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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-07
Insane Pastor Attacks Bishop
Court Halts Labor
Union Race Boycott

COYAHO COUNTY, Ohio.--An
order restraining white union
from boycotting a restaurant be-
cause the proprietor employed col
ored help has been signed in the
Common Pleas Court here, according
to letter sent the N. A. A. c. p.
The proprietor employed colored
walters and cooks last year, paying
them union wages, and the union
said nothing about It. This year,
In April. Edward Whissemore, busi-
ness agent of the Walters Union
and Martin Spiegel, vice president of
the local, demanded of TIE r'Npri-
etor that he employ yhite union
members. This the Proprietor de-
clined to do on the ground that he
had already made arrangement with
the colored help previously employ
ed.
In the meantime, at the request
OF their employer the colored men
went to Cincinnati to the interna-
tional headquarters of the union and
applied to the secretary for a char
ter for colored local for Cleveland.
They we're referred to Mr.. Whisse-
more, who told them, Nothing do
ing" and their efforts to form To-
cal of the union ceased.
Thereafter the white union began
picketing the restaurant, stationing
automobiles in front OF II which
bore placards and signs reading:
willis Terrace Garden Is Unfair
to Organized Labor"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-07
Pullman Co. Told to
Answer Porters' Petition

NEW YORK.-A Philip
general organizer of the Brotherhood
of Sleeping Car Porters. made pub
lie a letter which he received from
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion which notified the Pullman
Company to satisfy or answer the
Sleeping Car Porters, in which IL is
maintained that the Pullman Com
pany is violating the Interstate CON-
merce Act by compelling the porters
to solicit part of their wages in
the form of tips.
A company which has made twen-
ty million dollars in net profit in
1926, can certainly pay the porters
who are the basis of this profit a
living wage and not require them TO
rely upon tips that are not only un-
certain but which according to the
men in the service now, have dwin-
died down to almost nothing.
The union expects to originate an
insurance department within 60 days.
Roy Lancaster, seeretary-treasure
of the Brotherhood, announces that
during the last sixty days the or
ganization had added TO it's men,
bership roll approximately 410 new
members, a large number of whom
are new in the service and come
from the South. "The Brotherhood
today represents close TO so per cent
of the porters and maids in the en-
ploy of the Pullman Company, says
secretary Lancaster.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-07
10 BAKER HAS
LOST OUT in
PARIS THEATRES

PARIS, France, Oct. 1.-The JOS
ephine Baker craze has about ended.
As the best indication of this, her
contract with the Follies Bergere
which expired Sept. 18th, has not
been renewed.
Toward the end she only had one
bit in this in which she initiated
Baltimore's Johnny Hudkins, as a
black face comedian.
Her contract also to manage her
Montmartre cabaret which expires
October first has not been renewed.
Effort was made to have Johnny
Hudgins take II over.
The frisco with the so called Ital-
ian count and her marriage to him
Is said to have caused Josephine
Baker to lose caste.
As brownskinned girl. pretty,
well Informed, simple, she sat on top
OF Paris. As the owner of two Rolls
Royce. autos, the wife of an Italian
white man and face powdered so
that she appeared white. Paris turn
ed a cold shoulder and looked else
where for entertainment.
Jo-vRaker's sensational rise and
Ia On Paris has attrpcted many
Amefican brown Skinned girls to
emulate her example. Dozens have
failed. Some dance half naked in
suburban wine houses, preferring the
squalor there plus the hope of get
ting their chance in the big cabaret,
to returning home and admitting
failure.
Josephine is 81. In 1925, before
coming abroad, she was end girl in
Sissle and Blake's Shuttle Along
Some weeks in Paris she earned as
much as $4,000. How much of this
she put in her first national bank
and how much in Rolls Royces and
fun, time will tell.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-07

cApidlneu 10 the conference that the
would-be pastor was a wife-beater
and that he could not ordain him.
Ordination services went on and
the candidate slipping past others
In the line mounted the pulpit and
attempted to attack the bishop with
pen knife. He was speedily dis
armed and sent to a detention hos
pital.
He struggled to be free of those
who led him out declaring he would
kill the bishop IL it were his last
act"
Appointments
The real issues which all Michi-
gan and the church connection has
been concerned with, however, came
with the announcement of appoint
ments. Bishop Vernon as he be-
nignly read them dismissed from
various churches the men who have
made his stay in this conference a
difficult one.
When Bishop Vernon succeeded
Bishop Connors four years ago, he
found that during the late prelate's
illness the government of the dis
trict had been practically vested in
several ministers, the leader of
whom was the able Rev. Joseph Co
mez, of st. Paul.
Great As Bishop
The latter's influence was almost
as great as If he had been Bishop.
The first year IT continued, the next
the reins we're drawn a little tighter
and this year Bishop Vernon's
friends claim all he has done, has
been to assert his right as leader of
the district.
The following men, all of whom
have served their charges longer
than the rule allows, were trans
ferred: Rev. Gomez from st. Paul,
where he had been seven years;
Rev. Powell from Detroit, and Rev.
Mcdonald from Lansing. Rev. Mr..
Gomez's friends are said to have
threatened to withdraw from the
conference and start a new COM
munity church. Mrs. c. S. Smith,
wife of the late Bishop Smith, is
reported to have desired to with
hold the missionary money until
she learned whether Rev. Gomez
was to be returned.
Bishop Vernon smiled and ruled.
The money was forthcoming, the
transfers were made. 1t is reported
that Rev. C. NJ. Tanner, deposed
head of Bethel Church, Chicago, will
be offered st. Paul, Rev. M. Gomez
was assigned to Ebenezer in Detroit.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-07
BY ]. A. ROGERS

Special Enterprise Correspondent
PARIS, France.-Perhaps the
most pleasant feature of my trip
so far is the large number of let
ters have received from readers
of the articles. SO far these have
1888, some of which ask questions,
and some complimentary.
The greater part of the letters
are from persons who wish to come
TO settle in Europe, chiefly France,
and want to know what are the
chances of getting work or Of es-
tablishing themselves in business.
To the first half of this my opin-
ion is that IL would be the height
Of folly for the average working
American to come to any part OF
Europe to look for work. To do so
would be almost like carrying salt
water to the sea.
Unemployment
There is not a single European
country know of that has not an
unemployment problem of some
kind, notably England. Why, the
height of ambition of no small num-
Der of Europeans is to get to Ame.
rica. In some countries there is a
waiting list of two years at the
American consulate.
Besides the rate of wages in ev-
cry European country is lower than
in America, while taxes and other
expenses are disproportionately high.
er.
have been so far in nine Euro.
-pean countries, and. I have seen not
one in which the worker can live as
comfortably and save as much pro.
portionately. as in America. Every
country is paying some way for the
war.
Americato Europe
For long time to come the move.
ment from America To- Europe will
be what 1t Is now, that is, the quest
for pleasure. relaxation and culture
And II the American has money he
will find all three In abundance. fol
u the truth must be told not onl,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-07
GIANTS WIN
TWO GAMES OF
WORLD SERIES


CHICAGO. Oct. CAMP The
American Giants started on their
way to a second Worlds Champion
ship here Saturday. when they
trounced the Bacharach Giants 6-2
In the opening game of the proposed
nine-game series here at Schorling
Park, Saturday afternoon.
Willie Foster was on the mound
for the locals and pitched the same
brand of ball which has earned for
him the reputation of being one of
the best hurlers in the National
League. The visitors touched his
left-handed slants for eight we'll
scattered hits. He was opposed by
Farrell who gave up 13 hits.
SCORE:
Atlantic City.......0 1 0 o 0 o 0 0 1-2
American Giants 13 0x-6
Second Game n Suggest
The American Giants went on a
rampage Sunday afternoon before
one of the largest crowds ever seen
at Schorling Park and defeated the
Bees Ill.
Hubbard started the game for
the visitors but after being nicked
for IL hits and 8 runs in five in
nings gave up the mound duty TO
Lockhart, the Bees unsung hero.
Lockhart was touched for three hits
and two runs. Powell doing mound
duty for the local gave up four
scant hits. Every man on the Giants
got at least one hit with Davis get
ting three.
SCORE:
Atlantic City.-..-....O00 001 000-- 1
American Giants...31O O50 2Ox-I1
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-07
Black Velvet Is Another
Tainted Race Melodrama


PHILADELPHIA. - "Black Vel
vet" playing at the Broad Theatre,
is another attempt to paint a picture
of what happens when white men
and women invite colored men and
women across the color line in love
affairs, but it is a blatant and pref
udiced attempt.
The author Is southern white
man handed down through a long
line ofssouthern family history and
of course knows some of the things
he is telling. He evidently knows
more but does not tell 1t.
The play follows the usual line, its
only novelty being that it presents
typical love affair between a beau
tiful colored girl and scion of an
aristocratic white family of the old
South. But this done it. proceeds to
slough off into the usual white mans
unnatural argument that his blood
becomes inferior and dangerous when
merged with colored folk. II makes
Of her wanton thing of lust and
gives her paramour, also, of mixed
blood, who degenerates into a dope
fiend.
Plantation ID
The story begins on q southern
plantation, and according to It, every
thing goes ais it should until white
blood begins to flow into colored
veins and the group is invaded by a
northern employer who gives them
hopes of higher wages and better liv-
ing conditions. Then the "Simon
Legrees" on the plantation proceed
to put them in their place." You
have visions of the Williams murder
farm. Blood hounds howl and much
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-07
.Flys in Cast-Off Plane

ROANOKE, va.-Using partial
ly wrecked plane which he had re-
built, Jesse Boland, made sue
cessful flight for distance Of SO
miles here last week. Boland is the
states only Race aviator. It was ex-
pected that he would fail in his at
tempt to fly the repaired plane, but
his success was hailed as real
triumph. The flight was made at a
fair here.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-07
Famous Woman Seer
Dies in Texas

VICTORIA, Tex, Oct. 3.-(Spe-
cial)--Mrs. Anna p. Blackley, 81
years old, credited with supernatur-
al powers by many people and wide
ly known as a fortune teller, died
at her home here Sunday after a
long illness.
During the as years that mad
am .Blackleyi lived in Victoria
thousands of people came here from
far and near TO seek her advice as
to love affairs and business transac-
tions. She could have accumulated
a large fortune but for her many
acts of charity,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-07
Bomb Kansas City Homes

KANSAS CITY. Mo.AThe explo-
sion of two bombs, believed to have
been planted by whites in a setre-
cation fight. tore away the back
porch of the home of Mrs. Garfield
Williams, 2010 Montgail Avenue,
Monday night
The Kansas City Branch OF the
N. A. A. G. p. has offered reward
Of 5000 for the arrest of the bomb
ers.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-07
Judge Calls Cops Beasts

NEW YoRK.--Saying that they
acted like "infuriated beasts and
raving maniacs' Magistrate Silber-
mann, white. of Washington Height
Court here severely ctndemned the
action Of the two officers in brutally
beating two coIored prisoners in
their cells and advised them to lodge
complaints against them, Monday.
The prisoners. Peter Watkins and
Joseph Reynolds, were chased and
beaten by the officers when they
ran from them on the street.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-07

which IOllOWeu tne ueNactatinB cy-
clone that killed 1873 persons In st.
Louis in 1895, was left in its wake.
Along Cook Avenue, Finney Ave-
nue., West Belle Place and Enright
Avenue. nearly every home sustain
ed damages and many were CON-
pletely destroyed. - Some of the
leading Race business and profess
sional men live on these streets and
some of the oldest and best known
colored families of st. Louis.
Many colored persons were buy
ing property on the street hit heayi-
est by the storm. Only in recent
years have colored persons lived in
this district. which only little over
ten years ago was an aristocratic
white neighborhood.
Scores of palatial mansions, many
having values OF over $4,000, were
wrecked by the storm. II is esti-
mated that loss In property occupi-
ed by oclored citizens will run well
over $5.OO0,0o0.
Tho Fairfax Baptist Church.
Berea, Seven Day Adventist Church
West End Hotel. Gates Undertaking
parlors. Douglass Theatre and Aber-
nathy building, as well as numerous
smaller well known colored business
places suffered tremendous losses In
the storm.
How many we're killed may. not be
known, for In some cases houses
have been blown Overland only huge
masses of debris remain, and no
one knows whether anyone is buried
In the wreckage or not. Several
persons said they we're not sure
whether persons living In some OF
the houses, thus wrecked. we're In
them when tlisf storm came.
T, At one place young man was
crying and telling how he had been
chatting with his father in the par
lor of his home when the tornado
struck, and how he dashed from the
room when he heard the building
crumpling. but his father was
caught. Rescuers located the mans
body after digging for over two
hours.
shows Heroism
One colored rescuer, Frank Beach
of 4131 Lexington avenue, proved a
real hero. He dug five persons, two
of whom were dead. out of the
wreckage OF a double flat at the
northeast corner of Sarah street and
Cook Avenue. His prompt work re-
suited in the saving of the lives OK
three of the persons who were
brought out with breath In their
bodies. The huge Berea Seven Day
Adventist Church that stood next to
these homes was completely destroy
ed.
A partial list of the colored per-
sons killed follows:
Mrs. Sarah Greenfield. 3s32 Fair
fax Ave; Mrs. Josephine Sanders,
394S Finney Ave-; Prince Brock
mon. 4O3t Cook Ave.; Fred Mason,
4033 Cook Ave-; Duchess Brooks;
Joseph Simon; Mrs. r. J. Williams.
4038 West Belle Pl.; Dan Turner,
4031A Fairfax; Manuel Bugg. 1925
Belle Ave-: Earl Thompson, $3.50
CONTINUED on Page Three.)
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-07
Shot at Hubby; Killed Babe

WILSON, N. C.-Firing a shot
gun at her husband when he at
tempted to make her return home
following domestic disagreement.
Mrs. May Hodcutt hit and fatally
wounded their one year old baby
which the husband was holding in
his arms, Tuesday.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-07
African School Boys Collect
Bibles for Pastime

WASHINGTON, D. C.-If you re-
ceive letter from mission schools
in the Gold Coast from; a native
student pleading for a Bible pay no
attention to it, veteran missionaries
have broadcasted as a warning in
this country. School boys there
have started craze Of collecting
Bibles as boys here collect stamps,
the warning explains.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-07

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.---For the
first time in this neighborhood. six
white men acted as pallbearers at
the funeral of Mrs. Malinda Bates.
SO years old. who was buried here
last Sunday.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-07

Tornado Sweeps St. Louis Colored
Residential District. 50Known Dead

ST LOUIS Mo- Oct a. Especially arisoeratc Negro resi-
dental district
which through ST. Louis Thursday destroying and
damaging property worth millions Of dollars.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-07
Maniac Wife Beater, Being Refused
Ordination, Draws Revolver In Pulpit

DETROIT, Mich Oct 3-(ANP)-A would-be tenn
porariy insane when refused ordination
the Michigan Annual A. M E. Conference
The man, who had
told bishop
Evening star., 1927-02-09
.UNDERCOVERDRY
METHODS ARE HIT
SprouI Holds Congress Is
Party to "AbominabIe"
Practices.

Congress was accused yesterday by
Representative Sproul. Republican,
Kansas. of being party, through Its
agents. to undercover practices en-
ployed by prohibition officers TO entrap
dry law violators.
Denouncing such practices as "ques-
tionable" and "abominable," he said
that I'VE have the spectacle of i'm
parchment of a Federal judge being
demanded for alleged sanctioning of
such practices. -
These methods are abominable3," he
declared They are practiced by
agents of Congress, which makes us a
party to crime. No one can justify
them even II we can excuse them"
Sproul urged passage of his bill
which would prohibit use of medicinal
whisky and tighten the dry law along
lines of the Kansas bone dry act.
The order issued by Prohibition Ad-
ministrator Mills of New York requir-
ing applicants for sacramental wine
permits TO supply the names of ulti-
mate users also was attacked yester-
day by Representative La Guardia,
Republican, New York. as conflicting
with the constitutional guarantee of
freedom of any religion.
In letter to Secretary Mellon La
Guardia accused Mills of prejudice
and persecution" and continued:
Families listed tas users of Sacra-
mental wine) must expect a visitation
first from one of the numerous col
lectors and then perhaps from one of
the self appointed. self-constituted reg
ulators of public morals, suddenly
bursting into the peaceful home. peer
ing through slit sheet seeking to in
timidate and otherwise annoy them
in their constitutional right Of wor-
ship in accordance with their belief. "
Evening star., 1927-02-09

Commission today for authority to
issue 222.276 shares OF new common
stock TO relieve a stock shortage which
has occasioned a disturbance on the
New York Exchange.
When issued the new stock will be
exchanged at the option of stockhold
ers for 118S26 shares of prior lien
stock and 103.4 .450 shares of preferred
stock in the railroad. The result will
be to increase the amount of common
stock and enable those who have sold
common stock short" to make the
required delivery.
In filing the application the com
pany's officers questioned the necessity
for obtaining authority from the com
mission before making the issue, but
the application said the request for
commission approval would be asked
Notwithstanding. No mention was
made of the stock market situation
new issue.
Control Of the Wheeling and Lake
Erie has been obtained by joint action
of the New York Central and the Van
Sweringen interests and the outright
purchase of it's majority stock has
removed from the market the usual
supply of shares The corporations s
charter provides that holders of prior
liens and preferred stock NAV ex-
change these into common stock at
Will, but the company has not sufFi.
cient common stock In It's treasury 10
enable the conversion to be carried
out.
Evening star., 1927-02-09
Radio Setting-Up Exercises Reunite
Long-Separated Cousins in New Jersey

on this side of the waves from
Brita mia.
Robert bearing in mind that he
now was In the land of the brave,
ousted himself wrOm the quilts in
the wintry dawn and dared his loud
speaker to tell him TO touch his toes
and just see IL he would.
The loud speaker complied, in the
voice Of John, and Robert sighed and
went dOcilely about the business OF
touching his toes. And then, above
the cracking OF his knees he heard
the radio voice compliment the or
chesta leader and that gentleman
reply Thank you. Mr.. Gambling"
The toe-reaching broker saw no
reason to implicate him in the matter
and only after the announcer and
orchestra leader had EXCHANGED sew.
eral remarks did he realize that there
must be second Gambling In
America.
A letter followed and a meeting
followed that and then came remi-
nisences OF the old days in merry
England and finally formation Of the
Gambling Club to which any and all
other Gambiings there may be here
or there about the country are auto
matically eligible.
Evening star., 1927-02-09
CHARITIES BENEFIT
UNDER WILL ON FILE
Catholic Institutions to Receive
Bulk of Estate Left by
Pauline A. Burr.

The will of Pauline A. Burr, who
died January 80. was offered today
for probate. Catholic charities are to
receive the bulk of the estate. valued
in excess of $4,000. Patrick j..
Walshe is named as executor and
trustee and he is represented by At
torneys Hamilton & Hamilton.
The largest bequest is for $4,000
with which to establish Convent of
the Cenacie in Washington by the
New York Order of Sisters. This con-
vent, If established, is to be the
residuary legatee of the estate after
all specific bequests are paid.
st. Charles College. at Catonsville.
Md, and ST. Mary's Seminary. at Bal
timore, are each to have $4,000 for
the preparation of young men for the
Georgetown University Hospital is
given 5000 and a like sum is pro-
vided for ST. Matthew'S Church for
statue of the Blessed Virgin, and to
the Provincial of the Jesuit Order in
Maryla nd The Catholic Mission So.
ciety at Maryknoll. n. Y, is left IS 900
and like sum is given to the col
ored and Indian missions. The pastor
of st. Aloysius Church is to have
81 900 for his parochial school and like
amounts are given the Convent of
Perpetual Alteration and the Christ
Child Society. The Old Ladies' Catho-
lie Home is bequea thed 81 900 and he
quests of $500 each are made 10 the
House of the Good Shepherd, St
Joseph's Asylum, st. Vincent's Asy-
lum, st. AIMS Asylum and the Lit
tie Sisters of the Poor
The income from $4,000 is to be
paid Margaret NJ. Cox for life. Be
quests Of $1,000 each are given Mar.
garet. Mary v. and Mildred c. Mer-
rick: 5000 to Ella l.. Dorsey, and 500
each to Laura Mohun, Caroline Pyne
and Margaret Cox.
The testatrix owned premises 2007
D street assessed at $72,045 and had
personal property estimated at $18,.
1924.
Evening star., 1927-02-09

RV the ASeOClAtcd Press.
NEWARK. N. j., February =
once upon a time there were two
second cousins who had not seen each
other for q years and because they
were very brave and were not even
afraid to get UP at 6:45 o'clock in the
morning to take part in radio setting
M exercises, the one as director and
the other as directed, they We're re
united.
And they formed club which they
called the Gambling club, but the
police didn't take any notice of that
at all considering 1t none of their
business which In very truth 1t
wasn't
Anyway, John Bradley Gambling
formerly of Cambridge, England
sometime radio operator in the British
navy and now announcer for the
"Wellville Gym Glass" broadcast by
WOR, is one of the cousins and he
thought he was the only Glambling
In America.
And Robert Hale Gamblings New
York broker who lives at Nutley, n.
j., Is the other cousin and he too.
believed himself the only Gambling