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NEBRASKA’S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS
aa » THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor
12.00 a Year—5c a Copy g OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1925 Whole Number 529 Vol. XI—No. 9
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Race Leaders Advocate the Establishment of Influential Dailies
PROMINENT PLACE
PROVIDED PRESS ON
HISTORY PROGRAM
Speakers Appointed to Feature Negro
Newspapers at Tenth Anni
versary of Negro His
torical Society
PUSS SIGNIFICANT FACTOR
Or. tarter G. Wood, Director of thi
Association. Considers Develop
ment of Race Newspaper
Most Hopeful Sifcn.
iN. A. A. C. P. Press Service.)
Washington, D. C. Sept. 4.—Robert :
S. Abbott, L. H. King and R. L. Vann
will be the speakers in featuring the
Negro newspaper at the celebration
of the tenth anniversary of the Asso-,
elation for the Study of Negro Life
and History in Washington, D. C., on
the f*th and 10. Editor Abbott will
open the meeting with appropriate
remarks as the presiding officer, I)r.
L. H. King will discuss the develop
ment of the Negro newspaper aim
Mr, R, L. Vann will deliver an ad
dress on the province of the Negro
press Mr, E. Washington Rhodes of
the Philadelphia Tribune and Mr.
Carl Murphy of the Baltimore Afro
American will participate in the in-'
formal discussion.
Inviting attention to the wonderful
influence of the Negro newspaper in
making the history of the Negro in
this country, Dr. Carter G. Woodson,:
director of the association, refers to i
the development of the Negro press!
as the most hopeful sign on the hori
zon. The Negro, he says, is not only
learning to think but he has learned
to place his thought before the world.
The Making of the Negro press is;
therefore, the making of Negro his
tory, in fact the remaking of the
race The Negro press is the signif
i icant factor in recording the achieve
ments of the race that the Negro may j
not become a neglible factor in the
thought of the world. We must sup
port the newspapers we have, he says
and then we must -develop others, es
poc tally dailies in the large urban
centers that they may fight the bat-1
ties of the oppressed like undaunted
generals leading mighty armies to!
war.
In view of this appreciation of the
community of interests between these
workers in correlated fields in the
upbuilding of the race a number oi
newspaper men men with the staff of
the association in a recent meeting in
Washington to offer their co-opera
tion in placing the work before the
public. Among these were, Edward
H. Lawson, W. O. Walker, W. A.
Hamilton, Louis A. Lautier, and Eu
gen« T. C. Davidson. These gentle
men unanimously endorsed this rec
ognition given the press because of
its service to the people, and they are
co-operating with the management in
working out the details of this part
of the celebration.
The Negro press, they maintained
has presented the protest of the race j
against injustices; it has intelligent
ly defined the demands of the race
for recognition; it has interpreted the
thought of the Negro; it has effec
tively unified their efforts along ra
tional lines; it has stimulated Negro
business; it has prevented the recur
rence of racial conflict; and it has
served as the clearing house for Ne
gro music, the theatre, literature, and
art, in fact, the actual life of the
race. How the press may still better
perform those important duties will
bo tbe theme of this special session
devoted exclusively to this important
aspect of the life and history of the
Negro.
N ECHOES HIT COOLIDGE
ON Kl.AN APPOINTMENT
Washington, I). C, Sept. 4.—(By the
\kmicrated Negro Press.)—Failure of Pres
ident Coolidge to appoint a Negro to an
oSor of federal value, and the appoint
ment of a kiansman as customs collector
at Savannah, have aroused the ire of Ne
gro political leaders. Negro .newspapers
dedarc that Mr. Coolidge has not lived up
to the hopes atrd expeetations of those who
so loudly praised him.
SUGGEST FEWER CLOTHES
Chicago. 111., Sept. 4.— (By Associated
Negro Press.)— Chicago scientists are sug
gesting that fewer clothes would aid good
health by allowing the healing rays of
sunlight to penetrate the skin.
WHITE BOY OF CAIRIO
IS ACCUSED OF MURDER
OF COLORED GIRL
Local Branch of National Association
For Advancement of Colored
People Raises Funds for
Girl’s Mother.
(N. A. A. C. P. Press Service.)
A well known white boy of Cairo,
Illinois, college Btudent and graduate
of the Cairo high school, where he
played on the football team, is held
in $5000 bail charged with the mur
der of Frances Cherry, a young col
ored woman who disappeared from
her home on July 28 and has not been
heard from since. The warrant charg
ing murder has been sworn out by
the mother of the girl.
The boy admitted taking out an
automobile on the night the girl dis
appeared and blood stains were sub
sequently found on the car, which
the hoy explained by saying he cut
his head trying to lower the wind
shield. He denies ever having known
the girl, but conflicting stories he
has told of his whereabouts on the
night of the crime are being investi
gated by the police.
The Cairo branch o fthe National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People has employed an at
torney to act in behalf of the girl’s
mother, and has offered a reward of
$100 for information leading to re
covery of the girl’s body, in addition
to $200 rewaril posted by the county
commissioners.
\ NEGRO LITERARY RENAISSANCE
Seven hundred Negro writers anil artists
competed for the Amy Spiugarn prizes,
awarded u! a Harlem meeting under the
auspices of the Crisis. It was not the
onl\ occasion in recent months when
eminent white authors Itave joined in prais
ing the fruits of the new Negro literary
movement. Older writers, like Stanley
Hraithwaite in criticism, Uu Bois in the
essay, James Weldon Johnson in poetry,
rose to distinction slowly and singly, liut
since 1920 there has come forward a group
remarkable for its vigor, originality and
taciul flavor. In fiction it includes Jessie
Pause! ami Walter White, whose novels,
“There Is Confusion-' and “Tile Eire in
the Flint”, are able studies of race prob
lems. In the short story it lias produced
Jean Toomer. It counts such poets as
Claude McKay, the Jamaica-born author ol i
’’Harlem Shadows", anil two of the .Spin
gain prize-winners. Counter Cullen and 1
Langston Hughes. These and others are
gaining the Negro a recognized place in t
contemporary letters.
In this literary movement New York
may feel a special pride. We have 175,000
colored residents packed into the Harlem
district, or 100,000 more than in any
Southern center. Here a people whose
American history till a generation ago
was exclusively rural have been given the
stimulation and cultural advantages of the
metropolis. They have now a number of
their own intelleetual, social and financial
leaders to guide them. The response to
the new environment is already striking,
and promises to affect the Negro all over
the United States. Oilier arts—music with
Burleigh. Roland Hayes anil Nathaniel
Delt; the stage with Paul Robeson- have
welcomed Negroes, hut perhaps naturally
they find their fullest voice in literature.
—New York World.
BK 1.1, BOY'S PLAY TO GO ON
New York, N. Y., Sept. 4.— (By the As
sociated Negro Press.) Garland Anderson
who came here last year from San Fran
cisco to get funds to produce his play,
is on his wuy hack to the city to present
his play, "Apearances”, on Broadway. It
will he staged under the management of
Lester W. Sagar, and directed hy John
Hayden.
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PAINE COLLEGE SHOWS PKOGKESS
(By Associated Negro Press.)
Augusta, Ga., Sept. 4—Prospects for a
large enrollment at Paine College are very
good. Instructors have been busy during
the summer months increasing their effi
ciency, by travel and study. Wdrk has
been started on the new Home Economics
building which is to cost 143,000.
ENVOY TO IIAYTI FOUND DEAD
Montreal, Canada, Sept. 4.— (By the As
sociated Negro Press).—Arthur Bailcy
Blancbard, United Stutes Minister to Hayti
since 1014, was found dead in his bed at
the Mount Boyal Hotel here early Tues
day morning. Nearly forty years of his
life have been spent in the diplomatic
service.
CLERGY INDORSE
NEWS POLICY WAR
Negro Ministers Declare Gambling
Is Impoverishing Many
People.
The campaign of The Omaha Daily
News against policy playing which
resulted in the closing of all policy
games last week, was indorsed Tues
day by the ministers of the leading
Negro churches in the city.
They promised their co-operation
in keeping “policy” closed up, from
now on, saying that the publicity
given the open gambling had done
what police and county authorities
either could not or would not do.
Game Impoverished People.
The ministers called at the editor
ial rooms of The Omaha Daily News
to express their appreciation of the
campaign against “policy.”
They said it had been impoverish
ing many of their people, injuring
the churches and impairing the mor
als of many men and women. They
promised their co-operation in keep
ing the policy games dosed.
The delegation of ministers in
duded:
The Rev. C. A. Williams, St. Johns
A. M. E. church; the Rev. Z. E. Mc
Gee, Pleasant Green Baptist church;
the Rev J. S. Williams, Salem Bap
tist; the Rev. 0. J. Burckhardt, Allen
Chapel; the Rev. C. H. Trusty, St.
Paul Presbyterian; the Rev. Thomas
A. Taggart, Mount Olive Baptist; the
Rev. J. S. Blaine, Cleaves Temple;
the Rev. Frederick Divers, Bethel A.
M. E.; the Rev. J. H. Ellis, Grove
Methodist.
The Rev. W. F. Botts, Zion Baptist
church, unable to accompany the other
ministers, sent word thanking The
Daily News for closing policy.
A new beauty recipe, is more soap and
less paint.
“Fearthought" is defined as the self
suggestion of inferiority.
GAMBLING AND IT’S BALEFUL IN
FLUENCE ON THE CHARACTER
In just what does the sin or evil of!
gambling consist? It is rather hard
to say when one considers it apart
from its social implications. When
those who defend it ask what harm is
there to one’s character in putting a j
few dollars on a horse, or playing'
bridge or poker with moderate stakes,
or betting on the baseball games, or
buying tickets for the lottery, what
is one to say ? Well, there are several
things to be said even before we con
sider it as a social evil—several things
we may say on its effect on char- ■
acter.
First of all, it emphasizes the ele-1
ment of chance in life as over against
that well-trained, disciplined, orderly,!
self-mastery which should be the guid
ing principle of all strong men. The
successful and reliable men in life,1
those who achieve fine ends for them-!
selves, and bring boons to humanity,
are men who have disciplined them
selves in youth, educated themselves
in those things necessary for high at
tainment and then have lived their
lives in accordance with these prin- j
ciples. Law, order, cause and effect, j
repose, mastery, has been their basic ,
trait. Gambling immediately brings,
in a new and contradictory principle -
of life, namely—luck, chance, effect1
without cause, events that have no
reason for happening—may happen or
not as luck, not law, determines, fic
kleness for repose. Now this may
not be terribly serious if not carried
too far, but yet in principle it is a
denial of the healthy, wholesome, suc
cessful, reposeful, masterful law of
life, and strong men do not like it.
In the second place, the gambling
habit is very insidious and gets a hold
it creates a feverish, unnatural, abnor
mal state of being equal to that cre
ated by keeping the body over-stim
ulated by continual use of liquor or
drugs. The moment gambling be
comes usual it demands constant at
tention. To the gambler every other
form of amusement, except the vices
that almost always accompany it, be
comes tame and uninteresting. He al
ways craves the excitement of chance,
of loss or gain. Even women reach
that stage where they cannot enjoy
themselves unless they are playing
bridge for money. Head any of the
novels that picture high society life
truly, such as Edith Wharton's or Mrs.
Ward’s, and note the pathetic women j
moving through the pages, bored, un- j
happy until some one begins a game;!
and note the men, uneasy, and stupid j
until betting or racing or poker be- j
gins. We do not say that everyone
who gambles a little now and then be
longs to this class, but we do say that
this is the logical outcome of the
gambling habit and unless carefully
guarded against it tends always to
pull one into this class.
One or two other things might be'
said here to any young man or wo
man who may be reading these
words. You are entering life and your
success and happiness will depend in
some measure on the groups or
classes, so to speak, in which you seek
your sociaL life and companionship.
As a rule you will find the finest,
most highly cultured, most interest
ing, the brainiest people quite out
side the gambling set. This will be
true even in your home town, as a
usual thing. It is certainly true in
the world at large. The fine, strong,
forceful, intellectual men are the men
in the library and not the card room,
whether it be on the ocean liner, in
the club, or at home. The racing
crowd in Paris or London, as one
finds them as certain cafes and clubs,
is generally made up of the most
vulgar and fastest men in the city.
Somehow or other there is always
something unrefined and coarse in the
(By Frederick Lynch, Editor-in-chief
of Christian Work.)
atmosphere the moment one steps into
the racing precincts or the places:
where the bookmaking is going on.
The same thing is true of gambling
places. Drink is as natural to them
as water to the ocean. The betting
places in England are the gin shops.
So it is all through. In a word,
gambling and the gentleman do not
go together anywhere in the worm.:
The truly refined men and women as
a rule have nothing to do with it.
Another argument which will ap
peal to gentlemen and self-respecting
people everywhere is that in taking
money won at cards or by bets one is
taking something from someone else j
and giving nothing in return. There'
is no quid pro quo in gambling. Gen
tlemen do not like to take money
without rendering some sendee or
equivalent. Especially they do not'
like to take it from those who cannot
afford to give it, but who are tempted j
to gamble by the hope of gain. Wej
remember that a noted gambler once
said that he dropped it absolutely be
cause he could not bear to take a lot
of money won by cards or by a bet
from other men who, led on by the ex
citement of the game, could not af-1
ford to lose. He said it suddenly1
dawned on him one night when he
took five hundred dollars from a man
that his home would suffer—as it
did. It does in nine cases out of ten. j
It is pretty safe to say that in five
cases out of ten when one takes
money won at cards or by betting
he takes food and clothing away from
someone. Of course it is a well known
fact that at gambling resorts there is
a steady stream of suicides. At
Monte Carlo there are whole streets
of pawn shops. A sensitive, highly
sympathetic soul will always shrink
from taking money that is not earned ;
or that is not a gift freely given.
After all that has been said the i
real evil of gambling is in its wreck
age of the social system, just as the
real evil of drink is there. Prohibi-1
tion of liquor comes not out of the
feeling that it is a sin to drink a
glass of wine, but that the whole
liquor habit, traffic and manufacture
is inimical to the people, to society at
large and to the nation. Anything
which undermines society, poisons the
body politic, lowers public morality,
spreads crime and disease, is evil.
Gambling does all this as much as
liquor, if not more in some countries.
Not long ago a New York lawyer said
that betting on baseball games is pro
ducing an army of thousands of
thieves among the office-boys and
clerks of the city. They pilfer every
thing they can lay their hands on.
Postage stamps have to be kept under
lock and key. The whole morale of
many offices is dissipated on the aft
ernoon of a baseball game, so excited
are the clerks who have put money
on the teams. Stealing to pay gam
bling debts is universal. Before we
forbade lotteries in the United States
thousands of men bought tickets out
of money that the home needed. The
Louisiana lottery used always to see
that someone in some little city should
draw ten thousands dollars on a fifty
cent ticket. They then would im
mediately open a sale for the next
lottery and would sell fifty thousand
dollars worth of tickets, the people
putting all their hard earned savings
into it. (Of course no one in that
town drew the next prize.) If one
wants a picture of the havoc that
gambling brings let him read George
Moore’s novel, “Esther Waters.’’ Here
one has the picture of what the gam
bling fever does to an English town
when the races are on in England. It
is a terrible picture and one often
wonders which is the worst foe Eng
land has—her gin shops or her gam
bling on the races. England is a na
tion of financial wrecks and poverty
stricken homes the day after the
Derby. America is getting as badly
off with her betting on baseball. We i
think it can be safely" assumed that ;
gambling in all its forms is a menace
to the nation. In that case a Chris
tian will have nothing to do with it.
FISK ALUMNI TO RAISE $25,000 j
_
(Associated Negro Press.)
Chicago, 111., Sept. 4.—Plans were j
formulated at the meeting of the Al
lied Fisk clubs, held at the Wabash i
Ave. Y. M. C. A., whereby the alumni
of Fisk university is expected to raise
$25,000 of the $100,000 deficit of the
million dollar endowment fund. This
amount must be raised by December
31st and to insure the success of the
drive Miss Sophia B. Boaz, class of
1911, and a practicing lawyer and
brilliant social worker of Chicago
has been designated as the executive
secretary of the drive to travel
throughout the country amon^ the
alumni in the interests of the Tennes
see institution.
The plan further embodies the divi
sion of the country into seven regional
districts with the following reginal
chairmen: Dr. H. H. Proctor, New
York; Dr. J. M. Gandy, Petersburg,
Va.; James Robinson, Cincinnati, O.;
Dr. F. A. Stewart, Nashville, Tenn.;
and Mrs. M. S. Josenburger, Fort
Smith, Arkansas.
Many of the alumni present at the
meeting pledged large sums toward
the fund, among whom were Dr. H. H.
Proctor, $1,500; Dr. M_ Boute $1,000;
Dr. M. McClennan $500 cash, and
many others pledged fifty and one
hundred dollars. Asst. Dean Ambrose
Caliver and Trustee Wm. H. Baldwin
attended the meeting.
DENVER FINANCES SET
RECORD AFTER THE N. A.
A. C. P. CONFERENCE
(N. A. A. C. P. Press Service.)
Owing very largely to the work and
skill of the Denver N. A. A. C. P. fi
nance committee under the chairman-1
ship of Dr. C. E. Terry, the financial
statement of the Denver branch of the
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People sets a record
for convention cities with a balance in
the bank of $418.51 after all the heavy
expenses of the N. A. A. C. P. confer
ence are paid. This is the largest bal
ance the Denver branch has had in the
11 years of its exstence.
Dr. Tqjgy’s feat, as chairman of the
N. A. A. C. F. finance committee in
Denver, is regarded as the more extra
ordinary, in view of the considerable
expenditures which a national confer
ence involves and the fact that there
are less than 6000 colored people in
Denver. The Denver branch paid
$1500 to the national office of tne
N. A. A. C. P. to pay travelling and
other expenses, and this sum was in
the hands of the national office ear
lier than it had ever been paid by any
other branch.
The entire expense of the confer
ence for the Denver N. A. A. C. P.'
amounted to $3,616.35 as against re
ceipts of $4,034.86, leaving a balance
of $418.51.
Resolutions of thanks have been
passed by the Denver N. A. A. C. P.
in acknowledgment of the work of Dr.
Terry and his associates on the fi
nance committee, who were: Mrs.
Mary Holmes, treasurer, and Mrs.
Carrie McClain, secretary.
MARIAN ANDERSON
HEARTILY APPLAUDED
IN NEW YORK CONCERT
Young Contralto Singer Is Received
Enthusiastically by Appreciative
Audience of 7500 in
the Stadium.
(N. A. A. C. P. Press Service.)
New York, Sept. 4.—Marian Ander
son, colored contralto, enjoyed a tri
umph at her appearance with the Phil
harmonic orchestra in the City Col
lege stadium on Wednesday night,
August 26, having been chosen for
this honor from 300 competing sing
ers. F. D. Perkins, critic of the New
York Herald-Tribune, asserts that the
audience was estimated to be the third
largest of the entire season of stad
ium concerts. Mr. Perkins in his re
view of the event calls Miss Ander
son’s “a voice in a hundred thousand”
and continues:
“A notable feature in Miss Ander
son’s singing was its entire natural
ness; all that she had to do, appar
ently, was to sing, without any need
of apparent effort to fill the stadium
spaces;. In high and low notes, there
was a full, rich quality that carried
far; the singer had no more trouble,
it seemed, in singing at the stadium
than in singing at Aeolian Hall, but
seemed more at her ease, in smoother
voice, than in the Aeolian Hall audi
tion.
“A storm of applause followed the
Donizetti number, very meritoriously
sung, and Miss Anderson sang Wood
man Terry’s The Answer’ as an en
core. But expressively, she seemed
most at home in the three spirituals
scheduled for her second appearance:
Harry T. Burleigh’s ‘Deep River’ and
‘Heav’n’, and J. Rosamund Johnson’s
‘Song of the Heart’, in a performance
characterized by what might be called
expressive simplicity.”
The New York Times reviewer said
Miss Anderson made an “excellent
impression” and found her “endowed
by nature with a voice of unusual
compass, color and dramatic capa
city.”
I. A. J ACKSON JOINS TRIBUNE STAFF
(By Associated Negro Press.)
Washington. I). G, Sept. 4.—J. A. Jack
son, formerly of The Billboard,' widely
known fraternal and newspaper man, will
lie connected with The Washington Tri
bune as executive and theatrical editor,
it has been announced.
It was also announced that the “Actors’
Union News”, the official organ of the Col
ored Actors Union, will be consolidated
with The Tribune. The actors’ paper will
become a part of a theatrical and amuse
ment page, which will be edited by Mr.
Jackson and run as an exclusive feature
in The Tribune. This page will begin
with the edition of September 5th.
The announcement reads that “The
securing of the services of Mr. Jackson,
who was much sought after by numerous
other papers, and the consolidation of the
Actors Union News is but a part of the
program of enlarging and expanding The
Tribune.”
Mr. Jackson had his first newspaper ex
perience at the age of 14. Since then he
has worked on seevral metropolitan dailies
and edited “The Page” in The Billboard
until recently. He began his career as a
bellboy and worked up through the various
stages of busboy, waiter, dining car man,
minstrel interlocutor, assistant manager of
a musical comedy, bank clerk, railway
policeman with rank of lieutenant, ad
jutant of a national guard regiment, mem
ber of the intelligence service, newspaper
correspondent, magazine contributor and
editor of "Jackson’s Page” in The Bill
boa rt I.
WILEY UNIVERSITY PROGRESSES
(By Associated Negro Press.)
Marshall, Texas, Sept. 4.—The addition
nf six new teachers to the faculty of Wiley
University is only one of the many signs
of progress to be noted at this important
school of the South. The new dean of
woman and the head of the music depart
ment have especially significant qualifica
tions. Completion of the new 175,000
girls’ dormitory, and additions to tlie
laboratories and library facilities, place
Wiley in the first rank. V. E. Daniels,
dean of the college, took his master’s de
gree from the University of Colorado last
summer. He has made a thorough revi
sion of the curricula. More than three
hundred students were enrolled in the
summer session at Wiley. There were five
candidates for degrees.
A thriving industry will he menaced
when they begin to use coni in the manu
facture of rubber.
FINE FURNITURE
MANUFACTURED BY
NEGRO FACTORY
The Heflin Manufacturing Company
of Lob Angeles, Cal., Marks
Departure In Racial
Enterprises
INDUSTRY MAKING PROGRESS
President and Founder a Young Man
Who Sees Great Possibilities
in Chosen Field and
Plans Accordingly.
(Associated Negro Press.)
Tulsa, Okla., Sept. 4.—While it is
a well known fundamental of commer
cial life that the greatest fortunes
and most substantial successes are
those which are made by the develop
ment of some raw product into the
finished article, instead of being
either the middleman or retailer, the
Negro it was pointed out at the re
cent session of the National Negro
Business League here, has not en
tered in any appreciable degree this
phase of business endeavor.
A unique exception however is the
enterprise conducted by the Heflin
Manufacturing Company of Los An
geles, a furniture manufacturing con
cern whose pretentious exhibit was a
center of attraction at the league and
who are successfully making and mar
keting high class furniture in the Cal
ifornia city. L. N. Heflin, president,
and Emory Crain, sales manager,
were on hand to explain the process
of manufacture of the fifteen hundred
dollar example of their product which
they had on display and to tell the in
teresting story of the beginning and
growth of their organization.
Leon N. Heflin, the twenty-seven
year old founder, designer and presi
dent, has been a woodworker all his
life. When just a lad from the man
ual training department of grammar
school, he became an apprentice in a
furniture plant, which has grown until
it now covers more than five acres of
floor space. In five years he hail
worked in every department of this
firm and become a skilled laborer in
the complete manufacture of all kinds
of household furniture. Alert to the
possibilities he decided to go in busi
ness for himself, building special fur
niture and parts for other manufact
urers. His venture was successful.
He added one man and then others un
til today they have a plant with $30,
000 worth of new and modem ma
chinery and last year report that they
did a gross business of $50,000. As
a designer of special bedroom, din
ing room and parlor furniture of ar
tistic design, Mr. Heflin has won rec
ognition and has had orders from a
number of big figures in the movie
industry who have commissioned him
to do special individual designs for
their personal use. Mr. Heflin points
out that a great future lies before the
business and says that even at pres
ent he is only hampered by lack of
facilities for doing more business.
He plans, he said, to expand and build
a new factory.
FEDERAL RECOGNITION FOR
COLORED REPUBLICANS SOUGHT
1 mmaamaaaarna
Washington, D. C., Sept. 4.— (By Asso
ciated Negro Press.)—Nego political lead
ers of this city have just reminded Pres
ident Coolidge that during his adminis
tration no outstanding appointments requir
ing confirmation by the Senate have been
given to Negroes. All prominent colored
men now in federal office came over from
the Harding administration.
DIPLOMAT HALTED WITH RUM
New York, N. Y., Sept. 4.—(By the As
sociated Negro Press.)—Eight trunks, ten
cases, eight packages and one barrel
proved to be too much for One man to
carry, according to the customs officers
who met Eugene La Bosse at Manchester,
N. H„ so they questioned the gentleman.
Ho was quite frank in admitting that he
was bringing liquor to some of his thirsty
friends in America. The officials fined Mr.
Le Bose $1,200 which he was unable to
pay, but promised to pay next week.
DONATION BY UNDERTAKER
Durham, N. C., Sept. 4.—(By the As
sociated Negro Press.)— J. C Scarborough,
a local undertaker, through the Interna
tional Ministerial Alliance, gave as a day
nursery and old folks home the old Lincoln
hospital plant. The gift is worth about
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