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PICTOnim REVIEW OF THE CURRENT EVENTS OFTHE WORLD
OIL FIRE TAKES 15 LIVES.
Oil well Are at C0rsicanna, Texas,
which burned for nearly a week, and
nearly 10,000 barrels wont up In Are
and, smoke dally. The crew, 16 In
number, was trapped at work, not
having a chance do got out of the
derrick. A steel drill caused a spark
which ignited the gases.
NEW COAT SWEATER.
(Copyright Bonwit, Teller & Co.)
Photo shows a new coat sweater
for summer In c n0velty we.^ve. It
Is suitabale for itown an»l country
wear
BRITAIN’S NEW GOLF CHAMPION
Roger Wtethered of Great Britain,
winner of the Amateur Golf Cham
pionship at Doal, England. In the
iirst day of play at St. Andrews,;
Scotland, he, paired w1)Uh Cyril Tolley,
Scotland, he, paired wijtlh Cyril Tolley i
crushed the American champion Jesse
Swoetser and Frances Ouimet. |
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(Wide World Photos)
FIRST PICTURE OF THE KRUPP TRIAL*.
The trial of Baron Krupp von Boblen, standing (in cutaway suit)
before the French Mi'illtjary Court when he was sentenced to fifteen years
in prison and fined 100.000.000 Marks, the charge being that Krupp Incited
the Essen workmen to riot. Note the appealing face of the spectator
standing in the rear of the armed Poilus.
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(Wide World Photos)
THE LEVIATHAN’S FINAL CALL BEFORE ENTERING THE SERVICE.
The S. s. Leviathan arrives at BosKon for a final peace time coat of
paint before entering the merchant marine service in Hie Interests of
tbo United States on the Fourth of July. Photo sh0ws the Leviathan In
drydock <n Boston. i
ATHLETICS
SPORTDOM
“... V. COMMISSION TO
LIFT BAN ON BEMPSEV'WILLS MEETING
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LABOR DAY DATE PROPOSED
Promoter Changes Mind and Enters
Bidding foi Much Discussed
Match for Title.
7 he proposed bout between Jack
Dempsey and Harry Wills for the
be'.vy weight championship of the
world yesterday was put squarely up
to the New York State Athletic Com
mission Prank Coultry, manager or
Madison Square Garden appeared be
fore that body at its regular weekly
meeting and, in behalf of Tox Rickard
asked that the ban on the bout be litt
ed in order that the promoter might
proceed with plans to hold it in this
city on Labor Day. The commission
gave an attentive ear to the proposal
and tlK>n deferred action, probably un
til next week.
The entrance of Rickard into the
list of those who would stage the bout
brings the number of would-be promot
ers of the contest to three and also
marks a distinct change of heart on
Rickard’s part. Several months ngo
Rickard announced that ho would not
consider the promotion of a Dempsey
Wills bout. Yesterday he said that
his friends had persuaded him to
change his mind. Rickard also an
nouneed that he had been in touch
with Jack Kearns and that the cham
pion’s manager had requested him to
use his influence to have the edict
which barred the holding of the bout
in this State annuled .
Simon Flaherty, who at the present
time controls the Queensboro A. C., is
known to be anxious to conduct the
bout and is reported as being willing
to erect a stadium seating approximate
ly 150.000 persons in Long Island City
if his bid Is accepted.. Benjamin Block
the turfman and his partner, Peter J.
Maloney, brokers at 74 Broadway who
had been reported as Interested m
stadium project, yesterday issued a
statement in which they declared the
report without foundation and denied
anv interest whatever in the matter.
O’ROURKE RENEWS OFFER
The third promoter who has express
ed a willingness to hold the bout Is
Tom O’Rourke of the Polo Grounds A
C. O’Rourke has renewed an offer to
Dempsey made earlier In the year for
two championship bouts to be held at.
the Polo Grounds. The first to he with
an opponent and at a date to be select
ed later and the second to be with
Wills on or about Labor Day.
All three promoters are understood
to have reached an agreement with
Mullins for Will’s services and Demp
sey and Kearns have from time to
time emphnsized their willingness to
do business wherever and whenever
the terms were to their liking.
Rickard, while discussing the bout
yesterday said that the Yankee Start
ium would Ik* avnliable in case it was
possible to Irold it in New York Stale
while Boyle’s Thirty Acres in Jerse.
City would he available in case it be
c;vme necessary to take the bout out of
the Jurisdiction of New York State.
There probably has been more dis
mission and less action about the pro
posed Dempsey-Wills contest than In
any other bout in the history of the
sport. One great reason for this, of
course, has been that Wills 1s a Negro
and that all tlrose concerned hesitated
to definitely arrange the contest for
fear of interference from some govern
mental authority However. William
Muldoon Chairman of the New York
8‘.atc boxing body, last June accepted
a challenge for a bout with Dempsey
from Wills and a deposit of $2,500
from Wills’s manager,, Paddy Mullins
guaranteeing good faith. Muldoou
then insisted that the champion ac
cept the challenge within six months
under tin-cat of suspension if he fail
led to do so.
ACTION IS REVIVED.
Dempsey signed, thus causing great
'exc’tement and inciting various offers
from boxing promoters at previously
unheard-of figures.. There the matter
ended. The whole affair apparently
was well on the way toward being for
gotten when O.-.ck sud>*-?nly set the
hall rolling again by announcing that
the bout was on and would be hold in
the metroplitan district on Labor Pay
Mullins followed Kearns’s announce
| ment with a letter to the Boxing Com
mission demanding to know why 'Will
should not be permitted to box Demp
se.v and this letter was also discussed
but not acted upon, at yesterday’s
meeting of the commission.
With Rickard entering the field and
requesting permission to stage the
bout, with Flaherty expressing a will
ingness to build a gigantic stadium
to house it, O’Rourke repeating bis off
er and Mullins demanding a chance
for Wills, it looks as if the commis
sion will he forced to take definite
action in the matter. Definite action
must support Chairmnn IMuldoon’s ru.
ing against the holding of the bout
bere or it must rescind that ruling and
sanction the bout. Chairman Muhioon
has said that his attitude toward the
bout has not changed in the least.
Whether that is true of the remainder
of the commission and of the new lie
ensing body probably will be known
afrer next Tuesday's meeting.
(New York Times, May 23, 1923.)
V. N. I. I. TRACK TEAM (^LOSES
SUCCESSFUL SEASON.
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Petersburg V<* -The orange end
blue of Va. Normal and Industrial
Institute made its lust appeannce of
the 1923 season "Inn eight (8) mem
bers of the cinder squad participated
in the Intercollegiate Chanipionshin
Track and Field Meet at Hampton In -
stitute Saturday May 19th. Competing
with 27 men from Hampton; 13 from
Howard: 11 from Lincoln; 9 from
Union; 9 from St. Paul; and a team
from Livingstone College at Salisbury
N. C.. the flyers from V. N. and I. I.,
finished in fourth place with Howard
University winning the championship
Hampton second place and Lincoln
thfrd. Among the honors taken at this
meet was the Intercollegiate Pole
Vaulting Championship won by Losll.;
C Baker the team captain.
During the season just ended the
Orange and Blue team won a total of
7 gold medals, 4 silver medals and 8
bronze medals. The outlook for 1924
is particularly bright, and with furt'n
er development the V. N. and I. I.,
team will make a strong bid for cham
plonshlp honors.
AHM9TRONO WHIPS N. N. HIOH.
The l()cal high school team played
the Huntington High School team In
Newport News. Momorial Day and the
Richmond boy^ copped the game by
6 to 2 margin. Armstrong claims
♦be State High school Champhonshlp,
havirijr lost only one game.
MEMPHIS POLICE ARREST WHITE
DIVE KEEPER.
(Preston News Service)
Memphis, Tenn., May 23.—Follow
ing complaints by Negro ministers
and social welfare workers the police
are endeavoring, to clean up the many
dives owned by white men and patron
iz.ed by Negroes. Especial attention
was directed to W. F. Anderson
(white) who is claimed to operate the
most notorious dive in Memphis. Last
Tuesday afternoon the police raided
his place and arrested him and 20
young Negro men. It is charged that
these places furnish hangouts for Ne
groes and are the hatching places for
j all forms of crime, murder, robberv
' and gambling.
This is the second time Anderson’s
j Place has been raided within the past
! two weeks. The ministers and welfare
I workers charge that the officials are
too lenient with Anderson and demand
that he ho driven from the city, if he
ca mot be convicted and sent to Jail.
The influence of such men as Ander
son is very bad for the morals of the
city and forms the base for many ofi
the heinous cr mes being committel
in the city.
FINE #800.00 FOR STALLING.
AFRICA PRAISED.
(Prf»ton Newt Service)
New York City. May 24.—"I was In
the houses of the rich and the pooi
and I talked with Arabs. Berbers and
Scnegales, and from one and all wit It
out exception. I heard the same praise
and gratitude for what France has
done,” declared Dr. S H. Churcn.
pres,dent of the Carnegie Institute ot
Pittsburgh. Pa., who was one of th*
four Americans Invited by the French
I government to make a tour of the
French colonies in Northern Africa
! upon his arrival last Friday on the
Acqtiltania. Dr. Church claims thfi:.
th« French government, through Mar
shnl Lyauty s doing a most marvelous
werk in Africa. Best of all the colon
fnls are satisfied, mak'n^ progress
and co-operating with the government
in the development of the colonial te.
ritcry. They are loyal to France in
every Instance. The work of Marshal
Lyautey is so remarkable thnt I am
forced to class him as one of the
world's greater administrators.
SOUTHERN BAPTIST TO AID
NEGRO IN EDUCATION.
(Preston News Service.)
Kansas Ctiy, Mo., May 24.—A move
ment has been started at the meeting
of the Southern Baptist convention
here to give the Negroes of the south
a seminary. At the second day session J
of the convention leaders began the |
consideration of the religious educa
tion of the southern Negroes of the
Baptist denomination. It was declar
ed that figures showed that there were
over three million Negro Baptists
the south in grave need of religious
education and should have a seminary.
Dr. O. L. Hailey of Nashville, Tenn.
secretary of the committee for the os
tablishment of a Negro Seminary,, ask
ed the delegates to approve the pur
chase of St. Cecelia Academy. Nash,
vilie, Tenn., now a Catholic Girls
School. A committee was appointed
'to report upon (he proposal to advance
, $100,000 as first payment on tne
academy —total price of which is ?300
000.
I ‘The south owes something to the
Negroes loyalty declared Rev. Ben
Cox of Memphis Tennessee and "1
urge upon you brethren the purchase
or erection of the seminary. O ie relic;
ious denomination spent a dollar for
every Negro in its membership in the
south last year, while the Baptists
spent less than seven mills."
RACE PREJUDICE GROWS AS
AMERICANS INVADE LONDON
I
(Prcwtwi* Now* Service)
London, Eng. May 25.—Amerienn
visfiors are invading London in such
numbers that hotels, boarding houses
and real estate agents are finding
gn,at difficulty to provide accommoda
lions for them. Along with this in
crease of Americans, many of them
southerners race prejudice is grow
ing by leaps and bounds.. In hotels
and restaurants where Negroes are
wont to go freely and apparently un
noticed, they are now being stared a.':
and are frequently given slights, not
usual to Negroes in England. This vt*
iblfe change in London, especially ts
due wholly to the large influx ot
Americans.
T* is stated that one trana Atlantic
line has announced that it expects to
bring 80,000 Americans to England
this summer.
BQauzy\
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Thousands are successfully
using the wonderful preparation
that changes short, coarse hair
into long, lovely, silky tresses.
Gives the hair a beautiful, glossy
sheen, stops dandruff and itching
scalp, and puts glowing health
into brittle, lifeless hair. This
fcruly marvelous preparation is
called
EXELENTO
QUINSNE POMADE
You can quickly obtain straight,
silky, beautiful hair if you use
Exelento.
Another great beauty help is
EXELENTO SKIN BEAUTI
FIER, a delightful cream that
removes skin blemishes and clears
up dark, sallow complexions. At
your druggist’s, or sent postpaid,
for 25c, for either Pomade or
Beautifier.
EXELENTO MEDICINE CO.,Atlanta, Gi.
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ILUKOI8 miiL PROVIDES FOl(
IMMEDIATE REMARRYING.
(Pre*ton New« Scrdt-r)
Springfield. 111.. May 24.—Under the
provisions of a bill approved by the
Judiciary committee of the state legis
lature, persons divorced in Illinois
may take new mates the same day and
live within the law of this state.
The theory and existing law to co .j
pel divorced persons to wait one year
before marrying again has proved a
boomerang against the conventions
of society in the opinion of the com
mittee.
HOW TO
LIGHTEN THE
SKIN
No matter how dark
your complexion, it is
easy to get it “just
right’’ by using Dr. Fred
Palmer’s Skin Whiten
er Ointment—pronounc
ed by thousands of men
and women as the most
delightful, most remark
able and most satisfac
tory of all skin whiten
er preparations — it
quickly bleaches and is
perfectly safe. Your
druggist can supply you,
or sent postpaid upon
receipt of price, 25c.
I
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TO GET RID OF
BUMPS AND OTHER
FACIAL BLEMISHES
It you have a rough,
bumpy or shiny com
plexion, and want a soft,
smooth, velvety skin,
try using the unexcelled
Dr. Fred Palmer’s Skin *
Whilener Soap, and fol
low it with Dr. Fred
Palmer’s Face Powder,
which you will find deli
cately perfumed and
adds life and lustre to
the skin. This is a
never-failing treatment.
Get them from your
druggist, or sent post
paid upon receipt o£
price, 25c each.
A Marvelous
Transformation
JF you will use regularly Dr. Fred
Palmer’s Skin Whitener Prepara
tions, you will soon notice a wonderful
difference in your looks and your
friends will be astonished at your
beauty—dark skin getting lighter_
bumps and other skin blemishes van
ishing, leaving a beautiful complexion;
plump, velvety neck and arms; soft’
smooth hands' and a luxuriant growth
of straight, soft, long hair. All this is
yours with no trouble and little cost.
Any druggist can supply Dr. Fred
Palmer’s Skin Whitener Preparations,
or they will be sent postpaid upon
receipt of price, 25c each.
AGENTS
WANTED
for this line of ex
quisite beauty aids.
These preparations
«ell rapidly upon
their in or it, as
everybody knows
about them. Writ®
today for our liber
al agents’ proposi
tion!
DR. FRED PALMER'S LABORATORIES
D®Pl- F 3 ATLANTA, GA.
TEACHERS AVERT RACIAL DIS
ORDER IN' C INCINNATI SCHOOL
(Prraton New* Service)
Cincinnati Ohio, May 24.—To avoin
what appeared to be an imminent race
clash at the Ellen Morgan School hero
last Tuesday was averted by the
prompt action of Principal U. L. Moncc
and six men teachers, who ushe-reu
the Negro pupils out one door and
sent them home, while they held the
white pupils in school.
1 lie trouble was said to have started
o\or a fist fight in an alley in renr of
the school on Monday afternoon when
a Negro hoy and a white boy settled
a trivial dispute. On Tuesday morn
I ing the trouble was augmented when
a small Negro boy is said to have shov
; ed h white boy on the stuirs. At noon
(time tl>e little white lad went home
and told his troubles to his family and
jlils older brother asserted that, lie and
his gang would clean up the niggers.
Reports were circulated through the
school on Tuesday afternoon that a
number of big brothers would t»e on
Hand when school was dismissed to
I clean tip the n ggers. This report reach
| ed the principal.
When dismissal time arrived the
principal directed that the white pu
plls be detained for a few minutes
ppfT wth several men teachers, he
took tlio Negro children to a rear exit
and saw' them safely on their way
homeward. The big brothers, however
failed to appear and when the whi»o
pupils were dismissed ihere was not a
Negro pupil to be found
FAKE LAIIOU AGENT SWINDLES
ARKANSAS NEGROES.
(Preston News Service.)
Fully 1.800 Negroes from miles in
every direction gathered at Grady, and
vainly waited for a special train which
they expected to take them to the big
industrial centers of the North, accord
ing to a report received here from the
postmaster at Grady.
Postmaster Bittenger, says that
some of the disappointed Negroes coa
fidfd to him that a w'ell dressed and
edi.cntod. prosperous looking Negro
jCan.e to this section about four weeks
,ogo and arranged with numbers of
th'rn to go to the north. He collected
from $2 to $10 from most of us. in re
i turn for which ho was to make special
'reservations for us on the special
i train and sign us up for Jobs at our
destination. Bittenger sn'd that the
Negroes were at the station before
sun up and remained until after mid
night before convinced that they had
been buncoed out of their money. The
promised train never arrived nor dut
i (he alleged labor agent.