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The Washington times., 1927-02-28
BIRTHS

BENJAMIN r. and Cailie r. Harris.
boy.
William b. ana Catherine Drury, girl.
Ernest L. and Susan A. Ackiss. girl
William g. and Clyde Brantley girl.
Charles A. and Alice CabelI. girl
John. and Pia Petw3zi, girl.
Frank B. and Mary r. Roffo. girl.
Charles F. and Rosalie BenckeFt boy.
Charles ID. and Julia Hertzog, boy.
William D. and Helen II. Thomas
girl.
s. Mark and Marie Anderson, girl,
boy.
James z. and Marquette Ramey, boy.
Myron and Olive Writers, boy
George and Maize Booker, boy.
Edward and MartiIle Dickerson, girl.
John and Geneva Francis, girl.
william and Mary GIlee. girl
John and ELSIE Valentino, girl
Thomas and Annie Wright boy.
Henry c. and Helen L. Washington.
boy.
william G. iand Marie Brown, girl.
William and Edna Campbell, girl.
George r. and Florence Tibbs, girl.
James +. and Ethel r. Hayden, girl.
Frederick and Catherine Lewis, Rirl,
Carl and Liar NJ. Ship. boy.
The Washington times., 1927-02-28

Help yourself 20 q better position
through the use Of the Help Wanted
Columns Of The Times and Herald
classified section. Many demands uFe
satisfied each day through theeS
columns.
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KAFKA FUNERAL
PLANNED

Funeral arrangements Tor Mrs.
JEANNE Kafka. prominent Wash.
ington business woman. who died
at her home. s7s6 Huntington st.
N. W.. last night after brief
Illness. are expected to be an.
nounced later today. when other
members Of her family will reach
Washington.
DIR. Abram Simon will officiate
at funeral services to be held at
the Kafka home probably some
time tomorrow. The body will be
taken to Baltimore, where three
brothers Of Mrs. Kafka are in bust.
ness. for intermeilt.
Mrs. Kafka was the proprietress
OF Kafka's Shop, at Tenth and r
Streets Northwest. She had been
In business in Washington fourteen
years.
with her husband, the late Albert
Kafka, Mrs. Kafla came to Wash.
ington from Cincinnati twenty-six
years ago. She established her own
business many years before MT.
Kafka's death.
Mrs. Kafka was a, director In the
Citizens Savings Bank, q member
Of the SoroptImlsts Club, the Order
Of the Eastern Star and Of the
'Women's City Club.
She Is survived by q son, Maurice
Kafka. three sisters, Mrs. Walter
c. Brashears and Mrs. William p.
Cheatly, Of washington, and Mrs.
william III. Harrison, of Baltimore,
and by three brothers, Morris,
Charles and Edward Hirsh. all Of
baltimore.
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Births, Marriages, Deaths
Phone Notices to Main $780, Obituary Desk
FREDERICK ". LEONHARDT

Frederick William Leonhardt. SIS.
lifelong Washington resident. deacon
In st. Marks Lutheran Church and
prominent electrical contractor. waA
buried in Congressional Cemetery
today, following services at st.
Marks.
Practically every office in the
Lutheran Church. except those
requiring ordination. had been heid
by Mr.. Leonard during the past 30
years. At the time Of his death he
was president ce the Sunday School
and Of the Lutheran League.
A long illness preceded Mr. Leon.
hardt's death at his home. 1915 East
Capitol st. He leaves two daugh-
ters. Mrs. Florence Ljpard and Mrs.
Eleanor Flint. and a son. Carl L..
Leonhardt. Of Washington, ana a
sister. Miss Maggie Leonhardt. of
Brentwood. Md. Mr.. Leonhardt's
wife died several years aGo.
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DEATHS

Albert Franklin Brooks. 81 years
Sarah Lord Pratt. IS years. 1909
Emerston St. N. w.
Ailne Gleason. IS years. Little Sis.
ters of the Poor.
Thomas Murphy. "a years ssas shsr-
Mary Agnes Ridgsway IS years. $50
n st. S. w.
Ada Rubenstein. So years, 1875 Spring
Bessie Bass. So years. 1Iss seventh
Charles A. Moody. ~ years. Walter
Reed Hospital
Tavsnia Proctor. rs years. 1908 sixth
Anna b. Thompson. IS years. 1926
Fifteenth 81. N. W,
Lucy Brown, IS years. 422 First ST.
N. w.
Edward Brooks. So years. Providence
Hospital.
Francis @. snowden. 20 years. l5s
Maine Ave. s, w.
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st. Stephens Players
To Present Mystery

Two performances Of the, play,
Am / Intruding," for the benefit
Of the newly completed convent Of
st. Stephens Church win be given
tonight and tomorrow night by the
st. Stephens Players in the new
auditorium.
The cast Of the mystery drama,
q deviation in type from anything
the players have offered, presents
Marty Gallagher, Paul Groves, Miss
Margaret McDonough, Miss Helen
Clearly and John McGuinnis, presi.
dent Of the Players; the Rev. Arthur
w. Murphy 10 supervising the pro.
duction.
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Mss LULU :. ECKMAN

( Funeral services were held today
for Miss Lulu Lee Eckman. 81. an
expert on legislation dealing with
dependent and delinquent children,
In the Childreu's Bureau, who died
Saturday in Garfield Hospital Miss
Eckman had been III several months.
A native OF Greenfield. Ohio, Miss
Eckman came to this city 81 years
ago to enter the Government service.
Her home here for some time past
was at 1914 Hunting st. N. w. A
sister, Mrs. e. r. Mueller, Of Wash.
ington, and brother. Walter Eek
man, Of Cincinnati. survive.
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National Bank Wealth
Falls Off $169.OOO, 900

National bank resources decreased
$3.50 900 900 last year. the Comp.
troIler Of Currency announced today.
This was attributed to failures,
Withdrawals and mergers Of national
banks. Total resources were SIS,
$50, S45 900 on December 81.
Only 1912 banks reported in De.
cember az compared to S,054 in
January.
Time deposits, or savings. totaled
$6,533, $4,000. an increase Of $4S6.-
or, 900.
Loans and discounts were $13.-
673, 275, 900. an increase Of $37,.
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MRS. MARTHA 5. RANSOM

wife of John Clinton Ransom,
journalist and author. win be
buried wednesday from Mt. Tabor
Methodist Episcopal Church. She
died yesterday after paralytic
stroke, at her home, 3416 r st.
NJ. w.
Mrs. Ransom was born in Austin.
burg, Ohio. She was a teacher Of
baeketry in the Church of the
Covenant for many years. Besides
her husband, Mrs. Ransom is
survived BY. four songs, Clarence
Henry. Samuel ana Philip.
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WRs. WARTF sT.ACTK

Funeral services for Mrs, Marie
Slack. who died at Garfield Hospi.
tai last night from pneumonia. will,
be held from the Hysong Funeral
ParIors, 1900 " st. N. W.. at $50
o'clock Wednesday. Interment will
be in Cedar Hill &c .letery.
Mrs. Slack was for many years
the housekeeper for Senator and
Mrs. John b. Kendrick. of Wyom.
ing. She was 81 years old at her
death. She is survived by a daugh.
ter. Helen.
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MRS. ANNE WATSON

Funeral services for Mrs. Annie
Watson, 81, widow Of James r..
Watson. were conducted this after
noon by the Rev. Richard Schmidt.
pastor Of the Zion Evangelical
Lutheran Church. Burial was in
Congressional Cemetery.
Mrs Watson died last Friday
night in Gallinger Hospital of burns
received December is at her home,
zoo First st. 8. W., when a gas
heater exploded. sShe remained at
her home about twenty-four hours
before being taken to the hospital.
During her stay at the hospital,
Mrs. Watson underwent two blood
transfusions.
For the past year Mrs. Watson
had been living alone. She Is sur.
yived by a niece in this city and
a nephew living in Baltimore.
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DEATHS

ECKMAN---On Saturday. February 70,
EckIzNa :. s. saFt y Mr a0iRlss lnss1S j
Funeral sSrvices At Gawler's Chapel,
y ~ I.. Aps h SsI1as: February
KAFKA-on SUNDAY, February Or. i027.
At her residence. 37Se HnrtIneton ST.,
Chevy Chase. d. q. JEANNE KAFKA, be.
Of aee. She Il also survived by three sis
.ters MIS-. walter Braallears and Mrs. WI;
lam Gheqtley, OF Washingtoil. 2. g. ana
aso shree sros as0 ch "a MSrris and
Aa NOsles H " sp g lPf ias.r MO
!nalIlIaore. Nc RaneTs please eopE.l :.
ale iSss 4 Naval H sospIIGE HS sRsSK e.
beloved hlsband q Mary A. McDonalds
Noryal x. Tabler. 1926 Z 81. n. w. We'd.
nesday. March q 1927 81 $50, and thence
TO st. Aloysius Catholic Church where ro-
QUEEN high niass win be sung az 3; N.
kelatixs. and friends invited q attend:
er pss SSsaSsd1 isl5 Pps soSSt S st NV
MIA is 2. o'pEA 9nee 9ayinl widoE
he aboye rssidenes an T,sesdayl Marc a1OiI'
Sa sss Wifi HSa s. s MasF' Il s0en sn
a ana trlerlds invited. lnterflent M. oiiyet
PRTsCfELA CRARTREE 1nee HafFis0nJ -
a VIE o. iate Inos. xraptree. r 9epaan[ s,sg
sH " nle ~ rI 20,
Ss 9coTkGs2Mn OnlVSrnitY. 5ue is uItsL s
F,,neral fren her ~. iate reeidence' DO 81
n o,d IDterR FH. 4 SIssnY 1899 Cemetery
TTie1ds and, relatives invited, Toledo.
Ohio. Newark. y. j. Greenvilie. >. Y;
R T:ISiS Nj NJ sunday Feb 81 1877.
dsngnsF q ths re 1o lanes Ssr ia e
Gs.ldg9ee 2ols Fifteenth a g n W. .o TTss
pa ~ q " F 81 = On ~ s'een'n ana
T0RRERT--On FTiday. February Is 1927.
- = y =, ~ ~ ay 49, S~nea I n IleSaf,if
6ottara civ nis Ma aeslJ geANns NJ ToR-
3. Torberf.
Funeral services Monday. February 20;
1927. at P. M. ct ~; Lnkee Episfona, pa
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walter ana sylvia Scott, boy.
Walter w. and Naomi II. Robinson
sIri.
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BENJAMIN A. POWELL

Funeral arrangements will be
completed tomorrow for Benjamin
A. Powell, So, head Of the Powell
Transportation Company, who died
yesterday at his home, 4704 Seven.
tenth st. N. W.. following an Ill.
ness of over a year.
His widow, Mrs. Emma 3. Pow.
ell. and two sons, Lester b. and
Benjamin A. jr., survive. Lester
B. Powell has been in business
with his father the past few years.
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MISS NJ. j. WHITCRAFr

Miss Martha j. Whitcraft, so, a
resident here seven years, will be
buried tomorrow at her former home
In Wilmington, Del. During her
residence here Miss Whitcraft was
active in the affairs of the Nc
Kendree Memorial Methodist Epis.
copal Church.
Taken i'll just after Thanksgiv-
ing, Miss Whitcraft was confined to
her home three months. She lived
at 1909 Rhode Island Ave. N. W.,
with her sister, Mrs. Mary L. Welsh.
and her sister-in-law, Mrs. r. Jose.
phine Whitcraft. She Is also sur.
vived by brother, James A. Whit.
craft, of Wilmington.
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TIMELY TIPS
Male Help Waited

Male Help Waneed
Young men to lake orders on
regular routes with manager:
good pay, short hours. Call
before noon. See Classified.
kose-Ten Dollar Bills
Money--twO ten.dOIIar bills.
lost between 18th and l. N. W..
Reward. Sec Classification 5.
Coed Used CayRieI bdekeY
Rickenbaclser, 1925, Br0ugham;
four practically new ties, orig.
iIlaI unbIemished DucO paint.
Rlckenbackcr reliable fOur-WheeI
brakes. This car cost new over
$1,000; motor III excellent cOndl-
lion; VIII give any denaOnstfat
ton desired and will accept small
standard make car a. part pay.
1llent. $675-ternis to suit, See
Classification 135.
Furnished Apartments
Five rooms and sleeping porch.
ami, entire second floor. S6s
per month. See Classification 81.
Home For Sale
Woodbridge. Five rooms, bath,
bungalow, ami, n square Of
Rhode Island Avenue. Only
$3.50. $500 cash. SIS per month.
See Classification So.
The aboUe wants and offers
are only q fsw Of the Hsany
interesting propositions you wiN
find adOertised IN todaYs clas-
sified adVersising ssefioR.
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DIR. GUY w. ANGEL. n

A military funeral viii be held
in Arlington Cemetery tomorrow
for DR.. Guy w. Angelo. 40, 4
dentist Of 1852 Tenth st. N. W.,
who committed suicide by shooting
himself with a revolver late Satur.
day night.
He was veteran Of the World
War and lived with his parents at
the Tenth Street address.
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DarrOw to Give Lecture
AIT D. G. Church April Ia

Clarence Darrow. famous lawyer.
viii be the speaker at the Bethel
Literary Association at Metropoli.
tan A. M. p. Church, NJ street. be-
tween Fifteenth and Sixteenth
Streets Northwest, Monday. April
IL. at 8 D. m.
The program will be under the
auspices Or the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement Of Col
0red Peoples Neval H. Thomas,
president Of the local branch OF the
association, win preside.
The broad ax., 1927-03-26
THIS WEEK
Ernest Rice Mckinney
The Poro College Meeting

The Poro College Meeting
There is nothing that Negroes have
done this year that makes me feel SO
happy and joyous as the meeting re-
Gently held in St. Louis, to give moral
support to Mrs. Malone in her fight to
save Poro College, and lick that ASST
nine little husband, Aaron.
It was good that the leading Negro
editors were present. Mrs. Malone
needs our papers now as never before.
It was good also that Mrs. Bethune
was there, representing our great
Women's organizations. Mrs. Malone
is fighter and doesn't mince words.
Every Negro in America should write
Mrs. Malone a letter-not to be an
sWered, OF course-and let her know
that she has the unreserved support Of
all decent colored citizens. The others,
Of course, will side with the dude"
husband. And, of course, there will
Be few who will feel that the.jackass
OF a receiver-who is now in charge Of
Mrs. Malone's business-is a very nice
man. These will be the job hunters
seeking TO GUST Mrs. Malone's trusted
employees. l believe that Mrs. Ma
lone will win and can only hope that
neT victory will come quickly.
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Of the greatest steaast friends Of the col
ored in the world

For them it is too hard work to work.
The way out for the Negro is through
education and requirement of wealth"
He described education as a mis-
fortune to everyone, especially to
Negro, but as necessary misfortune
for racial development. eff you don't
know what's going on" he said, 'like
a fundamentalist, you're saved. If you
know what's going on, you're. unfor-
tunate. Education teaches that all there
is to race and color is scientific selec-
ton and adjustment Of people to eli
mates. Black people survived in hot
climates and white people in cold eli
mates. The morons, who run the
affairs of this part Of the world never
heard of that theory-they have been
too busy otherwise parading in sheets
and making fool laws.
Pure Blood Pure Nonsense
They are too busy keeping the
blood stream pure. But if you take the
100 per cent pure blooded American
back few generations you not only
find the blood mixed with all races,
but with that Of the lower animals, the
monkey and the ape, the carnivora and
fishes of the sea. Pure blood is pure
nonsense"
The trade of the Negro politician
was described as scurvy one, leading
the race to slaughter. The Negro was
urged to be independent in politics to
cast his vote independently to settle
municipal, state and national elections
where possible. He was pledged the
support of the intelligent American in
proportion to his ability to help him
self.
On the platform were G. G. Will
kinson, Maj. West A. Hamilton, Miss
Mamie H. Burroughs, Mrs. Milton
Francis, Mrs. Mcclure, Mrs. NJ. Madre
Marshall, Mrs. M. c. Terrell, Mrs. w.
H. Wilson, James A. Cobb, Arthur G.
Froe, A. S. Pinkett, AM the Rev. w.
H. Brooks. Mrs. Darrow was pre-
sented with flowers by women of the
organization.
Mr.. Darrow stated to reporters that
press accounts of his being escorted
out Of Mobile, Ala, on account Of his
racial views, were purely fictitious"
The broad ax., 1927-03-26

Inns more than one thousand colored
men and women had been falsely ar
rested and sent to Jail without a just
cause and those wholesale statements
turned out to be nothing but wind and
buster, for on Thursday morning the
committee held its second session at
which time Chief Collins was given
clean bill of sale and he was de-
clared Of not being guilty of trampling
on the rights of the citizens of Chi
cago in that direction.
The broad ax., 1927-03-26
Primitive Road

A corduroy road is one constructed
over boys or swamps by laying logs
side by side across the track. The
road is so-called from its similarity
Of construction to the texture OF cord
ed cloth known as corduroy.
The broad ax., 1927-03-26
In Dear Old Georgia


In Dear Old Georgia
Georgia is in the lime-light again.
and, as usual, it is an unenviable posi-
ton which she occupies. Not satisfied
with her injustices toward the Negro,
it appears that she now thirsts for the
blood and hide Of her own pale-face
citizens.
1t is alleged that an average of more
than eight foggings month have oc-
Cured in Toombs County alone, &C
cording to newspaper Investigations,
and that these foggings have been af-
flicted not only upon Negroes but
white men Of the same standing, who
have happened to meet with the dis
approval Of certain towards. Many
of these victims, either through shame
or from fear, have been silent concern
ing this treatment. In Truetlen Coun-
ty Liquor gang" which is said to
control the politics there, almost beat
fatally a newspaper editor who had at
tackled their alleged illegal traffic in
his newspaper In Toombs County, it
is reported that an attorney was Sc
verely beaten for having defended
liquor traffickers and having helped to
prosecute four men accused Of killing
a man they only intended to whip"
Another alleged offense against the at
torney was that he INDUCED in intoxi-
cants too much to suit the moral
forces" Of the community What is
man to do? If he defends the Liquor
gang" he is beaten and if he opposes
the liquor gang he is beaten too.
A sheriff has been arrested, accused
Of being a party to some of the fog
gings. Some administrator of law and
order he must be. Can Negro pos
sibly expect to live in peace, let alone
hope for justice, in such state where
no individual or group is punished for
crimes perpetrated against defenseless
citizens who may happen to displease
them? Were Cicero a citizen of Geor-
gia today, well might he cry, 20 tenn
pora, o mores."
The broad ax., 1927-03-26
In That Case, Always

An oil magnate who collects carpets
says you can live with one for five
years and find something fresh in 1t
every day. Especially if you've got
young family who are careless at
meals, says the Office Boy.
The broad ax., 1927-03-26
Great ENGINEERING Eeat

In Los Angeles it was necessary to
move a 6,O00-ton bridge to make way
for another structure. The bridge Is
one of the main traffic arteries, and
so it was jacket up and put on rails.
1t was moved while traffic continued
over it.
The broad ax., 1927-03-26
South Seas Drink

Intoxication without alcohol is pos
sibIe through the use Of a South seas
plant known to the botanist as piper
Mysticism" a shrubby species Of pep
per, which the Polynesians use by
crushing the root
The broad ax., 1927-03-26
Eyes of EorfhIDornls

DIR. Walter N. Hess of Johns Hop
kins announces that earthworms have
eyes in every section of their bodies.
With a small beam Of light he found
every segment sensitive to 1t. He
was able to identify the skin cells
that respond to light.
The broad ax., 1927-03-26
Calhoun's Record Stands

On December q, 1882, John c. Cal
hOun, vice president of the United
States under the first administration
Of President Jackson, resigned. This
was the only resignation of the office
throughout the history Of this country.
The broad ax., 1927-03-26

The longest term Of Office of any
government official is that of the
comptroller general and the assistant
comptroller general, who each hold
Office for fifteen years, according to
an answered question in Liberty.
The broad ax., 1927-03-26

CHIEF MORGAN A. COLLINS
WAS NOT GUILTY OF CAUS-
ING THE ARREST OF ONE
THOUSAND LAW ABIDING
MEN, WOMEN AND chill
DREN
The broad ax., 1927-03-26

Some genius should invent device
which, when a person who Is alone in
the house gets into the bathtub, win
automatically disconnect the telephone
and doorbells.
The broad ax., 1927-03-26
COLORFUL NEWS MOVIES
By THE CAMERAMAN

amendments, tried the Races faith in
the fullness of the new emancipation.
Then came gloom again when the
Supreme Court found unconstitutional
the famous civil rights cases, growing
out of Congressional effort, chiefly
made by Senator Charles Summer, Of
Massachusetts,, to have equal rights in
commerce, inns, hotels, theatres, etc,
fully granted to the freedmen. And,
when later, the U. S. Supreme Court
upheld the Jim Crow railway statutes
passed in feverish haste by state after
state, it seemed that the veritable last
straw had broken the back of the race
On down through the years until
now, including the Curtis case, in
which the rights of whites to covenant
against Negroes in the sale of property
was held legal and valid by the Court,
gloom rather than sunshine has come
down, seemingly, from the Bench. But
now a new judicial era seems to be at
hand. Within one week the trend has
swept again toward a brighter and
broader Interpretation of the Constitu-
ton, in favor of the Race. And if this
trend but continues the next half CEN
fury will witness decisions which will
undoubtedly establish for good and all
time the equality Of ali men before the
law; for Negroes are seeking the
courts more than ever, and they are
seeking judicial comfort with a degree
of energy, knowledge and logic such
as they have never before shown.
The broad ax., 1927-03-26
@Aa He Thinketh,,

No one is higher up or lower down
In the scale of righteousness than his
thoughts are. They are, therefore, the
standard Of his mortality
(Ala.) Star.
The broad ax., 1927-03-26

Brocken, the traditional meeting
place of the witches on Walpurgis
night, April 80, is in the Hartz noun
tains in the province Of SaxOny, and
IS the highest peak in northern Ger
many. Its height is 3.745 feet.
The broad ax., 1927-03-26

Ecotland's greatest station, Waiver
ley, Edinburgh, covers 20 acres, and
deals with over 1000 trains a day.
It's largest platform is nearly one mile
In length
The broad ax., 1927-03-26
Heat IN Resinous Woods

Resinous woods, like pine and fin,
have greater heating value per ton
than nonresInous woods. because q
pound of resin gives or about twice
as much heat on burning az a pound
OF wood.
The broad ax., 1927-03-26

Well onto three weeks ago it was
stated before the subcommittee Of the
committee on police and SO on of the
city council, that through Chief Col