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SOCIALIST Is ELECTED
HEAD OF PARIS DEPUTIES
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, January 1.-THE French
Chamber of Deputies began it's regu-
lar session of 1927 by electing
q Socialist. Fernand Bouisson, as
its president. He won on the third
ballot, by vote of 284 to 1856. over
NJ. Maginot. former minister of war
Little political significance is at
tached to the action of the chamber
in establishing a new precedent by
electing a Socialist, for NJ. Bouisson is
looked upon as one of the most mod
crate leaders of his party. He is
considered an expert presiding officer,
having established a good record in
the chamber as vice president for
several years.
His election, however, marked a
remolding of the left groups of Radi.
Gals and Socialists and in some quar-
tiers is interpreted as a possible men
ace to the Poincare cabinet
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the Christian Inquirer. accused Of
blasphemous libel, John Macdonald,
secretary of the party, said.
I'VE are ready to take part in a
fight for free speech and a free press
if the police press the charge" Mac
donald said. 1.-The case may decide
once and for all what is free speech.
Literature of the British Nationalist
Society can be purchased in book
stores in the city. 1t contains stronger
statements than Sterry ever uttered
through the paper"
The warrant against Sterry charged
that he did. contrary to law, publish
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Aiken--AuguSta.

Mean temperature during January
and February at these popular re.
sorts is So. Splendid golf courses
with fifteen golf events Other inter
esting outdoor amusements. Reduced
fares. Excellent tourist hotels now
open. Through sleeping cars via South
ern Railway leave Washington daily
7:25 pm. Reservations and expert
travel information, 1910 H ST., N. w:
Phones Main 5000 and 7063.-Adver-
tisement
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Dutch Reject Soviet Offer

AMSTERDAM, Holland January IA
(P).-A proposal for conference with
the Russian Trade Union Council to
discuss cooperation was rejected yes
terday by the general council of the
international Federation of Trades
Unions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-14
COMMUNISTS OFFER AID
TO EDITOR FACING LIBEL
Party in Canada Ready to Fight
for Free Speech and
Press.

BY the Associated Press
TORONTO, Ontario, January IL
The Communist party of Canada is
ready to aid Victor Sterry, editor of
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certain blasphemous, indecent ant
profane libel of and concerning the
Holy Scriptures and Christian re
ligiOn."
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DIVORCE GRANTED
TO MRS. HARRISON
Wife of Former Governor
General of Philippines
Charged Abandonment.

PARIS, January l4.-AIrs. Elizabeth
Wrentmore Harrison Of Berkeley
Calf, has been granted divorce
from Francis Burton Harrison. former
governor general Of the Philippine
Islands. The suit was filed on
grounds of abandonment.
The Harrisons were married in
Chicago in 1919. They have been
separated since last July. Their three
children were in the custody of Mrs.
Harrison pending the outcome of the
suit.
The former Elizabeth Wrentmore
was IS years old at the time of her
marriage. and the match with the
governor general. IS years old and
twice previously married, was opposed
by her parents. Her father is Prof.
Clarence +. Wrentmore, dean of the
College of Manila.
Mr.. Harrison married Miss Wrent-
more on the day the decree in the
divorce action brought by his second
wife. Mrs Mabel Judson Cox Har-
rison, was signed in San Diego His
first wife was Mary CroCker. eldest
daughter of Charles +. Croker of
San Francisco, president of the
Southern Pacific Railroad. She died
in 1905.
Mr.. Harrison retired as governor
general of the Philippines in 1920 and
has since spent most of his time at
his country estate in Alness, Scotland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-14

Heels Low, M iii t airy,
Cuban, low Span
ish, SIP anis h and high
Spike.
DOWN STAIRS STORE
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STYLES One-strap and three
strap Pumps, D'Orsay
Punps-Colonial Pumps-Step-
in Pumps-and Sports or Dress
Oxfords.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-19
GnrUeyites Fight Police In Riot
Oil Well Flows Wealth
For Aged Okla. Couple

ENID, Okla, Aug. 18. - Hard
times come no more to Andrew
Abrams, born slave rs years ago on
a plantation in Lincoln County, Ken
lucky. The only colored farmer in
the Logan County (Oklahoma) oil
field, he sold a fourth of the royalty
rights on his farm, receiving S29,-
600. His l60-acre farm is just across
the fence from the Roxana Petrole-
UNI Corporations gusher.
He is going back to the old plan
tation this summer, wealthy man..
Mrs. Maggie Abrams his wife is 70
years old. They are vacating the
farm, which is bordered by a forest
of oil derricks. They paid $4,000
for more fertile farm.
Statesmen assault them with stocks
and bonds and fol-de-rol. Recently
they purchased shiny sedan and
drove to Hennessey, 18 miles away.
1t was their first trip there in 20
years.
But the most desirable result of
their oil strike is the trip back to
the old plantation in Kentucky, to
see if some of the folks are living
there.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-19
Row in Butte Bar Ends
In Bloody Killing

BUTTE, Mont, Aug. 1S.-As a
result of quarrel about 6:30 p, m.
last Saturday, which started when
he charged he was short-changed of
So, Philip Martin, 45-year-old Negro
"swamper" and a well known figure
in Butte's Cabbage Patch district for
more than decade, is dead and Stell
Jordan, proprietor of a soft drink
establishment at 429 South Arizona
St., where the shooting occurred and
who admitted he fired the shots that
killed Martin, is held at the city Jail
while officials are probing the affair.
There were no witnesses to the
killing, as Frank Grady, "swamper,
employed by Jordan, had gone to call
police when Martin first entered the
establishment and is said by Jordan
to have flashed knife. Jordan stat
ed he fired three shots and all are
believed to have had effect. One of
the bullets entered the mans face,
a second pierced his left lung, while
a third lodged in his abdomen.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-19
DR.. Booker Opens Office
In Panama Building

PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 18.-Den-
tai offices of DR.. +. l.. Booker, grad
uate of the North Pacific Dental
College, were formally opened Sun
day and Monday by reception held
in the offices on the fifth floor of
the Panama Building, Third and Aid
er st. DIR. and Mrs. Booker greeted
many friends who accepted the invi-
tation to inspect the handsome new
offices.
DR.. Booker, following his gradua-
tion last year, had experienced con-
siderable difficulty in locating an Of
flee, but through the assistance of
b. b. MacNaughton of the Strong &
MacNaughton Trust Company, the
Panama Building suite was obtained.
The office, consisting of labora-
tory, an operating room and a wait
ing room, was outfitted under the
direction of DR.. and Mrs. Booker, the
latter supervising the appointments
in the attractive waiting room. May
or Baker, in behalf of the city adj
ministration, was one of the many
persons who congratulated DIR. Book
er on the establishments of the new
office.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-19
Here Is a Man
With a Fiery Breath

MEMPHIS. Tenn, Aug. 1s.-Vice
President Dawes, during a short stop
over in Memphis Wednesday, wit
messed "divine" trick performed by
a Negro car repairer for the benefit
of the vice president and at the ex-
pense to him of a new hand-embroid-
cred handkerchief.
William Watson, the magician, /"
says that when he was boy he had
vision from heaven and that he be-
came endowed with the power to
blow his breath on any object and
set it afire. The party was taken to
the office of Clyde Mays, general
superintendent of the Illinois Cen
tral Railroad, and Watson came for
ward
He asked for a handkerchief and
Mr.. Dawes let him have one, with the
remark: "Well, III never see it
again." Watson, true to his prom
Use, blew his breath on it and, after
a few mysterious puffs, the hand
kerchief caught fire.
The trick went unexplained.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-19
SCHOOL TEACHER
in TEST BEATS AN
ADDING MACHINE

DENVER, Colo, Aug. 1S.-Char-
les Warner Cansler,, known every
where as the "human adding ma
chine" is here spending his vaca-
tion with his brother Fritz, Y. M.
c. A. secretary.
Cansier. who has been principal
of Knoxville, Tenn, High School for
II years and who is also an attor-
ney-at-law, won fame not long ago
by publicly challenging the opera
tion of an adding machine in a
downtown office to a speed trial.
To the astonishment of everybody
but his friends. Cansler won.
When Cansler was not more than
eight years of age, his Quaker
teacher discovered that he possessed
a remarkable faculty of concentra-
tion to such an extent that when
long columns of figures were placed
upon the blackboard with his back
turned to the blackboard, he could
turn to the figures at a given signal
and Immediately write the result
He could also multiply numbers
with millions or billions for a prod
uct, writing out the result, carry
ing all the operations involved in
the process in HIS mind He could
give the squares and cubes of large
numbers instantly.
Although now more than fifty
years of age, he retains the faculty
he possessed as child and astonish-
es all who witness his feats.
Zerah Calhoun, a like mathema-
tical prodigy, born in the early part
Of the nineteenth century, and ex-
hibited by his father in the United
States and Europe when child,
lost the faculty when he grew to
manhood. While there are perhaps
thousands of profounder mathema-
ticians living than Cansler, it is
doubtful if there is a man living
who performs certain arithmetical
processes with greater speed and
facility.
Cansler has compiled a small
book on "Short Methods in Arith-
metic." He has a normal mind in
other respects. He is so modest
about his unusual faculty that it is
difficult to get him to talk about
1t or demonstrate it.
Charles Cansler is simply a math-
ematical prodigy and can only ex-
plain the feat he performs by say
ing that it is the ability to concen-
trate his mind upon what he does.
and that others could do the same
If they used the same power of
concentration.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-19
Virginia Families Thot White For Decades
Are Found To Have Colored Bleed

NEW YORK.--virginia's "racial
integrity" .law, enacted in 1924, is
making trouble for some of the
"best families" of the state, accord
ing to special despatch to the New
York World.
Richmond is now forced to estab-
lish a special school for fifty or
more small children who have been
barred from white schools on the
ground that they have American
Indian ancestry and their parents
refuse to send them to Negro
schools.
Dr. w. A. Plecker. State Regis
trar of Vital Statistics, who was dis
missed from a position he held un-
der the U. s. Department of Labor
after complaint had been made Of
his anti-Negro propaganda by the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement OF Colored People, is
backing the opinion of the state au-
thoritles that confession of Indian
ancestry in Virginia is equivalent to
admission of Negro ancestry. The
Worlds despatch continues:
Families. Barred
Families with a noticeable strain
of Negro blood first were barred
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-19
MOUND BAYOU
SCANDALLAID
TO POLITICS

MOUND BAYOU, Miss, Aug. Ia
This all Negro town received shock
which was felt throughout the state
of Mississippi, Thursday afternoon.
Eugene P. Booze and his wife,
Mary Booze, were arrested on a
charge of numbering, by poisoning,
Isaiah T. Montgomery, the father of
Mrs Booze and the founder of
Mound Bayou, Miss.
Mr. Montgomery died three years
ago. The town which he founded
celebrated its fortieth anniversary a
few weeks ago. Mrs. Booze was
exceedingly fond of her father and
Mr.. Booze was considered one of
the closest friends of the noted Mis-
sissippian.
Mrs. Booze is active in civic af-
fairs throughout the state and holds
the honor of being National Repub-
lican Committee-woman of the state.
She has, at all times, taken a great
interest in the development of
Mound Bayou, which was a pet pro-
ject OF her father and friends can
see no reason why she would COM
init or be a party to the deed which
has been attributed to her.
Her husband. Eugene p. Booze,
named as a party in the crime, was
an ardent worker in the campaign
which led to his wife's election as
National Republican Committee
man and many claim that he is the
power behind the throne in all of
her efforts During the flood, Mr..
Booze was especially active and
headed the committee in the County
CT Bolivar and through his influence
several nurses We're employed to
work in the camp located at Cleve-
land, Mississippi and one physician.
According to those who are near.
Mr.. Montgomery met Mr.. Booze in
Denver Colo, where the latter had
gone from his home in Natchez,
Miss, for his health. Attracted by
the business acumen of Booze. Mr..
Montgomery sought to influence him
to come to Mound Bayou, which he
did.
Mound Bayou, which stands as a
monument to the memory of its
founder, boasts of being an ALL
NEGRO TOWN, having all Negro Of
ficials, Negro citizens and every
thing Negro. One unique feature of
the town is that there is no Jail,
The town has many flourishing busi-
ness enterprises and bids fair to con-
tinue its growth for years to come.
At the time of Isaiah Montgome-
ry's death there was no suspicion
as to his passing being due to any
but natural causes. He had lived a
vigorous and active life and had
passed the proverbial three-score and
ten years. He was wealthy and ac-
cording to reports, so is his son-in-
law, who is now charged with being
his murderer. The trial is expected
to be fraught with sensation but
the friends of the family feel certain
that Mr.. and Mrs. Booze will be
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-19

from the white schools. In many
cases it was necessary to eject chill
dren who had almost completed their
education in the white public schools
sons and daughters of parents who
always had considered themselves
white.
Parents of such children had no
choice but to send them to Negro
schools. Only a few of them did
so. The others kept their boys and
girls at home. trying vainly to ex-
plain why. Embarrassment involved
a score of families and gave Rich
mond a bitter lesson in miscegenar
tion.
Besiege School
"The parents besieged the school
authorities in their misery and won
their complete sympathy. :. But the
city school board could do nothing
for them. And when a desperate
mother charged favoritism and in
formed upon her brothers and sis
ters and cousins. the authorities
were forced to eject their children
from the white schools. Some of
the children, shown by records to
have Negro blood we're so white that
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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-19
ANTI-LYNCHING
PLEDGE FIGURES
In MISS. ELECTION

VICKSBURG. Miss. Aug. 1S.-
For the first time in Mississippi
politics the issue of lynchings or nc
lynchings may play an important
part, il developments in the Forrest
County elections this fall are to be
taken seriously.
Politics in Mississippi are always
an engrossing topic of discussion,
but this time the candidates have a
real live problem on their hands. It
has all come about because of the
action of a number of prominent
white men of the community, who
have organized themselves into what
they call group representing the
public conscience and have hurled
a bomb shell In the form of a ques-
tionaire, which they are demanding
to be answered by all candidates.
This QUESTIONABLE Is as follows:
"If elected sheriff of Forrest Coun-
ty, will you defend all prisoners in
your custody and preserve your jail
if attacked by a mob at the risk of
your life. shooting to kill. If neces-
sary, in order to perform fully your
statutory oath?"
Even more stringent is the de-
mand that the candidate promise
when he becomes sheriff to imme-
diately issue written warning de-
claring, that any attack upon the
majesty of the law by mob will be
met by all forces necessary"
A letter accompanying the ques-
tionaire says that the questioners
"believe themselves entitled to a.
public answer" and concludes with
the charge that "there have been
seven mob murders in Mississippi
in the past four months" laying the
blame upon the sheriffs.
Coincident with the issuing of the
QUESTIONABLE, however, were first
page stories in Mississippi papers
reciting cases of mob violence. In
fact. just about the time the can
didates in Forrest County were
reading the open letter, mob in
Hazelhurst, Miss, was running ev-
cry colored person out of town.
The town was crowded with the
usual weekend gathering of farmers
when a young woman learning to
drive a car ran into a white woman
and her small daughter. Immediate
ly the story got about that Negro
had attacked white woman and
the mob went to work.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-19
Race Hatred in
Ohio Campaign

DAYTON, Ohio, (PN.S.) - The
red shirt of race hatred has been
waved in the municipal campaign
here, where DIR. NJ. Nickum, white,
candidate for city commissioner. has
injected the race question with all it!
fury and southern intenseness.
Charging that the race is gradual
ly but surely ousting whites from
their West Side homes and that Ne
gro men were associating with white
women about the hills of the city in
the cool of the evening, DR.. Nickum
is. calling upon the constituency ttc
keep the Negroes in their place."
The majority of the citizens, how.
ever, seem to be opposed to the inn
portation of Vardamanism in Ohio
and are expected to take care of DR..
Nickum at the polls.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-19

taking the cruise together to earn
money to return to their native
home.
Then he saw the head engineer
on the schooner hanging around his
wife.
Battice saw the crew snickering
at him and he asked Karl Bodka
to stay away from his wife. All
right, Bodka hurled back in derision.
III take her down to the coal bunk
'ers. Later he came upon the pair
In the store room. II was dark, he
struck out. savagely. Bodka leaped
through the. opening and escaped.
His wife lay with her life blood
oozing out"
spanish Girl Name
But the Government tells another
story: It names little Spanish girl.
Emily zamot, back in Porto Rico.
Battice fell in love with her, ac-
cording to the schooner's captain,
Chas. Tuttle, white, and killed his
wife so that he could return to her.
Carruthers Ewing, white. Memphis
Attorney, who has defended many a
similar case, came all the way from
Tennessee at the behest OF relatives
to see that Battice gets fair show
ing. Ewing once startled a Memphis
court, when he defended the colored
common law wife of Q rich white
planter near that city and won for
her verdict. which made her and
her children beneficiary Of his entire
estate. At that time Ewing declar-
ed that this woman was defacto
wife of the man because she had
devoted her life and love to him.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-19

= oNtI NHTee nulluTeu business men
and women from "a different states,
and representing 43. different lines
of business activity were present.
Among them were the undisputable
leaders in a number of lines. The
whole fabric of modern civilization
and cultural progress could be woven
from cross section of the body.
The serious character of the as
semblage was made obvious very
shortly after the first session was
called to order. The tone OF the
addresses of welcome even indicated
the atmosphere that prevailed
throughout the week.
Perhaps the most emphatic con-
firmation of that serious attitude
toward the work before the body
was the address of Anthony Over
ton, President of the Douglass Ma
tional Bank of Chicago, who for the
first time made public the difficult
ties incident to the establishment
of the National Bank operated by
our people in Chicago.
Some of the troubles for Negro
business promoters that were mem
toned in his address are things OF
the past, elf the disclosures of the
speech that followed may be accept
ed as indicative OF future possibili-
ties based upon present day facts
and accomplishments. H. G.. Mat
ney of the Commercial Department
of the Bluefield Institute, Bluefield,
w. Va, reported upon the success
of a most unusual experiment in
educating personnel for our COM
ing business institutions. He heads
or instructs a group of students who
own and operate a cooperative store
in connection with the school where
every phase of the business totalling
$4,000 per year is conducted by
the students who themselves own the
business through the purchase OF
stock at one dollar per share.
Finance dominated the session for
that day. A. NJ Shearin, General
Manager of the Fidelity and Surety
Company of Durham. N. c., A. G.
Macklin of the st. Louis Underwrit-
ers Corp. and Jesse o. Thomas OF
the National Urban League contri-
buted papers upon the general sub
jeet, the latter emphasizing the i'm
portance of the underlying indus
trial employment situation as an es-
sential to community and national
business development.
During the afternoon of the first
day, the visitors were treated to a
drive about the city under escort of
the local organization and the City
Police Department, the ride termin-
ating at Poro College, where more
than three hundred were the guests
of Nine. Anna Turnbo Malone at a
banquet served on the beautiful roof
garden of the big institution headed
by her.
In addition to being hostess on
this occasion to the entire organiza-
tion, Mrs. Malone had as house
guests during the week practically
the entire official personnel of the
League. The service at Poro College
has established a precedent for ho-
tells wherever the League may meet
hereafter, according to the words
of the fortunate ones who were domi-
ciled there.
The annual address of the Presi-
Continued on Page 4)
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-19
School to Train Actors

SACRAMENTO, Establish
ment of school for the development
and training of Negro film actors is
proposed by the Erosian Club of Los
Angeles, which Monday filed articles
of Incorporation with Secretary of
State Jordan.
The club headquarters is listed as
194S South Central Ave-, Los AM
geles, and the officers and directors
are zack Williams, president; Spen-
Ger Williams, secretary; Lloyd s.
Shackleford, Henry Smith, Rex. c.
Ingram, William Kyle and Goodwin
Van Bunt, all of Los Angeles, direc-
tors.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-19
Doctor in Segregation Row

LOS ANGELES.-Dr. H. Claude
Hudson, president of the local branch
of the N. A. A. c.. p, who with a
party of friends was snatched up
from the beach where they had gone
in bathing and were arrested July
II, was fined 5000 and costs in the
municipal court at Manhattan here
last week.
The arrest and fine grew out Of
opposition by whites to the use of the
beach by colored bathers.