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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-11

w. c. Hanson Declares Many
Dishonest Operators Are in
Business Here.

Difficulty in securing prosecutions
against dishonest merchants in the
District Of Columbia was blamed by
w. c. Hanson. national director of the
National Association OF Credit Men, in
an address before the Lions Club in
the Mayflower Hotel yesterday, for the
conduct Of business here by fly by
night" operators.
people opera ting in Washington to-
day" Mr.. Hanson declared, adding
that I'VE haven't had real prosecu-
ton here in about II years"
Mr.. Hanson told how the deferred
payment plan enables many crooked
dealers 10 operate and undersell re-
putable business men through the eX-
pedient OF keeping their credit good by
reducing their bills at intervals until
they get ready to Overstock, sell and
get out. Ninety-five per cent of bust
ness is done on A credit basis, the
speaker added. and deplored that the
credit principle should be taken adj.
vantage of by INSCRIPTIONS persons.
He also deplored unfair advantage
taken of the bankruptcy laws.
Announcement was made that the
club will hold it's annual outing at
Camp Let's, the Y. NJ. c. A. boys
camp, next Wednesday. Athletic
events, including a base ball game
will feature the occasion. Leonard w
De Cast, secretary of the club. is chair
man of the committee in charge of
the outing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-11
GAS STATION SAFE
:. IS ROBBED OF $17O
Three Homes Are Entered by
Burglars, Clothing and Jew.
elry Stolen.

Theft OF $40 from a safe in a filling
station at $50 Pennsylvania avenue
was reported to the police yesterday
afternoon by Alvin NJ. Hammelton
manager. He said the safe door was
not locked.
Garfield Saunders. 1880 Third street
reported the loss Of suit of clothes
valued at $25.
DR.. J. A. Potter. 800 Second street
southeast, reported the looting of a
vacant house at 215 Third street
southeast the past week. Property
taken included a refrigerator, marble
blocks. andirons and bathroom
fixtures.
Gaining entrance to the home of
William Broadus, $40 @ street, by
breaking open the front door, burglar RS
yesterday stole suit of clothes and
gold watch. Broadus valued the loot
at $50.
Theft Of jewelry valued at $50 was
reported by Edgar Rutherford, 1917
Irving street. Articles stolen from his
home the past two days included a
watch. two rings, two necklaces and
bracelet,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-11
TODAY'S ADJUSTMENTS.

NatiOnal-"The Sign on the Door,
mystery play, at $40 pm.
kefth's-Lenore Uric. vaudeville
at 2:15 and S:15 pm.
Earle-''The Passing Parade.
vaudeville, continuous, 1870 to II pm
MetrOpoIitan-"Man Power" al
1855. 1855. 1855, $50. 1850 ard 9;55 pm
PalaCe-"Service for ladies'" at II
am. 1925. 2:30. 4:S0, 6. and 10 pm
RiaIto-"The Lunatic at Large" al
AS ain, 1885. $40, $50, 7:40 and $3.50
pm.
COIumbia-"Adam and Evil" at
1915 am. 12:45, 2:45. 4.45, Gas, S:45
and 10 pm.
Little Theater-"Jealousy." contin.
uous, 1870 to IL pm.
Tivoli-"The Sunset Derby" at 2:45
4;30, 6I5. sos and 9:5o pm.
Ambassador-"Mo Cristo," at
6:15. S and $50 pm.
Central-"The Whirlwind of Youth,
at 1850. ;. $3.50. 5. $50. and $50 pm.
Wardman ParlS-"A Woman of
Paris" at and 9 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-11
CITY CRIMINAL CASES
DECREASE IN YEAR
Cut of 216 Is Cited in Report of
Attorney to Justice
DEPARTMENT,

United States criminal records in
the District OF Columbia show de-
crease OF 216 cases during the past
fiscal year. according to a report for
the Department OF Justice prepared by
United States Attorney Gordon.
United States cases pending in the
police and criminal courts total 1924.
as against ESQ pending June 80, 1925.
During the past year Maj. Gordon s
office began by way OF indictment and
information 1888 cases. while 12.9S3
cases were disposed Of, which number
included nolle presses Of old cases.
Pleas of guilty were received in 1883
cases and 754 were acquitted. while
the total number Of convictions
reached 1850. Jury trials during the
past fiscal year totaled 4,555.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-11
Gas Heating Baniishes
Furnace Drudgery

Enjoy the carefree luxury of
heating service that gas fuel
and a Bryant heating plant can
give you. Transform your base
ment into CHEEKY, livable part
of the home-cozy den, play
room or workshop. No other
heating method offers such strik-
ing advantages in home comfort
and convenience.
Bryant gas heating needs mo
more care or attention than a
pup can give it." Those tire
some, aggravating trips to tend
the furnace are permanently
ended. Freedom from dust, CRIME
or oily vapors makes new
cleanliness apparent throughout
the entire house, and leisure
hours are added to your days
and nights.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-11
800 Waits Visit Virginia.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
STAuNTON. Va. August 11.-A
large crowd yesterday greeted 800
New York waits sent here for two
weeks froliC al GNneN Hill Park.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-11
MINE OPERATORS FIGHT.
West Virginia Firms Oppose In
junction Sought by Lewis.

BY the Associated Press.
This Red Jacket Consolidated and
IL other coal companies operating
mines in West Virginia yesterday
asked the Supreme Court to refuse
to review IL cases which John l..
Lewis, president OF the United Mine
Workers Of America, wanted to bring
70 set aside injunctions granted against
them by the Federal courts.
1t was charged that the United Mine
Workers were engaged In a conspir
acy to prohibit the shipment in in.
terstate commerce Of non-union Goa
produced in West Virginia, and to OBJ
tain control Of all labor in this country
engaged in producing and shipping
coal.
Asserting that the questions pre-
scented were similar to those already
passed upon by the Supreme Court in
the Coronado and other cases. tim
mining companies insisted that the in
functions did not infringe the consti
tutional rights Of the union and its
members.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-11
OLGA PETROVA SEEKS
TO SET ASIDE CLAIM
Player in white Peacock" Asks
Court to Reverse Damage Decree
Awarded for plagiarism.

Olga Petrova. playing in the white
Peacock" has asked the Supreme
Court to reverse the decision of
the New York courts awarding
William Henry Roberts a judgment
against her of $500 upon his COM
plant that she had plagiarized his
play, la Rubia.''
She challenged the right of the
New York courts to try the case and
contended that her copyright of La
Rubia" was superior to Roberts COM
mon law rights to the play under the
laws Of Great Britain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-11

Lieut.. Col. Kenyon A. Joyce. L. $.
Cavalry. has been relieved from duty
as military attache of the United
States embassy, London, England, and
has been ordered TO this city for tenn
pOrary duty in the office of the chief
of staff. Upon completion of that duty
he will proceed TO Fort Bliss. Tex, for
duty with the 1st CavalrN Division.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-11
CADETSHIPS HERE OPEN.
Commissioners Asked to Name
Three Academy Candidates.

There are three cadetships at the
United States Military Academy 70
the credit OF the District of Columbia
according to a statement issued bv
the War Department. The District
Commissioners have been requested ia
nominate these cadets in time for the
entrance examinatio in March next
with view to admission to the acad
emv July 2. 1928
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-11

Any desired temperature is
uniformly maintained within a
single thermometer-me
degree at that comfortable
warmth you like for the day and
evening-and the adjustment to
nighttime GOODNESS is automatic.
The wonderful convenience of
this heating service which "lets
the pup be your furnace man" is
we'll within the reach of home
owners.
The actual dollars and cents
cost of gas heating for any home
i'll Washington can be very
closely estimated. All we re-
quire are few facts regarding
the size, number of rooms, ex-
posture and general construction
of your particular home-all
have bearing upon what this
cost will be.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-11
NEW DOLLAR-BILL DESIGN
IN HANDS OF ENGRAvERS
Bureau Director Announces Prog
ress, With Seven Workers EN-
ployed in Preparing for Issue.

Work on the die for the new small
dollar bill is proceeding at the Bu-
reau of Engraving and Printing, it
was explained by Director Alvin w
Hall yesterday, with seven different
engravers having a hand in the prepa
ration of this departure in the max
ing of American money.
Proofs are being pulled from time
to time to show the progress being
made, but it will probably be Octo-
| Der before the die is completed.
Although estimates of when the
first new dollar bill may be printed
were said by Director Hall to be
| only "guesses," he thought it might
be possible that the first impression
might be made early next December.
The process Of printing and num-
herring and building up a supply of
the new small bills will take so
much time. it Is figured now that it
will probably be next August before
the first of the new money Is turned
into general circulation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-11

1t pays to read the want columns of
The Star. Hundreds of situations are
obtained through them.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-12-30
Ousted Official Wins
Suit Against U. Nj. A.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. 20
Gabriel Johnson, former mayor of
Monrovia, Liberia, was upheld by the
court in his suit to obtain $500 in
salary due him from the Universal
Negro Improvement Association, not
including accrued interest.
johnson, who is the brother Of the
head of the supreme court in Liberia,
was active IN the u. N. |. A. from
1920 to 1928, and bore the title Of
potentate. He entered suit in this
city and was awarded judgment. Ex-
ecution was then started in Pitts
burgh, where it was resisted when
execution was started against prop
erty there said to be valued at $685.
600 on the ground that the property
was not that of the U. N. |. A. but
the property of a separate and dis
tinct organization known as the AZ
rican Community League.
A decision in favor of Johnson was
handed down by Judge Ford and the
property now is up for sale. At
torney J. Austin Norris represented
Mr.. johnson throughout the suit and
the U. N. ]. A. was represented by
Malone e. Morrison of Pittsburgh.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-12-30
Richmond, Va, A Big Southern Town
With Streets Named For Saints

ing in doctrine and practice by nam.
ing the streets for the old saints.
1t happens that Richmond's sainted
streets are among the most badly
kept in the city, although some Of
the city's most honorable people live
on them. !.
In Durham, N. c., "they" ask you
how much money you have; at At
lanta "they" demand of you the
school at which you vacationed and
the order to which you belong; but
in Richmond "they" ask you who
we're your parents, where were they
born and how many scores of years
you have lived in Richmond; fa-
vorable reply brings a favorable po.
sition in esteem and leadership.
It is pleasure to visit the drug
stores of Richmond. They are clean
and presentable. Excepting the dis.
play of Madam Walker, one can not
be sure about the racial connection
of the proprietor: The people at least
have places in which to stop in max
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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-12-30

Samory ran into the French in
1881 and from thence onward there
was almost continuous warfare be-
tween the two. Describing one of
the battles, Rogers says:
Meeting him at Kokouna, Col.
Archinbaud repulsed him and cap
tured his capital, Bissandougou.
Samory's army numbered 10000, a
third of which was armed with mod
ern rifles, and 1000 cavalry. The
French, force was much smaller, but
had the advantage of artillery. Sam
ory had only two small cannons and
and a bomb-thrower taken from the
British. These were served by can
tured British natives.
LA Grance Encyclopedia (French)
says in part of him: 'Samory, great
Negro potentate, who disputed de-
liberately a long time with France
for possession of the Sundan
Handsome, of splendid height very
intelligent, very cunning and ex-
tremely courageous +. Unhappilv
for him, he crossed the path Of
France from the Senegal to the Nj
ger when France wished to ascend
the great river towards its source
and to descend towards Timbuctoo.
The war between us and him com
meneed in 1892 and lasted until
1898.
Having thus struggled very
cleverly against Borgnis-D -Desbordes,
Combes, lambert, Archinbaud, Bon
nier, and after having lost his cap
ital, Bissanlougou, in 1891, he aban-
doned the Niger, that he had dis
populated, and went towards the
east in the country of Kong, in the
region of the rivers. Here he built
a new empire, from which he was
driven by France in 1898"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-12-30

public schools. Seven Negroes In
Durham have accumulated indiyid.
ual fortunes of from $4,000 to
100000 each.
| might produce facts as Interest,"
ing from Greensboro. Raleigh, or
Winston Salem. N. c.: Nashville or
Memphis. Tenn; from Atlanta or
Savannah, Ca; from Jacksonville,
Fla, or Birmingham, Ala. What
Negroes in Durham, N. c., are do
ing, in friendly environment In
which they are permitted to work
out their own problems, is being
done by Negroes all over the South
today
Right here / am going to present
two of the foremost Negroes In Anne.
rica, both of whom have achieved
wonderful successes and made the
best use of their talents. One Is a
scientist, the other is a business ex-
ecutive. One is light the other is
black. One cannot contemplate
these two distinct types and their
achievements without being forced
to the conclusion that 1t isn't
matter of race or color, but mat
ter of education and the fact of the
ultimate improyability of any Negro
type. These two men are Heman
E. Perry, president of the Standard
Life Insurance Company of Atlanta,
Ca, and DR.. George Washington
Carver of Tuskegee Institute. Just
a thumbnail sketch of the pair and
| rest my case for the improvabllity
and progress of the Negro.
heman T., Perry. an ambitious
young Negro, started out to organize
the Standard Life Insurance Com
pany in 1908. The State Of Georgia
required bond of 100000 of any
insurance company doing business
in that State. Perry had to aim for
stock subscriptions amounting to
(Continued on Page Ga
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-12-30
Black Napoleon Defied France For IS
Years, Winning and Losing Great Empire

So much is heard about the mill
tary exploits of great Caucasion SOL
diers and so little about black men
who have attained eminence in the
field of arms that the story of Sam
ory, the great West African conquer
or, proves doubly interesting.
j. A. Rogers, newspaper corree
spondent now travelling in Europe,
tells the story of the black Napoleon,
who fought continually for so years
in West Africa and successfully held
off the armies of France for 18 years
of that time. 1t is story of battles
and sieges, conquests and victories
seldom equaled in the annals of war
fare. Says Rogers:
"Samory, West African conquer
or, was born at Bissandougou, in
the basin of the Niger, about 1880.
The soubriquet The Black Napol-
con of the Sudan was given him in
recognition of his great military skill
by the French commanders who
fought him for 1S years"
He was man of considerable ed
ucation and great ability.
Although captured in early youth
by a neighboring king, he rose rap
idly from the position of slave to
that of bodyguard and counsellor to
his royal captor. Later he quarreled
with his master and, returning to his
home, Bissandougou, he finally be-
came chief. He then began a trium-
phant war on all neighboring chiefs
and kings. The writer continues:
"The warriors of Samory were
many of them armed with the latest
style of rifles from Germany, Eng
land and Belgian factories. It was
said that he got these weapons in Ii
IBERIA and Sierra Leone largely
through the connivance of the pow
ers named"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-12-30
Negro Inventors OF Whom
The World Knows But Little

When, in 1854, Benjamin Banne-
ker, noted Astronomer, constructed
the first clock to be made in Amer
ica, he was probably looked upon as
being very extraordinary Negro and
as having done something that would
be duplicated by very few of his race.
Yet in the United States Patent Of
flee there are estimated to be 5000
inventions by Negroes. One Elijah
Mccoy of Detroit, Michigan, has a
record of fifty-seven patents to his
:redit. The patents issued him ex-
tend from 1872 to 1920.
James Forten of Philadelphia, who
died in 1912, is the second inventor.
He invented an apparatus for man
aging sails. About this time Robert
BENJAMIN, Lewis of Cardier, Maine,
invented machine for picking oak
um, that is said, in all its essential
particulars, to be still used by the
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-12-30

shipbuilding interests of Maine.
The first Negro to receive patent
on an invention was Henry Blair Of
Maryland, who, in 1884 and 1896.
was granted patent on corn har-
vester. A number Of inventions are
thought to have been made by slaves.
It has been claimed, but not Verified.
that slave either invented the cot
ton gin or gave to Eli Whitney who
obtained a patent for its valuable
suggestions to aid in the completion
Of that invention.
In the year 1858 came the first
setback and attempt to discourage
the Negro as an inventor. The Com
missioner of patents ruled and the
Attorney General of the United Sta
tes ruled that slave could neither
take out patent on an invention
nor assign an Invention to his master.
tcontinusd on Pags7)
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-12-30

ouE greatest trouble In under.
standing the Negro in America is
not unlike our trouble in under
standing American youth. The Negro
is a child growing up, and nothing
gets out from under you and away
from you quite so fast as a child
growing up. This new Negro is
reating real race problem.
Removed from politics, the Negro
turned to self-improvement in more
satisfying and remunerative ways,
and he has made astounding prog
ress in very few years.
am convinced that one of the
fastest growing things in America
today is the Negro. In sixty years
of freedom Negroes have acquired
ownership of 21S,612 farms. en-
bracing 13,94S,512 acres, with i'm
provements valued at $554,15S, 900.
Negroes have established seventy
four banks with total capital of
Sc, ,250,0 900. doing an annual busi-
ness of 100000. They have
established insurance companies
with assets of S6,500,OOO, all told.
with more than 100 million dollars
in policies in force.
The Standard Life Insurance Com
pany of Atlanta, Ga. organized and
operated by Negroes, has over 90
million dollars insurance in force
on the lives of colored people, with
assets of more than million dol
lars and a net reserve of more than
l II millions.
In the town of Durham, ~ c.,
(than which there is not prouder
white mans town in the Solid
South), one finds seven story
office building of the most modern
fireproof construction owned by the
North Carolina Mutual Life Insur-
ance, an insurance company owned
and operated by Negroes. Durham
Negroes list for taxation more than
? million dollars in property and
send $500 children to the city's
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-12-30
Race Suffered From
Lack Of Employment
During the Year 1927

NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.-(SpeciaI)
Not in recent years." saws the
National Urban League of which n
Arnold dill is DIRECTOR "lras there
been exerted so much effort to find
JOBS fer Negroes with so little sue
cess. In the important industrial
communities of the North and West
men and women experienced i'm this
field have made futile attempts TO
secure work for the large number
OF unemployed Negroes, whose con-
ditlons have been practically un.
changed throughout most of 1927"
Among the important efforts
made to meet this situation was the
creation of a committee i'm New
York of white and colored citizens
which had its first meeting at the
Park Avenue Community Church of
which DR.. John Haynes Holmes is
minister. This committee, formed
by the New York Urban League, and
comprising a number of important
persons heretofore not actively in
terested in a program of this sort,
began its work with appeals to the
United Cigar Stores. the United
Electric Light and Power Co, the
New York Edison Co, and the New
York Telephone Co., with the hope
of securing employment for colored
people in capacities in which these
companies do not employ them.
The committee set out earnestly to
secure telephone operators, readers
of electric light and gas meters and
clerks in stores.
Two other ventures in this same
direction were industrial campaigns,
one in Milwaukee and one in
Springfield, ILL.,, when the attention
of business men and women through |
service clubs, the Manufacturers AS
sociation and the Association of |
Commerce and the Business and |
Professional Women's Club was call |
ed to the need of additional lines |
of employment for Negroes. The
managers of public utili- |
ties and department stores, were
and general managers
Of industrial corporations were ap-
pealed to with the result that calls |
from five places not before employ
Ing Negroes were received at the |
headquarters of the Urban League |
Of that city. Two large corpora
tions have initiated new policies
favorable to the employment of coll
pred people. One of these, the Ford |
Motor Company, has employed a
salesman In one of its New York |
agencies; the other reputable oil
operating in the west, has
reached definite decision to give jobs
10 colored men when the spring
weather increases the volume of gas
md oil business done by this COM
pany, in ten cities in which large
numbers OF Negroes live.
Here and there occasional hap
penings throw light on the ebb and
low of employment affecting mem
Ders of the Negro race. Two steel
plants in Milwaukee have closed
thereby forcing into
125 colored men, and
wo other plants in this city. in
which 20eo of the working popula-
ion were Negroes, have suspended
business until January LIST. In the
district where mines areI
operated on half-time basis some
I,0e0 colored miners have been af-
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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-12-30
By RALPH MATTHEWS
Enterprise Correspondent)

One sees strange sights and expe-
riences strange feelings upon going
to Richmond, because it is strange
town. OF course, there are many or
dinary things, like Jim Grow cars,
white motormen and conductors, po-
licemen, ticket agents, Negro porters,
washerwomen, "dog-killing" streets,
Greek food shops - "For Colored
People," Negro meat shops (restau-
rants), hordes of loafers and lively
school children, preachers and insur-
ance men. A population of 10000
Negroes and 10000 whites multiply
these common sights, making them
also rather strange.
Richmond is an old city, nor has
she had a recent fire nor too many
funerals (of certain type); hence
the numerous old landmarks, cling
ing vines, crawling bedfelows and
10Th and 18th century leadership. 1t
is quaint old city which seeks to be
religious, making up for what is lack