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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-24
CONSUMERS LEAGUE
ENDORSES DYER BILL
National Organization Endorses
Anti-Lynch Bill at An
nual Meet

New York, Nov. 16.-The National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People has received a unani-
NOUS endorsement of the Dyer anti
iynching bill, passed at the annual
meeting of the National Consumers
League on November 9. Mrs. Flor
ence Kelley, member of the N. A.
A.. C. P. board of directors, is gen.
eral secretary of the Consumers
League. The Consumers League en-
dorsement reads as follows:
Whereas, The Dyer anti-lynching
bill, a life-saving measure for the
prevention of mob violence, endorsed
at our last annual meeting, received
the approval of the American Bar
Association, was favorably reported
by the committees on the judiciary of
both House and Senate, passed the
house of representative by a large
majority, but was killed on the cal
endar in the Senate by the fillibuster;
and
Whereas, This bill will be intro
duced in the new Congress; and
Whereas, The development of the
Ku Klux Klan has given to the Dyer
bill a significance even wider than it
possessed last year; and
Resolved, That we hereby approve
this measure and request the general
secretary to work for it's passage;
and also we request the state and
local leagues to consider this bill and
cooperate in promoting it's enact
ment.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-24
Brooklyn Attorney
Suspended From
Practice For Year
TX. N. F. Service)

Brooklyn, N. Y, Nov. 22.-Samuel
F. Edmead an attorney living at 1868
Fulton street, this borough, was sus-
pended from practicing law for one
year by the appellate division of the
supreme court, last Friday. Edmead
was admitted to the bar in 1901.
The charges against Edmead were
made by the Brooklyn Bar Associa-
tion to the effect that when he was
retained by Daniel and Emily Browne
to buy a parcel of property on Cum
berland street, for the lowest posi-
ble price, Edmead bought the prop
erty from the owner for $4,000, had
it put in the name of dummy buyer
and then sold it to the Brownies for
$6,500.
Lawyer Edmead also operates a
dance hall at the above address.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-24
Outsiders Buried in Lot;
Results in $1,000 Suit

New York.-Margaret Holland is
suing Leon e. Bailey for 10000, alleg-
ing that she found the burial plot she
had reserved for her family already
tenanted. She purchased a plot in
Calvary cemetery in 1888, she says,
and in 1895 buried her first husband
there. After his death she left the
deeds with Bailey for safekeeping, and
she alleges he represented himself to
be the owner Of the plot and had three
persons buried there between 1919 and
1921. ~ .- .a..... -. ... -..~
When the second husband, Andrew
Holland, died, she said she found her
self without a place to bury him. Her
mental anguish is valued at $4,000
and the $500 represents expenses in
Cured in placing the body Of Holland
In a receiving vault.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-24
ASKRACE TOHONOR
MARTY RED DEAD
AT MASS MEETING
National Equal Rights League
to Honor Dead Soldiers
December IL
HOUSTON MARTYRS CALL
Asks All Churches in Country
to Hold Mass Meetings
HOnoring Heroes

Boston, Mass.-Thirteen soldier
martyrs of the oath u. S. Infantry
were ushered into eternity six years
ago, December 18th, 1923, with the
bravest of hearts and like warriors
bold. The death traps were sprung
by their caucasian comrades, and
without tremor they hung suspend
ed until announced officially dead" by
an ungrateful military authority
backed up by prejudiced democratic
administration. Each life as it went
forth into the great beyond was
personification of the rarest bravery;
like on dress parade and on the battle
fed, courage unparalleled in the an
nuals of history of the U. S. military
service. This day, Dec. 11th, although
day of sadness, should also be set
apart as happy>reminder that sold
iers who loved their race and country
were willing to die martyrs for a
cause, that was and is now sapping
the vitals of the nation where exas-
perating, prejudicial racial animos-
tiles are destroying the fabric of our
national honor. We must render un-
to the souls of these thirteen brave
martyrs the homage that a thinkful
race can bestow, as an honor whose
martyrdom will never be forgotten.
The National Equal Rights League
asks all Colored Posts, of the Grand
Army, of Spanish War Veterans, of
American Legion, of Veterans of For
eign Wars, of Army and Navy Union,
and all other veteran and patriotic
organizations to join in honor to these
thirteen soldier martyrs, who were
officially murdered by prejudiced
democratic administration.
The league urges all these veteran
and patriotic organizations, all our
churches, all our civic, literary and
political societies, also branch Equal
: Rights Leagues and Citizens or Equal
Rights Committees acting separately
or jointly in every community to hold
mass meetings in honor of these SOL
dier martyr heroes on Tuesday De-
cember II, 1923. At these memorial
meetings let resolves be passed urg-
ing President Calvin Coolidge to
grant clemency, pardon or parole, to
the fifty or more. comrades of these
soldiers dead, now in Federal prison
at Fort Leavenworth, Kan, sending
them to National headquarters Of the
league, 103 Court St., Boston, Mass,
forewith, that they may be taken to
the White House all together by spec
ial messenger, Colored American
War Veteran.
(Signed) MONROE MASON, :
Publicity Director.
N. E. R. League, formerly Sergt. 372
u. S. Inf.
Rev. T. ]. Moppins. President.
William Monroe Trotter, Cor. Sec.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-24
LOST ss2Jo RESTORED To
owner fFTER 3 YEARS
Post Office Department Locates
Man After Long Search.

New York.-How $500 in currency
travelled back and forth in the mails
for three years looking for it's owner,
until it finally reached him, is told in
recent post Office publication. The
loss occurred in Milwaukee, the loser
being midget actor and vaudeville
performer. That was in 1920 and the
bills were in wallet, lost in a de-
partment store in that city. The wal
let contained $3.50, besides a lot of
personal papers.
1t would appear, says the post Office
took out for himself or herself all bills
in excess of $500 and then placed. the
wallet with the remainder of the
money in small paper box, and this
box, wrapped very loosely in single
thickness of ordinary wrapping paper,
secured by light piece of string, Has
offered at the post Office for mailing.
1t hore sthe address of the owner of
the wallet. ~.
When the package was offered at the
post Office for mailing, as parcel-post
packages are required to be, the re-
ceiving clerk evidently requested the
sender to write his or her name and
address upon it, as required for parcel
post packages, but, instead of comply
ing with this request, the sender wrote
upon the package the name OF store,
without local address, and then depos-
tied the package to go forward in the
mails. ~#
The owner of the wallet had re-
moved from the address in question by
the time the package reached it's des-
tination and, as those at the address
had forgotten his new one, delivery
could not be effected. AS a result, the
package was treated as unbelievable
and notice was sent to the store name
which had been written on the pack
age in lieu of his correct name and
address, but as this preted to be fc-
titious, the package was finally sent
to the division of dead letters.
Opened in the dead letter Office, the
500 was found. Using the address on
the other Enclosures, determined ef-
fort was made to locate the addressee.
He was traced across the continent
and even to Germany, and eventually
he was located through Information
obtained from a relative, when deliv-
cry was effected. The post Office has
never been able to find out who found
the wallet, or who mailed it to its
owner.
Apparently says the writer, "the
finder, though abstracting $50 as a
reward which he voted for himself,
had some conscience, for he could have
retained all Of the money as well as
but part Of it..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-24
Colored Tenants
Suffer High Rent;
Commission Aids

Washington, d. c., Nov. 22.-Col-
ored tenants of this city, who have
been the greatest sufferers from high
rents imposed by heartless landlords,
are finding considerable aid and COM
fort in decisions now being handed
down by the District Rent Commits
sion. In not few instances substan-
tial reductions have been granted by
the commission in meritorious cases
wherein it has been shown, after a
full hearing, that great injustices
would have been incurred by renters
under increased rents. sought to be
imposed by owners and their agents:
The enforced movement of colored
tenants to high-priced properties and
rentals during the past few years has
been one of the economic problems Of
this community, and with a long line
of favorable decisions which will
probably ensue from the commission,
the winter season will be bereft of
many of it's hardships to colored
>householders.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-24
KLAN POWER TO
Be KEYNOTE OF
ELECTION TALK
Ohio and Indiana Will Wage
Terrific Fight on Klux Is
Johnson's Opinion
POLITICAL EMANCIPATION
Forecasts a Broad Use Of the
Ballot by the ColOred
Migrants

New York.-The following inter-
view with James Weldon johnson,
secretary of the National Association
for the advancement of Colored Peo-
pie, this city, has been sent out by
the N. E.. A. News Service (white)
supplying Scripps ewspaper
throughout the country:
"Ku Klux Klan will be made an
election issue in Northern states by
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People, James
Weldon johnson, secretary of the
association, informed representa-
tive.
johnson cited particularly Indi-
ana and Ohio as states where,
through migration, the Colored vote
would loom large in the next presi-
Dental election Colored people no
longer would stick to one party, but
would vote for anti-Klan candidates,
johnson predicted.
"Political emancipation was urged
upon Colored people in resolution
adopted at the associations annual
conference recently held in Kansas
City, Mo. "The time has come when
allegiance to any party on historical
grounds is no longer required or ex-
pedient' the resolution declared
The welfare of the entire Race it
was asstered, is paramount to allie
glance to any political party
johnson forecast a broad use of
the ballot by the migrants, even
though to many it will be the first
vote, because of disfranchisement in
the South
These folks, however, will know
how to use the VOTE Johnson said.
The migrants are not ignorant. 1t
takes a strong mind to break away
from the homeland-to seek new
fields of endeavor Conservatively
estimated, 100000 Colored persons
have come this year from Southern
states.
They came because they believed
there was little hope for them as men
and women in the South-little hope
for their children. They came be-
cause they were in constant fear of
their lives
GAS to the method of bringing up
the Klan issue Johnson said candi-
dates would be questioned regarding
their stand.
"The Klan has a large following
both in Ohio and Indiana, where, it
is indicated, the Colored people will
center their fight
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-24
KID NORFOLK DEFEATS
SIKH IN 15-ROUND' BOUT
Senegalese Battler Punished
Badly by Attack of New
York Fighter

New York, Nov. 20.-Kid Norfolk,
Harlem colored boxer, tonight re-
ceived the judges decision over Bat
tling Sikh, Senegalese conqueror of
Georges Carpenter in slashing,
spectacular Ground bout at Madison
Square Garden. Sikh proved a wild,
free-swing ing battler, but he was
punished badly by Norfolk's relent-
less attack.
Sikh Proves Game
Making his American debut, Sikh
proved game, aggressive fighter,
but he was obviously not in the best
of condition. Norfolk's ruggedness
sssimilated most of the battler's saw
age attacks while the Harlem col
ored man kept up a steady, wither-
ing onslaught that frequently had
Sikh in distress.
Sikh started at a furious pace but
tired rapidly under Norfolk's steady
jabbing and powerful hooks. Under
this whitening fire, blood streamed
from the battler's nose and from cuts
on his eyes and lips. He was groggy
from the 10th round, sorroWful
spectacle, but somehow he managed
to weather the storm.
$4,000 See Fight ,
Sikh, whose peculiar ring antics and
aggressiveness won him the plaudits
Of the crowd, rallied spectacularly at
times in the last few rounds, notably
the 18th and 18th, but these spurts
were soon ended and Norfolk ap-
peared unhurt.
Norfolk's blows in several rounds
seemed low. Twice Sikh protested
and the Kid was warned.
More than $4,000 paid $5s,s54 to
witness the fight which was billed for
the colored light heavyweight cham
pionshiu. Sikh, wearing green tights
and Ginning jauntily into the ring,
while he waved to the crowd, caught
the popular fancy. He was chereed
Justify ever ytime he cut loose with
a Senegalese "war dance" but these
tactics did not bother Norfolk.
Sikh weighed 172 and Norfolk 174.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-24
City Clerk Says
Voting to be Made
Easy as Possible

City Clerk Henry Olson has an
nounced that beginning January 2, his
o ce will be thrown open to the
voters of the city for the purpose of
registering under the new permanent
registration law passed at the last
session of he Legislature.
Mr.. Olson, who is also to be known
as the Commissioner of Registration,
has completed plans for inaugurating
the system, and expects to open a
campaign of educating within the near
future. -
''Under the trims of the new law"
he says, "voting will be made so easy
and there will be so few demands
made on the time of the people that
there will be few good excuses for
not voting" -...s~ -
He predicts that if the people will
make reasonable effort to cooper
ate with him that the normal vote of
the city will be greatly INCREASED.
Some fear has been expressed that
for the first year or two the effect of
the new law will be to cut down the
election returns, and this, is pre-
dicted, will be entirely to the disad-
vantages of Mayor Arthur E. Nelson,
should he determine to ask for an
ether term. F.
81 am going to make voting as easy
as possible" says Mr.. Olson. "If it
takes fifty clerks to handle and ex-
pedite the work, they will be at the
service of the public. Every business
day will be a registration day up to
within fifteen days of the election,
when the books will be finally closed.
After that time no one will be allowed
to qualify under any! circumstances" )"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-24
Scotch Cookie" Takes
in $25. 600 Each Day

London.-Betting among the thrifty
Scotchmen is done on a scale that has
shocked members of the house Of COM
mons, men who are accustomed to deal
with millions of pounds Of the govern
ment's money every year.
A Glasgow bookmakerI admitted to
the house committee on betting, ap-
pointed to investigate the possibilities
Of the government placing tax on
horse race betting, that he took In an
average OF $4,000 a day, or more than
$4,000, 900 a year in bets. This par
ticular bookmaker operates credit ac-
count system In established Offices, and
his business comes within the law.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-24
DOUBT
DOCTORS DEATH
TX NJ F. Service)

New York, Nov. 22.-Connecticut
authorities have cast considerable
doubt over the death and burial eight
months ago Of DR.. Oscar F. Citizens,
who is supposed to have died on Feb
ruary %, in Waterbury, Conn.,, after
an illness Of only two days. DR.. Git
tens is graduate of Howard tuni-
versity. He has "a brother, Joseph N.
Citizens, in this city, living at 149.
West 140th street. a..
Funeral services were held over the
remains of DR.. Citizens in st. Phil
lips P. E. church. this city, and on
March his body was supposedly in
tered in Woodlawn cemetery. He
was well known in this city and
many of his former friends attended
the services. He was a member of
the Spartan Field club and other or
ganizatinos. a- .. d.
Detective McMullen of Waterbury,
Conn.,, spent several days last week
in Cambridge, Mass, where DR.. Git
tens was reported to be still prac-
ticing medicine.
Joseph Citizens, his brother, and
others who knew him state that they
have absolutely no reason to doubt
his death. ..~-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-24
English Wives Of Yanls
Are Without Nationality

London.-An English woman mar
ried to an American is without nation
ality in law and without chance of
relief, as under American law she re-
mains English, but under British law
she becomes an American.
A select parliamentary committee
has been considering this problem, but
is unable to agree. Their proceedings,
with the evidence collected, will be
laid before both houses.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-24
SOAR over ICE
PEAKS IN Plane
Explorers Cross Lofty Crags in
Flying Boat-Wonderful
Pictures of Scenery.

Spitzbergen.-Flying over jagged
ice-clad Arctic mountain crags in q
seaplane with knocking" motor pro-
vides the thrill of thrills-it is no
sport for one with weak heart Such
trip was made by w. Mittelholzer, a
Swiss aviator who has charge of the
aviation expedition sent to Spitzbergen
to cooperate with Amundsen in his
attempt to fly from Point Barrow to
Spitzbergen. He took with him an
all-metal Junker seaplane to relieve
Amundsen should the latter be COM
PEELED to land in the course of his long
flight. Though Amundsen's failure
was known before Mittelholzer reached
Spitzbergen, he made use of his op-
portunity to make interesting aerial
reconnaissances, which he describes in
the Neue Zurcher Zeitung in an article
translated in the Living Age as fol-
lows:
Engine Starts to Knock.
l determined to cross over the
Chydenius range, which eliminates in
crystalline pinnacle of Newtontop at a
height of nearly 5000 feet, and thence
across the 30 or 60 miles of mountain
GUS country to Hinlopen strait.
My pilot Neumann, was a veteran
seaplane operator, The great Ice ford
lay before us. On both sides vast gla-
ciers, framed in rugged cliffs, descend
ed into the deep blue water. To the
northward rose sea of peaks and
pinnacles, whose violet hues stood out
with knife-like sharpness against the
golden-yellow horizon. To the south
ward one snowy dome followed an
other under an azure blue Italian
heaven, beyond which our gaze
seemed to lose itself in infinity.
But what allied our motor? When
ever Neumann gave it more gas it
would knock distressingly. I left it
to Neumann to decide whether we
should turn back, but he motioned
vigorously ahead, throttled down his
motor as much as possible and trust
ed to his flyers luck" not to leave us
in the lurch.
Take Pictures Of Scenery.
We were only 5000 feet above, the
sea and Newtontop still lowered above
US. When Neumann gave the motor
more gas to rise higher, it began to
knock again, so our only recourse was
to find way through the mountain
passes, where we were violently tossed
hither and thither by POWERFUL wind
currents. We would glide above deep
abysses, skirt, glittering bluish-green
Zee precipices, and turn sharply this
way and that in order to record on
our"films as much as possible Of the
glorious, awe-inspiring scenery or
either hand. Neumann performed his
task with GOODNESS and courage.
For nearly half an hour we threaded
our way with many a twist and turn
amid the highest peaks of Spitzbergen
in seaplane! Leaving our lofty
mountain companions we were soor
speeding over a mighty glacier, where
we could easily have made a landing
almost anywhere.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-24
WALTON KLANSMAN
ASSERTS WITNESS

Oklahoma City, Okla.,. Nov. 24.--W.
T. TiTley, former cyclops of the Mus
kogee (Okla.) Ku Klux Kan, testi-
fled before a legislative Investigating
committee that Gov. J. C. Walton ap-
piled for membership in the Kan,
paid an initiation fee of $40 and took
the oath of the organization, accord
ing to a report of the committee made
public
The assertion created intense inter-
est and wide discussion. Unbelief of
the charges by Waltonss friends and
the expected denial of Walton is
bound to make the situation more
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-24
Only Two Survivors of
Ancient Indian Tribe

Seattle.-The last surviving men,
bers of the Chemakum tribe of Indians
have been discovered living in one Of
the old villages of the Clallam tribe
along the straits Of Juan de Fuca.
They are an old man and his sister.
They have forgotten almost all Of
their own language, but Prof. Franz
Boas of Columbia university succeeded
in 1890 in extracting 1900 Chemakum
words from them. It is believed that
centuries before white men came to
Puget sound the Chemakum inhabited
the whole northern part Of the Olym-
pic peninsula and were a powerful
tribe ,-..et ....#
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-24
Finds Radio Sleep
Helpful to Students

Washington. The 'slearn-while-
you-sleep" system Of radio in
struction received credit from
the Navy department for the
fact every student at the Pensa-
cola air station had made a sat
isfaetory mark.
notwithstanding controversy
over the efficiency Of the sys-
TEN. under which students go to
sleep with the receivers over
their ears, the Pensacola au-
thorities reported all of those
with low ratings had been pulled
up through the agency of the
subconscious mind. which had
absorbed those things missed in
the classroorns.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-24
u. S. Cob to Lose
His Flat Hat Soon
Washington. - Abolition

Washington. - Abolition of
the blue, fiat hat, which has
characterized U. s. bluejackets
almost from the inception Of the
navy. will be- recommended to
the Secretary of the Navy IL a
suitable substitute can be found
by the board of officers inyesti-
eating proposed changes IL. the
uniform, ii was learned.
Disadvantages of the old "sail-
orr type of headgear, such as
the difficulty of keeping it on
when the wind is blowing and
the ease with which it wrinkles,
long have been apparent but
search for a substitute has been
fruitless thus far.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-24
To Build Library in France.

New York. Members of the police
force have subscribed more than
$1O,OdO for the fund which viii be
used in the erection Of a memorial IL.
brary building to take the place Of the
old library OF Louvain university,
which was destroyed In the war. The
campaign within the department is
being conducted by policemen who
fought In the World war.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-24
Boy Loses Hand While
Feeding Bear in Zoo

New York. = When little Ralph
Thomas offered a peanut to polar
bear in the zoo here, the huge animal
chewed off the boys hand. The boys
father lifted him to the bears cage
despite warning that the animal was
troublesome and would seek to kill IL
anyone came within reach.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-24
Hotel Clerk Wills Big
Sum to Fellow w Workers

New York Arthur H. Fowler, for
twenty years clerk and bookkeeper In
the Hotel waldorf Astoria drug store,
died recently and when his win was
read 1t was found that he had left an
estate Of $40,0 900 to forty Of his fell
low employees.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-24
Towns Last Bank Quits.

I Langdon, N. D.The First National
Bank of Langdon was closed by its
officers voluntarily recently. This Is
the third Langdon bank to close or
suspend in six weeks and leaves the
town without a bank.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-11-24
weds After GETTING pixoree.

Port Huron, Mich.-Within few
minutes after he had obtained d.
vorce, Otto Harsen, Of Algonac, took
out a license to wed Mabel Hansing,
also Of Algonac. Harsen's wife did
not centest the divorce proceedings.