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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-04
Kansas Launches First
Finance Corporation


TOPEKA, Kan.-A charter has
been granted for the first colored
finance corporation TO be established
in the state of Kansas. The new in
stitution, which will have its head
quarters here. will be known as the
Investment Loan Corporation. Its
capital stock is placed at $75, 900,
stock selling at $l2 9 share.
The officers and directors of the
corporations are U. A. Graham (em-
ployee Merchants National Bank for
the last 23 years., PRESIDENT; Peter
Davis local dealer), first vice presi-
dent; w. H. Washington (private
car chef, owner Casa Dora, a social
resort), second vice president; +. ].
Bucknar ttradesman), secretary
treasurer; II. o. Evans (club stew
ard( auditor, and Attorney William
NJ. Bradshaw.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-04
Girl Put OFF Train In Desert
Continues Trip and Lands Husband

three suit cases and smile. Or
and on Chicago, Kansas City. into
Colorado--now its right here where
fate in the form of conductor takes
a hand. She was requested to show
her credentials to prove that she was
the person in whose name the ticket
had been issued because that partic-
ular ticket was non transferable. Un-
able to produce the same the train
slowed down at watering tank in
the middle of the Colorado desert
and she was dropped gently but firm
ly down into the hot sands of Lajaun-
Ia.
Worse Than Catonsville
Lajaunta, as we get it is much
worse place than Catonsville. If you
can conceive of such place situat-
ed in the middle of nowhere and sur
rounded by nothing. Little low built
shanties, with dirty sneakv half
breeds watching you out Of the cor
ner of their eyes Well, from noon
until 1880 PM, Helen was just
about as fed up on Laiaunta as
person could be so when train head
ed for California breezed thru at that
hour she continued her journey, pay
ing SAB for the privilege.
Got Job But Couidn't Cook
California may have a golden gate
but Helen went in the back way
to tell the truth Helen was darn near
broke. The Y. w. G. A. proved
haven until she landed a Job rs
cook in fraternity house where.
she fed eighteen husky bows from tho
University Of Southern California. At
best fraternity house is no place for
a girl many miles from home and
alone. but when that girl doesn't
knew how to cook, Helen admitted It.
it's almost suicide. The frats decided
that they would either have to fire
the cook or burr half the members
so Helen sought another Job.
lcontlnued on Page %
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-04
Jim Young Must Serve
Term In Penitentiary

SPOKANE.-Jim Young, colored,
proprietor of the Spokane Billiard
parlor, must serve his prison sem
tence of from 1 to 10 years at Walla
Walla on a conviction of possessing
narcotic drugs with. intent to sell,
it was decided by the state supreme
court.
Facts in the case show that Young
was arrested July 3, 1925, by Dep
uty Sheriffs McEn 81, Thomas and
Douss on charge Of smuggling
narcotics into the county jail to
William (Brock) johnson. colored,
convicted murderer of Ella Storey.
The drugs were smuggled into the
county Jail in chewing gum pack.
ages and in magazines, testimony
showed during the trial,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-04
anti MARRIAGE
BILLS FLOOD
LEGISLATURES

NEW YORK. March S.-The Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People. warning of
attempts throughout the North to
enact bills inspired by the Ku Kiux
klan, which would prohibit inter-
marriage of white and colored peo-
pie.
The latest such bill is reported
from Michigan by II. A. Lett. Chair
man of the Legal Redress Commit
tee of the Lansing Branch. The
Michigan bill discrlminates not on
ly against the Negro. but against
Japanese, Chinese and Turks. Mr..
Lett reports that such bill has
been introduced in the Michigan
legislature for the past years. be-
ing always defeated. N. A. A. c.
=. Branches throughout New Eng
land States are fighting similar leg.
lslation.
The N. A. A. c. p. has always
resolutely opposed such legislation
because LIST 1t believes that mar
riage should be n matter of indlvid-
ual choice between persons eligible
TO enter the marriage contract un-
der the general laws of the lands
2nd, That the Negro cannot in
sell respect consent to have him
self written down in law as some
thing outside and beneath the hu-
man race; 3rd. That, every anti
intermarriage law sweeps away
from colorcd girls and women the
legal recourse and rem
edy whore white men are con-
cerned, 10 which, they as wen as
all other girls and women, are en-
titled; 4th, that the enactment of
such laws does not stop intermix-
ture. but sets the stamp of legal
approval upon concubinage, bas-
-ardly and the degradation of col
pred women, deprived by law of the
protection of matrimony.
''The N. A. A. C. p. has repeat
IDLY stopped such bills. 1t has stop
ped them j Ohio. in Michigan, and |
in Rhode Island. The place |
o stop those bills is in committee.
Jolored people should watch their
itate legislature.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-04
lThe Enterprise News Bureaul

(The Enterprise News Bureau)
BALTIMORE, Md, March H.
Lay aside your dime novel and let
us stay home from the movies while
| tell you real true of life story
on a Baltimore girl which will make
the "Perils of Sadie the Beautiful
Cloak Model sound like lot of APP
plesauce.
Geographically speaking this yarn
reaches from the city of "oysters"
to the city of hams" (of the actor
Variety Los Angeles, California.
First the name of the heroine would
be in order--well its Mrs. Helen
Holloway now but around old Met
ropolitan Church where she was ac-
tive in the Sunday school, she was
known as Helen Dunoie. That was
beck in 1926 before she skipped out
west and lassoed six-foot lad who
up to that time thought Fasteners
were green.
Things We're Lonely
But / am running away with the
story. Helen it seems, after her
mother died and her dad married
again, became mama and papa both
to her two brothers and little sister.
She brought them up in the way they
should 60 until one by one the bows
began to take unto themselves a wife,
or is it wives. The straw that broke
the camel's back got in its dirty work
when Dorothy, the little sister was
adopted, this left Helen all alone.
Everybody ives happy.---Helen was
happy because the others were but
she was--0h, so lonesome, so she de-
cided to go 10 California to forget
and perhaps seek romance in the gol-
den west. As luck would have 1t. a
woman who had Just arrived in the
citv from the coast with round-trip
''ctet sold her the return slip for
SEQ.
Dropped OFF In Desert
October II. found cur little I'd.
ventures, headed westward ho, with
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-04
IN
$4,000 GIFT TO
HOWARD Univ.

WASHINGTON. ID. c., March L.
(Special Julius Rosenwald, Chi
cago philanthropist, in a conference
Saturday with DR. Mordecai w
Johnson, president, and DR.. Emmett
coo Of the S999000 still needed tc
]. Scott, secretary-treasurer of How
ard University, agreed to give $25,.
meet the conditional offer of the
general education board to give
$25O,0O0 toward a $500, 900 en-.
dowment for the university medica
school.
The general education board
made an offer on the condition that
an equal amount be given by Off.
GERS. teachers. alumni and friends
of the university of the amount tc
be raised among friends of the in
stitution, $l51,000 has been collect
ed and paid into the university
treasury. Mr.. Rosenwald's offer has
been made in order to facilitate
early collection of the remainder.
The Howard Medical school has
been in continuous existence since
1862, graduating from its depart
ments more than $500 who nov
practice in 40 states and in for
eign countries. A new medica.
building is in process of erection
and will cost when equipped $500,
O00, all of which is available a
present except $4,000. The uni
versity has as its aim. through med
ieal facilities and endowment Il
develop n $1.000,000 medical plan
this ynnr
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-04
Durham, North Carolina Is the
Hub Of Negro Business World

opportunity or power. even if he
had desired, to create friction, to
weaken the cohesion of these CO.
operative units, to hazard any Of
the holdings or to direct any Of
the funds or procedures into un-
safe or unsound channels. More
than quarter of a century finds
integrity and efficiency stilI the
keystone Of the Negro business
service of Durham.
And let it be remembered that
these are not small institutions with
snail invested capital. They run in
to large figures, not mere book fig
ures but real, live figures of moneys
turning over and over for the serv
ice and progress Of the Negroes Of
the country and paying good divid-
ends to those whose capital made be-
ginnings and DEVELOPMENTS possible.
A Three Million Dollar Life Insur-
anee Company
The North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company is now a more
than $4,000, 100000 institution II, this
its 2Sth year of operation, assets in
'yeasing in 1926 frcm S2,750 600 to
the new figure. The premium in
come for 1926 was more than So
100000. Negro property owners
have been loaned the company's mon
ey in first mortgages on not more
than so per cent of safe real estate
value $1,250.0 The Mechanics
md Farmers Bank, with a branch in
Raleigh. North Carolina, is also in
the million dollar class of resources
md declared a four per cent annual
dividend. Nineteen years Of banking
IN Durham has meant not only the
safe-keeping of money, but also the
safe investing Of II.
Also In Fire insurance Field 4
The Bankers Fire Insurance Com
pany, the only Negro fire insurance
company in America, with resources
of 1871 ,hN0.92. also declared 1926
(coiltlnued on Page Threc)
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-04
LOUISIANA MOB
EN- DIS MIXED
LOVE AFFAIR

SHREVEPORT, La, March L.
The case OF a love affair between a
l6-year-old Italian girl and a color
ed youth, which ended fatally, has
been revealed here. The truth came
to light Monday following the
shooting up of the home OF the ia
ther of the girl, who told of the
hopeless love of his daughter for
the colored youth.
Frank Liberto said his daughter.
Rosa, became attached to Jonas A.
Brown, but that he forbade her TO
see him because he was colored. The
two robbed the store of the father
to obtain money and purchased rail-
road tickets for Chicago. when they
were apprehended at Marshall by
detectives, Brown was shot to, death
and the girl arrested.
Monday night Liberto's home. was
riddled by bullets fired by men who
fled in an automobile. Sixteen bull
lets perforated the walls of two
rooms hi Libertois home, one OF
them passing a few inches above
the cradle OF one of his babies. Mr..
and Mrs Liberto and four children
were in bed at the time of the at
tack.
The shooting is believed to have
been the outgrowth of Liberto's
daughters affair with Brown. The
father had received letter before
the attack occurred warning him
to leave town. One of the letters
bore a skull and q cross of bones
Liberto's daughter has been SEN
fenced to an Indefinite term in the
House of Good Shepherd at New
Orleans as a delinquent.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-04
THANKS JUDGE
FOR IMPOSING
LIFE SENTENCE


FRESNO. Cal, March 2.-Lewis
Pearson, colored law student who for
tS months has been studying law
his spare time as porter and
anitor. created sensation in the
court of Judge Frank Lamberson
If Tulare County, last week when
ipon receiving the life sentence to
Imprisonment in San Quentin, i'm
,osed by the Judge for the murder
of Bourbon Palmer, whit Southern
Pacific red cap here one Thanksgiv-
Ing Day. Pearson in precise English
and without trace OF emotion
banked Judge Lamberson and ex-
,ressed appreciation of the consid-
aration and courtesy shown him by
the court.
At the same time Pearson ex-
)ressed regret for the demonstra-
lion he made in the court during
The progress of the trial. once when
NE made frenzied attempt to at
tack assistant District Attorney
stewart of the prosecution and on
he following day when he attempt
I'd to leave. the courtroom during
the closing argument by his attor-
ney.
Palmer was slain by Pearson who
told the police he was responsible
for martial difficulties Of Pearson
and his wife. In the selection OF
20 veniremen. David M. Kimes. ad-
tilted membership In the Ku Klux
Ian and was dismissed.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-04
NAMELESSBABY
ENDS ROMANCE
OF TWO RACSE

PITTSBURGH, Pa, March Ia
baby. the product of sensational
romance between a Jewish girl OF
10 and a race youth of 81, lies in
the Allegheny General Hospital here
today without a name or home
This is the result of the decision
Saturday of seven prominent social
workers in this city, in whose hands
the destiny of the child lies.
A vote of these women as TO
whether or not they thought the
child should be separated from the
mother because of its colored blood,
resulted in four of them voting that
the child. should be so separated.
The deciding vote was cast by a
colored social worker.
The child is the illegitimate re-
suit OF love brought to light last
year between Bertha Softer, pretty
Jewish girl, and John Rankin, for.
merly residents of Duquesne, a sub
arb of Pittsburgh.
These two sweethearts attended
the same schools and played with
ne same companions during child.
rood. Their love ripened as they
grew up. But objection on the part
Il the girls parents and relatives
-rowned on the love aud marriage
IF the couple.
Publicity lighted up the relations
Ietween the two when the girl went
to New York City last fall to visit
elatiyes there. Later she sent for
Rankin, who joined her In that city.
'arents of the girl objected to RAN
kin visiting her at the home in
Sew York, Resenting this inter-
erence the girl went to live with
Rankin.
This situation was broken up
Shen the girls father called the at
,ention Of the district attorney OF
sew York to tha matter. Rankin
vas arrested on a charge of sedue-
ion and later released. He was
urther threatened with prosecution
mder the Mann Act although the
girl sent for him from New York
ind he did not take her there as
would have TO be the case for such
prosecution.
From that timei,on Rankin has
disappeared and his present where
lbouts are unknown Even the fact
hat he is father of beautiful
iameless baby here may not be
known to him at this time. Race
,ocial agencies of this city believe
I'll efforts should be made to ac-
quaint him with the fact since the
laby, otherwise, will be unclaimed.
Attack Story
An attack story" was invented
1y relatives of the girl at first in
order TO prove that she was an un-
Wiling victim of Rankin's atten-
ions. II was claimed that he fore
ID himself on her. This tale was
lenied by the facts coming out of
Sew York that the girl had willing
y consented to live with Rankin.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-04

D iiartel OF brooklyn, national or
ganizer Of the National Equal Rights
League, stated to the president that
the drive for the release of the col
ored soldiers of the 24th infantry
was started in the sesduicentennial
year and, since n colored man gave
the first blood for Americas inde-
pendence, it would be splendid
token to the race to release the re-
naming soldiers at Fort Leaven-
worth prison.
Mr.. President, we have been told
for more than 60 years that in order
to achieve the desired ends we must
buy property, get an education,
build homes, go into business, be
thrifty; we have done these things.
We have been told 10 have patience;
to my mind the patience of the Ne
gro has surpassed that of Job: And
after GO years of waiting we find
that today the handcuffs of preiu-
dice more tightly fastened. We find
that mob violence in 1926 surpasses
that OF recent years. Men and wom-
en- or our race, even here in federal
departments, are segregated. We are
thoroughly convinced, Mr.. President,
chat we must look in some other di-
rection for a solution to citizenship
rights, which only can be solved by
rigid enforcement of the law. A
word from you, Mr.. President,
against lynching, against segrega.
aon, would mean much to u.s."
More Than Three Thousand Miles to
Fight for Democracy
"The patriotism of the black man
can not be questioned or excelled;
ne has answered every call. We are
The only race on Gods earth who
travelled more than 5000 miles to
fight for Democracy and on our re-
turn have that Democracy for which
we fought denied us. AS President
Of this country we believe you are
interested in all of its citizens. It is
he sentiment of the rank and file
9f the American people that these
soldiers have been sufficiently pun
ished aud should be released. We !
are expecting more from YOU than
from any other president since the
lays of Lincoln when we recall that
you are from Massachusetts.
Asked to Live Up to Traditions
Spokesman Harten recalled his ac-
1uaintance with the president for
he last 10 years when he knew him
IS governor and lieutenant govern
,r of Massachusetts and asked him
o live up to the traditions Of the
I'D Bay state.
The following organizations unit
ID with the National Equal Rights
league: the N. A. A. C. p, the Ma
ional Race Congress, the Rev DIR.
Jernigan, d. C., president Of the
league Of Colored Women Voters
md the U, N. "A. The spokesman
PRESENTED the petition with sigma
ures representing 80 states.
The National Equal Rights League
vas represented by William Monroe
rrotter, Boston, corresponding sec
'etary; 7. S. Harten, national or
Continued on Page Three)
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-04
Industrial Freedom Is Predicted
This War Veteran
Knew His Onions

NEW YORK. (By ANP)-As
the result of a wound he re.
eeived in battle, Alexander
Greenwell, who wears a silver
plate in his skull and gets 500
a month from the government,
can not get all of that amount
since his mother died. She was
his legal guardian. And now he
is having his troubles.
Supreme Court Justice Strong
signed an order Thursday nam.
ing a lawyer as Greenwelrs
guardian, and 100 a. his fee.
Thursday afternoon while
Judge Strong was trying a case,
Greenwell bdrst into the court
room.
Judge Strong" he shouted,
ARE you trying to take the shirt
off my back?"
Now, what is it Greenwich"
the judge asked.
WELL" said Greenwell, IL
have only 500 coming to me
and you signed an order giving
IL to the lawyer. All ! have is
10 cents for car fare"
Justice Strong drew up an.
other order making the lawyers
fee 81 instead of 500.
Il may be bugs" said the
veteran as he left the court
room, but ] know my onions"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-04

Regretting that members of his
race have been shut out of indus
tries to such an extent that en-
ployment with them is a difficult
problem. Mr.. Tobias said, never
the less, that big change is COM
ing. He promised that the colored
man will more than make good II
he is given an opportunity to fill
jobs requiring skilled labor. 81
want my people to be prepared for
this great opportunity when it
comes" he said
On the platform with the distin-
guished colored leader, who is a
brilliant and cultured speaker. were
representatives of the Jewish race
and of nearly every important sect
in Christianity. Former Judge Mark
A. Sullivan acted as chairman, and
around him were Rev. DIR. A. j.
Sarler, Rev Albert Hall Marion and
many other clergymen OF both races
Mrs. William H. Richardson, presi-
dent of the Y. w. G. A., was the
only woman in the company She
was especially invited by Mr.. Sulli-
van to take place on the stage.
AS the only orator of the occa.
sion, Mr.. Tobias made a kindly but
powerful appea; for members of
the white race to give his people a
place in the sun, so TO speak Avoid
ing spirit of contention or COM
plant, he did not, however, sidestep
any Of the big race issues.
We are not a race of cabaret
habltues or care-free banjo-picking
people with no thought for the
morrow" said the speaker. 1T is
true we have been blessed with a
happy disposition for which we
thank Almighty God. without this
disposition the Negro never could
haves csdurca che trisls which nc
has been forced TO encounter in this
country.
A place in which to live and a.
job at which to work are two big
problems in the lives of colored peo-
pie, Mr.. Tobias stated. Conceding
that the opposition to colored peo-
pie who move into white neigh
borhood is often born of fear of
depreciation of property values
rather than race prejudice, Mr.. To-
bias pointed out that colored folk
must live somewhere and besought
his white hearers to be tolerant in
this regard.
Lynching customs were briefly re.
ferred to as terrible offenses
against civilization" Mr.. Tobias
said he believed that the cause was
"a double standard of personality"
In other words, he said, label of
inferiority is openly tagged upon
the colored man with the result
that Whenever criminally inclined |
white men run amuck, the member
of the black race has to suffer !
for it.
Continued on Page Three)
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-04
(The Enterprise News Bureau )

1.-THE Enterprise News Bureau)
DURHAM, N. C.-Durham. North
Carolina, with population of $4,000
people, $4,000 of whom are Negroes
is one spot where Negroes work tor
gether and have faith in each other.
Certainly, there are others, but none
so long and so consistently or so uni
forfnly successful as this pioneer
group in the busy little city of big
city business. So we'll has this CO.
operation been established that there
is positively safe and sure second
line of defense in well-prcpared as
sociate officers and assistants and in
committees and boards cf control.
Death nor any other circumstance
taking one or more officers out Of
place has never retarded nor can ev
er rctard the constant ~rogress of
the Negro business institutions OF
Durham. There are no closed Of
fices, no privileged officers, no sec
ret chamber sessions. One is inn
pressed with the general knowledge
of the affairs of these institutions
each responsible thereto has.
When asked how this coopera-
tion was established and how Il
Is maintained without conflict Of
ambitions, the president OF the
North Caroline Mutu' Life In
suranee Companv. said that this
family Of institutions has two
great ideals; the first. the one
ness Of heart in INTEGRITY and
goodwill, that no reproach may
ever come against them or any
loss 10 any Of their many pa
tronsi the second IL the oneness
Of buisness mind that determines
always to have efficiency Of bus-
iness methods in the operation
Of each and every activity, so
that sieence. not luck or chance.
assures certain knowledge Of
each business at any and all
times. Not even the most trust-
ed and responsible offiser has
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-04
Two Homes Bombed
In Dallas, Texas

DALLAS, Texas. second at
tempt in two days to burn houses
which colored persons live was mad
Friday when a blazing bomb wa
thrown into the home of Nose Ste
venson. A home across the stree
from Stevenson's home was fire,
Thursday. The attempts are balievec
the plans to frighten Negroes fron
the neighborhood.
Stevenson was awake when tn
bomb was thrown Friday and extin
guished it with bucket of water
The bomb was made Of powder dy
Mantle and oil-soaked rags wrapped
with heavy cord.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-04
Swears at Colored Jury

SACRAMENTO, Cal.-Carl Carl
son, colored, was found guilty by a
colored jury of possession of liquor
Yesterday afternoon after the jury
deliberated one hour.
Upon receiving the verdict Carl
son commenced to berate the jury.
using some profane terms. The court
checked him with strong repri-
maud and told him that If he con-
tinucd he would be before the court
for contempt"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-04
Say Insurance Was Faxed

WILLIAMSON, N. C. = Charged
with taking out an insurance. policy
on a person who never existed and
of making an effort to collect $3.50
after her death" w. V. Ormond
and Mary Hyman have been arrested
on forgery charge.