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ShiOOT UP BOY SCOUTS
Veterans’ Hospital at Tuskegee, Ala., Now Has Entire Negro Personel
SHEETED COWARDS
SHOOT IHTO TEHTS
OF SLEEPING DOTS
Burning the Customary Fiery Cross
of The kImi Hooded Hoodlums
Attack (limp of Negro
Hoy Scouts
KLEAGLE DENIES ALL GUILT
Major Norman Had Ignored Warning
to Vaeute Camp or Stop Hoy
Scouts from Bathing in
Darliy Creek.
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Darby, Pa., July 18.—The Ku Klux
Klan made its initial attack on chil
dren of this section of the country last
week when It routed a bunch of Negro ,
boy scouts from slumber and caused!
many of the younger ones to flee In
disorder in (heir night clothes. The
camp was surrounded by two truck
loads of men and boys In hooded gar
ments who fired into the several tents
where the boys were asleep.
Major Norman, a World War vet
eran, in charge of the camp advanced
with rifle in hand towards a burning
cross and returned the fire o' the
Klan who began to retreat. It waft
learned that Major Norman had ig
nored a warning to vacate the camp
site or stop his hoys from bathing in
Darby creek.
When the Klan opened fire Major
Norman arose and sensing the mean
ing of the fire, and with a rifle in his
hand advanced towards a burning
cross that he saw about a 100 yards
from the camp. He returned the fire
of the Klan. In the meantime the
younger boys had awakened, and be
came frightened. They fled from their
tents in disorder. Seeing this, Major
Norman succeeded in gathering the
older hoys together and they helped to
defend the camp. Meanwhile, two
other hoys had been sent by Major
Norman to the police stations in Phil
adelphia County which was a mile
front the scene of action. They found
their way through the woods and had
several narrow escapes from being
shot by the Klan.
On arriving at. the police station
they gave the alarm and then reen
acted the role of Raul Revere by going
to the homes of the hoys whose par
ents lived in West Philadelphia and
told what had happened. The boye
then went from door to door and gave
the alarm again.
Knowing the dirty deeds of the Klan
nearly a thousand people, women and
men, armed to the teeth, left for the
scene of action. When they arrived
they found the Ku Klux Klan had dis
appeared and a score of police scoured
the woods for them, while Major Nor
man was rounding up the boys. In
the afternoon, the Kleagle of the Klan
in this section denied that the Klan
had made the attack on the camp and
stated that it was a bunch of people
who were angry because the Boy
Scouts’ leaeder had refused to heed
the warning to vacate the camp or
else stop his boys front bathing in
Darby creek.
Much excitement prevailed in West
Philadelphia when the parents of the
hoys were told of the attack and they
feared for the lives of their children.
Fallowing the shooting of two police
men in Ardmore, Negroes have begun
to leave the suburbs for the city.
$1,000,000 NEGRO CORPORATION
BEGINS STOCK SALE; MOTON PRES.
Durham, N. C., July 18—With Its
organization machinery perfected and
plans and purposes fully outllneo, tne
National Negro Finance Corporation,
capitalized at $1,000,000 with head
quarters in the city and with a di
rectorate comprising a number of the
most influential and successful men of
the race in various sections of the
country has already made remarkable
progress in the matter of having its
stock subscribed by Negroes who real
ize and appreciate the wonderful ser
vice this corporation pro|>oses to ren
der the race, besides the splendid op
portunity it offers for the investment
of funds.
Organized a little more than a
month ago, the interest this project
hag elicited from the people of the
country has been phenominal. That It
has struck a popular chord 1b eviden
ced by the numerous inquiries from
ail sections of the country on, file in
the office of the secretary.
Purposes Outlined.
The purpoees of the National Negro
Finance Corixnatlon which have al
ready been set forth, are not only to
be a service station for the financial
organization which the race is already
successfully conducting, but with safe
ty, soundness and in keeping with
good business principles, it proposes
to extend credit in order that it might
be able to further foster, encouraging
and build new enterprises.
A clearing house for Investments, It
is proposed to be not only for Negro
securities, but for any securities,
which may he offered the race group.
1‘roinlneiit Officials
Ur. R. R. Moton is the preseident
and Mr. C. C. Spaulding is first vice
president and chairman of the execu
tive board. The secretary-manager is
W. Oobez, who has made such a bril
liant success of the Bankers’ Fire In
surance Company. The connection of
Ur. Robert R. Moton and Mr. C. C.
Spaulding with the project lends to
it an atmosphere of soundness and
stability enjoyed by few new enter
prises.
DIL DIBBLE SUCCEEDS
DK. KENNEY AT TUSKEGEE
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(By the Associated Negro Press)
Tuskegee, Ala., July 18.—Dr. John
A. Kenney has resigned as medical
director of the John A. Andrew Mem
orial Hospital after a distinguished
service of many years. His successor
is Dr. Eugene Heriot Dibble, Jr., for
merly of Camden, S. C. Dr. Kenney's
career as medical director of the
famed Tuskegee Medical School has
been notable. He is a figure of dis
tinction in the medlca 1 profesesion
throughout the country and is re
garded as chiefly responsible for the
high place which the Andrew Mem
orial Hospital holds among the best
medical schools of the land.
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DU. EUGENE HERIOT DIBBLE
Dr. Dibble is one of the strong char
acters among the younger members
of the medical profesesion. He re
ceived the finishing touches to hiB
literary training at the Atlanta Uni
versity and finished his medical
schooling at the medical department
of Howard University in June, 1919.
He has served ns an interne at tne
Freedmen’s Hospital, Washington, D.
C.; as an assistant medical director of
the Tuskegee Institute; as assistant
surgeon at the John A. Andrew Mem
orial hosplal, and as surgeon in cnarge
of the general surgical department of
the U. 8. Veterans Hospital located
at Tuskegee, Ala. Dr. Dibble was
born at Camden, 8. C., August 14th,
1893, and Is therefore only 31 years
old.
LONGSHOREMAN COMPENSATED
Brooklyn, N. Y., July 18.—Rol>ert
Elam, 78 Lawrence street, was award
ed 500 damages in his suit against
Local 966, International Longshore
men’s Association, for having been ex
pelled for conduct unbecoming a long
shoreman.
Since his expulsion Elam claimed
it impossible to get a job. Besides
money damages, the court ordered his
union card returned.
SIX HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA
Richmond, Va., July 18.—There are
six high schools with eighty-four
teachers, 3,026 students and plants
worth $1,300,000 in this state.
Nearly thirty-two per cent of our
southern-born people, now living in
the north, came from the two states
of Virginia and Kentucky.
Mr. H. Jj. Sanders of Indianapolis
is our largest manufacturer of white
duck and linen coats for physicians,
dentists, druggists, barbers and wait
ers.
REFINES TO APPOINT DOCTOR
OVER WHITE NI BSES
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(By the Associated Negro Press)
Philadelphia, Pa., July 18.—After
having assured the people that he
would exercise his influence in urg
ing the appointment of I)r. John P.
Turner, the eminent physician of this
city on the staff of the Philadelphia
Oeneral Hospital, Charles Hall, pres
ident of the City Council, was rebuffed
when Dr. Paul Rrtisen, director of
public heaelth, flatly refused to ap
point a Negro doctor. Although he
found no fault with Dr. Turner’s abil
ity or character, the health director
bowed to the prejudices of southern
doctors who he said would resign
from the hospital if he appointed Dr.
Turner. He further said that he
wouldn't appoint a Nego because he
would be over the white nurses. Dr.
Turner’s record, past and present, is
a credit to the race. His knowledge
in tile medical field is recognized by
the leading white doctors of this city
who constantly seek his advice on ser
ious cases. And as yet Mr. Hall’s in
fluence has failed to work.
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APPOINTED ASSISTANT
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Boston, Mass., July 11.—(By the
Associated Negro Press.)—Matthew
W. Bullock, practicing attorney in
Boston, Mass., has been appointed
Special Assistant Attorney General of
the Commonwealth, to assist the
Metropolitan District Commission in
the legal work that will arise out of
the construction of the northern traf
fic highway. Mr. Bullock was bom
in North Carolina, is a graduate of
Massachusetts public schools, Dart
mouth college and Harvard law school.
He taught school and practised law
at different times in the South; served
overseas as a physical director during
the war, and has been executive sec
retary of the Boston Urban league.
LOUISVILLE, KY., ABOLISHES
ITS NORMAL SCHOOL
Louisville, Ky., July 18.—On the
ground that it furnished more gradu
ates than could be used in the school
system, the city has abolished its
normal school for dblored. The one
for whites will be continued.
I'AINED ki n on BANK: JAILED
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(By the Associated Negro Press)
Philadelphia, Pa., July 18.—George
C. Bryant was convicted under the
new law making it a serious offense
to circulate false reports about the fi
nancial condition of banks or trust
companies, and Judge McCullen sen
tenced him to one year in prison.
"The offense of which you have been
convicted,” said Judge McCullen in
passing the sentence, “is regarded as
a serious offense by the Legislature
as is shown by the drastic punishment
provided in the act, under which the
maximum punishment is five years'
imprisonment. The spreading of false
reports concerning a financial insti
tution may result disastrously for the
bank or trust company, or at least
temporarily embarrass it and cause
great alarm among depositors.” It
appeared that Bryant told several de
positors in the Citizens’ and Southern
Banking Company, a colored institu
tion, that the bank was about to
"burst” and caused a run to be made
on it before the truth was told.
Co-Operation Is Necessary to Progress
By William Pickens.
Toronto, Canada.—“In the United
States the Negro population is redis
tributing itself,” began William Pick
ens in an address here June 26 before
the conference of social workers. “It
is to be no longer a factor of a sec
tion but a national factor in every
sense. The race problem is not now,
if indeed it ever was, solely a problem
of the South; it is a problem, and the
most vital problem, of the United
States of America.
“1 am a Southerner, and 1 want to
confess that the chief thing the South
has to teach the nation in the mat
ter of dealing with the Negro is what
not to do. Now that the problem is
moving out all over the nation a study
of the Southern method of dealing
with the problem for 300 years will
teach the rest of us what to avoid.
“The race problem has not been
solved in the South; it has been de
veloped there. Verily, then, we should
not hope to solve the problem by
Southern methods. We must seek
others methods—in some cases the op
posite methods.
“If the methods used by the South
could ever be reduced to one word,
tht word would bo ‘segregation’.
That involves for the Negro separate
and inferior schools, Jim. Crow cars,
lynch law for court processes, uncon
stitutional disfranchisement, refusal of
admission to or inferior accommoda
tions in all shows and cultural enter
tainments, in many places no public
parks or public libraries, and a gen
eral denial of equal accommodation in
public places and equal humanhood in
the society of man.
"This system has solved no problem.
This system can never solve any prob
lem. This system is the problem fac
tory and will continue to be until the
end of the system.
“We must substitute for this sys
tem community interests for the Ne
gro. We must cease the abortive ef
fort to encyst him; we cannot success
fully encyst him; we must assimilate
him. Blood assimilation is not neces
sary—not an end to be proposed at
WILLIAM PICKENS
Honor Graduate Yale University;
Field Secretary N. A. A. C. P. and
Former Dean of Morgan College.
any rate. But there must be full as
similation in civil culture and in civil
processes; in dustry, in economics, in
education, in politics.
We Have Identical Interests
“The minority race and the major
! ity race occupying the same territory
are indissolubly bound to the same
destiny, ami they have one set of in
terests, even if they are not friendly.
Warfare between them is like the
World war; everybody loses. The best
interests of the 10,000,000 or 15,000,
000 Negroes in the United States will
be found in the end of every effort
to be identical with the best interests
of the 90,000,000 or more of the white
race there.
"On a platform of justice and equal
ity the two larger racial groups in
this country, and all the minor
groups, can afford to take their
stand. Men speak volubly of main
taining racial superiority or hegem
ony, as if indeed it were wiser to pur
sue racial policy than to pursue hu
man justice. Nothing in human his
tory indicates that a race or a nation
or an individual must fear to do just
mwMMwn HP n mn'rill
ice or that justice was ever a poor pol
icy tor a people. But history is lull
of lessons that teach the folly of
abandoning those wise policies and
sound principles that were born of
the collective experience of man. Some
reason thus: We have to maintain a
certain race stock; to maintain that
stock we must segregate, and when
segregation is inconsistent with just
ice, we must do injustice. But we can
not prove the soundness of this chain
of reasoning. Even the first proposi
tion is a mere assumption. For how
do' we know that it is the final, the
best, the last and the greatest thing
to maintain any of the race stocks as
we know them today? All the races
as we know them are but the resul
tants of former unions, combinations
and crosses.
“If former unions have produced
something so excellent, how do we
know that further union may not pro
duce something more excellent still ?
But one thing we do know: That we
of the present generation can combine
our talents without uniting our blood.
If we make civilization our common
contribution we will all have more
civilization. God has endowed the
human race with more talents than
He gave to any one geographical raue.
Our talents vary; our powers may
vary. The man of five talents has
five talents and the fruits of five
talents; the man of two talents has
two talents and the fruits of two tal
ents. But if these two men ever get
wise and make a common cause, both
will enjoy the fruits of seven talents.
The white American and the black
American can have more civilization
through co-operation than either one
could have alone, whatever their re
spective talents may be. Segregation
in public and industrial activities and
life implies and breeds contempt and
makes injustice inevitable. The pri
vate right of any citizen in a free
country to exclude other private per
sons from his private domain will al
ways be maintained, but racial segre
gation in public and industrial estates
is indefensible, politically and econom
ically.”
ORIGINATOR OK “COLOR LINE”
IN PUGILISM OIKS BROKE
(By the Associated Negro Press)
New York City, N. Y., July 18.—Jim
Wakely, the white man who hae the
ristinc.tion of being the first to draw
the "color line” in pugilism, is dead.
He died Friday night In St. Vincent’s
Hospital of heart disease, broke and
practically friendless after being at
one time the possessor of a fortune
and thousands of friends.
A genaration ago, Wakely, who ran
the well-known cafe in sporting cir
cles at Sixth avenue and Forty-second
street, was one of the outstanding fig
ures in (he sporting world. As man
ager and backer of John L. Sullivan
he gained fame not only as the man
who made the famous John L., but as
the man who first went on record as
refusing to permit his fighter to fight
a colored man, the famous and im
mortal Peter Jackson. Wakely was
75 yeaera old.
WREATHS LAID ON DUNBAR’S
GRAVE BY PATRIOTIC SOCIETY
Dayton, O., July 18.—Patriotic So
ciety held exercises in the home of
the poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar, last
week and wreaths commemorating the
fifty-second anniversary of his birth
were laid on his grave.
UNITED STATES CIVIL
SERVICE EXAMINATION
The United States Civil Service
Commission announces the following
open competitive examination:
Junior Medical Officer
(Tuberculosis; Neuropsychiatry)
Applications for the above positions
will be accepted until August 19.
Vacancies are at the U. S. Veterans’
Hospital, Tuskegee, Ala. The Tuske
gee hospital has been built for col
ored patients. Ic will be the policy to
select colored eligibles for appoint
ment. The entrance salary is $2,840
a year.
Applicants must show that they
have been graduated from a medical
school of recognized standing or be
senior students in such institution and
furnish, within six months from the
date of the examination, a statement
from the proper official of the med
ical school attended attesting actual
graduation. In addition, applicants
must meet the requirements containtd
in one of the following groups: Spe
cial training in tuberculosis or In neu
ropsychiatry for a period of at least
three months, either before or after
graduation from medical college;
service for a period of not less than
three months in a hospital devoted to
the treatment of tuberculosis or of
mental disease; or any equivalent
combination of the special training
and experience prescribed in one of
the preceding classes.
Competitors will be rated upon their
education, training and experience.
Full information and application
blanks may be obtained from the Usit
ed States Civil Service Commission,
Washington, D. C., or the secretary of
the board of U. S. civil service exam
iners at the post office or custom
house in any city.
I'NITED BROTHERS OF
FRIENDSHIP MEET
IN HOT SPRINGS
(By The Associated Negro Press)
Hot Springs, Ark., July 11.—Tnts
city is preparing with all Its might to
entertain the between 6,000 and 6,000
guests and delegates who are expected
here during the week of the conven
tion of th National Grand Lodge of the
I'nited Brothers of Friendship and Sis
ters of the Mysterious Ten. The con
vention opens July 14th.
Leo Africanus was born at Granada,
Spain, in 1490, and taught Arabic and
Hebrew in Rome. He wrote “A De
scription of Africa” in Arabic which
for many years was considered the
best work on that subject.
SUDDENLY SUCCUMBS
TO SERIOUS SICKNESS
Mrs. John IV. Gatus, Who Was Be
lieved to Ik* Recovering From Ree
eent Operation Suddenly Ex
pires Sunday Morning.
The many friends of Mr. and Mrs.
John W. Gatus of 2731 Caldwell street,
were shocked and saddened by the
death of Mrs. Gatus, which occurred
unexpectedly at University hospital
shortly after 8 o’clock Sunday morn
ing. Mrs. Gatus was taken to the hos
pital about a month ago where she un
derwent a serious operation, and al
though it was known that her condi
tion was critical, her favorable re
action from the operation and her ap
parently rapid and steady improve
ment until a few days prior to her
death held out the hope that she would
soon be able to be home again, and on
the highway towards better health
than she had enjoyed for several
months. She expired suddenly Sun
day morning; news of her death, there
fore, came as a distinct shock.
Mrs. Pauline Dabney Gatus be
longed to one of Illinois’ most highly
respected and prosperous pioneer fam
ilies. She was the daughter of Henry
and Elmire (Dabney) Owens of Villa
Ridge, Pulaski County, Illinois, where
she was born October 16, 1875. Re
ceiving a liberal education she taught
for seventeen years and was active in
civic, charitable, religious and racial
matters. Three years ago, July 24,
1921, at 8 o’clock in the morning, she
was married to John W. Gatus, ot this
city, in the Episcopal Church os at.
Prilip the Deacon, coming directly
from the train to the church. Rev.
John Albert Williams officiated. By
her genial and gracious personality
she won a warm place in the hearts of
the people of this community. She
was treasurer of the Woman’s Aux
iliary of St. Philip’s Church.
The funeral was held from the
Church of St. Philip the Deacon, the
Rev. John Albert Williams, pastor,
Tuesday afternoon at 3o’clock, the
body being taken therefrom to the
Burlington station and leaving on the
4:30 train for interment in the family
plot at Villa Ridge. The remains were
accompanied by Mr. Gatus and Mrs.
Eueile Harris of Chicago, youngest
sistPr of the deceased.
Mrs. Gatus is survived by her hus
band and a step-son, Travis Gatus of
Omaha; a mother, Mrs. Henry Owens
of Villa Ridge, 111., four brothers, four
sisters and a large number of other
relatives.
TO NOTIFY COOLIDGE
Washington, D. C., July 18.—Noti
fication ceremonies at which President
Coolidge will be formally apprised of
the nomination at the republican con
vention will take place at the White
House, Thursday, July 24th.
Aaron E. Malone, of St. Louis. Mo.,
Dr. D. S. Redmond, of Mississippi, and
Jno. H. Goodwin of South Carolina,
are the colored members of the noti
fication committee.
NAMED HOSPITAL HEAD
Kansas City, Mo., July 18.—Dr. T.
C. Unthank has been appointed super
intendent of the old city hospital suc
ceeding Dr. L. W. Booker.
Dr. Booker, a democrat, resigned as
soon as the new republican adminis
tration came into power.
DR. WARD APPOINTED HEAD OF
VETERANS’ HOSPITAL AT TOSKEGEE
Washington, D. C., July 18.—The
United States hospital for disabled Ne
gro veterans of the late World War at
Tuskegee, Ala., is not expected to have
a single white official after next. week.
Ward Promoted.
The Veterans Bureau has announced;
the appointment of Dr. Joseph H.
Ward of Indianapolis, Ind., as acting
medical officer in charge. He has
been the chief of the surgical service.
Dr. Charles M. Griffith, who has
been the medical officer in charge,
has been ordered to report to Wash
ington wherever he feels that Dr.
Ward is sufficiently familiar with the
work of the hospital to warrant his
leaving. Dr. Griffith is expected to
report within the next two weeks.
Dr. Fredericks A. Stokes has been
appointed executive officer. He soc
eeeds Dr. George L. Johnson, white,
and roundd out the complete colored
personnel, which will have full charge
upon the leaving of Dr. Griffith. Dr.
J. W. Thornton is the clinical director.
Ends Bitter Fight
The appointment of Dr. Ward aa
acting medical officer in charge of
this hospital ends a bitter fight be
tween the colored people of the United
States and Alabama whites over the
personnel.
This hospital—the finest of its kind
in the world—was built at Tuskegee,
Ala., exclusively for Negro soldiers.
It was the understanding that it would
have an all-colored personnel. But
after its dedication, Colonel R. H.
Stanley, a native Alabanian, was made
the commanding officer and given a
white staff.
Colonel Stanley immediately began
an agitation to retain this position.
He aroused the entire Tuskegee com
munity. Protests were filed with the
President against the removal of Col
onel Stanley and the white employees.
The legislature of the state of Alabama
passed a resolution petitioning the
President not to remove them. The
Ku Klux Klan—hooded in sheets al
leged to have been furnished them by
Colonel Stanley—paraded through the
government grounds and were ban
queted In the hospital dining room.
CUBAN GIRL WINS
PRAISE OF FREHCH
MUSICAL CRITICS
Roland Hayes Was Not Only Colored
Singer to Achieve Triumphs
Tn European
Circles
GIRL'S VOICE IS MAIVELGIS
Shady Skins of Sunny Havana Hare
Produced New Wonder Says Critic
—American Woman Also
Attracts Attention.
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Paris, Prance, July 18.—High praise
for Roland Hayes from the critics in
the European press probably caused
many Americans to figure the case or
Haves exceptional or singular.
Such Is not wholly the case. Hayes’
triumphs were the more noticeable be
cause of his having come from Amer
ica from where little was expected and
then to have made a mark.
There are many other Negro stars
performing in European houses, creat
ing sensations in their kind, but not
as loudly talked about nor as much
advertised l>ecause the Continent has
got used to them. One of these sing
ers, especially popular now, is Gloria
de la Cuesta (daughter of the Cuban
deputy and lawyer.)
Jean Fenget, writing In G’ Action
Coloniale after hearing her sing de
clares that she “seems to have issued
from the pages of some novel of Mad
ame Gerad d’Houville, to have
searched the world’s music for mas
ter congenial to her temperament and
to have succeeded in uniting Proho
fieff and Debussy under the shady
skies of Havana.”
Suggesting that she is different
from other stars in Europe, Fungeat
writes: “When she wrings from the
music of Boroddiso its throbbing im
ages, when she offers the adorable
‘Rendo’ of Weber, her auditors ask in
vain: ‘Whom does she resemble?’”
She began to practice at the age of
seven. At fourteen she had already
made her mark with brilliant exam
inations. The Cuban government
made her the means of coming to Eu
rope to perfect herself. From 1920
to 1922 she studied the old classics
of the Continent at the Conservatory
of Madrid.
Now her success, while still a young
woman, leads Fangeat to expect to
hear from her again and again and to
urge Negroes to “make the acquaint
ance of the first stars of this constel
lation who are revealing themselves
altout the tropics. As there is a Ne
gro intellectual life, so there is a Ne
gro artistic life which will soon peo
ple our ccenes with new talents, tal
ents to which the white race with its
last breath possible could not lay
claim.”
Mrs. Gillian Evans Tibbs of Wash
ington, D. C., is another American
race woman who has attracted atten
tion here. She is studying and ex
pects to remain a year.
GETS PHIL BROWN’S POST
Washington, D. C., July 18.—Carl
F. Phillips is reported to have been
named commissioner of conciliation in
the United States Department of La
bor, succeeding the late Phil H.
Brown.