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VOLUME XLVII NO. 1 RICHMOND, VIRGINIA: SATURDAY NOVEMBER 16 1929 PRICE FIVE QENTS
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CALLS FOR BLACKENING DEMOCRATIC
PARTY BY NEGRO CONGRESSMEN.
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Washington, Nov. 12.—Joseph
R. Grundy, president of the x enn
sylvania Manufacturers’ Association,
was peremptorily directed by the
Senate Lobby Investigating Commit
tee today to appear tomorrow to
explain his alleged failure to submit
the names of Senators from back
ward States, who, according to jus
recent testimony, should be si
lenced” during consideration ot taiitl
^^The committee acted on receipt oi
a letter from Mr. Grundy, appar
ently intended as an answer to the
request for a list of the ‘backward
States”, but which was denounced
by Chairman Caraway as ‘evasive
and a “subterfuge.”
“I am not going to tolerate such
a subterfuge,” declared the Senator
white with anger, as he directed the
committee clerk to 01 d^1 ‘
Grundy to appear before the inves
tigators. . .
Senator Caraway gave his instruc
tions in the midst of the examina
tion of J. A. Arnold, of the Southern
Tariff Association, who was sub
jected today to a searching inquiry
concerning reported plans foi r “j*
formation of a Southern Republican
Council “to hold in line those South
ern Democrats who bolted their
party and voted for the Republican
Presidential candidate in lJ-b.
Arnold Disclaims the Idea.
The document outlining a platform
upon which to build up Republican
organizations in the South was o -
tained from the files of Mr. Arnold s
office in Washington. But he dis
claimed all responsibility for it, de
claring that the idea was conceived
bv Vance Muse, a field worker of
the American Taxpayers League,
another organization represented by
Mr. Arno. a. „ t »
Either in this document, or in let
ters relating to it, the nemo? <*
President Hoover, Vice-President
Curtis, Senator James E. Matson,
the Republican leader of the Senate,
apd Colonel Horace R. Mann, who
managed the Hoover campaign in the
South, were frequently mentioned.
In on letter to Mr. Muse, urging
that plans for the counci'; should pro
ceed, Mr. Arnold wrote that ms
“thought would be to organize it and
go on without criticizing any one
and build it into usefulness.”
“Hoover will not understand it,
and knows nothing of the South,
the letter added.
Set Forth Plans to Handle Negroes
The document, the author of which
remains a mystery, set forth the
cpii-ion that “the colored person in
Southern Republican politics can
best be eliminated through the elec
tion of colored Democrats to Con
gress from St. Louis, Chicago, Har
lem and other colored districts.”
This matter, it was added, “is in
capable hands.” Senator Borah, a
member of the Lobby Committee,
was of the opinion, according to the
document, that a South* n Demo
crat should be named to i Hoover
Cabinet.
In a letter to Mr. Muse. Arnold
said it was the purpose Colonel
Mann and “others in ck ontact
with Hoover” to “kick the cut
of the party in the Sou . .in'*
“whiten the Republican part; ’
“Our plan is to equalize by black-.
ening the Democratic party,” Mr.
Arnold wrote. 1
“Formation of the proposed coun- (
cil was abandoned, the witness testi
fied, because of disapproval ex- j
pressed by Senator \\ atson, who •
urged him and those affiliated with J
him to concentrate their work in
the activities of the Southern Tariff
Association. Mr. Arnold will be
questioned further with respect to
the “Southern Republican Council” (
after Mr. Grundy's appearance to-,
morrow.
The Grundy letter, which aroused
the ire of Senator Caraway and
other members of the Lobby Com
mittee, was 3,500 words long and, in
the main, is a repetition of the state
ment on the tariff which he offered
as a part of his testimony on Octo
ber 29 and 30.
Grundy Contrasts the States.
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Mr. Grundy told the committee on
October 29th that there were seven
States, Arkansas, Idaho, Montana,
Wisconsin, Arizona, Mississippi and
South Dakota, “whose representa
tives in the Senate,” as he said in
today’s letter, “have been most vocal
in the efforts to prevent industry
from deriving any benefit from the
pending tariff revision.” Contrasting
the economic position of Pennsyl
vania and other Eastern States with
that of the seven, “backward States,”
he wrote: _ t
“The records show that the indus
trial States of the East, through
their representatives in the Senate,
have stood four square for prac
tically everything that the agricul
tural interests have demanded in the
way of tariff help.
“Not only that, but as I showed in
my earlier statement, these same
buites contiibute by far the major
portion not only of the normal na
tional upkeep, but all that has been,
and is being, set up for the farmer
in other forms of government relief.
“It seems to me to be absolutely
unfair, therefore, and in contraven
tion of the interests of the country
as a whole, that when the needs of
these industrial States are being con
sidered, there should be a coalition
of Senate votes, utterly dispropor
ionate to the weight of population
and the concentration of those activi
ties which create our vast reservoir
0 taxation, to deny to those indus
Iri >1 States of the East the proven
needs which are the basis of our
c try's whole economic structure.
have spoken of disproportion
a oice in the United States Sen
nd I have used the expression
nrd commonwealths.’ I am
1 v willing to illustrate my
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*l.e» Vote in the South.
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";dy then presented a table
list j • vote polled in Alabama,
ArK> ;orgia, Mississippi, South
Oi . Virginia in 1926, us
con- h the vote cast in Penn
sylva vear. This table showed
«x Southern States in
th« )d a total of 343,464
vof>. per cent of the com
on of the six States
was recorded, where Pennsylvania
polled 1,504,696 votes, or 17.25 per
cent of the total population of the
State.
“When a State or States cannot or
will not avail themselves of the bene
fits and advantages of those national
legislative policies under which
other States, and the country as a
whole, have gone forward until we
are the foremost nation of the earth,
and when, in addition, not more than
from but eight-tenths of 1 per cent
to less than 5 per cent of the popula
tion of such State or States partici
pate in national affairs through their
Senatorial and Congressional elec
tions,” Mr. Grundy declared, “I say
there is something wrong in or witn
those States, which 1 would char
acterize as being backward, and for
wliirh the committee is at perfect
liberty to select its own term.
One Senator for Pennsylvania.
“But the pertinent point of the
matter is that while those States
have one United States Senator for
each 28,662 votes, or a total of
twelve United States Senators in all,
Pennsylvania, with a present popula
tion of about 10,000,000, and more
than 1,500,000 voters participating in
the 1926 Senatorial election, has but
one member and a single voice in the
United States Senate.
“More pertinent still are the same
facts when expressed another way;
namely, that if Pennsylvania had
representation in the United States
Senate in the same ratio as these
States, it would have 52% Senatorial
votes, instead of only one.
“Various aspects of this subject
occupied a large part of the testi
mony given in my second and third
appearances before the committee
(October 29 and 30), and I believe
that these supplemental statements
leave nothing more to add, which in
any way would contribute to what I
understand to be the committee’s ob
jective, namely, an investigation of
alleged lobbying in Washington.”
Says He Tried To Be Clear.
Mr. Grundy recalled that in prev
ious appearances before the commit
tee he testified six hours and, so far
as he could recall, the committee had
not denied or disputed a single fact
he had set forth, but had shown “a
most remarkable interest in the sin
gle expx-ession ‘backward common
wealths.' ”
“Although I tided to be clear—and
thought I was—in the definition of
my meaning, you have asked me to
further define the expression and
give some illustration of its applica
tion,” Mr. Grundy wrote. “That la
the purpose of this communication.”
The Grundy letter, which was
dated November 11th, was delivered
to the committee today. Senator
Caraway told newspaper men that
the committee had asked Mr. Grundy
to file a “list” of Senators represent
ing “backward States” who he
thought should be denied a voice in
the consideration of tariff bills. It
had been referred to by the Senator
as “Grundy’s list of ‘preferred’ and
(QonUiniM on low.); j
CLEVELAND ELECTS COLORED
WOMAN MEMBER OF BOARD
OF EDUCATION
Greatest Upset In History—Noses
Oul White Rival
Attorney McGhee Lauded As Man
ager of Campaign.
Cleveland, Ohio.—The greatest up
set in any municipal election in a
metropolitan city in this country took
place here on Tuesday of this week,
when Mary B. Martin, lone Colored
candidate, was elected to the Board
of Education of the city of Cleve
land by more thlm 53,000 votes. Her
campaign was managed and directed
by Attorney Norman L. McGhee,
sometime editor of the Cleveland Call
and Post, and one of the prominent
vounger attorneys practicing at the
Cleveland bar.
The surpijfe was all the mor^
great for the reason that the present
members of the Board, four in num
ber, had been endorsed by the three
metropolitan dailies, the Cleveland
Plain Dealer, Cleveland Press, and
Cleveland News and by a civic organ
ization known as the Citizens League,
which has for a number of years pre
sented a slate of candidates for the
Board of Education, which is seldom
broken.
Her surprise victory startled poli
tical observers, who had assumed the
four present members up for re-elec
tion would be returned without seri
ous opposition. Late in the ballot
counting, Mrs. Martin passed Rees H.
Davis, running for re-election to the
Board, and with twelve precincts yet
to be heard from was ahead of Davis
by 3,347 votes. It was conceded as
impossible for the twelve precincts
to erase this margin.
SOUTH RICHMOND NOTES
Last Sunday the services at the
Union Baptist Church were very in
spiring. Sermon in the morning by
the pastor, Dr. L. C. Garland.
The funeral services of Mrs.
Frances Wooldridge, who departed
this life November 9th, at the resi
dence of her nieces, 2416 Fluvanna
Street, were held at the Union Bap
tist Church on the 11th inst. The
sermon was delivered by her pastor,
Dr. L. C. Garland. On the rostrum
were Revs. Ashburn and Watkins.
Come out tomorrow and hear Dr.
Garland.
CHARLES CITY COUNTY, VA.
New Vine Baptist Church
Rev. W. L. Tuck, Pastor
On Sunday, November 17, 1920,
at 12 noon, Pastor Tuck will bring
to us another good message. After
which our Communion will be at
1:30.
Sunday night, Rev. Samuel Massey
will tpreach for club.
F. L. WYATT;
Reporter.
ATLANTA ROUSED EY BOMBING
Or NEGnO’S HOME
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Interracial Committees Demand
Apprehension of Criminals and
Protection of Negro Citizens
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 8.—Following,
the explosion of a bomb last week at.
the home of Herman White, 791 j
Proctor Street, interracial commit-:
tees of prominent citizens have taken'
up with the police department, the1
prosecuting attorney, and the cham
ber of commerce the question of se-:
curing protection for the Negro resi-l
dents in that vicinity and of getting
effective action against thc^e who
blew up the white home.
A committee composed of R. L.
Foreman, business man, Willis Sut
ton, superintendent of city schools,
and James Morton, Secretary of the
Church Co-operation Committee, im
mediately waited on Chief of Police
James L. Beavers, and asked that
special police protection be given to
the citizens of the Proctor Street
neighborhood, who several times
within the last year have been ter- ,
rorized by bomb explosions. The ^
chief promised the co-operation of
his department. A committee was
appointed also to wait on John A.
Boykin, the public prosecutor, with
the request that his department make
eveiy effort to apprehend the perpe
trators and bring them to justice. A
third committee is to request the co
operation of the Chamber of Com
merce in the effort to put an end to
this sort of thing and safeguard the
lives and property of all residents of!
the city. Further steps in the case
are being considered by the inter
racial committee, which is deeply dis-}
tressed and humiliated by the situa
tion that has developed and is earn
estly seeking means of effective
action against it.
The bombing occurred in a section
which is rapidly changing from white
to Negro occupancy, and is thought
to have been for the purpose of de-j
terring Negroes from making further •
purchases in this neighborhood.
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LIGHT AND DARKNESS SERVICE
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Light and Darkness service will
be held at the Sixth Street Baptist
Church, Sixth and Clay Streets, Sun
day night, November 17, 1929, at
8 o’clock. Special sermon and musical
program in keeping with the oc
casion. A cordial invitation is ex
tended to the public to come out and
witness this unique entertainment.
Rev. Joseph Arrington, pastor;
Mrs. Mattie Arrington, chairman;
Miss Lucile Sallee, pianist.
The Ohio K. of P. circular issued
by Grand Chancellor R. B. Barcus
has created a sensation in this State.
Ladies* heavy coat and dresses,
size 40; fur neck piece, 2 yards long;
man's double-breasted blue coats,
gray ceat and vest; boy's overcoat;
child’s fur set, etc., all very cheap.
2014 W. Grace Street.
Garvey In Jail:
But Carries An
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Jamaica Election
FUNERAL OF MRS. MARY L. ,
Harris i
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The funeral of the late Mrs. Mary
L. Harris was held at her residence,
Elmont, Va., Sunday, November 3, i
1929, Rev. T. M. Allen, Ashland, Va.,
officiating. He spoke in eloquent
terms of the deceased, having known
her for forty-five years. Rev. Gunns,
svho was her pastor for fifteen years,
assisted. Mrs. Harris w;as formerly
a member of the First Baptist
Church, South Richmond, baptized
hy the late Dr. A. Binga, Jr. Later
she transferred to Elmont Baptist
Church near her home. The con
:ourse of friends from afar and near,
he numerous and costly floral de- |
signs and cut flowers bespoke the
high esteem in which she was held.
Truly she shall be missed.
FULTON NOTES
The services at the Mt. Calvary,
Baptist Church fast Sunday wore
very inspiring. The pastor delivered
:he sermons in the morning and
evening. In the afternoon an ex
cellent program was rendered. Ad
dress by Prof. Logan, of the Virginia
Union University.
An invitation is extended to the
members and friends to be present
at Rising Mt. Zion Church tomorrow.
Rev. 0. B. Simms, pastor.
DR. AND MRS. W. H. DIXON EN
TERTAIN GUESTS
After a delightful sight-seeing
trip and visits to many historical
points of interest, Dr. and Mrs. W.
H. Dixon, of 900 State Street, enter
tained in honor of their guests at
tending the Missionary Convocation.
The guests were Dr. H. T. Medford
and Mrs. Ada Battle, of Washington,
D. C.; Mrs. Effie Tardy, Mrs. Naomi
G. Walker and Mrs. A. L. Anderson,
Pittsburgh, Pa.; Mrs. Martha Bell
and Mrs. Ella Caldwell, Philadelphia,
Pa.; Mrs. Anna T. Smith, Carnegie,
Pa.
An enjoyable evening was spent
by all.
IN MEMORIAM
Never forgetting my friend and
paH Bertha A Jackson who passod
euwuy five years ago, November 10th.
(FANNYE MORTON DREW.
A meeting of colored Pythians has
been called in this city, November
27th, at the National Ideal Ha , V
Grand Chancellor Thomas H. Reid, a
8 P. M.
GARVEY WINS KINGSTON
ELECTION
Kingston, Jamaica, Oct. 31.—
Marcus Garvey has been elected a
member of the Kingston and St. An
drews corporation, having beaten his
opponent by a large majority.
WORLD’S LARGEST SUBMARINE
WILL BE LAUNCHED BY
FRANCE MONDAY, TAKING
LEAD FROM BRITAIN
Paris, Nov. 12.—Le Scurcouf, the
world’s largest submarine, will be
launched at Cherbourg next Monday.
It will have a fuel supply sufficient
to travel 13,000 miles, or half way
around the world, without stopping.
The principal features of the new
submarine are as follows:
She is 400 feet long, with a sur
face displacement of 3,257 tons and
a speed of 19 knots. She will carry
four 5.5-inch guns, fourteen torpedo
tubes, which can all be used at once,
with a supply of thirty torpedoes.
She will have a small seaplane stored
on board. Her officers and crew will
number 150 men.
The armament of the giant sub
marine will permit her to dive to a
depth of 430 feet, 100 feet deeper
than any submarine has ever dived.
Her armament will be thick enough
to resist air bombs and anything but
a direct hit from heavy artillery. She
will carry special anti-aircraft guns.
The provision for building the sub
marine was made in the French naval
budget of 1926. Another submarine
of equal power was planned, but it
has been found too expensive.
The largest English submarine,
which is now outclassed by the
Frenrh war vessel, cost more than
$5,000,000.
The rnniversary exercises of thd
Secor 'i Baptist Church gave much
satisi: • :on to the distinguished pul
pit di a. Rev. Joseph T. Hill. His
succei; there has been phenomenal
and th indications are that he will
double his remarkable influence and
labors luring the coming year.
Rev. F. W. Williams is doing a
great work at the Fourth Baptist
Church. His members are delightfed
md al! opposition to him has disap
peared.