1928-01-20

+----------------------------- + The Northwest's Most Popular and Widely Read Newspaper e ( + + +~-~ -------+ v4 Newspaper the People Read, Love~ and Respect.·~ l Best Advertising Medium or Its Kind in the Pacific Northwest ---------------------------+ VOL. VIII.-No. 3. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1928. PRICE FIVE CENTS HOOVER NAMES MORE COLORED WORKERS IN MISSISSIPPI FLOOD AREA fhe Week 1. -\ me1·ican BPauties. ____,iSixteen Share 2. "Sa\·aQe Abyssinia." 'L White~ House Cake. 1 • Pi~!htin~ ai HonlP. 5. "J(ing of l{.ings." - noscm<j Sil\L\IONs --– neall "The \Veek" and Get a College EducatJon. Amei·ican Beauties +-------------------------------------------------------- l <'' mnl'!: as the curtain goes up ?llr". Alice Jones Rhmelander is seen on tht sta;;e, (,nl ,. near the center th1s 1i.ne . Ladi(•s, ;~·ou me too busy wztl1 V(Hl!' own ~candal to give much time 'to l>lJ~, Allee and Kip. Evt>ry caug-l., hiul is ca!' eel, as this sad young lnd~· can testify. TUSKEGEE 1'\'STITf'Ti<:, Ala.,' • Jan. 19.-Acting upon the recnm- M m h Bank mendations of the Colored .\d_visOI y e p IS Commission on rehabilllatwn 111 tile floo<l d1strrct SEcretary Hoo'. er lias Sh I outlined in a letter to Dr l-toben ortage s R. :\Ioton, chairman of the comnus– swn, a new program for rel1e wo;t· provides for the appoinlnwnl Now $300,oon of one colored y;orker for <'aCll U white work€1 t'1 the service of the Hed Cross so tlwt hnl 11 races Will - - be equally represented. The 11ro·1 MI;::\IPHIS: Tenn , Jan.. 10.- ( Spe- gram is effective February 1. cwl J -Exannners l•l'epa: lllg an m- Dr. J s. Clnrk, preSilient of' ventt'ry and complete llst of losses Southern L:nivE'rsity, Baton Rouge. involved in the failure of the Fra– La.; I. :\I. ,\JcCoy, tormerly ot J;al- lerna! & Solvent Bank and Trust timore. now presJclcnt of Rust Col- Company estinute the ~hortage of lege, Holly Sprin?;s. :\IJss.; an(l H the colored Institution will amount C. Ray, Extvnsion Service state to $.~00,000, possibly more. agent for Arkansas, all of whom Dcs]JJte th0 monitting s;wrtage it are members of the commission, i~ believed that deposrtors wlll be have been appointed assistant r<'- fuliy protected An indemnity bond construction offiC('l'S for 1 hPir re- for $100,000 s1gne<l by some 0f the spectivo states to snperv1se reli(•f tlir€'rtors is held by the bank and work among Negroes in co-opPratJon it is expected that recovery can be with till· H:Nl Cross. 1 mad<' of much of tlw imporperl:,; T~JeS<.. with their staff~ "ill he ,yithdrawn tundJ. employed until AprJI 1 to look .tftcr Chul'clH'fi J,o,t the needs of the colored flood Ful- ('1m 1·cl 1 e 3 and f:chool ch ldren arc ferers.. he!~/111!:. th.em .to g.t>t n~l'e:J~ I said to be among t110se who have· I sal y l•lOVls.ons, clothmg and size! I been hard struck by the failure of ter, se~d and hvcsto~l; and :'ldvzsmg 1 the bank according , 0 one of Mem. them m . mnttcrs of plantmg .and phis' le::tilinh ministen. ot_her agnculmral problen~a. 'llwy 1 , 1• 1 " 1 . k was tiw depositor" 0 r w1ll SP<' 1 hat houses whJf'li ltaV<' 1 1 . 1 ' 1n . J been destroyed or damag<'<l are re- t~c ~hnft sy:q~em ~l;·o~~C'te~ 1r;, thP built or rq 1a 1 rccl in tt sati~facwry F ubllc schooL as weL ~. th rc,,ulm mau!lar· eitht>ii with locnl contractors Chr,stmas SaYing depdrtment, large. or thosr. !HoughI ill for thP pur- ly patroniz, d !Jy cluldren pose. Efforts to save the building M Committees Equnl 1 cupred by the Llfco hank rdHl lhf' Unemployment In Chicago Increases CTIICAGO,-Ser:ous increafe of Think k ndly of Kip. He is an impin• ement on most young white llll"mployment in Chiccwo is l·eported gentl(nH'n. Hif feet followed his b~ A. L. Foster, d rector of the hcnrt; afterward!:; went h1S1 hand. Chic.;;.;,1,o Urban Lea;;ue. Foi (']J, c,lmas he sent :l\Iiss Alice a No.: onl~ is there increase of llr.- employment, but thei·e is a tenuency hut e :H•'l<['H.'t of Amencan Beauty of housewn·es to reduce wages oi I ose~. Thus that then happy young clom~stics ar.d rcquiie more woik. lac~~ ~' eakt of. her ~e]o,:ed:, . Th's is working· a hardship on mBTIY .o, , .e~n~ud kno\\~ \\heie to families which depent! upon the 1 buJi . 1 h I o,e,. They are the same mothers a'> assistant breadwinner, he ' as he •. '11 n·e. last Chnstmas. Is n?t told th~ City Club Thurodav mol n- that t•J uu~h to show that hP st1l~ J • loves J.~e '"' lllp.. A lr.rge mflux of work seekers fror1 Detloit me abo cro\\ uing into the city. Yt", 'rltss Alice, that shows he still loves ynt . Also, ~ ou ~how the clev– erness of, woman in putting last Christm.,,; Ill the record. Metropolitan Ins. I i\L;s \ icP is ·:u~; Kip for separa– tion. In New Y01k there is uut one geound Jcr divorce. You can imagine I what th·t! ~ 10unu is. ·what state Qrants ' ,, d<Yorce? What state m– ~ites ~-<J\1 to come over and get .,one? ls nol t! P clerk in heaYen busy i.f he Is Accused Of D" • 0 t" I keeps a 1·ccord of our white people's JSCfiJ]')li]3 JOD mul~~~a7~'·c:,:d to be in Louisian~ r:r:t- ting r0:' ly toz· a divorce. In that date " 1 ;ch you;1g white gentleman co~ l<l hav.. two or thl'ee pretty mixed bloo:l g,rls and fear neither do0r of the coui·t 1 1Q<..se, front or rear. J\llL\'/Al:KJ~l<], J.1n. H.-( ANP) -A JllO,,l fiagnm' and UllWdiT[IUt~d 1 ca•e of' rl·,(·rimmation is alleged tr ha>e been rl!selosed here last week when a reo:·esentative of the local bran ell of the MAll npolitan Life In– surance Company called upon Dr. 1' J Gilmer, a nr0minent rolored phy- 'In order that there can be no one belonging to the Fraternal p:'lOr mistakP or CailurP in this situation." lo merger of the Fraternal with the Secretary Hoo\'er writes "I have Solvent. llbcloscd that they were sj<'ian here, to witl'clr:nv an invitll– suggcstecl that l\lessrs. ltay, i\IcCo~ transferred to Bob ('hurch, politi. twn wluch the doctor harl rec<•JYed and Clark comprise a committee, dan and trustee fe>r the K.ltwna! "through mistake" to attend a din– advisozy to the Red Cross, and that Benef 1t Lift• Insurance Company, l'<'l' giv•n hy tlw <'Oltlllany at the e<~.ch of tht:m strengthpu his stalf one day priot' to closing of the doors Pi zster. H~tel 01 . 1 This humble writer has long- en– joyed fr:E-nlbhip \:ilh Miss Aliee's law.>·u·, Jl due Sumuel Sw,nburne of New RochP!le. That legal genius '>'ill hardly p<'t mit Kip to fOTget the month o1 November, 192-L In that month and yea!· both 1\Ir. RhineIande r and l\'Ir. • Hardmg got mixe,l Ul) with thzs colo!' liue. Both lost. ThP hic:lwr vou rise the harder yon Ll . The farther ) on stt·ay mva.v fn,J, hon,e the longer the jonr– nev h:tl'l . Bluocl will tell and often of colot·cct assistants to a lllllllbcr of the institution. '!'he mvJtatwu wa.; HC~lt to Dr Ftop,; tc 1 • k \, .ren ~ OLl want it to 1 t.:.UUL·Jl'' ,'t<~ ... rtly !:..1~0 ,5t_;._,,.. t. iy 'lll. equal to ~he N~tional Hell Cro~s Examiner.; lw!JevP the tranBfer of 1 mez·, as tn <~flH'r .physt(•tans ;vh.o are representatives m the (]Jffen'ut prop< rtv to Church can he aJ, llCh- 1 pohcyholcl~r-, ca1_ly lll ~ctooeL .l,n (OlllllllR; tlmt tl1PHP dSRislants uu- 1 ed on the gro d~ tl·at the l!lSlll-j the meantmze, Jt 1~ tl'd, d1e oif;cw.– cl~?rtttkfl (lt onr~ to f'Ol11lllt'tP ·1 nr- c~nce cOlUVdl.t.) v-a' trt u. ed ,t 3 1 ,. lt ·n, d t1.1at Dr G' 1 1llf r \~ ,ls a ::\"'gTo ~·ey ot the ent<~"<> s~tuatwn, bnng- ferrcd creditor. The insm·azH·e con>- 1 llll .goug!lt to_ prevent _hun tror.1 a; mg every case of fa1lure or negled . . \V 1 , 1 ton D C orl!.~lll- I• nclmg the dmner Tne compuny s Savnge Abyosinia to the Rul Cross ret•ret<(lltatlves p.auy, .t le·~~.,::, gthe' b~nk .. $ 4 0.000 JepJeseututive informed the cloc•or Two American explorers and al<- wllo will at once investigate and zatzon. 1 ''. t its faiJm·p that 1t wns not the custom for Np. thors, ,V. H. Osgood and James E. 1md remed)'." one wee c pnor 0 • groes to attend and that he m1ght Baum, both of Chicago, gaYe us a Sl'cnnd Time b.• emhanassed. book of AbyF~inia. The title of the For a second time in less than a c G t Pee!fng cert:1in that the ngPnt di1l book JS 'Sa\'agc Abyssinia." The month Secretarv Hoover has talcen ono-ress es not reprc~cnt the COlJJpany's attitude title of the book shows that these definite aetion ·in compliance with t» in the matter, Dr. Gilmer wrote tc- cultured genLlt>man don't intend to the recommendations of the A<l- 1 B'"ll T s the president of the third dis'rict puy that country another visit. visory commtBswn, tl1e first bemg I 'B 0 top and to the superintendent of the Some non-white American, who the removal of :\Iiss Cordelia Town- .ii ::\lilwaukee diEtrict To date he has likes to claim kin with Abys5inian~ SPJH], RPd Cross \\orker at ·:o-relvillc. 1 rcc< !Ved no reply or any other "colored people," ought La.. who was chareNl with dis- M• d 1'.11 • This actllln whl<'h has been conn- to ,~nd the rulel' of that intcr;o~ting crimination against and neglect of. !Xe lYiarrta!!eS tenunced by the Met:-opo!Jtan Life. :and a eopy of the O~good book. coloretl people in relief worlc "" Insurance l'<;m pany. if not sponsor- The book tells of everyLhing seen I11 a !eh.Jgram to Secietary Roo- ed, has aron~ed the ire of policy- in Abyssinia. Africa's 'only Chris- ver, Dr Moton states· "\Ve are very GTO · D c J 16 holders m the Negro rnce, as well as uan 1;ation"- cities, crops, birds, much gratlfted by this evidence of WAS III)< ;, • · ' an. - your cons 1stency, wise ancl patriotic Senator Cole Blease, democrat. nf prospective policyholders. These are rivers, rocks that speak of a<?,~s on service. In ~pite of a few local South Carolina, is not satisfied with pOl)lting out t'lat it is reported that l ages, skies too rich in shading ~or lapses. the Red Cross has renderer! . . . . . the Negro app!Jcants are forced to mona! gaze, beasts, towns, lad1es a wonderful service to the 400.000 hzs b!ll to ,Jrohtblt the mcermm- ]lay a higher rate than whites and with big; legs, maidens, songs, trees Negro flood sufferers as well as to tiage of wlnte and colored persons to the company'q volicy of hinng no and hugjuice. The new U. S. minis- thousands of others,. in the District of Columbw :\egroes as agento or clerlts. ( Continueu on Page Three) .:Ie \\'OUld amend t!1e Constitution I -----– Negro History Week Fights Racial Bias of the Un1ted States to carry into effect the purpose of lus bill. On last Thursday he proposed in 1he Senate a joint resolutwn to amend the Constitution. His amen<l· ment, winch would be knnwn as WASHINGTON.-To dimbuse the 1Article 20, is as follows Marcus Garvey Tells Of Life In U.S. Prison public mind of any racial bms will "The marnage of a white pPrson , ~--- be the purpose of the thn·d Negro with a Negro or mulatto shall be 1 NKW YORK. J::m 19 --\Vntmg "Then there was a white mayor, History 'vVeek, nation'll!y known eele- unla:vful and void. Congre~a sl1all to the "Negro \\'orld,". Marcus Gar- al3o from Indiana, uamed Johnson. bration held under the auspices oi prov1de b;.: law for the pumsh~e,nt ,ey, recently freed rrom .Atlanta When I went to Indiana m 1921 lie the ~ssociation for the Studv of Ne- of the officer of the law, or. ~nm.s- pen and deported to Jama1ca, de- was then mayor and pres1decl at the gro Life and History, Inc. · ter or any otlJPr pe.z~son qual!~Jecl to 1 scrzbed. pr.son as a hPallh resort meehug and introduced me. The Accordino· to Dr Carter G "WI ood- perform the ma111age ce1 en:wny 1 for polltJc,ans not m power next place T nwt him was in Atlanta son di,.ect~r thcr~ ;ccms to have who shall attempt to or perform ___ Pnson. He served a year and a day ' ' s·tch em emonv" H t · t and then he made parole and went been the understandine, on the part 'p f tl · i't t' al e wro c m par : home. Then the next person I met of some persons that the aim of this assage 0 . 11 s cnns 1 u ron ''\Vh:;, do ynu know that at a prison mc:vement was to diminish the mter- a,m?ndn~ent ,will ~require a tw~- hke where I was, thPY had 3,000 from Indiana was a judge who, cu- t f t 1 N . 1 h' t t.Jl!ds 'ote o, the ;:;cnate and Hou,c people there 2 300 whJte men and riously enough, was at the same es 0 .Je eoTo m genera IS orv 1 · t f' t· b tl1ree fOltt•th, of - ' lJ1eetJ.Ilg "'her·c tile mayor pr·esJded bv suJ.rg·estin5t· less attentwn to the all( Ill I JCa . 10 ~ Y - 8 700 colored men. We httd a wl~:te " • · o . ,- •• . h . . d _ tlw state legislatures. govenwr of a state there. 1ou Xominated In !'rison aclue\ cmcnts of ot Cl races an na Tlus JO'nt resolutton >\·as referred . o IV ll "Then wP l1ad Eugene Victor tions and by eulogizing· unduly the h J d' · · ·t know what a governor JS · e ' Debs. He was sent for 10 years h . t f' > 1· · Th to t e u 1c1arv commt tee. we had one lYe had white Fed- ac 1evemen s o ' e race. e pur- · , d · d 1 d t te in the pri~on; a man who ran for pose is rather to give .the Negro his ' ~rr.l JU ges, an we: . la . s 7 the presidency. He was nominated place amone· the achievements of the Senate Votes Extra Pay Judge~' \\"(' had J11UlllC!Pal J\HlgP~ in llriHOl\ and rau against Harding, · 1 · · • • and manns, wr> had members or world wit Jn,u~ any cxaggeratwn. I T 0 Ptckett Widow congress; we had doctors by the and I believo got two million The estaol!shment of .the ~onn1~ _ hundreds. l:tw}ers by tlle ilnndrells. votes. So that shows the make-up Study Departmt>nt. has .assisted_ Iua y w 4 SHINGTON -T' s t l ot I bttnkers b•• the hundreds, big bUS!- of the penitentiary there. student'\ by offermg I~stnzctwn _by ·- " ' ne ena e a~ ness JJH n Y by the hundreds. nre,n- Health Reso1·t mml and the _Asso_czatJOn JS urgmg Wednesd;'Y agrePd to the resolution dents of corporations, and all kinr1s "It is just a health resort for schools and hbranes. to us~ texJJ·I vuthorizing the secretary of the Sen- of people. politiciann whose fnends are not m books and other matenal treatm<; Ne- ate ttl pay to :.\1:-s. Louise K. Pickett, '''\', 1 . 1 , n servzn 100 nower, and for villains who happen o-ro lzfe and to orgr.mze classes and 1 . ' e lac some. me g to do things against the people in ~lubs for the serious study of the V.Ido·.v of the late Charles J. Pwkett, years, ~omc sNvmg 90, s01:1e 50, power, and for crooks. Now don't szo r.ificant record of the race. The who was assJstant m t!w offiCe of some 20 years. and som•' llle, aud you doubt that t!HJre are croolrs "' · . . . . . . others two YHll'~ aud ten years. th d 1 b f th As~ocmtw_n JS als_o. anxwus to receiVe Senator Charles S. Deneen, repnbh· There was a governor who came in ere, an a arge num er o em, at I~s natwnal offiCe, letters, dlane~, can, of Illinois, a sum equal to six just ahead of me, he was domg ten villains who would pick yom pock- f~Iml:-: reco;·cls: ~tc., that would be of months' comnen~ation at the rate he years. cts WJth your eyes open and wrth lustoncal s 1gmfiCance. - . your eyes closed. You have there ' _____ was receivin::\ at the time of his I 1mhana GoYernor villains who have held up trains death •·IJe was a strappmg, well-built with two guns and got everybody Fire Razes La. Theatre · white man from the great Republt- off, anti then they took away two NEW ORLEANS. La.-Fire that ruuenha an about t"n tzmes the size of Jamaica. most of the villains down there arc P J • 1B k I can state of Indiana, a Htate million dollars worth of mail. The broke out about 12:30 V/cdnesday Deposits $382 434.27 Wlule governor he s1gned somt• notes Jews; all races are to be found morning after show hours, totally de- ' and got lllO'ICY from a bank. HP was there stroyed the Josephine Theatre here, a Iich n>an. and had cattle farms, Librar~· of 2,000 and Eprcadmg to two adjacent cot- IV.'\ SHINGTON. - 'I'he Pruden- hut he signed notes for more f han "So spent two years and ten tage;;, d 1d considerable dama;\C. The tJ'l~ Bank Js one of SI'{ l.ocal banks he llad, and lus polltJeal encnues got months out of five yPars, and I was theatre was patronized bv both races "' h·_cn ;,howt>d an mcr?ase m total de- bohind him and impeached lnm, never cltsturbcd one minute of the and was owned by J. P. Trapofm, Jr. posJts on Dcc.ember.3 1 • 1 927, 0\.cr: and they indicted him for fraud. A clay, for my conscience was clear. I co~rcspondmg- fzgurcs for October 10, similar ch::trge to mmP. usmg I he I was so busy for t!Je_seven years 11re- _____ .d'J27. n1alls to defraud, but the difference cedtng nty c·onv1ctlon that I was fire Lieutenant Killed The 1~1·g·est p-ain in deposits wa~ waH that he was charged with 50 not able to open a book. I l!a(l a CHICAGO, Ill., (ANP)-.John n. n':u]e h~ tlw Prudential Bunk. It counts. and he was found gu11ty of llbrary of 18,000 books, and I had JackBon, fire department lieutenant 1 amounted to $C5,428.64. alJ GO He got ten yPar~ I was not even time to open one of them attached to em~ine company No. HJ, The total depMit,s of the Pruden- mdicted on 26 counts and found for Bhonl seven and a hal[ years wa. killed here enrly Friday morn- tial Bank on Octobe.- 10, 1!127. W€10 guilty on one. and \\·as given the In Atlanta 1 had a library of 2,000 ing when the <'ngme on which l1c S3l7,005.43. Its total deposits on ma'l:imum of fiYP years. He was booi{S, and I had all the time to was ridm.~· collided with a hook :mel December ;n, l!l27 amounted to a gond Christian. hut lhe only read and reflect; therefore, I feel hd!lr>r lruck a( ;)[ith and Indiana 1 ~382,•13·1.27. 1 trouble he wns crying all the time. good nnw and well. I feel reacly fo1· avenue, "Resort for 1-'rienclle~s l'oliticiau~" another ten years.'' Harmon Awards For Achievement Senator Copeland Is Cheered hy Porters WASIIINGTON,- Speaking- be– fore a large delegation of Pullman por.ers at John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church Sunday ufternoon, Sen– ator no>al S. Copeland, democrat, of New York, ad\·ised them to "101t on the iront scat oJ the American labor union." He <aid the porter was the cus– todian of the morals of his passcn– .~ ers as ,-,ell as of the company's p! opcriy. F'm sixty years the pol·– ters have been helping the Pullman Company make money and they de– serve a j Gst share of the profits. The pnrters want their wages in– creased from $72 to :;>150 per month an~ tipping abolished. Phil Randolph Barred From Jacksonville Congress To Honor The Black Hero Of North Polar Trip IVASHI~GTON, D. "-!., J<In 19- l\laithew Hensen, the colored hero ot the only successful North Pole expedition ever conducted on laud by man, is abou.t to rt>ceh·e some recogmtion for his value at last. l\lore than a decade after they par– tJcipated in Peary's memorable clis– coYery of the North P0le, plans have been inaugurated ia C'ong1 ess to grant some awards, probably medals, to members of the expC'di– tion. HPnson, who was recently report– ed destitute in the City of New 1 ork, has the distinction of being the only one of Peary's crew to r-tand with Peary at the Pe>le. Rep. CeiJpr (D ) ~ew York. already has mtroduced a b!ll grantmg him a medal of honor. Donald MacMillan, who is now en– gaged m Arctic exploration, was one of the members of the expeditwn. NonP of tilt> <'rPw rPCPiVl (1 any award for thezr part in the discovery Hep. Kelly (Rep ) Pennsylvania, \Vho is preparing a bill to grant the award, declared Saturday 'I'he late Admiral Peary rece1ved a medal of honrr from Congress, he added, but hiS sulJo:·dinates went unrccogn!zed. Admiral Peary and Henson made the final spurt fo the' Pole alone, 1hP other members of the expeditwn re– m.uumi!: in camp. They included Jlr J IV. Gnmlsl'll. Sandy Lake, l'a ; expeditiOn surgeon; Capt. Bart– lett, expedition commander; George \V~r<lwell, expP<!itinn chief engineer, )<EW YORK, Jan. 19.-A. Philip Randolph, General Organizer cf the Brothelhood of Sleeping Car Porters m:d Editor of The Mes~erger 1\faga. zin<-', is in reee]lt of a telegram from colored citizens of Jacksonville, Fla., advising Randolph that hP shoulct not visit Jacksonville at this t1me to speak for the interests of the Brotherhood. When ~everal eitizPns called on the mayor of Jacksonville to inform him of the proposed viait of Randol ph, he answerP<I f iJPm sharply saymg, "I know all about it, but he JS coming here. I fol– lowed his record and know nil abo•tt ld!.l ()Jld ll }lt:_l t:Ull\P!:i ll'l"l lO J lCl\.- ~·l I ( 11 " 1 .::~ Jp ...:.·•,,}, ronv1lle. l'll put lnm in jail and ai•Y– body else who has anything to do with h!s meeting." \VIth this p;e– judJcial attitude on the part of the mayor of Jacksonville, the ('iti– zens informer! l\Ir Randolph of the attitude of the city administration t.Jward him and advJsed that he should not vitiit Jacl,sonville at thls ume. I It is believed by Mr. Randolph and the r.H!Cials of the Brotherhood Colored Woman Wins Seat In W. Va. Legislature of Sleeping Car Pol'tcl's that !he 'lYELCII V' y J 19 -When local superintendent of the Pullman ' ~ · '' · a., ·an. ;~~~~~~:sy r~~~o~~~~~~Z~~~Il~;.e:;i~;~g ci~~~~ ~~~c~ot~r~s~f EDel~~'~"';rds c~~r~e~~ bias and un-American attitude of prominent \Vest V1rginia nace wo- l ·s man, will occupy a cl1azr among its the mayor toward Randolph who members. It Will mark the first a natJve of Florida. . It will he intPresting to nofe in 1 t 1 me that a colored Amencan ct':to. thiS connectiOn, that only some eight man has filled an office Ill a - ,, e months ago, Mr. Bennie Smith, Fit>ld legislature Mrs. Hal'per was recommended by Organizer of the Brotherhood of the Republican executive comm1ttee Sleepmg Car Porters, was hounded to GovernC'r Gore for appointment and l)arrassecl and persecuted in as a membPt' of the House of Dele– Jaclcsonville hy the city police so gates to fill the vacancy created by that he was compelled to leave the the recent death of her husband, town. Mr. Randolph believes thnt this case is not only a challenge to Hon. E HaqJPr. Gov. Gore sup– the Pullman porters, but to every ported the recommendation as re. red-blooded Negro with any pride of quired by a state law. race as well as to every enlightew~d. Ron. Harper was one of the most fail'mindcd American citizen Han- popular members of the \V. Ya House of Delegates He was serving dolph was compelled to cancel his southern toul' on account of tlw his third term as IPgislate>r Jacksonville situation. He had plan- --------– npd to visit Atlanta and 'New Or- Four "Ladies" Prove leans for the fust time. To Be Men NEIV YOHK. Jan. 14.-Hecogni– tion of creative wol'!c thru awards of ::;4,000 ar·r•om]lan1ed by gold and bronze medals was announced by the Harmon Fl'unclation, 140 Nassau Sf., Monday, to six!Pen men and women This is the second vear of thf' Harmon A wards tor Distinguished Acluevcmcnt among Negroes which are directed by the Commission on the Church and ftace Relations of the Federal Council of Churches. De. GPnJ•ge 1~. Hn~~ne'"-, Secretat•y Ach1evement in the Fine Arts, Business including Industry, Ecluca– tJOn, Science including Invention and Heilgious Service was cited with two awards in each field-a first of $400 and a gold medal aml a second of $100 with a bronze medal. No award in mmic was given last year because of the nature of the material entered, the sum available was car. ried over and two awards of $400 each and two of $100 each with ac– companying medals were granted this year. Race Relations "The series of awards also in– cludes one for Race Relations of $500 with a gold medal. This was open •to either white or cnlored entrants. The recipient w11! not be named until the latter part of Jan- uary Chemist James A. Parsons, Jr., 27, chief l'ilembt and metallurgist of the Dul'lron Company of Dayton, Ohio, was given the first award in science fot· special research m aluminum bronze and his development in clur– iron. Thr0ugh the interests of his present employer m whose family his father served as butler, he was able to attend and graduate from the Renes~elaer Polytechnic Institute, of Troy, N. Y., where he spccializccl in electro chemistry and electro me– tallurgy. He has developed a re– search tsaff of five or six Negro ex- ' J;l'l 'J t- l~t ';Jj t tf 11~ tlu• f),· })I' n \0n1. pan).·. ThP judges made no decision for the second award. At•t Laura Wheeler \Varing, a teacher r-f art at Cheyney State Normal School, Cheyney, Pa., was accorded the firs tawa rei in J<,ine Arts for a group of paintings. Special men– tion was made of the portrait of an old Negro woman entitled, "Anna \Vashington Derry". Mrs. \Varing was educated in Brooklyn and stud– Jed painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. \Vhile there she was granted a scholarship for Europ('an study, where she spent two years. I. \Y. Hardrick, 36, of Indian– apolis. Ind., received the second award in Fine Arts for a group of portrait studies. A specJal award consisting of a golrl medal was giv– en William Fdouanl Scott, 43. of (Continued on Page Four) Race Makes Demand Upon Chicago Mayor CHICAGO,- The South Side, which ga\'e Mayor Thompson !JO,OOO of 100,000 votes m the mayoralty el– ection, is said to have him backed ao·ainst the wall in demands for c~mplete race recognition on all the important boards and in the munic– "Tongue Tied" Kip Can't B·e Found NEW YORK CITY-When the pnl institutions. police entered a three-room apart-~ Physzc1ans have Ol'ganized and pre– mem in the basement of 153 West sentetl "Big Bill" with these de- 129th street, they found four men mands: NEW YORK CITY,-When Sher– iff Underhill, of Westchester County, returned the copws of the summons and eomolaint delivereu to him for service on Leonard Kip Rhinelamler in the actwn initiated bv his wife, Alice Jones Rhinelander, for a separ– ation, her attmney, Judge Samuel Swinbume, immedintely took ~teps to sene the errant K1p b~· pubhca– Lion. The sheriff served notice that the tongue-tied youth of mtllwns could not be located. Contemporaneous almost with. the announcen:ent of Alice's moves for a divorce comes the publication of the claim that Kip's sisier, Illrs. Julien St. Charles Chapuenou the fonner Adelaide Kip Rhinelander, is to sue l1er husband, who is now in Paris, for divorce. Her maniage, it Js said, v-.::s also opposed b~, the p:.ttcr– familias, Phillip Kir J1hinelandel Open Ice Factory LOUISVILLE, :i~y.,-A few weeks ago a new ice factory was opened in attired in female garb giving an al-~ Appointment of a race doctor as lcged indecent performance. There assistant h2alth commissioner, ad– were 19 spectators. The perfor:1•ers mission of race patients to the munic– were charged with disorderly conduct pal Tubercuolosis Sanitarium on a and fined. The colored member of basis of the number of patients; and the alleged "lady-man" quartette of esbblishment of a county or city pel'formers was Flint Pierce, 23 ~ears hospital for thP south side open to old. workers and patients free of <:ll'eed or Negro Academy Elects IVASHINGTON,-The officers of the Amencan Nc,e:ro Academy for the ensuing year are: Arthur Schom– berg, Brooklyn, N. Y., Pfe<ident; V1ce-Pieszdents, J. R. Clifford, L. 1\'L Her.ohaw, Wendell P. Dabney, W. H. Ferris; Recordmg Secretary, Thomas M. Dent; T1·easurer, F. H. M. Mur– ray. ·The executive committee is: Leon– ard Z. Johnson, chairman, with Kel– ley 1\Izller, Henry P. Slaughter, Al– aine Le1 oy Locke, and George W. Coole HobeTt A. Pelham, of the U. S. Censas Bureau continues as Cor– responding· Secretary. :\fessrs. Cook and l~erns r.re the only new persons in the official personnel, the others havmg been re-elected. color prejudices. Petition is made for a member on the school board, and charges of racial segregation are made against district ~uperintendents, principals and members of the school board. Engineey Offers Plans To Raise Sunken Subs NEW YORK,--An invention de– signed to prm,ent submarine disas– ~ers like thnt of the S-4 and another for raising the ill fated submersible quickly were explained in detail to Congressman Griffin, N. Y., here lllonday during a conference with Solomon Harper, inventor. this city in the West end by members -------- of our group. Quite a number of $1,000 for Moss-Frye Harr1er, ·who is an electrical engi– neer and ex-ooldier, is putting his in– \'entlon before the U. S. Naval board for adoption if the contrivances merit it. George W. Lyttle is associated w1th Harper m the designing and the inventions are cal~e<" the Lyttle and Harper Submarine System. men have been installecl. We have NE"W YORK-Moss and Frye, about thirty loca! i~e ~lealers. all.., of who recently s:gned a contract to wh~~~. have her ct ~o;, e ~m cha. ed play 24 weeks of picture house time the II 1ce from the lar"e tJ ust com-. for 'iVest Cor.st theatres, will receive panies. I a ~alary of $1,000, a figur•e which You Are Now Reading THE ENTERPRISE The Newoiest Negro Newspaper West of Chic;ago! Fox paid for several weeks of N. Y. inrlc'pell(lent hook:ng. The act has long been a standard Kcith-Albee turl' but will leave to open on the ~cast on January 23. Search for Buried Gold RALEIGH, N. C.-The story of $1,COO buried ncar the Southern rail– road here led to !.he undermining of a street crossing by Bair Sanders, 50, convict, who claimed that he buried the treasure before the war, I