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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-10
Expect 100000 Visitors
AT Elks' Convention

NEW YORK, June 9.-More than
100000 delegates and visitors are ex-
pected when the big Elks' conven-
tion meets in New York this sum-
mer, according to James H. Jones of
the executive committee which is
rounding out plans for this big as
sembly. Ample accommodations for
this number will be in readiness and
it is expected that most of those who
come will pass two weeks in the city.
Headquarters for the convention
will be located at the Imperial Audi.
torium, 129th Street and Seventh
Avenue. In addition, another sub
headquarters will be located at Mt.
Olivet Church, 120th Street and Len
nox Avenue.
Expect Lively Tilt
Elkdom here is expecting a lively
tilt, especially as to the election OF
the grand exalted ruler. With the
convention meeting in New York
Finley Wilson, according to some
leading Elks, will have more formid.
able opposition.
Virginia and western and north.
western delegations, it is said, are
expected to vote in a body and the
Elks of New York City seem to be
divided. Elks here are likening the
New York convention to a volcano
at which there may be an eruption
at any time.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-10
Petition For Garpeys Release
Has Smoked SO Years
May Smoke Hereafter

KINGSTON, N. C. (ANP)-
John Henry Sutton Thursday
declared that he had smoked
constantly for SO years of the
96 years that he had lived and
that he intended to continue un-
ill death stopped him.
Sutton, according to his state-
ment, was introduced to tobacco
by his father when he was three
years old. The older Sutton gave
him a pipe and told him to "go
to il" and he has been going to
IL" ever since. While he has
been a habitual pipe smoker
from that day, il was not until
he was 80 years old that he
learned to roll his own" and to
smoke cigarettes. The old-timer
finds a cigarette a good short
smoke, but for real enjoy
ment" give him a pipe.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-10

his post in the Association, is one
of the national leaders in the present
move to petition President Calvin
Coolidge TO pardon Garvey and
thereby effect his release from the
federal penitentiary at Atlanta Ga.
Pointing out that all leaders who
have great visions have been mis-
understood by the generation they
seek to serve, Mr.. Wallace cites par
ticular incidents and sayings in the
life of Garvey to prove his conten-
tion that whatever mistakes were
made by .Garvey were thoroughly
honest ones.
Tells OF Garvey's Work
Continuing, Mr.. Wallace declares: I:
Among those who had grown
weary of witnessing and experience
ing oppression. exploitation. discrim-
ination, and every other diabolical
persecution that could be thought of
and perpetrated upon his race, was
Marcus Garvey, he becoming obses-
sed with the idea that something
must be done to change this condi-
tion launched forth, and ! could not
better explain the impetus to his ac-
tion than In the words spoken by
himself, namely: 81 started to take
an interest in the politics of my
country and then / saw the injustice
done to my race because il was
black, and | became dissatisfied on
that account. / went travelling to
Central and South America and
parts of the West Indies to find out
IL il was so elsewhere and | found
the same situation. set sail for
Europe to find II 1t was different
there, and again / found the STUN
bling block, "You are black" | read
up from Slavery" by Booker I.
Washington and then my doom, II l
may call 1t such, of being a race
leader dawned upon me. asked
where is the black mans govern
ment, etc.? could not find them
and then l declared I will help to
make them. / determined that
the Black man would not continue
to be kicked about by all the other
races and nations of the world as l
saw 1t in the West Indies, South,
Central America and Europe and as
l read of 1t In America. My
brain was afire. / had to start ere
Il became too late = with the
program of uniting all the Negro
peoples of the world into one body
to establish a government and a
country of their own"
These words and thoughts are
the background for all of Marcus
Garvey's succeeding actions. Every
one may not have agreed with all
he has done in the effort to accom-
plish his purpose but granting that
in his enthusiasm for the realizing
of this program of such great mag.
nitude there were some mistakes
made. so have thousands been made
in building this greatest of govern.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-10
OUR DEATH RATE
SHOWS INCREASE
IN CITIES OF U.S..

WASHINGTON, ID. c.. June o.
Recent government mortality statis-
ties for the week ended May 18th
are extremely interesting They
show that in Birmingham, Ala, So
per cent OF all deaths in that city
during the week are among colored
people, although only 80 per cent OF
the population is so classified. Mem
phis followed with Gl per cent of
the deaths charged against 3S per
cent colored population.
Atlanta ranked in third place with
az per cent of the deaths among the
colored group, which constitutes on
ly 81 per cent of the total popula-
tlon. In the city Of New Orleans
where c0lored people form only 26
per cent OF the population, 46 per
cent of the deaths were returned as
colored. Nashville occupied fifth
place among the high colored death
centers, with 43 per cent of the
deaths contributed by a 30 per cent
population.
Houston, Tex, and Washington,
ID. C., both with a 25 per cent col
ored population, reported Al per
cent of the deaths, while in Indiana
polls, where the colored population
forms but IL per cent of the popu-
lation, only l3 per cent of the deaths
were. among our racial group.
II would appear that the National
Medical Association could render a
great racial service by following the
head OF the Elks in making a ma.
tional survey for the purpose OF
remedying THIS very alarming and
unsatisfactory condition.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-10
---------------
Talks to White Statesmen

LOS ANGELES.-Charles Upton,
writer of Railroad Chatter in Cali
fornia Eagle, addressed an audience
of $50 white statesmen for the Hoover
Suction Sweeper Company on busi-
ness among colored people at their
weekly meeting at the Hoover office.
Upton is the only colored man con
nected with the Hoover Company and
is rated as a maximum" on their
payroll.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-10
Enterprise News Bureaul


LONDON, June.-An amazing
love romance born in the, African
Jungle may soon have the conven-
tional happy ending in England.
Eighteen months ago Herr Gustav
Reiss. a German explorer, on a
shooting expedition in East Africa,
came upon a beautiful Negro half
caste girl living with a family of ba-
boons. He rescued her and brought
her back to civilization.
Love has now come to crown the
strange romance, and Herr Reiss is
shortly bringing his strangely won
bride-to-be to England with the OBJ
ject OF having her educated at a
fashionable girls college. Herr Reiss
told the Berlin correspondent of the
Sunday Chronicle:
"When her training is finirhed,
we are going to be married"
The story of the girls strange life
among the balloons and her thrilling
rescue is as amazing as a "Tarzan'
novel. An untamed savage, as wild
as the baboons with which she kept
company, she fled like hare at the
approach of the white man and his
party.
Speedy Pursuit Through JungIes
For days Herr Reiss followed hei
Through the jungle. Sometimes e
BATTLE pursuit she took to the trees
with the agility of a monkey, swing
ing herself from branch to branci
with amazing swiftness and certain
ty.
At last in an exhausted condition
she was run to earth, but Herr Reis
and his party found themselve
checked by a group OF angry baboon
. who snarling resisted their advance
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-10
BLIND BOONE
FAMED PIANIST
QUITS STAGE

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June S.-Blind
Boone, famous race pianist, who has
made numerous appearances in
has retired from the concert stage
and will be heard no more by his
admirers. The well-known musi-
clan made his farewell appearance
at Virden, H., Tuesday night, mark
ing the end of his forty-seven years
of public playing.
Boone, who is past three score
years in age, has been suffering a
decline in health of late. He de-
cided that the strain of his musical
career was becoming too much for
him, and upon the advice of physi-
clans will play no more for public
audiences
Boone has had an interesting ca
reer. From the time of his first pub
lie appearance after leaving the
school for the blind here, he was
able to reproduce music from a
single hearing. The marvellous ac-
complishment of the artist gained
him widespread fame. Twice he
journeyed to Europe and five times
into every direction of the United
States on tours.
The famous artist will retire to
his home in Columbia, NO., which
also was the home of the late John
Lang, who was his manager for 36
years. Lang's death is believed to
have had telling effect on Boone
Warrensburg, Mo. was the scene
of Blind Boone's first musical tri
umph. There he organized his first
orchestra, with first and second
mouth organ and first and second
tin whistle, a triangle and tambou
rine.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-10
OILQUEEN Wins
100000 VERDICT
in Law SUIT

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June s.
Mrs. Sarah Rector-Campbell, veal
thy Kansas City oil woman, Tuesday
won a law case involving approx
mately 100000 in disputed oil
royalties under a decision OF the
United States Circuit Court of APP
peals The dispute had been under
way for fourteen years.
Mrs. Campbell, in 1906, was
awarded 160 acres of land in Creek
county, Oklahoma, which IL later
developed, was in the heart of the
Cushing. Oklahoma. oil field. Forty.
eight wells were drilled under a
one-eighth royalty contract with two
drilling companies.
Then Mrs. CampbePs guardian
entered into a contract with the oil
companies to drill in the bed of the
Cimarron river, which flows through
her tract of land She was to re-
ceive forty-eight and one-half per
cent royalty on the oil under this
contract.
But the federal government and
the state of Oklahoma both chal-
lenged the right of Mrs. Campbell
to royalties on oil taken from the
bed of the stream, declaring the
allotment to her Of the 160 acres
did not include the stream.
The total value of the 100 acres
in the tract amounted to $4,000.
900. The total involved in the pres.
ent suit on the oil taken from the
river bed is not known, but on the
basis of the value Of the remainder
of the tract, Anthony p. Nugent
Kansas City attorney for Mrs. Camp,
bell, estimated her share would
reach 100000.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-10
Girl Wins Elks' Contest

GARY, Ind.-Blossom May Lane,
high school girl, was chosen by three
judges last night as the winner of a
district oratorical elimination contest
here, making her eligible to compete
at Washington in the national finals
for scholarships offered by the l. B.
p. o. +. of w.
Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota and Illi-
nois were represented by four boys
and two girls, victors in local meets.
Each address was on the subject
"The Constitution of the United
States"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-10
COLOR ISSUE TO
FORE In WHITE
DIVORCE SUIT


CHICAGO, June S.-"Races prob
ably will mingle freely in few
years without arousing comment" I"
said Judge Lewis of the Superior
Court Tuesday. when he summarily
removed the color line from a di-
vorce case.
1T may shock our sensibilities to
see white women associating with
Negro men" he continued. "A few
years ago we were shocked when
women smoked in public"
The case in hand involved the
payment of back alimony-$2, 400
at the rate of $500 a month and
the custody of Jaequeline Roper
Knowlton. 8 years of age, who was
left in the care of her mother, Mrs.
Zlume Knowlton. when she was
divorced by her husband, a wealthy
engineer, October 10. 1926.
The husband, who married Mrs.
Ethel Gallagher, a Boston diyorcee
with two children, the day after he
was granted divorce decree, charg-
ed that his first wife accompanied
Prince Koio Tovalon-Houena, an Az
rican Prince of Dahomey, on a tour
of Europe. She insisted her interest
in the Prince was purely academic.
'If this Prince" said Judge Lewis
'as has been shown, had the respect
of his fellow-men and is vouched for
by such persons as Jane Addams
and professors of the University OF
Chicago, it will be necessary for
the plaintiff to show he was objec.
tionable for other reasons than be-
cause OF his black complexion. Rae.
ial barriers are raised by social Ell.
quette and not by law"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-10
Miners Get Gold Medals

BRESSEMER, "a Ala. = Seventy
three colored employees were among
116 miners who were honored by the
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
Company Saturday for longtime en-
ployment at Muscoda.
Colored employees were presented
with medals at a barbecue Friday
night in the ball park at Muscoda.
There were 73 colored employees
who had been with the company from
25 to 40 years, it is stated.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-10
Plan $125,OOO Theatre

TAMPA, Fla.--A $125,0O0 motion
picture theater with stores and a
laundry is to be erected by the Book.
err T., Washington Amusement Cor
poration here.
The company is offering $4,000
worth of common and preferred stock
for sale. Operating expenses are ex-
pected to be about S56,000 annually
DIR. L. A. Howell is president Of
the corporation.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-10

The former was held on charge
of being accessory and the latter on
charge of being perpetrator of an
attack upon a l7-year-old white girl
which crime was charged to colored
Americans. 1.-THE mob violence. ar
rests, damaging publicity and other
abuses heaped upon colored Coffey-
Williams. as we'll as the detrimental
effects on all colored Americans that
grew out of the accusation placed
on Negroes. will certainly all be re-
vealed to have been gross injustice"
said the representative of the color
ed citizens following the arrests.
Married Man Arrested
The white girl being held Is Julia
Mooney. 19-year-old room-mate OF
Margaret Akers, tho girl who was
attacked, on the night of the crime;
the white man Ira Kennedy. 80
year-old Wichita, Kansas, automo-
bile salesman-a married man with
four children. The girl alleged
Tuesday night the police used third
degree methods in an attempt to get
which she accused three Negroes"
of assaulting her and her companion
in their bedroom on the morning of
March II. Kennedy protests he was
not in Coffeyville the night specified
in the charge against him. Both
have employed attorneys to defend
them. They were still in jail We'd
nesday in default OF $4,000 bonds.
Suits Filed
The original charge of the girls
against three strange Negroes" led
to race-rioting March IS, In which
three colored persons were seriously
injured and much property damage
done in the colored section of the
city. Suits for $4,000 damages
have already been filed by three col
ored persons who were injured by
members of the. mob, Herchel Ford
and Napoleon Anderson, asking
$4,000 each, and Gus Hughes ask
ing $4,000.
Story Leads 10 Riot
The first report spread in Coffey-
Vile. was that the two girls. who
are both students at the Coffeyville
high school, sleeping alone in a
house here were attacked by three
Negroes, who gained admission
through window. Next day the
city and surrounding country were
alive with angry whites. mad for re-
venge on the attackers of their wo-
men. Negroes were pursued to their
homes, and attempts made to storm
the Jail where three suspects were
being held. Hardware stores were
broken into and arms secured by the
whites who attacked the colored dis
trict of the city after their efforts
to storm the Jail had been frustrat-
ed. A number of lynchings were
perhaps only prevented by the brave
stand of the colored citizens in
fighting back the invaders and the
timely arrival of national guard de-
tachments. Only after the establish
ment of martial law was there any
semblance of quiet. Efforts, how
ever, were made to frighten colored
Continued on Page AZ
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Is liz But Still Works

MURPHYSBoRo, III. - Reuben
Bean, half Negro and half Choctaw
Indian celebrated his 112th birth an
niversary by working at his trade,
porter for several stores here. He
claims to have been born May 16,
1915,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-10
Convention Is Endorsed by
White Elks

NEW YORK-White Elks of Man
haitian are not opposed to the I'm
proved Benevolent Protective Order
Of Elks holding their convention in
New York City, according to a state
ment given out last week by w. p.
Phillips, the secretary of the white
order.
The white Elks will cooperate in
making the convention success, il
is said.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-10
Exclusive 1776 War
Daughter Termed Bunk

LEXINGTON, Ky.-Mrs. Liz
zie Shelton, 65, who called her
self the only colored woman in
the world eligible to member
ship in the Daughters of the Am
eriean Revolution, is dead here.
She was never r,ember of the
d. A. r., but was eligible,
through the service in the war Of
her great,grandfather, Captain
Jack" Hart, who came to the
western frontier after the revo-
luton. s..
WASHINGTON, D, c.-of6-
eisl reports show IT'S colored
men served in Washington's
army Of the Revolution and
total number of 5000 is estimat-
ed in various state militia. There
are undoubtedly hundreds of de-
scendants of Revolutionary War
soldiers alive today.
Any report that a Kentucky
woman is the only eligible ID. A.
r. is termed pure bunk" here.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-10
Endorsed by Democrats

CLEVELAND, Ohio. = Said to
have the endorsement Of the demo-
cratic county chairman and only col
ored candidate announced, NJ. Green,
aspirant for a place on the municipal
bench, will get the support of the
democratic party, according to an
nouncement from authoritative po-
litical sources.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-10
Chief Gets $1,000 Damages

PIETERMARITzBURG, South Af-
rica.-Chief Solomon, a Zulu, has
been awarded $500 damages against
a Natal newspaper, which 1t was
claimed, libeled him as disloyal and
hostile during the visit Of the Prince
Of Wales in 1925. He asked $4,000.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-10
To Help Fresh Air Fund

NEW YORK.-James A. Farley,
chairman Of the boxing commission
of New York, is planning to arrange
a benefit for the Harlem Chidren's
Fresh Air fund, according to officials
Of that organization.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-10

Attack Story Proves To Be False
When Probed By City Officials

differentiation Of eolored citizens Of
Coffeyve Kansas they said statement through their rep
a members of
crime for which they reasonably they are not responsible
n white here Monday.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-10
Freedom OF UN.I.A. Chief Sought
In Petition To President Coolidge

Observation-Disclosures only offense
in his welfare
Universal Negro Improvement Association Wallace we'll
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-07
ROAD
PAVING BECINS
Machine Hauled To
Section On New
i of s. p.

The first concrete on the Barreda-
Point Isabel road was poured Friday,
the paving machine Of Dodds &
Wedegartner starting the work at q
point midway between Barreda and
the Paroles Line road. The machine
will work eastward to the Paroles
Line and thence south toward
Brownsville. Another machine will
construct the western section Of the
highway.
The first freight brought over the
Southern Pacific Lines TO the point
where the town Of Los Fresnos will
be located, was the huge paving ma
chine Of the contractors. A large
amount of gravel, sand and cement
has also been shipped over the South
ern Pacific and unloaded at the town
site. Materials for the eastern part
Of the Barreda-Paredes Line road
will be delivered over the Missouri
Pacific at Barreda. All materials for
the Paroles Line road from Los
Fresnos to Brownsville will be
brought over the extension Of the
Southern Pacific which the highway
will parallel.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-07

.for he has been trained in the house
Of Morgan-where J. Piermont, in the
only interview ever given, said that
he had one iron-bound rule-'to keep
out of newspapers"
At all times, his ideas are more
important to him than his wealth,
or anything else. In thissinstance an
idea seems bigger to him than an
office with the most powerful finan-
ciaI group in the world. For he is
chucking up a partnership in the
Morgan firm-just to carry out q
view about public service.
President Coolidge wants TO get
things Strengthened U in Mexico.
He has therefore called his chief
straightener out. And Morrow is
going.
Not a "Lame Duck"
Some may criticize the appoint
ment Of a high financier to a diplo-
matte position. Some may worry
about the further mixing Of Wall
Street into politics. But none can
criticize tn eappointee personally.
1t has been said of Morrow that he
is no party-hack, no old-time diplo-
mat, no lame duck, no sword RATHER,
no career man. He is a man Of
demonstrated ability.
The friendship Of Morrow and
Coolidge began back in college days.
Both were of the class of '95. Both
were comparatively poor.
They knew each other, naturally,
but did not become bosom friends
until after graduation. A story that
fast is becoming legend teH how
Morrow got 80 votes Of the 100 class
votes for the student most likely to
succeed. The hundredth vote, cast
by Morrow, went for Coolidge.
Morrow came to New York, studied
law, and got a job with a prominent
firm. Six years later he became a
partner. But he was little known
outside his office, for he had an in
nate dislike for publicity. But his
quiet abilities caught the attention
of Morgan.
In 1914 he became associated with
the financial house in a legal ca
pacity. His astute work in an Inn
portant case won him a partnership.
Interested In Aviation.
During the war Morrow acted as
an advisor to the allied maritime
transport council, and won a distin-
guished service medal for his work.
Recently he became absorbed in
aviation and was chairman Of the
presidents aircraft board in 1925.
The friendship begun in college in
creased between Coolidge and Nor
row, and the latter became one Of
the presidents chief unofficial ad-
visors.
Several universities have tried 10
get Morrow as president. 1t is said
that Yale wanted him and Amherst,
too. But he had other ideas-and
stuck to them-which is the way Of
this West Virginia man, who ut 81
passes up a million dollar partner
ship in the house Of Morgan to ac-
cept a diplomatic post at a few thou
sand dollars a year.
But il strikes him as a good idea
and he is going through with It.