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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25

the Santa Fe Station here on the
occasion of Fourth of July cele-
bration.
The riot Friday night was the re-
suit Of the robbery of two Cofeyville
high school girls early Friday morn
ing by three Negro men. Accord
ing to the girls, one of whom was
passing the night at the home of the
other, the three Negro men entered
the house through a bathroom win
dow, invaded their bedroom, robbed
them and beat them. They were un-
able to give a description Of the
men.
Bloodhounds set on the trail at
the house in which the attack oc-
Cured led officers to barber shop
operated by Curtis Smith. He was
arrested, together with two other
colorcd men, Vanges and Gavin Har-
den, brothers. The Harden brothers
quickly convinced police of their in
nocence and were released. Smith
protested his innocence, but was
lodged in Jail until officers could
check up on his story.
Led by high school youths be-
tween the ages of 10 and Il years,
so or 60 members of mob at
tempted to storm the city Jail, bent
on Hnching Smith. The mob was
quickly repulsed by the police, who
used tear gas bombs on the crowd.
The mob then besieged the city hall,
where every window in the building
was shattered by stones. This time
the mob was dispersed by the fire
department, which turned a hose on
them.
Disappointed in the attempt to
lynch Smith a call for volunteers
TO invade the Negro section met with
ready response and when two Negro
sontrieg wore encountered not far
from the start fist fight followed.
When the Negro sentries cried for
help other Negroes quickly appeared
on the scene with shotguns and
opened fire. The mob broke and ran,
trampling women and children in
SCTAfnDllIlR W hdAtlf WIN buAitNo
whizzing through the air. -Four
whites were shot and six others Sc
riously injured by being trampled.
As word of the clash spread anger
ed whites stormed hardware stores,
breaking in the doors and depicting
the stocks of guns and ammunition.
Led by. their leaders, armed Negroes
formed battle line around the Nc
gro section.
Fearing another clash, city au-
thorities called out the national
guardsmen and martial law was pro
claimed.
Robert Liggins, Negro, merchants
patrolman, was taken into custody
by members of troop B, 117th cav.
airy, Kansas national guard, and held
in the city jail, charged with firing
the first shot in the clash and incit.
ing the Negroes to riot. When the
mob was forming to invade the Ne
gro section Liggins was seen to enter
his automobile and drive to the col.
ored district, warning the Negroes
a mob was coming and urging then
! to arm themselves.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
Burton Ceruti, Los An
geles Lawyer, Dies

Los ANGELES, March 22.--(Pa-
cific Coast News Bureau)--E. Bur-
ton Ceruti, brilliant jurist and men,
Der of the National Board of Direec-
tors of the N. A. A. C. p, dropped
dead in the office of HIS physician,
here yesterday noon of heart failure
Mr.. Ceruu was known for years in
Los Angeles for his courageous
fights against segregation for the
local N. A. A. c. p and more re-
Gently for his untiring efforts on
behalf of that organizations legal
battle against the "Jim Grow" SWIM
ming Pool menace in Los Angeles.
Atty. Ceruti was born In Nassau,
Bahama, British West Indies, Aug.
IA, 1874, and was an honor grad
uate of the Brooklyn Law School
and st. Lawrence University, New
York City. He came to Los Angeles
Is years ago. Mr.. Ceruti took post
graduate courses at Howard Univer-
sity and the University of California,
Southern Branch.
of the Blks: is present Grand Chan
celor Knights of Pythias under the
Jurisdiction of CAL; belonged to
Masons aud was the President and
organizer of the st. Phillips Mems
Club. rsf u
The funeral will be held at moor
Saturday.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
PORO COLLEGE
HEAD CONFIDENT
TO WIN SUIT

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March 24-Anna
Malone, founder and owner of Poro
College with its $75O,000 plant and
It's $4,000 agents all over the world.
is confident she will defeat her hus-
bands plan to place n permanent
white receiver over the business.
Temporary receiver. Conrad Pae-
ben, a white man OF the Southern
variety. Is now in charge of Poro.
appointed by the court which will
decide this week, as to whether the
receiver Is to be made permanent.
Placing Paeben in charge of the
million dollar business, which is
not insolvent, and never has been
mismanaged, Is one of the things
which indicates that politics may
play q part in the suit of Malone
against his wife for divorce on the
peculiar" charge of cruelty, his
claim for half of the institution
which she built up, and his suit for
a receivership so that she may not
control her business until the case
has been settled.
Lawyers skilled in the law OF
Missouri, and experienced In court
procedure for the past fifty years,
declare that there has been nothing
like this receivership suit in the
history of the state before.
Mrs. Malone still keeps her home
in Poro College. The receiver has
to consult her, because he does noi
know anything about this type o.
business She, however, avoids hin
whenever possible.
Mrs. Malone is confident of win
ming her case, which will oust the
receiver and thereby filing a coun
ter suit, secure a divorce from hel
erstwhile husband.
Mrs. Malone does not discuss th'
case except to say that she Is con
fldent God will not permit the In
stitution He let her build be tori
down.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
Seattle Violinist Came From
Tribe Of Barbarous Head Hunters

cause Of her short period Of school
ing for her souvenirs include pro-
gram of the farewell reception and
concert rendered her by the Ameri-
can Manila Chamber Of Commerce in
1923, preparatory to her departure
for the United States. The mayor
of Manila was one of the speakers.
Such was the send off given the first
Filipino woman to appear as a vio-
linist in America.
Marcheta's programs include a
number of standard and ol,eratic Sc
lections from LIT, Offenbsch, Wag-
ner and other we'll known composers.
She also offers native compositions
by herself and other Filipinos. Her
playing shows beauty and colorful ex-
preston, entirely pleasing results of
her five years cf study with JAG
obs, the Filipino maestro.
In commenting upon her regard
for colored people she said, "Ah, the
Negroes, they like wee are just folk
The whites try to be beeg with my
people ut times, but we weel nc'
stand for very much" Marcheta fur.
ther stated that only recently have
the Filipinos ceased making out
casts Of persons of their race who
married American whites.
After pleasant hour of Englisl
conversation with the charming
young woman, the reporter went ou
grumbling because he did not hav,
any use for his high school Spanish
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
RACE INVOLVED
in CHICAGO'S
MAYOR FIGHT

CHICAGO, March 24.-(A.NP.)
Not in the history Of American pol
itics has there been more bitter
fight In the mayoralty contest and in
which colored folks were more in
volved than the three-cornered fight
that is now raging between William
Hale Thompson, former Republican
mayor, Mayor William Dever, the
democratic incumbent and John Diel
Robertson, who is running as an in
dependent candidate.
Bone of Contention
From the very first, the race is
sue has cropped up as bone of con-
tention and as result of the large
colored vote given "Big Bill" Thomp-
son in the February primary. Thomp-
son carried every precinct in the
"black belt" and showed his oppon-
ent, F.. Litsinger, under an avalan-
che of votes unparalleled in Chicago
politics.
Litsinger had the backing of Ed
ward Wright, powerful political boss
while Bill Thompson was fought by
both Wright and Chandler Owen, for
mer editor of the Messenger Maya
zine. Despite this, Thompson car
ried the city by 10000 votes.
As result of this landslide, a
charge was printed in the Chicago
Herald and Examiner stating that
Thompson was backed by the Negro
underworld and gunmen of the city,
Statement Resented
This statement has been vigorous
ly resented by colored leaders and
meetings are being held over the city
nightly.
While Thompson hackers are pa.
rading thru the "blaek belt" pro
claiming him as the Negroes friend
Chandler and others are charging
that Thompson's friendship extends
only TO dives and gunmen.
Stage Raids
A further complication of this in
tense political situation has beer
provided by the police department
which staged what is called a poll
teal raid in the second and thirC
wards where the bulk of the color
ed people reside. Hundreds of col
ored people have been arrested in
these raids and the tactics used b,
the police department is beinJ
branded by Thompson and his friend
as an effort to intimidate the coloret
voters.
S'outhern Tactics
The voters of the second and thir,
wards say that tactics being uset
against so-called saloon keepers o
the "black beltv are similar to thos
used in Mississippi and Georgia.
Thompson has promised that j
elected mayor, he will severely pun
ish the police department for wha
is termed the political activities an
high-handed manner in which the
are making raids in the colored sec
tions.
Hourly the battle becomes NOR
serious and acute and many predic
bloodshed before the general elec
ton April 9Th. ~
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
NAVAL OFFICERS
HARASS VIRGIN
ISLAND BISHOP

NEW YORK. March 24.-tSpe-
ciaD Naval officers of the Virgin
Islands and officials of the Harding
regime have been charged with per-
scouting Bishop Reginald Grant
Barrow of the Christ African
Church of Long Island. n. Y, dur
ing his stay in the Islands because
his views on the labor question dis
pleased the wealthy classes.
The accusation was made by
Isaac Schorr, of Shorr, Brodsky and
King, Al Union Square, New York
City, an attorney for the American
Civil Liberties Union.
The charge came on the heels OF
Bishop Barrow's release from Ellis
Islands after Judge John g. Knox
at the Federal Court. Southern Dis
triet, annulled the deportation war
rant against him. The bishop, who
has a salary of $4,000 a year and
owns property, was charged with
liability TO become a public charge
and with entering the United States
'by false and fraudulent presenta'
tion of fact"
Attorney Schorr also declared that
the government framed up a false
certificate of landing to have Bi'
shop Barrow deported. Despite the
certificate, however, Judge Knox de
cided against the government OF
the ground that a clergyman mal
enter the country regardless of th'
quota regulations and that there
was no proof of the charges.
Bishop Barrow is British SUB
ject, born in st. Vincent, West In
dies. Going to the Virgin Islands
he agitated for citizenship, civi
government and relief for natiy'
workers. lie was ordered to leav'
the islands by Admiral Kittelle
then governor, and finally agreed
to submit.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
Americans Without Funds Are
Advised to Stay Away Fom Liberia

produce Of the farms Is carried on
the heads of the natives often hum
dreds of miles to bring it to market.
1t is said that one hundred mill
lion dollars will be spent by the Fire.
stones in development of their plant.
and who will get that money?
Well wise provision in the agree
ment limits the number of foreigntrs
the company is allowed to bring IN
and they must all be skilled work
men. That leaves the bulk Of the la
Dor to be done by the Liberians and
natives. Many liberians are being
employed already as clerks book
keepers, time keepers and the like
and many more will be taken in as
the work progresses. All this means
money put in circulation in Liberia.
Now the American Negro wants
TO know If It is time for him to
come over here. The answer is en-
phatically no, unless he has plenty
of money with which to go to farm
ing. or into business. He cannot pos
sibly exist here as a common laborer.
Native labor is too cheap and plenti-
full.
We would haye you know that the
American Embassy is no small affair.
Hon. Reed Page Clark, was transfer
red from Mexico City and made
Charge De Affaires when DR.. Hood
went home. But he has now been
returned to his former post and Mr..
Clifton r. Wharton, of Boston, secre-
tary of the legation is Charge De Af-
faires.
Besides the Minister and secretary
the legation supports two clerks, Mr..
Wall of New Jersey and Miss Lille
May Hubbard, Of Chicago. n
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
Soldier Awarded Medal
After Waiting 20 Years

NEW YORk.--Morc than
twenty years after he had saw
cd the lives of fellow members
of the 25th Infantry of Fort
Niograra, Ncb. Master Sergt.
Lewis Broadus, retired, has
been awarded the Distinguished
Service Medal. The Distinguish
cd Service Medal is In lieu OF
the Certificate of Merit hereto
fore awarded him for GOODNESS,
presence of mind and bravery
in saving the lives of others
at Fort Niograra, Neb., July 3,
1906, while serving as first SER
geant, Company NJ, the 25th In
fantry, United States Army"
Sergt. Broadus is now a resi-
dent of New York, living nj 234
West 120th street.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25

To the Editor:
So many are writing to- ascertain
all about the Firestone invasion Of
Liberia that it seems best to give a
wholesale answer.
Well the $5,00O,000 loan, and the
million acre lease have been ratified
by unanimous vote of the national
legislature and that point is settled
for ninety-nine years.
All the conditions of the loan
are not given to the public, but it is
understood that the $5,000,000 loan
absorbs a previous loan of $1,700,-
900 and that the General Receiver
ship in vogue at present, continue.
The million acre lease includes
about two thousand acres of rubber
trees already bearing. Thus the COM
pany is already gathering and ship
ping rubber, while clearing up more
land in which trees will be planted.
When you think Of clearing up
nearly a million acres Of bush land
and planting in trees and cultivating
the same for years before they pro
luce, you get an idea of the millions
of dollars this company is to spend
In this country for years to come,
without immediate returns.
Also harbor is to be put in. That
Is a thing for which the country
greatly suffers.
Another important feature of the
AGREEMENT is the construction OF
good roads. Until recently there
were almost no roads in Liberia. The
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25

could not exist forever.
The meeting Sunday which was un-
der the auspices Of the N. A. A. G. r.,
attracted unusual attention, Darrow
inst having returned from Mobile,
whore the Ku Klux Klan is said to
have opposed speeches he made there.
The church was crowded to ca
nacitv. Not even standing room was
available an hour before the meeting
began. Thousands clamored IN VAIN
to gain admission. Finally the thou-
sands on the outside were told 70 go
to the John Wesley A. nj. Il. Llon
Church, and Mr.. Darrow would ad-
dress them afterwards.
Captain William L. Davis, who
was one of the defendants in the
sweet murder trial in Detroit, Mich,
was introduced by Neval II. Thom-
as. president of the local branch OF
~ National Association for the Ad-
ysncement of Colored People. he
and Mr.. Darrow, who represented the
defendants in that case, were loudly
applauded as they greeted each 9TH
ef.
Mr.. Darrow in strong terms denies
that there is any fundamental racial
inferiority in the various branches Of
The human family, holding that envi-
lonment and not heredity is respon-
sibile for the different economic and
cultural stages. ,
"God didn't make whites and
blacks as SUCH" he said. "ln the
course cf one hundred or one thou
sand generations men spread out.
Some went South, where the heat was
too strong for the white men, and so
they died off and only the dark men
survived. Some went North where
the dark men could not stand the
cold, and SO the Nordics survived
there. But snsivze them, a2dS Al
chemists viii tell you there is no dll-
ference.
"The whitest man in America
trace him back far enough, and you
will find he retains the tail of Q
monkey and the gills of fish. The
primitive man has as much intelll'
gence as anybody. Environment Is
all he needs"
Power in Money and Education
Mr.. Darrow told his large audi
ence, who interrupted his talk with
thunderous applause, that money
is power; education is power. Youi
opportunities are growing slowly, bu'
surely. You have to ask yourselves
whether you are not glad even fol
slavery. If your colored ancestor
had not been captured and enslavet
in Africa, you would be there now
lying on the bank of some rive
playing with crocodiles while you
wives would be feeding you on ba
nanas. You had no monopoly in hav
ing been slaves. My own ancestor
were slaves; that was little farthe
back" :,
al do not know that / need tall
TO you about what you have suffered
You know it better than | do.
know you have never had an equa
show anywhere in the United State
excepting in war. know you hav
never had a fair show in the court:
I know that colored men in ever
state in the Union are convicte
where white men under the same Gil
cumstances would go free.
81 have defended good man
frnntfnnpd on Page Gl
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EXTRA
Malone H e caring Is
Postponed d

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March "a. (By
ANP)-Not until April IL will the
immediate fate of Poro College be
decided. When the docket was read
in the circuit court attorneys repre-
senting both the complainant and
defendant stepped forward and said
that by mutual consent a postpone
ment had been agreed upon. Judge
Moses Hartman then set April IL
as the date. No reason for the post
ponement was announced.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
Prison Sentence Suspended

OLYMPIA, Wash.---Robert Mann,
convicted in the Superior court last
week Of second degree assault, was
sentenced to not less than two years
or more than 10 in the Walla Walla
penitentiary when he appeared be-
fore Judge John M.,.Wilson Monday
morning The sentence was suspend
ed pending good behavior.
Mann attacked another Negro, Ed
Scott, with knife. according to
witnesses at the trial.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
Hanging Sentence Upheld

OLYMPIA, wash.--Sentence OF
hanging, imposed by Judge Homer
Kirby of Cowlitz county on Albert
A. Williams. colored, for the first
degree murder of Minnie Scott,
colored. IN Longview, December %,
1925, was affirmed Wednesday by
the supreme court. Justice Walter
M. French writing the decision. VIII
Iiams was to have hanged March ~,
1875 ...---,---.,,,. ..Z.sc. ~
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
Flog Girl and Father

BIRMINGHAM, A.a.-A band of
nine unmasked white men kidnapped
and flogged 16-year-old girl and
her father near here, the victims re-
ported to police.
They are Tessie Smith and George
Smith, proprietor of barbecue
stand, whites.
No explanation was given by the
men for their act and Smith knew
of none. Miss Smith blamed the kid
mapping on young man whose at
tentions she had repulsed.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
Mabel Byrd Gets Leave
To Study in Europe

NEW Y0RK.--Miss Mabel Byrd,
membership and industrial secretary,
has been granted a foreign scholar
ship for special study at Woodbrook,
Birmingham, England. The scholar
ship is given by the Council for In
ternational Service Of the Society
Of Friends. The committee Of man.
agement of Ashland Place Y. w. G.
A. has granted Miss Byrd four
month leave of absence and she ex-
poets to sail for England April 20,
returning to America about Sep
iteniber /. t
Miss Byrd came to New York City
from Seattle, Wash. 7'-
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
BE INDEPENDENT AdUises DarrOzv
Glad She Killed Husband
Woman Tells Police

DENVER, Colo.--"This Is the
end of seven years of hell" said
Minnie Brown TO the police n
few minutes after she shot To
death her husband, Robert
Brown, train porter, with his
own revolver I'm their home
here. 81 am glad l did IL. lie
made my life u hell and laugh-
Ell about Il. Now am ready
90 hang" She had been mar
ricd 10 him eighteen years she
said.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
Texas Passes Bill for
Girls Training School

AUSTIN, Texas.--A bill intro
duced by Senator Hall providing for
the establishment Of state training
school for delinquent and dependent
colored girls was passed by the house
Of representatives Thursday, March
10.
No appropriation is made for the
proposed home, counties and cities
merely being authorized to make do
nations toward the institution.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
Here's Another Old Timer

ADICK, Texas. - Uncle jenkins,
who figures he is somewhere between
110 and 1913 years old and lives
with son more than 20 years old,
is still active and remembers when
he saw abraham Lincoln, Ulysses
S. Grant and General Lee.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
Business Leagues to Honor
Memory OF Booker T. :.

TUSKEGEE, Ala.-April 9th Is
the anniversary date of the birth OF
Booker #. Washington, founder OF
the National Negro Business League
and Tuskegee Institute. In observ-
ance of the anniversary business
leagues and other organizations
throughout the country will conduct
exercises commemorating the event.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
passed" AS Mexican

LOS ANGELES, Cal.--Because of
racial prejudice Miss Florence Rus
sell, teacher at San Pedro School,
who has been passing as q Mexi-
can, was forced to resign this week
when her racial identity became
known, W
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25

Clash Follows Attempt OF Mob To
Invade Coffeyvle Negro District

coFFEYvILLE March 2stspecal lcoffeyvlle which
has Friday night clash
whites and blacks occurred again quiet The troops have been
authorities handle
the situation without the necessity OF outside aid The clash between
racial disturbance
experieneed than 20 years when minor clash at
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
Noted Lawyer Tells Race To Shun
Politicians And Divide Their Vote

WASHINGTON c.. (Special)-Speaking before
Metropolitan NJ capacity
zon Daow noted criminal
liberty told his hearers shun job
ting politicians pestnce country
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25

BY Rev. D. A. Graham
President of Monrovia College,
Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa.