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FILES SENSATIONAL SUIT FOR
DIVORCE.
preston News Sch dce)

Les Angeles, Calf. Dec.-Mrs. Helen
La MAZE wife OF Elsier LaMaie, II
motion picture and theatrical man, al
-eges in her Complaint in a suit for di
vorce that her husband tried to sell
her to Lou Harris Baker. wealthy
Negro of Juarez, Mexico. 1t is stated
that Mrs. LaMaie and Baker were
friendly and that her husband was al
so friendly with a wealthy widow,
Mrs. Mary Ella Howe Holder, of Dal-
AS Texas and netting the apparent
friendship existing between Mrs. La
Maie and Baker. it is claimed that La
MAZE proposed to his wife that since
Paker was madly in love with her $500
900 could be secured from Baker fol
her 1t is claimed that at the time the
proposal was made the woman raised
no strenuous objections. but when she
became suspicious that her husband
vas endeavoring IL get rid Of her so he
could marry the wealthy Texas woman
Irs. LaMaie filed suit for divorce
Hearing on the case will be held at the
LeXt term Of court it is said.
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leaders seem to have overlooked entire
ly. refer to the Negro vote. Formerly
this was reckoned from one hundred
to one hundred and twenty-five thous
and votes, but with five hundred thous
and colored people who have come
from the South in the last few years,
this vote has been swelled to nearly
double that number-it is approximate
ly two hundred thousand. This Is sup
posedly Republican asset but clever
Democratic leadership is rapidly con-
verting it into Republican liability.
and an asset of Democracy. You may
scott at this, but look at the facts.
Tammany Hall elected Negro to
the Board Of Aldermen in the last To-
cal election. Another was sent to the
Legislature, and both were chosen our
of Republican strongholds, which went
all to pieces last year. The appointing
and electing colored men get startling
results. In the Harlem Black Belt no
Republican mass meetings worth men
tioning were held. CAP Smith SWEEP
everything before him. 1t looks as
though he might do so again. At all
events Republican leadership is giving
him every encouragement in the cam
paign. which he is steadily carrying
over all the state and city for Black
votes.
Many years ago out of my experiences
as the Eastern Secretary of the Repuo.
lean National Committee wrote, or
rather complied a pamphlet for it was
g matter of official facts and indisput-
able tabulated statements from recorot.
In that publication I showed what the
United States owed to the Negro vote
since the war, inasmuch as it had CIV
en- the Republican Party every victory
it had won on the political battlefields
since 1868, when Grant and Colfa1
shattered the hopes of the Democratic
Party. who, under the leadership OF
Seymour and Blair were declaring War
a failure and all that sort of rebel chat
ter.
From that campaign down to the
present hour, EXCEPT in two instances.
this has held true. The two instances
we're: Roosevelt's overwhelming vic
tory, the other that Of the landslide
which swept Harding into Office by
majority unprecedented in American
history.
Since Harding's election, however,
the situation has changed materially.
With a scorn Of consequences unpar-
allcled unsurpassed by any people of
color. since little Japan stood up IN
reckless defiance of the colossal Rus
sian Empire, the Negro has stood up
IN self-assertion unequal in his history
as the faithful ally of the Republican
PARTY.
This remark needs no illustration
particularly to you for you know al
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-01-05
''AR AYO OPENS MONDAY.
A Gala Program Promised BY New
Management.

While the preliminary opening OF the
Itayo Theatre WITH the Super Photo
Play Restitution" occurred on Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday, January )
and 5 the formal grand opening wiil
t;ike place on Monday night January
the 18th az 7 o'clock.
Manager Droste when seen at the
Rayo stated: I'm too busy getting
the Theatre in shape to tell you much
about the opening show, anyway it's
surprise. all I cali say to you is be here
Monday night and try to get in! Come
any night next week or any night any
other week and I'll guarantee you the
best show you ever saw for the
money
Things are humming down at the
Rayo cleaners are busy all over the
place cleaning, busting scrubbing ami
polishing. New Graperies are being
:ung new Lighting arrangements ir-
stalled comfortable Rest Room for
ladies and children has been tastefullv
arranged the ro't.ng system thorough
ly renovated assuring comfortable
Warmth all over the house, the proJec
ton department. has been entirely over
hauled, 50 as to present the pictures
% the verv best possible advantage
painter are busy redecorating interior
nd by next Monday the Rayo Theatre
will be a place of amusement to be
proud Of.
Several speakers of prominence have
heen invited to be the guests of the
Management On next Monday evening
for the formal opening, and appropri-
ate speeches of welcome and good WISH
es will be made. There will be no
Matinee On Monday January It'll IN
order to allow AL the time possible t.
nut the theatre in readiness for th3
Grand Opening Monday night. The
doors will. be open at $50 Monday eve
hing January 18th and the Formal
Onening Program VIII sfart at Z
o'clock.
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WOMEN BEAT EACHER AFTER A
BOY is PUNISHED.
Preston News service.l

Pittsburgh Pa, Dec.-Mrs. Myrtle
MCGEE and Mrs. Anna Grant were he'll
Cor court under $1,000 bail in moraie
court last Friday Oil the charge of hay
ing attacked Miss Bertha E. Elliott.
principal of Luclsey School No. 1.
The women testified that Miss Eli
oft Disseminated against their brother
pupil. 1t is said that the boy was i'm
pudent and wher the teacher attempt
ed to admcnish him he is alleged &c
have b. zone abusive whereupon the
principal administered punishment e.
him.
His sisters head of it that night
and the next day they went to the
school build ing and began their TRADE
uron the principal. Miss Elliott order
ed the women to leave the school build
ing on account Of the language they
'gere using. Al this time the women
attacked Miss Elliott striking her in
THE face and fled from the building.
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swer is this situation must concern
you very much. Especially you who
have announced yourselves for Presl
dent Coolidge. President Cooliden
knows that the great states for dele
gates are Pennsylvania, New York aud
Illinois and each of these and all o.
these are in the Last analysis, controli-
ed by the colored vote, of which there
are now two hundred thousand in New
York state with 100000 or more IL
PENNSYLVANIA.
Do need to remind you Of what can
be accomplished by such constituent
cy in the Presidential primaries? TIRE
Republican machine in Philadelphia
has had to depend on the Negro vote
for more than forty years. 1t is its
ally today and the local leaders are
trying to keep 1t so but can they do
It? They could lot in Chicago. They
could not in New York, nor Baltimore
Indiana or even Ohio. nor in any II
the other big states and how can you
expect them to do so when the mos:
hated element of the Republican Party
the Lily Whites Of the South, are repre-
scented not merely in the Southern
states, but through their recognized
leader in the White House for ex-Con-
gresham Bascom Slemp, of Virginia.
Is not merely the Private Secretary or
the President but his confidential
potent adviser, so powerful thai II"
could override Cabinet officers and vet
prap RonuhIican Joadore
There is no use beating about the
bush. The Lily White Republican Is
Democrat though he may not be one
in form, but he is in fact and If the
White Republicans do not understand
it, the Black Republicans do, an be-
cause they do, you might just as wei
attempt to row up Niagara in wasfl
tub as to cram down the Threats of ;ne
intelligent Negro voters. candidate
sponsored by Lily Whites who pretend
to hold Republican meetings and con
ventions in hotels and other places
whhre Negroes are absolutely barred.
know you viii dissent and attempt
20 whistle it down but you can't %
it, and you know for your own sake,
you had better not try.
The Negro voters of this country
cannot be corraled as formerly, by
their old-time leaders. Their old-time
leaders who fought valiantly through
the long years. have utterly failed TO
be properly backed up by the Republi-
cans to the end ] remind you of such
men as the stalwart Henry Lincoln
Johnson, who was denied recognition
by such an office as Recorder of Deeds
which even Democratic President Cool
which even Democratic President Grov
er Cleveland insisted being held b, a
Negro though he had enough strength
at enc time to decide a presidential
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'.caf Council A. U. X. and D. Of A.
~hich was organized and set to work
-cember Sth with a large member
snip by DIT. Eliza jackson state grand
queen. assisted by others. was made
most excellent queen of the Council.
Mrs. Eliza Jackson 3739 Elmwoo",
avenue state grand queen of Illinois
End most, excellent queen of Egypt
council A. U. K. and D. of A. has re-
trrned to the city from an extended
rip of six weeks with relatives an
friends in Richmond Petersburg. and
other cities in Virginia, as well as
spending some time In Washington
y. C. While in Virginia. Mrs. jackson
helped in creating more interest coa
corning the work OF A. U. K and ID. OF
A. in that section.
Mr.. and Mis-. 4. n. Young ala Calu
net avenue entertained several friends
Il dinner on last Sunday. Among those
nreaant were Mr.: and Mrs. Henly A.
Robinson. Mrs. Florence Masterson
Mrs. COrie Day and Ambrose H. Rob il
son of Milwaukee, Wis.
Attorney A. Morris Williams I'M
Nerial Regent Of the Knights anu
Daughters of Honor with headquarters
st Springfield illinois made flyin$
trip to the city daring the past week
Tn official business.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. ]. Kinney, 3142 CAM
net avenue are home from a trip 10
southern Illinois where they spen,
three weeks with their parents Other
relatives and friends. They also visit
ed st. Louis. Mo.
Mrs. Ella G. Berry d. G. W. r. Of
Households OF Ruth of Illinois and
jurisdiction organized a new house
hold of Rpth at University of Mus"
97th and Michigan Avenue, on Noyem
Ter Goth. Households of Ruth are grow
ing in this jurisdiction.
Among the many visitors in Morgan
Park on last Sunday were Mr.. AMI
Mrs. Sullivan Wallard, David L. JACK
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-01-05
CHICAGO NOTES.

Mrs. NJ. Emery 1853 N. Wells street
has returned to tho city from Vistt
of seven weeks with her orother'
yehn and Colfax Ford at Brunswick
Mo. her old home town. where she
spent Il pleasant STAY. ,s..'
Attorney Walter M. Farmer 1874 W.
Washington street who has been III
and confined to his home for the pas'
week is able to BE- out again and back
at his desk feeling much improved.
Now Light Missionary Baptist church
of which Rev. G. w. Jones formerly II
Arkansas is past<r holds services al
Barey's Hail. 363S State St. every
sur az ct 1870 A. NJ. and 1880 P. NJ
at which time the public is cordially
invited to lie present.
The var.us councils of A. U. K. anil
D. Of A., of Illinois and jurisdiction
over which Mrs. Eliza Jackson pres'd'
es as state grand queen held a success
full six DAYS indoor carnival at Enter
tainer's Hall and the officers are pleas
Cdwith early rerorts.
Mrs. Ora Williamson and sister Mrt.
Nicv Lucas 11425 s. Throop street
Morgan Park are preparing TO go to st.
Lcuis Mo-. where they will spend the
Christmas holidays with their mother,
Mrs. Sallie McCamey and other rela-
tives. =
North Star Lodee No. 81 U. B. t. me.
IN its final meet no Of the year on De-
cember 18th AMI after regular routtn@
Of business held election of officers
for the ensuing yer, Principal of;
GERS elected were: J. b. Street. worthy
master; Andrew Keeling deputy mas
ter: NJ. T. Bailey secretary; So,omor
Thomas, treasurer. These officers with
others win be installed in public
meeting January End.
DIT Lucy Hollins founded Maple
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nomination. and now he Is before you
to plead for what?-that you will not
make yourselves party to the Demo
cratic effort; to that Democratic crime
by which the Negro suffrage Is destroy
ed throughout the South, and the Con
stitution of the United states becomes
a hollow mockery Of the supreme law.
The Republican Party for forty
years has pledged itself to right this
monstrous wrong but it hasn't even
cut down the Democratic representa-
tion in Congress and in the Electoral
College as commended by the Constisu
tion and now you are actually debat-
ing today whether you will still furfh-
er outrage the rights of the Colorsd
voters; rights to which they are rs
President Coolidge said the other day
in his message, entitled as any member
of the Republican National Committee.
They will not follow the Republican
Farty in blind faith as their fathers
have done ard If they are going to get
anything out Of the South they realize
that they must do it through their own
efforts. Their own efforts lead them to
take the obvious way that Is to cross
the border line to the North where
there is plenty of work. their wages
paid in good cash and very little lynch
ing or bad treatment to worry about.
The case is so simple that every sane
man, Republican or Democrat is stu
wondering what under Heaven caused
the Republican leadership to place It.
ceIf in the bands of the Lily White Re
publican gang of the South and trust
it's future to such an insurance agency
of overwhelming defeat In the conven-
ton, and political humiliation at tho
pools.
repeat does the Republican Party
intend to commit suicide?
Sincerely yours,
JOHN e. MILHOLLAND.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-01-05

about the defeat Of Senator Frelinghuy
sen over in New Jersey, because he fail
ed to take satisfactory stand on the
Dyer Bill and you know what happen
ed over in Delaware to Congressman
Legion and United States Senator Dr.
Point, although the latter had been
looked upon as one of the strongest
friends of the colored people.
But I remind you OF what happened
a. little further away. yet still more
Impressive In character. / refer to me
overthrow of the Republican Party in
Chicago this last spring, and the very
important part II, that overthrow play
ed by the Negro. cne hundred Of whose
ministers banded themselves together
to support the Democratic candidate
for Mayor, not because they and their
congregations had suddenly become
Democrats but because they had deter
mined to rebuke the Republican Party
for the way it had treated them.
Coming back East, we find another
revolution to which I have alluded IN
New York City. The Democrats are
after the Negro vote. Recognizing the
colored vote as an important factor.
the wideawake leaders of Tammany
Hall catered to it as they did to tne
East Side Jews years ago, to the liquor
saloons, to the Slav and Polak and %
any other element Of the population
that could be dere nded on at the polls,
in return for favors extended.
What is going on here under Murphy
T. r
Tom Taggart has always looked after
the colored voters most carefully. and
out in Illinois where between $50 009
and 100000 colored voters are located
and have way Of asserting themselv-
es that must be appalling for such a
clear hard-headed leader as you to can
template.
You surely remember that even Mar
tin Madden's own constituency, eighty
seven Per cent black) heretofore always
solid, which with the aid Of those val
;ant pillars of Democracy. "Hinky
Dink" and Bath House john" he has
for years carried in his yes. pocket
broke away from the leaders, and had
he been on the ticket. he would have
been swept down in an awful landslide.
which he escaped because it was his off
Congressional year in politics.
Connecticut and every other close
state controlled by the black vote is be
ing lined up by the Democratic leaders
regardless of any color line and utterly
Indifferent to the prejudice of their
Southern brethren who are given to Ill,
derstand that Northern Democrats are
concerned very little about the feel
,r@s f Dixie.
If ;ou say that you are more con-
"erned abut othe delegates to the COM
ing Nat. Republican Con theny my an
49, -,sF57sy 80 49,: g,ySgj
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-01-05

Cost-kee2ing and Estimating; Account
ing Cor Builders; Business English:
Business Arithmetic; Strength of Md
terials for Carpenters; and Strength
of Materials for Bricklayers.
Recently the president of the Associ
alton Charles T. Russell of Richmond.
Va. and the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES com
Eleted a long trip through the South,
including such cities as Richmond I'd
leigh, Durham Greensboro Winston
Salem, Charlotte, Spartansburg COL
Embia Charleston. Savannah Macon
Atlanta Montgomery, Birmingham,
Mobile. New Orleans. Memphie Nash
Vile, Louisville and Lexington KY, to
stimulate interest in the problems Of
the builders and to assist in the organ
ization of local sections of the Associ-
alton.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-01-05

Talley pastor of Clark Memorial Baot
ist Church here, was presented with a
Nurse of $1,000 last Thursday night by
members of the congregation at ban
.uet celebrating the successful admin
stration of Rev. Talley during thu
Luilding of new church edifice said -
be one of THE finest in Western Penn
sylvania More than thousand mem
bers and friends attended the affair.
Tire principal speaker of the evening
was Rev. C. E. Askew, pastor of Coed
Hope Baptist Church of Pittsburgh.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-01-05
CHURCH DAMAGED $4,000 BY A
FIRE AT NEWBERNE.
preston News service)

New Bern, n. G.. Dec.-Fire Of unde
;ermined origin literally Quilted Mount
Calvary Baptist Church here early Wei
nesday afternoon with a damage estl-
mated at more than $4,000. The blaze
occurred within a short distance III
the spot where the big fire started
year ago Adjoining buildings were saw
I'd by the prompt work Of the fire
crews. Rev. Miles Spruill pastor Of the
church, said he was in the building
ten minutes before the flames were dis
covered but saw no sign Of fire.
A funeral was TO have been conduct
ed from the church on Wednesday aft
ernoon. 1t is said that insurance Of
70 900 Was carried on the structure
which had not been completed.
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sation of Justice and Liberty, is the Oh
ject worthy of our best efforts.
Three years ago Warren G. Harding
YVES elected President Of the United
States by 1000 900 majority. The very
next year New York City was lost TO
Mayor Hylan by nearly quarter Of =
million votes.
AS the national administration had
been foolishly drawn into the loaai
fight by Identification with the most
unpopular traction issue, it suffered &C
cordingAy and Warren Harding's all
ministration sustained it's first hum1li
ating defeat.
A year later the same local issue
came up again in the state election
and again the Republican National
Party was dragged into it with an even
more disastrous result-the majority
of Governor Smith being half M
Ion!
TEo result is that we have to face
the grim, tormenting fact that the
sreat pivotal commonwealth Of New
York which was carried by such al
overwhelming tidal wave in 1920, is to
day in the Democratic column. with Ill
the significance attached to the fairly
we'll established slogan that rests OF
more than mere tradition: "As New
York goes. so goes the Nation" Is
that not, Mr.. Chairman. cause for
certain amount of healthy anxiety On
the part of every clear-visioned Repuc
lican?
Is such management not matter OF
grave concern? Doesn't it make you
think twice?
You may say that the man who car
ried New York against us. Governor
Smith of that Commonwealth, will not
lie nominated by his party. because o.
his religious faith and his position on
the liquor question but while that may
be true, it is too shallow an argument
to put forward because CAP Smith on
the Democratic ticket as anti-prohib1-
ton President or Vice-President, is
very important factor, and every one
Of you know it. can well remember
when the question of electing Catho-
lie. even as Mayor Of Now York. was
cons dered extremely hazardous.
have seen Catholic after Catholic IN
that position as l have seen them If
the United States Senate in the Cabi-
net and on the Supreme Court, until
was not surprised to hear Governor
Smith himself 'ay the other day: "Nf
che is troubled about my church afflli
atoms, except the Catholics themselT
es."
TIE NEGRO VOTE.
Dut there is another factor in the
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-01-05
HAMPTON OFFERS COURSE FOR
BUILDERS

Hampton, Va Dec.-The Hampton
inetitute department of building con.
atruction. which is in charge Of n.
Wh'ttemore Brown who is also secre-
'ary-troasurer of the National Build
ers' Association an organization oi
omrloyers and instructors in the build
ing industry will start on January 2
seven courses covering a 6weeke PEI
;oG. end will conduct its second ann
ual builders' conference on February
II - ind 10.
TIL courses follow: Plan Reading;
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DRIVE INTO CRIPPLE
preston News Servicel

Washington, =. c., Dec.-Without
*pausing to see if their victim was in
jured, joy riders stepped On the gas"
crippled colored man. The injured
man Joseph Wilson, was taken 10
Freedmen's hospital end treated for {,
broken arm IN addition to his already
crippled body.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-01-05
CHILD DIES FROM BURNS.
A.. preston News seryice>

Pittsburgh Pa. Dec.-Little Mary l..
Newman. aged 3-years. died Friday
night as result of burns suffered
when her clothing ignited at an open
crate in her home Thursday morning.
She died in the West Penn hospital.
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Washington, D. c..
Hotel Lafayette
December 10. 1922.

Republican National Committee
Munsey Building
Washington, ID. C.
Nv dear Mr. Chairman:
The Republican Party should be con
tinued in the power of administering
this Government. 1t is in the best in
terA4s of the country that this should
be so, because the Republican Party IS
the most fit agency to protect and d.
yelop the United States and to reha0i:
itate a wrecked civilization such -
now confronts the world, with no emu
in sight of the unparalleled demor-i-L;t
ton.
I want to see Republicans win y
the coming election. Their success is -
transcen6ent importance, and btc2us
it is and because the outlook is Iaf
from satisfactory 1 venture to addrts>
YOU and your able colleagues III TINS
way, at the threshold OF your deiibl4a
tons recognizing you as the Response
BILE managers of the Republican Party,
IN the forty years that 1 have been
d participant in Republican act 'vIrtes
never have | seen r.. prospects met'
uncertain or more unsatisfactory. The
situation has been made even more pre-
carious by the announced intention OF
the Republican Nat. Committee to GU
down the representation of Southern
states in the National Convention,
thereby offending and alternating hun
Creds of thousands of loyal Negro vot-
ers in the pivotal states of the North
and West who rightly regard such ac''
ion as not only q fragrant departure
from truly Republican principles anu
traditions but as a cowardly surrend-
er to race prejudice and 'Lily-Whfte-
ism, thus actually placing prem
sum upon the DISTINGUISHING laws or
the Southern states which are IN
shameful defiance of the Constitution
are a fraudulent restraint upon n
.erty.-render representative govern
ment ridiculous and were so intende@
by their authors.
This is said without the slightest da
sire to indulge in any unwarra nted CT.
Iicism Or conventional mis%;y'n3 CT 70
sound any unnecessary note. OF a!%r'n
As fellow-workers eager for 02rrE
harmony and party success W IN H''
of our intense partisansnip we must
recognize that after all, good govern
ment, i. e., the widest possible d!spen
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