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Evening star., 1927-04-18
DUTIES KEEP WOOD
FROM VISITING u. S.
Governor General of Philip
pines Unable to Walk
Without Assistance.
BY WALTER R0BB.
By Gable to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1927

news 1ppS1AsAAh, 15-3.
MANILA, P. T., April Ts.-siuca
the Supreme Court clarified the or
ganic act, Gov. Gen Leonard Wood
whose executive authority was restor
ed by that decision has found his
duties so pressing that his departure
for the United States has been de
layed. Another reason for postponing
his vacation Is the fact that Mrs
Wood walks with difficulty because of
a sprained ankle. Gen. Wood himself
cannot walk without aid.
But feeble az Gen, Wood is the
courts decision virtually makes him
general manager of corporations, IN
Guiding the banks. with a combined
capital of $50 600, 600. He Is trying to
carry on from Baguio, where, to escape
the intense heat in Manila, he has
summoned O meeting to make states
of faithful directorates Of Americans
and Filipinos and for bank, railroad
and other companies
School Books at Stake.
Gen. Woods next big job is the re
organization of the insular textbook
board and contracting for school books
with which TO supply / 200 600 pupils
Private schools are seeking the Gov
ernment's sanction to utilize some Of
these books and thus the board sun
plies total Of ] 500 000 pupils Bool,
agents are always swarming here, nc
garding the Philippines Under this sys
tenn as one of the worlds biggest and
richest plums, comparing it with Tex
as under Ma Ferguson.
The Philippine text book board is
composed of the chairman of the
educational committees in the Senate
and House, a native lawyer, who is
director of education, and a native
dean of the law college. Tt has
worked in connection with the Legis-
lature which created it.
Can Break Ring.
The education committees, whose
chairmen sit next TO the board, pass
the school fund and text book appro. /
priation bills. One chairman and
board member writes the texts which /
are afterward adopted by the board |
Some of the board members conduct 4
so-called colleges and increase by sup |
plying educational texts.
Gen. Wood, under the new author |
ity imposed by the Supreme Courts !
decision, can break up the text book I
ring and he has begun by removing /
the native lawyer and appointing in /
his place Vice Gov. Eugene Gilmore. /
who is secretary of instruction,
Evening star., 1927-04-18
TWO SHOT TO DEATH.
Argument Over Woman and An
other Over Debt Result F tally.

PIKESVILLE, KY, April is LP-
Two men We're dead here yesterday
as result of shooting that occurred
after separate arguments over a
woman and SIG debt.
Ed Vinson was shot and killed last
night because he is said to have up-
braided his brother, Ale Vinson. for
discussing an affair of Ed Vinson
with a woman whose name was not
disclosed. Ale Vinson was charged
with the staying.
George Blanton was fatally wounds
ed when asked by Oscar FFain1ev III
pay a SIC obligation. Huniev de-
ciared after his arrest that Rlantou
had reached for weapon.
Evening star., 1927-04-18
Spokane Co. Steamer Aground.

SAULT STE MARIE. Mich. April
is 0P1.--The steamer WestlanI owned
by the Spokane Steamship Co. Of
Port Huron, ran aground on Spec-
tacle Reed off Detour during a fog
yesterday. The cargo hold was
punctured and six feet Of water was
reported in the hold.
Evening star., 1927-04-18

Mabel Citing, one of the first won.
en- in the hotel industry to assume
position of rank, is prominent in
woman's club circle in Cincinnati.
Evening star., 1927-04-18
Csc Silk and
Cotton Prints
zoe Yd.

For your Summer frocks there are
several attractive kinds OF wash fabrics
at this special price, including the popu
lar A. B. c. prints. Select from an
interesting variety Of new Spring col
ors and patterns, suitable for many
purposes.
Kann' n's-Street Floor
Evening star., 1927-04-18

Kann' Street Floor.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30
A. A. u. MEET IS TAKEN FROM
NEW ORLEANS
preston News Service)

New York, April 27.-The National
A. A. u. track and field champion
ships were taken from New Orleans
last week because of fear that racial
troubles might enter into the event
The southern contingent decided that
the event could not be held in New
Orleans, unless Negroes were forbid
den to participate in competition
against white athletes. The A. "A. u.
in its firm stand that no man shall
be barred on account Of race, color or
creed, plan to arrange for the event
to be held in some other city in July.
1t is expected that there will be some
delay in the holding of the meet this
year.
F. w. Ruben, secretary of the A.
A. u, declared that a national and
patriotic body had no right to bar any
American because Of race or creed.
He pointed out the obvious unfair
ness" Of calling upon Negroes to rep
resent America and win high honors
in Olympic games and later deny them
the right to compete in their own ma
tional championships.
Among the Negro athletes almost
certain to win places among American
representatives are Cecil Cooke, bril-
liant quarter-miler of Syracuse Uni
versity and national champion; Charles
Major, St. Bonaventure College. high
jumper and indoor title holder; as
we'll as De Hart Hubbard, broad-jump
star, and also many other distance
men.
Secretary RUBEN pointed out that
only once during holding champion
ship games in the south has any ath-
lete protested against competing with
a Negro On that occasion hurdler
from the University of Virginia said
he could not go home and admit that
he raced a colored man"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30
S P LEI DID DONATION TO
STORER COLLEGE, HARPERS
FERRY, w. VA.
Especial to The Broad AK

Especial to The Broad AK
The largest single gift made to
Storer College by colored person has
just come to the institution. 1t will
amount to almost $1,000 and is made
possible BY a bequest from Frank
Gibson, a former student Of the col
lege A hard working frugal man, he
denied himself that his small savings
might grow and that he might thus
pay a debt Of gratitude to the school
which started him on the upward path.
This is a notable example OF the
growing tendency on the part Of
thoughtful colored peolEe to have ac-
tive part in the carrying forward Of
the institutions established for them.
Such gifts are most commended.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30
SUDDEN DEATH OF MR.
PHILIP WALKER

Last Saturday afternoon, Mr.. Walk
er, who owned a nice home at 6zZ4
S. Elizabeth ST where he resided with
his wife, Mrs. Walker, while attend
ing the movies on 63rd ST., near May
St., suddenly expired. Heart failure
being the direct cause of his death.
His remains were removed to Black
wells undertaking establishment, $50
S. State St.
Funeral services were held over his
remains Wednesday afternoon. Rev.
D. H. Harris officiated. Interment
at Mt Glenwood cemetery
Mr.. Walker leaves devoted widow,
Mrs. Matilda Walker; one daughter,
Mrs. Lara Smith; eight grandchildren
and eight great grandchildren.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walker were happily
married for % years.
Mr.. Walker was IS years old at the
time Of his sudden death.
The floral offerings were many and
very beautiful.
He was highly admired by his many
friends and very much esteemed by
his immediate neighbors.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30
MARCHING CLUB HAS BIG
AFFAIR

The Fl. Dearborn 1927 Marching
Club held a monstrous ball and en-
tertainment at the West Side million
dollar hall and proved to be a marked
success. Through the untiring. efforts
of T. H. Jackson, chairman OF the af-
fair, this was and has been heralded
the grandest and most successful at
fair Of the season. J. B. Deveaux is
president; Chas. w. Mathews is sec
rotary, and Jas. G. Martin, exalted
ruler. The club is now arranging for
the coming of the next grand lodge
session which is to be held in New
York City.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30

As the achievements of Mr.. Webb are
studied it will be seen that he deserves
to rank with the ablest fnanciers that
the Negro race has ever produced.
The book is we'll printed on a good
paper and has a beautiful cloth bind
ing. In the book are quite a number
Of pictures which themselves tell a
striking story of Negro progress.
No one can read this book without
being inspired to do greater things. 1t
should be in the home to be read by
all children. The book was written
by DR.. Sutton E. Griggs, who is the
author Of fifteen other books.
1t is on sale at the Messenger Pub
fishing -Company's Office in Hot
Spring, Ark, and retails for rs cents
per copy.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30
COLORFUL NEWS MOVIES
By THE CAMERAMAN

but coming from one so inexperienced
in years and social contact, it loses
much of its sting. The young man
seems peeved because the "uncultured"
Washington folk, despite their love
and appreciation for Paul Laurance
Dunbar's poetry, fail to recognize the
beauty and poetic harmonies in Jean
Toomer's "Cane" and his own 1.-THE
Weary Blues" and Fine Clothes to
the Jew" Perhaps, if the venerable
old patriarch of this young mans fam
lily were still with the best" people Of
Washington today, he, too, might not
be able to appreciate these modern
verses any more than they. The old
gentleman would certainly be shocked.
trying to find beauty in the idea of
selling his fine clothes to the Jew for
$3.50, and investing the proceeds in
bootleg gin. Had the $3.50 been spent
for ham and eggs or coffee and waf-
hes to sustain life, perhaps the best"
folks OF Washington might find the
same poetic beauty in Fine Clothes
TO the Jew" that they find in Contee
Cullen's Il Have a Rendezvous With
Life"
However, as young Hughes has the
admiration, support and encourage
ment Of the Nordic group, who, per
haps, know more about real poetry
and poetic beauty than our group, he
should give little concern to the "un-
cultured" few of Washington, who fail
to measure up to his standards of po-
etc appreciation.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30

Mr.. James ]. Cortland, who has
been one Of the smooth detectives
connected with the Detective Bureau,
has been transferred from that bureau
to the Offices Of Hon. Michael Hughes,
general superintendent of police OF
Chicago, where he will serve as one
of his assistant secretaries. Mr.. Gort-
land is smooth goods and is ever ready
to extend the glad hand to all corners.
He has acquired the rare art Of smil-
ing and smiling and he stands ace high
with all the newspaper men who ire
quent the Offices Of Chief Hughes.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30
MIGRATOR LOSES FOOT BEAT
ING HIS WAY NORTH
preston News Service)


Columbus, Ohio, April 2S.-John
Watson, aged %, submitted to an OPP
Grafton Wednesday afternoon at St.
Francis hospital for the amputation OF
his right foot at the ankle. His con
dition was reported fair Thursday
morning. Watson was cumming his
way from North Carolina to Toledo
when he fell Wednesday morning be-
tween the cars Of a Hooking Valley
train and his foot was crushed under
the wheels of the train. He was re-
moved to the hospital after he was dis
covered by the train crew in Fischer
ambulance.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30
THE TRUE LIFE STORY OF
JOHN L. WEBB. FIRST VICE
PRESIDENT OF THE MA
TIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS
LEAGUE

How poor boy, a member of a
family Of ten children, rose from pow
erty and obscurity to wealth, fame and
leadership is the mission Of the book
Life Story Of John L. Webb" which
has just been published by the Mes
senger Publishing Company Of Hot
Springs, Ark.
AS one reads the book and notes
the rise of this Negro financial giant,
he is greatly impressed with the ster-
ling virtues found in the Negro race.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30

William H. Clark, who has served
for many years as one Of the deputy
clerks Of the Municipal Court Of Chi
cago and who ranks among the oldest
readers of The Broad AK, was lately
transferred as call clerk from the
PeI1in Court to the South Clark Street
Court, where he will serve in the same
capacity as an efficient clerk Of the
Municipal Court Mr.. Clark has no
superior.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30
ANNUAL TAG DAY
MONDAY, MAY 9, 1927

The Federation Of Aged and Adult
Charities will have their eleventh an
nual Tag Day on Monday, May g.
The Phyllis Wheatley Home for
Girls is one Of the forty or more or
CARNATIONS that will benefit by the
proceeds of the day
We are asking our friends and the
generous public to help US on this one
day in the year by contributing liberal
" to our taggers Do not pass our
boxes by.
Our expenses have greatly increased
in our new Home and we are hoping
to enlarge the scope of our worth
while work in the near future. We can
only do this with your cooperation
and assistance.
We are earnestly requesting all girls
or women to give their services either
all day or for a few hours to tag on
this important day Won't you help
for sweet charity?
Come to the meeting for instruction
at 8 p. m. Wednesday, May 4, at 2
p. m. at 5128 S. Michigan boulevard;
refreshments served.
If you cannot come but are willing
to help, please send your name and
address to Mrs. Fannie Bowers. chair
man, APO Bowen avenue, or 5128 S.
Michigan boulevard, telephone Oak
land 1897 or Kenwood 0255.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30
NINE. ALLEN BACK FROM EAST

Mime. Bertha Z. Allen, 5234 Prairie
avenue, secretary Of Star Of Bethlehem
Council, A. u. X. & d. Of A., has
just returned to the city from a six
weeks visit with relatives and friends
at Essex Junction, Vermont, and other
interesting points in the east.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30
MORGAN PARK IN BLOOM

Sunday was great day in Morgan
Park for members Of the Race who
were looking over future homesites.
M. T. Bailey, president of The Bailey
Realty Co., 1858 S. State street, to-
gether with D. L. Jackson and other
representatives, were busily engaged
in locating future sites and garden
spots for the people.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30
The Spring Exodus

The Spring Exodus
Not few of the statements which
are being served up with rich journal
istic sauce concerning this springs
Negro exodus from such choice"
southern debarkation points as Bir-
mingham, New Orleans, Atlanta and
Memphis, are one hundred per cent of
the Baron Munchausen variety, rich"
in the punch, but shy in staying
powers.
They are serving we'll to "Barnum-
ize'' two types Of jealous citizens-the
"weakbacks" Of the north and the
"canvasbacks" Of the south In other
words, those Of the north, who, for
social reasons, wish the Negro mi
grants would stay in the south are liv-
ing. amid fear and trembling; while
those Of the south who want the col
ored brother to stay down home" for
economic reasons are also hysterical
1t is said by the white journalists
that Louisiana has organized herself
not for the purpose of showing her
own graces, but rather, in order to
portray the evils OF cities like New
York, Detroit, Chicago. IN which, it
is said, the poor Negro migrants Of
Dixie will have hard shedding.
1t is said that the Birmingham
Chamber of Commerce has employed
agents to watch all outgoing trains
and entreat the migrants to Stay put"
i'll Alabama.
A statement from Arkansas por-
tends to show that the unsuspecting
Negroes are being lured to fields Of
political vice, greed and exploitation,
where honesty is not the best policy
Amid all this eight and ten-point
type which is being set up concerning
Negro migration, not one word is
found to describe LIBERTY
not even the citation Of one precedent
from the days of Names on through
to the Pilgrim Fathers and the days
of '49 to show that people have al
ways migrated in groups and classes.
They always will-white, black, yell
low, red and brown.
The ignorant foreign classes low
perhaps in Americanism, but high in
brotherly love and respect, have been
emigrating to America for years. May
not few groups of Negroes change
their bed and board-and is there not
enough police power and zeal to give
them protection, and to preserve social
equanimity and civilization?
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30
OUT AGAIN

Mrs. M. B. Newland, manager OF
The Enterprise Institute, 5l4 Aldine
Square, who has been i'll and con-
fined to her home for several weeks,
is much improved and able to be about
her many duties again.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30
OBSERVES ANNIVERSARY

Star Of East Council No. ia, A. U.
X. & d. of A. held its anniversary
exercises at Johnson's Hall on last
Thursday evening. A large number Of
visitors and members Of the councils
were out and enjoyed very splendid
program and refreshments.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30
RETURNS TO CITY .

Mrs. Susie Jones, 3407 Calumet ave-
nue., has just returned home from
Lake, Miss, where she was called to
the bedside of her mother who was
quite ILL., Leaving, Mrs. Jones her
mother much improved.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30

Northwest Albanian asks its reaa-
ers q number OF questions to test
their intelligence, but omi.s one we
have long wished to see answered:
swhy do geese walk In a rowr-Gun-
tersyille (Ala.) Democrat.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30
Gave Name to Association

The name 'Lloyd's" applied to the
Underwriters Association Of London,
is derived from coffee house kept by
Edward Lloyd n Tower street in the
Seventeenth century, where under
writer's met to transact business.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30
WINDSOR CENTENARIAN is
CALLED BY DEATH
preston News Service)

Windsor, N. c., April 28.-"Doctor"
William Davis, widely known, died
here Monday. He was born July 4,
1922 and would have been los years
old next July 4.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30
Marcus Garvey Again

The magnetic power and colossal
undertaking Of Marcus Garvey is again
recalled in Professor Kelly Miller's
scholarly article, after Marcus Gar
vey-What of the Negro" appearing
in the April issue of the Contemporary
Review. Mr.. Miller shows how, re-
CARELESS of many handicaps and dis
couraging setbacks, "this ungainly
youth, by sheer indomitability of will,
projected a propaganda and command
ed following, within the brief space
Of decade, which made the whole
nation mark him and write his speeches
in their books"
In describing the prominence gained
by Garvey, the writer says. mo Ne
gro, not even Booker Washington,
ever received such national notoriety -
and THE Carney Movement became
international in its involvement"
Professor Miller expresses no praise
nor condemnation for this Jamaican
emigrant" He does not make Garvey
either hero or a martyr He simply
sets forth the facts and conditions that
nearly made possible his success, but
which finally ended in utter failure
for his back to Africa" project. Tie
seriousness with which Garvey and his
Movement were taken BY the public
he describes in the following terms
THE Garvey Movement attracted the
attention OF the nation and caused no
little apprehension. His name was on
the tongue of every speaker dealing
with racial matters. The newspapers
and magazines discussed the. Garvey
movement from every angle Of ap-
proach and point Of view"
In spite of the earnestness Of Gar
vey, the tragedy of the whole affair is
summed up in these sentences: "Mr.
Garvey is now serving fve-year term
in the Atlanta penitentiary The hour
looks dark for the fate OF the Empire
Of Africa When the Provincial Presi-
dent has served out his sentence and
has been released from bonds. he NAV
be deported as an undesirable citizen.
Professor Miller thinks that 'the
chief achievement of Marcus Garvey
consists in his quickening the sense of
race consciousness and self-dignity on
the part OF the common people among
black folk all over the world" This
the intelligentsia among Negroes has
failed to accomplish in its various
movements, because they have never
been able to penetrate below a certain
level of social grade. They do not
reach the common people or stir their
imagination"
Other such movements have been
launched previous to that OF Marcus
Garvey but none ever reached "the
frenzy of crusade" as did his, and mo
greater vision has ever haunted the
human mind" than his.
Unfrocking the Khan
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30
Mars Defined

One of the 'test'' questions I'm a
class at school was: what Is Marsr
One Of the answers was. Mars IL the
scratches You get on the parlor fur
niture. "-Corporatio Reporter.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30

fact that it may result in the legisIa-
ture Of the state passing a statute
against the wearing Of masks to con-
ceaI illegal and unlawful acts.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30

The region having the greatest IN
nual rainfall In located I'm the north
eastern part Of India. near Calcutta
It In more than 600 inches . year.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30
Back to Baltimore

Frank r. Kent, who, at intervals
takes his pen in hand to write anus
ingly lat least to himself) concerning
various phases Of Negro life in Amer
lea, has just diagnosed Maryland
Democrats and the Negro Vote" with
the comforting conclusions that the
last named item has declined to a one
to-eight basis as compared with the
white vote; that white MARYLAND
Democrats have ceased fighting the
Negro and are consoling him with
larger school appropriations. and
greater privileges; and that the decline
of Negro registration figures repre-
sents the new success" met with in
dealing with the Negro.
It is, indeed, fact that during the
last election only one-sixth Of the
Maryland Negro eligibles were active
at the polls; but this was not due to
any new treatment which MARYLAND
Democrats have adopted. In fact the
Richie Campaign Committee handed
the Negroes of Maryland the worst
insult they have ever received polit-
ically in America in the form Of re-
voting flyers" directed to the Ne
groes and the Republican Campaign
ers. Probably Mr.. Kent overlooked
this dastardly act from the Richie
machine.
The decline was there, we'll admit;
but it was there because of lack of or
ganization and leadership, which will
very probably be present in Maryland
from now on.
Anyhow, Mr.. Kent has been brutal
~ frank in describing the new attitude
of his party, even though the ink is
not yet dry on the insulting Richie
pamphlets of 1924. If Maryland Ne
groes have any pride at all-and we
know they have-they'lI cause Mr..
Kent to 60 into reverse by the time
another election day has passed.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30

Once there was a man vino honestly
admitted he couldn't do amy bettBR
tkAn tho other fellow.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30

of the most powerful speakers of the great M
Church, who has for almost Bishop
of that church in Liberia, West Africa has succeeded
clearing his financial difficulties through the aid
missionary department of his church If the loud shouting
bishops and other big connected with that church
would have raised the which due him, Bishop
Brooks would have the slightest troubles on
his hands when he landed back in Liberia.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-30
Unfrocking the Khan

Unfrocking the Khan
A death blow was dealt to the Ku
Klux Klan by the Superior Court of
Jefferson County, Alabama, when
Judge Alternately ruled that every
name on the roster Of the Khan must
be made known to the Court and the.
public This decision was handed
down in order to ascertain names of
witnesses to disclose the secret speech
made to the Khan last February, by
the Grand Dragon James Esdale. The
significance Of this decision lay in the