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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-02-13

Oil Mil Worker
Held For Shooting

ABILENE. Tex, Feb. l2.--tFp--J. "A.
Lisle. Is. was probably fatally
wounded in q shooting affray on the
main street at Rule. Fisher county,
late today. H Wy. Favers, an olI
mill worker. II being held there IN
connection with the affair.
One shot was fired it was report
I'd frOm Rulf The bullet enEnrmh
LisIe's right chest and left the body
above the left hip. The wounded
man n q cotton buyer and gin oper-
afor. He iH married and has three
children.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-02-13

TEMPLE Texas Feb. l2.--{lP-
W. ". Thompson. ga. prominent fAr-
mer VIZ Bell county, died at hiE home
IN Troy. near here. Saturday. He
was born I'm North Carolina In 1881.
coming 20 Texas ln 1853. He served
throughout the Civil War.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-02-13

The man from Missouri was talk
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
WORK STARTED
ON The sl,OOO,OOO
WALKER BLDG.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, June l.
With a mammoth steam shovel
breaking the ground work on the
S1,000,00 manufacturing plant Of
the Madam c. j. Walker Company
was started here last week.
The new plant which is the cul-
mination of the dream of the late
Madame G. ]. Walker, is being exc
cuted by her daughter and the men
and the women she grouped about
her during her life time.
1t will not only be a show build
ing, but one of the most magnifi-
cent structures owned by the race
The site on which il will be built
runs 21S feet on Indiana Avenue
and $50 feet on West Street and
was purchased in single parcels at a
cost of $6S,000.
When completed, II will be four
stories in height, with basement of
reinforced concrete. steel, hydraulic
pressed brick. terra Gotta trimmed.
enclosing a complete theatre, a
group of store rooms, factory space,
office space and an auditorium. The
complete cost of the building and
equipment will reach million dol
lars.
Not only will the project be built
of the very best material. but its
architecture will reflect the historic
development and progress of the
race. The theatre, which is to be
one of the finest in America for Ne
groes, will contain a main auditori-
um and balcony. seating capacity
1900 and be equipped with a pipe
organ costing $4,000.
The building will be completed
during the present year, according
to officials of the company.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
LEAGUE REPORTS
ON INDUSTRY FOR
MONTH OF MAY

NEW YORK. June 2.-(SpeciaD
The National Urban League sum-
marizes employment conditions as
follows:
Employment conditions showed
considerable improvement over what
they were the previous month. This
is particularly true OF the iron and
steel industry, the building trades,
shipping, out door activities road
building and even the textile indus
try.
From the flood area, in which
S04o of the sufferers are said to be
Negroes, there appeared no wide
spread migration into the north as
was predicted. A rumor that camps
Of Negro men and women, bent up
on leaving the south to take up
residence in the north. were detain-
ed by public and private authorities
against their will, could not be sub
stantiated.
The favorable conditions reported
are those which refer to the return
of workers to the Jobs they held
before the depression forced them
out of employment and from a
larger number of reports than usual
there was but one account of the
accession of a new field or new
job. This was in Chicago, where IA
colored workers, part of 659o Me-
gro force In a factory that. ussrg-
factures roofing materials. We're
placed on machines workers of this
race had never before run. In Mil
waukee about three hundred men
were placed back on jobs they were
dismissed from In the winter when
employment conditions generally
were poor. In parts of the south
and in many points I'm the north
increased building activities took up
the slack of unemployed workers.
This was true particularly in Balti-
more, Chicago, Salem, JEFF
ferson City, Tulsa and Fort Wayne.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
KELLOGG FAVORS
WHITE MINISTER
TO LIB E R la

WASHINGTON. d. c.. June L.
Secretary Kellogg, of the State De-
partment, is said to be in favor of
the appointment of a white man as
minister to Liberia.
This is the rumor that has started
furry of misapprehenslon here.
Personally, the secretary is said
to have no specific wishes in the
matter. On the other hand II is
pointed out that he has been asked
to take steps in this direction by the
Firestone interests who are expecting
to have nearly $2,00O,000 invested
In Liberian rubber plantations with
in the next two years.
Anxious to please the Firestone
interests, the State Department is
said to have aeceded to their views
and to have made a recommends
tion accordingly 20 the White House
where Il has struck a snag
President Coolidge Is not believed
to have warmed up to the idea. II
is hoped, however, that the influence
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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
Says Federal Government
!. Owes Race 900 Billion Dollars

and tyrannical power and oppression
was wrong and unlawful.
Holds Federal Government Liable
Inasmuch as the u. s. govern
ment for more than a quarter OF a
century failed to put a stop to hui
man slavery, Taylor and his associ-
ated lawyers hold that the Federal
government was negligent Of its
plain duty and is therefore liable
for the condition that existed; also
II can be held liable for proper pay
ment for the labor contributed by
the millions Of slaves In that 260
and odd years of bondage.
Attorney Taylor points out that
the logic OF his claim Is sound and
rests on concrete facts. With pains
taking labor and Investigation, he
has compiled Information as to the
probable number OF slaves and the
possible amount of labor they gave
in the period of their thraldom.
By multiplying reasonable cal
culation of the time and labor the
slaves gave, by comparatively low
scale OF wages, Attorney Taylor ar
rived at the conviction that the Fed
VI al 5pfttHAhttt OWtn tue lOIIUEI
slaves and their descendants nine
hundred billion dollars which they
are entitled to receive, and he, with
his associated lawyers, will effect
the payment, II right preyails--and
they are confident 1t will.
stupcndous Sum VIII Make Race
Rich
The stupendous amount claimed Is
ESQ 900 times the amount OF the ma
tional debt. II It was paid. on the
basis OF twenty million (20. ,000)
the number of the colored popula-
tion now, Il would make every man.
woman and child the possessor OF
rs million dollars. The American
Negroes would be the richest race
OF people In the world and their
wealth would be the reward OF labor
TO which they are justly entitled,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
Mrs. Harril Is Given
Custody Of Child

SPOKANE, Wash.-Mrs. d. Har-
ril has been given custody of the
little girl, over whom a battle was
waged in court last week.
The juvenile court here attempted
to take the 6-year-old girl, Juanita
Harril, from Mr.. and Mrs. Harril
They claimed the woman had given
revolving punishment, A jury held
the child should go to the court,
but a new trial was asked. Judge
Leavy granted 1t Saturday and Pro-
secutor Greenough gave orders for
his deputies to. dismiss the case and
leave the child with the Harrils.
When Doc Harril. former court
house janitor, was questioned he de-
MED that his wife had inflicted the
revolving punishment, but said she
had spanked the girl on ''the center
OF gravity"
The child was wait. turned over
to Mrs. Harril at Seattle. She SAYS
that she Is interested in the uplift
of girls. The juvenile court tried
to show that another girl wens
astray when she tried to uplift her.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03

Mr.. Whlte reports instances OF
Negroes escaping refugee camps and
preferring to go without food, shell
ter and clothing, rather than be re-
turned to the plantations from
which the flood had driven them.
Mr.. White released the following
statement today at the offices of the
National Association:
''In response to complaints of
peonage in the Mississippi flood
area, l went to that territory and
in my tour visited Memphis, Vicks-
burg. Jackson, New Orleans, and
other places in the flooded region.
At Memphis, | talked with DR.. Will
liam II. Redden, Chief Medical Of
ficer for the Red Cross In the Flood
Area. DR.. Redden authorized me
to quote him as follows:
"'The Red Cross emphatically
disapproves of any attempts to use
this disaster by landlords further to
enslave Negro tenant farmers and
share croppers. Aid is given direct
ly to the individual sufferer. II
would be an interesting problem to
see that attempts by landlords and
others to charge relief against ten
ants are checked when such relief
is given to refugees after they have
returned to their homes
'In many refugee camps, however.
Negroes are released only to their
landlords and are sent back to the
plantation from which they came.
This fact was confirmed to me by
General Curtis T. Green, Command
ing Officer at VicksburE of the Mis-
sissippi National Guard t-oops who
are keeping order Ia 1ne siea COW
ering registration from parts of Sun
flower. Bolivar, Yazoo, Warren and
Holmes Counties and all of Issa-
quena, Sharkey. Washington and
Humphreys Counties. General Green
told me that plantation owners come
10 the camps to pick out their Ne
groes' and that labor agents are
kept from the camps no man being
permitted to talk to any other but
his own Negroes
"At a number of camps | was told
of Negroes eluding guards and es-
Gaping, preferring to forego food,
shelter, clothing and medical atten-
tion rather than go back to the
plantations from which the flood
waters had driven them. At some
of the camps Negroes we're being
taken out by Industrial firms, be-
ing checked out ,of the camps and
checked in again when their labors
CONTINUED on Page 81
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
(Enterprlse News Bureaul


CHICAGO. June 2.--Attorney Ma
than s. Taylor, recognized as being
one of the most astute and reliable
colored lawyers in the country. is to
file claims against the Federal Gov
ernment at Washington for nine
hundred billion dollars $500, ,000,-
000,000), which sum of money rep
resents the amount in wages he
claims is due to the descendants of
the millions of slaves illegally held
In involuntary servitude for more
than 260 years.
Associated with Attorney Taylor
in the action at law are a formid-
able battery Of eminent white and
colored lawyers in America, who
for many months have co-laborated
planning the attack and preparing
the papers in the case.
The claim nearly ready to be filed
is voluminous. logical and conclu-
sive.
The action taken in this matter
was the outgrowth OF injustice done
in the 260 years of American slav-
cry, suffered by black people, for
chilly seized in their native land,
Africa, and brought to this country
in ship loads and sold into involun-
tary servitude. That was done con-
trary to law and Constitutes the
basis for the claims against the
federal government.
History Backs Contentious
Attorney Taylor in the beginning
started out with review of the his
tory of American slavery. Court de-
cisions in cases of relative COM
plexion to the one contemplated
against the U. s. government. were
looked up, studied and memorized
for future use.
The illegality OF slavery was new
er questioned by fair-minded people.
II was apparent to all that involun-
tary servitude by processes Of nigh
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
Black Shirted Fascists In Italy
Are Like Ku Klux Klan In u. S

ferlor in size only to st. Peter. It
is very ornate on the outside, with
its $500 inches and statues of 1900
saints.
And the interior! II | compared
the pillars of the Duomo at Florence
to the trunks of the giant trees in
California, to what shall liken
these at Milan? The fact that IL
seats 10000 will give some idea of
its size,
Mussolini
1t Is my purpose to devote the
rest of this article--my last on Italy
Ito the nations most absorbing
so just a word
about Genoa, the great shipping CEN
tire in which l spent a day.
Genoa, 1t will be recalled, ia the
birthplace Of Christopher Columbis,
to whom there is a monument in
front of the railroad station.
Italy gave America, not only a
discoverer but a name, the same be-
ing derived from Amerigo vespe-
cius, the Florentine navigator. An
other Florentine, Verrazano, was the
discoverer of New York Bay. Visit
ors to the Battery in New York will
recall his statue there.
Mussolini, ii Duce (The Chief
The other thing that made me
feel at home, as said. was Fascism
or should / say Mussolini. have
been through the agitation that
waged around Garvey in Harlem in
1922, and | have but to shut my
eyes and ears to color to issues.
and watch human conduct to hear
the same old tune sung to different
words.
Not that there is any storm OF
discussion here now---I got that Inn
preston by reading back-for Fas-
cism is in saddle, and Italy Ia like
one-way street. or one OF those
cne-way sidewalks in Naples. on
which, II you will attempt to walk
in the other direction, you'll be
Continued on Page %
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
Portland Hotels
Draw Color Line

PORTLAND, Ore, June Ira.
cial discrimination, as upheld by
Portland hotel owners and objected
to by International board OF the Y.
w. c. A., has halted the Portland
Y. w. c. A. boards plans for Sc
curing the 1928 national convention,
which would bring $500 delegates
to Portland in April. local board
members aver.
The obstacle, board members
state, is the direct outgrowth of the
national boards request that all del.
egates. white or colored, be enter
tanned in hotels of the convention
city with equal courtesy. After can
vassing Portland local board mem
bers reported that not one of the
leading hotels was willing to comply
with this condition. Hotel men said
II was not a matter of personal
opinion, but a hard and fast rule
endorsed by their patrons.
1--WE certainly do not want to dis
courage any convention being held
in Portland. now or at any other
time, but we must use discrimina-
tion in housing Negro delegates. p
said Frank W. Beach, secretary OF
the hotel mems association.
"Such a thing cannot be done,
as hotel men have learned from
past experiences and criticisms, some
just and some unjust. We are
willing to take care of these folk,
but we must discriminate"
Board members declare they will
find means to go ahead%w con-
vention plans.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
Veteran Educator Dies
In Dallas, Texas

DALLAS, Tex.-Hundreds of lead
ing citizens. both colored and white.
attended the funeral of Professor N.
w, Harile, "A years old veteran edu-
Gator. who died Monday after an i'll
ness of three weeks.
Prof. Harile, a native OF Charlotte,
n. c.. began working in the Dallas
school system i'm 1886. He served
as principal of the colored grade
school. the oolored high school, and
was in charge of the normal school
for eolored during his career as an
educator, He was responsible for
many advansements in Negro edu-
cation in the city.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03

OF the Garyey forces.
A gigantic meeting OF the Garvey
forces, held at Liberty Hall, Sunday,
where thousands of Garvey adher-
ents had gathered to hear what they
foresaw as welcome news from their
leader, Toote, who has Just returned
from visit to the Atlanta prison.
startled his hearers with detailed
description of the failing health OF
Garvey, concluding his address with
the words, 'if you do not bring
about some means of having Marcus
Garvey released. he will soon be
lost to the world"
Plan National Drive
In accordance with this dictum
Toote announced that national drive
to secure more than a million names
petitioning the release of Garvey.
will be launched. This petition will
be addressed To President Coolidge
asking that the Chief Magistrate of
the Nation pardon Garvey, in view
OF his failing health
Garvey has served years and 3
months of his term and is eligible
for parole under the federal laws
governing his case. It will be re-
membered that Garvey was convict
ed only upon one count in the in
dictment that issued against him
and, more recently, all OF the jur-
ors that heard his case, have signed
the petition urging his release from
prison.
Organizations Needed
Leaders of the movement TO free
Garvey declare that the most impor-
tant feature of their work will be to
get a sufficient large number OF
civic organizations to join in the
petition. If the consent of these or
ganizations is secure. II is pointed
out that there Is little doubt but
that executive clemency will be ex-
tended.
The nature OF the charges OF using
the mail to defraud, Il is explained,
while technically a violation OF the
law, should not be construed too
harshly against Garvey, inasmuch as
his enthusiasm for the project which
he was promoting, was largely re-
sponsible for the glowing promises
in his advertisements, which a jury
of twelve men decided that he was
unable to fill as completely as he
advertised.
Cite McCray Case
The recommendation OF a pardon
for former Governor McCray OF In
diana, who, It will be remembered,
was convicted on more than six
counts in an Indictment similar TO
the Garvey complaint, has given new
hope and impetus to the movement
to free Garvey. It is believed in
the face of the clemency recon-
mended for McCray. 1t would be n
Grass injustice for Garvey to be re-
fused his liberty.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
NEWS BRIEFS
Anti-Marriage Bill Fails

LANSING. Mich.-The anti inter-
marriage bill introduced by Repre-
sentative Woods of Detroit, in the
last legislative session was defeated
here at the close of the Legislature
last week
The measure sought to make mar
riage between individuals of the
white race and members of darker
races. illegal and punishable with
fines and prison penalties.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
Inaugurate Harlem Mayor

NEW YORK CITY.--An inaugural
dance for the Hon. s. r. Williams,
mayor of Harlem" is scheduled to
take place at the New Manhattan
Casino. II is sponsored by the Ma
tional Negro Development Union and
the National Negro Central Political
Party.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
Claims Largest Feet

LEXINGTON, Miss. (By AMP
Claim to ownership of the largest
human feet is made by Alonzo Ter
rell of Holmes County, whose feet
measure "a inches around the in
step, 27 inches around the ball of
the foot, 16 inches around the ankle
and IL inches in length. Terrell orig
inally came from Georgia. His first
pair of shoes, made FIVE years ago,
required two whole kidskins for the
uppers,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
$4,000 for Girls Home

TAMPA. Fla.---Mrs. Inez T. Ais
ton. of Tampa. Fla, worthy grand
matron OF Bethlehem grand chapter
o. e. s. and president OF the state
federation of women's clubs, was in
attendance at the legislature in Tai
lahassee last week and was instru-
mental in having a bill passed Civ
ing $4,000 to the delinquent girls
homo In ocala.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
Panama Patterns Mite
Clubs After Americans

COLON, p. C. = There are six ca
barets in the Panama Canal zone
specializing in native orchestras and
black and tan revues.
The floor shows are modelled after
those of American night clubs, but
the comedy and songs are hardly
appreciated because of the native ac-
cent. The houses are mainly patron
lied by American sailors and canal
zones officers. Prohibition has not
reached Panama.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03

CINCINNATI, ohio--(ANP)--Dr.
w. E. b. Dubois, distinguished edi-
tor of the Crisis, appeared here last
week in two lectures before the
largest Jewish synagogues in the
city and created a sensation by his
scholarly frankness. The Cincin-
natl Enquirer printed two editorials
on his address and charged him
with being a socialist and radical
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
Chicago Death Rate High

CHICAGo.--Lack of infant well
fare stations, clinics, hospitals,
parks and Fairgrounds in the black
belt is blamed in an article publish
ed In the University of Chicago Re-
view, fer the high death rate in
that section. Although Chicago has
the lowest death rate of any city
of a million population, the Negro
death rate is 22.5 per thousand, ac-
cording to DR.. Harris who made
the study.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
Ark Builder Deserted

Los ANGELES, Cal.-The> Rev.
James Edward Lewis, who created a
sensation here several years ago by
building an ark to carry his flock
back to Africa, has been deserted by
the progressive leadership under
Charles Rotero, who, it is said, will
start more modern movement Of
their own.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
Carries $5OO,00O Insurance

BR0CKTON, Mass.-Watt Terry,
wealthy real estate owner, said to
be worth $2,000,000, recently took
out additional life insurance for
$270, 900, making the total amount
carried $545,000. Terry came here
twenty years ago as assistant jani-
tor of the Y. NJ. G. A.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
Invalid Has Coal Business

JACKSONVILLE Fla.-Take off
your hat to Raymond G. cambridge,
who, though bedridden for Is years.
has conducted a coal business from
a telephone at his bedside and found
talent for his poetry, which has
brought him attention throughout
the country.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
Revue Stock Company
Opens Dark House

LOS ANGELES, Calf. - The Eb-
ony Angeles Revue Company is play
ing stock engagement at the Capt.
tol theatre, which has been dark fer
several months.
The company is expected to pres
ent a different revue each week.
There is cast of II principals. Chas.
Alpin, white, is owner.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
Social Equality After Death

MOBILE, Ala. (ANP)-The so
cial equality" denied Mrs. Susan Tan
ner during the 81 years of her life
was granted her in death when her
funeral was held from the home of
Federal Judge Erwin and her body
inferred in the Erwin family burying
ground. A white pastor and white
pallbearers officiated.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
Defeat Anti-Marriage Bill

LANSING, Mich.-The measure
to make Illegal marriage between
white and colored persons in the state
of Michigan and which was aimed
particularly at Negroes and japanese
was defeated last week at the close
of the legislative session.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
K. u. Student Gets Award

MANHATTAN, Kan.-Louis Ed
win Fry, graduate student at Kansas
State Agricultural College, was
awarded the Lorentz Schmidt prize
for craftsmanship and lettering and
the gold medal of the American In
stitute of Architects. Last year Mr..
Fry was elected to membership in
Phi Beta Kappa.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
Woman Special Clerk

CHICAGO. (ANP) - Miss Alice
Simpson, clerk at Armour Postal Sta
ton here, who has been a postal clerk
% years, was appointed special clerk
last Monday. Her long service and
general efficiency won the promotion
at salary of $2300 year. a
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
Disrobed in 10-Cent Store

CAMDEN, N. ]. (ANP)-Mrs.
Sarah Gibbs, 35 years old, of 1913
Claiming Terrace, walked into g.
and-10-cent store Saturday night and
began to disrobe. Ten minutes later
she was entirely nude.
Her only reason for the act, she
stated, was that she had met a
strange man who gave her something
to drink. She was fined $50.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
We Have 80 Banks

DURHAM, N. C.-+The second an
nual meeting of the National Negro
Bankers Association will be held
here September Is.
There are about eighty banks
owned and controlled by colored
stockholders, and not one has failed
during the last twelve months.