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VOL. I, NO. 19
MARCUS GARVEY COMING HERE
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MOB-RULE CLAIMS
TWO MORE VICTIMS
IN GEORGIA OTS
Mob of 2000 Attend Burning of
15 Year Old Colored Youth
In Georgia.
BODY IS RIDDLED WITH
MORE THAN 200 SHOTS
Another Youth Found Lynched
In Texas After Reported
Assault on White Girl.
(Associated Negro Press.)
Davisboro, Ga., May 24—Charles
Atkins, 15, colored, one of four tak
en into custody today in conection
with the killing of Mrs. Elizabeth Kit
chens, 20, was burned at the stake.
The lynching occurred at the scene
of the murder and followed an al
leged confession. The boy was tor
tured over a slow Are for fifteen min
utes and then, shrieking with pain,
was questioned concerning his ac
complices. Atkins was said to have
implicated another colored boy, but
to have exonerated his own brother.
Members of the mob, comprising
nearly 2,000 people, then raised the
body again, fastened it to a pine tree
with trace chains and relighted the
fire. More than 200 shots were fired
into the charred body. Then the
mob started out on a search for the
alleged accomplice.
Mrs. Kitchens, who served as a
rural mail carrier, was robbed and
murdered about four miles from Da
visboro.
YOUTH IS LYNCHED
IN TEXAS TOWN
Conroe, Texas, May 24—The body
of a young Negro was found by
Grimes county farmers swinging to a
tree by the roadside near Planters
ville today. The Negro, who was
known by the name of Early, appar
ently had been lynched some time
last night. Early was taken by offi
cers Monday night, when screams of a
young white girl, whom it was re
ported he was attempting to attack,
aroused the neighborhood.
ESCAPES MOB AFTER
BEING TAKEN FROM JAIL
Irvington, Ga., May 25—Jim Den
son, who was seized today by a mob
in Irwin county, has escaped the mob
and is being hunted by officers of
several counties and posses of citi
zens.
Denson, who was cheduled to be
hanged on June 26 for assault on an
aged woman, was removed from the
jail by a mob of whites armed with
guns and ropes. The last time he
was seen he was being led out of
town with a rope around his neck. ,
PULLMAN PORTERS HOLD
THANKSGIVING SERVICE
Local No. 3 of St. Paul and local
No. 6 of Minneapolis of the Pullman
Porters Benefit Association of Amer
ica held their Annual Thanksgiving
and Memorial services at Memorial
Baptist Church on Sunday, May 21.
A very fine programme was rendered
and enjoyed by the many who were
present. Minneapolis was well re
presented at the meeting in mem
bers and visitors. Rev. J. W. Harris
preached the sermon.
This was the first time in the his
tory of the local branches that they
have held Buch a large programme
for their annual services. The good
work that the organization has done
in the past promoted the friendly
feeling that brought out many visi
tors. A. W. Jordan, chairman of the
St. Paul local branch, had charge of
all arrangements.
WILL SPEAK IN HIS HOME
TOWN MEMORIAL DAY
Mayor-elect Arthur E. Nelson will
be the principal speaker at the Mem
orial Day ceremonies in his home
town, Browns Valley, Minn. He ac
cepted at once the invitation when it
was extended to him and expressed
pleasure at being asked to address
the people of the town where he "was
born, grew up and received his early
education."
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Holley
Pass in ft* al
Mental“ Exam”
(Associated Negro Press)
New York, N. Y., May 25—Emil T.
Holly, the Harlem boy who caused a
mild sensation by being designated
as a candidate for the United States
Naval Academy at Annapolis, M'd.,
by Congressman Ansorge, will not
become a student there after all.
It was announced last week that
Holly, along with 475 white boys
were unsuccessful in the mental tests,
only 203 candidates out of 679 being
successful. Holly’s failure Is a keen
disappointment to himself and the
race. It was expected that the boy
would make the required mark, and
thus be the first of his kind in many
years to enter Annapolis.
In making the announcement of
Holly’s disqualification, a possible
comeback was sidestepped by the
following statement: "Academy ex
amination papers are marked by
three instructors, unaware to which
candidate they assign marks.”
Dr. Moton Dedicates
New Training School
$6,000 Training School for Col
ored Children Opened at
Bibb County, Ala.
(Associated Negro Press)
Centerville, Ala., May 25—The $6,-
000 County Training School for Ne
groes was dedicated here today by
Dr. Robert R. Moton, Principal of
Tuskegee Institute, who in a stirring
address on Race Relations before the
white and colored people of the com
munity, told his audience that the
erection of such a building where the
white and colored people co-operated,
was a very effective and helpful way
to bring about better understanding
between the races.
Addresses of welcome were deliv
ered by the Honorable H. H. Jones,
County Superintendent of Education,
Attorney J. T. Fuller, and Mr. W. W.
Lavender, Chairman of the County
Board of Education, all of whom
spoke of the character of the work
now being done at the Bibb County
Training School under the leadership
of Principal Henry D. Davidson and
his wife, who is a graduate of Tuske
gee Institute.
Dr. Moton urged his people to save
their money, start bank accounts, buy
farms and homes and seek to acquire
reputations for honesty, reliability,
thrift, and perseverance in their com
munities. He told the white group
that the Negroes of Bibb County be
lieved in them and that they had no
better friends among any race than
they had among Negroes of the coun
ty.
After all the attention they receiv
ed at Genoa the Russions naturally
are not averse to a little more of the
same at The Hague.
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of the Race Everywhere
When You Read
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ST. PAUL—MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., SATURDA Y, MAY 27, 1922.
NOTED PERSONSTO
SPEAK AT ANNUAL
N. A. A. C. P. MEET
Dr. A. A. Goldenweiser, Noted
Anthropologist and Bishop
R. E. Jones to Speak.
DYER BILL TO BE
CENTER OF DISCUSSION
Sponsor of Anti-Lynch Bill Is
Scheduled to Address the
Conference.
(Associated Negro Press)
New York, N. Y., May 25—An
nouncement was made of the names
of Borne of the speakers who will ad
dress the Spring Conference of the
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People in Newark,
N. J. Among them is the noted an
thropologist, Dr. A. A. Goldenweiser,
who will discuss "The Negro in Am
erican Civilization.” Bishop Robert
E. Jones will address the Conference
on the Anti-Lynching Legislation.
The Dyer Bill, which is to be the
center of discussion at the Conference
will be dealt with by Representatives
Dyer himself, also by Senator Joseph
I. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey. H6n.
Martin B. Madden, member of Con
gress from Illinois and Chairman of
the Appropriations Committee of the
House of Representatives has also
consented to speak.
The welcome to the Newark Con
ference will be given on the opening
day, Sunday, June 18, by Hon. Ed
ward I. Edwards, Governor of New
Jersey, and by Hon. Frederick C.
Breidenbach, Mayor of Newark, Dr.
George E. Cannon of Jersey City will
respond.
Threatened Strike
Quelled in New York
Negro Brickyard Employees
Strike for More Pay is
Stopped by State
Troopers.
(Associated N*r# Press)
Haversaw, N. Y., May 25—Threat
ened violence on the part of the 1800
employees of the brickyards around
this village has been quelled through
the presence here of state troopers.
The strikers, all Negroes, mainly
from the south, demanded an increase
in wages from the present scale of
$4.00 per day to $5.00 on the ground
fhat the present sums .derived from
the sale of brick is high enough to
afford the increased pay. A peculiar
feature of the strike is that it ap
pears to be without a leader or even
an organization. One striker dispu
ted the authority of a trooper and
landed in the hospital with a broken
arm.
r Saint Paul’s New Police Head j
FRANK W. SOMMERS
Mr. Sommers is the new chief of police in St. Paul, named by F. W.
Matson, new commissioner of public safety, to succeed Michael Gebhardt,
veteran St. Paul police captain. Captain Gebhardt, named acting chief by
retiring Commissioner A. E. Smith following the dismissal of Chief Henry
J. Crepeau, will return to his old post. The new chief of police 1b district
chief of the United States secret service, with headquarters in St. Paul.
Young Author Says Brown
Women Are Most Attractive
“If You Don’t, I
Will/ ’he Tells Her
Somehow or other, when
something big is to happen—
that iB, something like the an
nouncement of the first boat ex
cursion of the season—there
usually are some persons who
have to quarrel about going or
not going to it. And two lov
ers have already quarrelled, the
topic being the Elk’s boat ex
cursion next Monday night.
"I’m not going. The boat may
sink,” she declared.
"Don’t be foolish,” he said.
"Well, I’m not going—that’s
all,” she finished.
"Well—if you dont go, I
will,” he announced, cheerfully.
Thus the quarrel ended. Lou
is White will be on deck Mon
day evening, ALONE.
OLD ST. PAUL CITIZEN
FALLS DEAD AT HOME
Mr. Henry Fields, 75 years old, an
old resident of St. Paul, died sud
denly at his home, 730 Sherburne
avenue, last Monday morning at 8:30.
Mr. Fields was working around in
his front yard a few minutes before
his death. He fell suddenly and died
within ten minutes after he had been
carried into the house. Death was
due to old age.
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday afternoon from the house and
under the direction of Simpson and
Wills.
ELEVEN FOUND GUILTY
OF DISORDERLY CONDUCT
The eleven men taken in the raid
on Shorty Powells residence, 326 Rex
Court, by the Purity Squad, laßt week
pleaded guilty to the charge of dis
orderly conduct and were fined $5 in
police court Tuesday morning.
With that Louisville affair out of
the way the next big sporting event
will be our oijrn gasoline derby.
Also Believes The Girl of the
South Seas is More Modest
Than the American Girl.
(Associated Negro Press.)
New York, N. Y., May 25 —Are
brown women more attractive and
more modest than their fairer sis
ters? Ruth 'Raphael, of the "Jour
nal” quotes a young white author,
James Norman Hall, author of “Fairy
Lands of the South Seas” —the same
Mr. Hall who has lived in his fairy
isles for several years, and who has
declared he is through with civiliza
tion forever, as saying so. Listen to
what he said:
"Since returning to the United
States I have had a chance to see the
American girl only on the street.
Even then I was struck by her lack of
modesty. No girl of the South Sea
Islands would dress like that. It is
a mistaken idea that the women go
about as the photographs which each
American would indicate. As a mat
ter of fact, the clothes of the island
girl are much more modest than the
girl up here.
NATURAL AND SIMPLE
“Of course, the island girls are al
ways barefooted and barelegged;
but that is so natural and simple.
You look at it as at a tree —it is not
meant to be suggestive.”
"Do you think,” I asked him, "that
it would be more modest and—’er
simple—if the modern girl were to
go about without any shoes or stock
ings-”
"Well,” evaded Mr. Hall, "the mod
ern girl does dress to attract the
eye in a suggestive manner, now
doesn’t she?”
WOMEN LOSING CHARM
“What else strikes you about the
American girl?” I asked. "How else
has she changed?”
"I am struck by the number of
men’s Jobs that women are holding—
in politics, the professions, etc. Per
sonally, after living in the South Sea
Island, I don’t think it is a good
thing—that is, for the women them
selves. It seems to me they lose a
good deal of charm—certainly they
lose a good deal of romantic inter
est.”
"No doubt the island women have
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Famed Aviatrix
Visits Holland
on Trip Abroad
(Associated Negro Press)
Rotterdam, Holland, May 25—Miss
Bessie Coleman, the colored girl who
has won fame as an aviatrix was a
recent visitor here. Since leaving
Chicago, her home, last spring, she
has taken additional training in flying
in France and arranged for the pur
chase of a machine which she plans
to use in the school she is to estab
lish in Chicago' on her return. On
her way from England, Miss Cole
man suffered a severe sprain, which
doctors felt would prevent her from
flying for some time, but she was for
tunate in recovering quickly and was
proclaimed plucky by the admiring
Frenchmen. The aviatrix reports
that America is away behind In fly
ing. She states that while here ev
eryone Is taking flights, and air trans
portation is rapidly becoming a busi
ness, in America it is largely confined
to exhibition events of military prac
tice. She will return to America In
the late summer.
New York Policemen
Hold Annual Parade
More Than 100 Colored Police
men March in Annual Pa
rade of New York Cops.
(Associated Negro Press)
New York, N. Y., May 25—Ten of
our regular policemen and 120 of our
police reserves formed a part of the
big New York City police parade last
Saturday. The John Wanamaker
Band, of Philadelphia, representing
the race, was also in the line of the
march. More than 6,000 officers
formed the parade.
New York always turns out loyally
to do homage to its bluecoats and
last Saturday was no exception. May
or John F. Hylan, varying a small
flag, resplendent fn high hat and cut
away coat, marched at the head of
the parade to the reviewing stand at
the Worth Monument where a pre
sentation of medals to honor men oc
curred. Our regular policemen march
ed with the men from their precinct,
the 38th. All made an excellent
showing.
The Brooklyn contingent of re
serves were from the 87 and 93d pre
cinct, and were under command of
Lieut. W. W. Fletcher and Lieut.
Ashton. The Manhattan reserves
from the 38th precinct were in com
mand of Capt. White. As the two
squads were from different boroughs,
they did not march together.
Spectators Use All
Exits As “Corpse”
Sits Up in Court
Corsicana, Tex., May 25—The
"body” of a man supposed to have
been dead for 6 weeks rose suddenly
from its supine position on the un
dertaker’s stretcher, sat up and de
manded to know what, it was all
about in the little court room of Jus
tice of the Peace Christian yesterday.
Possession of the body was at is
sue. A man died March 26th, and the
body was taken in charge by an un
dertaker. When relatives came from
a neighboring city to claim the body,
the undertaker refused to relinquish
it until his fees were paid.
The relatives appealed to the court
for possession and the "corpse” was
produced in the court room.
When one attorney was in the
midst of a plea, the supposed corpse
arose. Spectators employed the win
dows as a means of escape.
Later, Judge Christian rendered a
verdict for the plaintiff. The practi
cal Joker had scored again.
After being "beaned” by a polo
ball the Prince of Wales may not be
allowed to play with those rough
Americans.
PRICE, 5 CENTS
HEAD 0F0.1.A,
TO BE IN SAINT
PAUL JUNEI6-1T
Local Branch of U. N. I. A. Mak
ing Elaborate Preparations
to Receive Leader.
TWO MEETINGS TO BE HELD
AT ST. JAMES CHURCH
Garvey to Tell of the Objects and
Aims of the U. N. I. A.
and A. C. L.
Hon. Marcus Garvey, president
general of the Universal Negro Im
provement Association and African
Communities League will arrive in St.
Paul Friday, June 16, for a two day
sojourn on the last leg of his nation
wide tour in the interest of the great
organization of which he is president.
Four other official members will ac
company Mr. Garvey.
Here Two Days.
The Garvey party is scheduled to
remain for only two days, June 16
and 17. Arrangemerfts have already
been made by the local branch of the
U. N. I. A. for public meetings both
evenings at St. James A. M. E.
church, corner Jay and Fuller streets,
where Mr. Garvey will speak on the
objects and aims of the Garvey move
ment.
Plan I’ublic Reception.
According to Pres. John Coleman
of the local branch and Mrs. Leon
White, chairman of the entertain
ment committee, a public reception
for Mr. Garvey and his party is be
ing planned. Other preparations are
being made by the local branch to
make the visit of the Garvey party a
big occasion.
MILL CITY MAN DROWNS
WHILE ON FISHING TRIP
Jay Gordon, 613 Lyndale Avenue
North, Minneapolis, was drowned in
Medicine Lake early last Sunday
when a boat anchor pulled him into
the water. Gordon was fishing with
friends, John Mack and Oscar Red
mond near Batberg’s boathouse when
(he accident occurred.
He had stood up in the boat to let
down a large rock being used as an
anchor, when he lost his balance. His
friends were unable to save him. The
body was recovered Sunday after
noon and brought to the county mor
gue. Funeral services were held Wed
nesday afternoon from the Lawrence
Undertaking Parlors.
NEGRO BANDIT WIELDS
SHARP RAZOR IN FIGHT
In a desperate struggle with a Ne
gro bandit Wednesday night, James
La Frobroise, 623 Plymouth avenue
north, Minneapolis, was severely cut
with a razor wielded by the bandit.
After a struggle for a few mom
ents tho bandit fled without mak
ing a haul or being apprehended.
Tips From
Our Advertisers
Mr. William Martin who recently
opened the New Palace Barber Shop
at 722 Sixth Ave. N., is conducting
one of the most up-to-date business
places on Sixth Ave. One of the fea
tures of the New Palace is the cour
teous attention with which the man
agement receives all customers. Be
sides himself, Mr. Martin has in his
employment Mf. L. J. Jones, barber.
Patronize the New Palace Barber
Shop and Tailor Shop.
Senator Underwood opposes a
higher tariff on ink, fearing, no doubt
that it would cause a blot on the
Republican record.
Now that you know Just what your
home should be, you will be cheer
fully accommodated by (the genial
clerks.