St. Paul Echo

A. PHILLIP RANDOLPH, who spoke at the Sesqui-Centennial opening meeting, will be here this week. Hear him. VOL. 1; NO. 37 SOUTHERN DAILIES ATTACK N.A.A.C.P. ACCOMPLISHMENT North Needs Association's "Millions," Not Peaceful South, Says Knoxville Paper. Chicago Dailies Praise Negro Must Not Fight for Rights but Should Accept Place South Has for Him. New York.—Within one week of the close of the seventeenth annual conference of the N. A. A. C. P. recently held in Chicago, clippings from newspapers from all parts of America, filling four huge envelopes, have been received by the national office of the N. A. A. C. P. The Associated Press, The United Press, The Consolidated Press Association and other news distributing agencies sent detailed reports to all parts of the country, and the deliberations of the meetings were carried by newspapers in practically every city in the United States. Especially significant is the fact that southern newspapers reported to a surprising extent the proceedings of the conference. Many of these reports were favorable, but some of the southern newspapers apparently became frightened at the growing power of the N. A. A. C. P., and carried editorials attacking the association. Among such attacks which, it is felt, are most significant proofs of the association's growing power, there appeared editorial comment in the Knoxville, Tenn., Sentinel and the Winston-Salem, N. C. Journal. The former, with unconscious irony says: "Let this association expend its millions in the North where troubles are continually arising between the races, and let the peace of the southern states be undisturbed. . . . The southern Negro and the southern whites know how to dwell together in peace, and the southern Negro is coming into his own in the South." "Place" of Negro. The Winston-Salem Journal heads its editorial comment, "The Negro has much to be thankful for and much to be proud of, but the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is responsible for neither the one nor the other." The (Continued on page 2) MISSOURI WILL GIVE EXHIBITION "Show Me" State to Feature Exhibit on Own Emancipation Day, August 4. Kansas City, Mo.—(Special)—The accomplishments of the Negro in the fields of art and industry during the last sixty years will be displayed as a feature of a state-wide Negro picnic and celebration to be held here August 4, Emancipation day. The picnic, which is sponsored by the Kansas City Negro Business league, will be held in Liberty Park, Thirty-fourth street and Raytown road. Plans will be made at a meeting in the Paseo branch of the Y. M. C. A. N. S. Adkins, president of the league, announced Wednesday that all Negro ministers and heads of Negro organizations in the city will be invited. Every Negro in the state who has done a piece of creative work or who has made special progress in business or industry is requested to write to F. D. Lane, 1739 Lydia avenue, secretary of the Urban league. Space in the exhibition will be given free of charge. The Emancipation day celebration will be non-partisan and non-denominational, Mr. Adkins emphasized. More than 20,000 Negroes are expected to attend. Judge Albert George, municipal judge of Chicago, will be the speaker. There is nothing truly evil, but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.—Sir P. Sidney. The St. Paul Echo New Negroid Race Forming Says Kelly Miller In Latest Article Randolph Scheduled for Mass Meeting Tomorrow A. Phillip Randolph, General Organizer of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, will hold a series of meetings in the Twin Cities beginning tomorrow. A schedule of the meetings follows: Sunday, July 18—Mass meeting at St. James A. M. E. church, 3 p. m. Wednesday, July 21—Address at Labor Temple, 601 4th Ave. So., Minneapolis, 9 p. m. Thursday, July 22—Speech to students at University of Minnesota. Friday, July 23—Open meeting, Labor Temple, Franklin Ave., between 8th and 9th Sts., St. Paul. Sunday, July 25—Mass meeting at the Unitarian church, La Salle at the 8th St., Minneapolis. HOWARD GIVEN INCORPORATION Annual Appropriation Assured by House Vote; Democrats Give Support. Washington, D. C.—Despite the opposition of a number of Democratic members, the House Thursday passed without a record vote, a measure incorporating Howard University. Final passage of the bill would give the university a substantive law standing and obviate the situation which arises every year regarding its appropriation. Appropriations for it are carried in the Interior Department bill and is always stricken out on a point of order that no legislative authority for the institution exists. The Senate always restores the item. New York Democrats supported the measure, asserting that the work of the institution fully justified its existence. Organization Reports Assets of $1,000,000 at 14th Annual Convention. Little Rock, Ark.—More than 300 delegates from all over Arkansas gathered in Little Rock last week for the 14th annual session of the Mosaic Templars of America, fraternal order with headquarters in this city. The order was founded here by C. W. Keatts and J. E. Bush, and has organizations in 26 states with total assets of $1,000,000. P. H. Jordan, for 16 years state grand master, was re-elected for a two-year term. P. L. Dorman, secretary-treasurer, acted as master of ceremonies last Wednesday night during the program at the Mosaic temple, Ninth street and Broadway. L. L. Powell, grand master of Alabama; A. E. Bush, national grand scribe; Fred Stewart, grand master of Pennsylvania; J. E. King, grand master of Mississippi, and S. J. Elliott, national grand master, spoke when biennial reports of state officers also were given. The meeting closed Friday. SELF-DEFENSE PLEA FREES BOY SLAYER (Preston News Service) Muskegon, Mich.—Isaac Pullett, 18 years old, charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of David Rice, was acquitted Thursday by a jury in circuit court. The jury was out more than two hours. Pullett had been charged with murder, but the charge was changed to manslaughter Wednesday when the trial began. Pullett admitted having stabbed Rice in an alteration following an argument, but said he did it in self-defense. Rice was stabbed in the arm, Pullett's knife severing an artery. He died a few hours later. ST. PAUL-MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1926 Article in South Atlantic Quarterly Claims Negro Losing Identity; Blames White Men for Intermingling. Durham, N. C.—"Is the American Negro to remain black or become bleached?" is a question interestingly answered by one of the race's foremost educators, Kelly Miller, of Howard University, in an article appearing in the current issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly, a review published at Duke University. Professor Miller declares that the Negro is becoming bleached, and is losing much of his identity as a black man, which he declares is greatly to be regretted. The writer's statements have created no little interest among members of the sociological and biological departments of Duke University, being one of the first men to open the subject in such a clear and scholarly manner. New Race Rising "A careful observation of Negro schools, churches and other assemblages, in all parts of the country," writes Professor Miller, "convince the writer that fully three-fourths of the rising generation have some noticeable infusion of white blood. One finds about as many children of undiluted Negro type as of the opposite extreme who cannot be easily detected from white. Both extremes, however, are rapidly diminishing in quantity, while the average of the race is approaching a medium of color and physical characteristics. "Within the next three or four generations it will be hard to find a pure blooded Negro outside the remote black belts of the rural South. The near whites will have crossed the line or bred backwards on the color scale. A new negroid race will have arison. Blames White Men. The Howard University dean blames the composity progeny upon the white man, the males of the stranger race taking advantages of the females of the weaker. He says he is primarily responsible for whatever race crossing has already taken place, or that threatens to take place in the future. The Negro woman has been victimized, and the approximation of the races is the result, he says. "Should the white race issue a decree enforceable upon every member of that blood, that there shall be no further intermingling of the races, the process would instantly cease," the writer asserts. Of the 1,660,000 colored persons returned as mulattoes in the census of 1920, and of more than as many with concealed white blood in their (Continued on page 4) Colored Firm Gets $33,000 Bid For Toys Los Angeles, Calif.-The Heflin Manufacturing company of this city, a colored organization devoted to the manufacture of furniture with toy making as a side line, received an order recently from a New York firm for $33,000 worth of the "Wampus 8" toy automobile, which the company makes, according to advises from its president, L. N. Heflin, this week. The company has a capacity of 1,000 of the toys a day and last year employed fifty-two persons. CABARET IS PROVING HOT WEATHER DIVERSION Thursday evening, July 8, the weekly cabaret given by Ames Lodge No. 106 and Minnehaha Temple No. 128, was well attended despite the hot weather. Mr. Edward Frye of the team of Moss and Frye, which appeared at the Hennepin Orpheum, was a guest of the organizations. Mr. Hildreth Oden was the lucky gentleman and carried home an electric toaster, the prize of the evening. Ozzie and Clarence Johnson's Melody Boys kept the crowd in a dancing moon until the wee hours. All of the Bills, their families and friends in the Twin Cities were making preparations for the annual picnic at Bass Lake July 15, one of the largest of the season. The usual cabaret dance at Elks' Hall, 6th and Lyndale, followed the picnic. PROTEST NAMING SOUTHERNER AS LINCOLN U HEAD Alumni Bitterly Opposed to Appointment of Rev. Walter B. Greenway. He Backed Klan, Charge Petition for Election of Veteran Prof. W. L. Wright Instead of Tennessean. New York City.—Charging the Rev. Walter B. Greenway, pastor of the Bethany Temple Presbyterian church, Philadelphia, is a Klan sympathiser, local graduates of Lincoln University have joined in a protest against his election as president of the university. In a statement issued by the Lincoln Alumni association, signed by the president, Dr. E. P. Roberts, and the secretary, William M. Ashley, executive secretary of the Newark Urban league, the alumni quote an article in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin of June 28, headed "Pastor Raps Klan Ban." The quoted article reads: "Mayor Kendrick's order, refusing to allow the Ku Klux Klan to hold a parade in the city next September in connection with the Sesquil-Centennial was criticised in a sermon last night by the Rev. Walter R. Greenway, pastor of the Bethany Temple Presbyterian Church, 53rd and Spruce Streets. "Where are we Americans? Are we going to be sold out?" he cried. In answer to this there was a chorus which boomed "No." Object to a Southerner. The statement continues: "The alumni of Lincoln University have been stirred into a rage by the knowledge that the presidency has been tendered to a southern man. The meeting at which the tender took place was held in Philadelphia, June 23. The man to whom the presidency was tendered was the Rev. Walter B. Greenway, pastor of the Bethany Temple Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. He was born in Broylesville, Tenn., and educated at (Continued on page 4) JOHN T. CLARK TO ST. LOUIS URBAN LEAGUE (Preston News Service) St. Louis, Mo.—According to announcement by the Executive Board of the St. Louis Urban League last week, John T. Clark of Pittsburgh has accepted Executive Secretaryship of the local league and will report here August 1. Mr. Clark replaces Gordon H. Simpson, who resigned after three and one-half years at the request of the board. Mr. Clark is 43 years old, was born at Louisville, Ky.; graduated from Ohio State University in 1906, specializing in sociology and economics and did considerable special work in New York University. Following his graduation from Ohio State University he taught at Central High School at Louisville, Ky., for five years. Mr. Clark was married to Misa Patricia Ferguson of Chicago, a graduate of the University of Michigan, in 1917. They have two children, Marion and John T., Jr. Careening Auto Knocks Baby Into Stream; Drowns (Preston News Service) Kinston.—An unusual accident was reported late Monday when a car driven by M. T. Stone, middle-aged man from Dover, met another on the narrow Caswell street bridge and Stone's machine struck Mrs. Anna McGhee, residing in the vicinity, who was standing beside the north rail of the bridge waiting for the autos to pass. An infant in the woman's arm hurtled into the water many feet below and disappeared. The baby was drowned in water only two or three feet deep toward the Happersville end of the bridge. Divers sought the body but were unable to locate it. The police required no ball for Stone but ordered him to return for an investigation. Has Already Removed Some, He Tells Equal Rights League Delegation, and Will Continue Until All Are Gone. Washington.—In reply to a petition presented by a delegation sponsored by the National Equal Rights League, President Coolidge last week personally stated to the delegation that he had removed some of the segregation in the Federal departments here and that he would continue to remove it until it was all gone. Wm. Monroe Trotter, secretary of the N. E. R. L., presented the petition to the President. He placed on the table a big pile of petitions with 25,000 signatures from 40 states specifying one from Maine, and four from California, saying they proved universal geographical opposition to federal segregation. He also presented one from the "372nd" Battalion, Massachusetts National Guard, which Mr. Coolidge authorized when governor. Mr. Trotter read the petition and declared segregation to be inequality of rights and asking for its removal for the race which shed the first blood for independence. He then asked the President to lead the day in having the United States make the 150th anniversary of American Independence the beginning of a new American, epoch for the abolishment of color caste, proscription, segregation and public ostracism, by himself removing segregation of the colored clerks at Washington. He said this example by the government had given great impetus to every form of segregation, and unless the President would abolish it now, disaster was inevitable. Finally he urged abolition was a fair return for over 150 years of fighting, dying and sacrificing and in just appreciation of a perfect record of loyalty with never a traitor. Rev. Thos. S. Harten, national organizer, urged the President to live up to the traditions of Massachusetts which he believed he would. The President replied to the spokesmen in a calm, friendly manner, that some segregation had been removed and he would continue to remove more gradually until it was all removed. The delegation was as follows: Jas. L. Neill, Henry P. Slaughter, Rev. W. H. Jernagin, President, National Race Congress; Rev. J. U. King, Bishop I. N. Ross, Rev. Chas. Stewart, Thos. A. Johnson, N. A. Murray for Alpha Phi Academy; Prof. Kelly Miller, Thos. Walker, A. S. Pinkett, Secretary, Washington Branch, N. A. A. C. P.; Rev. D. W. D Isaacs, Prof. T. J. Brown, Geo. A. Parker, Secretary National Race Congress; Rev. W. H. Rozier, Cal.; J. A. Jackson, J. E. Scott, for Kappa Alpha Psi, Ralph D. Matthews and Emory B. Smith. Kip's Printing Bill For Trial Totals $2,500 Kip's Printing Bill For Trial Totals $2,500 White' Plains, N. Y.—It will cost Leonard Kip Rhinelander $2,500 for his printing bill alone in his appeal of the annulment action against Mrs. Alice Beatrice Jones Rhinelander, which he lost in the Supreme Court. The voluminous records in the case must be printed for the consideration of the appellate division in September, and Rhinelander's counsel estimates that the cost will be about $1 a page for 2,500 pages. TIGER FLOWERS UNHURT WHEN CAR HITS TAXI (Preston News Service) Dover, N. J.—When a taxicab collided head-on with an automobile which carried Tiger Flowers, middle-weight champion of the world, Rochelle; Henry Parsh, a boxing promoter; Miss Anna Swindell and William Fleming, of New York, early Wednesday, Fleming suffered deep cuts in his scalp and was taken to the Dover General Hospital unconscious. Miss Swindell was taken to the same hospital, cut on the head: Flowers was only shaken up. Evil events come from evil causes; and what we suffer, springs, generally, from what we have done.—Aristophanes. Head Organizer B. S. C. P. to Give Address Series Before Local Audiences A. Phillip Randolph Starting with a mass meeting at St. James A. M. E. church, Dale St. at Central Ave., tomorrow afternoon at 3 p. m., Mr. Randolph will conduct a week's series of meetings in the Twin Cities on the economic condition of the Negro. HOUSING CRISIS REACHED IN K.C. Committee of White, Colored People Called to Consider Relief Measures. Kansas City, Mo.—The strife over homes for Negroes here has reached a crisis which has necessitated the calling of a city-wide committee of white and colored people to consider ways and means. For some weeks, the Linwood Improvement association, an organization of white people, has been attempting to get the city to condemn 62 Negro homes and make a large park between Twenty-seventh and Twenty-ninth streets. The association would force Negroes back north of Twenty-seventh street and have the new park serve as a "deadline" over which colored families might not move southward. In this project, the association has received the endorsement of the South Central Business association, a powerful body of south side business men. The assessed valuation of the Negro homes sought to be condemned is $500,000 and the park board, which must pass the recommendation on to the city council, has said unofficially, that this was too great a sum for the project. The city is already in debt six million dollars and the new administration is seeking to cut down: not increase the load. Some of the families in the proposed park district have lived in their homes more than a dozen years and have made many improvements. Others have purchased newly built homes in the district within the last year, while still others have bungalows and duplexes under construction in the area. City Manager McElroy, social agencies, both white and colored, and the race relations committee of the Council of Churches are deeply concerned over the problem and Thursday a committee was selected to hear "plain talk" from both sides and attempt to arrive at a solution satisfactory to all. Both sides deny any violence will be attempted, but colored citizens freely point out that since their population has increased nearly fifty per cent and the area in which they are allowed to live has been increased scarcely ten per cent, they must have homes. Openly, too, they have declared they are tired of the bombings which have been the rule in Kansas City. The spirit is typified by a short, seemingly timid little woman, who, with her husband, has just purchased a home in a disputed area. She said: "I do not want any trouble, but I've got to have a place to live. The closet with the pretty glass in it right across the hall from my front door holds two Winchester pump guns and if somebody doesn't get sane pretty soon, I'll shoot until my ammunition runs out." SEE ALL YOUR friends at the annual Sunday school picnic next Wednesday. The place is Minneaha Falls. PRICE FIVE CENTS NEGRO WAITERS TAKEN OFF OF CANADIAN ROAD Canadian National Removes Men From Diners Without Giving Notice. Said To Be Inefficient But President Says Road Must Not Encourage Negroes to Migrate to Canada. Toronto, Canada.—The Canadian National Railroad order replacing colored dining car waiters with white employees on the International Limited has gone into effect. During the week, as the International Limited, which runs from Montreal to Chicago via Toronto, and Detroit, passed through Toronto, colored waiters were removed and replaced with white servitors, resulting in -numerous colored men being thrown out of employment. The drastic order was without warning, for sometime ago, Sir Henry Thornton, president and general manager of the Canadian government railways, in an address said "Canada wants no color problem, and colored people should be discouraged from migrating here." The order emanating from the dining car superintendent's office declares that "the colored waiter does not give satisfactory service and is generally inefficient." However, none of these things were brought forward until the colored waiters attempted to confer with their superiors in regard to equal wages with white waiters on other lines. COLORED WOMAN SELLS CORNER FOR $22,000 Kansas City, Mo.—The store building on the northeast corner of 12th and Highland, which has been owned by Mrs. E. S. Lee for several years, passed into the hands of Hurst, the pawnbroker, last week at a price understood to be $22,000. Since that time it has been transferred again and Felix Payne is now the owner. Mrs. Lee is the wife of E. S. Lee, one of Kansas City's pioneer pharmacists and head of the Lee Laboratories. PULLMAN FIGHTS INVESTIGATION Attempt Being Made to Dislodge Resolution From Committee on Rules. (Preston News Service) New York, July 16.—Congressman Emanuel Celler, sponsor of a resolution in the house of representatives for the investigation of the Pullman company and the conditions of its porters and maids promised a large gathering of this newly organized group of workers a further fight for their cause. Celler is trying to dislodge his resolution from the committee on rules and have it transferred to the labor committee. Pullman company influence is making every effort to bury the proposition in committee. The richest families in America are represented in the Pullman company board of directors, Celler reminded the porters and maids. He mentioned the George F. Bakers, senior and junior; J. Pierpont Morgan; a representative of the Marshal Field family; one of the Vanderbilt clan and Robert T. Lincoln. The latter, Celler told the workers, is doing all he can to enslave Pullman porters in spite of his father Abraham Lincoln's proclamation of emancipation which was supposed to free Negro slaves in America. Porters average less than $125 a month, including tips, Celler said, while the average estimated living wage is $2,300 a year for an American family. Porters besides have to endure hardships of uncertain hours, too short sleeping periods, a fake company union, etc. V n3 6 Feet EPPS LOE TRY We Sout KC, MONARCHS WIN FIRST HALF Series Taken From All-Stars Leaves Team Ready for Sec- ‘ond Half of League Play. Kansas City, Mo.—The Monarchs cinched the first-half flag for the 1926 season by taking three of the four games played with the Cuban All Stars, the final series of the half, ‘The dopesters whose predictions of a Monarch slump after the injury to ‘Moore will have more respect for the fact that the Monarehs is not a one- man ball club. Tiere is no doubt in the minds of the fans that the club was weakened by the loss of Moore. By winning out this first half, the Monarchs are assured af being in the play-off for the championship of the western circuit. The winner of the play-off will meet the winners in the eastern league for the world’s cham- pionship. Hilldale, winner last year of.the world’s series, is at present in fourth place in the eastern pennant race. (BUREAU CLEANS UP WAR FRAUDS Ten Millions Collected in Three Years. Washington. —Many millions of dol- Jars are involved in war fraud cases ‘still pending before the Department ‘of Justice. ‘The war transactions sec- jtlon of the department, organized in \1928 to prosecute war frands, has been j@isbanded, and the work will be com jpleted by other branches of the gov- ernment. Cleaning up war frauds (will have cost the government $3,000,- ‘000 when it is completed. ‘The war transaction section since \its organization has handled 770 jeases. It has collected $10,912,871, jand further payments totaling more ithan $400,000 are due during the pres- jent fiscal year. Judgments now on seg before the courts total more [than $700,000. About 250 cases are jyet to be handled, | Of the 770 cases handled by the sec- ition, 401 have been defizitely closed Isince July, 1924. Of these 16 cases |have been paid in full, 47 compro- |mised, 87 closed as uncollectable, 98 idismissed, 188 transferred to other agencies, 42 ordered audited, 4 pald ‘in part, and 12 closed for miscellane- ‘Sus reasons. It is expected that at least 50 more jopses will be closed elect Ba a ithe present fiscal year, ape It ts iMikély that by the same time 50 more jwill be ready to be transferred to itederal district attorneys for prose. ieution. 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New York.—“Please,” asked the timid voice of a girl over the tele- Phone, “can you tell me whether June 17 will be fair?” James H. Scar, New York's vet- eran weather man, glanced at maps ‘and records on his desk and pondered ‘& moment. “Why, that’s your wedding day ‘n't it” “Yes,” the voice faltered in surprise. “Yes, but how did you know” “Oh, I Just surmised. 1 can tell you only this about the weather: you will always remember June 17 as the ‘brightest day of your life.” ‘This call came to the weather man éxactly a hundred and seventeen days 'before June 17. It was impossible to forecast accurately what the weather fon that date would be. Here is his reason for the answer he gave: ‘One Day to Worry—if It Rained. | “Our greatest enjoyment in lite jusually comes in anticipation. If I Ihad told her it would be cloudy and on June 17, she would have ex- ced 117 days of worry. But with jwhat I told her she had 117 days of ldetignttal anticipation. | “I figured that if it rained on June 7, there would be only one day of jorry and that she hardly would no- ice the rain anyway In the excite- t and Joy of getting married.” Brides-tode are among the 1,500 who daily call the weather reau for information. On some the office operator lists as many 1,000 “busy calls.” People planning plenies ‘phone, the elerk who wants to know which eek out of several will be best for im to take his vacation ; offictals pre- for conventions call; managers jecting opening nights for new 78. | All Want Information. | Millionaires who want to set sail yachts for distant points conatant- ‘are served by the bureau. Ships sea Keep in close communication ith this and ether offices. ‘The fce cream manufacturer wants’ know the weather outlook for the yeek-end. If Saturday and Sunday te be cool and rainy, he saves by cutting down on the output. clear and hot, he 1s ready for a business. He lkewise calls for reports. ‘The weather man’ often 1s asked If je moon was shining on a certain ight months ago, whether the sun as shining, whether. it snowed or ined or what was the temperature such and such a date. ‘This information mostly is in de- and for court trials of civil and iminal cases. The weather record jays an important part in many cases: nd on some days Mr. Scorr visits as y as saven different courts. | COMING 4 ‘ | ‘Big Barbecue, Aug. 4, given by the Royal Cirele of Friends, On Rondo, ‘near Kent St. | DON'T FAIL TO HEAR A. PHILIP RANDOLPH, Siinday, July 18, at ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH. HEAR Ea TUESDAY, July 20, 9 p. m., over WCCO. WATCH FOR OTHER ‘MEETINGS. “Royal Lodge No. 159, U. B. F., is giving a “Lawn Fete” Thursday eve- ning, July 22, at the home of Mr. Wm. Evans, 1385 Sherburne. The car bringing the most ladies or men will receive a prize. Barbecue, Friday, August 6, Grotto and W. Central, by the Ladies’ Aid Society of Pilgrim Baptist church. ‘GOLD RUSH CENTER ALMOST DESERTED Scene of First Strike Now Ghostly Village. ~Sacramento, Calif—Hidden in the ‘Eldorado country hills northeast of here les the original boom town of the gold rush days—Colomd, on the ‘site where James Marshall found the first flake of yellow metal that was ithe impetus for the greatest westward |movement known to mining. Once @ city of 10,000 population, it jhas dwindled until the census taker let Cent tauy beget total of 160. In this village in which California's present-day prosperity was born there ‘remain on its main street only a com- bination grocery store and lunch coun- ter, a post office, an automobile serv- jice station, and here and there the |shell of a fire-gutted building or the ‘weed-grown foundations of business blocks. When the gold fever was at its height, stores of all kinds lined the streets of Coloma—there were 14 hotels, the inevitable Well-Fargo ex- |Press office and the usual saloons, |gambling houses, a Chinese bank and even a sewing machine agent's offic. There was a jail, an armory, four churehes and three schools. Fool's gold still glitters in the sand near the monument marking the site of Sutter's sawmill in the mill race of which Marshall made his discovery, but the yellow wealth of '48 went with the six-pony express lines that oper- ‘ated between Coloma and surrounding pines delivering mall for a dollar an ‘Ounce. ‘The old jail which housed killers jand bad men in those days now is a stable. On a slope back of the town ‘fg the lonesome looking memorial ‘statue of Marshall with bronse finger petating to the spot where the géld |rush began. 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Wright, who has been at the university for about thirty years and is beloved by altimnt and stu- dents alike. The alunini at their an- nual meeting at the university, June 15, also unanimously recommended Prof. Wright. “It is thought the committee of five had no opportunity to make the recommendation effective at the board meeting. What happened was that Dr. John B. Laird, president of the board. of trustees, corralled his friends on the board and rode rough- shod over the minority members, who are the real friends of the university and have its interests at heart. Say Board Was Silenced. “In order that the opportunity for protest might not be given to the alumni and other friends of the in- stitution, a gagging motion, silene- ing the board until the candidate would indicate his acceptance was passed.” ‘There has been a marked dlffer- ence pf opinion between members of faculty, students and alumni on one side, and trustees on the other rel- ative to the selection of a president. The post has been vacant for nearly two years. The faculty have object- ed to previous choices of the trustees on the grounds that they were un- familiar with the Negro question and were by training and experience more fit to preside over churehes than an educational institution. All the teachers at Lincoln are white. The Bethany Temple Presby- terian Chureh Is known as “the Wan- amaker Church.” Firemen Rip Up Walk to Free Trapped Girl, | Qleveland, Ohio.— Firemen and, bors fought for nearly an hour Telease a yellow-hatred girl of three: draiti pipe in which she became, yped while at play. Axes and picks tore up a cement alk and broke into the clay’ Pipe to freé the child. ! Just before supper Bleanor Banas playing with het sister, Helen, t, and some other children in a ighbor’s yard. Near the back cor-, of the house the drain pipe from root had been broken off at the alk. Bleanor wag toddling along walk when she stepped into the, ‘up to her hip. Immediately she t up a wail. Neighbors came running. Men go- home from work tried te help, yat the shoe had been caught below ie surface. Someone called the fire it. | Battalion Chief James Flynn showed shiny things and got down on his: to quiet her. Her wall sub-' to only a whimper. Phone Dale 8339 ‘Try the Drug Store First ELMER MORRIS DRUGGIST Prescriptions Rondo and Mackubin ; White Front Store ‘CASH and CARRY Prices With Quality Meats and Groceries Fresh Dressed Poultry at All ‘Times Elk 1388 559 St, Anthony Av. ee ee = Se, Qa" rey Pe eee es Pg, _ Peri 2 SS yr < Le eps it — \ a fismaster, ee ee ee | CARD OF THANKS _ We with to aekiowlédge with sin céte thants the kindness shown ‘wu ‘durlig the ftthoad and death of ont nephew and brother, Oliver Johnson, at Ancker hospital, by our many friends, especially Rev. T. J. Carr, who officiated at the funeral held at St. Paul Baptist chureh, also Rev. ‘W. H. Griffin of St. James A. M. B. church, ‘To Rev. and Mrs. W. H. 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Other boys tore for the woods and still others ‘for the creek, shedding clothes as they went. | Many glorious hours later the kids jleft. The estate was like a cyclone- jawept zone. But Mr. Payne was (happy. } “If they had broken every tree down {and had uprooted every strawberry |plant,” he sald, “it would have been \worth it to see the Joy they had.” | Mrs. T. H. LYLES Oldest Established Mortician Office: Cedar 0508 Res: Dale 2947 150 W. Fourth St. $1. Paul, Minn. Hellie’s Cash Grocery & MEAT MARKET 898 No. Dale St. Free Delivery We Catry a Full Line of Groceries. 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