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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-17

Mayor Arthur E. Nelson is in Wash
ington to attend and address the ses-
sions of the National Municipal
League.
Before leaving St. Paul he did much
to clear the atmosphere in state pol
itics by announcing definitely that he
would not be candidate in 1924 for
governor. The many potential as
pirants for that Office have been
hearing a great deal of "Nelson talk
around the state, and as a conse-
quence they have been delaying their
own plans until they learned whether
the St. Paul mayor was going to
''listen." His declaration removes a
dangerous opponent from the state
list, and probably does much to assure
Farmer-Labor victory.
Mayor Nelson, however, did not en-
tirely ease the minds of those who
would like to succeed him as head of
the municipal government. He ex-
pressed a strong desire to return to
the practice of law, and intimated
that he probably would do it.
Many organizations and individuals
however, are opposed to his retire
ment, first, because they believe the
entire administration has been a sue
cess and should be returned as it
stands to complete the important work
| it has started, and second, because
they believe Mayor Nelson has de-
monstrated himself to be the one to
pilot the city through the next two
years which promise development
that will play conspicuous part in
it's ultimate position.
Mayor Nelson admitted that he is
being urged to seek reelection, but
he would not say he was taking it
seriously.
"Unless I can be convinced that I
owe more time to the city, I shall
resume my own work where I left
it when I entered public life," said
the Mayor.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-17
RULING BENEFITS
MEN 0F:"0. T.C." /"
Those Who Attended Officers
Training Camps in 1917 En-
titled to $1OO a Month.

Observation-Disclosures of enlisted
men of the regular army and National
Guard who attended the officers train
ing camp during 1917 and 1918 and
later became commissioned officers in
the American army will be benefited
by ruling announced recently by
Comptroller General McCarl by which
their monthly salary is placed at $1OC
instead of $33.
In the ruling the comptroller general
refers to legislation enacted by con.
gress which specifically authorized
the payment of 500 as the monthly
rate to all students at the officers
training camps regardless of whether
they were civilians or men from the
nOn-cOmmissioned or enlisted ranks of
the army.
How to Apply for Money.
Persons coming under the ruling, it
was disclosed at the War department,
should make application to the chief
of finance, War department, for the
difference in their enlisted pay and
the rate allowed under Comptroller
General McCarl's ruling. The appli-
ual was ordered into the service,
where and when he attended an off,
GERS training camp and what his
status. and pay were while in attend
ance.
Comptroller General McCarl's ruling
was given in response to a review re-
quested in the settlement of army pay
received by Hyatt F. Newell, private
first class, with the headquarters de-
tachment Of the Sixty-seventh brigade
of the National Guard. After citing
the paragraph in the army appropria-
tion act of June Is, 1917, which sets
aside $226,SS2, $50 "for pay Of enlist
ed men Of all grades, including re-
cruits, and pay at $1OO a month for
enlisted men in training for officers
Of the reserve corps" the comptroller
generals ruling said:
1T Is evident that the purpose Of
the legislation authorizing pay not ex-
ceeding $1OO a month for civilians in
the act Of May II, 1917, and pay at
500 a month for enlisted men in the
act of June Is, 1917, was to provide
pay for the training period and pro-
vide trained officers for the army, and
not for the purpose of building up
the Officers Reserve corps.
ut is apparent that the designa-
tion of enlisted men Of the line for
training under the revised regulation
Of January 5, 1918, was for the pur-
pose Of training them as Officers in
the army and that they were accord
ingly entitled to the pay fixed by the
act of June Is, 1917. The adjutant
general, United States army, reported
January 80, 1923, that claimants
status was that of an enlisted man on
detached service in training for a
commission from January 10 to April
1S, 1918, and he Is accordingly enti-
tied to the difference in pay between
$33 and 500 month for such period,
or $221.1O. Upon review Of the settle
ment $2211 10 is certified as due claim
ant"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-17
Bride, Forced to Sleep
Alone, Obtains Divorce

Lynn, Mass. Judge Alden P. White
Of the Salem Probate court recently
granted a divorce to Mrs. Frank L.
Struthers, from her husband, a
wealthy broker, because the latter's
mother refused to allow her son to
sleep with his bride on their honey
moon. The night she was married
the plaintiff testified her mother-in-
law stopped them on their way to bed.
Frank has always slept on this
floor near me since he was a child"
she cried, "and he mustn't sleep near
YOU"
During the eighteen days she re-
mained at the Struthers home, the
bride testified, she passed a honey
moon alone in a dismal attic room.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-17
ELECT CANDIDATES
OF KU KLUx; MANY
OHIO CITIES SWEPT
NeighbOring States Falling in
Line; Colored Pittsburg
Votes Democratic
K. K. K. DOMINATE INDIANA
Klan Holds Balance of Power in
Ohio; Declare Klan
Control
K. K. K. DOMINATE INDIANA
(Crusader SerYicel

Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 15-Political
observers in Ohio were taking stock
today of the influence of the Ku Klux
Klan in Ohio as manifested in this
weeks municipal elections. Klan en-
dorsed candidates were generally sue
cessful. There were only a few ex-
ceptions. IN Steubenville, where riot
ing occurred few months ago when
Klansmen invaded that city and
where an anti-Klan organization has
since been formed, the anti-Klan
candidate, Frank Hawkins, was sue
cessful.
Politicians profess to see in the
Klan victories in Ohio a continuation
of Klan activities and growth and
nomination of the next state and
presidential campaign a year from
now.
Klan Backs Republicans
Klan victories in most cases were
Republican victories, although many
Of the municipal officers elected with
Klan support classify themselves as
independents.
Probably the outstanding Klan VIC
tory was in Youngstown, where
Charles F. Scheible was 3 to
winner over his nearest competitor,
James Watkins, Democrat.
In Portsmouth, where an 11th-hour
Klan fight developed because Mayor
Gableman, the present. executive of
the city, prohibited a Klan parade,
Gableman was defeated for re-elec-
ton by Ralph Calvert, Republican,
who had the support of the Klan.
Akron elected D. C. Rybolt, a Re-
publican, with Klan support, by more
than 5000 majority over Isaac Mey-
ers, Democrat. All Klan-endorsed
candidates for school board were
likewise elected.
Mayor B. F. Brough, Republican,
reelected mayor Of Toledo, was sup
ported by the Klan.
The Klan issue was sharply drawn
in the Newark election, where Ste
vens, Republican and a Klan candi-.
date, defeated E. D. Leach, Democrat
and anti-Klan candidate.
In Middletown the complete slate
Of Klan candidates for city commits
sioners and board Of education was
elected, and in Hamilton, Ohio, in
the same county, Howard Kelly, Re-
publican, with Klan support, was
elected over two opponents, giving
the city it's first Republican mayor
in decade.
The Klan is in politics in Ohio.
All the evidence is that today it
holds the balance of power, and the
day is not far distant, if the pres
ent rate Of progress is maintained,
before the masked hordes will be in
control in Ohio just as they are in
Indiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Oregon
end Arkansas.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-17
new POLITICAL LEAGUE
STARTED IN SAINT PAUL
Atty. o. J. Smith Says That
Organization Knows no
FavOritism

In response to the invitations sent
out to all the professional and bust.
ness men and to women heads of or
ganizations throuhgout the city, the
new political league got under way
November 8, when they met at the
residence of George C. Shannon, 1921
Colne street. This meeting was held
for the purpose of organizing a po-
litical party that will best serve the
interest of the colored voters in this
city, county and state.
After discussion of the meeting
and the purpose of the organization,
George C. Shannon was elected tenn
porary chairman, and Atty. o. J.
Smith, temporary secretary. All
officers are to be elected at the mass
meeting when the organization is to
be made permanent. The officers
will be: Chairman, vice chairman,
secretary and assistant secretary, and
treasurer.
In giving this report of the meet
ing, Mr.. Smith said: "There has
never been an organization here
that served the interests of all
the people so well as this one
advocated by Mr.. Shannon, an
organization that knows no favor
itism, and is entirely devoid of par
tiality, an organization concerned
first and last in demanding and main
tanning the constitutional rights of
our people and of all people. It will
be an organization of every race, man
and woman, one which they may de-
pend upon for fair, just and equita-
BILE political representation, and it
will merit their interest and ap-
proval. It will be independent in its
activities and principles, and not al
lied or co-mingled with any political
group or party, reserving unto itself
the right to act. as it's principles die
tate. No other political principle can
or will be successful, and every race,
man and woman should be present at
this meeting in the discharge of their
duty as citizens of this great COM
monwealth, the United States of
America"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-17
Dyer Clues $50 To
Work ofN A. A. C.P.

New York, Nov. 9.-Representative
Leonidas G. Dyer has sent a contri-
button of $50 toward the work of
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement Of Colored People.
In connection with this donation
the N. A. A. C. P. further stated that
Mr.. Dyer in addition to sponsoring
and fighting for the anti-lynching
bill in Congress, has toured the far
West, the middle West, and the East
ern safes, speaking for the measure.
For his campaign in behalf of the
Dyer anti-lynching bill, Mr.. Dyer re-
ceived reimbursement for the ex-
penses he incurred, but he has not
accepted or received one cent for his
efforts beyond his actua ! travelling
expenses.
Mr.. Dyer has for several years
been a member of the N. A. A. c. P,
and has publicly commended it and
asserted that the rapid progress the
anti-lynching bill made in the last
Congress was due to the Advance
ment Associations efforts.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-17
Cost of Running u. S.
Government Increases

Washington.-Cost of running the
United States government during the
month of September, 1923, increased
approximately $91, 100000 to $2s6O72,-
5O4, as compared with the previous
month, when ordinary expenditures to-
tailed but $195, 5,56O,775, the Treasury
department announced recently.
The huge increase, survey Of the
statistical report shows, is wholly due
to big jump in interest on the public
debt, this item amounting to $122, 2,3O2,-
OIL in the latter period, in contrast
with only $1O,953, ,431 in August Of this
year.
Public debt retirements chargeable
against ordinary receipts made during
September amounted to $2S, S,74S,2O0; as
against $3S, ,936, $50 the previous month,
while other public debt. retirements
made during the period aggregated
$399, ,45O, ,7SO and 81, ,063,164 respec-
lively.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-17
JUDGE j. ". Willis
ADDRESSES FORUM
Houston Martyrs Day Observed
by st. Paul Branch of the
s.. N. A. A. G. p.

The forum of the N. A. A. C. P
met on Sunday, November II, al
Pilgrim Baptist church, Grotto street
and Central avenue, Judge John w
Willis was the principle speaker
tyrs," which was quite ably handled
and showed that the speaker had
given the subject much thought, he
also paid quite tribute to the Amer.
lean colored soldier, whom he said
had brought great credit to the Race
in each of the wars, and particularly
SO in the World War by their, valor
He also stated he was personally ac-
quainted with one particular ieuten-
ant who was in command of colored
regiment, and that this man said he
would rather command a colored reg
iment in preference to a white one
as the colored soldier always obeyed
orders. a...-- IT,.
Petitions were presented and the
audience was asked to sign their
names and addresses to same, after
which they will be sent to the Presi-
dent of the United States requesting
pardon for the imprisoned members
of the Oath United States infantry
now serving life and long term SEN
tences in the federal prison at Leav-
enworth, Kan, and who were con-
victed in connection with the riots
at Houston, Tex, in 1917.
The chairman of the board, DIR.
Waldo Turner, stated that the presi-
dent, Judge w. Willis, had given $50
to the branch to assist in making up
the apportionment Of $500. He also
stated that $22 was lacking to make
up this amount, and an appeal was
made and $101.35 in cash was col
lected toward this amount.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-17
REVOLT THREATENS
A. NJ. E. Church
Ira T. Bryant Looked Upon as
Militant Leader of the
Reform Forces

Chicago, ILL.,, Nov. S.-The ap-
preaching general conference of the
A. M. E. church will witness the
greatest gathering of church reform
ers and revolutionists ever assembled
in colored religious body in Amer
ica. There is a strong undercurrent
of reform spirit active in the African
Methodist church from the Atlantic
to- the Pacific and the Lakes to the
Gulf. Chicago is in it's grip now.
Bishop A. j. Carey is the man at
whom the reform element here is
pointing an accusing finger.
"The Young Allenite," October is
sue, sizes up the situation in Chicago
affecting Bishop Carey in red letter
flash. lines reminding African Meth
odists that "a. j. Carey's dirty life''
forced Rev. w. D. Cook with 1,500
member out of the church in Chi
cago. Now the same thing is con-
ceded to be the cause of an additional
exodus of 500 members with Rev. J.
R. Harvey. "Careyism' is charged
with killing the A. M. E. church in
Chicago.
Behind these charges stand events
connecting with the election of Rev.
A. J. Carey to the bishopric at the
last general conference of the A. M.
E. church when DR.. Leroy Bundy,
who lately attempted sicide in Cleve-
land, was accused of handling the A.
J. Carey "Slush Fund" at Philadel-
phia. Rev. j. R. Harvey is being
looked upon as a Christian martyr
slaughtered by grating bishops" be-
cause he refused to open his church
for political meetings.
Sweeping Charges Openly Made
|. The rule of some bishops of the
A. M. E. church is being attacked
from all quarters by both minister's
and laymen. They are charged with
trying to prostitute the church for
their political profit; with advancing
immoral preachers in the denomina-
tion and favoring them with high po-
sitions instead of clean, moral min
listers; with tyranny, graft, greed and
high-handed corruption; with selling
the best appointment to the highest
bidders. 1t appears that the entire
African Methodist church has been
convinced soundly that while there
are some bishops who measure up,
there are others who are undoubtedly
guilty of misusing and abusing their
authority and opportunity in a dan
gerous and disgraceful manner.
Secretary Ira T. Bryant of the A.
M. E. Sunday School Union, is looked
upon as the militant leader of the
reform forces working earnestly for
changes in the denomination. Back
of Bryant stands the bishops conced-
ed to be just, good and righteous and
veritable host of ministers and lay
men confident of their ability to
prove beyond all doubt every charge
they are expected to make against
the guilty at the next general con-
ference of the A. M. E. church to be
held in Louisville next year.
As in other healthy institutions
there is reactionary element in the
A. M. E. church. It is inadvisable to
assail bishop who is elected for
life. The institution is torn down
not the bishop. The way to get a
higher grade leadership is by teach
ing the laymen higher ideals.
.... 20. c. 81.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-17
DYER Bill Seen as
National Measure

New York, Nov. 9.-The Dyer anti
lynching bill is reported to be one of
the eleven chief items on the admin
istration's program for Congress, ac-
cording to report in the New York
Times. It is pointed out that Con-
gress is divided into small blocks.
and that small voting groups will ex-
ercise great power in the next Presi-
Dental election. In this connection
it was pointed out by the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, that senators and
representatives in every Northern
states, should be :unmistakably ad-
vised that the fate of the Dyer bill
would profoundly influence Northern
colored votes in the Presidential cleo
tion of 1924.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-17
PORTER KILLS MANIAC
II. ON SANTE FE TRAIN

Albuquerque, N. M, Nov. g.
Through the quick-wittedness and
calmness of Otto G. Palmer, railroad
porter, the lives of many passengers
on the Santa Fe train No. Z ,were
saved, just few miles from La Junta
Wednesday night, when he over
powered and killed white man who
ran amuck and had stabbed three
women passengers and the conductor.
It is said that. the white man boarded
the train at La Junta, and few mo-
ments after the train left the station
the man drew large dirk knife, stab
bing three women, whose screams at
tracted the conductor, who received
a severe stab wound in the shoulder.
At this moment Palmer arrived on the
scene with q revolver, firing into the
skull of the maniac, causing death
instantly.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-17
DYER Continues
Speech Campaign,

Representatives Dyer of Missouri,
sponor of the anti-lynching bill which
will be fought for in the next Con-
gress, is continuing the speaking
tour he has conducted intermittently
during the past year, under the aus
pices of branches of the National As
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People. Recently Represent
ative Dyer spoke before the N. A. A.
C. P. branch in Charleston, w. Va.
among the guests at the meeting be-
ing Governor Morgan who intro
duced Mr.. Dyer.
Other dates in the tour arranged by
N. A. A. C. P. branches include Pitts
burgh on November z; Harrisburg,
Pa, on November 8; Boston on No
vember II, and Ne wHaven on No
vember IL. At Boston Mr.. Dyer is
to speak in the fremont Temple, the
largest auditorium in the city.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-17
Horse Ignores Operator;
Police Reserves Called

Bridgeport, Conn.-Choking sounds
and thumps as of blows heard over the
telephone here brought out the police
reserves recently.
An exchange operator frantically
called Number, please" while police
raced in motorcars to the scene.
Breaking into the Walter Stapleton
building, the police found that snort
ing horse, making a lot Of gasps In
chewing hay, reached his nose through
a hole in his stall wall and knocked the
telephone off a shelf close by. 5-..
The thumps were made BY his stable
mates kicking the sides Of their stalls.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-17
Tammany Hall,
Democratic Order,
Elects Candidates
COlOred Assemblyman and AL
derman are Reelected by
Republicans
*. N. F. Service)

New York, Nov, 15.-Tammany
Hall, the local Democratic organiza-
tion, retained its grip on New York
city in the general state election
held last Tuesday, but lost several
seats in the state assembly. The
Democratic judiciary ticket was
elected by majority of nearly two
to one.
In the Twenty-frst assembly and
aldermanic districts, voters reelected
Henri M. Shields to the assembly and
John w. Smith to the board of alder
men. Both are colored. DR.. Henry
o. Harding, colored, and John T. Nc
Neill, white, candidates for alder
men and assemblymen, respectively,
on the Republican ticket, were de-
feated by small majorities. They re-
ceived more votes in the colored sec
tion than the two Democratic candi-
dates.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-17
CoLored Parachute
Jur,,perLandsAtop
Jail;GetsS Summons
Was Advertising Mass Meeting
to be Held in City in the
Evening
TX. N. F. Seryice)

New York, Nov. 15.-Herbert Ju-
liam, colored daredevil parachute
jumper, jumped from an aeroplane
1000 feet up in the air, a day last
week, and when he came down he
landed on one edge Of the police sta
tion, was pulled in the window BY
policemen and handed a summons to
answer a charge for violating laws
regulating stunt aeronautics over the
city. julian had planned to land in
a nearby park but unfavorable air
currents carried him several blocks
away. He was advertising mass
meeting to be held in Liberty hall in
the evening. twenty-five thousand
people saw him come down.
Julian was hailed into court ON a
similar charge about six months ago
but was given a suspended sentence.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-17
JAMAICA ISLE OF
PHANTOM SHIPS
Buccaneers Planned Raids in
Port Royal, Which Was Wick
eldest Spot on Earth.

Washington.-"The island Of ia
maica in the West Indies which, &C
cording to newspapers, is having its
tariff disputes with the mother coun-
try over the duties imposed on its
articles of export, was In the latter
half of the Seventeenth century the
stronghold of the English -bncGsneers .
says bulletin based on communica-
tion by Nell Ray Clarke to the Ma
tional Geographic society.
Morgan, the greatest and most sa-
gacious of the pirates, planned most of
his expeditions in Port Royal, which
had the reputation of being the rich
est and wickedest spot on the earth.
And proud the city was of the noto-
riety. Defiant, famboyant, and un-
abashed, it greeted the chiefs who lent
riotous color to it's life, emptied gold
into it's Golfers, and tinged its nights
with drunkenness and revelry.
TumbIed Rendezvous Into Sea.
I'm those days Port Royal had high
wall about it and wide quays, where
on it's habitues emptied their pieces
of-eight. Then, as If providence were
outraged by it's utter disregard Of
moral laws, an earthquake on June Z,
1892, shook Jamaica to it's foundations
and tumbled this den of iniquity, with
scores Of the pirates, into the sea.
When the water Is calm the coral
encrusted ruins of the old town may
be seen beneath the water, even today,
and the natives still regale the visitor
with stories of phantom ships that are
trying to make the port.
Zone interesting relic remains, how
ever, in Fort Charles, a still old vet
eran of sun-faded bricks. Some Of the
officers quarters and paved court, SO
white that it dazzles, are still stand
ing. Flower gardens now encircfe its
walls; it's gun embrasures are hidden
by bushes; the birds haunt it's crannies,
and the lizards crawl lazily over it's
parapets. Horatio Nelson was sta
toned at the forts in 1779, when he
was twenty-one years Of age, and the
paved platform which was known af-
fectionately as his quarter deck may
still be seen.
Town ls DisconsoIate.
'The town now standing on the old
site is respectable, faded and discon-
solate. On the fences and bushes, in
melancholy ugliness, the commonplace
inhabitants dry the fishing nets by
means Of which they exc out their ex-
istence.
"The pirates, with the two bases,
Tortuga and Port Royal, for operations,
took toll Of all the islands and lands
along the Caribbean.
"Across the magnificent harbor from
Port Royal lies Kingston, the capital
of Jamaica and one of the most i'm
portant ports in the West Indies. Its
foundations were laid by Port Royal
survivors.
'Though only 2 per cent Of King
ston's $4,000 people are white, no small
body of citizens of any city has shown
more courage, energy and determina-
tion during the hurricanes and earth
quakes which have time and again lit
orally destroyed its very foundations
Hardly had it's charred ruins cooled
after the violent earthquake and fire
in 1907 before the survivors were busy
building, between the palm-fringed
shore and the blue hills beyond, a
clean, regularly laid-out town to take
the place Of the one which Nature had
just destroyed"