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The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-09-20
To Launch Big
Fight Deal
(Associated Negro Press.)

Chicago, ILL.,, Sept. 18.-There will
be a Colored heavyweight champion
of the world, no matter whether Jack
Dempsey is beaten by Colored man
or not The title was held just once
by a Colored man-when Jack john
son won the championship from Tom
my Burns in Australia-and lost it
again to Jess Willard in Havana,
Cuba, in 1915. For a period of six
years the C0lored fighter was su-
preme and If Jack Johnson had not
gotten into serious trouble with the
United States Government it might
have been for much longer period.
Willard refused to battle with a
Colored man after winning the title
from Johnson, and so far Dempsey
has intimated that he will refuse
to meet a Colored man for the cham
pionship. Therefore Billy McClain, a
wealthy promoter, Colored of Okla
homa has decided that the Colored
race will have a heavyweight cham
pionship of their own.
McClain arranged for the holding
Of a big tournament of Tulsa, Okla,
between Colored men only--a sort of
elimination affair-the final winner TO
be crowned champion heavyweight
of the world among the Colored Race.
A diamond belt valued at $500 and
emblamatic Of the worlds title will
be tie main prize to be battled for.
Mr.. McClain is putting up this belt,
and a share of the receipts will be
utilized in erecting a handsome stad-
ium at Tulsa, so that sports Of all
kinds can be held there. The stock
is being issued in shares of $40 each
and the holder of a certain amount
of stock will have entry to the match
es at all times. 1t will be patterned
somewhat after the National Sport
ing Club OF London.
The first Of the elimination matches
was held on Monday night August
4, but it was not decisive. Sam Lang
ford and Jack Thompson boxed a
Is round draw. The winner of that
match was scheduled to tackle Harry
Wills, and the lucky one here will
get Kid Norfolk for the final match
and belt. With old Sam in condition
the other Colored contenders will
meet a mighty hard nut to crack.
The old boy can still travel, as Tate
can attest, and if he meets Harry
Wills there will be one battle roal
1t is too bad that Sam McVey and
Joe jeanette are not entered, or
rather that they are not in shape for
it. Both were grand old fighters
among the big four of Colored heavy
weights-Johnson, Langford, jean
cite and Mcvey-- and there were
few white fighters who wanted their
game.
According to Howard Carr, who
runs a gymnasium in Chicago, Lang
ford may be put into movie picture
as the hero Of a three film photo
play. Carr intends to write the seem
ario himself and have Sam feature
himself during the big picnic in
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-09-20
SCHOOL FOR
NEGRO PRINTERS
NEWSPAPER MEN RECOMMEND
PLANS TO RELIEVE LABOR
SHORTAGE.

st. Louis, Mo-, Sept 4th- Recipro-
cal news service)--A school will be
established in Nashville. Tenn, for
the purpose of turning out competent
linotype operators. type compositors,
printers. pressmen, bookbinders. This
was made possible by resolution
which was presented at the execu-
tive committee meeting Of the Nation
al Negro Press Association in session
in this city, Aug. 13, IA, is. There
were members Of the executive COM
mittee present from twenty states,
and in the discussion that followed
1t developed that some of the best
newspapers In the United States and
some of the well-regulated printing
establishments operated by members
of the race were suffring for the
lack of trained, efficient help.
In the resolution offered, the Ma
tlonal Baptist Publishing Board was
called upon to throw open the doors
of their mammoth plant for the train
ing of this help. A representative
from the National Baptist Publishing
Plant stated that they had four
Linotype Machines, one SCOTS All
Size Rotary Press, one Duplex Per-
fecting Press, Five Cylinder Presses,
a number of Job Presses, Washing
ton Hand Press, a complete book
binding establishment consisting Of
anAtH,tlg from a letter folder to a
mammoth Dexter self-feeder Folder,
and composing room occupying one
entire third floor. He said the Plant,
which occupies about seven brick
buildings, could offer the best train
ing in practical work, but that they
would only cooperate in this move
ment with the understanding that
the printers and newspaper repre-
sentatives participating in the pro-
posed plan would only send to them
candidates who when properly in
structed, would return to their res
pective employees for employment 1t
is understood that only a minimum
cost would be attached to the in
struction. Among those taking part
in the discussion, and foremost In
pushing the plan were ]. e. Mitchell
q Ne st. Louis Argus, Nick Chiles
Of the Topeka Plaindealer, j. Finley
Wilson of the Washington Eagle, J.
0ldf1eld of the Chattanooga Defender,
L. L. Campbell Of the Texas Liber-
ator, representative from the Cla-
rion News and several other news
paper men. The details for working
out the complete proposition were
left in the hands Of a subcommittee
appointed by the chairman for final
action at the annual Press, Nashville
next February.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-09-20
FOR THE
YOUNG NEGRO
PRESIDENT KING OFFERS
SOLUTION FOR RACE
PROBLEM.
(A.ssociated Negro Press. J

New York. NJ Y, Sept. 1S.--C. ID,
b. King, president-elect of Liberia
has solution for Americas me
gro Problem II such there be. He is
out with an invitation to all dissatis-
fed Negroes In the United States to
so, over to his African republic and
be happy. IA
In fact, he says, he came to Ameri-
ca from Paris, where he was the
Liberian delegate to the Peace Con-
ference. to encourage Negro immigra-
ton to Liberia. and incidently obtain
assistance from the United States.
The Negroes your country seem
dissatisfied 2 he declared in an inter-
view yesterday. II do not attach
blame to any one, but / do know that
the opportunities for the American
Negroes in my country greatly ex-
ceed those in the United States.
I'VE don't know what race riots
are in Liberia. My countrymen run
the entire government and are adj
vancing in importance to the point
where the American government has
let us $5,oQ0,000. We have a country
the size Of the state Of Ohio, with
a population of 2,500,00O, two col
leges. banks and an agricultural and
Industrial outlook that cannot be SUR
passed anywhere.
"Liberians all talk English, as the
country was started in 184S by Amer
leans as q colonization project. Our
constitution is almost identical with
the American constitution. Great BRIT
ain has supervised our customs for
many years, following a loan to Lii
IBERIA, but now we are asking for an
American protectorate, in effect, that
will give the United States as COM
mercial foothold in Africa, If the
American interests wish to take ed
vantage Of it.
King said that he hoped to arrange
with the American government for
expert advisors in education, admin
istration and the judicial branches of
government to be sent to Liberia.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-09-20
Dwellings, Crumbled as MatchwOOt
Whom Storm Struck Corpus.

7 Houston, Texas, Sept. 16.-The
storm which struck the west coast
near Corpus Christi, Sunday noon
carried buildings and wreckage 70
miles inland.
At 0dem and Sinton and intermedi-
ate farm or ranch houses near the
Nueces river seventy are known to
be dead, that many bodies had been
rescued by searching parties UP to
last night.
After torrents of rain all morning
and heavy wind the big wave
struck the town about o'clock Sun
day afternoon, the water rising four
feet In less than ten minutes This
was followed in few minutes by
large waves which washed houses
from their foundations and tossed
them about as though they were made
of paper. A house washed from its
.f6undatio would be learfied Z like
a battering ram against nearby
structure andNboth would crumble in
stantly. Many people caught in the
wreckage were killed almost in
stantly.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-09-20
Chairman Hays
In Chicago
(Associated NEGRO Press.

Chicago, Ill.,, Sept 49, Chairman
Will H. Hays Of the National Repub-
lican Committee has been spending
several days in Chicago in confer
ence with number of National Com
mitteemen from Middle West States.
Mr.. Hays has been getting reports
concerning political conditions in va
rious states and the activity about
the Western headquarters of the
National Committee, bespeaks unus-
ual interest in political matters.
There is quite contest on for the
seat of the National Convention, June
1920. Chicago, where the Convention
has been held every four years, for
so long time that it now seems like
an institution, has several rivals for
the big meet. Among them are
Philadelphia, Cleveland, indianapolis,
St Louis, Detroit, Kansas City and
Denver. The decision will be made
at the next session of the National
Committee in December.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-09-20
Police Fight
With Negroes
(Associated Negro Press.)

Washington, D. c., Sept. 1S.-Two
policemen were beaten and one of
them had his revolver taken from
him in a free for all fight with a
party Of Negroes who surrounded
the officers while they were making
an arrest at 4th and v street.
Policeman Fred Antonelli of the
of the Eighth precinct was struck
several timos on the head and arms.
He was treated at Emergency Hos
pital.
Policeman Herbert Glassman, also
of the Eighth precinct, who went to
his comrad's assistance, had his uni
form cut into ribbons with pair
of scissors. He was not badly hurt.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-09-20
JUDGE TAKES
CHARGE ON
RACIAL U |EEST
(Associated Negro Press.)

Frankfort, KY, Sert. 1S.-The gen.
eral unrest throughout the United
States was the subject of the charge
principally today by Circuit Judge
Stout when the grand Jury CONVEX ed
for the fall term. Race riots which
have disgraced other sections Of the
United States, Judge Stout said, were
not an impossiblity here, but he de-
clared he had not heard that any
ill-feeling existed between the races
in his judicial district.
The ways to prevent such Out
breaks, Judge Stout sad was the
rigid enforcement of the law. As
far as his information carried him,
he said, he did not know of single
instance when the Negro man had
been unfairly dealt with by the
juries of this district because he was
black or for any other reason.
An impartial enforcement Of the
law Judge Stout declared would pre-
vent not only an i'll feeling between
the races, but would be the proper
step in the direction of allaying the
unrest between the wealthy man and
the poor man.
He said that there should be no
discriminating between men and the
law, and at the time when men had
occasion to bring their disputes into
the courthouse for adjustment. there
ought not to be any discrimination
because one is white and the other
is black. Men had the right to Sc
lect their associates said he, but fair
treatment should be given to every
man on trial.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-09-20
MEXICAN SNUG
.GLERS ARE BUSY
AMONG NEGROES.

Key West, Fla, Sept. 1S.-Quite a
sensation was caused here when it
was learned that two local Negroes,
VIII and Leonard Kemp, had made
efforts to purchase a large amount of
ammunition from Key West dealers.
VIII Kemp went to William Curry
Sons Company store and attempted
to buy 1000 rounds of 40 and Al cali
bre cartridges to be used in Mar
lin rifles only. At about the same
time, his brother, Leonard, was at H.
Wolkowsky's place of business and
wanting to purchase 1000 rounds of
80 and 1000 rounds of 38 calibre
cartridges.
A clerk at the Curry sons store be-
came suspicious and they phoned the
Deputy Sheriff.
Deputy Curry requested the dealers
not to sell the ammunition to the
Negroes as he desired to investigate
the matter. He soon had both the
Negroes under arrest. The Negroes
state that strange Spaniard hired
them to try to buy the ammunition
of the size and in the quantities
stated.
Officers believe that it was intend
ed to secure the ammunition and
smuggle it through Cuba into Mexico.
The matter is being investigated and
some sensational developments are
expected.
There is absolutely not the least
presence of any strife here between
the races. and the idea that the car
tridges were wanted by the local Col
ored population is not entertained.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-09-20
Tri-State Fair
Opens Oct. 8
(Associated Negro Press.) }

Memphis, Tenn, Sept. 1S.-The Ne
gro Tri-State Fair Association will
give its annual exhibit at the fair
grounds on october $40.
It's promoters are working hard to
make the fair the largest and best
fair ever held by the Negroes. L. G..
Patterson, secretary Of the fair. and
his assistants are visiting the Negro
farmers of the three states, urging
them to bring in large exhibits for
thsNfair.
The premium list for this year
is larger than ever before. Demon
strations in domestic science and ag-
riculture are being arranged for.
Large amusement features are also
being planned.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-09-20
FOR SOUTHERN
NEGROES ONLY.
PLENTY OF WORK HIGHER
WAGES GOOD LIVIMG
CONDITIONS.
(Associated Negro Press.)

Memphis, Tenn, Sept. 1S.-Plenty
of farm and mill work, better wages
than ever before paid and improved
living conditions await southern Ne
groes who have gone to the North
and who now are said to be clamoring
to return to the South. according to
employers here.
Southern farmers and plantation
owners want the southern Negroes
back. II there were some methods
of getting in touch with it is declar-
ed the expense of their return 10 Dig
lie would be willingly borne. This
will hold especially true for the
next few weeks, because there is ned
of Negroes who know how to take
care of the cotton crop.
But these employers say they do
not want northern-born and reared
| Negroes, They would prefer to bring
in foreign labor they assert.
We would not hesitate to pay the
expense of hundred or more Ne
grees from Chicago or other northern
cities to pur place If we can get
southern Negroes, particularly Ne
groes who have gone from Mississip-
pi Arkansas and Tennessee" said
A. Q. Lange, vice-president and Gem
eral manager OF the Chicago Mill and
Lumber Company, which owns more
than. 100000 acres Of timber and ags
riculturaf lands in northwestern Ark
ansas. II think it Is safe to say at
every southern Negro in the North
would be brought back without ex-
pense to him if southern farmers
and plantation owners know where
and how to get in touch with the
Southern born. We don't want and
will have no northern Negroes"
The question of how to get IN
touch with Negroes who have gone
north was discussed at the Memphis
meeting Of the Southern Alluvial
Land Association several days ago,
and the subject will be special
order Of business at the next meet
ing. The association is an organi-
zation OF bankers, land owners,
chambers Of commerce, planters and
lumbermen of the lower Mississippi
Valley formed to serve in a measure,
the same purposes for the delta coun-
try as the chamber of commerce SER
YES the town or city. At the last
meeting 1t was said that there Is
great need for more labor in the
lower Mississippi Valley and espec-
tally for Negro labor acquainted with
southern agricultural methods and
with cotton growing and handling.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-09-20
Rails Twisted.

Where the railroad tracks were
washed away they were twisted into
the shape of a corkscrew one-half to
two miles in length. Huge bridge
timbers weighing thousands of
pounds, bales of cotton. parts of
houses and their furnishings, cattle,
rabbits, etc., were thrown into the
tops of trees by the waves at this
point and left there as the waters
went down.
The S. A. & U. G., railroad, west
organized by Charles Ladd of Kansas
City, whose train was tied up at
Odem early yesterday. and who or
ganized searching parties to bring in
the flood sufferers.
The train was turned into hos
pital and the sufferers and searching
parties fed on it. The agents and
members of the party, augmented by
Continued on page 4.)
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-09-20
Expect Labor
Trouble I'm N. Y.
ASSOCIATED Negro Press.)

Syracuse, N. Y, Sept. 1S.-The New
York state federation of labor con-
viction was Informed by Michael Col
leran that unless change was made
in the attitude of New York contrac-
tors that city was likely ii see repe-
tition of the race riots of Washing
ton and Chicago He is president of
the New York organization of For
eign Plasterers and Cement Finishers.
New York contrsctirs, he said he had
imported 300 Negro strike breakers
from the south.
The federation adopted resolutions
urging Congress to ratify the peace
treaty band the covenant of the leag-
ue of nations.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-09-20
Few JobIess
Soldiers
(Associated Negro Press.

ASSOCIATED Negro tPress.)
Richmond, Va, Sept. 1S.--Few sol
diers who have been out of the army
for any length of time are jobless
according to a statement yesterday
by q. J. Conway Of the City Employ
ment Bureau. Floaters make up the
majority Of the unemployed, a ac-
cording to employment officials. The
soldier is not the kind who stays
long without q job.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-09-20
175 Refugees Rescued.

Corpus Christi, Texas, Sept. 16.--
approximately 175 refugees have been
rescued at Odem, about thirty miles
west Of here, according to a tele-
phone message received here They
had been carried across Nueces bay
on wreckage. All of them were suff-
ering greatly from exposure. They
are being cared for by citizens until
vehicles can be sent here to bring
them to Corpus Christi.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-09-20
Open Club House
For Service Men
ASSOCIATED Negro Press.)

Buffalo, N. Y, Sept 18.-A club
house for the use Of returned sail
ors and soldiers was opened last
ing at NO. 143 Clinton streec and has
quarters are in charge of 1t. Mosby
B. McAdam, assistant in Negro work
Of the War Camp Community service.
The club occupies the entire build
ing at No. 143 Clinton stree and has
lodging rooms and game rooms for
the returned sailors and soldiers,
about 600 of whom left Buffalo for
the service of their country during
the e1te war.
Last night a considerable number
of the veterans, with their wives and
friends attended the opening receipt
ion. An electric piano provided mus
ic for dancing and refreshments were
served.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-09-20
Only II Negro
Voters Out
OF 1882
(Associated Negro Press.)

st. Petersburg, Fla, Sept. 1S.-Fi-
CURES showing the number of per-
sons in st. Petersburg. qualified to
vote at the election next Saturday
on the proposed bond issue 10 buy
the local streets car lines, disclose
the fact that there are forty-nine Ne
gro men and twenty-five Negro WON
en- registered voters, who pay taxes
on real estate here. The total num-
ber of men and women qualified to
vote is 1882 of which 62 are free
holders.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-09-20

Chicago in the fall, when over $4,000
Colored people are present. Sam
will be running in opposition to Jess
Willard and Jack Dempsey And at
that Sam is some actor man.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-09-20

SaS. t s NJ
Mounting rapidly as reports from
heretofore isolated sections began
triclxling in. the death list as the re-
suit of the tropical hurricane which
Sunday swept the Texas gulf coast
mt and around Corpus Christi, was
variously placed at from seventy 70
$50 today.
Just what the storms toll was,
probably will not be known for sew
eral days, for reports show bodies
OF victims found at scattered points
along the Nueces and Corpus Christi
Bay, one compilation giving the to-
tai recovered at several points as
seventy.
The victims found along the bay
shores were believed to be largely
from Corpus Christi, their bodies
whirled away from the city by the
receding waters of the ten-foot tidal
wave that swept in on a sixty-mile
gale early Sunday.
Reports from Odem, Texas, were
that the situation in Corpus Christi
was increasingly serious" and the
mayor of Sinton, north of Corpus
Christi, reported the bodies of twenty
one storm victims had been gathered
in a school house five miles from
Sinton.
Another report from Odem was
that DR.. w. G. Reinhart. who return
ed last night from Corpus Christi,
said the number Of dead there, at
Port Aransas and Portland, might
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-09-20
HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST,
CRUMBLED AS
MATCHWOOD. DAM AGE
RUNS INTO MILLIONS.

reach 1000, and that "it was esti-
mated that 200 to 300 bodies have
drifted across the bay" from Corpus
Christi and other points.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-09-20
Launch seekIng YIctims.

Corpus Christi, Texas, Sept 16.=-
A launch in charge of Charles Nc
Manus, of the local United States
Employment Service, left here short
ly before noon for Rpckport in an
effort to learn the fate of that town.
The launch also stop at Port Aran-
sas.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1919-05-17
BOSCHEE'S SYRUP

will quiet your cough, soothe the In
Examination of a sore throat and lungs,
stop irritation in the bronchial tubes,
insuring a good nights rest, free from
coughing and with easy eXpectOration
in the morning. Made and sold IN
America for fifty-two years. A Won
derful prescription assisting Nature in
building up your general health and
throwing off the disease. Especially
useful in lung trouble, asthma, Group,
bronchitis, etc. For sale in all civil
lied countrles-Adv.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1919-05-17

Don't buy Aspirin tablets in a pill
box. Insist on getting the Bayer pack
age with the safety "Bayer Cross" on
both package and on tablets. No other
way!
You must say "Bayer." Never ask
for merely Aspirin tablets. The name
"Bayer" means you are getting the
genuine "Bayer Tablets Of Aspirin"
proven safe by millions of people.
Beware Of cOunterfeits! Only re-
Gently a Brooklyn manufacturer was
sent to the penitentiary for flooding
the country with talcum powder tab
lets, which he claimed to be Aspirin.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1919-05-17

well and feel fine in the morning and
able to do my work. / gladly recon-
mend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetables
Compound to make weak nerves
strong. - Mrs. ALBERT Suite, 6o3
Olmstead St, Winona, Mimi.
How often 90 we hear the expressions
among women, Il am so nervous, cam
not sleep" or cit seems as though L
should fly" Such women should profit
by Mrs. Sultze's experience and givas
this famous root and herb remedy.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound a trial.
For forty years it has been overcon-
ing such serious conditions as dispiace~
ments, inflammation, liberation. irregs-
ularities, periodic pGins, backache, dizr
illness, and nervous prostration OF
women, and is now considered the STAN
dard remedy for such ailments.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1919-05-17
The Minister'S Fee,

A minister was called upon to marry
a couple, and after the ceremony was
performed the bridegroom handed him
q pair Of kid gloves. He thought this
strange fee for wedding ceremony.
and said so when he reached home and
told his wife to lay them away.
A long time afterwards he needed q
new pair of gloves and asked his wife
for the pair the young man had given
him.
When he tried to put them on he
found he could not, and upon eXamina-
ton found that each finger contained a
neatly folded So bill.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1919-05-17
Severe Test Of Artificial Limbs.

Though the unfortunate coincidence
of both lifts being out of order ut the
same time in the war office. remarks a
writer in the London Evening News,
two officers, who have each lost leg
In the war, had to walk down from and
come up to the top floor by the stairs.
When one learns that this involves the
negotiation of 3J4 stone stairs, one can
only divide ones admiration between
the officers for their pluck and the
makers of the artificial limbs for their
skill.