appeared before the City School Board. Friday evening, May 27th, and presented a petition for an increase of the salaries paid the colored teachers. The presentation took place in the George Wythe Junior High School, Marshall Street between Eighth and Ninth, where special arrangements were made to provide for the large delegation. The presentation was under the auspices of the Richmond Teachers Association and Prof. Nelson Williams, Jr. was in charge of the presentation and presented the speakers. Chairman W. Floyd Reams of the School Board stated that the board had decided to give a sympathetic and full hearing on this important issue and gave unlimited time to the speakers. Dr. W. T. Johnson, representing the Interracial Conference made the opening address, placing the petition in a most favorable light before the School Board. He was followed by Mr. Wiley A. Hall, president of the Richmond Teachers Association: Mr. M. A. Norwell, representing the Civic Club; Rev. James S. Hatcher of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance; and Dr. Charles S. Morris, who made the presentation address. Dr. Morris showed himself a master of the art of presenting a question of great moment. The effect on his hearers was electrical as he carefully built a logical structure upon which to rest the petition. The presentation was easily managed from the beginning of the movement until now. Foremost in this movement were Miss Ethel Thompson, chairman of the committee, whose intelligent handling of the effort is commended everywhere; Prof. Nelson Williams, Jr.; Mr. Wiley A. Hall-president of the Association, Miss Fannie Williams and Mr. Thomas Barrett. It is understood that the School Board was favorably impressed and that the petition has been referred to a special committee for investigation and report. Josie Day, who stabbed to death Daisy Alexander, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter last Wednesday morning in the Hustings Court and Judge Mathews sentenced her to three years in the Virginia pententiary. Miss Frances Lewis and Miss Mozelle Mosby spent Memorial Day in Washington. JOHN H. HARRIS DR. G. WILSON BECTON Head of the The World's Gospel F east Party, which is packing Fifth Street Baptist Church nightly in unique Evangelistic Meetings. DR. BECTON AT FIFTH STREET "The World's Gospel Feast Party" revival is claiming the attention of Richmond. Over-flowing crowds pack Fifth Street Baptist Church from night to night. Sinners are caused to tremble, wanderers are coming home, and every Christian made to see himself as an open book by the powerful messages Dr. Beaton is delivering each night. Truly this evangelist is a man endowed with power from on high. He is one of the most profound and (Continued on page 5) THE GRACE COVENANT PRESBY TERIAN CHURCH WITH MT. OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH The Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church which assisted so materially in the erection of the pipe organ given by the Monumental Episcopal Church to the Mount Olivet Baptist Church (25th and S Sts.); has kindly consented to assist in its dedication, on the second Sunday, June 12, 1927; 3:30 P. M. with a musical programme by their choir and with an address by their pastor, Dr. C. L. King. 2 DURHAM N. C. PREACHER AT FOUNTAIN BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. Dr. H. R. Holt, pastor of the Saint John Baptist Church, Durham, N. C. will preach at the Fountain Baptist Church, corner 32nd and P Streets at 11:30 A. M. and 7:30. Sunday- SinC, he is internationally known, it is expected that a large crowd will hear him. Rev. A. R. Vanlandingham is pastor. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. in Lied. Gruesome used. TON BECTON east Party, which is packing Fifth unique Evangelistic Meetings. C. A. PURYEAR KILLED IN RUNAWAY SMASH FALLS ON HEAD WHEN THROWN FROM VEHICLE, AS HORSE RUNS AWAY. Thrown from his wagon Thursday night after vainly trying to halt his runaway horse, Caliph A. Puryear, 64 was instantly killed. The animal became frightened near St. James and Hospital Streets and started east on Hospital. In front of the City Home, the vehicle struck a tree, and the front and rear parted. Mr. Puryear was thrown heavily to the street, his head striking the pavement. Attendants at the City Home made efforts to revive him, but he died a few minutes later. Coroner James M. Whitfield was called, and after viewing the body, ordered it turned over to Scott's undertaking establishment. Caliph A. Puryear was well known in religious and fraternal circles, at one time heading the Grand Lodge of St. John Watchmen, as Grand Master Watchman. He was a member of Fifth St. Baptist Church. He resided at 1911 Fairfield St. Master Matthew W. White, the interesting little son of Mr. and Mrs. John P. White, of 739 N. 5th St. returned home this week from St. Philips Hospital where he underwent an operation removing his tonsils. Rev. Paul Pollard preached a very inspiring sermon at Sharon Baptist Church in Lancaster County, Va. last Sunday, 11:30 A. M. --- WHY MEN LEAVE HOME. CUISINE AL FRESCO Healthful Food and Good Health CULINARY EXPERT COPELAND PRODUCTS, INC. COLD LONG SOUGHT AS MAN'S ALLY. Thousands of years ago, among primitive peoples and the early civilizations, cold was recognized as a means of frozen creams and ice in early fishmongers in ice ice from wagons. An avalanche in 1806 the fields of Siberia the mammoth which had been centuries and still in preserving food and making certain dishes more tasty. Long ago it was discovered that flavors are to be found in cold foods which are altogether lacking when heat is applied. It has been a long, long journey since the first desire to control cold as well as heat and from the days of the Egyptians and their crude ice making to the present day with its electric refrigeration, which requires a minimum of effort and attention and is automatically regulated. Iced dishes formerly for royalty exclusively are now the common property of every man. The Egyptians had the secret of cooling by evaporation. By placing shallow trays filled with water on beads of straw when the cool night whirls in the blow over them, thin layers of ice were obtained. The trays were of porous material. This is still practiced in India. Emperor Nero had his slaves bring ice and snow from the mountains to cool his wines. Alexander, the Great and snow placed in trenches especially dug for the purpose. In these he stored hundreds of kegs of wine for his well- fed alaxanes. He early Greek post Simonides wrote bittered at a banquet where all of the guests but himself were served with wines cooled with snow. As a result he wrote a poem conserving his host. Hadin the leader of the Moham- manian warriors sent frozen shebet to Richard the Lion Hearted accord- trio to Sir Walter Scott. Pope brought nines for water and nine from Japan and China. It is a seventh century when Catherine Medici sent Florence Italy, to go to France she took our best posts to keep her wrapped with 0 1970 "Six million cars carrying an average of three campers each will hit the 'rubber trail' during the season." said Food Food Health by A Baxter. frozen creams and ice each day. Early fishmasters in England solid ice from wagons. An avalanche in 1806 uncovered in the fields of Siberia the body of a mammoth which had been buried for centuries and still in an excellent state of preservation. The flesh was removed and their body with no ill effects to either. Fragments of the carcase were taken to the Field Museum in Chicago and there placed on exhibition. In 1805 the first large ice noses were built for storing natural ice harvested in the winter months. One and one-third million tons were taken from the Penobscot and Kennobec rivers, in the winters of 1879 and 1880. Maine for a long time was the chief source of supply. Modern knowledge of refrigeration dates from Pasteur's discovery, decay is caused by bacteria, that low temperature prevents odegrees Fahrenheit—prevents odegrees from increasing almost continuously as number The history of household automatic electric refrigeration dates back to dozen or more years to the period just before the World War when one or two American manufacturers began experimenting with this new electric-mechanical vapor compression type refrigerating device. Other facturers followed closely so that at the beginning of 1926 there were about 142,000 household electric refrigerators in use in the United States. This number represents but 1 per cent of the more than 14,500,000 electrically wired homes in this country and about one-half of 1 per cent of the 26,000,000 homes in the United States. With the introduction of the electric refrigerator a whole field of new dishes has been given to man. Refrigeration brought flavors to food which were unknown before. The electric machine automatically regulated and noiseless is adding many more food delicacies and pleasing flavors. (Copyright 1927.) THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND' VIRGINIA a bulletin made public by the research bureau of the Coleman Lamp & Stove company of Wichita, Kan. "Average expenditure of motorists taking their vacation under canvass this year is estimated at $83.33 apiece. "Improvement in camping equipment including introduction of safety gasoline pressure camp stoves has added greatly to the enjoyment of vacations outdoors. A Coleman camp stove with an oven for baking, that folds into a small suitcase-like package is the outdoor man's best friend no matter what the weather. It makes home cooking possible and is an effective means in cutting down the forest fire hazard, since it leaves neither ashes nor embers. "It is estimated that 49 per cent of the automobile owners of California. 34 per cent of those of Iowa and Texas. 30 per cent of those in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin and 25 per cent of the car owners of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska will join the procession of automobile campers. Only 13 per cent of the cars in the Atlantic seaboard states will be used for that purpose this summer, reports indicate." Perfect~ Scholar Twila Shoemaker of Centrals Kansas, student at Kansas U, has worked her way through four years of college—received highest mark for every study, awarded "KU" over 2200 girl students, and has broken every academic record. "Not Guilty" By Albert T. Reid GERMANY DER REAL EVIDENCE PREPARED BY GERMANY POISON GAS WARFARE SINKING OF HOSPITAL SCRIPS DESTRUCTION OF CATHEDRALS VIOLATION OF BELGIUM EIHES SUBMARINE ATROCITIES IMMUNIZED DESTRUCTION SCRAPS OF THE "SCRAP OF PAPER" Here is the happy Charles Lindbergh in Paris with background view of a flight around Eiffel Tower, in his monoplane, "The Spirit of St. Louis." Europe has taken our youthful and intrepid air man to its heart as he plane vacation "hope" to the different capitals. Lindbergh's love for his plane, which carried him from New York to Paris, in 33½ hours, is shown when in speaking of the feat he always says "we"—meaning plane and self. Doran Dry Chief AUTOCASTER Dr. J. M. Doran, head chemist in the Prohibition Enforcement Bureau, succeeds Roy A. Haynes as Prohibition Commissioner. AVIOCASTER To John W. Kirchar of Arenzville, Illinois, seemingly goes the national title for the best school record, having gone 12 years, 8 months without missing a day or being tardy. In grade school he walked a mile to school and during high school years has walked two miles. AUTOCASTER Jack Sharkey, Boston heavyweight, who now looms champion. Tunney's most dangerous choreographer since his five round knockout and Maloney. HEY RAYS Published Every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr. at All-North Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. ... EDITOR 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 ..... .60 Foreign Subscriptions ..... 2.50 Foreign Advertising Representative, W. B. 212 Company, 408 Ocearnost Street, Chicago; 821 Victoria Building, St. Louis, Mo.; 420 Longacre Building, New York. SATURDAY..... JUNE 4, 1927 Our brilliant contemporary, The Newport News, Va. Star. under the caption of "White People and Race Papers" in kg issue of May 26th says: "Our friend John Mitchell, Jr. of the Richmond Planet, says that if there are any people so unsophisticated as to believe that the white people do not know what w_e say in our papers they should summon him to testify to_o the contrary. He says that about twenty-five years ago he wrote an editorial which was construed as a reflection upon one of the judges of our State for a decision rendered by him, and that in a few days after the publication of his criticism he was summoned before the said judge for contempt of his court. Brother Mitchell did not record what the judgment of the court was, but he does say that he has not done it again." The Judge entered an order dismissing the proceedings after an attorney had taxed us fifty dollars for drawing a paper that we could have written ourselves. O yes, a colored editor is "living in a fool's paradise" so to speak when he imagines that he can say what he pleases in the columns of his journal and that the white folks wont think enough of it to read it. "WE HAVE THE REMEDY." "Our observation has been that no President, Republican or Democrat, has been able to resist successfully the mismaa of race prejudice at Washington, regardless of what his personal feelings might be upon the subject. Theodore Roosevelt yielded to it and Woodrow Wilson could not resist its impetus and now it seems that Calvin Coolidge, hailing from the free state of Massachusetts in stalled, and bows to this same crowning infamy of the American Republic—Richmond (Va.) Planet, "The foregoing is true, at least as far as our lifetime is concerned, except the fact that President Thomas Woodrow Wilson PROMPTED instead of 'resisted its impetus.' The condition complained of is going to continue until our people learn to refuse to vote for or to vote against such Presidents when candidates for reelection." We cordially and enthusiastically commend and recommend this ad vice from the "age of race journal and one of the ablest and best statesmen of the race in this country. We refer to the Hon. H. C. Smith of Cleveland, O. ```markdown ``` Cold, Gripps, Flu, Dengue Blood Fever and Malaria It Kills the Germs. TIDEWATER PYTHIANS (Continued from Page 1) laws throughout the State are determined $^o$ rid the order of this oligarchy, who like a giant octopus, are now throttling it and sapping its very life's blood by burdening it with excessive and unnecessary high salaries. Economy and retrenchment and a strict observance of Pythian laws governing the disbursement of our Grand Lodge funds is our policy and if this is not the traitors, as we are $^o$ branded in one of the articles above referred to, then we are proud to be such traitors. COUNCIL, NOT REORGANIZED The article appearing in the May 26th issue "was born in sin and shaped in iniquity" and is a falsehood of the whole cloak. It pursues to emanate from the Tidewater Past Cancellors' Council and alleges that the same was reorganized, when as a matter of fact, neither the president nor secretary knew anything whatever of the alleged meeting except by rumor and hear-say. DRASTIC CRITICISM. The report also states that "the meeting was largely attended and enthusiastic". A majority of those who attended were merely erstwhile Pythians (has been) and some of the principals taking part in the alleged reorganization are not members in good standing with their respective subordinate lodges. The few Pythians in good standing who were present were made up of two classes, viz: Those who attended cut of mere curiosity, to see what it was all about and the others were sycophantic vassals doing the bidding of their overlords. This latter group tried in vain to prevent this council from adopting the resolutions that have been circulated as herein recited, and forms that hopeless minority that seems to be a necessary evil of every worthwhile organization. PURYEAR, WEST AND FOREMAN FAVORED. No Mr. Editor, the Pythians of Virginia are not dissatisfied at the stand taken by Sirs Puryear, West and Poreman, nor with the services rendered by them in their respective offices neither has there been any reorganization of the Tidewater Council of Past Chancellors, K. of P., nor will there be any. These tumblings you hear from the opposition are but echoes of the dying peroxisms of an exposed and discredited oligarchy whose regime of wanton waste of our Grand Lodge funds is about to be brought to an end and who like an out-pointed pugilist is reluctant to leave his corner for fear of the knockout blow that he knows to be surely in waiting for him. AN APPEAL FOR FAIR PLAY. In conclusion, Mr. Editor, since your paper is the official organ of Pythianism in Virginia, we are asking that you give this article the same prominence in your columns that you gave the two to which this one is a reply. Respectfully yours Tidewater Past Chancellors Council Knights of Pythias in regular session at Norfolk, Va. May 29 1927. F. E. PURYEAR, President. EUGENE WEST, Secretary. Y.W.C.A. Columna Mrs. Cora Epps Hill, Chairman of the Committee on Education of the Y. W. C. A., will present local talents in a Sacred Concert at the Leigh Street Methodist Church, Sunday, June 12th at 3:30 P. M. The concert will be given in connection with a Pew Rally to raise the balance of the Girl Reserve Summen Conference, Fund. mier Conference X The Conference will meet at Kings Mountain, N. C., the historical grounds for Religious Conferences, especially the Young Men's Christian Association. The Richmond Delocation will participate in Bible Study, Discussions, Recreation, Council Hour Membership Ceremonies, which will bring them into contact with some of the foremost leaders of both races and with girls of their age and thinking. This experience should be a definite part of each girls training for better womanhood. Among those who will appear on the program and those giving their support to the Girl Reserves are: Mrs. Maria Burke, who will make the appeal for the Fund; Mrs. Eloise Shelton one of Richmond's finest speakers; Mrs. Ella Carter, Mrs. Kato G. Colson, and Miss Louise Jackson, whose histronic ability is beyond question. Among the musical artists, Coleridge Davis, Miss Mabel Scott, Mr. Oliver Williams, Mr. Paul Morton, Dr. Z. G. Gilpin, and a quartet by Mrs. Emma Bayter Mrs. Maggie Johnson and the Misses Blanche and Maria Settles. Its the kind of a program you will use on the Leigh Street Mehodi Church. Come and Go with the SHEPHERDS to Bayshore. July 19, 1927 You are called upon to keep in mind the date of the third annual Excursion of the Improved Order Shepherds and Daughters of Bethlehem to Bayshore. This occasion is going to afford you not only a day of real enjoyment and pleasure but an opportunity to visit and inspect some of the most prominent and historical spots in Virginia. You will be surprised to know that a few blocks from Bay Shore marks the identical spot where John Smith landed three hundred and twenty years ago. Fortress Monroe, the famous Hampton Institute, the great Ship Ved at Newport News the Langley Flying Station and the Naval Soldiers Home are all a very short distance from this famous sum mer resort. Every one will do well to visit these various places where you will be able to gather valuable historical information. Everywhere you turn you can hear som, one speaking of this Excursion. You cannot afford to miss it. I wish to call the attention of the Folds promoting this Excursion to the fact that Fold reporting the greatest amount of cash for tickets sold on the 7th of June will be presented with the gift of Grand Secretary Treasurer. A number of Folds are competing for the sale of these THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND' VIRGINIA When you ask for Dr. Fred Palmer's Skin Whitener Preparations-be sure you get them. Don't let the clerk hand you the wrong package. Hundreds of people have been deceived just because they failed to say Dr. FRED Palmer's. 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Miss Spencer, seventy years old, rode to work at the Treasury Department and back on a bicycle, saved and made more than $100,000. She leaves small sums to relatives and the balance $100,000, for a tombstone. Relatives object, the court is asked to decide. The foolish waste should be forbidden. But it is interesting to think of that old Treasury clerk pushing her bicycle back and north, meditating on the grand figure that she would cut in death with her $10,000 tomb, she who in It had been only a $1,200 year senior clerk. Happiness is largely imagination. Giant Hotel of th STONE CARVING It is suggested unspecifically that Mr. Hughes, formerly Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, will be chosen by Governor Fuller of Massachusetts as head of a commission to investigate the Sacco-Vanetzetti case. Such a choice would be satisfactory to the country, and the decision conclusive. It is more important by far than executing any two men, to make sure that there was no mistake or prejudice in conviction. The views of clergymen each Sunday present interesting contrasts, such as would have been unsafe for the clergymen one hundred years ago. The Rev. Dr. Walter Duncan Buchanan says we are ignorant about heaven and our uncertainty is a blessed thing. It gives us something to hope and work for. The Rev. Dr. Minot Simons, Unitarian, says we must look for our "compensation" in this life. Old ideas of heaven and hell "are now inadequate and futile." The Rev. Dr. Straton says Mrs. Snyder, convicted of helping to murder her husband, is an atheist. She couldn't have committed the crime had she believed in God. If that is so, there have been atheists in high places throughout history. Republicans and Democrats are planning a 1928 campaign in which the wet and dry question will be shelved, forgotten. Some wets say, "If you do, we shall start a third party, dripping wet." That would not hurt the feelings of Republicans, who have decided the Democrats may have the wet issue. If, as seems likely, a wet Democrat is nominated, the wets will know his wetness and vote for him. A separate wet party would get as few votes now as a separate prohibition party used to get, in the old wet days. Congressman William W. Cohen says the Government's treatment of letter carriers and mail clerks is a disgrace, which is accurate. Mail workers are underpaid as recipients, and shamefully treated as substitutes. For the Government to compel men, perhaps with children, to leave in entire day waiting for one or two hours' work, and for the richest country in the world to pay its post office force as miserably as ours are paid, is unworthy. he World Opens on "Bo Now comes the world's biggest hotel. It is the new Stevena, a twenty-seven million dollar giant that has pushed its way to a prominent place in the jagged seating known as Chicago's skyline. It is a hotel on homestead, hotel, the city's most beautiful thoroughfare, the town's five story hotel of beautiful Indiana limestone and brick, represents the last word in modern convenience. There are three thousand guest rooms, a convention and exhil- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND' VIRGINIA Magazine Page About Your Health Things You Should Know by John Joseph Gaines, M.D. REST Rest is the cure of many complaints—and is within the reach of every man and woman; the trouble is, we do not treat the subject with intelligence. Since my last letter to this paper, I note the deaths of two distinguished men; one a statesman nationally known, 63—and the other a politician of state-wide notoriety, 67. Both endowed with all that make for long life; neither knew how to rest. Neither of these men used the muscular body one hour out of the twenty-four both burned the nerve-candle to vanishing-point. Neither knew the meaning of mental or digestive was of course the newspaper diagnosis was of course the heart disease." When we hear that, the nervous and digestive systems are the universally overweight of the body! Our digestive apparatus, which is really governed by the nerves, needs rest, must have it otherwise, food swallowed is absorbed without digesting, hence is at once poisonous to the heart and brain. A spurt of protracted overmental-work, and, the curtain goes down. Heart-disease!! Some men practically never allow the nervous system to rest; especially is this true of the more brilliant of men and women. They love work—revel in accomplishment, and—die before their time. Eating too much and rolling with the brain incessantly, affords the most certain passport to the great beyond. The average worker, whether with brain or brawn, invariably receives ample warning of the danger ahead; a nervous system that will stand six hours of activity, will crack at ten or twelve. The heart is driven and regulated by nerves—the digestive system also is activated by the same force. If all the nerve energy is expended on the business, there will be a deficiency left to digest the pork-and-beans, and to drive one heart. Next week: Old Remembrance. Boulevard Mich" bishop hall covering thirty-two thousand feet, and innumerable features, such as a two-ward hospital and operating room. Thousands attended the recent opening, many coming from distant cities. President W. H. Dickinson of the Indiana Limestone company, out of whose quarries came stone for exterior work and elegant decorative carvings, characterised the hotel as a striking monument to present-day commercial progress. MARION TALLEY JEANNETTE VREELAND MR. A. ATWATER KENT Youthful Stars Who Have Achieved Fame and the Man Who Sponsors Search for New Artists. Father of Broadcasting Celebrates His 76th Birthday In His Washington Home--Discusses the Future of Radio Every American boy and girl young man and young woman, with a gift of the song, is to have a chance at a grand opera or concert career as a result of a nation wide search for new vocal talent to be conducted this summer by the Atwater Kent Foundation of Philadelphia. The barriers which so often make it difficult or impossible for talented and aspiring musical genius to secure the training and achieve the recognition necessary to success are, for once, to be wiped away. The door of opportunity will be opened wide to every aspirant, rich or poor, from city, town or farm. The only limiting qualification will be the voice. For the young man or woman with that golden gift, the rest will be provided. In this selection of America's most promising young voices, the entire nation, through radio, is to have a part. Preliminary selections, in states and districts, will be made jointly by the votes of radio listeners, following broadcasting testants, and by organized musical testants, in these eliminations the radio votes will count 80 percent, that of the individual judges 40 percent. The final selection of prize winners, however, five young men Father of Broadcast In His Washing The gray haired scientist, Emile Berliner, erect a soldier on his seventy-sixth birthday, celebrated the occasion quietly at his home in Washington, where he listened-in and discussed the future of radio. While for more than forty years his invention of the microphone was well known to scientists as the essential factor in telephone transmission, it now has the acuteness of that the microphone became familiarly known to millions. For without "Mike" there is no broadcasting. Berliner is also the father of the disc talking machine, but it is his oldest child "Mike" that is his chief pride. And Berliner, on his seventy-sixth birthday, expressed the belief that the microphone, although now fifty years old, is still in its adolescence. The next century, he believes, will see Mike's usefulness extended to the new no more foot seen than radio broadcasting was hair a century ago. He is a great lover of music and believes that radio is having a far reaching influence in promoting musical appreciation in America. He was particularly pleased at the announcement, made the day before, that the Atwater Kent Foundation this year planned searching out and educating the best vocal talent to be found in the youths of America under twenty-five years of age. Musical education is declared, "one of the most of mental and spiritual foods. If the mind is pleasurably exercised by the harmonious vibrations of song, more free circulation, better health, greater activity and more smiles will be the result in our daily lives." "That this is being brought about through the broadcasting of musical masterpieces by great artists there can be no doubt. Men like Atwater --- EMILE BERLINER AND GRANDDRAUGHTER and five young women, will be by a turse of expert, music, judges. jury of expert musical judges. The spirit and purpose of this National Radio Audition are indicated in a statement by Mr. A. Atwater Kent, president of the foundation, who said: "Recovery of one of those rare voices, of which each generation produces a very few, seems to me an event of profound national importance. Even when such a voice could give pleasure to only a few thousand people in a year, it was a national treasure. Now that millions may enjoy it in a single evening, through the medium of radio, such a voice has become priceless. "The National Radio Audition, supported by the Atwater Kent Foundation, is an undertaking to search the music and to offer these singers an opportunity for full development, recognition and reward." Under the plans announced, musical, civic and women's clubs in each community in each state will be invited to hold contests to select the best young man and young woman singer, under twenty-five years of age, in their locality. These local selections will then compete in a state audition, to be broadcast by a radio station in each state. 承 National Radio Audition MARION TALLEY MR. A. ATWATER KENT Sors Search for New Artists. State winners will be certified to district auditions, of which there will be five. Winners in the district eliminations will broadcast in the National Audition, which will be put on the air in New York. Five young men and five young women will be chosen for the final awards. The first three in each group will receive, respectively, prizes of $5,000, $2,000 and $1,000 in cash and tuition in a leading American conservatory of music. The remaining two in each group will receive cash awards in the recognition gained by each winner, however, is regarded as earning each of the ten a definite start on the road to a successful musical career. Just as Orville Karrol mounted overnight from driving a laundry wagon in Muncie, Indiana, to the place of a leading tenor of the Metropolitan Opera, and as Marion Talley, through the assistance of Kansas City sponsors, made her grand opera debut while still in her teens, so are some now unknown boys and girls almost certain to be brought to the forefront of America's young singers as a result of this quest for new voices. In fact, the musical America of tomorrow may be largely shaped by the talent brought to light by this National Radio Audition. --- KELLY MILLERS' AUTHENTIO HISTORY OF NEGRO IN WORLD WAR A GREAT NEW WORLD WAR HISTORY In addition to its containing a graphic account of the War, 'includes many chapters on subjects of vital interest. 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Write today. ‘This advice is entirely free to you. She has nothing to sell. (Continued From Page 1° Judge Ingram listened patiently *o the statements and then quietly dis- missed the ease. ‘The witnesses in the murder case are Viole Symonds, V. A. Napier, and @. T. Gilliland. Alexander was committed ‘o jail. The remains of ke unfortunate woman were urned over to Funeral Director Robert C. Scott On a cooling board in the morgue at the Robert C. Scott ea'ablish- ment laa: Wednesday rested the re- mains of Mamie Alexander. She yas @ brown skin woman of pleth- crie build in striking contrast to her husband, who had shot her. Her right leg had been amputated at the knee. She was apparently the picture of health. Her sister was out with the assistant of the funeral director. Embalmer Moses Forsey, who had recently returned from a New York Embalming School with his diploma was in charge. Coroner James M. Whitfield held an inquest Thursday, June 2, at 1:30 P.M. Police Officer V. A. Napier was sworn and deposed. ‘Officer G. T. Gilliland and T ar- rested Leroy Alexander on a s'reet car about 3 P. M. on May 30, 1927 Leroy ¥old us that he was the hus- hand of Mamie Alexander and that he shot her because she lied :o him; he shot her with a eingle barrel shot gun. Ho said he put the gun in a wagon in the rear of 1812 Parkwood Avenue. I found ‘he gun in the place he tokd me. ‘THE WIFE'S SISTER. Viola Simmons Holladay _ was sworn and said: “I live at 9305 Short Main S'reet. Mamie Alexan- der was shot at her home 1812 aylor Strea: by her husband, Leroy Alexander on May 30, about 2 P.M. Mamie Alexander is’ my sis‘er. 1 went to her home tthe afternoon of he 20th. She went out and I looked after the children. HUSBAND CAME IN. “Leroy came into the house before Mamie eame back. When she came ir he asked her where she had been. She said ‘I told you I had to go down town last night. He cussed her and knocked her down, She got up and he Knocked her down again. 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