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Richmond planet., 1927-10-01
CoIored Boy Kills
White One in Play
Wild West Show Causes Tra6edy on clay Street.

Playing "bandit and sheriff. with
a band of little Negro boys, Freddy
Ryland Snowa, II, of 116 West Clay
Street. was shot and almost instantly
killed by bullet from ,32 calibre
revolver fired by Francis Charity, 12-
year-old Negro child, of III West
Clay Street.
The boys were having their Wild
West party atop a vacant house at
115 West Clay Street. The little
Negro had secured the loaded weapon
from his own home, and, playing
sheriff, suddenly approached the
Snowa lad with the command to hold
up his hands.
Still in the spirit OF the childish
game, the Negro boy pulled hard on
the trigger, and the bullet pierced
the breast of Freddy Snowa, who
was standing about six feet off. The
little white boy fell instantly, plead
ing with his playmates to tell his
mother. Help was summoned, but
when the city ambulance &l'rivei, the
little victim was dead.
Policeman J. P. NJ. Taylor was the
llISI OllSSI " ellAlNS OAA NAAS SNSAiS'
being later followed by Detective
SergeantS J. L. Wiltshire and R. B.
Sterling from headquarters. These
officers quickly rounded up the three
little Negroes who had been mem
bers of the fatal Wild West party.
Besides Francis Charity, they gave
the names of Henry cambridge, H.,
of 127 West Clay Street, and Albert
Slayton, 13, of 8 West Clay Street.
Questioned by Wiltshire, Francis
Charity said he got the gun from his
aunt, and not knowing that it was
loaded, carried it with him to the
housetop to play with the rest of the
boys. After the tragic ending, the
Negro boy said he took the weapon
home and threw it on top of ward
robe where it was later found.
The police placed a charge OF
shooting against the Charity boy, and
swore out warrants against the other
two, charging them with being de-
linquent children. The case will come
up in Juvenile and domestic relations
court.
Funeral arrangements for the slain
child were being completed today,
the remains having been turned over
to Undertaken Henry w. Woody.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fritz Snowa, the be-
reaved parents, were overcome with
grief at the tragic passing of their
son.
Richmond planet., 1927-10-01
HUCKABEE KILLED

During the early morning hours Of
Sunday, September 25th, Lincoln
car was being pursued by Officers R
M. Rouse and ]. l.. Robinson. 1t
easily outdistanced its pursuers. II
was delivering corn whiskey for the
"boot-leg" trade. 1t is reported tFae
Clyde Huckabee, the driver had
made five deliveries, while the
officers were in pursuit. He came
down Leigh Street, driving east. when
he ran into a stolen Buick sedan
driven by a colored man. A wreck
followed and the Lincoln car ran up
on the sidewalk and struck Miller's
Hotel.
Richmond planet., 1927-10-01
Fractured Skull.

1t was found that the chauffeur,
Huckabee, was seriously injured,
suffering from fractured skull. He
was rushed to Memorial Hospital,
where he died. The police blotter
at the Second Police Station erro-
neously named his brother, Marvin.
The car contained 25 half-gallon jars
of corn whiskey. The car was
wrecked, as was also the Buick sedan.
The colored occupant of that car
managed to get out without material
injury. The police are looking for
him and any information concerning
his whereabouts will be thankfully
received at Police Headquarters.
Richmond planet., 1927-10-01
A Deadly Record.


In the meantime, Emanuel Branch
has left the city, and at this writing
has not been apprehended. The body
was turned over to Funeral Director
Robert C.. Scott. A wound in the
left chest, not more than five-eights
of an inch wide told the story. The
knife blade severed an artery and
Brown bled to death. Just across the
street was house in which woman
killed her husband or paramour re-
Gently. Down below was another
house, where a woman was charged
with killing her husband. A few
steps further was the scene of the
famous Disse shooting of police
officer and others. He died in the
electric chair as punishment.
Richmond planet., 1927-10-01
LIBERIAN PRESIDENT
VISITS BERLIN

BERLIN, Sept. 19.-Charles Dun
bar Burgess King, President of the
Republic of Liberia and the first
head of a former enemy State to
visit Berlin since the World War, ar
rived here today, accompanied by
his son and Adjutant. The Execu-
tive and his attendants were received
at the railroad station by DR.. Koepke,
one of the directors of the Foreign
Office, and Ministerial Councillor
Horstmann as the representatives of
the Government. Tomorrow Presi-
dent King will be received by Presi-
dent Hindenburg and Friday he will
be the dinner guest of Chancellor
Marx.
Richmond planet., 1927-10-01
PRIZE WINNERS IN AUT oMoBIIE CONTEST

The Winners of The Planet Prizes are follows:
First Prize -JAMEStA. C. % FNSON. 100000 Votes
End Prize MRS. CARRIE DICKERSON o,987,oO0 Votes
Third Prize-MRS. ELIZAA. BERKLEY. 4372,000 Votes
Fourth Pnze-MRS. NANNIE. POWELL 4047,0O0 Votes
Fifth Pnze-REV T. E. FOUNTAIN go. 2162,OO0 Votes
ixth Pize-Mr HUMPHREY NEWSOME< f632, ,0O0- Votes
Seventh Prize-N1ISS NATALYE LONG,, 1000 Votes
Eighth Prize-NRS FRANCES DIAS... $4,000 Votes
The Cars may be the Hudson Motor Car Co. and
will be paraded day eek The time of presentation
will be announced in next ssue.
Richmond planet., 1927-10-01


Rev. E. C. Smith, A. B., B. D.,
pastor of the Second Baptist Church,
South Richmond, Va, and family,
are back home from an extended
Western trip. Mrs. Smith n1otored
to Cleveland, Ohio, July 10th last,
with her brother, Mr.. Garrett Davis,
and was guest of her uncle, Mr.. j.
E. Otey, and wife. Rev. Smith join
ing her August 21st, and they visited
Pittsburgh, Detroit, Windsor, Canada
and Columbus, o. Returning Sep
tember 18th to Lynchburg, Va,
where they spent few days visiting
old friends.
The members of the Second Bap-
tist Church gladly welcomed the
pastor home again.
Richmond planet., 1927-10-01
Picked Up.

leaned against the balustrade on
the porch. 1 do not know whether
Branch came out or not. / looked
up and saw a man with Brown at
the gate. thought he struck him
with his hand. Some one passing said
that Brown had been stabbed. Brown
came in the side way. He was picked
up. do not know who stabbed him.
l did not recognize the man. l do
not know whether it was Branch or
not"
Richmond planet., 1927-10-01
A Loving Woman.


A nurse from the l. V. N. A. will
60 into any home where there is
sickness if the call comes in at head
quarters, 223 South Cherry Street.
Her care for the sick and her in
struction to the rest of the house
hold is given as cheerfully where the
family is unable to pay the full
charge as where it can because the
Richmond Community Fund makes
this possible. Are you a member of
the Richmond Community Fund?
Richmond planet., 1927-10-01

Mr.. Hezekiah Curtis left the city
Monday November 19, to attend the
Most Worshipful Grand Lodge Of
Masons, which convened in Newport
News, Tuesday the 20th. He has
been one of It's Trustees since 1917.
At the close, Of the Grand Lodge Mr.
Curtis left for New York to visit
his daughter, Miss Bessie and other
relatives. We wish him pleasant
Richmond planet., 1927-10-01

of his friends said that he had been
in the car with him when he turned
a corner going at the rate of 65 miles
an hour. This made it practically i'm
possible for police car to catch him.
He was fine specimen of manhood.
He was only 25 years of age. His
brother is said to be an expert driver
also.
Richmond planet., 1927-10-01

! Rev. Charles S. Morris, D. D.,
pastor of Fifth Street Baptist
Church, delivered an able, eloquent
sermon last Sunday morning. Ger
tainly, he can have no hope OF either
support or reward from the militant
suffragists and the advocates of an
absolute equality of rights of women,
both in the home and in the nation.
He cried aloud and spared not and
when he detected apparent con-
sternation upon the countenances of
some of his female listeners, he
found refuge in "thus saith the
Lord His subject was Goods way
to be happy in married life" -
~ ~
Quotes Scriptures. =.
He quoted from the 5th chapter
of Ephesians, 22-33. He spoke of
the Bolshevists in Russia teaching
community of wives declaring that
there was no necessity of being true
to one wife. There are 100000 chill,
dren living here, running around as
wolves in packs, unfed and desperate.
They declare that man came from
protoplasm. They say that it is set
tied, but this mere statement does
not settle anything. Saying it, does
not prove anything. He cited from
Genesis End chapter, God knew that
man loved himself. He could have
made woman from the dust of the
earth, Just as he made man, but he
did not do it. He took a part Of
man, a rib, and made the woman.
Man, the Head.
Man is the head, and the woman
is the help-meet. The only thing
that survived is the marriage. When
the flood came, because of that God
less crowd, it was done because OF
the disregard of the marriage rela-
tionship. Noah preached 120 years
and did not get a convert outside of
his own family. Only four married
couples survived the flood. He told
of the disposition of the children,
Ham being sent to Africa and Shem
to Asia. In the beginning, God made
one woman for one man. One man
is happy only with one woman and
one woman only with one man.
A Question Answered.
Who is the Devil? The devil is
the one, who upsets and who con-
tends against everything that God
wants. The greatest enemy is the
Judge, who looses 100000 couples
per year. The divorces are at the
rate of one in eight marriages. They
say that the time will come when
divorce coupons will be attached to a
marriage certificate. The greatest
disgrace to this country is the judge,
who unties the marriage contract.
When God invented marriage, he
gave explicit instructions as to how
to run it. He then read the instruc-
tions to the wife. Husbands shall
rule over thee.
The Solemnity of Marriage.
He showed how some women did
Richmond planet., 1927-10-01
Brother Arrives.

Joseph B. Brown, brother of the
murdered man, arrived in the city
Monday with his wife. He is from
Richlands, N. C. The blood was in
evidence on the sidewalk at $50 n.
Seventh Street. Dirt had been
sprinkled over it. The detectives were
of the opinion that Rosa McNeal
knew all about the murder. Her
husband is named John McNeal. In
the Police Court last Monday morn
ing, approaching her in the pen. she
said, 81 came through from Sixth
Street and stopped at $40 n. Seventh
Street, Branch came in there and
went into the dining room.
Richmond planet., 1927-10-01
Lives In Fulton.

Huckabee resided at 726 Louisiana
Street, Fulton, and is said to be a
noted character in the illicit whiskey
business. He had never been caught.
Those who know him best say that
he could turn a corner at the rate of
from 40 to 60 miles per hour. One
Richmond planet., 1927-10-01
Stabs Brown toDeath
Emanuel Branch CHARGED with Murder
Goes Away, Fu9ifiVe from Justice


Moses Lee Brown, deaf colored
man, was stabbed to death Saturday
night in front of a dwelling and eat
ing house at $50 N. Seventh Street
The time of the notification at the
Second Police Station was 1925
o'clock. Mrs. Rosa McNeal was held
as material witness and later as an
accessory to the murder, which is
alleged to have been committed by
Emanuel Branch. He Immediately
disappeared. He came here from
Amelia County, Va. Brown is from
North Carolina. Rosa Mcneil is mar
ried and lives at I'll E. Clay Street.
Brown can talk, but is deaf. He
married his wife, Matte, who is deaf
and dumb, and lived with her at S02
E. Leigh Street.
Richmond planet., 1927-10-01
REV. DR.. MORRIS
breaches
Shows that Husband is Head of
HOuSe=s=FifthS ST. church Com
6re6afiOn Hears Great Sermon

rot realize the solemnity of mar
haven't got but $1,000 out of that
T. old Negro since l had him." Her
idea was to do the man, that is to
get something out of him. Man was
first. Woman was made for the
happiness of man. Nothing that
walks the earth can equal the woman.
Her highest Joy was ministering to
her husband 1t does not mean that
a woman is slave of man. If you
want to find an unhappy woman.
Some ofethe females had been wear
/ ing long faces, while the men beamed
with satisfaction.
The "aNo Count Husbands.
But conditions changed when the
able speaker took up the "other
side" The man, who makes his wife
pay the house rent over the wash
tubs should be dealt with by the
church. There are times when a
man suffers living death hunting
for work. This does not apply to
MIN. d W IL QOeS Apply W IuS ioolCi
who in the summertime sits on the
shady side of the street and in the
winter time sits on the sunny side of
the street. A woman likes to be
kissed, loved and cherished. You
told her enough before you married
her.
A Loving Woman.
He paid glowing tribute to
loving woman. He advised the men
to praise her cooking and to do all
in their power to make her burden
lighter. After having said what he
wanted to say, he proceeded to call
for liberal collection, and both the
men and the women, married and
SINGLE, proceeded to give it to him.
Leader Joseph Matthews and his
choir sang "Swing Low Sweet
Chariot. The congregation passed
out, many complimenting the morn
ing's deliverances.
Richmond planet., 1927-10-01
AGENTS WANTED

To sell Daddy Hair Dressing in
every town and city. Be the first to
become an agent in your city. Send
S1.0O and we will ship your first
order, including samples. Yunk's
Manufacturing Company, Braddock,
Pa.
Richmond planet., 1927-10-01

DIR. ]. H. Blackwell, Jr., returned
from Newport News, Va, last Thurs
day, after attending the Grand Lodge
of Masons.
Richmond planet., 1927-10-01
AN AWFUL TRAGEDY ON CHURCH HILL.
wasp n4::oas in

Susie 1ancey, VINO was SnOt Oy
Otis Rice, who resides at 906 n.
Twenty-eighth Street, at 900 n.
Thirty-frst Street, September II,
1927. She was removed to st.
Philips Hospital where she died
September 27, 1927. Susie had Rice
arrested for threatening her life.
When the officer came to make the
arrest, he asked her if she had sworn
out the warrant, she replied in the
affirmative, when Otis Rice, who was
behind the door fired, striking Susie
Yancey. Coroner James NJ. Whitfield
had before him the following evi
dence:
The Surgeons Testimony.
DR.. Richard B. Easley, of st.
Philips Hospital, said Susie Yancey
was brought to the hospital in the
city ambulance on September II,
1927. She had a bullet wound in the
left shoulder behind. She was
paralyzed. No motion and no sensa-
iion from the nipples down.
G.. No surgical operation was done on
her. She told me she was shot by a
man because she had sworn out a
warrant against him. She died Sep
tember 27, 1927, from the effects Of
the bullet wound.
Officer Tells About 1t. e..
Police Officer A. F. Kastroll said
"On September II, 1927, | went to
900 n. Thirty-frst Street looking for
Susie Yancey to ask her where Otis
Rice lived. | asked Susie if she
swore out a warrant for Otis. She
said, yes. A man standing behind
the door shot her with a pistol, an
automatic. | was standing outside
the house, my foot on the ,doOr-sill.
When the pistol was fired |
stepped back and pulled out my pistol
and went into the house. The man
threw his pistol on the floor and
said, am not going to resist you.
Shot In His Presence.
Susie was sitting at a dresser fix
ing her hair, her back toward the
door, when she was shot. When
went into the room, no one was In
there but Otis, Susie and me.
arrested Otis. He made no resistance.
When / asked him why he shot Susie,
he replied, that if he was going to
get arrested he would be arrested for
something. Susie was sent to the
hospital in the city ambulance.
Rice's Statement.
In the pen at the Police Court last
Wednesday morning stood a slim,
dark complexioned man, who an
swered to the name of Otis Rice. In
reply to queries he said: 81 had the
pistol here Che pointed to the inside
waistband of his trousers. | pulled
it out when it went off and the bullet
struck her" How far were you from
her? about as far as l am from
that chair" 1t was about II feet.
"What had she done to you?" 81 was
living with her, yes sleeping there.
On September 9th and September
18th she came into the room one time
at l o'clock and at another time at
2 o'clock. This was the cause of
the trouble"
where is your home?" "Tipton-
vile, Tenn. / have mother and a
father there. | came to Richmond
about 1921"
This ended the interview. He had
no counsel and from his talk did not
expect to be able to employ counsel.
Richmond planet., 1927-10-01

Miss Pauline Brown has returned
to the city after spending her vaca-
ton at Newark, N. ].
Richmond planet., 1927-10-01

Mrs. Maude H. Lee, of Sonora,
Va, is visiting the city this week,
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. John R.
Cogbill, of ia E. Eighteenth Street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-05
TODAY'S ADJUSTMENTS.

NatiOnal-"Beau Geste," photoplay
third and final week., at $3.50 and
$3.50 pm.
Belasco-''The Awakening" com
edy, at 2:15 and SIS pm.
Keith's Grant Mitchell-Ledova.
vaudeville. at 2:15 and SIS pm.
Earle-"With Your Approval"
vaudeville, continuous, 1:30 to II pm.
Strand-"Musical Echoes" musical
presentation, continuous from 1890
to II pm.
Gayety-"Miss Tabasco,' burlesque,
at 2:15 and SIS pm.
RialtO-Jack Holt, in 1.-The Man of
the Forest" at 1870 am, los, 2:55,
4:35, 6:05, and $50 pm.
/,tropolitan-John Barrymore in
'Eon Juan" at 1916 am, 1890, 2:45,
5, 7:15 and $50 pm.
Palace-"Johnny Get Your Hair
Cut" at 1855 am, 1920, 1925. 4:25,
$50, 1856 and 1905 pm.
Columbia--"Tell 1t to the Marines"
second week., at lilo am, 40, $40,
500, 1920 and $3.50 pm.
Ambassador-"Corpo Kate" at 2,
4:05, 6:1O. and 9:45 pm.
TivOli-"The Ice Flood" at 2, 4;10.
6:15, and 9:35 pm.
Central-"Jim, the Conquerer," at
1890, 2, $3.50, S, $50, and $40 pm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-05
CRYSTAL CHANGES
C|TEDBy. DR.. DESCH
Substances Held Inanimate
Very Temperamental,
Societies Told.

Crystals, regarded by laymen as in
animate. changeless substances, are In
reality more temperamental than OPP
era singers and are as capable of COM
pletely changing their form as were
the Greek gods on Mount Olympus.
who were often wont to take the form
Of earthly creatures to gain their
worldly ends. This, according to DR..
Cecil II. Desch, formerly of the Uni
versity of Glasgow. and now with
Sheffield University. England. who
gave an Illustrated lecture on THE
Growth of Crystals at the joint meet
ing of the Washington Academy of
Sciences. the Chemical Society of
Washington and the American Society
for Steel Treating last night at the
Cosmos Club. DR.. Desch also told
about abnormal and periodic growths
Crystals are remarkable for their
regularity of form, optical qualities
and their property Of growth" he said.
"If placed In the right environment,
usually a solution of the same sub
stance of which the crystal ia COM
posed, the crystal will increase in
size
Revealing the idiosyncracies Of crys-
tails, DIR. Desch pointed out how some
of the faces on a crystal grow fast and
others grow slow. Those that grow
fast, he said. grow themselves out of
the picture. while the slow-growing
faces are the ones that survive.
"a crystal does not grow at the
same rate in all directions" he con
tinued. IF such were the case 1t
would become a sphere"
DR.. Desch then showed how q crys-
tai, commenced as sphere. and
through contact with a foreign Sub
stance, a fiat place appeared. followed
by more fiat places, until it finally
grew into a regularly shaped crystal
alum crystals, when placed in an
alum solution, increase in size while
retaining their octoedrical shape. The
crystal is built of atoms arranged in
geometric FORMS
"Snowtlakes are the most perfect
branch crystals he continued
Branch crystals formed by frost on
window will curve around any dirt
or oil to avoid 1t, and thus we have al
sorts of queer shapes on the windows
on frosty morning.
DIR. Desch ended his lecture by show
ing how metals are not much more
viscous than water when molten. He
also told how agates were formed by
the inflltration of a solution of silica
into rock cavities.
DIR. Alexander Vetmore, president
of the Washington Academy Of Sci
ences and assistant secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution, presided at
the meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-05
flowers SECRETS
SHOWN IN LECTURE
Weeks Growth Crowded in Film
Of 80 Seconds by National
Geographic Lecturer.

Secrets Of flowers seldom guessed
by laymen were laid bare last night
by Arthur G. PillSbury, official natural
list of Yosemite National Park. in an
illustrated address before members OF
the National Geographic Society at
the Washington Auditorium. The
amazing activities of flowers were
shown through motion pictures that
compressed the growth of a week or
more into a. film showing of 80 sec
onds. The pictures, all taken in a
laboratory in perfectly still air. showed
various flowers awakening, going to
sleep, going through cycles of develop
nent, finally reaching maturity and
dying.
Mr.. Pillsbury explained that flowers
are sensitive entities. firing, under
going shock on being picked or trans
planted, and recovering by rest. He
also disclosed surprising correlattons
with nature. The thistle. the seeds
of which are distributed by air cur
rents, invariably goes to seed on
windy day, he said. Flowers that re
main open at night and closed by day
are always white or light yellow, he
explained, so that they may he seen
by moths which pollenize them. The
higher one goes in the mountains the
more brilliantly he finds the flowers
colored because these brilliant hues
absorb the suns heat rays more
'eadily. So regular are certain flowers
in their time Of opening and closing,
Mr.. Pillsbury said. that it would be
possible to construct a really accurate
flower clock"
In addition to the pictures of his
flower studies, Mr.. Pillsbury showed
notion pictures of the Yosemite
Valley, where most of his work was
done. The most striking of the views
we're taken from an airplane, which
glided by the side of sheer cliffs, flew
through the spray of water falls, and
looked down on even the lofty sum
nit of Half Dome.
One reel showed microscopic motion
pictures of the termination of pollen
Of the spider lily of Hawaii These
photographs were magnified more than
10000 times-a degree of magnifica-
ton that would make a six-foot man
appear to be 1872 miles high. Through
them was seen the beginning Of move
ment of protoplasm, the initiation of
life itself. Through similar studies
Mr.. Pillsbury hopes to show the
chemical changes going on in leaf,
the action by which the suns energy
Is trapped for the production of all
food products manufactured by plants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-05
2,977 TRAFFIC VIOLATORS
ARRESTED IN FEBRUARY
Infraction of Parking Rules Ranks
Highest in Offenses-Accident
Number 455, Is Report.

The metropolitan police arrested
1871 violators of the traffic regula-
tions during February, or 451 less than
in the preceding month, according to
the monthly report of Inspector e. w.
Brown, in charge of the Traffic Blu
reau, submitted today to Maj Edwin
Is. Hesse, superintendent of police.
AS usual, the largest number of ar
rests were for infraction of the park
ing rules. Eleven hundred and thir-
teen motorists were charged with this
offense. Two hundred and twenty
three arrests We're made for disobey-
ing official signs Of the Police Depart
ment. AZ for driving while drunk, 50
Tor falling to show drivers permit,
100 for having no permits, 1877 for reck
less driving, 900 for violation of the
light regulations and AL for fast
driving.
Inspector Browns report also shows
that there were 455 traffic accidents
during February. decrease of Sc I'M
der the corresponding month of 1926.
Eight deaths resulted from these acct.
dents. two less than in February of
last year.