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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
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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.
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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.