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VOL. VIII.—No. 18.
ADMITS GIVING WIFE $100.00(
G. O. P. Convention To Be “Jim Crow”
Separate Hotels
For Delegates
In Kansas City
WASHINGTON, Mareh 22 Ac-
Gulescing to local custom, the Re.
publican party is making plans for
the gegregation of delegates at the
Republican national convention a'
Kansas City, Mo., June 12,
In a letter signed by Lafayette 13,
Gleason of New York, secretary of
the committee on arrangements for
the nlational convention, members of
the Repubilean national committe )
are being netified of hotel assign
ments for thelr state delegations.
After telling the committeemen
that rooms have been reserved for
their state delegations at cortain
hotels and that the management of
the hotel will forward them con
tracts, Mr. Gleason adds that the
local committee at Kansas City has
charge of the assignment of rooms
tor, Negro delegates.,
There are two first class hotels
and a Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation available for colored dele.
gates, he advises.
This Is the first time in the his.
tory of the Republican party that
colored delegates could not stop at
the same hotel in which the white
delegates from their state stop.
Besides the “black and tan” dele
gations from southern states there
always are colored delegates from
northern and western states.
Whether or nof* colored persons
‘will be peérmitted to visit in the
white hotels has not heen learned.
“Lily Whites. Deal
Crushing Blow to
Negro Republicans
HATTIESDBURG, Miss., March 19,
~—Waging a battle against over
whelming odds, the representatives
of the thousands of colored Ameri
cans in the state lost in an effort
to retain their right to political
privileges as the result of a decree
fssued to “lily white” Republicans
ol the state. The action virtually
bars Negroes of the state from par
ticipating In the activities of the
Republican party and thus excludes
them from all political rights as
they have no representation in the
Democratic party.
The erushing blow dealt the Ne
gro voters of Mississippi came as the
climax of a bitter {ight between the
colored voters, led by Perry W.
Howard, national Republcan com
mitteeman and assistant m the U,
8. attorney general's office, an “Hly
whites.” The *“lily whités” sought
to restrain Mr. Howard and hisz col.
leaguos from holding or participat.
ing in the convention within the
state for electing delegates to the
national conventjon, and from rep
resénting themselvés as the Repub
lican party in Mississippl. A tempo
rary injunction was granted against
the Howard faction at a recent
hearing and the ease was appealed.
Friday Chancellor T. Price Dale
handed down a decision in which
h' overruled a motion to dissolve
tffe injunction, thus making it per
manent.
The Howard faction made an al
most useless last effort to stave off
the affropt of their opponents, fol.
lowing the decision Friday, Their
coungel immediately filed an appeal
motion and announced that the case
woul be carried ‘to the state su
preme court. A cost bond of $6500
was set by the chancellor. The
complainants were placed under a
SIO,OOO bond an long as the Injunc
tion 18 valid,
The “lly whites laughed up their
sleeves,” s 0 to #peak, at the last
effort of the Howard group for the
national Republican convention will
have passed into histery by the
timg o decislon can be obtained
from the appeal to the #supreme
court,
The leader of the “lily whites,”
Goorge L. Bheldon, former governor
of Nebraska and now a Del'a plant
er, said after the verdict was re
celved that his group, known as the
State Republican Council, expects to
call general mags meetings in every
county In the state in order to set
np new party maclinery and select
délegates to the state and national
conventions. Such actions will re
pult In Missisuippl's Republican dele
znuon being composed entirely of
whites for the tirst thme In years,
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Ghe ENTERPRISE
King George Receives
Brown Skin Princess
LONDON-—A brown-skin little
seven-year old Princess, Yashimabet
daughter of Prince Ras Taffari, Re
gent of Abyssinia, whose family
traces their ancestry back to Queen
of Sheba, was presented to King
George and Queen Mary in Buck
ingham Palace.
Accompanied by a nurse, the little
Princess braved a storm to visit the
British sovereigns, who was a guest
of the British Government in 1924,
has a reputation of being a sagac
ious and able Princess and palace
attaches who watched the demure,
dignified little Princess through cere
monies said that she quite lived up
to the family traditions,
Harvard Student Wins
Pasteur Medal Award
WASHINGTON, D. C.—An
nouncement was made Friday at the
Dunbar Institute that Robert C.
Weaver, graduate of Dunbar High
School, 1925, a student in the jun
ior class at Harvard University, had
been awarded the Pasteur medal,
This medal is awarded annually to
the best speaker on a subject drawn
from contemporary French polities,
The question discussed was, ‘“‘Re
solved, that the United States Adopt
Foreign Minister Briand’'s Treaty Out
lawing War between France and the
United States.”
Weaver is a member of the univer
sity team which defeated Williams
Co¥lo;re recently, thus winning its
fourth victory of the season and
therehy mrung first rank in the
Eastern tercollegiate Debating
League, : 1
Weaver is the first Negro to be
on a Harvard University debating
team in 25 years, .
Whites Steal $75,000 from
“Black” Anti- K. K. K.
HOT SPRINGS, Afk,~The Negro-
Anti-K. K. K. of this state ecame
into the lHmelight here this woek
when an alleged embezzlement of
$76,000 was charged against Stan
ley Lee, white, prominent Arkansas
banker, social leader, and organizer
of the organization.
Other white men involved in the
affair inclunde Dr. E. M. McKenzie,
white, eity superintendent of schools,
Lee has taken full responsibility
stating that the money was used
to promote a colored fraternal or.
ganization out of which its promo
ters expected to make money,
Young Slave Girl Originated Phrase
“George Washington, First In Peace’
(Entepprise News Burmfi—
By Mrs. Mary Chureh Tervell
WASHINGTON, March 22.—When
you call Géorge Washington “‘First
in peace,” please remember that a
young slave girl was the first per.
son In the world, publicly, to refer
to him in that way. It was Phyllis
Wheatley, a young African poetess,
who wrote a poem in his honor, and
in one of the lUnes addressed him
ag “First in peace and honours,”
several years before the Declaration
of Independence wum':d.
The Fate of an A Girl
If you had been walking down the
streets of Boston, Mass.,, one day in
1761, you might have seen a poor
little black girl, wrapped only in o
plece of carpet shivering with the
cold, If you had asked: *'What h«‘
your name, lMttle girl?" she wounld
not have understood you, and even
if she had understood and answered
your question her name would have
soundeéd very queér to you, Itor she
was a lttle foreigner: ‘
Bhe had been born in Africa, had
been stolen from her native land,
packed lke a sardine In a slave
ship with mnn{ others of her coun.
Zrymen and suffered the horrors and
o:}ur« of whlgh was ealled ‘“‘the
middle passage” and had been
brought to this country by white
men to be sold as a slave.
A lady who wanted to train o
young woman servant to take the
place of an old one who was grow.
ing too old to work went to the slave
market fn Boston to see what she
could find in that line, The mhe&t
face of the shivering child appea
to this woman so strongly lgit ll‘:
hou despite the fact that h
mug'to?'. po’lind 80 %nu.
fll’;fl‘ i Opportunity {
Sixteen months from that time
she was reading the most difticult
paseage In the Bible. SBix years
from the day she was sold she had
become so pro¥icient In speaking
and writing the BEnglish language
that he had written a poc?l\ {o the
University of Cambridge, which wis
A Newspaper the People Read, Love, and Respect :
“South Will Oppose Man for President
Who Doesn't Draw Color Line”—Blease
WASHINGTON, March 21.—"*The
people of SBouth Carolina will op.
pose the election of any man as
President of the United States who
veneves in soctal equanty and does
not draw the color line.”
Senator Coleman L. Blease, Demo
erat of South Carolina, made this
stiftement in an interview Tuesday,
explaining his fnsertion into the
Congressional Record of an artiele
from a Negro newspaper concerning
the Oswald Garrison Villard dinners,
My reagon for putting that arti
cle in the Congressional Record,”
Senntor Blease sald, “was that )
wanted the people of the South to
know the real conditiens in Wash.
Ington and to further know that
there are men in politica in the na.
tlon who do not draw the ‘ecolor
line' and are willing to eat at the
same table with colored people and
associaté with them on equal terms.”
Senator Blease wdded: Ot
course, that is thelr business if they
desire to do so, but it ig our husi.
ness to proteet ourselves from placs
ing In office any man who might
attempt to force the same conditions
upon us in the South.”
Senator Walsh
It is believed that Senator Bleane
had reference to Senator Thomas J.
Walsh, Demoerat of Montana, who!
is a candidate for the Democratic
nomination, when he inserted thri
Negro newspaper article in the Con.
gressional Reeord and made his orig
inal statement that “some men do
not mind assoefating at the table
with eertain other people, but that
the people of my state might object
to voting for that kind a man for
WM the Upited R
ur Senntors at or
Senntor Walsh wak one of four
senators who attended the dinner in
honhor of the tenth aniversary of Mr.
Villard's editorship of The Nation.
The dinner was at the Washington
Hotel, where Senator Blease lives,
March 15, There were three other
senators present,
Senator Gerald P. Nye, Republie
an of North Dakota, presided, Senu.'
tor Burton K. Wheeler, Democrat of
Montana, was one of the speakers.
The other senator was young Bob
LaFellette, Republican of Wisconsin,
Mrs, Tervell There
Three colored persons attended
the dinner. They were Nevar I
Thompson, Dunbar High School |
teacher and president of the locnt‘
chapter of the National Azsociation
publighed, Twelve years after on
tering Mrs. Wheatley's gervice her
‘volumr- of poems was published in
London.
| Phyllis was very fortunate in hav
ing Mrs. Wheatley as her mistress.
The law did not force her to be
-merciful to the little slave glrl and
nobody expected her to give the girl
a chanee, b
In her new home Phyllis became
the special servant of Mrs, Wheat
ley's twins, Nathanlel and Mary, who
were ten years older than their
slave. One day Mary saw the little
CAfrican trying to form letters on the
wall with a plece of chalk. She
~doubtless thought it would be great
fun to teach her. She tried and the
progress made by lier black pupll
wad the gensation of that time. Whnti
4 debt of‘rrntntudo her race and the
whole world owe to Mary Wheatley!
\Vary soon Phyllis began to write
poéms, “Her own curiosity led her
to it,” sald her master. »
~ Phyllls did not know when or
Where she was born. She only knew
she came from somewhere in Africa,
‘Bhe must haye been born either in
1763 or 1764-—-not later than 1754,
it 18 thought, Bhe probably was be
tween 7 and 8 years of age when
she was dragged more dead than
allve lromwtho slave ll:l“p‘n Boston.
‘When llé”n)sx n‘y‘nn o'l;l' hev
health began to l‘& Qm 8
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good. Mr. Wheatley happened
‘going abroad on business and he
took Phylifs with him to England.
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SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1928
»{ for the Advancement of Colored
-| People; Mrs, Mary Church Terrell,
i | widow of the late Judge Robert H
| Terrell, and the Rev., Robert W
Brooks, pastor of Lincoln Temple
Congregational Chureh, at Eleventh
and R Street N. W. Mrs. Terrell ix
‘| reported to have sat next to Senator
| Walsh,
- In order to see Senator Blease
| and find out his purpese in inserting
| the newspaper artiele In the Con.
gressicnal Record your ecorrespond.
ent called on Senator Bleage. There
| was some trepidatton in my ap
proach of Senator Blease. But once
in his presenee it quickly fled. He
was affable and spoke freely on the
race question.
Thinks Himeelt “Friend"
“1 always have bean the mlnrml‘
man's friend and am 8o considered
by him today,” he declared. “I do
not favor rocial equality and the!
best element ef colored people do
not want social equality. They wan!
Ic-quul rights, equal privileges and
service, The best element of tlu-m|
realizes that when a white man In
the South places himself on the lc-vvll
and equality in soclal matters that
he I 8 not as good as they are and
’tlwy do not accept him in their
homes as their guest,
Mentions Mance, Wilkinson
Senator Bleage referred to a num.
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l ATLANTA, Ga., March 21— Many
organizations ilnterested in public
|Wl'lfm'<~ are cooperating with the
United States Public Health service
cand the various state and muniel.
- pal health boards in planning for
the fourteenth annual observance of
national Negro Health Week, April
“ to 8, according to a statement
from the headquarters of the inter.
|rm~lnl commission in this eity, A
~bulletin has been prepared by the
‘puhllr health serviee, laying out an
elaborate program of health educa
‘llon. sanitation and clinics, to bhe
‘conductod throughout the week.
Nearly a seore of national organiza
tions are enlisted in addition to lo
cal civie, educational and religious
groups in the sgeveral communities.
Handsome cups will be given to the
rural community and to citles of dif
ferent classes putting on the most
effoctive observancos of the week.
Begins With Sermons
’ The program will begin with ser.
mons and addresses from thousands
i MOns anag dqaresses Irom taousanas
of ehurches and pul()itu on Sunday,
‘Apru 1. Monday will be home hy.
- glene day, Tuesday will be devoted
to community sanitation and Wed.
neaday to efforts to' reach the school
ehildren with health talks and elin
fes. Thursday health messages will
‘ be carried to as many organizations
of aults as possible. Friday will be
devoted to such speclal campaigns
as may be needed in each commu
nity and Saturday will be observed
ag general cleanup day. Sunday
will’ be glven over to reports and
plans for followup work. Coples of
the bulletin may be had from Tusk
egee Institute, Alabama, or from the
interracial commission,
.
Film Corporation to Make
Picture Every Six Weeks
NEW YORK--—Following the com
pletion of “The Midnight Act,” the
first production of the Dunbar Fiim
Corporation, now being filmed br‘
Warner studios, the company will
begin “The Champion's Protegee.”
The program of th econcern, ac
cnrdln{ to Swan K, Nlch:hl. Jr.,
ealls for a production every six
weeks and twelves storfes have al
reddy heen secured for filming.
Gets $29,000 Estate
PITTSBURGH, Pa. (PNB).-—RBy
the will of the late Mrs, Bessle Page
Posey, of Homgstead, who died sud
denly wseveral weeks ago in Brook
lyn, N. Y., her estate, valued at
$29,000, half in realty in Allegheny
county and in° Washington, 'D. C,, s
left in trust, the income to go to
maintenanee and edueation z W son,
WHitam Clyde Page. He I Bto re.
celve §5,000 when he in 21, and the
romainder when he is 30, If he
should die :l'mout Instde, 1t I 8 to go
to a sister testatrix, Mrs, Mary
E, Nelson, of New Bedford, Muss.
Lion Bishops
Involved In
Money Scandal
PUILADELPIHIA, Pa., arch 21.-
A sweeping investigation of the
brard of finance of the A. M. K.
Zion Church is indicated as a result
of alleged irregularities involving
Dr. W. Goler and Bishop L. W.
Kyles. This developed at the meet.
ing of bishops and members of the
board here Tuesday.
First inttmation that there was
something wrong came when Bishop
B. D, Jones of Washington, D. C.,
asked for all records, bank bhooks,
vouchers, returned checks, letter
fllos, notes, bonus receipts and all
transactions of the department for
the last four years. Immediately
there was a seurring of clerks and
offiefals. His demand fell like o
bombshell among the bishops and
aftielals,
Before the bishops realized that
the public was present, fmportant
bits of information had been given
out. One item involved the sale of
a ehurch by the connectional offi
- cinly, from which S9OO was realized.
(I is clalmed that this money was
divided between Dr, W. H. Goler, fi.
nanclal seeretary of the ehurch, and
Bishop L. W. Kyles, chairman of the
finance committee of bishops.
It i 3 elaimed that RBishop Kyle
received S6OO of the money. It was
further claimed that when Professor
J. H. Johnson of Salisbury, N, C..
demanded an accounting Bishop
Kyleg sent a check to Dr. Goler for
the amount, but the check was re.
turned as being “‘no good” when it
was presented for cashing. This
ehuok, 1t was gented, uever has beon
made good,
Another item brought up was a
check for $2,841 which was to have
i gone for the mission work of Bishop
J. W. Martin and Bishop W. J.
- Walls, When this ftem was brought
up both bishops denited receiving the
‘money. The returned canceled eheck
~digclosed the fact that it had been
coshed at Winston-Salem, N. (~ the
home town of Bishop Kyles.
When other revelations were
made as the vouchers, checks and
records were gone over, the bishops
hurriedly got together and referred
the whole matter to a speclal com
mittee which was instructed to make
. thorough audit of the records of
Dr. Goler. Three bishops were nam
el on the committee, Bigshop J. 8.
Caldwell of this eity, Bishop E. D.
W. Jones of Washington and Bishop
J. W. Martin of Los Angeles, Cal.
Negro Aviator Plans Round Trip
Flight to Paris During Summer
(Entorprise News Hureau)
NEW YORK, March 22.—T0 out.
do Colonel Charles A, Lindbergh's
New York to Paris flight by making
a round trip to the IFrench capital
next June or July is now the Proc(»
clous ambition of Hubert Jullan,
well.known Negro aviator, who Is
being backed in the proposed filght
by State Senator Spencer G. Feld
froom the 20th Distriet. Plans for
the ralsing of funds for the purchase
of a $25,000 Bellanca plane similar
to Chamberlain and Levine's Colum
bla were ‘diseussed at a meeting
Tuesday night at the Association of
Trade and Cemmerce, 2370 Seventh
Avenue, with Senator Feld presid
ne.
uA contract with G. M, C. Bellan
ca, builder of the plane, was signed
ten days ago at 2564 West 136th
Street, it is reported, at which time
$2,600 was deposited toward the
purchase, with $7,600 due in 60
days and the balance to be pald upon
completion of the plane,
“This venture s to be no fineco,"”
sald Senator Feld, ‘‘Before going
fnto this matter I gave it very care.
ful thought and ecnsideration, ag 1
had to em\'nlderl m'{‘:cv:tluon. !
“Therefore, o | under
n contract that is Mnmnm "Ith
rovides that in the m’t he do
go“n up to its l"ml ntlouu.w
fal to ungm t iu:u.r‘y
tral or gro cure in
por:g:l‘l conduct, ! m‘”_‘iith‘drfi.
He yl be held in striet account.
ability to from now until the
time he fih;:fl Parls and hwm”
mtw Id explained Jullan's
fa to weross the Athantle in
ll:l funds and a%‘ 'm
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Colored Girl Leads
Bryn Mawr Class
WASHINGTON, D, C.—Miss Enid
A, Cook, the brilliant young daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Cook of this city,
has won unusual distinction for her
{ sel fat Bryn Mawr College. Ac:
ording to an announcement made by
the dean of the fashionable girl's
school, Miss Cook ranks first in the
Sophomore class in scholarship, Miss
Cook is the only colored girl in the
class composed of hundred‘n of girls,
She is said to be the first colored girl
to enter Bryn Mawr as an umrar
graduate.
Miss Cook, who graduated from
Dunbar High school in 1925, was the
outstanding student among 400
Freshmen at Howard University last
year,
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Committee 0. K.’s Bill
-
for National Monument
. WASHINGTON, D, C.—The move
‘ment to have a national monument
erected as a tribute to the Race ad
vanced another step here Wednesday,
Success in the patriotic project was
given more ,womiw by the act of thol
public buildings and grounds com
mittee in reporting favorably to the
House a joint resolution creating a
commission to supervise the erection
oflthu edifice in the National Cap
itol,
The resolution for the national
Negro monument calls for a stately
memorial building, It authorizes an
:yprupriufion of $60,000 out 8‘ the
ederal Treasury when $500,000
shall have been collected for the
oject by the National Memorial
xrnnochtlon'
State Probes Failure of -
Wage Owners’ Bank
SAVANNAH, Ga,—With the state
superintendent of banks in charge,
depositors of the Wage Rarners
Saving Bank are hopefuily awaiting
an audit to determine the shortage
which elosed the doors of that in
stitution last week,
Although speculation is rife, and
mass meetings have been held, the
cause of fallure will not be known
until there {8 a complete audit of the
books of the concern,
Even the directors, it {s sald, did
not know the serious financial con
dition of the bank until the eve.
ning proceeding the closing, when a
hurried meeting was called and the
fact that the bank would not be able
to meet ita probable cash obligations
the following day was revealed to
them. Deposits amount to over a
million dollars,
with Mr. Bellanea In 1623, shortly
after the alrplane manufacturer
came to this country and had his
alr, transport proposition turned
down by the U. 8. Navy. At that
time Jullan expressed faith in the
Bellanca plane and wanted to fly
one to Europe, but did not have suf
ficlent funds to buy it, Levine's pur
chage of the Columbia and its his
torical flight to Germany last year
ma, r Bellanca famous,
The Du Ponts of Wilmington,
Del,, now are financing Mr. Bellan.
ca to the extent of $560,000,000, it fs
sald, and are to spend $10,000,000
for factories at Wilmington, where
they will manufacture planes for the
varlous vallroads of the country, It
Is reported. Mr. Bellanca s presi.
dent of the company, which will not
accept an order for only one plane,
An exfeption was made in Ju.
Han's cane, howaever, and Mr. Hel
lnnea donated $3,000 toward the
plane, it is sadd, bringing the ecost
down to $22,000, and he oxgrmod
& firm faith n Jullan's abflity ta
reach Parls and return. “The kee!
of the plane already has beén lald,”
Mr. Bellsnea informed us,” sald
Senator Feld.
“We intend to ralse the ontire
cost of the plane in 00 days,” he
continued, “and as soon ns this is
mompu:fiad the mllfitlu of '?i‘m
will be stopped. We are golng to
show the world what the Negro can
do and if this muwm
will nflm;wc‘rulgntm o upon
your people,”
A fiveaninute talk over radio sta
““,1”‘?; was ineluded nmong oth.
er plans raisi funds,
Pope B, lflhfl.‘&n‘m m
J. A Bteele, X .
contributed $25; -
and others expressed thelr
dence in the no PO G
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Best Advertising Medium of
Its Kind in the Pacific
Northwest
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Commonlaw Wife
Sues Carl Curtis,
White Millionaire
NEW YORK, March 21.--(Spe
clal) —~Promising to eclipse the fa.
mous case of Leonard Kip Rhine
lander, the supreme court trinl of
Letitia Ernestine Brown, 39, of Har.
lem, in a separation suit against her
alleged commonlaw husband, Carl
ton Curtis (white), 60-year-old mul.
timilllonaire clubman and Mayflow.
er descendant opens today in spe.
clal term, part 4, before Judge
Townley.
: Last June her application for
§20,000 counsel fees and $260
| weekly allmony was denied by Jus
.l' tiee Black. Through her attorney,
| Richard E. Carey, Mrs. Brown took
| her applieation to the eourt of npe
! peals.
‘ The charge by Mrs. Brown that
!(‘urfle lived with her for 17 years
glves an odd twist to Ameriea’s so
#n-ullnl rice problem. No ehildren
were horn to the couple during this
period, It is sald,
Also, the modus operandi of the
Cavecasian mind {s made the more
thexplicable by ithe fact that Curtis
is suid to be confirmed Negro ha
ter and at the same time was madly
1 in love with Mrs. Brown, whom he
,w sadd to have forbidden to assoel.
ate with her own race. Cartls’ rela.
tives for many years tried In valn
te make him give up Mrs. Brown,
it is reported.
About three dozen witnesses of
both races, Including severnl white
merchants, will appear for Mrs.
Brown. These persons will testify
in lots of gix or less cach day.
Although Curtis now mulnulm&n
pleked Mrs. Brown up “on a street
corner in Harlem in 1910,” he has
not only admitted that he knew her
but that he gave her thousands of
dollars. Checks for vartous |M=
amounts from - Curtls afe fu it
hands of Mrs, Brown's ."ui.!{:
Curtis i 3 sald to Have given
Brown more than 0100{‘000 aside
from establishing a trust fund for
her whieh pald her SI,OOO a llel:’.
The millionalre clubman aceord.
od Mrs. Brown an %onor that would
never have been bostowed on A
“plekup” when he gave her, it ia
sald, a family heirloom, a solld sil
ver fruit dish bearing the family
crest, this article being a wedding
| gitt to Curtis' mother, lnclm::
with this valuable gift was a la
quantity of pearl.handled silver,
Other gifts included expensive
paintings and draperies which hu
in Mts. Brown's Harlem apart .
It 18 reported that when Mrs. Bro
began her snit Curtis' attorney was
Instrumental in having them re
moved duaring hér absence, -
Curtis now denies that he ever
lived with Mra. Brown, but the wo
man declured she had proof that she
and Curtis lived together in Free.
port, Ls 1., for at least ten
Thils alleged fact is sald to hfi
mon kunowledge to Curtis’ rel N
who are prominent members of
York soclety and, like himself,
in the Social Reglster, For
yeurs prior to golng to Freeport
Brown declared that Curtls ,
with her in West 64th Street i
Relagives of Curtls, it 1s sadd,
visited the commonlaw couple
Freeport and made merry, .‘
Curtls s connected ytl
the oldest and most 'ln inent :
les In Hunhlttlut:n.:m. his
ancestry back to the N |
also is a Princeton University .
uate, :
During the 17 Curtis 1
to have lived mmn*mvi
assumed the name of
to hide his \dontity, his ed
declares. ’ .
The trust fund whh‘ hoe
lished was for mc‘n“ t “.l'
quarters of a milllon y
Curtis had this ‘revoked
1926, at which tinle ‘ 2
of llvll}‘l her aff "
man, It s whispered that C 4
did not object to Mrs, .w- Y
}"ln outside man” provided he was
WG e R
safd to have purch
tor Mrw, . He also provided
h*f’ “:'AT e j‘-‘: P "';'\t;‘ L) .‘,‘
of ’.B. THODLR . RAAO 'WBR ,PO o "
and Gy A—e\@.':r’di Yg’ A
penses, Mre, Bi own dectare iL O
i, Brown {j« |he finane.
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