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The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-04
Mrs. Berry of Chicago Takes Of
flee of Grand Daughter Ruler
From Mrs. Williams.
Reflections Dominate
Order May Take Up Fight of
Pullman POrters If Res
OlutiOn Followed.
preston News Service)


Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 3.-Spirited
battles for Offices in the grand lodge
of the Improved Benevolent Protect
i've Order of Elks of the World ran
elections through until late last Fri
day night at Mount Zion Congrega-
tional temple. -
]. Finley Wilson of Washington
again assumed the chair of grand ex-
alted ruler, beginning his fifth con-
secutive term.
Bates Wins.
The hardest fight was between
George w. Bates and Harry C. Pace,
both of Newark, N. j., for grand sec
retary. After an hours balloting,
Pace conceded to Bates, who was
elected by reclamation.
Grand Treasurer James T. Carter
of Richmond, Va, was reelected, de-
feating T. Tiffany Tolliver of Roam
oke, Va, and began his fifteenth con-
SeCullNc tcIh III thdl OuCC.
Houston Elected.
Municipal Judge William c. Hous-
ton of Gary, Ind, was elected COM
missioner of education.
Other newly elected officers were
as follows:
DIR. S. H. George, Paducah, KY,
grand esteemed leading knight; DR..
Roland johnson, Brooklyn, N. Y,
grand esteemed lecturing knight;
Cannal Payne, Washington, grand
auditor; Grench Gillison, Hartford.
Conn.,, grand tyler; Charles E. A..
Starr, Denver, grand inner guard;
william Turner, Wheeling, w. Va,
grand esquire. Perry w. Howard,
assistant United States attorney gen.
eral of Washington, was reappointed
grand legal adviser.
Mrs. Berry to Office.
Mrs. Ella v. Berry of Chicago won
the Office of grand daughter ruler
over the former incumbent, Mrs.
Laura Williams, of New York.
With the election of officers con-
cluded, following a gruelling cam
paign, the business sessions were
closed.
Wilson, grand exalted ruler, traced
the growth of the order in his an
nual report. He showed how an
average of 100 lodges a year had
been added since 1922, and he de-
scribed foreign expansion.
Wilson was elected to Office after
his opponent, Magistrate Edward
Continued on page p
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-04
Disgrace, Outrage, Key to Atti-
tude of State Toward Burning
Torture Melted to Victim by
Mob.
IN. A. A. C.. p. Press Service)

IN. A. A. c. P. Press Service)
Although there is little prospect of
anything but a superficial investiga-
ton of the recent lynching in Wythe
County, Virginia, in which the mob
stormed the Jail and brutally mur-
dered an imprisoned man, newspa-
pers of the state have been emphatic
in their denunciation of the outrage.
The N. A. A. c. P. has received
clippings from a number of the lead
ing newspapers in which strong state
ments are made. The Richmond
News Leader in an editorial headed
"a Dark Disgrace to Virginia." de-
clared:
"A drunken mob of savages on a
South Sea Island could not have been
more brutal. Russian reds in the
maddest frenzy of their irreigious
revolution would have hesitated at
such cruelty. Done in the name of
white supremacy" this crime dis
Continued on page 81
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-04


merely to make her home in New
York.
Having accepted position with a
theatrical company as secretary to
the group, she sailed for Europe with
the company the last part of October.
Begins to Dance.
In Paris, where the "Tea for Two
Girls" had a contract for six months
at the newly opened and justly ia
nous Moulin Rouge, Miss Wheeldin
was asked by the manager of the
company to accept a dancing part
which she consented to do. There
were at that time nine girls and one
man in the company.
Just to keep busy" said Miss
Wheeldin with a smile, Il not only
danced, but continued to handle the
heavy secretarial work as well.
Forms Team.
when the scheduled six months
contract engagement was ended, the
captain of the company, Miss Emma
Maitland of Virginia, and I, formed
the team of Maitland and Wheeldin
and started tour of Europe.
Italy, France, Belgium, Holland
and Switzerland we covered, with re-
peated engagements in nearly every
p ace. Several times we were enter
tanned by royalty.
Just before leaving for home, we
made a picture, Theodore E Socio,'
in Rome. We came by Paris and
sailed directly for New York, reach
ing home August H."
When asked about the treatment
accorded colored Americans in Eu-
rope. Miss Wheeldin pointed out that
CONTINUED on page ~
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-04
WHITE TRAINERS

After being in the postal service in
the st. Paul Office for nine years,
Leonidas White has transferred to
Philadelphia, Pa, where he took his
first civil service examination in
1901, which entered him in the Rail-
way Mail service.
Mr.. White put in three years in
the third and four years in the ninth
division and resigned in 1908. He
came in the st. Paul postoffice as a
clerk in 1917 and has maintained a
high record and is well respected by
his fellow workers.
Although Mr.. White will be sta
toned in the main Office at Philadel-
phia, he will reside at S21 So. 9Th
St., Camden, N. J.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-04
OFFICERS OF AMES LODGE
HOLDING GRAND MARCH

There will be no labor upon your
part to attend the grand celebration
of the Labor Day dance given by the
officers of Ames Lodge No. 106, Min
neapolis Elks, at Elks' Hall, Sixth
and Lyndale, Monday evening, Sep
tember 6. The officers are going
through great amount of labor in
a pleasant way to see that their pa
irons will have an enjoyable time.
At twelve o'clock, midnight, there
will be a grand march for the pur-
pose of reviewing the returned dele
gates from the 27th annual conven-
ton held at Cleveland, Ohio, August
% to %.
Joe Levy and Ed. Boyd were dele
gates to the convention.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-04
FINLEY WILSON SUCCEEDS SELF AS
HEAD OF ELKS; Bates BEATS PACE
Minneapolis Physician
Dies of Heart Trouble

DR.. James Henry Redd, 1858
Aldrich avenue south, Mime
apolis, died Sunday, August 20.
at 1885 a. M, at st. Mary's hos
pital. Officials at the hospital
gave the cause of death as
heart trouble.
DR.. Redd had been unwell
for a year. The last attack of
bis disease, which proved to be
fatal, occurred about month
and a half ago, when he was
taken to the hospital. Funeral
services were held at Lakewood
Chapel Tuesday morning, and
the body was vaulted at Lake
wood cemetery.
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, AZ
years ago, DR.. Redd received
his professional training at
Northwestern Medical school.
He had practiced medicine in
Minneapolis for approximately
II years. He is survived by
his wife, Mrs. Inez Redd, and a
daughter, Gwendolyn.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-04
Local Girl Returns From Europe
After Brilliant Stage Success
Current Messenger Has
Article by st. Paulite

Frank Boyd, 443 Mackubin
street, writes an article in the
September issue of The Messen-
ger magazine on Previous
Struggles to Organize"
Mr.. Boyd, who has been per-
sonally connected with every
attempt made to date to organ
ize the Pullman porters, gives
out of his own experience some
of the early efforts of the men
to form an organization to de-
mand a living wage.
Among other interesting
commentaries, Mr.. Boyd said,
when 1 entered the Pullman
service as a porter, March Is,
1907 our pay was $25
perhaps :" In an early
issue of the magazine, Mr.. Boyd
will have another article deal
ing with the same subject.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-04

es and four deputies), three of them
are Negroes, the balance of power is
against America, 1 favor withdrawal
from the World Court"
Mr.. Brown does not mention which
three members of the court are Ne
groes, but it is understood he is ap-
pealing in the three-cornered race for
the Democratic nomination to the
anti-court following of Senator
Blease. Former Senator Nathaniel
B. Dial, whom Col. Blease defeated
in 1924, is the third candidate for
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-04
COLUMBUS BOY
MISSES DEATH
AS STAY GIVEN
ElectrOcutiOn Halts as Writ
From Governor Comes Allow
ing Two More Weeks.
Elks Work For Youth
Warden Refuses to Recognize
Writ; Judge Silbert Lends
All Help Possible.
(Preston News Service)

Columbus, O., Sept. 3.-The fight
to have the life of Emmanuel Ross,
IS, who escaped the electric chair
by inches last Friday night, went
back to Cuyahoga county Saturday
with the filing of writ to set aside
the conviction. -.:.
A complete rehearing of Ross case
has been asked by Alexander H.
Martin and Mrs. Louise Pridgeon,
his attorneys, who declare he was
robbed of his constitutional rights by
never being brought before juvenile
court.
Stay Granted
A two-weeks stay of execution was
granted late Friday by Gov. Donahey
after Common Pleas Judge Samuel
H. Silbert issued a writ of habeas
corpus which he himself admitted
meant little. Formal notice of the
stay was served at the penitentiary
a few minutes before P. NJ, when
the electrocution was to have taken
place.
Gov: A. V. Donahey and the state
clemency board refused to commute
Ross sentence Wednesday, despite
petitions from the State Federation
of Colored Women's Clubs.
Elks Aid
Early Friday, Martin and Mrs.
Pridgeon got busy, aided by dele
gates from the colored EIks, in con-
vention here. They sought to save
Ross by habeas corpus writ, but
could not find Judge Mcmahon or
any of the appellate judges and
lacked time to go to the state su-
preme court.
Judge Silbert was appealed to.
He did not know what power he had
over the penitentiary warden, but
issued a temporary writ in the hope
it might have some effect.
Writ Overlooked
Notice was sent to Warden Thorn
as by wire. HeTefused to recognize
the writ. Mrs. Pridgeon and dele
cation of the colored Elks, headed by
Assistant United States Attorney
General Perry w. Howard, started to
Columbus to see Donahey but missed
their train.
Judge Silbert called James Huff
man, Donahey's secretary. Huffman
said Donahey was at Indian Lake
O., but said he might be able to gel
reprieve for Ross if Silbert would
wire a recommendation. This Sill.
bert did, and Huffman finally reach.
ed Donahey, who gave Ross unit
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The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-04
Virginia White Press Den0unces
Brutal Wytte County L Lyncfline
Men of st. James Obtain
Carter to Speak Sunday

AS the featured speaker of
Mems Day Services,
Elmer A. Carter, executive
secretary of the st. Paul branch
of the Urban league, will give
the address at the morning
services at St. James A. M. E.
church, Central avenue at Dale
street, next Sunday morning.
His subject lis unannounced.
At the evening services, Earl
wilkins, editor of The st. Paul
Echo, will be the principal
speaker.
Last Sunday, at Women's
Day services, Mrs. Sadie War
rem gave the morning address,
and Atty. L. o. Smith of Min
neapolis spoke in the evening.
Mems and Women's days at
st. James are now an annual
institution which attract much
interest and great rivalry.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-04
ACTS AND BROADCAsTs

Hundreds of people tuned in and
looked on Miss Ozzie Schauffner and
Viola Lee at the Elks' Cabaret dance
Thursday night. September 2, while
they made popular hit with the lat
est songs. Clarence Johnson's or
chestra did its stuff with Clarence
and his romping bass. Mr.. Carl
Wade was made present of tele-
phone stand.
Miss Schauffner is scheduled to
broadcast the following numbers:
Tell EN- Bout Me-" That's Why"
bye Bye, Blackbird," Sweet South
ern Breeze" Wednesday at the Agri-
cultural State Fair.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-04
Carolina Democrat Uses Race
Feeling To Promote Campaign
Andrew (Rube) Foster
Held to Be Insane

Chicago.-Andrew Rube Fos-
ter, president of the Negro Ma
tional Baseball League and
owner of the Chicago American
Giants, was adjudged insane
yesterday and committed to the
hospital.
President Foster has been ill
since last fall and it is thought
that worry over his inability to
be active in baseball has been a
contributing cause of his men
tai breakdown.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-04
WORK PROGRESSES ON
DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

Minesure-on-the-St. CroiX, coloreG
summer resort project, is in the
hands of surveyors who are survey
ing and plotting off the ground
Through its individual members, the
development company has already re
ceived inquiries concerning the mat
ter from all parts of the United
States.
The ushers' board of st. James A
NJ. E. church will hold a private pic
mic at Minesure on Labor Day, leav'
ing the church at IL a. m.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-04
LABOR DAY MATINEE

The Triangle Club of Corinthian
Temple No. 1872, will give their Sec
ond annual matinee dance at Union
Hall, Kent and Aurora Ave-, st. Paul,
on Labor Day, Monday, September g..
Dancing will be from 8 to p. m,
and Stevens Orchestra, with Sid
Williams at the piano, will furnish
the music.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-04
THROW out SUIT
AGA|NSTPULLMAN
Refusal to Furnish AccOmmOda.
fee of Grand Daughter Ruler
elimination Not Used.
(Preston News Service)

Washington, Sept. 3.-Recommen-
dation that the Interstate Commerce
Commission dismiss the complaint of
J. P. Hayden, lawyer of Chicago, who
sought $4,000 damages against the
Pullman Company for alleged failure
to furnish him Pullman accommoda-
tions, was made Friday by Burton
Fuller, commission examiner.
Hayden said he purchased ticket
for Chicago at Atlanta two years ago,
but when he asked for a Pullman
ticket was ordered away from the
window.
The agent denied he had ever re-
fused Pullman accommodations to a
Negro, and the examiner held that
Hayden's allegation was not sustain
ed. He added that the Pullman Com
pany's practices in this respect "gen-
orally are not shown to be unjustly
discriminatory"
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-04
NOTICE

Mrs. Mundell wishes to announce,
for the benefit of her customers, that
she will leave for st. Louis Septem-
ber 10 and will be gone about fifteen
days.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-04

where she had
been offered a
position. A t
the time that
she left home,
NJ i S s Wheel
din had no es-
pecial desire
to go upon the
stage, nor any
intention Of
doing so. She
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-04

In October, 1924, Miss Wheeldin
left St. Paul for New York City,
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-04

September is here, and one
more summer is nearly
gone. Those afflicted with
hay fever are not lament
ing the change.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-01
BORN IN JUNE? W wE A6d rEARn

pearls are most beautiful, but
when worn by a woman of cold
nature they lose their luster and
seem to die. Just as diamonds
are the emblem of fidelity so
pearls are the emblem of chastity.
and for that reason one might
suppose that they would have
been chosen for engagement stones
more often. The fact is, however,
that it is regarded as extremely
bad luck to lose the stone of an
engagement ring, or even to have
it become loose in it's setting, so
for that reason few young women
willingly run the risk of this ill
omen by wearing a pearl engage
ment ring. For pearls easily be-
come loose in their settings.
You may prefer the moonstone
to the pearl for your birthstone.
This is an extremely interesting
gem found at its best in Ceylon.
There these lovely pearl-like
stones are found imbedded in a
certain sort of clay and are said
to have been produced by some
sort of volcanic rock. Really good
moonstones are by no means in
expensive. Sometimes they are
called Ceylonese opals and some
times VOLTS eye.
To be quite technical the stone
known as agate is cryptocrystal-
line variety of quartz. Other
stones that come under this same
classification are blood stone.
carnelian, sard. praise and hello
trope.
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NOTES ON THE MENU

For luncheon on Monday you
will need American cheese, some
green peppers and some lettuce
hearts. The green pepper should
be cut into. shreds and the cheese
grated. If you find raw green
pepper indigestable, boil it slight
ly before hand. and chill before
using. Take the whitest part of
the lettuce hearts and shred them
and use the outer leaves to form
nests for each portion. Now ar
range the shredded lettuce and
green pepper on each bed of let
tuce and sprinkle grated cheese
over each. Pass mayonnaise or
French dressing.
To make the STRAWBERRY
FLOATING ISLAND proceed as
with any floating island, making
first a custard from the yolks of
eggs. Beat the whites until stiff,
then add a cup-more or -less-of
Strawberries that have been
crushed and sweetened with pow
dered sugar. Mix thoroughly and
pile on the custard. This should
be done just before serving.
The LEG OF MUTTON should
be put on the stove in a large
kettle and after it has been
brought to the boil should be
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-01

IF neither pearl nor moonStone
comes up to your. ideal of a
= suitable birth stone you may
choose an agate, which apparently
is Just as favorably inclined to the
children of June as the two stones
dedicated to Luna.
According to some authorities
on the subject the pearl can hardly
be called stone at all, because it
Is the product of animal growth,
being found as every one knows
within the shell ofscertain oysters.
The pearl has an interesting and
romantic history, and few gems
have been valued for greater
number of years. 1t was obtained
in ancient times along the Red
Sea, the Indian Ocean and the
Persian Gulf. The Phoenicians
knew and valued it and so prob
ably did Solomon.
Unfortunately for the owners of
lovely pearls their value has very
greatly decreased within the last
few years. This is because of the
remarkably fine imitation pearls
that are now produced. Moreover,
pearls unlike any of the true
precious stones have way of de-
caying in the course of time. A
diamond is as much imperisha BILE
as anything earthly and its value
is therefore maintained.
One interesting popular idea
about pearls-which may or may
not be based on facts that when
worn by a woman of warm nature
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Soups for Nothing

Most folk relish a soup course for
dinner this time OF year. and there
Is every good reason why soup is a
good addition even to the simplest
dinner menu. In the first place,
soup prepares the stomach for
heavier viands to come. We go to
the dinner table fatigued and some
times over-hungry. We tone up our
systems and come back to normal
while partaking the soup course.
An interesting test for the house
wife to set for herself would be to
see whether she were ingenious
enough to provide soup for her
family every night for a ridicul6usly
small sum. Soups. you know, really
cost more in time and resourceful-
ness than anything else. Only in
case of emergency need you fall back
on one Of the expensive canned
soups. Here are some good soup
suggestions:
When you have such vegetables
as spinach, carrots, celery. save
water poured from them. This
makes good foundation for a
cream soup. If you have a little
spinach left besides, this should be
rubbed through sieve and added to
the liquid. With the addition of a
little milk, half as much as you wish
soup, and little flour and drippings
to make the thickening, you have a
very tempting soup.
Always make use of the bones and
odds and ends of a roast or other
leftover meat to make stock. To
be sure, this is not quite so fine in
flavor as stock made from raw soup
bones, still it is excellent and may
be used to make a clear soup OF: to
flavor a tomato bouillon. 1t is
good plan to have on hand beef ex-
tract to add to soup stock when it
is not very rich, Then there are
preparations made from the extract
ed fiavors of vegetables that can be
added to any sort of soup to give
piquancy of flavor.
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allowed to simmer for three hours
or more. In making caper sauce
you may need some of the stock,
to use with the milk, in making
the sauce. What remains of the
liquor should be saved to use to
make lamb broth with noodles for
luncheon Wednesday. For dinner
you may use the leftover lamb to
make savory dish with tomatoes
and rice.
For Thursday you will need
fresh sweetbreads. What remains
should be put through the meat
grinder and used with lettuce
leaves to make sandwiches for
luncheon Friday.
BLACK BEAN SOUP calls for
two cups of black beans which
should be soaked overnight. In
the morning drain, put the beans
in two quarts of water, and cook
five or six hours. Press them
through a wire sieve. Four table
spoons of chopped pork are cooked
in frying pan with a few table
spoons of chopped onion-five
minutes in all. Now. combine this
with the bean mixture. add
tablespoon of -four rubbed smooth
in little water, one, or two cloves,
a quarter teaspoon of mustard. a
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This colored leather is really al
very attractive, and if you have
money to indulge your f6ndness for
interesting baggage, by all means
acquire set Of it.
You know the story of the red
cap at one of the big New York rail-
road terminals.
We'll" he said to a fellow porter,
as he nonchalantly watched woman
who had just alighted from train
struggle along with suit case, an
umbrella, a steamer rug and hand
bag, there's no use asking her If
she wants help. She wouldn't tip
nothin', anyway"
Doubtless it is true that porters
Judge us by our baggage. The
things in question. though neat and
durable, were distinctly uninterest-
ing, even rather shabby looking Of
course we don't travel to impress
the porters Who help us, but it is
quite true that good-looking luggage
means prompter and better atten-
ton while travelling and at hotels.
Umbrellas. by the way, are often
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MONDAY
Breakfast
Raspberries
Farina Cream
Poached eggs
Toast Coffee
Luncheon
Cheese and green pepper salad
Canned fruit Ginger snaps Tea
Dinner
Leftover roast beef
Mashed potatoes
Dreamed carrots. Green beans
Plain lettuce salad with Russian
dressing
Strawberry floating island
TUESDAY
Breakfast
Sliced oranges
Cereal Cream
Scrambled eggs
Twin mountain mullins Coffee
Luncheon
Asparagus salad
Rye bread and swiss cheese sand
wiches
Canned fruit Waters
Dinner
Asparagus soup
Boiled leg of mutton Caper sauce
Mashed potatoes
Green peas Buttered beets
Raspberry tarts
WEDNESDAY
Breakfast
Bananas and berries
Fine hominy Cream
Soft boiled eggs
Graham mullins Coffee
Luncheon
Lamb broth with noodles
Crullers Stewed fresh fruit
Tea
Radishes Olives
Lamb and tomato with rice
Boiled onions Wax beans
Strawberry Bavarian cream
THURSDAY
Breakfast
Oranges
Prepared cereal Cream
Scrambled eggs with frizzled beef
Toast - Coffee
Luncheon
Tuna fish salad
bananas fried in crumbs
Cinnamon toast Tea
Dinner
Bacon canapes
Dreamed sweet breads Bacon
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Gifts for the
Departing Friend

Very often when q friend goes
away. especially across the ocean,
we wish to send a gift, but we are
bit at loss as to what to SEND
Here are some suggestions:
A travel book. There are many
interesting ones which are appro'
PIRATE to practically any trip any
body might take. If there Is notn'
ing distinctively appropriate TO
certain trip, then try getting
favorite book Of poems in an ~
tractive dress.
A box Of books and magazines
These are put up by some OF tne
book sellers. They can be made W
of any combination of light 81
heavy reading you wish.
A box Of fruit.
A box Of flowers. Or basket q
flowers.
Candied fruit or candies.
A box Of tin, fitted with Ion.
containing sailed nuts in small gas
jars, q pound of mixed chocolates, =
box Of candied fruit, and an !"
crackers.
A basket containing six little jar
Of jam.
Some small travelling accessou
such as writing case, fount
pen, q travelling clock or some oInc
small object. Be sure Of two tnlnss
that you are choosing sometnMs
not too difficult to carry. and that
is something your travelling niss
desires.