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The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-01-23
MILL CITY WILL
HEAR $50 VOICE
CONCERT MONDAY
Johnson of New York City Di-
rects Local Talent in
Large Musicale.
Lyceum Theatre Chosen
Phyllis Wheatley House Spon-
sors Program Assisted by
Churches, Clubs.

Undef the direction of George L.
Johnson of New York City, a Com
munity Concert composed Of 100
voices from the Twin Cities, will be
given at the Lyceum theater in Min
neapolis January 25.
The concert is being sponsored by
the Phyllis Wheatley house Of Min
neapolis.
Special Lessons Given.
Mr.. Johnson has been giving spe-
cial lessons to the participants dur
ing the past two weeks, and the con-
cert will come as a elimination OF
the lessons.
Selections which the chorus has
been practicing are primarily from
colored composers. The list includes
Listen to the Lambs" by Dett;
Swing Along De Lane" by Will
Marion Cooke; National Negro An
them," by James Weldon johnson,
and walk Together Children" by ].
Rosamond johnson.
Rehearsal Held.
Last Tuesday evening approximate
ly so st. Paul members of the chorus
met at the Y. w. C. A. for the last
of a series of rehearsals before the
actual presentation of the concert.
In a remarkably short time, local
amateur talent has responded to the
training of Mr.. johnson. A music
specialist for the Playground ana
Recreation Association Of America,
and Community Service, Inc, he has
come with a vast deal of experience
in the work which has been under
taken.
For a time Mr.. johnson was
abroad as the leading tenor for the
Williams Jubilee singers, and was
with the Johnson, Taylor Johnson
trio of New York. Sunday evening
he gave program at new st. James
A. M. E. church.
Organizations which are assisting
the Phyllis Wheatley House to spon-
sor the concert are the Women's
Christian Association, the Minneapo-
lis and St. Paul Urban League
branches. the Women's Cooperative
Alliance, and all Of the colored
churches in the Twin Cities.
Tickets for the concert Monday
have been selling rapidly, and the
wide advertising the affair has re-
ceived is helping to assure its great
success.
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FIRST LYNCHING
IN rs RECORDED
Florida Leads States to First
Mob Crime of Year; InnO-
cence Claimed.

Florida led the whole United
States to the first lynching of the
year, January II, when Nicholas
Williams of Ocalla was taken from
two officers by band of masked
men, hustled into an automobile, and
lynched a few miles from town.
Williams had been Jailed on sus-
picion in connection with an alleged
attack on a white woman. From tue
time of his arrest he had strongly
denied his guilt. When he was taken
by the mob he was in the hands of
officers on his way to the hospital to
discover if the woman could identify
him.
Indications point to the Klan as
the perpetrators of the crime. Since
the lynching crosses have been
burned nearly every night in the Ne
gro section, and night riders have
been warning Negroes to leave on
pain or death.
The mayor Of the town and off,
GERS have been called upon for pro-
lection, but the prevailing official at
titude is one Of Indifference. 1t has
been revealed that the Negro section
is wanted for property speculation,
and the unwillingness of the colored
residents to move has caused the tao
tics already employed.
Following the burning of several
Negro homes by night riders, some of
the people in the community have al
ready left the town. Others, unable
to leave, are constantly sending dele
cations to wait upon the mayor.
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z SEGREGATION ON
INCREASE, REPORT
Pennsylvania Statement Makes
Public Conditions Over
Whole State.
IN. A. A. G.. P. Press Seryice !

IN. A. A. C. P. Press Service)
New York, Jan. 19.-During the
past year, 80 interracial meetings
were conducted throughout the state,
according to the annual interracial
report Of the Pennsylvania State De-
partment of Welfare.
In Wilkesbarre, Negroes and
whites, for the first time, Joined in
music festival. In Scranton a
community center was opened for
colored people. In New Kensington
real estate dealers were called into
conference to meet the overcrowding
and bad housing from which colored
people were suffering. In Philadel-
phia, new employment opportunities
for colored people are reported, in
cluding factory work.
Segregation is reported on the in
crease in public schools, especially of
Philadelphia and vicinity, and, ac-
cordfng to the state report, many
attempts are made to discourage Ne
groes from completing education"
On the other hand, Business en-
terprises among Negroes are steadi-
ly increasing. Many of the business
heads formerly conducted lucrative
business places in the South and are
successfully nromotinp tho conoo !,
terests in Pennsylvania. This is serv-
Ing as real stimulus to the North
ern-born Negro and in many places
they are establishing business places
in competition with the southern
business men,"
The State Welfare Department also
reports improving health conditions,
and the admission of Negroes to
Chambers Of Commerce and other
civic and social bodies.
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race, and the white race understands
him. Likewise, the shortcomings of
both races are better understooa
than in any other section Of our
country.
"It is an interesting feature that
in North Carolina fewer Negroes find
cause to leave than from any other
southern state. I believe that this Is
due to the splendid cooperation that
has existed between the races for so
long. I believe, likewise, that the
work you are engaged in is response
BILE in no small measure for this
splendid cooperation. The continu-
ance of this policy is the greatest
hope. not only for your race, but for
the natural and active development
and progress of our state as whole.
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New St. James Holds Dedication
Services For Overflow Audience
VALUE OF SENTENCE
STRESSED BY ORR

Speaking on "Crime and Punish
ment," Judge G. M. Orr of the dis
trict court addressed the members of
the Sterling club Tuesday evening,
January 10.
Judge Orr stressed the Importance
of indeterminate sentence as being
valuable to the person who, given
the chance, could make good. For
five years Judge Orr sat upon the
criminal bench, and during that time,
IS per cent of those were so sentenc-
ed that they were given a chance
to make good. Judge Orr further
stated that he did not believe in
capital punishment.
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Man FREED OF
LYNCH CHARGE
At CLARKSDALE
Judge Warns Against Demon
stratiOn in Court at Re-
port of Verdict.
Jury Takes u Hours
Cases Against Other Accused
Men Postponed Until
February.
preston News Service) }

Clarksdale, Miss, Jan. pa
verdict of not guilty was returned
here late Wednesday in the case of
G. o. Cane, tried by jury in Coaho-
ma County Circuit Court on a charge
of murder in connection with the re-
cent lynching of Lindsey Coleman
after he had been freed by a jury.
1t is said that obeying a warning
given by Judge Alcorn before the
jury reported, no demonstration was
attempted in the court when the ver-
dict was read. The verdict was re-
turned twenty-seven hours after the
jury began it's deliberations on Tues
day.
Other Cases Delayed.
The cases against J. T. Traynham,
H. S. Blockley and Thomas Nicholas,
charged with murder as the result of
a lynching, were passed Thursday
until the February term of the court
by agreement between the state and
defense. These men were indicted
with Gold o. Cane, who was acquit-
ted by a jury here Wednesday of the
murder of Lindsey Coleman, the man
whom the men are charged with hav-
ing lynched.
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Fewer Negroes Leave North
Carolina Than Any Other
State in South, Paper to Wei
fare Workers Says.
preston News Service)

Winstom-Salem, Jan. 22.-The
South is the best place for the Negro
race to work out its salvation, de-
clared Governor Angus w. Mclean,
in message read Wednesday night
at the Institute for Negro Welfare
Workers, in session here. Unable to
be present, the governor sent his
message to the meeting.
The executive pointed out that
fewer Negroes had cause to leave
North Carolina than any southern
state, and he attributed this to "the
splendid cooperation that has exist
ed between the races for so long"
"The South is not alone the home
Of the Negro race" read the gov
ernor's message. "but it is unques-
tionably the best place for that race
to work out its own salvation. Here,
the Negro understands the white
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SOUTHERN GROUP
PLAYS NEGRO AIR
Clarence c. White, Upon Re-
quest, Writes Number for
Virginia Symphony.
preston News Service)


Charleston, w. Va, Jan. 22.-Last
spring the conductor of the Charles
ton, West Virginia, Sympathy orches-
ira requested an orchestral compost
tion from Clarence Cameron White,
violinist, composer and director of
music at the West Virginia Collegi-
ate Institute, for this seasons pro-
gram. Mr.. White worked on such q
composition for full symphony or
chestra during the past summer and
this number has just been placed on
the program of the Charleston Sym
phony orchestra in their concert.
This is quite an unusual honor for
a Negro composer and is, doubtless,
the first time one of the southern
symphony orchestras has so honored
one Of our group.
Several seasons ago the Boston
Symphony orchestra at one of their
popular concerts played one of Mr..
Whites compositions.
The only other composer Of Negro
blood whose works are often done by
leading white symphony orchestras is
s. Coleridge Taylor, who incidentally
was Mr.. Whites teacher In compost
ton while the latter studied in Eu-
rope,
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STEEL CITY FINANCIAL
HOUSE CLOSES DOORS

Following close on the heels
of the suspension of the Pitts
burg American, and after a
steady withdrawal of deposits,
the Steel City Bank, largest COL
ored financial institution in
Pittsburg, was closed by the
state banking department last
Tuesday.
Although there has been no
noticeable run on the bank, with
drawals have been steady and
constant. RumOrs have been
afiOat that the bank was in such
poor condition that it had to bor-
row money to pay its Christmas
savings clubs.
The bank has been under OBJ
servation by the state depart
ment of banking since last July.
1t is said that the main cause of
the banks difficulties, aside from
inefficient management, was in
discreet dabbling in real estate.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-01-23
U. F. B. ASSOCIATION
ELECTS OFFICIALS

The United Fraternal Benevolent
Association elected the following Off
GERS for the ensuing year: Mary e.
Love, president; Bertania Taylor,
vice-president; Emily Harris, finan-
cial secretary; Elizabeth Wilson, as
sistant secretary; Frederick Wheel
din, treasurer; Mamie Miller, Louise
Walker, marshals; Alice Jackson,
pilot; Lucy Durham, herald; Ella A.
Jackson, Mary Brown and Anna Moi
fett, trustees; Estella Wiley, organ
list.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-01-23
Reception Night Program Draws
Fine Attendance; Bishop
Praises Pastor, Church Mem
bers for Progress.
BY II. l.. Stokes

. Crowds of people which swarmed
to the church long before the exer-
cises were scheduled to commence,
and were forced because of the huge
crowd to remain outside during the
service, were drawn to new st.
James church at the dedicatory ex-
ercises last Sunday afternoon.
BY $3.50 the church was already
nearly full of the enthusiastic people
from every church in the Twin Cities
who missed the march from the old
church to secure seats for the exer-
cises.
March From Old Church.
Officers, members of the church,
and the Sunday school assembled at
old st. James, Fuller Ave. at jay St..
at P. M. to march to the new
church. The procession was led by
the Rt. Rev. A. L. Gaines, D. D.,
L. L. D., presiding Bishop, and Rev.
VIM. H. Griffin, D. D., pastor.
At the door of the new church a
ritual service was held at which the
keys of new st. James were given to
the bishop by R. M. Johnson, chair
man of the trustee board.
Hackley Presides.
The professional was sung by the
senior choir of the church. Bishop
Gaines offered the opening prayer.
Rev. Griffin announced that hev.
Hackley, Presiding Elder, would lead
the services.
Taking his text from David's con-
secration and the erection of the
temple, Rev. Gaines sermon stressed
the Importance of having a purpose
In life as foundation for character.
The Bishop declared the church to
be one of the finest in the whole
connection, and congratulated the
pastor, officers and members on their
"a OSoA Ooos
Rev. Stovall opened the doors of
the church.
Rev. L. w. Harris, T. ]. Carr, Clay
brook and Boyd assisted in raising
the collection. Nearly $500 was COL
lected.
johnson Sings.
The evening service was given
over to George L. Johnson, tenor of
New York City, now planning the
Community Concert to be given in
Sunday evening. A COM
prehensive and delightful program
was rendered to large audience.
Reception Night.
Monday evening another overflow
group jammed into the church at
the formal church reception. At
P. M. the program for the evening
Continued on page 81
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OILS FIRE
(Preston News Service)

Statesville, N. C.-John Scott
aged 76 years, had an intensely ex,
citing experience while starting q
fire with gasoline Friday morning
The presence of mind displayed by
Mrs. Scott in dashing bucket of ice
cold water on her husband and ex-
tinguishing the flame of his clothing,
saved the mans life. Mr.. Scott suf-
fered severe burns about the hands
and face. Little damage was done to
the house by the explosion.
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avenue, valued at five hundred
thousand dollars is the last word in
combining under one roof the varied
and manifold activities of the order.
A hundred-bed hospital and nurse
training school, a seventy-five room
bath hotel, banking room for the
Woodmen of the Union Bank, which
will be the only bank in Arkansas
owned and operated by the race,
beautiful auditorium of two thousand
capacity, forty thousand dollar
printing plant with the latest ma
chinery and wing of modernly
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NOTICE

The Echo is making arrangements
with Minneapolis churches to dis
tribute the papers in suitable places
for those who are not subscribers.
Further information can be obtained
from The Echo office, or from Min
neapolis pastors.
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State Officer Claims Revenue
Measure Will Benefit Taxpay-
ers If Passed in Present Form.

Individual Income Taxpayers in
Minnesota will benefit to the extent
Of $2,000,000.00." stated Mr.. WILL
cuts, Collector of Internal Revenue,
"if the new Revenue Bill goes
through in substantially its present
form"
"In addition to this immense saw
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-01-23
BUILDING DEDICATED
$5OO,OOO FRATERNAL
(By Associated Negro Press)

(By Associated Negro Press)
Hot Springs, Ark, Jan. 20.-Ofi-
GERS, district representatives and lay
members from score of states join
ed group of notable visitors from
every section of the country in dedi-
eating the imposing and handsome
new home Office, bank building, and
sanitarium Of the Woodmen of the
Union.
The new Woodmen headquarters.
occupying whole block on Malvern
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Courtesy A. N. P.

equipped Offices in which sixty busy
clerks and employees transact the
half million yearly business of the
Woodmen are housed in the attrac.
tive four-story, fireproof edifice.
E. A. Kindall, supreme president
has helped to develop the organiza.
ton in his IL years of official con.
nection with it from one clerk to 65,-
900 members. John L. Webb
supreme custodian, is also vice presi-
dent of the National Negro Business
League, and president of the state
business league.
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North Carolina Governor Says
South Best Place For Neer0e<
EXORBITANT FINE

Dallas, Tex, Jan. 22.-Mrs. Min
ME Thomas was given five years in
the penitentiary for stealing 35 cents
from a white man in indiana alley on
August II. last. The verdict was re-
turned Tuesday afternoon by a jury
in Judge F. D. Robertson's court.
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French automobile drivers are
compelled to dim lights when ap-
preaching other cars at night.
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ATTEND

the forum Sunday after
noon at new st. James. The
new president and board
m e m b ers will especially
welcome you.
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PLAN NOW

to attend the Community
Concert at the Lyceum the
ater Monday evening" Col
ored voices win sing Negro
compositions.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-08

which left the railroad and struck
out across the desert. At times all
evidence of her trail was lost, but
the knowledge of the desert of the
searching posse came in handily In
later picking it up.
When within one mile of the wo-
man the searchers found her shoes,
which she had evidently discarded to
walk in the sands of the canyon wash
The woman said that early Tuesday
morning she thought she would take
a short walk and started following the
railroad tracks. When but a short
distance from Benson she lost her sense
of direction anG leaving the tracks
thought to make a sorr cut back to
her home, instead heading for the
desert hills where she became hope
lessly lost. The spot where she was
found is in the southern part of the
Rincon mountains.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-08
PRESIDENT HOOKS PIKE
(Rv Disnatch A. L Wlra1

PAUL SMITHS, N. Y, July Z. =
President Coolidge celebrated his ar
rival in White Pine camp today by
catching a three-pound pike in Lake
Osgood True to his promise, made
in Washington not long ago, the chief
executive trolled the clear waters OF
the lake in rowboat, waiting scarce
ly six hours after reaching his sum-
mer camp to try his luck as a fisher
man. He was rewarded at the end OF
an hour with the catch. The expedi-
ton was made in the seclusion which
surrounds the entire camp and word
of it did not leak out until tonight,
the president remaining noncommittal
on the achievement.
He was piloted about the waters OF
the small lake by Oscar Ostic, care
taker of the camp. In fishing, Cool
idge used rod and line with spoon
which were provided him from the
permanent adjustment OF the camp.
1t was his first attempt at the sport
for many years, cares OF public office
having resulted in his abandonment
of it years ago, although as boy in
Vermont he frequented the waters Of
his native Plymouth.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-08
Benson Woman, HOpelessIy
Lost I8 Miles From Home,
Found by Party of TrailerS
(By Dispatch A. P. wire)

TUCSON, July 7.-Hopelessly lost
within is miles of her home and suf-
fering from the lack of water and food
for SO hours, Mrs. A. E. Lewis, So, of
Benson, was found tonight by a party
of expert traflers from Cumaro can
yon, after having disappeared from
her home at o'clock Tuesday morn
ing.
When found Mrs. Lewis was barefoot
and sitting under the shade of a mes
quite tree, utterly at loss where to
turn to retrace her steps to Benson.
Although suffering from the lack of
water and food, the wanderer was ap-
parently not seriously injured from her
long and aimless wanderings in the
desert hills.
THE woman was reported lost early
Tuesday morning and was last seen
by a trackwalker of the Southern Pa
cific railroad about five miles from
Benson walking away from the town.
Here the trailers took up her trail,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-08
FAvoRs ROAD ADVERTISING

DR.. Charles ]. Wilkerson returned
from Phoenix last night, where he
attended a state meeting of chiro-
practors. He reports the reads in
splendid condition for travel and hun
dreds of tourists en- route east and
west, and that Globe is making a
strong appeal to autoists to pass
through that city on their way to
Lordsburg. Al large sign has been
erected at Apache Junction, 35 miles
east of Phoenix on the state highway
urging tourists to take the short cut
via Globe and save 80 miles. DR..
Wilkerson feels that the southern
route via Douglas is a better one and
that this city should advertise it in
conjunction with Bisbee and Tucson
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-08
Evangelist is to go
Before Jury Today
Continued from Page Three)
HALLENBECK NEVER HERE.

/ YUMA, July tn. D. Hallenbeck
owner of a ranch 39 miles northeast Of
here; and close confidant of Aimee
Semple Mcpherson, the evangelist, and
her mother Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, de-
clared on his ranch tonight that he
had never been in Douglas, Ariz., nor in
Aqua Prieta, Mexico, and that he had
not been in Tucson for eight years.
The statement was made to refute
claims by Dave Bloom and S. S. Franco
that Hallenbeck had bought a hat in
Blooms store in Tucson between June
Is and 20, and to disprove an assertion
bv o. E. Pape, also of Tucson, that he
had seen man resembling the rancher
with a woman whom he thought was
Mrs. Mcpherson at Aqua Prieta. Hal
lenbeck said that he was in Los An
geles the day the evangelist disappear
ed which was May IS, and that he re-
turned to his ranch five days later.
Records of the state agricultural in
spection here show that Hallenbeck,
travelling alone in his roadster auto
mobile, entered Arizona May 23.
He continued that about 10 days later
Mrs, Kennedy asked him to go to
northern California to bring Mrs Nc
Phersons son, Rolf, to Los Angeles.
This he said. he did, and was in that
city when the evangelist appeared at
Aqua Prieta.
"All my movements can easily be
traced" the rancher said. I'm Los An
geles 1 have already told Captain Cline
of the police department all 1 know.
NJ ~, oh fnn XynII
when / was here. My neighbors in
Los Angeles can tell you when was
there. Mrs. Kennedy can tell you that
brought her grandson to Los An
geles at her request"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-08
AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS IN
FRANCE JOIN DEMONSTRATION
a (Rv Dsnatch a p Wirel

PARIS, July 1.-THE Association OF
American Volunteers in the French
Army. 1914-1917, has decided to par
ticipate in Sundays demonstration
originally intended Jas a pro e t
against the washington debt agree
ment, but only to a limited extent. A
delegation from this body will be sta
toned before the Alan Seeger monu-
ment in the Place des Etats Unis
Sunday morning to receive the wreath
which the French Veterans associa-
tion will present as it marches past.
There will be no speeches by either
side and no further demonstrations
before the statue.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-08

a law to prevent motor accidents
the bar associations committee on
commerce, trade and commercial law
has prepared a similar proposal en-
bodying the salient features of the
proposed statute. These include a
general campaign of education in an
attempt to minimize loss of life by
traffic accidents and that each state
erect white signs four feet high at
roads where fatal accidents have oc-
Cured TO make drivers more careful
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-08
JOHN ID. ROCKEFELLERi TO
CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY TO-DAY
III snoA
(By Dispatch A. P. Wirel

TARRYTOWN, N. Y, July z. - ST.
lencing his telephones and barricad1ne
himself in his we'll guarded estate,
John D. Rockefeller today prepared
to celebrate his 87th birthday tomor-
row. While it is not known how he
will spend the day, it was said he
will hold only quiet celebration with
members of his family. He will prob
ably play his regular game of golf in
the morning. Rockefeller has been
in unusually good spirits during the
past week. People who have met him
say his generosity in distributing
dimes has been unprecedented. 1t is
known that he is i'm the best of health
and plays golf on his irivate course
every day.