The Monitor
A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS
THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor
$2.00 a Year 5c a Copy ^ OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1923 ' Whole Number 395 Vol. VIII—No. 31
Atlanta Woman, Aged 125 Years, Dies; Great-Grandmother of 191 Children
NATIVE OF GEORGIA
SETS AGE RECORD
FOR UNITED STATES
Mrs. Eveline Bolton Bled at Unusual
Age of a Uentiirv and a Quarter—
Registrar of County Verifies
Bate of Birth.
CHURCH MEMBER A CERTURY
Investigation Shows That Her Third
Child Survives and Is Nearly
100 Years Old—Record
Unsurpassed.
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 2.—Mrs. Eveline
Bolton of Oglethorpe county is dead
at the age of 125 years, 9 months and
11 days—which constitutes a record
in longevity for the state of Georgia,
and is believed to set a similar record
for the entire United States.
Mrs. Bolton died on December 24,
1922, and the delay In telling the story
of her long life Is due to the fact that
the date of her birth and other facta
have been very carefully Investigated
by Justice H. H. Glenn, registrar of
births anil deaths for the militia dis
trict in which she died. On Friday of
last week the story was given out by
Dr. Davis, head of the vital statistics
department of the state board of
health. Dr. Davis is satisfied that the
facts In the case will now' bear the
closest scrutiny.
In the report of his investigation
Justice Glenn says "She was the age
stated on the death record, or very
nearly so.”
He found that her third child is j
still living, at the age of 98. She was {
the mother of sixteen children, had
48 grandchildren and 191 great grand
children.
As corroborative evidence of her
age. Justice Cilenn reports that the
date of her birth, March 13, 1797, has
been hi ided down among ‘‘her folks”,
from chid to child, for more than a
hundred years. She is recorded as u
member in good standing of the Mount !
Zion church for the last 115 years, j
During slavery days, Mrs. Bolton was
the property of Noah Bolton and the
information, on the death record was
furnished by a descendant of Mr. Bol
ton, N. H. Bolton.
The first edifice of the church to
which she belonged for so long was
burned to the ground eighty years ago,
and it Is known that she had been a |
member for thirty-five years preced
ing that fire. The land on which that
church stood reverted to the grand-!
father of Justice Glenn after the build
ing was thus destroyed.
From the date of her birth, 1797,1
It will be seen that, despite her long
life, she lived as a slave longer than
she Jived after the emancipation.
TO INQUIRE INTO
OUSTING OF NEGROES
Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 2—(Crusad
er Service). Action looking toward an
investigation of the threatened race
trouble at Blanford, Ind., where a gen
eral exodus of Negroes occurred on or
ders of white people following an at
tack on a white girl by a Negro, has
been taken by Governor McCray. Her
man A. Collins, Captain of a National
Guard company at Terra Haute, was
ordered to Blanford to make a com
plete investigation of the situation.
The Governor also communicated with
the sheriff of Blanford over the tele*
phone and stated that he expected the
official to see that the rights of the
Negroes were protected.
Ill;AKER CLOTHING IMfKIlK TKII
St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 1—(Crusader
Service) Prices of tailor-made cloth
ing wdll increase from 12 to 15 per
cent in the near future, L. A. Banner,
Secretary of the National Merchant
Tailor Designers’ Association, stated
today. The Association is holding its
forty-third annual convention here.
He ascribed the mounting price of
wool and the scarcity of workmen as
reasons for the predicted price in
crease.
“INSULT TO THE WHITE RACE"
The Ku Klux Klan is being repudi
ated in the South, according to ex
' tracts from an editorial of the
Greensboro, North Carolina, Dally
News, of December 18th, made public
by the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, 70
Fifth avenue, New York.
"The existence of the Ku Klux is
an Insult to the white race," says the
editorial. "It Is an admission that we
cannot defend ourselves except by a
coward’s weapons.
“And when that order preaches the
poisonous doctrine that the Negro is
not entitled to the right of a fair trial
in open court and to the equal pro
tection of the laws, because he is not
100 per cent American, we think or
those huddled crosses in the moonlight
by one of the rivers of France. And
| when officials of the government ally
themselves with that order, nay, when
a judge on the bench charged with
the sacred administration of justice,
will not deny that he is the head of
that reptilian order, we think of those
graves in France. And our impulse is
not one of pity for the Negroes, for
the Negroes have vindicated them
selves. Our fear is for the nation that
threatens to abandon its own dead,
(lod help a country that be so vile!’’
BROWN FIRST TO IHE
IN NEW DEATH HOUSE
Ossining, N. Y., Feb. 2—The first
man to go to his doom since the new
electric chair was installed In the re
cently completed death house, Henry
Brown, a Colored youth, paid the
penalty at 11:12 o’clock last Friday
night. He passed down the corridor,
now shut from the sight and hearing
of other doomed men, and entered the
chair at 11:04 o’clock. He was cooj
and silent.
Brown, a man of great physique, died
for the killing of Mrs. Anna Blaustein,
a white woman, in her home at 1065
Morris ^venue, the Bronx, when she
resisted Brown’s effort to rob her.
She was beaten, to death with a
wrench.
NEGRO CAPITALISTS
GATHER IR ATLAHTA
Financial Concern* Report Remark
able Progress — The Dividends
Declared Indicate Marked
Economic Strides.
CONCERNS IN A-1 CONDITION
Atlanta, Georgia, Pel). 2.—What
I could well be termed the most remark
able gathering of Negro capitalists
eveiy assembled in America met in
Atlanta, Georgia, January ldt^h, 17th
and 18th for the semi-annual meetings
of the stockholder* and directors of
The Service Company, and Its sub
sidiary concerns: The Standard Life
Insurance Company anil the Citizens
Trust Company. The three days were
spent by the officers, directors and
stockholders in discussing the affairs
of these three corporations.
Men of national reputation Jour
; rieyed from as far west as New Or
| leans, La., and from as far east as
Washington, I). C., the capital of the
illation, to Atlanta to lend the benefit
of their experience to the allied cor
I (orations and their subsidiaries.
Definite Steps Taken in \egro
Economic Progress.
Perhaps the most significant fea
ture of the meeting was the indica
tion of definite steps'being made by
this group of Negro capitalists in the
great movement for the redemption of
the economic life of the Colored people
of America.
The Service Company.
The varied interest represented by
' these organizations covpr a vast sec
tion of the industrial field. The Serv
' ice Company—which is the holding
| corporation operating The Service
1 Laundry, The Service Printing Co.,
The Service Realty Company, The
Service Engineering and Construction
Company, The Service Pharmacy and
The Service Pam Bureau, has made
an enviable record Bince its organiza
tion. Its resources have been in
creased, it was reported, since last
year from three million to five and
one quarter million dollars, and its
capital from five hundred thousand to
one million dollars. At the meeting
last week the directors declared a cash
dividend of ten per cent with a stock
dividend of one hundred per cent. In
dications are that The Service Com
pany will doubtless again double Its
resources during the year 1923. This
is possible since in addition to the
concerns already being operated Its
plans contemplate the establishment
of a Service Industrial Insurance Com
pany to supplement Standard Life.
The Citizens Trust Company.
In line with the general progress
of the Interests being handled by this
group of Industrial leaders, the Citi
zens Trust Company, which was open
ed for business in August, 1921, has
also made a remarkable record. On
the dny of the meeting of stockhold
ers and directors last week, the of
ficers reported that the Citizens Trust
Company can boast available resources
of more than one million dollars. No
better expression of confidence and
loyalty in the company could be wish
ed than was shown on the day before
the meeting when seventy thousand
dollars were deposited by individuals,
secret societies and other ’organiza
tions so as to bring the deposits up to
the figure set for the year by the of
ficers and directors. Twelve thousand
five hundred dollars were paid In
dividend® to the stockholders of the
company. It Is proposed, It is said,
during the year 1923 to bring the re
sources of the Citizens Trust Company
up to five million dollars.
Standard Life Insurance Company.
It remained for the Standard Life
Insurance Company, one of the major
constituencies of this financial group,
to report Insurance in force as of De
cember 31, 1922, amounting to $22,
881,575, with a total Income for the
year of $1,083,152. A surplus of $78,
910.45 was reported, being nearly
double the amount of the surplus re
ported last year. After cayeful
thought and consideration the direc
tors voted that a semi-annual dividend
of $6.00 per share be declared, which
In percentage terms means an annual
dividend of twelve per cent. The
stockholders and directors voted to
increase the capital stock of the Stand
ard Life Insurance Company from
$125,000 to $250,000 so as to enable the
company to do business in those north
ern states particularly which require
a capital stock of at least $200,000.
The |K>tential worth of this financial
program speaks for itself. Its finan
cial returns, its employment of hun
dreds of cajiablc colored men and
women, and its proof that the race can
conduct financial concerns of this
magnitude Justifies the slogan of
“Service" which permeates the activi
ties of these corporations.
FIVE STATES FOR US
—
New York, N. Y., Feb. 2—The Turk-1
ish Society for the Protection of the!
Negro Minority in the United States,
an organization similar to the body in
the United States bearing the name of
the American Association for the Pro
tection of the Armenians, recently
passed a resolution that the Govern-1
ment of the United States be requested
to assign the states of Georgia, Flor
ida, Alabama and the Carolinas to the
Negro minority in the states, in order
that “safety shall attend the continu- j
ance in their present situation of the
populations which are vexed by fears”
in line with the humanitarian senti
ments expressed by the representative
of the American Government at Laus
anne.
—
CHINESE GIRL HEADS HER CLASSj
—
Is Graduated from Public School No. •
23 with High Scholastic
Honors.
New York, Feb. 2.—Thirteen-year
old Florence J. Lou of 4.3 Mott street,
whose ancestry is Chinese, -was the
highest ranking girl in a class of 167
at last week’s graduation exercises in
public school No. 23.
Last May Florence won $13, second
prize in the Evening Post prize essay
contest on “Wliat Van Iaron’s Essays
Have Taught Me About American His
tory”. She likes all her studies and
intends to go through high school, but
isn’t, sure what she will do after that. 1
STABS LOVER, FAINTS
WHEN TOLD HE IS DEAD
New Orleans, La., Feb. 1—An argu
ment over his relations with unothea
woman is said to have led to the fatal j
stabbing last week of Noah Matthews
by Miss Estelle Williams, pretty mu
latto. The girl was charged with
murder when she surrendered at the
First Precinct Police Station. When
she surrendered, the girl did not know
that her lover had died. Told that she
would be charged with murder, she
fainted.
TURKS DEMAND PLEBISCITE
END MOSUL DISPUTE
Lausanne, Feb. 1—(Crusader Ser
vice) Turkey has taken advantage of
the turbulent European situation to
demand that the disposition of Mosul,
which Great Britain now exploits un
der a mandate of the League of Na
tions, be settled by a plebiscite.
Isrnet Pasha, Turkish nationalist
representative at the Near Eastern
Peace Conference, has informed Lord
Curzon, British Foreign Minister, that
the British plan of submitting the rich
oil region to the League of Nations
was not acceptable to the Moslem gov
ernment.
The Turkish delegate stated that
Britain wanted to keep Mosul because
of the large stores of oil in the terri
tory.
BRITISH CONSIDER
GIVING ISLANDS TO
UNITED STATES
Would Pay Debt by Transferring West
Indies to American Government
It la Claimed in Certain
Quarters.
SUBJECT UNDER DISCUSSION
Concensus of Opinion is to the Effect
That Negro Citizens of Islands
Will Object to American
Ownership.
London, Eng., Feb. 2.—The trans
fer of British possessions in the West
Indies to the United States as part
payment of Britain’s debt to the Am
erican republic is now receiving fav
orable consideration. The receni
statement made by a leading British
Diplomat that the transfer was an
impossible matter because “We could
never sell white men,” is about to be
discounted by a counter declaration
that Britain might be willing to “sell
white men” if the price was made big
enough to soften the qualms of the
British official coterie.
It is true that the West Indies have
a large white population that repre
sents the larger business and pro
perty interests in the islands. There
is small douht that the exchange
would rebound to the economic bene
fits of the islands. Having this fact
in mind government officials are of j
the opinion that if the Washington
government would consider a plan j
which involved the purchasing of the ]
interests of the white business and j
property holding in the population,
that there would be hut slight oppo
sition to its adoption. This, however, |
is sign positive that \no plan will be:
finally adopted. It only shows which j
way the white wind is blowing. The j
Negroes have not had any say about:
the transfer. There is general opin
ion that they will not favor a transfer
to the United States because they fear1
to be part of the American color prob
lem.
_
SOI THERN WORKERS
STILL MIGRATING
Reports from Northern Labor Offices
Reveals the I'aet that Workers
Are in Great Demand
(By Associated Negro Press)
Chicago, III., Feb. 2—The migra
tion of Colored workers continues
North. The working outlook for the
spring will be record breaking.
The Labor Department reports a
maximum employment of virtually all 1
industrial plants in Chicago this year.
Building during 1922 was practically
double that of 1921, and it is estim- )
ated that more than $300,000,000
will be expended in Chicago this year.
All industries in and around Chicago
will run at full force according to!
the present outlook. '
Conditions throughout Illinois, In-1
(liana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, are j
unusually bright. The Detroit district
reports a general shortage of work
ers. This conditions also prevails in
Ohio.
Wire and steel mills In Indiana are |
working at capacity. In Wisconsin a
general labor shortage is reported.
Charles J. Boyd, general superin
tendent of the Chicago free employ
ment department of tabor of the state
of Illinois, reports (hat the ratio of
1 applicants to jobs available at the
Illinois free employment offices were
j increased to 116.6 for 100 jobs avail
able from 112.2, the November fig
ures. A year ago 210.0 persons reg
istered for each 100 jobs available—
more than a haundred per cent in
crease.
Compared with December , 1921,
there were 8,404 more opportunities
for employment in the combined of
fices of the state this year than last.
The occupations in which there
was a greater demand in December
than November were machinery,
printing trades, food, beverages, to
i bacco and miscellaneous.
MOTHER IDENTIFIES
SKELETON AS THAT OF
SON WHO DISAPPEARED
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 2nd—A victim
of his partner, who had secreted a
mammoth still in the fastnesses of
the Georgia hills, the rotting skele
ton of William Malone was unearth
ed here last week and furnished a
dramatic sequence to his disappearance
several months ago.
The dead youth’s decayed body
was positively identified by his aged
mother, who states her belief that
he had been murdered in revenge for
a whiskey tip. Five men were named
in her accusation, and all of them
are under arrest.
In the decaying rags that clothed
the bones, Mrs. Purcell, the mother,
recognized stitches she had taken on
the day of her son’s disappearance.
The cotton sewed into one of the
shoes, she said, had been placed
there to make the shoe fit a cripple.
According to Mrs. Purcell, her son
had formerly been connected with a
group of whiskey runners, but had
“gone straight” following her earnest
plea for him.
It appears that someone had tipped
federal prohibition officers concerning
the operation of the still, and that sus
picion was fastened on Malone.
One day several months ago a tour
ing car came to the house and William
entered the car after a short talk.
That was the last seen of the youth
alive.
PULLMAN COMPANY SUEU
FOR $50,000 BY WAR HERO
St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 26—Robert Wil
liams, war hero, wounded four times
in the Argonne battle, filed suit for
$50,000 in the Circuit Court here last
week against the Pullman and St.
Louis and San Francisco Railroad
Companies.
According to the petition, Williams
had a government transportation or
der for a Pullman berth, and pre
sented the order to the agent for the
Frisco at Caruthersville, Mo. He was
told that he could not get a berth on
a sleeping car to St. Louis.
As a result, he was forced to spend
the night in a sleeping coach. He
collapsed and has been seriously ill
since.
He asks $25,000 punitive dumages
for the humiliation and $25,00 for
actual injury to his health.
WOULD DA It JAPS AS CITIZENS
Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 2—(Crusad
er Service). A proposed constitution
al amendment that would, if approved
by the legislature and electors, re
strict citizenship by birth in America
to races other than Japanese has been ;
introduced in the legislature here, i
This would prevent addition to the cit
izenship of the State by native-born
Japanese, which is now the only ave- j
nue to citizenship for that rare.
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HARVARD HOARD TO
ACT ON COLOR BAR
Member Asks Dr. Lowell to Call Spe
cial Meeting to Consider Pres
ident’s Ruling.
Boston, Jan. 26.—President Liw
rence Lowell of Hai-vard has been
asked by a member of the Board of
Overseers of the university to call a!
special meeting of tire board to dis
cuss thte president’s action in ruling
that colored students may not be ad
mitted to the freshman dormitory.
It could not be learned that Presi
dent Lowell had taken any step to call •
such a meeting. Should he not do so,
it is understood the matter will be I
taken up by the board at its next ■
slated meeting, late in February.
Special meetings are rarely called,
It is said, and only on matters of ex
treme importance. That a request
has been made of the president for
such a meeting, is believed to indicate
there is strong feeling in the board it
should have been consulted before ac
tion was taken on the case of the
son of Roseoe Conkling Bruce, him
self a graduate of Harvard, and the
imlicy of the university on the ques
tion of exclusion of Negroes from cer
tain parts of university life thereby
apparently announced.
Mr. Bruce’s record at the univer
sity, which included winning the Phi
Kappa key; led recently to an inquiry
as to how many Negroes have suc
ceeded in winning this honor, which
is one of the most envied phizes in
university lfe. It was learned that
forty-seven had been admtted since
1874 in chapters In twenty colleges.
COLORED GIRL APPOINTED
CLERK IN LEGISLATURE
Miss Ethel M. Ray of Duluth, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Ray of Du
luth, has been selected as one of the
committee clerks in the legislature.
Miss Rav is an efficient stenographer
and typist, having served as steno
grapher two years during the settle
ment of the Moose Lake fire claims.
She was rated 100% for efficiency
and courtesy upon inspection and haf
been assigned to three important com
mittees. Several requests were made
for her services. Miss Ray is an at
tractive young lady of very refined
manners and a credit to her race.
J. C. SMITH UNIVERSITY
LOSES TO LUTHERANS
(By A. H. Prince)
Johnson C. Smith University, Char
lotte, N C., lost in a fast game of bas
ketball last Friday to Lutheran Col
lege, Greensboro, in a score of 29 to
26. Lutheran swiftness accounted for
the loss, yet Massey caged as well as
Cogdell. The game was featured by
the thrill of a tie for the greater part
of the time.
J. C. S. U. B. F. L. C. B. F.
Pope, If.1 1 Cogdell If_8 0
Allen, rf.1 0 Waldrop rf 3 0
Harris, c.4 1 Long, c.1 2
Massey, lg..5 0 Vanstory lg 0 2
Williams rg 0 1 Edl’m’n rg. O 1
22 3 24 5
PHYSICIAN TORTURED
Bishop, Texas, Jan. 26—Because his
automobile collided with an automobile
driven by whites, Dr. ,T. Smith, prom
inent physician, was placed in the local
jail and burned to death after his
body had teen dismembered and mu
tilated.
PLANS TO ORGANIZE
NEGRO NEWSPAPERS
Field Secretary of National ■aiegro
Press Association to Visit Pub
lishers for High Development
of Negro Journalism.
PREPARE FOR ANNUAL MEETING
Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 2—Melvin J.
Chisum, field secretary of the Nation
al Negro Press Assn., has started on
his tour of the country in the interest
of the organization and newspaper
men generally. Mr. Chisum, who is a |
doer of concrete things, was elected at |
the last Press Association meeting to
his position and because of his enthus
iasm for the work is voluntarily mak
ing a visit to all the important papers
of the country. He expects to exchange
ideas, gathers suggestions and data
looking forward to the strengthening
of the association so as to enable it
to function more fully. Editors or or
ganizations interested in having Mr.
Chisum call on them can have a
idaee in Ills itinerary hv writing 407
Third street N. E., Washington, D. C.
He plans to make New York, Boston,
Providence, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chica
go, then further west, south, and re
turn by way of the seaboard and coast
al towns. Mr. Chisum is earnestly at
work to bring all the race papers into
a cohesive working organisation and
is laboring hard to make the National
Negro Press Convention at Nashville
next February the largest ever held.
COLORED WOMEN ACTIVE
Washington, Jan. 26—Colored wo
men are showing an active interest in
the nation-wide campaign for equal
rights for women, supervised by lead
ers of the National Women’s Party.
It is announced here that action will
soon swing in 41 states. Equal rights
bills have been drafted, it was said,
for introduction at sessions of the
state legislative bodies this year.
States in w'hich the women’s party
leaders will center their efforts in
clude: Alabama, Arkansas, North
Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.
Southern whites have reconsidered
their opposition to the program and
now declare that the ‘Grandfather”
clause now operated against Negro
men will work as easily in the case of
colored women.
MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA,
TO HAVE FINE THEATRE
(By Associated Negro Press.)
Muskogee, Oklahoma, Feb. 2—A
deal just closed here by prominent
Negro capitalists will give Musko
gee one of the finest playhouses in
America. A company composed of R.
Emmet Stewart, T. J. Elliott, P. A.
Lewis, George W. Davis, Goynton, and
G. W. F. Sawner of Chandler, will im
mediately take over the Sawner build
ing and remodel it. The ground flooi
will be made into a theatre and the
second floor used for convention pur
; poses.
ASSASSINS FORCE
WEALTHY VICTIM
TO DIG OWN GRAVE
California Citizen Kidnapped and
Shot to Death Standing in
(.rave His Captors Compel
Him to Dig.
SLAYERS DRUG SMUGGLERS
Federal Authorities Seeking Members
of Narcotic Organization Sus
pected of Committing
. the Crime.
Calexico, Cal., Feb. 2—Roy Gibson,
wealthy colored American citizen, dug
his own grave, was made to get into
it, and then was brutally shot to death
Thursday on the outskirts of Mexi
cali, Mexico, just across the border of
this country.
The slaying is believed by author- f
ities to have been committed by an
organization of narcotic smugglers.
Gibson, it is stated, had at one time
been active in narcotic circles through
out the country, and had amassed a
tremendous fortune in the trafficking
of drugs.
The slaying, it is said, is probably
an outgrowth of the arrest here last
week of three men and the seizure
of narcotics valued at $30,000.
Authorities say the cold-blooded ex
ecution of Gibson apparently was on
the belief that he had informed the
authorities of operations of the
smugglers, but Gibson gave no in
formation in this raid, the officers
said. The State Department at
Washington has been notified of the
slaying and are investigating.
According to vague details of the
killing, Gibson was lured into a lone
ly spot by the smugglers.
A pick was unearthed and Gibson
was forced to dig a shallow grave.
Then the kidnappers forced him to
stand in it, and ruthlessly shot him
down.
IT’S LIVE STOCK WEEK
Stage at the Gayety Is Braced to Sup
port Tremendous Added Weight
Billy “Beef-Trust” Watson will fur
nish next week’s entertainment at the
popular Gayety theatre, starting Sat
urday matinee and is scheduled for
the cutomary daily matinees. “Krouse
meyer’s Alley” the ever-verdant source
of merriment that Billy Watson has
for nearly two decades presented to
patrons of Columbia burlesque theatres
will serve in new and brightened form
as the principal medium of entertain
ment the “Beef Trust Beauties” will
afford." Krousemeyer’s Alley” will be
old only in its opportunities for laugh
ter—its dialog, action, comedy scenes
and settings will bd new and novel.
“Krousemeyers’ Alley” is the scene
of neighborhood battles between rival
clans of “Dutch” and “Irish” and the
opportunities for whirlwind comedy of
the rough and tumble type are almost
illimitable. Clarence Wilbur plays the
role of “Grogan,” who heads the clan
that disputes “Krousemeyer’s” suprem
acy; Jules Jacobs will be the police
man who is kept busy prying the bel
ligerents apart and Dick Griffin helps
the comedy along as leading man of
the company.
In addition to the burlesque there
will be vaudeville features of high
class introducing as stars of the list
Morette Sisters, clever instrumental
ists. These girls play ten different
instruments, including string and
brass, lead numbers with vocal offer
ings and play parts in “Krousemeyer’s
Alley”. Sweeney and Rooney are a
brace of men who have danced their
way around the world, coming direct
from Australia to participate in Wat
son’s’ program of novelties.
Dot Leighton is prima donna of the
singing forces. She is a girl of great
beauty and is said to be a sweet
voiced balladist of special attainments,
winning personality and captivating
stage graces.
Friday night the Beef Trust chor
isters will be weighed on a scale on
the stage and cash prizes given to the
patrons guessing nearest to the gross
weight. Sunday’s matinee starts at
three o’clock.
EDITOR OF DETROIT
INFORMER SUCCUMBS
Detroit, Mich., Feb. 1—The recent
death of Frances Warren of this city,
removes one of the pioneer colored
editors, who for a number of years
published the Detroit Informer, prior
to becoming an attorney in which pro
' fession Mr. Warren was quite success
ful. Mr. Warren was noted for his
independent thinking, particularly in
politics.