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Texas Lawyer Fined And Jailed For Refusing To Defend Negro THE RICHMOND PLANET VIRGINIA JUL 1930 STATE LIBRARY Gay Twitty Fined $5 In Park Case Court Appointee Declines Post Of Defender Of Man Thrice Saved From Mob By Sheriff Court Appointee Declines Post Of Defender Of Man Thrice Saved From Mob By Sheriff VOLUME XLVII. No. 34 Gay Court Appointee Declines Of Man Thrice Save Beaumont, Texas, June 30.—Because he refused to accept the assignment of the Criminal District Court to defend Rainey Williams, Negro, held in jail here on several charges of criminal assault, R. J. Jernigan, Port Arthur attorney, today was fined $250 and remanded to jail for contempt of court by Judge r. L. Murry. Jernigan's refusal came after the Negro, three times threatened by the moo in as many days, had been identified by Port Arthur woman as her assailant. The girl's story, told to County Attorney Marvin Scurlock, paved the way for the filing of a seventh charge against the Negro, already indicted for six felonies for his alleged attacks on couples parked in automobiles on highways near Port Arthur. The Negro's trial on one of the charges has been Sheriff W. W. Covington and his deputies today continued to guard the jail after mobs had been repulsed kriday and Saturday nights. The prisoner was rushed to the jail here from Port Arthur Friday to evade a mob which was forming at the city jail here. — Richmond Times-Dispatch. MOB REPULSED; SHERIFF SAVES NEGRO PRISONER Beaumont, Texas, June 28—Extraordinary precautions were taken tonight by Jefferson County Officers to guard the county jail against possible renewal of mob attempts to storm the building and lynch Rainey Williams, a Negro charged with attacks on white women at Port Arthur. Sheriff W. W. Covington, who early today repulsed a mob of 100 persons, who drove here from Port Arthur and sought to force entrance into the jail, placed a heavy guard around the building and expressed his determination to protect the Negro. Persistent reports, reached here that another mob would form tonight for another attempt to seize Williams. The situation at Port Arthur was quiet, however, and doubt was expressed in official quarters there that any further violence would occur. Williams was indicted here today by the county grand jury on six counts, one a capital offense, and his case was set for trial next Wednesday. One indictment charged him with assaulting a Negro woman, one was for attempted criminal assault, three for assault with intent to murder, and one for robbery with firearms. It was alleged that the Negro had accosted white couples parked along the highways near Port Arthur. Williams was rushed to eBaumont for safe keeping yesterday, after he had been arrested Thursday night while in the act of attacking a couple. When news of his arrest spread, a crowd gathered at the Port Arthur city jail and demanded the prisoner. O-cers outwitted the mob by placing the Negro in the fire chief's automobile and rushing him here. Last night's mob that clamored at the local jail for the Negro was dispersed by Sheriff Covington, and his deputies, after they had used tear bombs and threatened to shoot if the crowd advanced. Firemen played streams of water on the mob until the hose was cut.—Richmond Times-Dispatch. HUESTON ARRIVES FOR FED- ERAL DUTIES Washington—(CNS)—Judge William C. Hueston of Gary, Indiana, arrived in the city Monday, June 30, to take the oath of office for the position of solicitor in the Post Office Department to which he was appointed recently by Postmaster General Walter H. Brown. ANOTHER DANIEL COMES TO JUDGMENT Washington — (CNS) — Judge EdwnR. Holmes of the Southern district of Mississippi, who is backed by Senators Pat Harrison and Hubert Stephens, and wishes an appointment to a vacancy on the bench of the U. S. Court of Appeals of the TO HOLD CONVOCATION AT OSGOOD MEMORIAL P. E. CHURCH The Twenty-first Annual Convocation of the Colored missionary jurisdiction of the Diocese of Virginia will be held at the Osgood Memorial protestant Episcopal Church, Lombardy Street and diewood Ave., on July 8 and 9, 1930. Preparations are practically complete for the entertainment of the delegates who will arrive on Monday and early Tuesday. The committee of arrangements has left no stone unturned in arranging the comfort of the visitors. Rev. Thomas D. Brown, Rector of Osgood Memorial is pushing forward with undaunted zeal to have this Convocation the best in its history. Machine-like efficiency is in evidence as the members are rallying to support him in the undertaking. Addresses by prominent men are included on the program, notably the Bishop of the Diocese, the dean of the Convocation, Rev. Scott Wood, D. D. Pittsburgh, Pa., and the Rev. F. D. Goodwin, D. D. CHILDREN'S DAY EXERCISE AT OSGOOD MEMORIAL On Sunday, June 29, at 3:30 P.M. M. a special Children's Day program was rendered under the auspices of the Sunday School, Mr. R. E. Hite, Superintendent. The program was well rendered and consisted of recitations, exercises, songs, instrumental and vocal solos. Quite a number were present and expressed themselves as being well pleased with the rendition of the program, especially the music, with Mrs. Jessie Alexander at piano. Each part of the program was a feature. IDEAL SOCIETY NEWS The Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, in its regular monthly meeting made some very interesting reports. The constant gain of members and the satisfactory increase of finance brought about the usual amount of encouragement. The report of the Supreme Master was very inspiring. He informed the committee that satisfactory arrangements are being made in Philadelphia for the holding of the 18th annual convention, to meet there September 2, 1930. He also stated that unusual interest is being shown by the people of Philadelphia in regards to the Ideal Society. He also reported that special cars have been provided fod the delegation of Richmond, Petersburg and vicinity, and that reduced rates of one and a half fare has been granted for the round trip on certificate plan. The Richmond delegation will leave Monday, September 1, on the 12:01 train, from Broad St. Station. We wish to announce the passing away of Sister Fannie Y. Robinson, who died June 15th, 1980, at her home in this city. She was a splendid woman and a loyal Ideal. She served as Assistant Guide of the Supreme Lodge. As a deputy she organized several lodges and nurseries, and was buried with honors from the Order on Tuesday, June 17th. The 18th Tthanksgiving Service National Ideal Society, Richmond District, will be held Sunday, July 20th, at the First Baptist Church, corner 14th and Broad Sts. All male members are requested to meet at the Ideal Hall 210 E. Clay Street at 2 o'clock. Female members are to meet at the church at 2:30 o'clock. An interesting program is being arranged. Rev. W. T. Johnson will preach. Hon. A. W. Holmes will deliver an address. The National Ideal Choir will render special music. The East End District comprising Church Hill and Fulton, will hold its anniversary at the Fourth Baptist Church, on the 4th Sunday, July 27th, at 3:30 P. M. All male members are requested to meet at the St. Luke Hall 2 o'clock. Female members will meet in the basement of the church 2:30. Rev. F. W. Williams will preach. Fifth Circuit, has strong opposition. Judge Holmes is charged with ordering a white man who came into his court with a colored lawyer, "to get out and get a white man as his counsel." 1 J. THOMAS HEWIN, Attorney-at-Law and Counsel for the Right Worthy Grand Council, Independent Order of St. Luke, and Consolidated Bank and Trust Company. Prominent Attorney Has Enviable Record; Hard Work and Long Hours No Barrier J. Thomas Hewin, Attorney-at-Law, has rounded out thirty years of active practice at the bar. He entered the public schools of Richmond, in 1889, and was never sick, tardy, or absent from school from the day he entered until the day of his graduation. He was admitted to the bar on July 6th, 1900, before the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia. He has practiced at the bar actively for thirty years, on the 6th day of the present month. During that time he has not been absent from his business or duties at his office on account of sickness, holiday or vacation. He works from sixteen to eighteen hours every day of his life and like Edison, he says that four and one-half or five hours sleep is all that he needs. NEW MINISTER TO HAITI Washington — (CNS)— President Hoover has appointed Dana G. Munro as Minister to Haiti. Of this appointment the New York Herald-Tribune says: "Although only thirty-eight years old, Mr. Munro has gifts which can leave no doubt in any one's mind as to his ability to deal with the delicate Haytian situation. He not only likes the Caribbean peoples and gets along well with them, but he has a deep and scholarly knowledge of their history. In fact, his own history of the Central American republics, written while he was a university student, is still the standard work on a subject about which many Americans know only too little. Mr. Munro served with distinction as chief of the division of Latin-American affairs in the State Department and, as counselor of legation, was of invaluable assistance during the troubled times in Nicaragua. He replaces an American mission which has done much for Haytian and he can be counted on so to conduct himself as to win the respect of the Haytians and the approval of his countrymen. POLICE BEATING OF NEGROES REPORTED IN CAMDEN N. J. New York, June 27—Brutal beating of several Negroes by police in Camden, New Jersey, is reported to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People by Irving T. Nutt of that city. The trouble originated in the crowing to the curb of an automobile containing three colored men. When they protested to the white woman crowding them, a white police officer had them taken to the police station in a patrol wagon where the colored men were beaten with fists and rubber hose. Mire, Nutt reports: When all three had been dragged into one cell, the officer went in and beat up again with the rubber hose. One officer assisted, others had black kjacks. These men were not allowed to communicate with anyone. Monday morning they were hauled before the police judge. The officer testified that these men had insulted his wife. The judge asked if they pleased guilty or not guilty. They said not guilty. The judge then stated that he would teach them not to be them $25.00 and sentence them to 30 days in jail. They were led away to their cells. I might also state the judge used an oath in court as to these men. After remaining in their cells for a little while, Judge RICHMOND, VA., SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1930 Association of Virginia REV. W. L. RANSOME, A. M., LL. B., D. D. The Baptist General Association has just closed one of the most uplifting and inspiring sessions in its history. The body met at Salem, Va., June 17, at which time the Women's Auxiliary met also. The total amount of money raised by the two bodies at this session was about five thousand dollars. Three thousand dollars had been sent up during the year, making a grand total of eight thousand dollars. These organizations made a profound impression upon the citizens of Salem, both white and colored. This care was well looked after by Dr. J. T. Johnson, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Salem, assisted by Rev. Stevens of the Shiloh Church and the entire city. Mrs. Margaret R. Johnson, of Richmond, was elected to head the women for the thirty-first time. These bodies meet in Richmond in 1981 with the Moore St. Baptist Church of which Dr. G. B. Hancock is pastor. Rev. Ransome was elected for the fifth time as president of the association. NEGRO IMPROVES "WHITE CIVILIZATION" DECLARES COLONEL J. E. SPINGARN Springfield, Mass., June 26—That the American Negro is able not alone to maintain and defend but even to "improve" white civilization was the assert, J. E. Spingarn, of New York, addressing the open mass meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People whose 21st Annual Conference Will be in session here through July 1. "The white South is forever talking of being a white civilization," declared Colonel Spingarn, "endangered by the threat of "Negro supremacy." But the last twenty years have shown that the Negro is able to maintain and defend our white civilization- yes, even to improve it. "This white civilization is his as much as ours, for much that is fine and distinctively American in it is his own contribution; and if this National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has accomplished anything it has been to prove that white civilization is safe in the hands of colored American Colored Spingarn said in his address that the past twenty-one years during which the Association has been active "are perhaps the most epoch-making period in the history of the Negro race and continued; "Individual Negroes throughout the course of history have attained distinction and many held political office during the Reconstruction period with the white bayonets. But the last twenty years have seen the Negro take his full place in a white civilization for the first time in history -in every field of activity, cultural, practical and political-and win his victories by his own force and by the methods developed by the white civilization it self. "Howhall this great work be further developed There are some who believe that the hope of the Southern Negro lies in allying himself with the poor whites against the wealthy white classes of the South; there are others who thinks that the Negro race as a whole should make common cause with the white liberal and th white radical. I bring a warning against this false hope and shallow doctrine. The Negro race should contain every element that goes to make up a great race. It should have conservatives and radicals, rich and poor, learned and ignorant, good and be "It should develop every distinction of culture and character that any human race is capable of; it should not only develop these distinctions but should never cease its efforts until the rest of the world understands and recognizes these distinctions too. Let Negro radicals consort with white radicals, but let them not dream of handing over a whole race to any one form of political or economic dogm. Pancoast remitted their fines and released the men. A colored employee in the City Hall had heard of the events and went to see the Judge. "These men are banged up severely. One has been in bed since the affair. The local N. A. A. C. P. has taken up this case. 1978 Miss Esther S. Morris, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Charles S. Morris, is a recent graduate of Gordon College of Theology, Boston, Mass. Miss Morris received the collegiate degree in Theology, having majored in religious literature during her academic years in Boston she held meetings in many of the leading churches, addressed clubs and various conventions. Miss Morris spent nearly three weeks with her family, and left on Sunday for New York. She will join friends and motor by way of Buffalo and Niagara Falls to Chicago, where she will visit her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Larenz Bell Graham, and her brother, Clarence, who is a student at the University of Chicago. COLOR BAR BORMING NEGRO ECO NOMIC BLOC SAYS CARTER Springfield, Mass., July 1—A Negro economic bloc is being formed in this country by the labor and economic barriers erected against colored Americans, according to Elmer A. Carter, editor of Opportunity magazine, who last night addressed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People now in session here. "The possibilities inherent in the race consciousness of twelve million Negroes are stupidous for good and for evil," said Mr. Carter. "Economic pressure will be able to be in ten years what petitions and threats have failed do in half century. A black bloc, up to this time as undesirable as unattainable because of the eternal hope of the Negro for a better day may now be in the process of formation." Mr. Carter attributed the formation of such a Negro economic bloc to the discrimination prevalent against Negroes, and said: "Many things point to a growing racial consciousness on the part of the black Americans: 1. The fierce and almost frantic urge which agitates the black world over the right and opportunity of Negroes to work in those enterprises which derive all or a part of their income from black folk, chain stores, retail establishments, and the National public utilities; 2. The desperate effort of the National Negro Business League to organize black entrepreneurs into cooperative purchase units; 3. The isolated but significant efforts of Negro workers to organize such occupations as Pullman porters and such trades as the barbers desuite the calloused indifference of the A. F. of L. "All these things point to a growing racial consciousness on the part of the black Americans. It is a racial consciousness nurtured not from within by the spiritual forces of an ambitious and hopeful and happy people, but induced from without by the pressure of the color line. Negro "Facing Reality" "It signifies he realization on the part of black America that up to this time their quest for economic freedom as a race has been futile. It means that the dreams which were fostered by the early abolitionists and early Negro leadership of entrance in the so-called precincts of democracy where thrift and honesty and capability would be the open sesame to complete participation in the economic rewards of American life are disappearing. "It means that the Negro is begin- ing to face reality." Pittsburgh—The Miller Motor Company (white) local Ford dealers, have recently engaged Wendell Ball as official member of their sales force. The Company employs four other colored men in other capacities but this is the first time that a Negro auto sales- manhas been employed by any of the local dealers. $2.00 PER YEAR; FIVE CENTS PER COPY Park Policeman Moore Freed Of Charge Of Administering Beating To High School Girl INTERRACIAL CONFERENCE CLOSES WITH PLANS FOR STUDY AND ACTION Obelin, Ohio—That the women attending the Tird General Interracial Conference of Church Women at Oberlin College could themselves revolutionize the world in its attitudes on race relations was the challenging statement of Dr. Leslie Pinckney Hill in the closing address of the conference. Dr. Hill, who is principal of the Cheyney Training School for Teachers near Philadelphia went on to show that the attitude of white American women tourists in Europe is responsible for growing discrimination shown to Negroes in London, Paris and Rome, where formerly they had real freedom of action, and no amount of education, cultural training and experience or money can make the American Negro really free in his native country. While recognizing the need for group study and action, Dr. Hill stated that it is after all the attitude of the individual that settles the great social problems of the world and he urged his hearers to adopt this pledge—"Where I stand all shall be right." At this last session the conference adopted the findings from the discussion periods of the past two days. The aim of these discussions has been to find the methods by which church women may work effectively for better race relations. (The findings are attached.) In commenting on the conference Miss Katherine Gardner, Secretary of the Church Women's Committee of the Commission on Race Relations, Federal Council of Churches, which held the conference, said "This gathering marks a distinct advance over the two previous ones, both in numbers and in spirit. It is significant that more than a hundred leading church women, representing both races in equal proportion and coming from a widespread territory, have met here for the past three days not as mMethodists, Baptists or Presbyterians; not as Negroes or whites, but as a united group of Christian women who are earnestly working for the application of Christ's teachings to the race problems of America. The delegates have come, and some at real personal sacrifice, from states as far away as Texas, Missouri, Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Iowa. Nearly half the states of the Union are represented here and the influence of this conference will extend throughout the entire Nation. Even while we have been in session some of the delegates have gotten together as denominational groups to plan what they can do immediately in their own denominations. One such group listed nine points of attack and planned just how they would go about it." In addition to Dr. Hill, the speakers at the conference were Dean Luck D. Slowe of Howard University and Dr. Will W. Alexander of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation with headquarters at Atlanta. The chairman was Mrs. May Leonard Woodruff, Corresponding Secretary of the Women's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Ejiscopal Church and leading the discussion was Miss Rhoda McCulloch, Editor-in-chief of the Woman's Press, National Board Y. W. C. A. 10TH CAVALRY INVITES WILLIAM PICKENS New York City, July—(By the Associated Negro Press)—Some of the Negro officers of the Tenth U. S. Cavalry situated at Fort Huachuca, in Arizona, have extended, on behalf of the men of the regiment, an invitation to William Pickens to come as soon as possible for lectures to the Tenth Cavalry. it is said that the men would join the N. A. A. C. P. by the hundred, if Mr. Pickens could come. One member of the regiment writes: "You certainly did us a lot of good by the visit you paid us in March. People outside forget the men in the army, when rendering social service. "Nobody else could have exdone it. Since you wrote the President, the men who are re-enlisting this year for another term, are not required to sign up that their wives fill be servants to the white women." The case of Miss Gay Twitty, 14-year-old high school girl, who was arrested in Monroe Park, after being roughly handled by Park Policeman A. L. Moore, and the case against Officer Moore, charged with undue roughness toward Miss Twitty were heard by Justice J. Hoge Ricks in Juvenile Court last Saturday. The Planet has been informed that Miss Twitty was fined $5 and costs and the charges against the officer were dismissed. Attorney Alfred J. Cohen represented the girl and it is said that the City Attorney represented the Park Officer. It was further reported that several white boys said the girl hit the policeman and from the tenor of reports it would seem that she beat said policeman severely; in fact, we are supposed to believe that if help of some kind had not arrived, the policeman by now would have sprouted angel wings and assumed his place in the heavenly choir. On the other hand, Miss Twitty declares that as she was defending herself from an attack by some white boys, the policeman rushed up, slapped her and then beat her. Knowing Judge Ricks as we do, we are sure that from the evidence as he heard it and in accordance with the application of the law, he had no other alternative but to do as he did. But there are many citizens who are asking The Planet if it is not possible to have the matter carried before a jury and that proper presentation of the case in all of its aspects be made. PRIZE AWARDED AT THE WEST END GOLF COURSE The West End Golf Course located at 1427-29 West Cary Street was the scene of a hotly fought contest last Saturday evening. The management had offered a prize of $2.50 in gold to the one making the lwest score between the hours of six and midnight. There were quite a number of contestants who made spectacular strokes in an effort to be winner of the coveted prize. The match finally ended in a 40-40 tie between Mr. James Britt and Mr. Edward Perry. it was necessary to play the tie off on Monday evening at nine o'clock. A number of spectators were on hand to witness the battle which was evidence of slight nervousness on the part of the warriors however, some very good strokes were made. Each made a birdie. Britt on the 17th hole and Perry on the 18th. Britt ended the winner over Perry; score 47-48. The prize was promptly awarded. NEXT MEETING OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLORED Hot Springs, Ark.—(CNS)—Mrs. Sallie W. Stewart, President, calls the next meeting of the National Association of oclored Women the Seventeenth Biennial Convention, at Hot Springs, Arkansas, for the days July 11 to 18, inclusive. Mr. Jno. L. Webb is authority for the statement that the temperature of the Auditorium of the Woodmen of Union Building can be made to register any temperature, so that visitors need not fear the heat. The General Chairman is Mrs. Sue Barrow, of 12 Summit St., Hot Springs, Ark., the Homes Chairman is Mrs. R. H. Gordon, 501 Pleasant St., Hot Springs, Ark. Gary, Indiana—The Gary American, weekly newspaper, recently moved into its new $25,000 office building and plant at 1819 Washington Street. The new location gives the newspaper a plant with modern office equipment and facilities. Editorial MOORE ST. BAPTIST CHURCH West Leigh Street, between Kinney and Bowe Streets Dr. Gordon B. Hancock PASTOR SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1930 11:30 A.M.—"FULL OF CONFUSION" 8:30 P.M.—"BEHIND THE TIMES" Grace Outlaw, noted Soprano of Chicago, will sing at the Morning Service COME EARLY FOR THE MORNING PRAYER Come and Worship with Us You are Welcome THE YOUNG Springfield, Mass., July 1.—That the Negro race has "come of age" in America and can no longer be denied the right to full manhood was the assertion of Professor S. Halp Harlow, of Smith College, who last night in the Municipal Audiforum addressed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, now ending its 21st Annual Conference here. "The Negro race has come of age here in America," said Professor Harlow. "Let there be no uncertainty about that fact. The implications of that fact are far reaching and merit serious consideration on the part of the citizens of this country both in the past and in the present. No one has produced the leaders of thought and action, in the realms of science, literature, music drama education and religion, such as the Negro race has produce here in America can be denied the right to full manhood. "We are met here in this great Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People not only to celebrate the coming of age of this splendid association and to take heart as we contemplate these past twenty-one years of tireless and fearless effort; but we are here to assert something of far greater importance, the coming of age of a race. For the Negro race in America has not only claimed its rights to manhood but has proven its right during this past quarter of a century of progress." Professor Harlow asserted that the intelligence tests given during the army drafts a few years ago showed that "all races and all groups have their underprivileged and under-developed members and said that the present era for the Negro began when colored leaders in 1906 in the Niagara Movement proclaimed the Negro's desire for every right that belongs to a freeborn American citizen, political, civil and social." Professor Harlow said: This was the assertion of a race coming of age. All honor to the pioneer spirits who blazed the pathway toward manhood for the race. Even greater is the honor and respect due them for the unwavering courage and abiding faith which they have kept throughout these long years for And And And Bois had a of the white race like Moorfield Storey to stand by his side through these years of struggle and dauntless adventure into untried paths toward freedom. Professor Harlow named among Negroes whose contributions to culture have since become world famed, Roland Hayes, the celebrated tenor, James Weldon Johnson, author, post and the Association's Secretary; Walter White, novelist, and Acting Secretary of the Association; C. C. Spaulding of the North Carolina Mutal and Anthony Overton of the Victory Life Insurance Companies; Mme. G. J. Walker, Dr. R. R. Morton of Tuskegee; Mrs. Elizebeth Prophet and Miss Aguata Savage, sculptors; William Harrison, star of "Green Pastures"; Mordecai Johnson, president of Howard University; Paul Robeson singer and actor; Professor George W. Carver of Tuskegee, and others. If in 1906 there was justification for proclaiming the right and justice of claiming for the race manhood," continued Professor Harlow, and all he economic, political and social rights which such manhood involves among intelligent people in a nation based on justice to all, then there is a thousand times greater justice inmaking those claims today. There is a growing host of men and women of the white race who are utterly determined that unjust discrimination shall end, that privilege and opportunity shall become the heritage of all, that the words we as a nation take upon our lins shall yet be true." WOODMEN OF UNION'S PRESIDENT BECOMES N. A. A. C.P. LIFE MEMBER New York, June 27 J Dr. E. A. Kendall, president of the Woodman (off the Union, one of the very large fraternal orders of this country, with headquarters at hot Springs, Arkansas, has taken out a life membership in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Published every Saturday by Roscoe C. Mitchell, at 311 N. 4th St., Richmond Va. One Year $2.00 Six Months 1.10 Three Months .00 All communications intended for publication should reach us by Wednesday. Entered at the Post-office at Richmond Virginia, as second class matter. DEFEAT OF PARKER FORCAST OF NEGRO POLITICAL POWER SAYS Springfield, Mass., June 28.—The defeat of efforts to confirm Judge John J. Parker of North Carolina as U. S. Supreme Court Justice, in which the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Negroes generally played a leading part, is a forecast of the increasing political power which will be enjoyed by colored citizens, according to Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of The Nation who last night (Friday) addresser the 21st Annual con-ference of the Association here. "We warn the Bourbon South and the increasingly Bourbon North that the Parker case is but the beginning" declared Mr. Villard, :and that their disapproval can no more stop the growing politicacy power of the Negroes than all the troops of the British Empire can cause to subside the National aspirations of the natives in India. "The day of force is-playing out. The knell of imperialism within and without countries has been sounded. That the white races have not proved their fitness to rule, the dispatches from every quarter of the globe prove hourly, just as they affirm the divine wisdom of Abba. The man who is good enough to govern another man without that other man's consent. "How fast the development will come in this country depends chiefly upon the colored man himself and the speed with which he achieves solidarity and unitedly follow behind the best leadership his race can produce. From the white South I get most tremendous encouragement. The awakening their particularly among the younger generation, gives the greatest hope for a changing point of view. The oncoming generation there is full of promise. It is refusing to be bound, thank fortune, by the ways of its elders. It is refusing to accept slogans and shibboleths. It proposes to fine religious spirit! That is where the leadership should come from and the fact that it is developing is of the utmost moment to the entire nation. So we of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People can be cheerful indeed. With a great victory behind us we can look for ward with increasing confidence to the future of our work." Mr Villard declared that there was hope for the Negro in neither the Republican nor the Democratic party. He urged that Negroes act as a bloc in defense of citizenship and political rights an desugged affiliation with the League for Political Action headed by Professor John Dewry of Columbia University. ALLL NEGROES URGED TO SUPPORT CAMPAIGN FOR CIVIL RIGHTS Springfield, Mass., June 28. All Negroes in the Uited States were pledged to support the campaign for civil rights being waged by the National Associatoin for the Advancement of Colored People, in an address delivered at the opening mas meeting of that organization's 21st Annual Conference, lain night, by Channing H. Thias, of New York City, in international secretary of the Y. M. C. A. Leaders in others groups, notably the church and Negro fraternal orders, were urged by Mr. Tobias to join with the National Association in its work. "One would think that an organization that has been the means of securing six decisions from the Supreme Court of the United States guaranteeing politi- sization 20 jujune ijusquisa pusu to a race of people would command the enthusiastic, backing and support of that race. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has done exactly that thing for the Negro race in America but receives only meager and uncertain support. "It develops upon the Negro himself to shoulder the financial burden of making secure his social, political and industrial freedom. As a matter of fact, I do not believe that Negroes should expect any great response from white people for this cause, for any race that is not willing to pay the price of it own freedom, is unworthy of that group With the appeal directed to the whole racial group in America, a million dollars is certainly not too much to ask." The Amplifier (J. HENRY JAMES) FIFTH BAPTIST CHURCH, ONE OF GOD'S BROADCASTING STATIONS!! MANY SOULS RECENTLY ADDED TO THE CHURCH CHOIR SINGS WITH ZEAL AND ENTHUSIASM "Crowds Go Out To Hear Pastor Preach!" Mr. And Mrs. Newton, Glad Amplifier Visited MISTER AND MRS. NEWTON: “(Ting-Ting-Ting)” AMPLIFIER: “Huh! Huh! (Ting, Ting), guess that’s Mr. and Mrs. V. L. Newton at the door.” MRS. AMPLIFIER: “Do you want me to let them in?” AMPLIFIER: “Never mind, I’ll let them in—you finish preparing dinner.” BRO. NEWTON: “Howdy-do- this-time, Ampie. How is this hot weather using you. I am thankful to say I've been keeping up very well?” AMPLIFIER: “I have no right to grumble, I've been making out al- right. How are you sister Newton?” SISTER NEWTON: “I'm feeling fine Amplifier, I have no complaints to make.” BRO. NEWTON: "Well, we told you last week that we would come back, that you would tell us about the Services at First Baptist Church, South Richmond, where Rev. Dr. W. L. Ransome, is pastoring. Alright, we are listening. What are you so TICKLED about?" SISTER NEWTON: "Ah, Amp is full of joylality today. He knows that he did not go to Dr. Ransome's church last Sunday. That's why he is so tickled." AMPLIFIER: "Now, we'll get down to business. No, I did not visit Rev. 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R. S. Anderson. He is known throut many prominent States as a great pastor-evangelist, teacher and singer." SISTER NEWTON: "We don't know him, but reports say that he is quite a "Live-Wire." AMPLIFIER: "When Rev. Anderson, accepted the pastorate of Fifth Baptist Church, the congregation was very restless for want of a good spiritual and progressive shepherd. Among the flock there were: Confusion, discouragement, distrust, bickering, jealousy and schism. But by this young divine's skill and aptitude, these adverse conditions soon changed. Now the church enjoys remarkable peace and progress. Rev. Mr. Anderson did NOT take sides with this church faction. He told them in plain words that his coming was to HELP the BODY as a WHOLE, and that if she would be advised by him, she would soon enjoy an era of brotherly love and Christian fellowship. The church obeyed, and therefore, rejoices in unity. Church members and officials, be obedient to your leaders. Obedience is better than sacrifice. Rev. Anderson succeeded." Actually 32 Medicines In One You See The Dawn New Day Of Health? Then Meet THE NJOLA M at the SERVICE DR 101 EAST BROAD ST. see how Konjola's 32 ingredients herbs----go to the very fount andneys and bowels, and of rheumatisy KONJOLA is the most cellojola is a household word in tothis-- KONJOLA MAKES GOOhed in the balance and found w BRO NEWTON: "I see. Think we'll go to Fifth Baptist Church Sunday morning and hear the young eminent divine. Tell us about the regular services?" AMPLIFIER: "Sunday morning, June 27th, Sunday School met. The lesson was wonderfully discusst by teachers of the various departments." BRO NEWTON: "What was the subject of the Lesson?" AMPLIFIER: "The Meaning of Christian Discipleship." Read Isaiah 2:2:4, for more information." BRO NEWTON: "What is the Superintendent's name?" -- AMPLIFIER: "His name is Brother John H. Pierce. He is well qualified for this position." MRS. NEWTON: "Who is the Secretary (I mean of the Sunday School)?" AMPLIFIER: "Miss Rosa Hatcher is the dutiful and efficient Secretary. Other officers are too numerous to mention. What else would you like to know?" MRS. NEWTON: "Do they have a large Sunday School?" AMPLIFIER: "Why certainly, they have a very large and well attended Sunday School. There were abut two hundred present last Sunday morning. It is reported that this school is very largely attended every Sunday." BRO. NEWTON: "Now let's talk about the other part of the service." MRS. NEWTON: "Just a moment Amplifier, who did you say is the pastor?" AMPLIFIER: "Watch out Bro. Newton, Sister Newton is fixing to lead us into some unknown water. She heard me say that the honorable, Rev. R. S. Anderson is the pastor." MRS. NEWTON: "I have passed Fifth Baptist, quite often, but I have never seen his name, neither his subjects of his sermons outside on the board?" BRO. NEWTON: "Ampie, do they have a Bulletin Board?" AMPLIFIER: "No, they do not have an attractive Bulletin Board yet. We think one would add very much to the beauty of their church on the front, as well as helpful to every department of their church." BRO. NEWTON: "Yes, a Bulletin Board certainly adds much to the life of a church. Am sure that they will get one soon. But let us hear more about the services?" AMPLIFIER: "As I started to say, they had their usual period for devotionals. The choir rendered excellent music during these praise services." BRO. NEWTON: "Who is the Church Clerk?" AMPLIFIER: "Bro. J. E. Smith is the dutiful Clerk. He is also one of the active deacons." MRS. NEWTON: "What was Rev. Anderson's text and subject?" AMPLIFIER: "In the morning his text was Matt. 7:13-14. His subject was, 'Drifting Versus Climb-BRO. NEWTON: 'How did he deliver this sermon?' ing." AMPLIFIER: "This was one of the most pointed, impressive, awakening, logical and dynamic sermons we have heard Rev. Anderson deliver. The spiritual flames were penetrating; and the vast audience was moved to a degree of spiritual uplift. Would like to give you a synopsis of this sermon but time will not permit. He preaches with authority, power and spirit. This sermon will linger long into the minds of those who were so fortunate to hear it." MRS. NEWTON: "How did the A. H. AMPLIFIER: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, that the Choir rendered GOOD MUSIC; real thrilling. If you sit under their singing you will feel the presence of the Holy Spirit. (It seemed to me, I could see the music coming out the PIPES of the Organ, just like smoke. So you know they did some singing). We enjoy hearing them sing." MRS. NEWTON: "Who is the leader of the choir?" AMPLIFIER: "They seem to have an excellent set of deacons. They really co-operate with the pastor, which means church progress." AMPLIFIER: "Mr. J. E. Taylor is the leader. He is always pressed with congratulations, for his excellent leadership. Mr. Hatcher, is the competent organist." MRS. NEWTON: "What was the general collection for the day?" AMPLIFIER: "The collection was $47.82. BRO. NEWTON: "What about the Ushers and Deacons?" MRS. NEWTON: "My hubby ask you something about the Ushers also?" AMPLIFIER: "Yes, but he no doubt, forgot to ask you to keep quiet until I answered his questions. Laughter." AMPLIFIER: "The ushers are very courteous toward everybody. They said to us, 'Come in friends, the latch string on every door is hanging. If the doors are closed, just pull on the strings and the doors will fly open. We welcome you.' BRO. NEWTON: "Did you say you would tell us something about the B. Y. P. U.?" AMPLIFIER: "Perhaps I did but I am not prepared to give you the names of the officers of their B. Y. P. U. They are eager and willing to do their bit to make their Union the best in the city." BRO. NEWTON: "They say that many souls have been added to the church since Rev. 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Miss Esther Kinney has returned to the city from Petersburg, Va., where she was sent as a delegate to the missionary circle by the white Presbyterians of this city The convention convened from June 14 to June 20. Miss Kinney reports a delightful time and a royal welcome from the missioneries at Petersburg. --- Mrs. Virginiai B. Weaver of Washington, D. C. was a recent visitor of her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Brown of East Hampton, St., while here she also visited Goshen her old home. Mrs. Mattie Fortune, the sister of Messrs. Emmett and Curtis Shelton spent the week end in the city at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. E. Shelton on Baldwin St., on Sunday. She was joined by Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Bulware and son of Fairmount, W. Va. Dr. and Mrs. Chas. Shepherd and daughter, Miss Harris and Humphreys and Mr. Waltros of Durham, N. C. After enjoying the hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Shelton, the party left for Fairmount, W. Va., Sunday afternoon. Messrs. Warren Jackson and Leroy Richardson of Lexington, broadcasted a program from W. B. D. J., at Ranoke, Va., last Friday. The program was made up of popular unmembers that met approval and favorable comment. Both of these ypung men are well known in this city. The Queen's Rally that came to a close Friday night was indeed a great success. Mrs. Edward Franklin, Queen of Japan was crowned the queen. She reported $75.00. ```markdown ``` Smokers: Test this for you VELVET Smoke different—different different in flavour 'round tobacco for arette—note the for rolling. Say what you nothing that melts like ageing in we two years or more If you roll you find in every tin Miss Fritz H. Williams, who has lea- tting school at Chipppaqu, N. Y., is spending her vacation at home. Mr. Berry Jackson of Willingham, Del, was the week-end guest of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Jackson. Miss Mattie Harris of Washington, D. C. passed thru the city last week enroute to Chillicothe, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Willis Vaughn and family moved to West Va. last Sunday where they were the guests of frieds. Mrs. Jannie E. Smith, Mrs. Anna Thompson, Mrs. Annie Davis and Mr. Edward Thompson motored to Avon Sunday for Children's Day service that were held at the Union Baptist Church The program was enjoyed by those that were present. The Usher Board of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church announced that the play, "The Road to the Cross," was such a success that it will be given a better than at first. The date is set for sometime this month. This is for the benefit of those that did not see it. Watch for the date. Rev. A. L. Brent preached at Mt. Zion Church Sunday night. LEXINGTON NEWS Mr. Leslie Cauthorn has returned from High School in Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Austin Harris has returned from Lincoln University. Mrs. Maggie Merchant and five of her children have returned from Collierstown, Va., where she was visiting her mother, who as very ill. Miss Helen Lee has returned from Washington, D. C., where she was attending high school. The 3 P's defeated Waynesboro Friday afternoon in a game of baseball, at Waynesboro, the score was five to three. A miniature golf course is under construction on Massie St. It is owned by Mr. William Glimmore and Mr. James Harris is the contractor. It has eighteen holes. Services were observed Sunday, as usual. Rev. J. W. Goodgame filled the pulpit at the Baptist Church. The White Sulphur choir was present. Rosetta Cook Rosetta Mr. and Mrs. Huston Brooks, of Alexandria, Va., and Mrs. Henry Nelson, Miss Monnie Lemon and Miss Volio Arson, of Barber, Va., were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Bolden Friday evening. The supper that was given by the Good Road Club Tuesday night was very much a success. Don't forget the lawn party at the Union Hurst School on the Fourth of July. Come at 2:30 P. M. and stay until who cares— Man's Day will be observed at the Piney Grove Baptist Church Sunday, June 29. The Rev. E. D. Wilson, of Waynesboro, Va., will preach at 11:30 A. M. and 8:30 P. M. A program will be rendered at 2:30 P. M. M. M. M. Allen, chairman. FORDWICK AND CRAIGSVILLE Rev. A. L. Brent filled his pulpit at Aenon Baptist Church at 11:30 A.M., and preached a noble sermon, Our Children's Day as observed at Aenon Baptist Church Sunday afternoon. Despite the short practice each participant played their part well. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Brown and Mr. and Mrs. Jackson, of Smokey Row attended our Children's Day program. Miss Mary and Martha Ware, of Moffatts Creek, is visiting their sister, Mrs. Sadie Jordan. Mr. Melvin Allen of Bridgewater, Va., and Mrs. Mary E. Rouser and children of Harrisonburg, Va., was visiting Mrs. Matilda Johnson last week. Mr. Earnest Taylor, Jr., motored to Staunton Sunday night with Mr. B. A. Gray and Miss Leona Ellis. Miss Viola Girtie was the Sunday evening guest of Lula and Dorothy Jordan. Rev. A. L. Brent spent the week end with Mrs. Sadie Jordan. We enjoyed the solo that Miss Mary and Martha Ware rendered in our Children's Day exercises. Mrs. Sadie Jordan enjoyed having Mr. and Mrs. F. U. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Arelia Jackson in her home on last Sunday. Mr. J. W. Robertson motored to Little Washington, Pa., last week visiting his brother. Mr. John Robertson from Pennsylvania, is visiting his mother, Mrs. Maggie Robertson. The Charlottesville quartette sang in a recital at the church Friday night. The program, which was very enjoyable, was sponsored by Mrs. Mildred Maupin. in Velvet casks for why it's so nellou ETTE CO. CO. WEST STAUNTON NEWS There will be Children's Day exercise at Smoky Run Church on the second Sunday in July at 3 P. M. Mr. and Mrs. Caulton Harris and two sons, of Chillicothe, Ohio, are visiting the former's mother, Mrs. Bettie Harris. Mr. Robt. Warmsley, of New York, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Wormsley. Mrs. Jas. A. Walker of Trevillian, spent several days here visiting friends, having come over to attend the commencement of the B. W. school at which her niece, Miss Jaunita Johnson, graduated. Mr. and Mrs. N. D. Brown and family visited Mr. and Mrs. Jas. D. Wilson, of Laurel Hill, last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Jackson, attended the Children's Day at Craigsville last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Silas Wright and daughters, Misses Fay and Hortense visited Mr. Wright's parents last Sunday. Mr. Thomas F. and Chas. J. Johnson and little sister, Miss Dorothy, of Trevilian, were visiting relatives here last week. Mr. Theodore Harden accompanied his brother, Mr. Alonzo, to Petersburg last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson White and family, of Laurel Hill, were visiting in our vicinity last Sunday. Miss Blondina Wormley, who has been attending school in Staunton, is spending vacation with her parents. HOT SPRING NEWS The Homestead Saints played the White Sulphur Saints at White Sulphur Sunday. Mrs. Sarah Wilson died Sunday morning about 9 o'clock. She had been sick for some time. Mrs. Hellile Wilson and children, of Covington, Va., and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jones, of West Virginia was the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Black last week. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Jennings left last week to visit relatives and friends in Lynchburg, Va. Mrs. Alice Ankrum, of Boston, Mass, who was visiting relatives and friends here entertained 32 children at the home of Mr. Floyd Henry Thursday. She left Saturday morning for her home in Boston. Mr. J. Thomas Cook was called to Warner, Va., to attend the funeral of his brother, Mr. E. L. Cook. His sisters, Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Reid, of Nutley and Newark, N. J., motored back with him to spend a few hours with their sister-in-law, Mrs. CROZET NEWS 2 FULL OUNCES IN THE RED TIN Rev. A. E. Jordan attended the Virginia Baptist State Convention which met in Lynchburg last week. Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Wood and little son, of Richmond, spent the week-end in Crozet. Sunday afternoon the women of the church had charge of the services. A representative number of Hillsboro women took part in the program. In the_evening the pastor, Rev. A. E. Jordan, preached an inspiring sermon to the young people. The funeral of Mrs. Lucy Wood, the widow of the late Deacon John Wood, was held at the Piedmont Baptist Church, of Hillsboro. Mrs. Wood was one of the oldest members of Piedmont Church and was a highly respected citizen. MINT SPRINGS NEWS There will be Children's Day exercise at Free Will Baptist Church Sunday, July 6th, at 8 P. M. Everyone is invited. Mr. and Mrs. William Lewis and family were visitors in Shipland the 22nd. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Johnston called on Mr. John Harris near Staunton, who is sick, Monday evening. Messrs. 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It was a very good deed. It was purely a case of giving bread in exchange for a cast stone. LONG LIVE THE RICHMOND PLANET. A reader "THE LUCKY HUNT" Here come u'possum and two coons, cock your gun but don't shoot too soon 'peer like possum fir m'innner quoted Grandpa gaie looking thinner. Thinking twice gimme th'coon deceived Jim whisiting a rune. When I shoot then you sheet, now dnt fergit and miss'troot Bang, 'thar goes th'possum, sheuted Grandpa got em' Bang! Bang! got m' con chuckled Jim. This starts m' mind bout forty back, leaping the rail o' w race tracks chased fou' possums and run t' smack twix two bams mounsg th' hay stack, can't remember just what twas; 'cought them possums and skint than fuz. 'You did what?' asked Jim in alarm t'wont do to tell yu jist keep calm grab them cats we gota travel over three hills on sharp pinted gravel doncha see how fast its itging t'ward dark; an itn't got a match we can't Well shot up Grandpa an lets be moving evenings gone and nights hooving. Look O' there Jim, whats in that bush Its the farmers cove give a push. Jim just come to think of it through fun I came away and left m' gun. What are we going to do we've gone too far. I am gonna go home said Jim, fir th' th' ear I got a date with Louise that I don't break want to under the moon like down at th' lake. The End. HOUSEHOLD REFRIGERATION "In warm weather, forsake the cook-stove and stay out of doors as much as you can," suggests Dr. Martha Manning, home refrigeration expert. "Absorb the tonic rays the sun and drink heavily of fresh air. Bely on the ice refrigerator for dainty, more appetizing meals. Your family and guests will enjoy them as much as you." "The refrigerator, chosen not for looks alone, but for modern air-tight construction, need not be an expensive one. It should always be kept more than half full of ice, for sufficient ice keeps the temperature low and low temperature retards the melting of the ice. In every way, ice refrigeration is least expensive and safest. "Lean more heavily on your ice refrigerator for summer meal-making. Here is a recipe for a good warm-weather dish: Potato salad de Luxe "Two large potatoes, 1-2 teaspoon mustard, 1 teaspoon salt, 3 tablespoon salad oil or butter, 1-2 tablespoon vinegar, 1-4 teaspoon onion juice." "Wash and boil the potatoes until tender. Peel and put through the microw. To the potatoes, add the salt, salad oil, vinegar and onion juices. Beat wall and jet stand until cool. Shake into small balls and chill in the refrigerator. Place each ball on a slice of pickled beef and serve on lettuce with French dressing. "And to vary the taste of iced tea, serve with slices of lemon, orange, pineapple or other acid fruit—serve with cloves or cinnamon—with chopped mint–infuse with a tiny piece of vanilla bean in the pot—add a few gratings of nutmeg." "Women who put ice to work for them in their homes may celebrate independence every day in the year—independence from drudgery, waste, illnesses, worry and big expense, according to Dr. Marta a Manning, home refrigeration expert." "Freedom from excessive bending over hot cooks' areas in warm weather, from frequent trips to market, from intestinal disorders in children and grown-ups alike, from spilled food thrown away—all these savings and more are possible to the housewife who has a reliable refrigerator and keeps it well-filled with ice," Dr. Manning states. "An approved refrigerator, well-kept, provides constant circulation of pure fresh air, just right for keeping fruits, vegetables and meats at their very best, no matter how hot the day. Smiling ice simply drowns all food odors and freshens wilted vegetables. Every family can save with ice. "On hot, sultry days, ice freshened foods—salads, cold meals, chilled harries—tempt wilted appetites. Minus of cool foods save the time and heat of preparation, giving housewives more leisure in the open THE VIRGINIA WESTERN DIS TRICT BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION Dear Superintendent and Co-worker: One more mile stone in our Sunday School work is nearly reached and we are still spared and blessed to say a word to you about the coming meeting of our Convention. The Convention as you know meets this year with the Mt. Salem Baptist Sunday School, Staunton, Va., Wednesday evening, July 30, 1980, at 8:00 o'clock, and continues in session through Friday, August 1st. It is indeed a great pleasure for me to have this privilege of saying a word to the superintendents, teachers, and co-workers and through them to the schools composing our Convention. No man liveth to himself, hence no man dith to himself. We are the mother's keeper. With the limited training and the lack of preparation that the majority of our Sunday School workers has, seems to me to be the more reason why we should let an opportunity pass when we might gather together and exchange ideas and discuss the many problems we run up against during the year. It is our aim to make the Convention just such an agency, where those of us who will come together and spend a couple days in conference getting inspiration and preparing ourselves in other ways to go back to our schools and do better work. It is needless for me to say that this is necessary, for if we will but stop and look at the advances being made in our public schools, we see at once that our Sunday Schools are being left far in the arrear so far as competent religious instruction is concerned. So for this very reason, we would like to see every superintendent and as many teachers as possible present at the Convention. We know that you will enjoy being there and that you will go back to your school benefited and inspired. The program, a copy of which is enclosed, I think, is an excellent one. We desire especially to call your attention to the Bible Institute and the Superintendent's Hour on Thursday afternoon; also the address of Mr. W. D. Hoge on Thursday evening. Either of these features will repay you for your coming, even though you may have to make a sacrifice to come. Now my friends, let me beg of you to come to the Convention; show that you are interested in your work; show that you are interested in your School, and above all show that you are interested in so far as lies with in your power that each child under your supervision shall receive as far as possible all the actual training so far as Christianity and godly living are concerned. Yours very truly, WILLIAM ELLIS, Secretary. The Lynching Record For First 6 Mos.1930 The Lynching Record For First 6 Mos.1930 Of the persons lynched 1 was white and 8 were Negroes. The offenses charged were rape, 5; murder, 1; bombing house, 1; slaying landlord in altercation over debt, 1; attempted rape, 1. The states in which lynchings occurred and the number in each state are as follows: Florida, 1; Georgia, 1; Mississippi, 1; Oklahoma, 1; South Carolina, 2; Texas, 8. WM. H. BALLARD, WAR VETERAN DIES William H. Ballard departed this life Tuesday, June 17th, 1930, at Sassafras Springs, N. Y., in the sixty-third year of his age. He was formally a resident of Richmond, Virginia. He served two solitaries in the Ninth Calvary Troop A, one in Nebraska and a re-enlistment for the Spanish-American War. He was buried in the National Cemetery in Brooklyn, N. Y., Saturday, June 21st. The funeral services were held in the Union Baptist Church with Rev. George Sims in charge in New York City. He is survived by a sister Mary M. Lee of New York City, a brother John L. Ballard, of Richmond, and many cousins and friends. motorizing, boating, lolling on the beach or in the woods or parks. Such dishes can be prepared in the morning allowing the rest of the day for outdoor recreation. Such foods are less fattening and agrees with almost anyone on summer days. Folks are not eating nearly so heavy foods nowadays, especially in summer. "Plenty of ice will make Fourth of July celebrations safer and safer — ice for the picnic, the motorizing trip, the party on lawn or beach, ice keeps the butter fresh, the milk from souring, the sandwiches from drying, the beverages palatable. Mixed with salt it makes delicious ice creams and sherbets and keeps them hard. THIRD) GENERAL INTER- RACIAL CONFERENCE OF CHURCH WOMEN Important Findings Reported On Race Understanding. The Findings of the Third General Interracial Conference of Church Women can best be interpreted by those who shared in the conference experience. Each item in this program of study and action was wrought out in the spirit of friendly understanding which controlled the discussions. In order to carry out this program we have to find a way to bring about effective participation by both national and local groups. The conference suggests careful experimentation in cases where there is joint responsibility. If the program of the next conference, two years hence, is built upon the study and action which follows the adoption of these findings, we shall then be able to measure our progress and discover new ways of work to meet new situation. WE RECOMMEND: That we ask the Women's Committee to interest a research organization in undertaking a study of the policy and practice of the denominations: a. In their raining of Negro leadership for church activities at home and abroad with particular reference to problems involved in isolating groups. b. In relation to Negro women employed as missionaries at home and abroad with reference to opportunities for employment, qualifications of candidates, salary and living conditions, and opportunities for professional advancement. WE COMMEND the work of the Curriculum Committee in the criticism and preparation of material, and in securing Negro members on denominational curriculum emmetttees and look for report of further progress at the next conference. WE COMMEND: That each local unite examine the guroings for interracial work to see (1) whether the committees are adequately representative of all groups concerned and (2) to discover ways in which their work can be influenced by the experience of the interracial groups outside the membership of that the interracial committee shall have the confidence of the whole com- WAYS OF WORK We believe that the best results come from meeting concrete situations in the community life as they arise, rather than attacking the question of race relations in the abstract or merely setting up special events. We need to study ways in which groups have arrived at successful solutions and ask the Women's Committee to make reprts available to local groups. We believe that the churches ought to be reminded of the importance of the work of groups of laymen in the development of public opinion in regard to race relations and in supporting individual members of the church who may find themselves in critical positions in the life of the community. We believe that members of churches could increase the effectiveness of any community enterprise if they would insist that the planning committee include representatives of all racial groups involved. We believe that local groups should study ways in which public opinion may be influenced in regard to race relationships. (For instance, the use of the press.) We recognize that only by a long continued program of steady work which persists despite temporary failure will our community life in its interracial relationships measure up to Jesus' definition of the good life. The Conference authorized the presentation by letter and personal conference of an urgent request to Dr. W. R. King, Executive Secretary of the Home Missions Council, that arrangements be made for accommodations without discrimination for all delegates at the Home Missions Congress of North America in Washington in December, and that if such accommodations can not be provided the Congress be held in a city where satisfactory arrangements can be made. JOBS SCARCE IN "WINDY CITY" George W. Griffin, the efficient executive of the Illinois Free Employment Bureau at 35th Street and Vernon Avenue, Chicago, whose office handles more colored applicants for work than any other similar establishment in the country reports that June, 1980, has been the worst month in the bureau's history. He states that while they have had more applications for jobs this June than they had in June last year, they have only one-third as many openings. PLAN DRIVE AGAINST YELLOW FEVER IN LIBERIA New York, June.—(By The Associated Negro Press) If the plea made by the New York Stae Colonization Society to the Supreme Court for permission to expend funds in Africa, a concentrated drive will be made in the near future to eradicate Yellow Fever from Liberia. This organization, of which Edwin R. Embree is president, has for its embree the training of American Negroes as missionaries to work among the natives of Liberia. During the past few years many of these missionaries have succumbed to the ravages of Yellow Fever and unless something is done to safeguard them from this scourge, the organization will not send any more members to the African Republic. Mr. Embree is also president of the Rosenwald Fund. Realizing that the money would be well spent, not only to protect the lives of their missionaries but the natives and American attaches in the Republic, the organization is seeking permission to spend a part of the $149,267 on hand, in the effort to rid the Republic of the disease which has proved a bane to Americans and which last year claimed W. T. Francis, United States Minister to Liberia. A NEWSPAPER OF LOCAL INTEREST GOODWILL BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES At Goodwill Baptist Church 410 N. Monroe St., Sunday, July 6th 11:45 A. M. subject, "Releasing Our Reserves." 8 P. M., Holy Communion, subject, "Keeping It in Remembrance." All are welcome. W. B. BALL, Pastor. HAPPENINGS IN GOSHEN Rev. W. D. Scott, Mr. Charlie Burga and sons and Mr. Jones motored down from Clifton and spent a few hours. We were proud to see Mr. Burga out and we hope he will continue to improve. A number of our people were in Craigsville Saturday night to see Sillas Green's minstrel. Mrs. Alberta Stone, from Bellair, Ohio, spent her vacation with her mother, Mrs. Bettie Black. Mr. Ashby Black spent last Sunday with his son, Mr. R. M. Black in Staunton. Mr. B. Gray from Craigsville was visiting in Goshen Sunday. Mr. Allstock from Staunton was visiting Miss So and So Sunday. Mr. Charles Jones and others from Millboro, were visiting in Goshen Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. R. Shields, Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Kelly and Mr. Ashby Black were the evening visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hackney, Sunday. The Industrial Charitable Union Bpard will give an entertainment for the benefit of the Lodge the 10th of July. Everybody is invited. The Sunday school is planning to put on a number one program the third Sunday in July, for the benefit of the Sunday school. We are working for the Master, so come and help us. We were proud to see Mrs. Bettie Black out after five weeks' illness. We really miss her in Sunday school. S. G. K. YOUNG MISSIONARIES PROUD PARENTS Chicago, July.—(By The Associated Negro Press) Mr. and Mrs. Lorenz B. Graham, young missionaries who first met under the tufted palms of Africa, are happy over the arrival of a seven and three-quarter sons. He was born the 23rd of June at the Mary Thompson Hospital for Women and Children, here. Mrs. Graham is the daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Charles S. Morris of Richmond, Va. Since their marriage in August of last year, the couple have been touring the country in the interest of foreign missions. If the old rule of like-father-like-son works out in this case, the youngster is surely destined to be a missionary. It is pointed out that not only his father and mother have been to Africa but also his maternal grandfather and his paternal grandfather and grandmother. Rev. D. A. Graham was for several years president of Monrovia College in Leheria. When interviewed by a reporter, the youngest missionary had nothing to say, but he smiled knowingly. 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Broad Street 1305 Hull Street Send Us Your PRESCRIPTIONS Fresh And Clean Medicines, Just What Your Doctor Orders AT LOWEST PRICES (By The Associated Negro Press) Sunday, June 22.—The members of the Moton Educational Commission, now in Haiti, laid a wreath at the tomb of the founders of Haiti's independence, Jean Jacques Desalines, Henri Christophe and Alexandre Petion. Dr. Moton paid a high tribute to these three heroes and told the Haitians present that they had served not only the Negroes of Haiti, but the black race throughout the world by showing what Negroes might achieve. In the morning, the commissioners, in their frock coats, accompanied President Roy to church. All of the members of he Commission party have been guests of the members of the American Club at Petionville and have been issued cards entitling them to the courtesies of the club during the length of their stay in the island. The club is situated about five miles from Port au Prince, at an elevation where it is cool. It has eating and recreational facilities. Among the Americans who have been most hospitable have been Messrs. Colvin, Isbell, Heath, and Taylor, all members of the American treaty services. The American charge d'affaires. Stuart E. Grummond, has been most active and courteous in providing facilities and entertainment for the members of the commission. Interest in the commission's educational survey is somewhat less than it would be were it not for the election campaign which is now in full swing. There are, as usual, several candidates for president. How would you like to live in houses, beautiful though they be, with no window panes? That's Port au Prince, for the most part. How would you liketo play soccer with the temperature above ninety? They do that in Port au Prince every Sunday. If you have any doubt as to whether a Haitian knows you are an American, try to buy something from him. If he asks you the regular price, you have deceived him; if he doubles or trebles the price, you know he is wise to you. Postcards down here cost ten cents. That's why your friends always write you letters. Did you ever think of having bananas growing in your back yard? They grow wherever they have a chance to stretch their arms in Haiti. You've heard of Haitian coffee, and you've heard of good, strong chewing tobacco, too, haven't you? If you ever thought you would have warm water to bathe with in Port au Prince, change your mind. They don't recognize wash cloths here either. Chicago radio programs are popular in Port au Prine. The Americans like Amos 'n Andy. The Haitians don't understand them. American victrolas are kept at work from morning until late at night in most of the cafes. Buick seems to be king among the many American automobiles which keep you ducking in the streets. The Haitians drive with still, but don't believe in signs. If you ask to take a young lady home, she'll get her brother to go along with you. That's a part of the Latin culture here to learn to become pilots. Op- pose Chauffeur of twenty years Us Arranged for First and Class MITCHELL 900 St. James St. END OURSE Cary Street on to 12 P.M. twenty Cents after Six. STANDARD G COMPANY Broad Street Hull Street Seminary Creditors Agree To Accept Percentage Labor Day, September 1, 1930, is the day set for conclusion of $200,000 drive to wipe out the entire debt of the Virginia Seminary. Some heavy creditors agree to accept a percentage of the money due them as payment in full as is seen from the following letters received by President John: "Referring to our conversation of today, in reference to the account we have against the Virginia Theological Seminary and College, of this city, we are willing to accept 35 per cent of this indebtedness in full settlement of this account, provided it is paid on or before September 1, 1930. The said indebtedness will run around $7,900. Very truly yours, Adams Bros.-Paynes Co." "We are in receipt of yours of the 26th offering a compromise of 35 per cent of our debt to be paid in 60 days. We will accept this and hope you will have no difficulty in raising enough funds to make this settlement. The president present a challenge to every right thinking Negro in America. In order that these generous offers of those who have extended credit to the school may meet a worthy response from all especially benefited, every Colored Person in Virginia and every other state, who has any real interest in institutions for human uplift, is asked to give one dollar to the Virginia Seminary before September first. This challenge comes to each individual. Let not one say, "they will not miss me." 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HAYDEN 224 WEST BROAD STREET RICHMOND, VA. JOHN H. BURKE For hair beauty Gladys May of Shufflin' Sam Co. Follow the lead of Glady May, vivacious actress in Shufflin' Sam from Alabam' who says she finds Exelento the most delightful hair dressing she has ever used. EXELENTO QUININE POMADE is the original! It reaches the roots of the hair and gives natural lustre that stays! Stops itching scalp and makes harshest hair soft and pliable. At All Drug Stores. Write for FREE sample and book of Beauty Hints. EXELENTO MEDICINE CO. Atlanta, Ga. As a fitting climax to the ending of the Seminary Debt Clearing Drive successfully on Labor Day, the Wise Male Chorus of Philadelphia, and the Sabbath Glee Club of Richmond, Va., will rival each other in a singing contest. Dr. James and President Johns are working ceaselessly and wisely to wipe out the entire debt at once instead of soliciting funds which hardly pay interest on the debt. Thoughtful people of both races are rallying to their support in an unprecedented way. Designs. Complete Equip- mental Cars Furnished either Orders Received and Filled Country. We Never Close. 77 and MADISON162 HIGH STREET ARTHUR SCHOMBURG The Sherlock Holmes of Negro History By J. A. ROGERS Noted Author and International Correspondent NO MYSTERY throughout the ages has proved more fascinating than that of man's origin. Beside it, all other mysteries pale into insignificance. Men have risked a thousand dangers hoping to solve the grand riddle. Today hundreds of scientists are ranging the earth eagerly searching for clues. The man who unearthed a new type of human skull could not only command its weight in gold a hundred times over, but he would become famous. True Stories Achievement Stories W. B. Ziff Co., 608 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, Advertising Representatives AR SCHO Sherlock of H Noted Author NO MYSTERY throughout fascinating than that other mysteries pale in risked a thousand dangers hot. Today hundreds of scientists searching for clues. The man human skull could not only hundred times over, but he w What is true of the human race is true of a particular group. There is hardly a people so low in the scale of intelligence but has some story of its origin. All the holy books of the world begin with the origin of its devotees. The same is true of the individual. No sooner has a man made money or become famous than he starts digging up his history; or others, eager to know more about him do it for him. The desire to learn one's past is so much a human trait that it may be said that people who are not anxious to know their history are near the lower animals in mentality. All of this is a preface to emphasize the importance of the one who is the subject of this sketch: Arthur A. Schomburg. Arthur Schomburg is one of the outstanding figures in the field of Negro history, and in his particular line, original research, he is foremost. $10,000 for His Collection of Books $10,000 for His Collection of Books Four years ago, the Carnegie Corporation of New York gave him $10,000 for his collection of books, prints, pictures, and manuscripts on the Negro—a sum that was perhaps one-fifth of its real value. This collection is now housed in the Negro History Department of the West 135th Street Branch of the New York Public Library, and constitutes, without a doubt, the greatest collection of data on the Negro group to be found anywhere in the world.. Arthur Schomburg was born at San Juan, Porto Rico, January 24, 1874, his parents being Carlos and Mary Schomburg. Educated partly in that island and partly in the Danish West Indies where he attended college, he was interested at an early age in the history of the Negro. Even at that time he would carefully search out and note down every fact he could find about the race. His racial consciousness was stirred because he saw the best of everything in his native land being reserved for white people, and he wanted to know why. These researches were to serve him well. One day at college dur- The Richmond Planet ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION—July 5, 1930 ing a debate he heard one of the white students declare that the Negro had never accomplished anything and was never going to. Before the class had left the room, Schomburg was on his feet telling what he knew of the Negro's past in Porto Rico. He told of Jose Campeche, whose paintings, taken from Porto Rico to Rome, had created a stir in art circles there; of Rafael Cordero, a poor cigar-maker, who had founded a school for white and black on the island at a time when education was at a backward stage, and in whose honor a street had been named in the capital, San Juan, as well as of others worthy of note. Entered Law Office When Schomburg sat down, his victory was complete. His opponent, like many another, had been proved to know nothing of what he was talking about. After this, Schomburg continued with greater energy than ever, collecting books and pictures about the race, at the same time, spreading the knowledge collected in Porto Rico. At the age of twenty-seven, bringing his treasures with him, he came to New York. Entering the law office of Pryor, Meliss, and Harris (Pryor was a Confederate general and later judge of the Supreme Court of New York), Schomburg did excellent work for this firm, as a testimonial he holds from Judge Pryor shows. Agitated Cuban Independence In the famous Johnson and Johnson case which was tried in the New Jersey courts and involved the question of the use of the Red Cross label on absorbent and medicated cotton, Schomburg digested and indexed 4500 printed pages of the testimony and at the special request of Senator Brinkerhoff was permitted to assist in the discussion of the exhibits at the pleading in Chancery. At the same time he was actively engaged in agitating the cause of Cuban independence in New York and was secretary of Las Dos Antillas a club interested in freeing Cuba and Porto Rico from Spain. He continued his activities until NO BRAUGHAM ARTHUR SCHOMBURG Cuba won her independence, and then went on an expedition to Central America, visiting Haiti, and many other countries in that region. Later, he entered the service of the Bankers' Trust Company of Wall Street, where he remained for twenty-one years and became head of the mailing department. Searched Christopher Columbus's Library This was a difficult task, even though he had a staff of white employees under him. But it was during these years that he did his most important work, not only collecting, but writing a good deal. During this period also he helped in the founding of the Negro So- ciety for Historical Research, and in 1922 was elected president of the American Negro Academy. In 1924 he made a voyage to Europe that is important for the future of Negro history. He visited Seville, Spain, and in the old Cathedral dug into the musty records of the Indies loosely collected there, as well as into the library of Christopher Columbus. American Negro slavery had its roots in Spain, that is to say, Negro slavery began in Spain and Portugal, and was introduced from there into the New World. Proved Great Artists Were Negroes Arthur Schomburg, rummaging one day through the storeroom of a transfer company in Harlem, made a precious find, a picture of Juan Perega, artist, and slave of Valesquez, the great Spanish artist. definitely established the fact that two of Spain's noted painters, whose pictures hang in the Cathedrals of Seville and Granada, were Negro slaves, namely Juan Pareja and Sebastian Gomez. On this voyage he also visited France, Germany, England and other countries, making important additions to his collection. Another important find of Schomburg's was the portrait of Benjamin Banneker, Negro astronomer and almanac-maker, of slavery days, who was so warmly praised by Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette, and others. Receives High Praise For this discovery Schomburg was highly complimented by John W. Cromwell, president of the American Negro Academy, and others. Dr. Cromwell wrote him (June 17, 1928): "How can I adequately express to you my indebtedness for your rescue of Banneker from the seclusion in which for one hundred and twenty years he has been! Think of it, biographers, bibliophiles, enthusiastic devotees—Latrobe, Bishop Daniel A. Payne, the Banneker Institute, the noble army of admirers and what-not have all absolutely failed to cast down their buckets where they were and secure the refreshing waters which you have drawn up! You are entitled to more than a vote of thanks for this one act. There can be no disputing the authenticity of a facsimile of a contemporaneous publication." In the same letter Dr. Cromwell thanked him for the discovery of a manuscript of Lemuel Haynes, a Negro, who was pastor of an important New England white congregation before emancipation. "The Lemuel Haynes manuscript," says Dr. Cromwell, "is also valuable. You possess some magnetic influence that draws you to these riches that elude the quest of all others." Zula Nursery Rhymes In the collection, which bears his name, there are more than 4,000 volumes, a good many of them written by Negroes, 1000 pamphlets Continued on Page Five WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE Verna Nash, remarkably and irrele- sive, indigent family residing in Billy leave her environment and amount to Her mother wants her to marry honest laborer. She refuses to do it show one night he becomes enraged tempts to kiss her by force. A strange and routs Dick. Baxter is a dapper gambler from irresistibly drawn to Verna and law flattered, excited but evasive. As I women, Verna's evasiveness infuriate He finally persuades Verna to acc burg. Dick Colvin tries to prevent he wins. After an all-night drive in Baxter takes her to room with a friend of with an evil eye. She shows Verna to Quill leaves, Verna finds it locked. markably and irresistibly beautiful for residing in Billy Goat Lane, Norrigan and amount to something. Buts her to marry Dick Colvin, an uncle refuses to do it. Returning from becomes enraged at her refusal to try force. A stranger, Donald Baxter,oper gambler from Kalesburg, a new to Verna and lavishes attentions but evasive. As Baxter has always insiveness infuriates him, but he heades Verna to accept a position in tries to prevent her. There is a figure right drive in Baxter's car they arrive with a friend of his, Mrs. Quill, a she shows Verna to her room. Trying finds it locked. Verna Nash, remarkably and irresistibly beautiful daughter of a worthless, indigent family residing in Billy Goat Lane, Norrisburg, is ambitious to leave her environment and amount to something. Her mother wants her to marry Dick Colvin, an ungainly, uncouth but honest laborer. She refuses to do it. Returning from a moving picture show one night he becomes enraged at her refusal to be his wife and attempts to kiss her by force. A stranger, Donald Baxter, comes to her rescue and routs Dick. Baxter is a dapper gambler from Kalesburg, a neighboring city. He is irresistibly drawn to Verna and lavishes attentions upon her. Verna is flattered, excited but evasive. As Baxter has always had his way with women, Verna's evasiveness infuriates him, but he bides his time. He finally persuades Verna to accept a position in his cabaret in Kalesburg. Dick Colvin tries to prevent her. There is a fight and Baxter again wins. After an all-night drive in Baxter's car they arrive in the big city. He takes her to room with a friend of his, Mrs. Quill, a tall sardonic woman with an evil eye. She shows Verna to her room. Trying the door after Mrs. Quill leaves. Verna finds it locked. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER FOUR. VERNA'S heart sank. She glanced around the nered animal. She du bit her lip. The subdued flus brown cheeks drained out as of her predicament. the heart sank. What sort of enclosed around the room fear animal. She dug her nails in the subdued flush that always trained out as she considered vent. VERNA'S heart sank. What sort of trick was this? She glanced around the room fearfully like a cornered animal. She dug her nails into her palms and bit her lip. The subdued flush that always tinted her round brown cheeks drained out as she considered the significance of her predicament. She walked to the door again. Perhaps, after all, no harm was intended. Perhaps the catch was on or something. But no, it was locked. There was no catch on it. She dropped nervously to one knee and squinted through the keyhole. Yes, the key was gone; Mrs. Quill must have locked the door behind her when she went out. This must be the work of Donald Baxter. And to think that she had trusted him! Well, there was no use crying over spilled milk. What was done was done. The big question was, how to get out. She must escape. She clearly saw that now. Donald Baxter, with his unctuous ways, meant her no good. Suddenly, she thought of the window that looked out on the back yard of the house. Hopefully she raced to it and looked out. She was on the second floor. The back yard was a wilderness of odds and ends, abandoned furniture, cans, bed springs and other trash. Beyond it was the back of another house with a narrow alley alongside leading to the next street. She tried the window. It was locked. The lock was rusty from disuse. All of her strength could not budge it. Again and again she tried until her fingers were raw and sore. Would she have to stay here after all? she asked herself. Again her thoughts traveled to the charm suspended around her neck. Convulsively, frantically, she held it in her hand and prayed silently for help. As if in reply to her supplication, she thought of the poker in front of the fire place. Relieved, she dashed over, got it and returned to the window. The lock yielded to the leverage of the strong instrument and soon the window was open. Verna Tries to Escape She leaned far out and looked down into the yard. It was too far to jump, that much was certain. Moreover, with all of the debris under the window, she might be crippled or disfigured for life if she attempted such a jump. She shuddered and glanced anxiously at her pretty oval brown face in one of the nearby mirrors. How could she get down? She asked herself the question dozens of times before the answer of a sudden shouted itself to her: the sheets. She jumped up, excited and hopeful, stripped the two sheets off the bed and tied them together. Then she tied the spread to them and found herself in possession of a strong if unwieldy rope. Hastily she tied if to the leg of the bed and threw the other end out of the window. Enthused, she dashed back across the room, got her little package of clothes, all she had in the world, and threw them into the yard. Then, slowly, half fearfully, she crawled out of the window and balanced herself on the ledge. She looked down and her head swam a little. Sup- --- --- distibly beautiful daughter of a worth- Goat Lane, Norrisburg, is ambitious to something. Dick Colvin, an ungainly, uncouth but Returning from a moving picture at her refusal to be his wife and at- ter, Donald Baxter, comes to her rescue A Kalesburg, a neighboring city. He is ashes attentions upon her. Verna is aaxter has always had his way with s him, but he bides his time. Sept a position in his cabaret in Kales- r. There is a fight and Baxter again It's car they arrive in the big city. He is, Mrs. Quill, a tall sardonic woman her room. Trying the door after Mrs. R FOUR. What sort of trick was this? the room fearfully like a corg her nails into her palms and that always tinted her round he considered the significance pose she fell! Suppose the knots in the sheets gave way! Suddenly she heard someone walk- A woman stands in front of a tree, her hands covering her face as if to hide something. She is wearing a dress with a ruffled collar. The background is a rainy scene with a fence and a cloudy sky. "She stood rooted to the spot, horrified; the back of her hand across her mouth, her eyes dilated in terror." ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION—July 5, 1930 the IRRESISTIBLE by WALTER GLASTON Brilliant Negro Fiction Writer At Last, Verna Meets a Real Friend in Rev. Hugh Godfrey. For a While She is Content, Until . . . Read Chapter 4 Beginning on This Page ing in the hall. There was no time to lose. She gripped the improvised rope and let herself gradually down until her entire weight was on it. Placing her feet against the wall of the house and holding on for dear life, she began to walk slowly, haltingly down the side to the yard. A Stranger She had let herself down perhaps five feet when the rope of sheets began to give. Her heart sank and she felt a sensation of dizziness. Desperately she held on while the rope slipped inch by inch. She realized that she must expedite her descent before the rope broke or the knots gave way. It seemed almost an eternity between each foot of descent and the next. The rope of sheets kept slowly slipping. Was it the knots giving way or was it the bed moving over to the window? She hoped it was the latter because she knew it could not get out of the window. A hasty glance downward showed that she had perhaps five feet more to go. She would have jumped but there were too many broken bottles and cans below her. Then suddenly the rope of sheets gave way more than ever and a sound from above told her that the bed was moving the two or three feet to the window. As the bed was a heavy one, it moved slowly and she was enabled to drop gradually to the ground. Once there, she picked up her little bundle, and, threading 3 her way through the rubbish, made for the narrow alley that led to the street beyond, and freedom. A great weight fell from her when she reached the alley. She turned about and looked back at the window that she had just left. The light was still burning in the room. She sighed thankfully and made for the street. She had traversed about one half of the narrow alley when a side door in one of the houses opened noiselessly and a tall, spare, round-shouldered man with a trailing black topcoat and wearing a ragged slough hat, stepped out, hugging a huge bundle under his arm. Instinctively she flattened herself against the wall of the house but it was too late. Turning suddenly the man saw her. Startled, he uttered a grunt, dropped his bundle and dashed out toward the street. It rolled to Jerna's feet and stopped. The Dark Fluid She shrank back. What could it be? Why had the man run away? In the semi-darkness of the early morning the bundle seemed a strangely repellant thing, and yet somehow or other she had a compelling urge to look into it, although she knew that she should be getting away from the vicinity as soon as possible. She reaches over with her toe and touched it. Under the pressure of her foot, it gave slightly, and yet there was a certain firmness to it. Then for the first time she noticed a dark fluid was oozing from it. She jumped back with an exclamation and cold chills ran all over her. She tried to scream in her fright, but her dry throat only rattled. Verna would have fled that instant, but her ungovernable curiosity held her. Had there been a murder? Perhaps this big bundle contained part of the victim's body? The longer she pondered and hesitated, the bolder she seemed to get. Finally, throwing caution to the winds, she reached down and pulled at one end of the big cloth that was wrapped around it. Bleeding Flesh The bundle unrolled. Verna's apprehension of what it might contain frightened her so that she was unable either to turn loose the cloth or to run to the street. Finally the cloth, which seemed to be a table cloth, unrolled completely and a slab of bleeding flesh fell at the girl's feet! She stood rooted to the spot; horrified, the back of her hand across her mouth, her eyes dilated in terror. She could feel a cold stream of perspiration course down her back and a faintness came over her. She wanted to run and couldn't. Then suddenly, as if in answer to some silent prayer, the sun rose and its rays brightened the dark, narrow, fearsome passageway. Under the sunlight, its sinister aspect seemed to vanish. She looked down at the bloody thing at her feet. It was only a shoulder of beef! The man must have been a thief and took-fright at seeing her. A great load lifted off her spirit, and in reaction she laughed hysterically, her voice sounding strange and hollow in the narrow confines between the two tall buildings. She gripped her little package and ran hastily out to the street. It was a broad street; a street lined with stately chestnuts and oaks that stretched a shimmering canopy of green leaves and branches over the paved thoroughfare. Verna gratefully breathed in the free morning air, then turned to her right and hurried away. She didn't know where she was going but she was anxious Continued on Page Five SIMPLE TREATMENT CLEARS - BRIGHTENS and REFINES YOUR SKIN BLACK AND WHITE OINTMENTand SKIN SOAP 4 BAFFLING MURDERS THE most entertaining moments can be spent in following clever, well constructed detective stories with plenty of suspense. 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The three of us—Holcomb, Miles and myself—were at that time, enjoying ourselves at a popular summer resort called Eagle Rest in the Virginia mountains. Having previously told us about the Carlisle murder case, which I have already related to you, Holcomb had now led us deep into the mysteries of the Mitchell murder case—so deeply in fact, that Miles and myself completely forgot that we were grouped together here in the darkness of the north veranda—and not visitors at the beautiful Mitchell estate in Chicago! Briefly, the first part of this interesting case: In response to a night phone call from the Mitchell butler, reporting the discovery of his employer's act of suicide, Detectives Holcomb and Wade speed through the night in a Department car and subsequently arrive at the Mitchell place, a few miles outside Chicago, where they find the butler waiting to lead them to Mrs. Mitchell's boudor. The officers receive a mild surprise. The butler has been eavesdropping. Jennings attempts awkward explanations. Mrs. Mitchell nearly faints. Later, in Mr. Mitchell's study, they view the body. On the surface it looks like suicide—a man's head lying in a pool of blood, an ugly little hole at his temple, the gun about two feet away—and the shell! However, in bringing the gun close to his nostrils Holcomb makes a discovery. There is no odor of cordite! If the gun had been shot recently there would surely be a lingering ordor of cordite. Was it planted? Duing a talk with Jennings, who admits he discovered the tragedy, he says his madam had sent him up with a sealed note to her husband. It turns out that the undelivered note is in Jennings's pocket, and the officers read these words: I AM TIRED LET'S BURY THE HATCHET. —GRACE. The family doctor arrives. There is more discussion, and Holcomb decides to talk to the servants. Wade is about to carry out his orders to this effect when the phone rings. Holcomb picks up the receiver and growls, "Hello!" Then a feminine voice, scarcely above a whisper, confesses, "I WARNED HIM TWICE. HE IgNORED ME. IT DROVE ME TO DESPERATION!" NOW FINISH THE STORY purpose for which that telephone message was conceived. As you shall see, it was invented to kill two birds with one stone. Confusing, eh?" For several moments now, Miles and myself had been sitting there waiting for Holcomb to finish with his pipe and resume his narration of this case. Suddenly a match flared up above the bowl, and perforce we had to laugh. There was a grin there, a mischievous one—a finely-chisled dark-skinned face set in comic retrospection. "Indeed!"—Miles. "Yes, gentlemen, I plunged right into the little trap, and luckily. Within twenty minutes I had had the call traced to a Mrs. Roscoe Hathaway, of an address on Prairie Avenue, and headquarters had dispatched a man to investigate, with instructions to notify me of developments at once. 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They had heard a detonation during that time, yes, several in fact, but cars out on the highway often backfired and they had grown used to such noises. That was all. The next person Wade sent in was Jennings. There was a sullen reluctance written on his wrinkled face, and the fingers of his left hand kept twitching nervously. He seated himself in the chair opposite Holcomb. Holcomb smiled. Do You Want a Baby? "Jennings," he began carefully, "I believe you said a while ago that you had been here for . . . eight years, was it not?" Regular $1.00 Treatment sent free—one to each family "I was married and longed for a baby every day with all my heart, but was denied," writes Mrs. L. Scheller, Indiana, "Eight years, sir; yes, sir." "Only a very good butler can retain a position so long." "so I sent for your prescription. While taking the second box I was unable to express my happiness. I never had a sick day. I became the mother of a fine 8½ pound baby. God only knew our joy. I hope every woman longing for motherhood will take your medicine. You are welcome to use this letter and picture for publication. Thank you." [Image of a baby] The old man ignored the compliment. Holcomb studied him and then went on: "Now, Jennings, did your employers have many—ah—differences?—such as the one they evidently had recently?" Suddenly, the butler jumped to his feet. It was as if he were mad, frightened, and on the verge of collapse, all at once. He shook violently. "I tell you, madam didn't do this!" he shouted fiercely. "I tell you——!" Holcomb's voice came hard like nails. "Who said she did? You will calm yourself, Jennings. . . Be seated." "Married 11 years and doctors told me I would never have any children," writes. Mrs. White, Pa. "I tried, you to be a mother in wish realized." Baby Scheller 4½ months, 17½ lbs. He sat back down, grumbling. "I say, did they quarrel often?" "I couldn't say!—if they did, I don't know anything about it!" medicine. 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There are, among them, books in many languages, one of them Zulu nursery rhymes in the Bantu language, books on anthropology, folklore, sociology, customs of the Negro in the Congo, Guinea, Ashanti, the West Indies, and the wilds of South America; sermons on slavery by exslaves, travel, poetry, drama—in short, all phases of Negro life and culture are included. Schomburg has also written a good deal, as was said. He published a biographical check-list of American Negro poetry and "The Collected Poems of Phyllis Wheatley." He also wrote an appreciation of her life and letters; the "Life of Placido," the Cuban poet who was shot at Havana for having incited the slaves to rebellion; "Racial Identity"—Helps to the Study of Negro History," "Spanis: Painters of the School of Seville," "Notes on Panama," and hundreds of other magazine and newspaper articles. Sends Volumes to Foreign Libraries His researches have been of immense benefit to present-day Negro historians, as well as to book-lovers and collectors in other fields. Several of the latter, outside of the United States, are in communication with him, hoping that he will run across rare volumes of which they are in search. Not long ago he was instrumental in adding a rare Persian book, entitled "Gulistan," to the Central Branch of the New York Public Library. He has also sent books to libraries abroad, among them being that of Kingston, Jamaica. Honored in City of New York This fact, above all, must be emphasized in Schomburg's work: He has done it entirely for love and for the advancement of his people, all after a hard day's work when nearly everyone else would have gone off to sleep or to enjoy himself. And at financial sacrifice, too. Little did he ever dream when he began his book collecting as a boy back that men can't resist! 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Many girls are so captivated by the delicious odor of Nadine that they use it on the throat and arms and shoulders as well as on the face, letting it Nadine America's favori USTRATED FEATURE SECTION—July 5, 1930 in Porto Rico that the City of New York would ever be happy to honor him thus. Schomburg is an untiring, conscientious, and honest worker. Once let him pick up a clue and he follows it like a ferret, never letting up until he has it fully and reliably developed. Schomburg is the Sherlock Holmes of Negro history. "Lucks" into Valuable Painting Rummaging one day through the storeroom of a transfer company in Harlem, he made a precious find: a picture of Juan Parega, slave of Valasquez, already mentioned. The picture had lain there for years, unrecognized. Only those who know him can begin to realize the strength of his devotion to the task. And he is a walking encyclopedia of knowledge on the Negro. Ask him about almost any fact concerning the Negro, particularly the American Negro, and the wonder will be if he is not posted on it. This other fact about him must also be borne in mind: his native language is Spanish. He had to acquire English, and it is not an easy task to be able to write clearly in an acquired language. In 1926 Schomburg was given the Bronze Medal of the Harmon Foundation for his work in Negro education. In 1929 in an anthology of Negro literature edited by V. F. Calverton, Schomburg was one of the writers included. Schomburg's Philosophy What he has to say on this matter of Negro history is important. "The American Negro," he says, "must remake his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as the one country where it is unnecessary to have a past, what is a luxury for the nation as a whole becomes a prime necessity for the Negro. For him, a group tradition must supply compensation for persecution, and pride of race is the antidote for prejudice. History must restore what slavery took away, for it is the social damage of slavery that the present generation must repair and offset. So, among the rising mil- kin surround them for hours afterward with its enticing charm. Stop this very day at your favorite drug or toilet goods counter and get a box of Nadine Face Powder. Use it ten days, and if you are not delighted with it, we will refund your money promptly. Choose from four shades, flesh, white, coral-rose and brunette, fifty cents. Or, order from us and get valuable free booklet "To Win and Maintain True Beauty." Address Dept. Z, National Toilet Co., Paris, Tenn., U. S. A. Use these famous Nadine Beauty aids, too: Nadinola Bleaching Cream 50c and $1; Nadine Vanishing Cream 50c; Rouge 25c; and Nadine Soap 25c. FacePowder ite 50c face powder lions we find the Negro thinking more collectively and more retrospectively than the rest, and apt out of the very pressure of the present to become the most enthusiastic antiquarian of all. . . "There is the definite desire and determination to have a history, well-documented, widely-known at least within racial circles, and administered as a stimulating and inspiring tradition for the coming generations. . . The remote racial origins of the Negro, far from being what the race and the world have been given to understand, offer a record of creditable group achievement when scientifically viewed. . ." Works Harder Than Ever Schomburg's efforts to advance his people are in inspiration. It proves at least this one fact: when one really wishes to advance himself intellectually and to help others, he will find the time to do it as did Frederick Douglass and others. Fortunately for us all, Schomburg, unlike most of the other great Negroes recorded in the Illustrated Feature Section, is still alive. In 1929 he was retired on a pension, and at the present time is devoting himself with, if possible, greater zest to his task. At the present time the masses of the Negro group pay little attention to their history, while others of supposed intelligence pretend to see nothing in it. But with the rise of the Negro, the growth of Negro history is inevitable. As was said, history is all-important, and the group or individual who becomes important must have one. When that time comes, Schomburg will be valued for what he is. Let us hope, however, that the Negro group, for which he has labored so long and so consistently, will give him some of that honor while he is still here to enjoy it. 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Add more cheese for a top dressing. Put the baking dish in a pan of water and place in the oven to brown. The collection of miscellaneous recipes appearing from time to time in The Illustrated Feature Section provide delightful little dainties for thousands of up-to-date housewives. Are you taking advantage of them? Verna, The Irresistible Continued from Page Three to get as far as possible from Mrs. Quill's and Donald Baxter. Enters Church She walked and walked for perhaps a half hour, and then, being a little weary, she stopped in front of a beautiful little brick church all covered with dark green vines. It seemed so restful sitting back there in the center of a grove with a few tombstones in its yard, and benches under some of the trees. Altogether the grounds occupied half a block. Surely no one would object to her sitting down on one of the benches, Verna thought to herself. Then she hesitated. People would certainly think it strange to see a young girl sitting in a churchyard at six o'clock in the morning. Why not go inside of the church and sit for a few minutes in its coolness and quiet? She walked up the path and tried the door. It was unlocked. Quietly glancing up and down the street, she pushed the big door open and entered. No one would begrudge her a little rest in the House of God. After all, there was no other place for her to go. She did not know a soul in Kalesburg and there was only five dollars in her purse. The inner door was also unlocked and she entered the auditorium. How restful it was with the bright morning sun streaming through the stained glass windows, and being reflected by the silver and bronze of the altar with its sacred candles and bowls. She sank down on a bench and it was not until then that she realized how wearied she was from the orreal through which she had just passed. A Disordered Dream Try as she would, she could not keep awake. And, after all, why should one keep awake, she thought, when here was such a restful place to sleep. Nobody would be in the church all day probably. At night she could slip out, or perhaps later in the day go out and try to get a job. So, weared, disillusioned and disgusted, little Verna resigned herself to slumber. Dreams . . . dreams . . . Donald Baxter, a huge grotesque figure with the fangs of a wolf, charged down upon her. . . Her mother, Dick Colvin and all of her friends seemed to be holding her, handicapping her, keeping her from escaping. . . A yawning abyss behind her with a pool of slimy, black water in the bottom in which loathsome green reptiles disported . . . Nightmare . . Fitful imaginings of a tired mind. Suddenly she awoke with a start and sat bolt upright, her hair on end, her flesh creeping, a clammy moisture enveloping her All was as quiet as when he had gone to sleep. The sun had shifted to the other side of the church. Relieved to find herself awake and freed from the horrors of the dream world, Verna stretched lazily, wiped her eyes and restored her makeup. The Clergyman This finished, she lapsed into deep thought. What was she going to do now? Knowing no one, where would she stay? And then she was ravenously hungry and that called for immediate attention. She looked in her hand-bag and fished out the soiled five dollar bill, she fingered it lovingly and thought of a hearty meal of thick porterhouse steak smothered in onions, French fried potatoes, lettuce and tomato salad covered with rich mayonnaise dressing, buttered toast, a thick wedge of sweet potato pie and a tall, frosty glass of iced tea. Resolved to suit action to thought, she rose stiffly, smoothed the wrinkles from her dress and walked slowly toward the door. She turned the knob, and, pulling the door open and was about to step into the vestibule, when the outer door opened and there before her stood a studious looking, handsome, young man, attired in a long ministerial coat and a clerical collar. She stepped back, speechless, and shrank against the door frame. The cl-gyman arched his eyebrows in surprise. The man spoke first. "Why, how do you do, Miss? Are you looking for someone?" He beamed upon her with a professional smile as she wondered what she should say. Her usually frank character dictated her reply. "I was just tired, Reverend," she admitted, "and so I came in here to rest for a while. It is so beautiful, so restful. I guess I stayed longer than I should have." "Not at all, Miss," he replied gallantly. "The House of God is always open to those weary in body and spirit. You are quite welcome, I assure you." There was an awkward silence. The young clergyman, losing his austerity for a moment, eyed the beautiful young girl with her lithe, sinuous body, admiringly. Verna saw in a flash that she had impressed him. Almost unconsciously she dropped her eyelids with just enough coquetry to further intrigue him. She caught herself wondering why such a handsome man should become a minister, and at such an early age, Continued on Page Six BILIOUS? Get Overnight Results With LAX-ANA or Get Your Money Back The 60c Bottle Contains Twice the Quantity of the 35c Size LAX-ANA (Double Strength) ```markdown ``` So Good Hair Grower Grows long silky hair recommended by your doctor for scalp diseases. STRAIGHTENS Straightens the hair without hot comb or pullers nicely. Grower (large boxes) ..... 50c Straightener (large boxes) ..... 50c Men's Hair Straightener ..... 50c Skin Whitener ..... 35c Coconut Oil Soap ..... 15c Snake Oil Liniment 3 Bottles for $1.00 Other Toilet Articles Not Named. 10,000 Agents Wanted. Write for terms. 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Pinkham's Vegetable Compound ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION—July 5, 1930 I took the car to his office to bring him home. I was a little late, so I took the elevator up to see if I had missed him. He was there, all right. He was givin' somebody inside hell. He says 'Favors be dam'! Understand! You've had your chance. You'll pay up before the first—or else!'" "You heard no other voice?" "Naw—an' the door, it was shut." "Anything else?" "Yeah. Another time I went up an' he was ballin' out some frail, an' she was cryin'—nope, I didn't see her." "All right, Dozler, that'll be all." A man in bed She was standing there glaring down at him. Precisely at that moment Wade entered the room again. He was very excited. Holcomb jumped up and crossed toward him. "Jennings!" Wade exclaimed. "Jennings has disappeared. The cook says she saw him run out of the front door. I searched everywhere—but he's gone!" Together, they rushed down stairs. Old Doctor Canada was leaving Mrs. Mitchell's room as they came out. "Wait," he whispered fiercely, thinking that the men were bent on seeing his patient again. "You must not disturb her. Her condition is crit—!" But the officers flashed past him and down the stairs. Holcomb and Wade were discussing this in the downstairs drawing room when a car suddenly rattled up the driveway and then Meekins appeared, preceded by a woman. About thirty, she faced the officers impudently, a lighted cigarette between her fingers, an expensive fox scarf dangling around her shoulders; Mrs. Roscoe Hathaway—superbly formed, brown-skin, pretty, even, but for the excessive use of cosmetics and that hard, worldly look that comes to a female's eyes once she has—become cynica. "You know, of course, why you have been brought here," Holcomb remarked, when she had seated herself opposite him. She inhaled deeply of her cigarette, leisurely, then laughed lightly. "It smells," she giggled, "like some of Mr. Mitchell's doings." "You know as well as I do," Holcomb growled, "that Mitchell is dead. . . The fact that you phoned proves that. Come—" Mrs. Hathaway had gone suddenly pale. Now she jumped up to her VERNA, VERNA. THE IRRESISTIBLE Continued from Page Five too. It was difficult for her to think of ministers as other than elderly men with grave countenances. "I am Reverend Hugh Godfrey," he announced, breaking the silence. "I'm the pastor of this church. To whom am I speaking?" "Oh, I—I'm Verna Nash." "Do you live in Kalesburg, Miss Nash?" he inquired, moving inside the vestibule and closing the outer door. "No, I just came into town this morning." "Where are you stopping in town?" "Nowhere?" A Real Friend "Nowhere? You mean you haven't any place to stay; that you are alone and unknown in this strange city?" Rev. Godfrey seemed quite concerned. He came nearer and placed his hand on the girl's shoulder, looking at her compassionately. "Why did you come here," he asked, "if you knew no one and had no place to stay?" "Oh, I don't know," Verna almost Jennings HAD vanished. A Real Friend feet, gasping. "Mr. Mitchell dead?" she demanded. "Oh, no, no, no!—it can't be!" "If you didn't know it, explain your phone call!" Holcomb countered. "Phone?"—he mouth and eyes opened wide. "It was traced to your apartment," Holcomb snapped. "Why did you kill Mr. Mitchell?" Her lips suddenly moved but no words came. A great change came over this woman. Holcomb saw it; and Wade, and Meekins. Her eyes closed. One hand found its way to her forehead. The other doubled into a little fist. And then came whispers—startled whispers to herself. And then her sudden move took the men by surprise. The men suddenly discovered that she had disappeared like a flash. As she darted toward the door, Meekins went tumbling backwards in his chair to the floor. Holcomb sprang up and around the huge table in pursuit, as did Wade; but she was gone!—across the reception room and out into the black night, like a fleeing deer! "After her!" By the time the men ascertained in which direction she had fled, she was many yards ahead. They plunged in that direction. She led them, dodging through trees and shrubbery, across vast lawns, over a hedge that separated two estates—and then vanished around the corner of a residence. A shaft of brilliant light cut through the darkness and then disappeared again as a door slammed. Mrs. Hathaway disappeared through this door. A moment later the detectives, too, had passed through that same door. The white-coated house-man, greatly impressed by Meekins's badge and automatic, let out a soft gasp and obediently remained silent while Holcomb and Wade stole up a staircase toward rising voices." "You killed Mr. Mitchell, Reynolds!" a feminine voice was screaming. Then through the hinge crack of a half-opened door, the officers were looking into a dimly lighted bedroom. They could see Mrs. Hathaway standing there in the middle of the floor glaring down at a man, who lay stretched out on the bed—obviously a tall man, of mysterious age, with the mark of fear stamped on his startled brown face. screamed. I can't go into all of that." She was nervous and faint from hunger. "Well, that's perfectly all right, Miss Nash," he replied soothingly. "If you will permit me, I shall be delighted to put you in touch with some very respectable and God-fearing people who will be very glad to look out for you until you are settled." Why not? Verna asked herself. After all, she was in something of a fix. This fellow seemed honest and anxious to help her. Despite her very antagonistic attitude toward men in general, after her experience with Dick Colvin and Donald Baxter, she decided to let Rev. Godfrey help her. "Thank you so much," she said sweetly. "It's awfully nice of you to treat me, a perfect stranger, so nicely." Love at First Sight "You don't seem to be a stranger to me, Miss Nash," he said, leaning against the door and looking down into her limpid eyes with a worshipful gaze that said volumes. "It seems - "What in the hell are you doing here, Madge?" he spat. - "You've killed the best friend I had!" she screamed again. "What! Are you crazy?" "Insane! Dog!—you weren't satisfied at having ruined my life; no, you'd have let me gone to the electric chair!" "You fool!" Reynolds rose up on his elbows. "How could I have done it?—I didn't even know—!" The woman shook in a blind rage. "Y u lie!" she hissed. "Mr. Mitchell had you under his thumb; owned the very bed you lay on. I've been a fool, Reynolds! When my husband died, you attracted me to your web because of the money he left—ruined me with your black lies and blacker promises. You grew cold when I quit producing hundred dollar bills, didn't you, Reynolds?—because you knew I had more. "Oh, how I thank Mr. Mitchell for opening my eyes! Yes, you hated me as well as Mr. Mitchell, Reynolds. You killed him, I say, and meant for me to pay for it!" The man lay with his teeth bared, like fangs. The woman stepped closer. "It was Edna Gibbs who sent that message over my phone, wasn't it?" she cooed viciously."—Another of your tools. She told you I was leaving, too, didn't she? I thought it was queer for her to visit me! . . . Listen, Reynolds, I'm going to kill you!" . . . She made a swift movement. It was over in a second. A little pearl-handled pistol flashed in her hand. Reynolds grabbed it and hurled her backwards, cursing fiercely. Another lightning movement and his own gun was about to snuff out her life—but detective Holcomb's gun spoke first and Reynolds slumped back to the bed with a bullet through his heart! *** Believe it or not, when Hubert Holcomb finished telling this yarn, I, for one, was perspiring most freely. Moreover, I was clutching the arms of my innocet rocker! "For the love of Pete!" Miles exclaimed. "Quick!—let's get some water." Holcomb chuckled. "Hold your horses, gentlemen," he joked, rising; "for next week I shall explain the Simmons Murder Case—and you are sure to need them!" More Sensational! and More Startling Than The Carlisle and Mitchell Murder Cases "The Simmons Murder Case" Appearing Next as if I have known you for a long time. Isn't that funny?" "Sort of," Verna admitted, noticing again the classic profile and manly mouth and chin. She could tell right then that Rev. Hugh Godfrey was falling head over heels in love with her at first sight. 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"There's too much danger, I could happen up there and it w "Not with a good plane, mot Just yourself, your plane and won mother over as I always wealthy through the ownership died when I was ten years old her care when a boy mostly new father. Her idea of proper tra whim. Dear indulgent mother fact that my every wish had that I should always receive fi BY NATURE I was a daring and adventurous person. As a boy, I remember, I was the first youngster in our set to change from tricycle to bike, the first to own a motorcycle and an automobile. There was something about the hum of a motor that fascinated me. And speed—well I soon acquired a list of names such as "The Flash," "Speed Demon," and others that made me known to every speed cop around home in Bellville. So it was natural and expected that I should turn to aviation. But my mother at first would not consent to this new and risky fad. "There's too much danger, Philip. I'm afraid. Anything could happen up there and it would mean death to you." "Not with a good plane, mother. No traffic to worry with. Just yourself, your plane and limitless space." And so I won mother over as I always did. Dad, who had become wealthy through the ownership of oil land in Oklahoma, died when I was ten years old, so I had been solely under her care when a boy mostly needs the guiding influence of a father. Her idea of proper training was to satisfy my every whim. Dear indulgent mother. She meant well but the very fact that my every wish had been granted made me think that I should always receive first consideration. It did not take long for me to master the intricacies of an aeroplane. I had a knack for it. I soon became a pilot, one of the first Negro pilots ever licensed for the Bessie Coleman Air Line that carried passengers on short trips and sight-seeing tours. I kept my own private plane out at the field and when there were no trips to make (and that was often for our people were not airminded) I spent my spare time up in my plane practicing different stunts. One morning when there was nothing to do I went to the hangar for my plane. Joe Stevenson, one of the mechanics, was looking it over. "I'm going to take her out and give her a trial this morning, Joe." "You'd better wait a while, Philip," he cautioned, "until I finish looking h over." "No use of that. She sailed like a bird yesterday. Perfect take-off, perfect landing." "Just the same I'd advise you to wait." Joe was giving me good advice but I had always been impatient. He was thorough and careful, one who could be depended upon at all times, nevertheless his very opposition made me all the more determined. "I'll take her out and trust to luck. 'Contact'!" I yelled as I climbed into the cockpit. My take-off was good. My plane, called "Vanity I," took the air and sailed smoothly. I circled over the field and then headed due north. I felt a sense of exhilaration. The motor roared as the plane cut its way through the air. I turned the plane back south and was soon over the field again. I was preparing to make a landing when my plane did a little stunt all its own. The controls "froze." The plane went into tail-spin and in a few seconds I was pinned underneath the wreckage of "Vanity I." Now most accidents of this sort are fatal and probably mine would have been had it not been for the quick action of Pearl Nelson, who was a daring stunt flier. She was the first to reach me and pull me from beneath the wreckage. She worked with superhuman effort for she realized the danger. I had been dragged away none too soon for the wrecked plane suddenly burst into flames leaving only the twisted black metal frame. I was rushed over to the hospital. Besides being badly shaken and having several of my ribs broken I had some severe cuts about my face and head For once in my life I was subjected to discipline. So unaccustomed to such restraint, I was eager to get out. **** One Sunday afternoon Joe accompanied by a girl friend came to see me. The girl was like a beautiful brown princess, tall and stately. She looked as though she were immune to fear; and she was really in love with Joe. One could see that at a glance. While Joe fairly worshipped the ground she walked on. I probably wouldn't have given her another thought had it not been for Joe's remarks. Beautiful girls were no rarity to me. "Gee, it's too bad for you to be laid up like this, Phil. But you know I warnel you before you went up." That angered me. If there is anything I hate, it's to have some one say, "I told you so." Then the girl piped up. "Yes, Joe usually knows what he's talking about." They did not stay long and I was glad. Inside I was boiling; I was furious. "Joe was smart, was he? Joe was wise. Joe knew it all. Well, we'd see," I thought. I didn't want the girl. Wouldn't have her (even though I had to admit that she was a beauty) but I determined to take her away from Joe, make her love me, then throw her spring and adventurous person. I was the first youngster in our cycle to bike, the first to own a car. At the hum of a motor that fasell I soon acquired a list of Speed Demon," and others that need cop around home in Bell-expected that I should turn to first would not consent to this Philip. I'm afraid. Anything I would mean death to you." Another. No traffic to worry with. No limitless space." And so I did. Dad, who had become ship of oil land in Oklahoma, and so I had been solely under needs the guiding influence of a training was to satisfy my every r. She meant well but the very I been granted made me think first consideration. back into his face. I'd show the two of them something. But I reckoned without the girl. But I reckoned without the girl. Being rather goodlooking and possessing a finely built muscular physique, I had never had any trouble fascinating the opposite sex. In fact I was quite sought after, since in addition to these physical attractions my checking account at one of the most prominent local banks was large and I didn't mind spending. Usually if I danced with the same girl several times in one evening she wanted to get sentimental. Consequently I was more often bored than flattered. But Marjorie had eyes and smiles for onlv Joe. This aroused in me She was the age-old hunting instinct. I wanted her to want me. THE AIRCRAFT "You won't fly any more now, will you, Philip?" mother asked with anxiety. "I certainly shall. Accidents can happen anywhere." Soon I was again at the field. Marjorie came out several times to see Joe but as he was usually busy it was I who did most of the entertaining. Marjorie accepted me as a good friend and that was just what I wanted her to do. Joe was not suspicious, so I had a free hand. I began dropping in at her home in a casual manner; asking her in an indifferent way to go for a ride in my car; or if we were walking downtown and she admired some trinket of jewelry or a dainty article in an art shop I sent it to her the next day by special messenger. When she protested, I would explain it as a "gift between friends." This would have turned most girls' heads but it didn't impress Marjorie very much. It was at a party one night that Marjorie threw fuel upon the flame. Joe had to work so he could not attend. I, a. usual was very attentive to her. She shunned the other fellows and I took this for encouragement. After dancing a while we walked out on the veranda. She was un.sually quiet. "What's the matter, Marjorie?" I asked. "Lopesome. Phil. I suppose." Lookskeen, Pim, I suppose. This stung my pride. I was not used to having girls admit that they were lonesome in my company. "You can't afford to be lonesome on a night like this, sweet." "You aren't trying to get mushy ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION—July 5, 1930 She was like a beautiful brown princess—tall and stately. Friendship He Wouldn't Listen to His Heart . . . and When He Did . . . Read this True Account of a Reckless Chap Who Got Everything He Wanted are you Phil?" she asked as she looked up at me quickly in surprise. "No, I'm serious. Marjorie, I love you." "But you know there's Joe." "I can't help it, Marjorie. I love you." I tried to take her in my arms. She held me back and said in icy tones. "I don't play at love making, Philip." "Neither do I, Marjorie. But I love you, dear. Say that you love me." She laughed. And that laugh was like a slap in the face. It was a taunt. "You don't love me now, but you will. I'll make you. I want you and I always get what I want." "Well, Philip, Napoleon met his Waterloo, so it won't hurt you to meet yours. Maybe it will knock some of that cock-sureness and pride out of you." She turned and retraced her steps back to the house. I stayed outside alone. It seemed that I really loved her now. I thought I should have everything I wanted. Therefore I must have Marjorie. **** The next morning I sat outside the office at the aviation field. I was still thinking of Marjorie and our disagreement of the night before. "Why the scowl?" the soft low voice of Pearl Nelson sounded close. I glanced up to find her standing nearby. She was a dainty little thing. It was much easier to imagine her curled up on a divan than it was to imagine her strapped in the cockpit of her plane doing a devil's dart or floating through the air swinging onto a frail parachute. One had to adruce her daring and yet one could like a beautiful brown princess—tall a never find anything masculine in it. She was at all times a woman and a beautiful one, too. I had chummed around with her quite a bit and the more I knew ner the more I thought of her. I knew too that Pearl liked me quite a bit, but lately I had neglected our friendship trying to interest Marjorie. "Was I scowling. Pearl?" "Gee, is my boy friend that far gone?" she laughed a little mirthless laugh. "Far gone on what? Who?" "Why a woman, of course." She was looking at me with sympathetic eyes. You could not fool Pearl. She had eyes that looked right through you. I hesitated to tell her of Marjorie. She sensed this. "Well," I began, "I suppose since I owe my life to you I could at least tell you—" She stopped me short. "Don't do it from a sense of duty or gratitude. You owe me nothing. But if I can help you—well, you know me." She stuffed her hands deep into the pockets of her knickers and sauntered over to her plane. As I sat there still thinking of Marjorie a bold scheme entered my mind. A scheme both bold and fool-hardy for if I had been less egotistica. I would have known that I could not have carried it out. I had mother to issue invitations for an aeroplane party. The novelty of it was a short trip over the city in a plane after luncheon. After we had dined we motored out to the field. My plane, a large blue and gold thing, stood ready for the flight. I had named her "Vanity II." Several members of our party had been up and it was now Marjorie's turn. Come along, Marjorie," I called. She shook her head. "Oh, that's not fair. Everybody is going up." I countered. "Marjorie's not game," cried Tessie Rowen who had already been up. "She's affrid." I saw Marjorie's lips tighten and a resolute look came into her face. She came slowly over to the side of the plane and Joe helped her in. I was impatient to be off. The crowd backed away from the plane. The motor started and we were soon taxing down the field. The ground sank from beneath us as we climbed up, up, up, until we reached a dizzy altitude. I neaded my plane due north and soon the field was lost from sight. "Where are we going?" the frightened and scarcely audible words of Marjorie reached me. I did not even reply. After a while I glanced back over my shoulder. Marjorie was a pathetic figure. * * * * I brought the plane down about fifty miles from home. The motor was still running. "What nonsense is this Philip?" Marjorie asked defiantly. "This is no nonsense. I told you I usually get what I want." "But you are a fool. What will the people say? What will Joe think? You must take me back right away." "The people will probably say plenty if you don't change your mind—and Joe—who cares what he thinks?" "You beast," she cried and slapped me a stinging blow across the face. "I hate you and if you put your hands on me I'll run into that propeller." And suiting the action to the words she started for the whirl- nd stately. ing death-dealing propeller. "Don't Marjorie—for God's sake don't!" I cried as I ran after her. She sped like a deer and had nearly reached the madly whirling "prop" when she turned her ankle and fell with a low moan. I ran to her and picked her up. No sinner has ever been more repentant that I was at that moment for the foolhardy stunt I had tried to pull. "Forgive me, Marjorie. I am a fool. We will go back home right now. I only wanted to scare you into throwing Joe over but I know now that we can't get everything. I'll take you back and tell them that we had to make a forced landing or anything. You don't need to worry. I'll get you back." I lifted her into the plane and took my seat at the controls. Dusk was settling over Bellville Air Field when I brought my ship down. The closer we came to earth the lower my pride fell. The greatest feat I did was to face the crowd that gathered around the plane. I wanted to dig a hole in the ground and go into it. The plane landed and after running a 407 yards came to a stop. I turned to Marjorie. I Feel Like a Cad "Marjorie, I'm genuinely sorry and ashamed of myself for subjecting you to that experience. I don't deserve to be forgiven but I want you to know that I feel like a cad." The crowd was running towards us shouting: "What happened? Where have you been?" I mumbled something about "motor trouble" and lifted Marjorie from the plane. "What happened to Marjorie?" someone asked. 7 "I turned my ankle," she answered. "Oh, you had to make a forced landing, Phil?" Joe asked. "We should have gone over the plane more thoroughly." Then I felt worse than ever. Here we good old dependable Joe blaming himself for something that he was in no way responsible for. The other flights we postponed because of the approaching darkness and the condition of the plane. To most of the crowd the party had been a huge success but to me it had been a total flop It seemed as though the fates had conspired to rid me of my last ounce of pride; for the very next month Pearl Nelson won the Bessie Coleman Field Cup for stunt flying against a large field of entries including myself. Twice I had lost—and to women. The last defeat I hated worse than the first; for deep in my heart I wanted the admiration of Pearl. I had always admired her for the clean sport that she was; and daily some new trait of hers made me admire her more and more. Never had I found sympathy and love for humanity in a larger degree than she possessed. I realized that all the while that I was trying to wi Marjorie thoughts of Pearl hovered in my subconscious mind. In fact, it had been Pearl all the while but I was too blind to see it. without hesitancy two weeks before clung in my throat as though glued. We were good chums again, but I longed to be something else. I wanted to be her sweetheart—her husband—and yet I couldn't force myself to ask for the privilege. I felt unworthy. Something unusual for me, since before. I had considered myself better than most people. * * * * Probably I would never have taken courage had it not been for the following incident:t A passenger plane had just alighted from Chicago. The pilot, a tall, bronzed, good-looking chap, came over to me. "Is Miss Nelson here today?" he asked. "Yes, I'll find her for you." Yes, I find her for you. I started off to notify Pearl of the visitor. I went first to the office. She was not there. As I started in the direction of the hangar, I heard Pearl's voice. "Oh, Billy!" I looked and saw Pearl clasped tightly in the arms of the pilot. Sick at heart I re-entered the office. It was empty, and for once I was thankful. I fell into a chair and stared with unseeing eyes out of the window. The mental picture of Pearl in the arms of another man was almost unbearable. As in a dream I heard a plane start off down the field. Somehow I had always thought of Pearl as not loving anybody—but maybe me. I knew now my feelings regarding her. There was no more infatuation on my part—it was love sure and abiding. And she loved another. My Expression of Love Too Late The door of the office opened. There. stood Pearl radiantly happy. "Oh, Phil," shc began. "Don't Pearl, don't," I begged. "I saw everything. You in his arms. And Pearl," I blurted out, "I love you too, but I suppose it's too late now, but I had to tell you." "Why, Phil, cf all silly things—" Why, Pim, or an ally things? "I know it must seem silly to you, for I've played at love with so many girls, but I'm not playing now. We usually can't see gold if it's nearby. We are too busy looking at the tinsel. It glitters so." As I spoke the look of surprise that came into her eyes gave way to a humorous twinkle. "Well, of all things," she laughed. "Here I come a-hunting you to tell you about Billy, and I get an impromptu proposal." "Please, Pearl, I'd rather you wouldn't jest. I'm serious. Let's leave him out of it." "But silly, he's my brother, and he dropped in unexpectedly today. The regular pilot was sick and Billy took his place. I told you that he taught me to fly. Have you forgotten?" I looked rather sheepish, I imagine, for I had never seen her brother, though I had heard a great deal about "Dare-devil Billy Nelson." "Just the same, that proposal still holds good. Pearl, will you marry me?" "Oh, I don't know. I like you all right—but—" I dik: not wait to hear the rest of her sentence. Words are meaningless things anyway, and Pearl's words meant less than nothing to me for I was looking into her eyes and in them I read my answer. 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