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I SIX HUMAN HAND AND TH EDITOR RANDOLPH Member Severed Above the Wrist Delivered to A. Philips Randolph. K. K. K. NOTE ON PARCEL. Had New Orleans Postmark and Ordered Him to Ceaso Klan Attacks. "JUST PUBLICITY"?GARVEY. "African Potentate" Rival Leader, Says Publisher, Is "Stealing His Stuff." (New York Herald, Sept. 6, 1922.) ' A human hand, severed just below, the wrist, and apparently that of ai negro, was received in the mail yes-1 terday by A. Philip Randolph, editor' of the negro monthly, The Messen-, ger, which is published at 2305 Seventh iavenue. With the hand, enclosed in the brown paner package, was a typewritten note signed "K. K. K.", warning Randolph against his writings in the magazine, and threat ening to cut ofF his head and "send it to some one else" unless he desisted in some of his attacks. The package bore the postmark of New Orleans, and the sender had typed: "From a Friend, New Orleans," on the address tag. , ' The police of the West 135th street station and the postollice department inspectors are at work on the case, and dispatches were sent at once to /the Federal agents in New Orleans to attempt to trace the sender of the package. The hand was wrapped in several layers of paper,, apparently of the sort used in department stores, and was considerably decomposed. Randolph and his assistant, Chandler Owens, have been active in th^ir attacks against the Ku Klux Klan and have also waged a campaign against Marcus Garvey, the self-styled emperor of Africa. Long articles have been printed in "The Messenger" ridiculing Garvey, and holding him up his "Back to Africa" movement to ridicule. More than once during the last few months Randolph has been threatened that he would be killed, he said, the most recent being at a meeting of the Friends of Negro Freedom, held on August 27th, a .Sunday afternoon, several hundred .oi tne v nenos met to discuss tne .subject, "Why Garvey Should Bo Dejiorted," and to ridicule the "Em-; ,peror's" Liberian movement. At that .time Randolph sHya an unidentified :Negro rose to his feet and shouted that he was going to "get" Randolph., 'This set the meeting in an uproar. I As the trouble-maker was firmly led .out of New Douglass Hall, at 142d| :street and Lenox avenue, Randolph ;says he shouted: "I'll get you and be glad to do fifteen years in the pen for it!" f T T T T T T T T X T T T T Y T 1 It X Pr T X nai T | bill | pri | bm I T Y T f T T I nr 1 T I L? -V ' 4 iVViVWTI^ V* V.'Z-'.V I 1 ? ? II" HEAT MAILED TO OF THE MESSENGER | Anonymous letters have arrived in large numbers from New York, Philadelphia and Washington threatening Randolph, he says, but ho has ignored them. The receipt of the package yesterday, however, is something of a different matter, he says, and he intends to see that the sender is apprehended, if possible. The letter, which was typewritten rather badly on a machine which had a blue ribbon, read as follows: "Listen Randolph; "We have been watchintr your. writings in all your papers for quite, a wile but wo want you to understand before We act. If you are not ' in favor with your own race move-1 ment you cant be with ours, there * is no space in our race for you and your crowd. What doe you mean by giving us a nigger? do you know that our organization is made up of all whites? we have sent you a sampel of our good work so watch YOUR STEP or else You . . . Now let me see your name in your nigger improvement association as a member, paid up too in about one week from < now. Dont worry about linching in the south ... if you wero here you wouldnt talk about it. Now be careful how you publish this letter in your magazine or we may have to sen dyour Hand to someone else? Dont think we cant get you and your crowd. Although we are in New York city it is just as easy as if you were in Georgia. If you cant unite i with your own race we will find out', whats the matter with you all. Dont , be selfish . . . give your friends a tip. "K. K. K." |! A special meeting of the Friends : of Negro Freedom has been called for Sunday afternoon at New Doug-; las Hall and the whole story will be threshed out at that time. ! When a reporter for the New York Herald called on Marcus Garvey at his apartment at 133 West 129th street, to tell him of the receipt of the jackage by his opponent, the j "African Potentate" was sitting "in a council" which he conducted in his famous Chamber of 1,000 Vases in the luxuriously furnished apartment.. Large palm plants were all about the rnnm. whinh wno vii4iinl1\r fllln/l fn overflowing by vases and bric-a-brac of every possible description and pe-. riod design. When told of the pack-' age and its contents, he said: . "I know nothing about it, but I can venture just about what the' whole thing is. It looks to me liko a good publicity stunt which Randolph and Owen have pulled to get some. notoriety. They have been trying to i steal some of my own publicity for a long time, especially all during August, when the thousands of my delegates from all over the world were here. They have charged that I made an alliance with the Ku Klux Klan ^ iW WW V V vV V Dp^rl IWUVI $2.00 will be s esent day con f /??#? 1 ? VMM vrux M t so is everyth <ee. Till kind t we can still < 4 7\ i& HE PL n& Distance 7 * :' ' , , :'; . .;' .. -7' - i'%$&&vSfetV?(:' .v.- -y IVSE9 \ V? Vi > Vs'" " '' ' / ^V? S^SIKP % ' THE RIQHMQNI simply because I conferred with Su- j preme Wizard Clarke while I was South last spring. I have no connee- 1 tion with the Klan of any kind." WHAT WILL DEMPSEYS i NEXT EXCUSE BE? (Preston News Service.) 1 New York City, Sept. 7.?Harry Wills, the Bronze Panther of New ! Orleans, with a crushing right hook ' to the jaw, after two-minutes and ' five seconcte of fighting in the third ; round of his bout with "Tutt" Jack- ' C/Ml Af llAllOfl n I UVil) V* TT IIUIIIU^VVIl VUUI V JL1V/UOU) V/ J fame, vindicated himself and firmly ' established his position last Tuesday ! night at Ebbett's Field, flooring his 1 challenger for the count. Exactly one week from the day,!1 when he disposed of "Buddy" Jack- 1 son in Newark, N. J., before an en-': thusiastic gathering of Elks, Wills 1 disposed of the other Jackson, and 1 thus practically swept away the final ] barrier to a match with the present I heavyweight champion, Jack Demp- ; sey. Followers of "Fistiana" are ' wondering what subterfuge the wily ' Jack Kearns, manager of Dempsey, ' will resort to in a futile attempt to ' stave off a championship bout be- ' tween Dempsey and Wills. Fight Muit Be Stagod. And, inevitable as the coming of another championship match, Wills and Dempsey will meet. Just when, ! where, how soon, no one, just now, is < in position to tell. ; But Wills' two recent victories, while they can hardly be called sen- < sational, have certainly knocked all competition out of the way. The public has been clamoring for Wills , to really show his class, lie has done this in no uncertain way. White | heavies would not meet him, so he took the only colored men in his class who showed that they had any records and disposed of them?yes, disposed of them so easily, in fact, that the aftermath is rather amusing, from a mere reader's point of view. This leaves Dempsey with only one tuuisu cu yuisut'i uiuiur no will have to agree to meet Wills?and soon, for the American public, whatever else might be said of it, really wants the best?or step down and give his title to some one who will fight. It is needless for him to travel all over the country attempting to meet set-ups, like the fat, over-sized Billy Miske, Bill Brennan, or the rapidly-aging hunk, Jess Willard. Boxing commissions will not stand for it?the cancellation of the Labor Day attraction havirrg shown as much. Now They're Singin* 'Em. And now sport writers are beginning to sing the ""Blues" again. They are trying to discredit the fact that Wills knocked out both his opponents?knocked them into a cuckoo with practically not effort. Here's the fL >. A aa A.a A. 7 V V V.V VWW V WfJ I The I I Per Ye ent to art ditions demat *rize Otter. \in& else and 1 of Job Work do job work. gents W . . WWW W .ANET, "elephone, Ra< / A ij^ A A A A A AA fV v V VW V vVVV W^i i > ' .-v:*'';.;>V'X' ' '?' .>?< " ' I I PLANET, RICHMOND, V: 1 Iff 11 v IIIL-1^;ist of their lament: First?A leading sport authority ! lias stated that Wills, while the lead- j ing eontendor for Dempsey's crown, is no match for the American champ. | Second?Chairman William Multloon, of the New York Boxing Commission, has announced that he has begun investigation into "Tutt" Jackson's record. Now, let's see just how far these statements should go. Of course, no one takes the talk of the gentleman from New York seriously. For those who saw the fight last Tuesday night nre unanimous in their opinion that yv ins win give lur. uempsey tne ngnt: of his young life. And, again, Mr. i Dompsey must think that Wills is' somewhat of a "Vanther," for he con-' tinually refuses?not in words, but in actions?to bo enticed to sit on a three-legged stool opposite the bronze adonis. And why? Just because he knows that when that fateful day comes the championship is likely, very likely, to once again j change hands. i This self-same man gives as an-) other reason, that Wills cannot hit as hard as Carpentier! Think of it I A man who can floor Norfolk with a blow which travels barely six inches; n man who broke six of Fred Fulton's ribs with his punishing body blows; a man who simply toyed with Buddy Jackson and made him dizzy when he got good and ready; a man ivhn frnpfnrnH fKroo nf "'Puff1* Tor?lr son's ribs and injured his spinal column, cannot hit as hard as the 175pound Frenchman? These facts should provo conclusively to any fairminded sport the ambiguity of the statements of the Eastern sire. Then again, he intimates that Wills cannot "take it." Now, who has proven that he can't? No one! Mr. Dempsey, possibly, is the only one who might be able to show the sporting world whether or not Wills can "take it," but never a peep from Mr. Dempsey. All you can hear from that august gentleman, down east, is the gentle refrain of $500,000. All he wants is ? lease on the Treasury Department of the United States and a couple of the government mints. But force of circumstances might bring about a meeting?with 110 train load of shekels either?and then! About tho Investigation. Chairman Mulldoon says that he'd have to investigate the record of the Ohio youth. No one discredits that statement. But Mr. Mulldoon must remember that it was the white! dailies which gave "Tutt" such a wonderful play, with his enormous | reach of 80Vj inches, his royal height! and his wonderful height. These papers were the ones that literally shoved Jackson into a flght with Wills. True, the accounts mipht have been exaggerated. But did any commission investigate the facts when Carpentier, weighing little more than 170 pounds, met the closo to 200pound Dempsy? No, not one. Atlfl ft fiirhtpr in tho honuurunl rrVi f class must battle at catch weights. They say that "Tutt" was a "novice," but ringside followers claim that, the defeated youth was clever, in a way. Everyone believed that he did not gichm ar in Ad \y part o id that you sh Bring us youi we will do yoi done at this c anted E\ .. " te 5 C? CCS? ?C-? ? ? ! ? 311 iv / ndolph 22/3. A^A A^A A^i| A^A y Ty T^f ^rT^f f^v^y y^y \ , .] ? : ". ' v ... V ' '; ; <'.' , - ; r.mm " w *"?/> * 1? ...>,.. < ^r<f ,< J .Vra . '. . p! ; < '*> - 1 ntqiNiA have tho experience. But the white' public was hoping against hope that tho dangerous Wills would go down. Otherwise why such publicity? Will. Still Waiting. I Having disposed of his opponents, Wills is still, silently but vigilantly, waiting for Dempsey to make a movo. And when Dempsey does movo, thon ho will come forward. Wills does not want a fortune. All he wants is a crack at tho title. When will ho get it? The race waits in suspense. TUT JACKSON SUSPENDED. ( (New York Herald.) The State Athletic Commission yesterday announced the suspension of Tut Jackson, who played the part of a punching bag for Harry Wills; his manager, Billy Palmer, and his publicity promoter, William McCarney. The suspensions will remain in force until such time as the ch*cumstftnrpR nrn invpsticntnil. Tho i-linrtro against the manager is that he misrepresented the facts as to Jackson's physical. qualifications and also his fighting ability. The commission reinstated Edward Forbes,. Brooklyn writer on sports and referee, who was suspended following a dispute with former Deputy Commissioner Tom O'Rourke regarding a seat in the press row at Ebbets Field. O'Rourke sought to have Forbes vacate the seat and is alleged to have struck the reporter when the i latter refused to give up his seat. The suspension of Tom Stanley, a manager, having been raised by the Connecticut commission, the New York commission took similar action. IjA FOliliWTTK (JKTS UNCORD MAJORITY. Milwaukee Wis., Sept. G.?SenutOi Robert M. La Follette has been swept .into tho Republican nomination loi United States Senator at the Novemtbor election in this State by the gretn est mnoiity that any candidate has over polled at a primary in Wisconsin. Returns received from more thai four-fifths of the State early tonight show him loading by 178,333, W. A. Ganfiold, of Waukesha, president, of Carroll Co^lego Iris only opponent. The vote from 2,057 out of 2,523 precincts in tl'io State was 'La Poll cut, 294,857; Ganfield 524. In rolling ut> this tremendous ma orlty Sonutor La Fcrtletto carried with 'htm) what was' known as tlio entire La Pollette slate from- Urtlted States Son ator down* to Attornoy-Goneral. THE PLANET Umbrella Coupon GOOD FOTC FTTR VOTES, fc tlh'lft'lAlA ^ ond P vance -/ the U. 5 \ouid read a r r Job Work, ir work at th iff ice. Our II nvwvwwwW^wvvvvr' verywhei CNSHSD' I. Fourl I il^A <!^ A A A A A jjtk AtA Ali^ v-VS? ""<-V v"7. .' < ?* ' i' y ' I H a ? ^ I?M 31 k H B>Ti IUere'e an opportunity to earn bit money? to to *13 a day, with e**y work, *11 your time or epare time and obtain * Word Automobile frM baalOaa. A itraljthtoat from the shoulder bailn**e proposition. Mo votlug or iuc**lng contest. 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