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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-27
PAVEMENT LAYING URGED.
Northwest Brightwood Citizens
Discuss Military Road School.

Laying of a pavement from Georgia
avenue to the Bates Road School was
requested by the Northwest Bright
wood Civic Association meeting in the
Military Road School last night. The
step was urged to protect children
from automobile traffic.
Alleged insanitary conditions in the
school were discussed, following the
report of a special investigating COM
mittee, composed Of j. II. White, DIR.
A. Z. Terry and James Washington.
A committee was named to place the
matter before Garnet c. Wilkinson,
first assistant superintendent in charge
of colored schools. A general dilapi-
dation and lack of running water was
complained of.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-27
Coolidge Invited to Florida.

An invitation to visit Pensacola and
Tallahassee. Fla, in the event he
goes to the Pan-American Congress
at Havana, Cuba. next January, was
extended today to President Coolidge
by Representative Yon, new mem
Der of Congress from Florida.
Mrs. Coolidge also has been invited
to stop at Jacksonville by Senator
Fletcher
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-27
OFFICER HURT IN CRASH.
Police Lieutenant's Car Runs Into
Front of Grocery Store.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LYNCHBURG, Va. September az
Police Lieut.. A. r. Wilson of the local
police department is at his home suf-
fering from internal injuries sus-
tanned Sunday night when his auto
mobile crashed into the front Of a
grocery store.
Patrolmen Dowdy and Witt were
with Lieut.. Wilson, but they escaped
with minor cuts and bruises.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-27
new ANTI-AIRCRAFT
GUNS FOLLOW TARGET
Battery, Automatically Aimed Aft.
er Being Set, Proves Efficient
in Tests,

~ the Associated Press.
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND,
M l.. September 27.--A battery Of anti,
all craft guns that, having been trained
on a target, automatically follows Il
across the sky, was tested here today
and proved highly efficient.
After adjustment for range and
speed of the target, which was towed
by an airplane 21a miles above thu
ground. the guns scored several hits
and incidentally cut the cord by which
the target was being towed.
A battery Of four Browning ma.
chine guns, aimed and fired in unison
at the rate OF 1000 shots a minute.
also was tested.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-27
Disabled Veterans. Drive.

An intensive mailing campaign, IN
connection with the forget-me-not
drive to be conducted by the District
of Columbia Department Of Disabled
American Veterans on October is,
was decided upon at a meeting OF the
executive Committee yesterday. The
campaign Is to inform the public of
the aims and work Of the society, as
well as to solicit subscriptions -,-.-.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-27
Two Women to Receive Hero Medals
For Saving Office From Being Held Up

given the medals by Maurice Tillier
director general of the company, who
is coming from Paris for the purpose.
The Isle de France was due at Quar-.
antine at IL o'clock today.
Last month a man entered the
offices of the company, drew a re.
volver and ordered the two women,
who were alone, to keep quiet. Mrs.
Sanford jumped up, slammed the
door of the safe shut and ran out
into the street screaming. The men
ran out of the Office and escaped.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-27

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 27-Soldicr
Field, where the Army and Navy
fought to tie and Tunney and Demp
sey fought to a decision, is Mayor
Thompson's suggestion to the Demo
cratic and Republican parties as the
site for their 1928 conventions.
The mayor today mailed letters to
the committeeman of the two parties
in the 48 States, saying:
MANY national conventions have
been successfully conducted in our
Coliseum building. which has seating
capacity of $4,000.
II believe a canopy can be thrown
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-27
Mail Bids Sought.
iaI Dispatch to The Star.

III DIspdVCH 70 II5 otdT.
UPPER MARLBORO. Md, Septem.
: 27.-Guy NJ. Coale. local post.
lister. has blanks and information re.
;;arting bids for carrying the mails
between the Upper Marlboro post
office and the Pennsylvania Railroad
Station. Contracts must be in by
October 3.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-27
DEMOCRATIC HOPE
FOR FAVORITE SON
IN KANSAS SLIGHT

Continued from First Page)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-27
Invited to Havana.

Others who were emphatic in their
pronunciation OF parents for not pre-
venting their daughters entering such
contests were Mrs. John MacMahon of
Chicago, first vice president of the
council, and Miss Sara Laughlin of
the White-Williams Foundation of
Philadelphia.
Other speakers last night were.
Senior DON Cayetano de Quesada, con.
sui attache to the Cuban embassy,
who invited the council to meet in
Havana next year, and Mrs. Frances
Bushea OF Cleveland, Ohio, who spoke
Tor the promotion of peace
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-15
MRS. HARVEY A. WATKINS
PITTSBURGH MAN WANTED
FOR MURDER CAPTURED
IN ALABAMA
preston News Service)

Birmingham, Ala, Jan. l3.-Word
has been received by authorities here
that county detective McDermott left
Pittsburgh, Pa, last Saturday morn
ing for this city to take Lee Smith,
aged As years, back to Pittsburgh.
Smith is wanted in the Pennsylvania
city for the murder August %, 1924.
of Edward Sanders, aged 40, who was
stabbed to death at 81 Apple Way,
Duquesne, a steel manufacturing sub
urb Of Pittsburgh. 1t is said that both
men lived at the same address and
became involved in an argument over
whist game. Smith was arrested
Thursday night by Alabama author
tiles after he had been traced there by
county detectives of the Keystone
state.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-15
WOMAN SLAS H E S WHITE
SALESMAN WHEN HE
GETS RUDE
preston News Service)

Pittsburgh, Pa, Jan. l4.-When F.
L. Smoloff (white) rubber goods
salesman, went to the home Of Mrs.
Celesta Bolden in Bedford avenue,
Friday and tried to sell her few ar
ticIes and Mrs. Bolden told him she
did not want anything in an emphatic
manner, Smolof is alleged to have
made an insulting remark and Mrs.
Bolden seized a safety razor blade,
which she was using at her sewing,
and told Smoloff to get out at the same
time making several effective passes
resulting in several gashes in the
mans wearing apparel Smoloff
called a policeman and had the woman
arrested, lodged in jail charged with
assault with intent to kill.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-15

The chief accomplishment legend at
tributed to Saint Patrick was driving
all the snakes out Of Ireland. but his
tory does not record the event. Writ
ing In Adventure Magazine, Post Sar-
gent says he thinks the story must
have arisen from the fact that Patrick
took refuge, after his escape from cap
tivity, in the island cloister of Lerinus.
In the beginning. Lerinus had been In.
tested by snakes, so that no man could
live there. Honoratus. a monk, took
possession Of 1t. drove out the snakes
and reclaimed it for cultivation.
Hence the confusion. Probably the
snakes were all gone by the time Pat.
rick reached there.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-15
IMPOSSIBLE

A woman had never seen before
came into our store to buy a card.
Her little girl was having such a won
derful time playing with the toys that
she asked me II she could leave the
child for a few minutes while she
bought some things next door. After
three hours the mother returned.
The child had been quite destructive
and had broken two 50-cent toys.
The mother said, well, as long az
they're broken you might just as well
give them to her. You can't sell them
now"
Wasn't that cheek7-L. 0. b.. In Chi
cago Tribune.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-15
~cHIcAGo's HEALTH"
Weekly Bulletin, Chicago Department
of Health, Herman D. Bundesen,
M. D., Commissioner

"Close to 5000 Chicago persons, es-
pecially children, were saved from
sickness and possible death in 1926.
Normally there should have been 3d.
600 cases Of communicable or catching
diseases and only about $1,000 oc-
Cured.
Normally there should have been a
total of about 1900 cases of the IL
most important communicable diseases
and only $4,000 occurred. Are we
eo~-aezr,ed? >ol when we saved
ors- 1890 reg.ons aom sickness and
As results" says Dr Herman N. Bun
lessa ri= .a.s. 1liletin.
AL ta- d spite o the increasing
1,.-.7-.7 o5 Cbicago
This record IS what IS keeping up
Chicago's lead over all other cities of
its size in low sickness and death
rates." states the Commissioner.
Taken all in all, the communicable
disease history for 1926 marks another
era Of mans triumph over disease. We
shall make every effort to carry on
this work to protect Chicago against
epidemics. Of course, this means
eternal vigilance and the continued
cooperation of the citizens of Chicago,
in order to keep on making prevention
mean something" states DR.. Bundesen.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-15

The disheveled stranger bounded
into the police station and walked up
70 q desk behind which man I'm uni
form was writing In ledger.
"Are you in charger" he asked
81 am" responded the other, with
out looking up.
The stranger gasped. then he threw
out his chest and, In dramatic tones,
exclaimed:
Sergeant. I'm lost r.
You are, are your" said the other,
still writing In his ledger. well, IL
you can prove that anyone has missed
you. wen take up the case"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-15
The To1l Of segregated Schools


That segregated public schools are
socially and educationally harmful in
the misperformance Of the general pur-
pose they essay to accomplish is dem
onstrated time and time again. Al
ready the discriminatory allotment Of
the public school funds in such typical
southern states as South Carolina,
Louisiana, and Alabama is exacting
an appalling educational toll in the
hopes and ambitions of Negro youth
as compared with those of the whites,
stimulated by generous appropriations
for adequate teaching salaries, space,
and equipment.
Recently, even in the capital Of the
nation, which should rightly set an
example to the country in the zeal and
finance expended to prepare youth for
the future, it was discovered that in
the allotments for new buildings and
grounds, the segregated colored
schools of the District were given but
$s2s, 700 out of total of $3.75O,0O0. 1t
was also brought to light that such
physical embellishments as stadiums,
tennis courts, running tracks, and the
like, have heretofore been provided for
the Districts white schools only, in
the face Of the fact that the coiored
human segment Of the District Of Co
lumbia constitutes more than one
fourth Of the entire population, with q
notable increment Of taxpayers who
are doing much to stimulate the pro-
gression Of the District.
Washington, of course, is veritabie
heaven when compared with other dis
tricts, where segregated school:
abound. Yet, even in such garden
spot as the capital the toll Of segrega-
ton i impressively depressing.
Thus, the kiddies who. in the kin
dergarten. are separated As to color
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-15
BULLETIN No. e1.-FOR YOUR
SAFETY
By Chief Of Police Morgan A. Collins

During the past ten days Chicago
has been menaced by morons and
other perverted persons. Many of the
victims of these terrible crimes by this
class of criminal result from lack of
caution in admitting strangers to the
home.
Here are a few suggestions to COM
bat this menace:
Before admitting telephone collec-
tors, gas and electric inspectors, de-
livery boys and messengers be sure
they identity themselves with proper
credentials.
For your own safety do not admit
strangers with packages. Insist pack
ages are left on doorstep. IF receipt
must be signed for delivery ask the
messenger to pass the receipt under
the door.
Safeguard your home by equipping
front and back doors with chain locks
or other safety device TO prevent en-
trance while conversing with strangers
Don't exhibit large sums of money
when paying bills. Keep your money
in the nearest reputable bank Do not
keep lot Of money in the house over
night IF you do, you are easy prey
for burglars.
Remember an unprotected house en-
courages thieves. Protect your VIM
dOws with good strong locks. Secure
ly fasten all windows and doors when
you 60 out or before retiring at night
Help rs to protect you. We are all
ways at your service. Phone number
Of your nearest police station i Main
1913.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-15
w. H. RILEY CONTINUES TO
SUCCEED IN THE REAL ES-
TATE BUSINESS

William H. Riley, who was at one
time Deputy Sheriff Of Cook County,
and for many years the right hand
or the confidential man Of Alderman
Oscar De Priest. has been engaged
for some time IN the real estate and
renting business on his own hook, at
1913 E. 47th street and he continues to
succeed in good shape.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-15
blue Blood"


blue Blood" a one-act play, by
Georgia Douglas Johnson, is to be
produced in New York, January IL,
by the Krigwa Players.
This drama is a deliniation of the
tragedy underlying the promiscuous
intermixture of racial bloods. Here
we have marriage about to be solem-
nized, when a conversation takes place
between the mothers of the young
couple which shows that such mar
rage would be sacrilege. While the
guests are assembled and the bride is
being dressed, the mothers agonize be-
hind the boIted kitchen door.
"A solution is evolved, however,
through the suggestion Of a former
admirer of the girl who had volun-
teered his services to her mother, and
returned from an erarnd as the two
women faced the blank walls of di-
lemma.
An ending that covered the face of
the situation with kind veil was
thrown over the affair and the skel-
eton in two closets was kept from
view
This tale mas its many duplicates
and gives an interesting glimpse down
the silent and shadcwy trail of the
past
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-15
THE FIGHT FOR MAYOR OF CHI
CAGO BETWEEN HON. WILLIAM
HALE THOMPSON, DIR. JOHN DILL
ROBERTSON AND HON. EDWARD
r. LITSINGER CONTINUES TO
GROW HOTTER AND HOTTER.

archistic plot has been laid by way Of
Chicago across to Moscow and back
to Mexico. If these things are true,
it does appear that the incapacity of
government informers have slept with
the necessary information longer than
they should have. 1t must be to a
dangerous point when the fighting
Senator from the shores of Balboa,
Hiram Johnson, can stand upon the
floor of the Senate and recall from
senatorial records that he has cried
aloud that these conditions were in the
making and would ultimately tend to
destroy millions of dollars of capital
invested by American citizens purport-
ing to have the right and title given to
them by the government where Villa,
the greatest guerilla fighter the world
has ever known was an insurgent and
that President Coolidge has accepted
the facts as were related long ago by
Senator Johnson.
Locally, the political situation has
taken on new aspect. Edward r.
Litsinger, the Deneen-Brundage can
didate, has given his platform to the
voters Of Chicago. The most impor-
tant plank in the platform is the fact
that he pledges himself to lake the
alderman and ward superintendent of
each ward and personally survey the
conditions of the streets and alleys.
This one thing alone, will write for the
first time in municipal history of Chi
cago that the mayor of city visited
even his own alley. Usually in the
alley back of and surrounding the
house where the mayor resides the
ward superintendent endeavors to keep
it like the home. II is a hard thing
for any mayor of Chicago to remem-
Der the boundary lines of his own
ward unless he is going out in a cam
paign or some particular propaganda.
But, it is to be said that Mr.. Litsinger
has in mind and memory how when he
was alderman of the old fifth ward
when the garbage and ashes were piled
up as high as the back fences and dis
ease was brought to the poor of that
neighborhood. If he takes for his
watchword off our own Chicago statue
of liberty 81 WIZ and then puts be-
hind it that dogmatic human power
which gave to the greatest public
servant of German descent, the human
lion, Theodore Roosevelt, the children
all over the city will cry as they did
Teddy" they will give new call and
they will say Eddy, Oh, Eddyl You
have kept your word"
The radio scout is compiling his in
vestigation Of the 9th Ward Republi-
can ball at the Trianon which will be
most interesting reading for next week.
The laboratory has not completed the
medics for DIR. John Dill Robertson's
new political pill. Full statement az
to its experiment will be given in our
next issue.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-15

AnfmaIcules, known as Daphnias,
which live In ponds and bitches and
are iistantly related to the shrimp and
lobster, are. found to be practically
asexless," the females laying and
Matching eggs without the aid Of males
over a long period Of time. Males are
occasionally born. but the ordinary
phenomena Of sex do not appear at all
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-15
The South and the Ballot


Congressman William Francis Stew
enson, democrat, of South Carolina,
while in debate in the House, just a
few days ago, made some courteous
and significant remarks concerning the
Negro and the ballot in the dear old
Southland. Among other things, the
Congressman said: Il want to tell you
that in South Carolina the Constitution
gives any man the right to vote who
has $500 worth Of property on the tax
books and pays his taxes, or who can
read the Constitution. There is not a
colored man in the State Of South
Carolina who cannot register and vote
if he comes within that limitation, and
when he does his vote is counted. We
count them and we give them (the
#colored people, their rights, and they
vote today, and we invite anybody
who wants to come down and see
whether we are living up to the Fiji
teenth Amendment"
In answer to a query by Congress
man Wainwright, republican, Of New
York, asking How large a colored
population in South Carolina votes to-
day." Congressman Stevenson replied
None"
The debate brings out a pertinent
theory and a pertinent fact. The the
ory is that colored eligibles of South
Carolina can vote, and the fact is, ac-
cording to Congressman Stevenson
that they do not vote. We wonder
why. Can it be that in the face Of
the great need Of the race ballot, since
the passage Of the Fifteenth Amend
ment, that the colored people of South
Carolina ignore the sacred privilege of
the ballot? Can it be that with the
potential voting force which they
could but do not have, they are sleep
ing upon their rights?
Is it a fact that IN South Carolina,
where the allotment for the education
OF each colored school boy and girl is
far under that for each white pupil the
Negroes, of their own free will, stay
away from the ballot box, the greatest
solvent Of civic ills in the land?
Can it be that with lynchings raging
in South Carolina, the colored voters"
can do nothing to stop the crime or to
punish the offenders by at least re-
moving negligent officials from Office
and stopping official malfeasance?
We wonderl If so, then it is time
to stop talking about the enforcement
of the Fifteenth Amendment. If not,
it is time for the colored people Of the
South and their friends the country
over to fill plea to Congress and to
the country denying the allegations Of
Congressman Stevenson and showing
just why the theory and the fact, as
announced by him, are SO far at vari-
ance as the Pacific Ocean is with the
Dead Sea.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-15
BY CHARLES STEWART, JR.

Illinois and the Mississippi Valley
are having its hearing before Master
Charles Evans Hughes as to the di-
version of the water from Lake Mich
igan the. point being raised by Sena-
tors Willis and Burton. 1t is gratifying
to state at this writing that the Master
overruled what purported to be the
main point raised by the directors.
The press in general in the west have
told the story Of the sewerage system
/ OF Cleveland and other towns along
the route which stand uncontradicted
as to the filth dumped into the lake BY
these holier than thou directors on
one frivilous techDicality or another in
an endeavor to stop the progress of
Chicago and other cities along the
route from having the commercial ad-
vantage which the. natural waterway
systems have provided. Again it is
deeply to be regretted that the most
unfortunate thing has happened. Con-
gresham Martin B. Madden, chair
man OF committee on appropriations,
according to truthful information is in
critical condition at his hotel, threat
ened with a complete nervous break
down from the struggle he has had
with the members of the appropriation
committee and the committee on rivers
and harbors. The citizens, regardless
of party along this waterway, who be-
lieve in the power of God to control
and restore the strength to the giant
which will be necessary to return him
again to his Office to fight these OBJ
structionists, can do no better service
than spare enough Of their time to
send in truth and in fact the words Of
prayer which they mean asking God to
restore this contending giant to the
place where he can look into the faces
of the men who have so cowardly
taken advantage of this unfortunate
situation.
In the Senate, Illinois is fortunate
in having as its defender a man who
knows by personal survey every foot
of the proposed route and while gov
ernor of Illinois for eight years had an
occasion to appoint committees with
constructive minds which aided in
bringing this battle where it is today
And he recognized the stupendous
task resting upon his shoulders, the
work which must be done to defeat
the filibustering led by Senator Willis
of Ohio. Senator Charles S. Deneen
has picked up the bludgeon and is
standing as warrior who will be de-
scribed by historians, who are some
where being fitted by the science of
nature to re-map and re-write the his
tory Of the waterway from the lakes
to the gulf.
Apparently, the state department at
Washington has about discovered that
somewhere in Mexico or the South
American government gigantic an
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-15

DIR. Anna Beatrice Schultz, $3.50
Calumet avenue, spent the holiday sea-
SON. most pleasantly IN every way and
she sincerely hopes that her many
friends and patients had a most joyous
time as well. DR.. Schultz j. . strong
admirer and supporter Of this news
paper
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-15
HOLD BIG MEETING

The various lodges and temples OF
u. B. F. & S. NJ. T. in the city met
IN a big meeting on Sunday afternoon
AZ 3l18 Giles avenue, where much en-
thusiasm was created In interest OF
the lodges and temples. This meeting
was presided over by ]. B. Street,
grand master.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-15

Col Franklin A. Denison is still
confined to his home, 1916 Vincennes
avenue with illness. His friends all
hope that within . very short time he
win be able to Be out again and look
after his law business.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-15
COLORFUL NEWS MOVIES

building at such an early age founda-
ton upon which to place the antipa-
thies and prejudices CT later years,
are financially, as well as socially,
favored and disfavored as to whites
and blacks, respectively.
1t is to be ardently hoped that some
where in all the years to come there
may develop an era of justice which
will eradicate the doleful truth that all
men are created equal-except the Ne
gro.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-01-15

Men show their character I'm Moth
ing more clearly than hy what they
think laughable.