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Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-06
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BATTLE CREEK, Mich,
Sept. d.--The body Of Wayne B.
Wheeler, practical prohibition.
ist, was sent to Columbus, Ohio,
for burial today as millions OF
his admirers mourned the man
who made the eighteenth amend.
ment a reality.
Wheeler died yesterday after.
noon at Battle Creek Sanitar
ium Of heart disease, only few
hours after his physicians had
pronounced him out of imme-
date danger.
Death came suddenly as the
general counsel of the anti
saloon league was sitting in
chair reading. He had been
brought here from his summer
home in Shelby, Mich, suffer
ing from a kidney complaint.
The heart affliction which
caused his death was entirely
unexpected. according to Dr..
Lloyd E. Verify, who attended
him.
Wheeler's death was the eul'
mination of a summer Of TRACE.
dy for his family. His wife
was burned to death by explos'
ion Of an oil stove at their sum
mer home. Mrs, Wheeler y
father saw the accident, which
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-06
HOLIDAY TAKES
HEAVY TOLL OF
LIVES ON COAST
Two Score Dead Result
ing from Tragedies and
Accidents.
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san FRANCISCO, Sept. 6.-Ac
cidents on Labor Day on the Pacif
ic coast caused the deaths of 81 per
sons, survey by the United Press
showed today. This brings the to-
tai dead in tragic accidents over the
holiday week end to 40.
Automobiles claimed the most
victims on Labor Day, taking II
lives. Three persons were murdered,
two were drowned, two committed
suicide, one died of injuries when he
fell from ladder, a dove hunter
was accidentally shot and killed
end a man who has been missing for
month was found dead, but the
cause of his death has not yet been
determined.
The summary by states follows:
California:
San Francisco-Albert FRANKIE, 9,
lost balance while playing with TOW
sailboat on the bank of reservoir
and drowned; Richard Fear, sc, kill
ed in automobile accident; John j.
Fitzpatrick, missing since August
7, found dead in Golden Gate park;
John Jaynes, %, fatally injured by
fall from ladder. Alfred Silveria,
II, accidentally killed while hunting
doves; Bertha Wagner, 80, nurse,
hanged herself with a moose made
ont of Il pair of silk stockings.
Alameda Edward Ramsay, 81,
died of injuries received when he
was struck bv an automobile.
Balboa-Milton Davis, 20, drown
ed.
Los Angeles-David Rudelcada, 9,
killed by automobile.
Oregon:
Hood River-Mrs. Margaret Crea-
sv, ~. Los Angeles. and Jack Pow
ell. Is months, Portland, killed in
automobile accident.
Washington:
Hoquiam-Virginia Lee Herrick.
3, and Richard Daneslough, l6
months, Melton, killed in automo.
bile accident.
Tacoma-Marcella Kilmer, 10,
Oaksville, Lila Springstead, 5, Steil-
accom-, fatally injured in automobile
accident.
Puyallup-John U'Rcnn, "a. Sc
attle, killed in automobile accident.
Elma-Dudley Pease, 10, janitor
in local bank, murdered.
Spokanc-Adam Heimbigncr, rail
road worker, murdered his divorced
wife, Anna, 81, and his daughter,
Gertrude, 7, and then killed him
self.
Scatt.e-Burr Dawson, Seattle,
killed when automobile overturned.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-06
AV|AT0RS
TAKE OFF
FOR ROME
"Old Glory" After Many
Delays Takes The Air
At Old Orchard. ae'r
THREE ARE ABOARD
Direct Flight to Italian
Capital Planned to Set
New Record.
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OLD ORCHARD, Me-, Sept. g.
Setting forth for Rome, the Fokkef
monoplane Old Glory arose today
from Old Orchard beach and headed
over the Atlantic for Rome.
If successful. it will be the long
est nonstop flight ever made. N
The plane gathered speed down
tie smooth, hard packed sand that
served as a natural runway and
scared aloft at l:25 p. m. eastern
daylight time). =
J. d. Hill was plotting tho
plane, which also carried Lloyd Ber-
taud and Phillip A. Payne of New
York.
The big ship took the air in per-
feet fashion at 100 mile per hour
clip, after a long run.
Just before the take-off Hill and
Bertaud tossed a coin for privilege
of plotting the plane. The former
won and Bertaud and Payne were
sitting in the rear of the cabin as
the big craft got under way.
Their route, it was announced,
would take them over Cape Race,
n. F. Bertaud said they then would
parallel III degrees, straight across
the northern Atlantic. This would
carry them slightly south Of the
"Great Circle' route.
If all goes well, Old Glory will
pass near Bordeaux and will fly a
little south of the Alps eDroute to
the Italian capital.
The long delayed start was wit
messed by several thousand spec.
tators who had come from miles a.
round.
A big detail Of national guards
men had been sent to the beach TO
hold the crowds in check as the
ground crew went through the pre-
liminary tests. 4-,
Bertaud, Hill and Payne posed
for photographers on the beach lust
before the big steel grew machine,
was whirled down the golden, sim
mering sand.
The flyers carried letters from
three American Cardinals to Pops
Plus X1 and letters from Governor
Ralph O. Brewster of Maine and
other dignitaries to Premier Mnsso-
lini and King Victor Emmanuel Of
italy.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-06
LEVINE'S FLIGHT
POSTPONED AGAIN
BY HEAVY WINDS
By g. P. WILLIAMSON
United Press Staff Correspondent

CRANWELL AIRDROME, Eng,
Sept. Ga thirty mile headwind
over the Atlantic caused Captain
Walter G.. II. Hinchliffe and Charles
A. Levine to postpone until tomor-
row at 6 a. m. the start of their
nonstop flight to New York or
Philadelphia in the Bellanca mono
plane Columbia.
Postponement was decided ON at
7:40 a. m. today after all night fin
al preparations had been made and
Hinchliffe had announced that the
start would be made today rain or
shine.
Levine and Miss Boil, wealthy
Rochester woman living in Paris,
arrived at the airdrome shortly be-
fore dawn. Miss Boil was to have
arcompanied Hinchliffc on the
scheduled flight to America, but the
former said that would not be pos
sible.
Levine said Miss Boil was to have
paid $4,000 to make the flight and
he would have turned that amount
over to Hinchliffe.
Instead, Levine and Hinchliffe
will try to continue the flight to
Philadelphia to pick up $4,000 of
fercd by the Evening Bulletin for
the first flight from Europe to that
city. Levine said the money would
go to Hinchliffe.
OLD ORCHARD, Maine, Sept. G..
- Two nonstop trans Atlantic
flights We're scheduled to start from
here today. but cloudy weather
along the Maine coast may cause
further postponcmcnt.
Phil Wood and c. A. Schiller
were ready to start for Windsor,
England, in their monoplane Royal
Windsor.
Lloyd Bertaud and J. d. Hill
planned to take off for Rome in the
Fokker monoplane Old Glory as soon
as weather conditions permitted.
Indications were that neither
plane would start before noon and
perhaps not until tomorrow.
HARBOR GRACE, N. F.. Sept. 6.
Lieutenant James Medcalf and
Contain Terrence Tullv expected to
start their flight to London. Eng.
land, today in the monoplaue Sir
John CARING.
The takeoff. ut first set for
dawn, was delayed to permit re-
placement of a broken stay wire.
The stav wire was broken shortly
before midnight last night when the
plane was ierked out of reach of n
fire caused by gasoline exploding
Mt the airport. Four men were
burned slightly.
The London. Ontario. to London.
England, flyers and plane arrived
late yesterday from Caribou. Maine.
where they had been forced down
last week on their flight from Lon.
don, Ont, to Harbor Grace.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-06
Lost AviatOrs to
Be Remembered
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6.-An
appeal TO citizens Of San Francisco
to give flowers las a last tribute
to the six brave men and the fear
less Miss Doran, who lost their lives
either in the Dole race itself or iii
Ire search for those who were lost y
was broadcast today by mayor James
Eolph Jr.
The mayor issued proclamation,
lsking that the flowers be sent Il
the liner Maui SO that the vessel
nav be covered with flowers when
Il sails from here on September IL
The city S chief executive also ask
"a that everyone that can join i'll
the brief memorial services just be
fore the boat sails.
The Maui viii stop about 900 miles
,ut and spread the flowers over the
ocean.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-06
Channel Bests
Yankee Woman

DOVER, England, Sept. 6.-Mrs.
Clemington Corson today abandoned
her attempt TO swim the English
channel from England to France.
The New York swimmer admitted
defeat at $50 p. m.
Last year she swan across the
channel from France to England
shortly after Gertrude Ederle ac.
complished that feat. Mrs. Corson
became famous as "the first mother
to swim the channel - She has two
children.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-06
Slayer of Woman
Sent to Prison


los ANGELES, Sent. g. Fred
Draddock. Long Beach oil worker,
found guilty of manslaughter in
connection with the death Of Mrs.
Allie Drake, 46. acute alcoholism
victim, was sentenced to serve from
one to ten wears in San Quentin by
superior Judge Carlos Hardy today.
Mrs. Drake died last May l2 fol
lowing three weeks drinking
"party' at Braddock 5 home. Cr-
der q r"rel,- rcna statute in the
penal code, Paddock was found
responsible for the woman's death
thronOh his criminal negligence1
in failing TO call a doctor.
Following imposition of sentence
90 day stay of execution was
granted.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-06
HUGE FORTUNE
AND BUSINESS
LEFT BY L0EW
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NEW YORK, Sept. 6.-Marcua
Loew, whose early life was fraught
with bankruptcies, heart breaking
failures and poverty, until he dis
covered the penny arcade as the
source of an income, left a fortune
estimated today at $50, 100000
Son of Humble Niennese immi-
grants, the theatrical owner AMI
producer whose possessions reached
into three continents lived ro-
nance of dollars.
A failure as newsboy, furricr,
apartment house owner and printer,
Loew found himself as Snowman
and won his way ont of east side
poverty to home of palatial pro-
portions on Long Island.
That is the story of Marcus Low
enstein Loew) probably the richest
purveyor of movie and stage enter
tainment in the world.
His funeral will he held at the
Pembroke home, Glencove, l.. L.,
Thursday morning at IL o clock. His
800 theaters in the United States
and Canada viii be closed. His
death Yesterday morning was caus
cd by muscular trouble Of the heart.
Loew operated dozens of corpora
tions. His Metro movie producing
company when amalgamatcd with
the Goldwvn organization, brought
under his control many new amuSe'
mcnt houses throughout the nation.
When merged further with Lewis b.
Mayors organization, it became the
Metro Goldwyn Mayer group, pro-
ducers of such outstanding screen
successes as "The Big Parade" and
Ben Hur.
All of Loew's holdings will he
for the present in the hands of his
two sons. Both are vice presidents
of Loew's central organization
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-06
Burglars Home
Has Much Loot
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Los ANGEIES, Sept. DIARY
*. Wells, of Watts, was being held
in the county Jail here today charg,
ed with burglary following his ar
rest and the recovery Of loot valued
at 100000, which police say was
found in his home.
Wells was taken into custody
when Mrs. May Maxwell, Of Walnut
Park, notified police that man
was moving about the house of a
neighbor last night. Wells was ar
rested a short time later near the
Maxwell homo.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-06
Two Killed in
Shooting Scrape

NEW YORK, Sept. 6.-Two men
were killed and two others seriously
wounded today when Charles Bern
stein, Baltimore, drew revolver
and fired into a group of lawyers
and clients in a Mid Town lawyers
office here.
Attorney Victor j. Standarg,
wounded several times, was thrown
o" leaped from the ninth story Of
the office building and was killed,
Charles Herschkowit1 was shot in
the back and died as he fled down
hallway.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-06
"Babe" Gets Two
"LOu" Gets One

FENWAY PARK, Boston.
Sept. 6.-Babe Ruth and Lou
Gehrig provided an orgy Of throe
home runs in the first game Of
today's double header between
the New York Yanks and the
Boston Red Sox.
Pitcher Weller Of Boston
yielded the hits. In the fifth In.
ming Gehrig batted out hts 45th
homer of the season, putting
him one up on Ruth. Tho latter
drew even In the sixth, hitting
homer with two on base.
In the seventh Ruth put No.
4e into the records. scoring
Combs ahead Of him. N
Ruth hit his forty seventh In
the ninth inning of ths eecon
game, Russell was pitching AMI
Ruth was the first man up.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-06
SUPERVISORS IN SESSION

Members Of the board of super
ors convened at the county court
house this morning for their reg
Mar bi-monthly meeting. NO impor,
,nnt matters came before the board
during the early hours of the session.
noon recess being taken after Irout
inc matters had been disposed or
Action on numerous matters OF I'M
portance is expected to be begun
this afternoon
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-06
BY CARL d. GROAT
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent)

WASHINGTON, Sept. "a.
j. Barton, head of the Baptist
Board at Nashville, Tenn, was
favored by anti saloon league
officials here today to succeed
TO the mantle of NaAnc h.
Wheeler, league l.adcr who died
yesterday in Battle Creek,
Mich.
The Washington headquarters
announced the league 5 execu-
tive committee would soon elect
temporary legislative slperir
tendent, a position Wheeler held
with his position as general
counsel.
At the annual meeting in De.
ce,ober. Ire board of 'r' sters
will sel,'t 4 , ornament ieaisla,
tive superintendent aud accord,
ing to the Washington represen.
tative, Barton is the most like
~ candidltr,
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-06
Jacobson Case
Surprises Cryer

LOS ANGELES, Sent. 6.-Mayor
George Crver returned to his desk
here todav after a three weeks
vacation in Colorado, 100 miles from
Gl"nwood Springs
lie expressed surprise at the Jacob
son case and refused t. comment
rs to future action regarding tho
appointment of harbour commits
sioner to replace Frank Meline and
police commissioner, to replace
Thomas Foss.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-06
Parole Granted
To Mrs. Howard
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LOS ANGELES. Sept. g. Mrs.
Winnie Howard, mother of a.
hahv found mvsteriouslv
dead in downtown hotel, was par.
o,ed ard sent t. the Casa Del Mar
San''orium. pending recovery of her
health, following sanity hearing
today.
The ease was disposed of by
sunerior Judge Robert Scott who
ruled that the woman was sane and
will be entirely normal when she
r"roins her health, following the
testimony of DR.. Victor Parkin,
alienist.
Although eoroner's Jury re-
turned a verdict that the baby had
died a violent death, Mrs. Howard
maintained that the child had been
accidentally smothered.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-06
Pair Held For
Auto Accident
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CHINO, Calie..., Sept. Paul
| una and V. Ramirez, both of Al.
bcrhill. Riverside county, are held
~ Jail here today pending the out
come of injuries sustained vester-
day by Peter Rodriguez, l3, run
down by an automobile in which
thcV were riding.
Rodriguez is reported in critical
condition in the county hospital at
20 feet, and one of the wheels pas
SD over his body before the car
was brought 10 a stop.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-06
DEAD CHIEF OF ANTI-SALOON
LEAGUE MOURNED BY MANY

caused her death, and died of
the shock.
Wheeler had returned to Shell.
by after the funerals in Colum-
bus when he was stricken with
the kidney ailment. He was
brought here in an ambulance,
seriously i'll, but his condition
improved.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-06
BANDITS WORKS FAST

LOS ANGELES, Sept. GA lone
bandit held up w. d. Roekstroth, or
Huntington Park, cashier for met-
camille establishment, in front Of
the Elk s club today and escaped
in an automobile with the motor
running at >the curb. Rockstroth
said the bandit worked so rapidly
that he was unable to get the license
of the ear. f'7fs
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-06
Thar's Gold Among Them Bricks!

This ain nothin but Philadelphia little gold rush!
Yes sir it started when house
back to Civil War Andwhenthe spreahow they
eded to stake cut claim
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-06

Cn the Johnson-Elliott ranch,
Gridley, Butte county, a l30 foot
well daily pumps up numbers of
nearly blind perch,like fish.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-06

Statistics lately compiled show
four per GEN. less horses in Califor.
MIA than one yeaI ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-06

Sebastopol, Sonoma county, ship
ped 900 cars of Gravenstein apples
this year.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-06
HUNDREDS
UN|NjURED
IN WRECK
Steel Cars Protection
For Passengers Aboard
Shasta Express.
THREE ARE HURT
Southern Pacific Train
Sent Into Ditch When
Rail Is Split.
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SAtRA MENTO, Cal. Sept. 6. -
Three persons were seriously injur-
I'd early today when the northbound
Shasta Limited on the Southern Pa.
cific went into ditch near Wood
land, Cal.
Two hundred other passengers IS
capped unhurt.
The seriously in niured were:
K. +. Briggs, 63, Boston, Mass,
broken hip; Mrs. X. f. Briggs, 81.
BOSTON, broken pelvis and internal
injuries; Miss Estelle Frowav, So.
Vancouver, b. G., broken back and
internal injuries.
The locomotive and 10 of the II
ears of the train left the tracks and
turned over in the ditch.
A split rail caused the accident
Southern Pacific officials said. The
train was enroutc from San Fran
cisco to Portland.
The train left the Oakland mole
at s:O7 9 clock last night and the
wreck occurred shortly after ! a.
III. The limited was in charge Of
boHh hillti anu - "
Tarr, engineer.
Practically all Of the passengers
were asleep when the ears went into
the ditch and many were thrown
from their berths but the steel con
struetion of the sleepers saved them
from injury.
The three seriously hurt were in
the fourth Pullman from the trout
Of the train. They We're taken TO
the Woodland hospital.
A half dozen doctors and a staff
of nurses from the Woodland clinic
arrived at the scene of the wreck
within Il short time and treated =
number of passengers for minor cuts
and bruises.
Scores Of passengers left their
berths scantily clad after the crash
and fires were bnilt along the
tracks To keep them warm until re
lief arrived.
a wrccking crew was sent from
Sacramento to clear the right Of
way Tor traffic.
SACRAMENTO. Cal. Sept. 6. -
After spending the night in III"
omen air with bonfires along tn"
Eouthern Pacific tracks at Zamora,
80 miles west of Sacramento, where
the shasta limited was derailed last
night, 200 passengers were brought
TO Sacramento today.
The passengers stormed telephone
and telegraph offices, to notify rel
ativea they were safe.
The Southern Pacific made no
special train at Oakland to replace
the derailed Shasta.
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Sea creatures are most plentiful
along coasts which have abundant
rainfall
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REVIVE MEMORIES
/ OF MERIDIAN HILL
Oldest inhabitants Live Again
Barefoot Days in Rock
Creek Park.

Meridian Hill and memories of its
natural state in the sixties and seven
ties magnetized reminiscent attention
Of men who used it's byways and lanes
as boys on their way to swimming
holes in Rock Creek, stubbing many
a bare toe and gaining many stone
bruise on its characteristic graVelIy
formations, at a meeting of the Asso-
citation of Oldest Inhabitants of the
District of Columbia in the old engine
house at Nineteenth and IL streets
last night.
"reminiscences about this part Of
old Washington Ind a proposal by
Washington Tt jham to redecorate
the engine house in colonial buff and
mahogany style were the features OF
the meeting.
Meridian Hill and it's memories
came to the spotlight through the as
sistance of John Clagett Proctor, his
torian, who read paper on It during
the reminiscent period. Noung that
the Spanish government had recently
purchased the house short time ago
offered by Mrs John b. Henderson as
a residence for the Vice President,
which offer was declined by Congress,
and that the diplomatic representa-
tives of Spain shortly would occupy
that site, Mr. Proctor delved bit into
the history Of that neighborhood.
Traces History of Hill.
He traced Meridian Hill as a part
of Mount Pleasant at the time the
original proprietors transferred their
title to the Government for the CITY
of Washington through Robert Peter,
the first subsequent owner, who
erected a log mansion, 36 by % feet,
nv
teenth. Fourteenth and w streets and
Florida avenue, and d, wn through
history to the latter part of the nine
teenth century. He told how in 1916
Commodore David Porter. through
grant from Washington Bowie, came
into the Peter estate, which came to
be known as Meridian Hill.
About this date" he said, Porter
erected here for himself q home from
plans drawn by George Hadfield, de-
signer of our City Hall and other
structures in and around Washington.
As near as / am able to TELL this
building stood where is now the
Meridian Mansions, at 2400 Sixteenth
street.
THE commodore took title to 10
acres, for which he agreed to pay
$4,000"
In minute details, interesting events
in the annals of that neighborhood
were brought out for consideration.
The race track on Holmead's farm in
1902 drew especial attention.
Race Drew 10000.
"The center of this track" Mr.
Proctor said, was somewhere in the
vicinity of Columbia road and Four
teenth street, and here some of the
great races of the day took place.
One particular event occurred January
3, 1922, when 10000 persons attended
to see the race between the Virginia
horse, Sir Charles, and Eclipse. A
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For the days that has taken
al O.
No iberac terms o
O monthly
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Baltimore: DIR. Samuel c. Mitchell, of
Richmond University, Virginia; Rabbi
Abram Simon, of Eighth Street Tenn
pie, chairman of the Synagogue Coun-
Gil of America. and Mountford Mills OF
New York and London.
Mrs. A. s. Parsons, 1918 n street,
is chairman of the national inter
racial committee, with the following
members: Mrs. Eldridge Roger Boyle,
Mrs. Corale +. Cook. Mrs. Marian
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cities of the United States by the
National Inter-Racial Committee of
the Bahais of the United States and
Canada. The purpose of the meetings
is to create and develop better un-
Outstanding between races of all coun-
tries.
Leading educators, lecturers and
ministers, 1t is announced. will address
the convention, including DIR. Pezavia
OConnell dean of Morgan College.
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McGhan Will Filed.

The will of Addison III. McGhan, in
ventor of the McGhan outdoor scat
fold. who died March 81, was filed to-
day for probate. He leaves IS each
to his children, Francis p, Helena L.,
William A, and Harold E. McGhan.
The remaining estate is devised in
trust to his daughter, Mary M. Nc
Chan, who is directed to pay one
half the income to his widow, Marian
/. McGhan, during her life, and to
retain the other half for herself. On
the death of the widow her share of
the income is to be used for the chill
dren. Charles A. and Isabelle l.. Nc
Chan. until the younger becomes rs
years old, when for a term of 10 years
they share equally with the other chill
dren named. The trust Is then to end
and the daughter, Mary, takes one
half of the estate and the other half
is to be distributed among the other
children.
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ORGANIZATIONS INVITED
TO RACIAL CONVENTION
Amity Sessions to Open in Mount
Pleasant Tomorrow, with
Closing Program Sunday.

Officers and members of important
women's clubs, as well as leading so.
cial and civic organizations, have been
invited to attend the convention for
racial amity which begins tomorrow
evening with a meeting at the Mt.
Pleasant Congregational Church, on
Columbia road. at SIS. Another ses.
sion will be held, at the same place,
on Saturday evening and the last
meeting will be Sunday afternoon at
$50 at the Playhouse.
The racial amity convention is one
of series being held in the principal