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PRINCESS HOP To j. s.
SURPRISES BRITISH

flight. waited at her London home In
Belgrade Square for word that the
aYiators were ready for the start.
When notified that the time of the
hop.off was approaching. she jour-
neyed to Upavon by motor.
The Princess owns the plane in
which the flight is being made, and,
1t was revealed today, Is the hacker
Of the entire project.
The st. Raphael is equipped with
a $40 horsepower Jupiter engine Of
nine cylinders.
It carries 500 gallons OF gasoline,
and weighs six and q half tons fully
loaded.
The plane is capable Of 100 miles
an hour, ana has cruising speed OF
well over 100. ~.
Services In AirdrOme
A dramatic scene took place at the
airdrome before the start was made.
The Roman Catholic Archbishop
Of Cardiff held services beneath the
yellow wings Of the plane, while
scores of officers Of the Royal Air
Force, comrades Of Hamilton and
Minchin. stood about with heads
bowed.
The fliers were in confident
spirits before the start.
The princess, her eyes sparkling
in anticipation of the venture, dis
cusged her daring plans with In.
ternational News Service.
81 am looking forward to this
trip" she said. III am confident
Of my pilot and my machine. / am
proud to be the first woman pas
senger to attempt crossing the At
lantic Ocean.
IT am excited, Of course. but I
am not nervous. Could l be any.
thing else? It il q great adven.
ture."
winston Churchill, British Chan
ceIlor Of the Exchequer and a
friend Of Princess Lowenstein, flew
from London to the Upavol Aero
dronne last night and inspected the
plane.
ST think she's q fine machine"
he said after the examination. Il
hope they succeed"
Princess in Style
The princess stylish outfit was
in sharp contrast to the rugged fly
ing clothes of her companions. She
wore a black toQue hat and a
loosely. fitting bright blue suede
Jacket, and her legs were encased
IN q pair Of riding breeches, with
yellow boots topped with brown fur.
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REDEERN SEEN
BY VESSEL
tcontinued from Flrst Pageg

stCOnlnued from EFAG Ed8SI
report from the government that a
Norwegian ship arriving at Kings
ton, Jamaica, had seen the plane
off the Venezuelan coast.
The ship, Christian Korgh, which
has just docked at Kingston, car
ried detailed entry in her log.
The date was Thursday, August IS,
the day Redfern hoped off from
Glynn ISle, Brunswick. Obviously
the plane could not have reached
Venezuelan waters. some 1000 miles
away, for q least "a hours.
The log, however, described the
plane in detail, from the letters,
Port Of Brunswick" and Bruins
wick to Brazil" painted In big let
tiers on her body to the license mum.
Der, INK 7T3," on her wings. The
green and gold color Of the plane
was noted.
At the time, the vessel was 165
miles from the Venezuelan coast.
The plane circled the ship, and the
pilot dropped two notes. asking for
directions to the nearest land and
distance.
Following his suggested signals,
the snip pointed ner Prov toward
the shore to suggest the direction,
and waved flags twice to indicate
nearly zoe miles.
The plane then disappeared in
the direction indicated.
Further confirmation Of the
orinoco River report also was re-
ceived from Caracas, Venezuela.
The Venezuelan government tele-
graph operator at Cuidad Bolibar
said numerous Inhabitants of Ma.
cArieto, q village on the Delta. saw
the plane flying towart- Brazil at
3 o'clock Saturday afternoon. This
would have been about Is hours
after he left the Georgia Coast, ana
he had sas enough to last at least
81 hours.
Paul Redfern's pretty young wife,
though weak and iii with anxiety,
after her six day vigil in Bruins
wick, was cheered by the several
dovetailing reports from South
America, and expressed the belief
that her husband was lost In the
jungles and would emerge safely.
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Princess Pilots Said
To Be Most Expert
Of Class iii Europe

/ LONDON, Aug, 31.--Capt. Leslie
Hamilton and Col. r. r. Minchin,
the two aviators who with Princess
Lowenstein. Wertheim are plotting
the Fohker-Jupiter ncnoplane st.
Raphael from England to America,
are two Of the most experienced
airnen in Europe.
Captain Hamilton, q war flier,
has for the past five years been
operating an aerial taxi service.
His experience reaches q total OF
about 5000 hours In the air. He
has never had q serious accident.
Colonel Minchin has for the past
four years. been q pilot for British
1perial Anyways Ltd naliRg
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( - -
The hop-off thrilled all England
o. news Of the undertaking became
generally known.
The nation had waited patiently
FOR the long-delayed hop.off Of Capt.
Frank Courtney In his Dornier
whale. and upon him had been
pinned the hopes Of England to
equal the achievements Of America
IN the new.found art Of transatlan.
tic flying.
The sudden and dramatic start Of
Minchin and Hamilton met with
Tremendous favor, and lInspoken
messages Of Godspeed were on
every tongue.
Tragedy Narrowly AYerted
Hamilton and Minchin hope to
arrive on the American continent
Comorrow morning.
They had first expected to fly to
New York. but an eleventh.hour
change In plans caused them to
decide to head for Ottawa.
Hamilton and Minchin were dark
horses" in the transatlantic derby.
The aviators almost met with
tragedy at the very outset. The
heavy plane sped across the field
for almost three-quarters Of a mile
before 1t rose into the air, and then
narrowly missed a. clump Of trees.
"A tremendous cheer went up from
the large crowd which had assem-.
bled.
The spectators gasped as the
plane wobbled uncertainty over the
turf, ever gaining momentum but
Its wheels still hugging the ground.
For q moment it was feared that
the plane would not rise. Then,
when 1t had TAXED more than three.
quarters Of e mile. the nose Of the
plane tilted upward, the wheels
went free from the ground, and a
moment later the plane had dis
appeared into the clouds.
Carries Chair and Cot
The plane was heavily loaded. Be-
sides the regular complement Of
gasoline necessary for trip Of this
length, the fuselage Of the st. Raph-
Gel was fitted with 4 wicker arm
chair and an army cot for the use
Of the Princess during the arduous
journey.
The Princess Lowenstein, over.
coming the protestations Of rela-
dives who objected to her making the
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After Iearnlng

( Il b + 4. So
. few days longer. After learning
the news, she said:
do keep ne informed Of their
progress, please. suppose shAn't
be able to sleep anyway now and
I shall be glad II you call me on
every cable and radio that you re-
ceive from the other side"
When told that the intrepid
Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim had
joined the enterprise at the last
moment she became more enthusiast
tic than ever.
'tNow I am sure they win be sue.
cessful," she said. THE princess Is
one OF the most expert airwomen
in Europe"
Mrs. Hamilton herself IL an en-
pert air pilot. having flown several
hundred hours.
II wish. I could have made the
trip too" she said. hut hope 10
get q thrill fully az great by being
the first to greet them"
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'.RoyaI Nindsor'' ROM
China Faction Holds 5
For S1O.OOO.OOO Ransom

HONG KONG, China, Aug. 3D.
Holding five prominent citizens N
virtual imprisonment, the govern
ment, at the instance Of Marking,
has demanded q cash payment Of
$40, 900, 900 from the chamber Of
commerce, reports from Canton dis
closed today. The prisoners will
not be freed, 1t was said, till the
huge demand Is met.
The reports also told OF the Boil.
shevik occupation Of Pingyuen. on
the Kiangsi.K wangtung border. The
Reds are also said to be-. threaten
.ing a coup at -Katfans.
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Filters Face Favorable
Weather for Voyage,
Air Ministry Reports

LONDON, Aug. s1.-Generally
favorable weather faces the ST.
Raphael on its projected flight
across the Atlantic Ocean, accord.
ing to air ministry reports.
Moderate easterly winds prevail
between Upavon and the Irish
coast, the ministry stated. The sky
II cloudy and there is q little driz.
2le over the Irish coast.
For the first eight hundred miles
across the Atlantic, the winds are
light and variable. From this point
to Newfoundland the weather Is
fair, with the wind mostly north.
west, changing to southwest In the
neighborhood Of st. Johns, New
Foundland. whore some fog also
prevails, y
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Hamilton holds the post Of navlga. /
tor.
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Filler Harnilton's Wife
Sees Success, Wishing
She, Too, We're Aboard

NEW YORK, Aug. 81. TITS sim
ply marvellous. know they will be
the first to make the westward
crossing by air" Mrs. Leslie Hamil-
ton, wife OF the captain, told Inter
national News Service early today
when apprised of the take-off. Mrs.
Hamilton has been in New York for
the past two weeks waiting to
greet the filters ct the end Of their
long, hazardous hop.
The start took her by surprise.
she, had expected they would wait
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daily crossings over the channel.
He also was a war pilot.
His time in the air also Is about
5000 hours. His channel service
record shows that he has carried
10000 passengers without a nlishap.
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MARSH, THE INDIANS MRS Marsh T''''''''
RICHARD o. MARSH, engineer, explorer and dis
coverer Of the so-called white Indians of Panama
whom he brought to Washington in 1924, today an
search through South America for Paul Redfern miss
ing Georgia-to-Braz aviator. DR.. ]. P. Harrington,
of the Smithsonian Institution, and DIR. c. B. Breeder
of the American Museum Of Natural History, New
York will assist him.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-22
Sold Wife at a Profit


Few of the present generation,
particularly in the north, know that
before the Civil war a great many
Negroes in the south owned other
Negroes as slaves. Some interesting
facts concerning the subject are
given in Prof. Carter Goodwin Wood
sons book, Free Negro Heads of
Families"
He shows that as far back as 1880
one-seventh of the Negroes in the
country were free, some of them rich,
owning large plantations and others
valuable property. In 1857 one Ne
gro in South Carolina owned 200
slaves, in Louisiana four Negroes
owned respectively 81, SO, so and
az slaves. Many others owned small
Ter numbers, it being estimated that
10000 free Negroes owned nearly
100000 slaves at one time.
The story is told of a Charleston
Negro who admired a female slave
owned by neighbor and bought her
for a wife. Later on, when she
had failed to behave herself as he
thought proper, he sold her at prof
it of $50.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-22
Too Easily Satisfied

The Federation Board of Voca-
tional Education recently issued
bulletin stating that as a rule: "The
Negro is usually satisfied with his
present condition, poor though it may
be-" This statement, if applied to
the majority of the black people of
the nation, would approximate the
truth and fer all beneficial purposes
it is true. We are too easily satisfied
and for that reason progress and adj
vancement is cheekmated. Carlyle
stated that dissatisfaction is the
cause of all progress" Sometimes
the sowing of the seeds of dissatis-
faction bring a renaissance resulting
in marked progress. Dissatisfaction
in the south led to the flight north
and the strong foot-hold that we
have established generally above the
Mason-Dixon. To be satisfied is to
stalk and halt.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-22
Two White Women And Two Black Men

an opinion of the savageness Of
white men, hurt my feelings to re-
fleet on"
Nevertheless, this woman knew
that this black man spoke truly and
she sat quietly and waited for an
anxious hour until they fought their
way to the barge and saved the
woman. And the more she reflected
on that "opinion" expressed so coolly
by that black man the more she felt
the need of improving the reputa-
ton of white men," She was humil-
lated to think that when two white
women were seen with two colored
men, even in such predicament,
white people would not put an hon.
orable instead of dishonorable con-
struction on the situation, and she
was still more Inundated to think
that, even if they did put a dishon-
orable construction on it, when men
could be so savage as to refuse to
rescue the lives of four fellow hu-
mans-whateve their opinion or at
titude on any social or racial ques-
ton.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-22
The Law Beats He'll

A colored maid, Marie Davis, who
said she lived at No. IS Vernon Ter
race, East Orange, walked to the
witness stand as quickly as her heavy
weight would permit and turned
bloodshot eyes on Justice Hating.
The case was the suit of Mrs.
Wendall Phillips (white), who is su-
ing her husband. Prince Lippe-Lipp-
ski, for divorce.
81 want to testify" she said hur-
riedly. "I've been in this town three
days and I've got to testify and 60
back to my job or lose it,"
Justice Hating smiled at the Gag
er witness.
"You must remain in New York
another day. am going to adjourn
the case until tomorrow" he said
II refuse to watt" Marie shouted
Then | will hold you as a writ.
ness" the court said
what if | don't stay?" Marie
asked.
"Then I'll put you in jail"
Don't it beat hell?" from Marie,
and the case was adjourned.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-22
Wasting Valuable Time

Flooding a house with light by
simply pushing button would startle
Richard Allen, the founder of the
great A. NJ. E. Church, could he be
permitted to reappear in life. When
you 'lsten in" on radio concert
you are doing something that Book
er T. Washington probably never
dreamed of doing, few short years
ego. Frederick Douglas never saw
an automobile. John Mercer Lang
ston would look upon a soaring aero
plane with perplexity. A moving pic
ture show would bring a solemn awe
upon the soul Of Paul Laurence Dun
bar. Yet, these men whose achieve
ments stand out, whose names are
revered by every intelligent member
Of the Race, and who carried on
their work with faith, courage and
hopefulness, but without the knowl-
edge or aid of these marvellous inven-
tions which are now in common us
age, contributed greatly to the prog
ress OF their racial group with the
resources they he'd in hand.
We should congratulate ourselves
that we are living in this wonderful
age of discovery and invention. Those
of us who are forever looking in the
past for inspiration are wasting val
liable time. We might as well seek
iusDiration from the nebulsr hypothe-
sis Of Kant. As a group we must
draw our inspiration from the glor-
ious present.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-22
Courage

1t matters not what you think,
Nor do ! care what you say,
Some people would love to link
Your name with worthless display.
Believe me! it's worth the while
In living above reproach,
And in despair know how to smile,
Life is worth the endless approach.
TIC keep ones self in constant fight
Less in the struggle to lose,
Take courage is my hearts delight
Regardless who may oppose.
Take courage" life's battles to win
Grin a firmer grasp, firmly hold,
All things good and true within
The soul, there beauties to unfold.
Mary Van Dyne,
Seattle, Wash.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-22
By William Piekens

(For The Associated Negro Press)
A white woman tells us that she
wants to start a society "to advance
the reputation of white men," and
as the reason why she wants to do
so she tells US the following:
She and another white woman, a
friend of hers, went out for bit OF
exercise in small rowboat at New
York. She had rowed many times
out into the Sound as far or farther
than she went this time and expert
enced no difficulty. But this time
when she started to row back 20
port there was such a strong out
ward movement of the tide that,
rowing with all her waning strength,
she could make no Roadway back to-
ward land, but was slowly drifting
out farther and farther to sea.
AS sunset was coming on she be-
gan to get afraid. Her friend could
not row. 81 began to wave and cali
for help to some of the motor boats
and fine yachts that passed near US, !"
she said, "but they gave no help
and seemed to ignore US contemptu-
ously. We were getting desperate.
Finally ! tied a white garment to
one of the oars and waved it as
high as / could, shouting for help.
A power-driven loaded barge that
was farther from us than any of the
yachts of the wealthy finally seemed
to sense our predicament and
stopped.
1.-TWO men got off the barge into
a little dory and rowed out to US.
They were colored men.
81 threw them the chain from our
boat and they began to row back to-
ward the barge. But with all their
might they were unable to make any
Roadway against the tide.
FINALLY, as there were two sets
of oarlocks in our boat and only one
in theirs, one of the men suggested
that they climb into our boat, so that
both of them could do the rowing in
one boat. But even this strenuous
work seemed to be getting us no
where.
Getting frightened again and
seeing some grand white men passing
nearby in a power boat, got up and
began to call to them for help. Then
one of the colored men who was
struggling to save 10 waved his hand
cody and said something which,
when / thought of the tragic truth
of it, cut me to the quick. Jaw, sit
down, Miss, and save your breath.
No use calling those guys. When
they see you two white women with
two niggers," they'll Simply say:
"They ought to drown"
"That the white world could have
impressed upon a brave and gener-
Gus colored man of that type such
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-22
A Business Lesson

What shall be our attitude with
regard to Negro business?
One group Of Negroes contend
that Negroes should patronize their
own irrespective of other conditions
save that of color. Others quite nat
urally take a different viewpoint.
What is the sane answer?
There can be but one answer. This
answer lies with the Negro business
men himself and not with his GUS
toners. 1t is superiority.
Men are dollars-and-cents beings
in the final analysis, and although
there is some truth in the saying
that blood is thicker than water,
there is equally as much truth if noe
more truth in the saying that every
man has his price. In business that
price ultimately is superiority.
Superiority in service, superiority
in goods, in speed of delivery, in
make-ups, in efficiency and last, but
not least, superiority in quality for
not-higher-priced commodities.
The Negro business man may as
well learn this early as late. Any
other doctrine is damning to the
morality of our business and rotten
at its very foundations.
When the United States needs
commodity it does not ask the color
or nationally of the group supplying
the need. 1t asks quality and price.
When a Negro buys a pair of
shoes he should not be compelled to
make any other considerations.
There are exceptional circum-
stances, of course. and extenuating
situations at times which make other
considerations necessary or expedi-
emit temporarily. But in the long
run quality and price will be found
to be the only determining factors
that are essential.
Negro business at the present
stage of the game is little more than
an apology for business. That is
largely because Negroes have got
into the habit of apologizing for
their shortcomings.
This will get us nowhere.
We need not be- afraid. When
Negro business men have the nerve
to go the limit in making their COM
modities attractive from the stand
point of superior quality, superior
service and the right price Negro
customers will lose their logged fear
of patronizing their own.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-22
Not Dying Off

Some claim that the ravages of
tuberculosis are making terrible in
roads upon the dark folk. This dread
disease is so highly contagious that
even the hardihood of the white man
can not withstand it and the marked
increase in the death of black people
will show relative increase among
whites. If it continues health and
sanitation bureaus of America will
be forced to relieve the terrible
conditions which exist in "black
belts in order to protect the white
neighborhoods which adjoin. The
white people of America, even if
they are less susceptible to the
white plague" than the black, will
check the contagion in order to save
themselves. Where an epidemic of
smallpox RACES they do not vaccinate
little black boys and girls for purely
humanitarian purposes - they seek
to insure protection to white Amer
lea, and so the story runs.
The black man is learning, in the
meantime, how to take care of him
self. His experience in slavery taught
him chicanery and shrewdness and
with these qualities, coupled with
education, he will see 70 it that his
species does not become extinct. The
growing interest in commercial de-
velopment, the departure from SUI
perstition and ignorance proves that
health and sanitation is not entirely
foreign to this much maligned and
abused people.
If those who draw their figures
from the census-takers would stop to
think how crude and careless their
methods were they Mould not waste
their time and energy in drawing
such happy conclusions. Those who
counted the black people either in
advertently or Intentionally fail to
register at least one-ffth. If care
full investigator would ask each black
man he met if the census-takers
counted his family he would end a
days work with the compelling wor-
ny left that America was growing
black.
Racial death is just as far from
the black man as it is from the white.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-22
As Science Sees 1t

Science tells us that the thick,
black, curly hair, typical among the
members Of our race, is strong
protection against the actinic rays of
the sun. 1t is also suggested that
those who go about bareheaded are
subjecting themselves to a great dan
ger and are virtually challenging the
sun rays that penetrate to the brain
thereby injuring the brain tissue.
This explanation is used to explain
why nature created the peculiar
structure of the Africans hair. 1t
is novel and enlightening and indeed
contradictory.
Proponents of our inferiority have
given nature little credit in design
ing our hair to suit the elements of
our native lands but have argued
that our peculiarities were marks of
a low social order and stamped us as
the lowest type in the human fam
lily. Science had to admit few years
ago that brain capacity was no longer
determined by the amount of gray
matter in the brain, but by the in
tensity of the convolutions, and an
other pet theory advanced to dis
credit us was exploded. After a
while science will find a new explain
alton for fiat feet and broad noses
and climatic necessities will no doubt
be offered as the cause. All of these
highly scientific questions are ex-
tremely interesting, but the most at
traetive idea advanced as to the
blindness of certain fishes is their
failure to use their eyes. This also
will apply to brain. If not used il
will degenerate. The use of our
brains, however, will keep US pro.
crossing in the spiral of evolution
all arguments of prenatal inferiority
not withstanding.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-22
A Little Brown Girl

The other day
While on the way
Downtown
On trolley car,
A brown
Little girl
Did share her seat with me.
Teeth? Pearl;
With eyes that sparkled glee;
And she was beauty's sure repose,
A violet and yet bit of rose
To whom the gods endowed a lovely
form,
Forgetting not a bit of winsome
charm.
Her hands were gnarled, were chap
ped and red,
From scrubbing steps," to me she
said,
II work as maid; yes, every day.
The Gods have made it just that way.
Yes, fate's a clown; he loves to Jest.
He made me fair but fearing lest
My beauty played the siren role
He made me poor to bind my SOUL"