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lift,.. „ „ Tur l\/| r\attt1 no »«•».«« » " - li,t,im> I nil/ 1V1 UlM 1 1 Uiv f , NEBRASKA’S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS * J THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor $2.00 a Ye*r—Sc a Co] 2 j OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1925 Whole Number 528 VoL X$—No. 7 _ » _' FORCE PILGRIM’S PASTOR’S RESIGNATION Equal Rights League Forcing a Bitter Fight Against Segregation GRAND JODY INDICTS ASSAILAMT OF LONG ISLAND POSTMAN Kohnaon, Alleged Chief Conspirator Named In Indictment, Hails From the r* South DAMAGES TO BE ASSESSED National Advancement Association Offers Aid in Bringing Suit For Damages To Property <N. A. A. G P. Press Service) New York, Aug. 28. The National As sociation for ,lhe Advancement of Colored People has learned that the Staten Island grand jury has brought an indictment against Musco M. Robinson and others not named, for conspiracy in attacking and stoning the house of Samuel A. Browne, a colored postman, who was threatened with death to himself and his wife if he failed to move from the neighborhood. The indictment was returned last week. Representatives of the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple, including Charles Studin. member of i the legal committee, and Herbert J. Selig- , matin, the association’s director of pub ; lieity, were in conference with Mr. Browne recently, and with Mr. Browne called up- j on Judge J. B. Handy who will probably | act as counsel for Mr. Browne in bring | ing a suit for damages against Robinson. Robinson, against whom the indictment i is returned, is a next door neighbor of Mr. j Browne and has led in the movement to | force the Browne family out of their home. Robinson hails from the South, and was active in real estate operations in that section of Staten island. The indictment was brought as a result of repeated mob attacks on Mr. Browne’s residence in the course of which the lawn { was ruined, plants destroyed, windows ami ^ doors smashed. In the course of the cam paign to terrorize Mr. Browne and his family, telegrams signed by fictitious names were sent to fire insurance companies, warning them that Mr. Browne's house would he bombed or burned and that they had better cancel the insurance they were carrying. For a time Mr. Browne found it impossible to obtain any insurance as a copscquMire of this conspiracy. At the present time a police guard i« constantly maintained at Mr. Browne’s residence, a patrolman being stationed there from four o'clock in the afternoon until eight o’clock in the morning, as all the attacks heretofore have been made in j ) the night or very early in the morning. A meeting is to he held by colored cit izens of Staten Island to raise, funds in1 order to conduct the civil Buit for damages 1 which Mr. Browne plans to bring against j Rt bin ton, ami toe Rev. A Clayton Powell. ! pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist church j of New York City has offered the use of | his church building for a similar meeting. Mr. Brpwne lias been bravely standing his ground despite all the efforts of his enemies and despite the danger to which his wife and three smad children have j been subjected. Mr. Browne declined to sell his house although offered I1S00 more that he paid for it, saying his stand was a mutter of principle involving the status of colored citizens. NEGRO DIRECTS WHITE CHORUS IN SOUTH (Associated Negro Press) Richmond, Va„ Aug. 28— For the first time in the .history of this city as far as is , known, a Negro is to direct a white chorus. I Joseph Matthews, director of the Sabbath ! Glee Club here, is now training a chorus of white men made up of singers from various church choirs who are “Shriners They are preparing for a trip to Atlantic City at which place they intend, it is said, to sing under their black director. ASK KLANSMEN TO LEAVE CHURCHj (Associated Negro Press) Fayetteville, N. C, Aug. 28.—Rev. G. Scott Turner, white, of Cedar Falls Uap list church is a minister who does not welcome robed and masked visitors to his church services. When a body of Klans men entered the church, he insisted that they leave. • APE AND MAN BLOOD ' DECLARED THE SAME Oakland, Cal., Aug. 28.—Dr. David Starr Jordan of Stanford Univeraity fame de clares that the scientists are correct in saying that the blood of man and the ape are the same. The assumption is based on the fact that the blood of the two mix without any ill effect. I SOUTH CAROLINA NOW PAYING PENALTY. OF PENURIOUS POLICY j ! - , Expenditure of 97 Cents Per Annum i For Education of Negro Youth Contributing Cause of Migration ILLITERACY IS PREVALENT i Washington, D. C., Aug. 28.—The rav-1 ages of the boll weevil and the migration of colored farmers have hit South Carolina a blow from which she may not soon re cover, probably not until there is a greuter diversification of crops and a reorganiza tion of the entire educational system of the state. Certainly the high percentage of illiteracy among both whites and blacks in the Palmetto state is not a contribut ing factor to constructive economic read justment or to healthy and permanent progress. Conditions in Saluda county, located in the western part of the stale, are typical. This is the county in which the per cap ita expenditure for education of children, on the basis of teachers’ salaries, was only $7.78 per annum for the white and 97 cents for the colored, as reported several years ago by the li. S. Bureau of Educa tion. Paltry expenditures where nearly 5 per cent of the white and about 28 per cent of the colored inhabitants are class ified as illiterate makes this glaring illus tration of a must unfavorable situation. During the past five years this county has lost 657 Negro farmers. Land in j farms has decreaesd by nearly 30,000 acres, and the value of farm land and buildings by 35 per cent. A further com parison with the year 1920 shows 500 less horses, nearly 900 mules, 1600 cattle and 850 less swine. The cotton crop in 1924 was 14,553 bales under the 1919 produc tion, a decrease which represents a stag gering financial loss to the local farmers J and business men. To this can be added I tlie money loss sustained through a de crease in the production of corn, sweet potatoes, peaches and hay. From other counties come similar re ports, and it has been conservatively esti mated that fully 15,000 colored farmers in addition to thousands of farm laborers have left the farms of South Carolina to engage in industry and to locale in other states where living conditions, employment opportunities anti educational facilities ere more attractive. COLORED GIRL TREATED KINDLY IN FRENCH MIISIC CONSEHVAT(*RY (N. A. A. C. P. Press Service) New York, Aug. 28.- Maude J. Wanzer. a colored music student, whom it was sought to har from going to France to study at the American Conservatory in Fontaineblau, has written to the National Association for the Advancement of Col ored People, 69 Fifth Avenue, to say she was cordially received there and that the French officials and professors of the school show no trace of race prejudice. In thanking the N. A. A. C. P. for ad vising her to persevere in her effort to at tend the school, Miss Wanzer writes: “It is indeed a great pleasure to write to you and try in my poor way to thank you for the assistance given me in my most needful hour. Enrouragement. truly meant everything. “The director of the conservatory is re ally a broad and intelligent man as well as a musician. I have never in my life been accorded the kindness and welcome he extended to me. Each day he shakes my band and says something encouraging. When they were making the pictures of | one class, I thought it another, he caught j ' my arm and took me flying through the i corridor and up the stairs, calling 1 Encore and rushed me into the picture. It is such a pity that other members of my race did not come on for the trouble is truly not over here. Please thank all interested per ! sons for tne and assure the Negroes, thru : the papers the trouble is not in frame. Miss Wanzer reports cordial treatment j from the American students at the con : servatory, even from the girls from I exas. HOYS AKK REWARDED FOR FLAGGING TRAIN fAssociated Negro Press) Lebanon, Pa., Aug. 28.—Ellsworth Ho sina and John Rosina, brothers, and Wil liam Williams, all 13 years old, and rcsi dents of Cornwall, Monday received from the Pennsylvania Railroad company check* and letters of commendation for an act of bravery. When a cloudburst occured on the South Pass mountain on the afternoon of July 25, the rush of waters swept a con siderable portion of the slag bank onto the Pennsylvania Railroad track* at Furnace station near Cornwall. Standing waist deep in water, the bbys flagged a passenger train. MORTAGEE FORCES PASTORS RESIGNATION The legal representative of Col vary Bap tist church, who holds a mortgage on Pil grim Baptist church at Twenty-fifth and Hamilton streets, and which has defaulted in its payments, demanded as the only con dition upon which Calvary would extend clemency to Pilgrim that the pastor, me Re». WO' am Franklin, resign immediately. It is stated that the trustees of Pilgrim Baptist church had on one or two occa sions retpjested the pastor's resignation and that some months ago he had tendered it. to become effective October first, but tne mortgagee insisted upon immediate res ignation, which became effective two weeks ago. The trustees of Pi]grim believe that with united effort their beautiful church prop erty may be saved and have entered upon their work with renewed energy. The Kev. Mr. Franklin followed his con gregation here from Brewton, Ala., some years ago, and it was under his leadership that Calvary Baptist church, vAhite, a hand some and costly pressed brick edifice, was taken over by Pilgrim for a consideration of $35,000, upon which were considered very liberal terms upon the part of the white Baptists who were anxious to move to another part of the city. It is reported ! that the present indebtedness is about $20,000.00. IDA COX, PARAMOUNT RECORD ARTIST, AT THE LAKE As an indication of the superlative [ vaudeville which will be presented at the Cake theatre this season, the management announces that the well known record singer, Ida Cox. will be featured as the headliner of a four act bill. The special attention of all colored people is called to the fact that an entirely new show' will come to Omaha every Monday, direct from the Grand theatre at Chicago, III. Hills will be changed every Monday and Thurs day. Shows will start promptly at seven and nine each evening, with matinee every Sunday. Some One Either Ashamed of or Afraid to Give Name Approves Principles of Kluxies Our readers will recall the sane and sensible letter from the pen of Attorney H. J. Pinkett on the Ku Klux Klan, which we published with editorial comment in our issue of August 14. The letter was or iginally published in the World-Herald. | Under date of August 14. and post marked, Omaha, Nebr., Harney Sta., Aug ust 15, Mr. Pinkett received an unsigned letter, which will prove interesting to some of our readers who are inclined to regard the Kluxers as being friendly toward our people. The fact that the writer of this anony- j mous letters says “/ am not a K. K. K'\ j cuts no ice, for, in the opinion of The j Monitor, the unethical principles and moral j obliquity of the hooded order make its members, who as American citizens may | be honorable men but as subjects of toe j Invisible Empire observe a different code, ! “powhful redes’ with de truf”. Anony-1 mous letters and masked faces are trade j marks of the “100% white, protestant.1 gentile un-Americans.” Hut here’s the letter. It is hardly worth publishing, it is true, but we pass it on as revealing the “logic** (?) of “your best friend*’: August 14, 1925. H. J. Pinkett, A tty. (Colored) Patterson Blk„ Omaha, Neb. Dear Sir: I note your wonderful write up in the Pope’s Appeal (World-Herald) of today SATURDAY EVENING POST PUBLISHES HARLEM ARTICLE (N. A. A. G P. Press Service) New York, Aug. 28.—Following the suc cess of the Harlem number of The Sur vey Graphic Magazine, the Saturday Even ing Post, with a circulation running into the millions, has published a lengthy il lustrated article on Harlem, “The World’s Largest Negro City,” by Chester T. Cro well, in its issue of August 8lh. Mr. Crowell, whose article includes much of the material published in The Survey ; Graphic, concurs with James Weldon! Johnson, secretary of the N. A. A. G^ P.. in finding Harlem not only a world cap ital for Negroes but an orderly and clean part of New York City as well. He finds Harlem still in process of rapid growth: ‘‘As a matter of fact,” says Mr. Crowell "Harlem itself is not yet a complete pic ture of anything; it is too new. Its melt ing pot bubbles furiously and many things are going on incomplete. Probably the most hopeful feature of the Harlem ex periment is that the Negroes themselves are so hopeful about it. Close to this in importance is the fact that New York pays no attention to them. Il is entirely pos j sible that ten years from now the estab ! lishmonl of Harlem will mark an era in the history of the black race. Some of its residents feel that it has already achieved that position; scarcely any doubt that eventually the entire civilized world will recognize it as the capital of the colored race. At present it is the largest Negro city in the world; it has grown very rapil ly with a minimum of friction, and no disorder. That, in itself, is no mean achievement.” As the Saturday Evening Post has pub lished many stories by Octavius Roy Co hen, appearance of this presentation, of an other side of Negro life is regarded as significant. EAST AFRICA YIELDS NEW DIAMOND GEMS Johannesburg, Aug. 28.—A true dia mond pipe, the soft agglomerate of vol canic origin in which diamonds are found, has been discovered at Mwanza, Tanganyi ka Teritory, by a party of South Africans, according to reports from East Africa. The diamonds are said to be exceptionally pure, a parcel recently dispatched from Mwanza averaging a value of eight pounds sterling per carat. about the K. K. K. I agree with you it would make Roosevelt and Lincoln turn over in their graves to live at this age and note their awful mistakes. First when Roosevelt ate dinner with Booker T. Wash* j ington and when Lincoln placed a nigger j on the same footing as a White Man. That’s the reason with many others why the AMERICAN people had to organize the K. K. K. to protect AMERICA from such encroachments that our forefathers were not aware of at that time. After the Civil War the Northern car petbaggers were trying to make the south ern people think that the nigger was elig i ible to marry their daughters and the K. j K. K. was organized for the purpose of! upholding the White Man’s faith, and | thank God for that. W^ite supremacy must j he supreme and the niggers of this cotin- j try must be kept as black as charcoal. If you niggers were allowed to get into ; power you would soon want to open up the way to marry our daughters. Another reason, don’t you know that Rome is trying to Romanize America with their parochial schools? You say this AMERICA cannot be "half free and half slave”, neither can AMERICA be half parochial and half public, all children must he made by legislative enactment on an amendment to our Constitution between the ages of 8 to 16 years old to attend our public schools, this to include the chil dren of the colored race too, except col ored childreh must have their own schools JEALOUS HUSBAND SHOOTS WIFE IN FIT OF ANGER I (Associated Negro Press! Tulsa, Okla., Aug. 28.—Dr. P. H. Travis, a colored dentist with offices al 123 N. Greenwood avenue, shot anil killed his wife, Mrs. Lucille Travis, Friday evening about 630 in the hall of an apartment at 324 N. Greenwood avenue. He fired four bullets at his wife, killing her instantly, and one through his own head, which Is not expected to prove serious. Police vis ited the building immediately after the shooting, placing Travis in jail. The dead woman just prior to the shoot ing had been visiting Mrs. Carrie Persons, who with her brother, J. R. Booker, of Little Rock, were entertaining a parly of friends, many of whom were visitors to the city. Travis phoned his wife evidently telling her he was coming for her. A few minutes later, he visited the apartment which was near his office. His wife bade the assembled friends goodbye and went down the hall with him. A few seconds later revolver shots rang out, and the horrified guests rushing into the hall found the wife lying dead, and the husband un conscious from the wound. Travis hud been practicing in Tulsa about fifteen years. He and his wife both had borne excellent reputations, hut he was reputed to be insanely jealous of her. Among those present at the time of the shooting were Mrs. Carrie Persons, J. R. Booker, and the dead woman's sister, Miss Annie Goodwin. She was the daughter of J. Goodwin, a local undertaker. J. R. Booker and Mrs. Persons are of Little Rock, Ar kansas, being children of the late J. R. Booker of Arkansas State College. DISCOVER NEW RACE OF DARK PEOPLE New York, Aug. 28.--Prof. B. N. Gorod koif, a Russian explorer who has traversed Western Siberia, reports the discovery of s hitherto unknown Dark Race on the River Poors. The tribe calls itself “Neshen," which means “Forest Men.” Their lan guage is entirely dicerent from that of any of the other nationalities populating Western Siberia. These people have dark hair and dark complexion. They have no intercourse with their neighbors and few of them en gage in fishing and hunting beyond the borders of their own little country. as they do not belong to the Caucasian Race. It is the Causasian Race that brought you out of bondage and it is your duty to look up to the ones that took the shackles from your boot tops. It is your duty to he the under dog on account of God made you black for the purpose of becoming servants of the White Race. The K. K. K. don’t care a T. J). how ( high you arise up among your own people | but to place you on a higher pedestal than your White brother called for friction he- j tween the races, and brings about the blood i you talk about going to be spilled in the j future, in fact, brother, the K. K. K. is | your best friend, it’s the foreign born ; Catholic that is trying through the Pope of j Rome, who is your worst enemy, to Roman j ize America. The ballot box is going to tell the story | without blood being spilled and in time | your ballot will be a thing of the past, j because of the fact White Supremacy and your voting don't go hand in hand. How- j ever you are to be looked after just like our MOTHERS and DAUGHTERS were for many a year before they had the Iran chise. If you come again I am with you foi • another article. The World-Herald will ! not print this, if you get them to I will I sign it; that’s another reason why the K. K. K. is in time in AMERICA. I am not a K. K. K. hut their principles | are correct. - , NEGRO APPOINTED FOREMAN IN BALTIMORE POST OFFICE Baltimore, M<!., Aug. 28.—Aaron M. Cummings, formerly senior clerk at the Falls station of the Baltimore post office has been promoted by Postmaster Benja min F. Woelper, Jr., to life position of foreman at the Falls station, which is the largest U. S. sub-station in the Baltimore district. Mr. Cummings, who has been in the postal service for more than thirty years, won his way to the promotion by efficient service from one post to another in the Baltimore office. He enters upon the duties ] of his new post with an expert knowledge | of the postal machinery and a long ac- ! quaintance with the 100 clerks and car riers now assigned under his direction at ! the Falls station. The new appointee is a brother of the I deceased Harry S. Cummings, the first Ne-1 gro councilman ever elected by Baltimore voters. RACE PROBLEMS TOPIC AT CHRISTIAN MEETING Stockholm, Sweden, Aug. 28.—Race problems, including that of the American Negro and the cult of Nordic blood su periority, were discussed by various speak ers at the session of the Universal Chris tian conference recently. An American Negro minister of Methodist affiliation, the Rev. William Y. Bell, said he was sure that the hundreds of millions of dark skinned inhabitants of this earth do not acquiesce in the status quo. “We* are determined and set under God by every fair means available and yet to come," he declared, “to puncture the bub ble of Nordic superiority. And we have every confidence that the Nordics them selves shall profit by the explosion. We are sure thut the Christian forces of Amer ica and Europe are with us in this pur pose.” AMERICANS TO GROW RUBBER IN LIBERIA Akron, Ohio, Aug. 28.—The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company has virtually concluded a lease on 1,000,000 acres in Liberia to be devoted to the raising of rubber. This is the first attempt of Amer ican manufacturers to grow rubber on such a large scale. JUNItJS G. GROVES, NATIONALLY KNOWN “POTATO KING" DIES j Man Horn in Slavery, Migrates to Kansas Where He Works For Forty Cents a Day as Farm Laborer LEAVES $200,000 FORTUNE (Associated Negro Press) Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 28.—One ot tne most colorful and remarkable characters in the story of the Negro’s progress since Emancipation passed away near Edwards ville, Kansas, last Monday in the person of Junius G. Groves, nationally known as the “Potato King” of America. He was one of the wealthiest Negroes in America. According to the Negro Year Book, Mr. Groves was born a slave in Green county, Kentucky, in 1859. In 1879 during the Kansas exodus, he emigrated to that state and hired out at Edwardsville as a farm laborer at forty cents a day. The next year he rented nine acres of land and planted three acres ^»ch in white pota toes, sweet potatoes and watermelons. He cleared $125. The next year, he rented twenty acres, and the next year sixty-six acres. In 1884 ( after all debts had been paid, Mr. Groves had to his credit in the local bank, as the result of three years’ labor, $2,200. He then bought eighty acres. His pros perity continued until he owned five hun dred acres of the finest land in the state, worth from $125 to $250 an acre. Mr. Groves got the title of “Potato King’* be cause he raised and shipped potatoes on so large a scale. In one year upon his own farm he produced more than 100,000 bush els of white potatoes. In addition to this he bought from other growers and shipped away twenty-two cars of potatoes. His fortune at the time of his death was estimated at near $200,000. NEGRO HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION WILL OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY Washington, L). C., Aug. 28.—On the 9th and 10th of September, 1925, the As sociation for the Study of Negro Life and History will celebrate* its tenth anniver sary in this city. Coming to the end of the tenth year of this first systematic el fort to embody the civilization of the Ne gro, the management has invited special attention to this occasion. It marks an epoch in the development of the Negro. The race has been gradually taught that no group can make much progress with out preserving a record from which its program for the future can be worked out of the wisdom which can come only with an appreciation of the failures and successes of the past. Consequently, the aim of the Associa tion has always been to adhere to the new plan of presenting the Negro himself to the world as reflected in what he himself has thought and felt and attempted and accomplished. In this way the association has secured the support of both races who appreciate the value of saving the records of the Negro that the race may not become a negligible factor in the thought of toe | world. A program of noted orators, taken from the ranks of education, business, proles | sional and church life, will discuss the | past and present phases of Negro world I achievements, pointing out just what the ! race may hope to accomplish in the com | ing years. MISSOURI GOVERNOR TELLS N. A. A. C. P. LYNCHING IS BEING INVESTIGATED New York, Aug 28.—Hn response to a letter from the National Association fm the Advancement of Colored People, pro testing against utterances attributed by the newspapers to local law 'enforcement of ficers, Governor Sam A. Baker of Missouri has written a letter giving assurance that the lynching at Excelsior Springs is being investigated. Govern of Baker disclaims knowledge of the remark attributed to Ray Cummins, prosecuting attorney, that sub stantial justice had been done the lynched man. Governor Baker's letter to the N. A. A. C. P. is as follows “Replying to your communication of August 11th will say that of course I am familiar with all that has been said in the press regarding the affair in Excelsior Springs. I do not know anything about (what) Ray Cummins, the prosecuting at torney, may have said. I do know tnat Ray Cummins is helping in the investiga tion and so far is showing a desire to do I his duty. The attorney general, pursuant ' to my request, has appointed one of his assistants to go into the matter.” It is freely predicted that there will be little if any result of the investigation, and although the perpetrators of the mob mur der are well known in the community there is small likelihood of their being convicted even if they should be brought to trial. SEGREGATION AT WASHINGTON TO BE ACTIVELY OPPOSES Senator Butler of Massachusetts Agrees to Lead Opposition To Distasteful Federal Segregation WILL INTRODUCE DYER BILL National Equal Rights League to Enlist Support of National Committeeman. Urges Race to Act Boston, Mass., Aug. 28.—A direct attack on Federal segregation, resulting in the start of a positive move to eliminate it, was made this week here at a face-to-face interview with the chairman of the Na tional Republican Committee in an audi ence granted by Sen. W. M. Butler, whose campaign for return to the U. S. Senate is about to begin, at his Boston office. 77 Franklin street, to a delegation of the Na tional , Equal Rights League of national and local officers and Rev. H. H. Proctor of the Brooklyn branch. Rev. D. L. Ferguson opened the appeal, Sec. Wm. Monroe Trotter elaborated on the prevalence and injury of the practice and urged Mr. Butler to remove it through his power as national party chairman and chief advisor to the President, stating the League urged the race to support the party in the belief that with a President and a chairman, both from Massachusetts, seg regation will be removed. Senator Butler said he was opposed to segregation and would work against it. While it was a matter of principle, yet he had been told there was little of it at Washington, yet his mind was open as to its extent. He did not favor legislation , against it, as segregation was an execu tive and administrative matter. He said he would introduce the Dyer Bill at the coming session. He might not be able to have his way on segregation but would try and would confer later with represents lives of the League. Requested to Get President to Act Rev. E. K. Nichols of Cambridge, on getting admission that the evil was execu tive and that, therefore, the President could stop it by order and that the dele gation asked him to get the President to act. Sen. Butler replied that it was not customary for Presidents to interfere with department office regulations. He admit ted, however, that evidenced displeasure at a condition by the President usually caused a change. Secretary Trotter declared that segrega tion was extensive, asked if the senator welcomed information and receiving an affirmative reply, told what he had person ally seen, especially in the Department of Justice, Registry of Treasury, etc., and urged the eradication as to toilets, lockers rest rooms and eating places. Rev. H. H. Proctor stated that in New York the colored people believed that seg regation was prevalent and resented it politically and colored leuders could hold them in line if he would remove the prac tice. Rev. B. W. Swain, national vice-pres ident-at-large, agreed with the senator that segregation started before- Wilson, was republican, and so should be removed by republicans. He declared that a nod of the head by President Coolidge to cabinet officers would remove it and the league | asked that he get the President to give ! that nod. Race Action Asked Mrs. M. Cravath Simpson’s offer to again send data as to where segregation existed and how much was accepted. Segregation is too notorious to be called slight. It can be seen by senators. The league appeals to every member of the race, who doubtless will critize the republican chairman if he doea not diacover its extensiveness, to let Senator Butler know the facts and the feel ing of the race at once. YOUNG’TEACHER AND COMPANION DROWN (Columbia Press Service) Washington, D. C, Aug. 28.—Miss Edith Martin, who was graduated from Howard University in the class of 1923, was drowned at Colton’s, St. Mary’s county, Md., early Sunday morning. Clinton L. Peterson, about 29 years old, was also drowned. While here, Miss Martin re sided at 2407 M street, and Peterson lived ' at 2319 H street, N. W. Miss Martin taught school at Durham, N. C, and was in Washington on her vacation. Relatives brought the bodies here for interment. Thn Mosaic Templars recently purchased from the heirs of J. fc. Bush, the founder of the order, the copyright of the titual for *150,000.