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Evening star., 1927-04-11
Miss Marr of Warrenton Dies.

Special Dispatch tO The Star.
WARRENTON, Va, April 11.-Miss
Jane Blackburn Marr died at her
home here today of the infirmities
of age. She was 81 years old and the
last survivor of a large family. She
was a sister of John Quincy Marr,
captain of the Warrenton Rifiemen,
who was killed at Fairfax Courthouse
June 8, 1861, the first Confederate
soldier to die in battle, and of Miss
Frances H. Mari, well known South
ern poet. Funeral services were held
this afternoon at st. James Church.
Evening star., 1927-04-11
Local Radio Entertainment
Monday, April II, 1927.

NAA-Washington Navy Yard (434.6
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1O:45 a.m.-Weather Bureau reports.
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II to Il noon.Current events and
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Evening star., 1927-04-11
Camp Named for Ritchie.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICK, Md, April 1.-THE
90O-acre military reservation in the
Blue Ridge Mountains, northwest of
here, will be known as Camp Albert
C. Ritchie, an order from Gen. Milton
A. Reckord, in command of Mary
land National Guard, received here
Saturday states. The camp was
formally taken over by the State Ma
tional Guard Friday.
Evening star., 1927-04-11
Greek Cabinet Shake-Up Averted

ATHENS, Greece, April II N).--A
compromise among party leaders has
averted q threatened cabinet shake
up growing cut of the resignation of
i. L. Tsaldaris as minister Of the in
terror. NJ Tsaldaris had resigned be
cause Of differences over the selection
ef a new chief Of gendarmerie,,
Evening star., 1927-04-11
RADIOS BEST OFFERINGS
TONIGHT.

Roxy and His Gang" WRC,
WIZ and other stations, 7 80
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Chamber of Commerce night,
WHAZ, 8 o'clock.
Musical program by the
A. & P. Gypsies, WRC, WEAF
and other stations, 9 to 10
o'clock.
"Lakme," by the WEAF
Grand Opera Co, WRC, WEAF
and associated stations, 10 to
IL o'clock.
"The Sea Cruiser" by Studio
Players, WPG, 1880 to II
o'clock.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-09-10
"cHICAGO'S HEALTH"
Weekly Bulletin, Chicago Department
of Health
IS THE FIRST r"
BY Herman N. Bundesen, MD, SEQ,
Commissioner

Five hundred thousand children are
going back to school after summer
Of freedom, play, sunshine and fresh
air.
give hundred thousand children to
be put together in more or less close
contact, in the season of less sun
shine and more indoor life.
This summer, fortunately, our chill
dren have been freer from disease than
ever before" says DR.. Herman N.
Bundesen, in his latest bulletin.
Now the trick is how to combine
three Rs with the tanned glowing
health acquired during the summer
vacation. Also, how to continue the
resistance to disease so as to keep up
Chicago's reputation as the safest place
in the world for a school child to live
in" says DR.. Bundesen.
I'm addition to the three R's-read-
ing, 'riting and 'rithmetic, add one
more R-ruggedness. Rugged health
is what the youngsters need for good
work in the school and for future
growth.
get your child's birth certificate,
protect him against smallpox and diph-
iberia, see that he wears suitable cloth
ing, gets plenty of sleep, and then
there is nothing that will stop the
child's health and education" con-
cludes the Commissioner.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-09-10
BIG INITIALS ON BELT LANDS
FAMILY DESERTER IN CELL
preston News Service)

Newark, N. j., Sept. 8.-Vanity in
having his fve-inch belt studded with
his initials caused the downfall Of Viii
liam T. Coey. He was arrested Wed
nesday on charge Of being a fugitive
from justice from New York City.
For two months at intervals officers
have been seeking Coey, it is said, who
is charged with leaving New York
State after being indicted for abandon
ment Of children in March. Receiving
a tip that Coey, known as Slim, was
frequenting the lumber yards in the
vicinity Of South street station Of the
Pennsylvania railroad, the officers
watched the neighborhood.
The officers spotted the tall man who
resembled Coey's description sent
there from New York The stranger
wore belt and on the back Of which
were the initials Nv. T. G." in brass
studs. 1t was Coey.
Say, Slim the officer called with
out revealing his identity, what are
those initials for?'
That's my name, William T. Coey."
Coey answered proudly.
1T is, ehf Don't you know you are
wanted for an indictment in New York
State for abandonment of your chill
dren?"
Sure I do" answered Coey with an
air Of nonchalance.
The officer then took Mr.. Coey to
the lookup and soon made arrange
ments for his transportation back to
New York State to answer the charges
preferred against him.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-09-10
Charts of Progress

Optimists would enjoy set Of
charts exhibited at the Pan-African
Congress. They show, for example,
that Negro illiteracy in so years has
declined from 80 to % per cent.
In the corresponding decade Of the
last century, only four American Ne
groes graduated from a college. This
decade the numbers will exceed $500.
Not far from two and a half million
of the 100000 Negroes indicated as
inhabitants of the United States by
1880 will be in school, learning more
practical lessons than their parents
learn.
Intelligence, character and thrift are
the sign boards of progress for every
race. Our country promotes all three.
Pittsburgh Press.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-09-10
WILLIE ROBERTSON GRANTED
SHORT REPRIEVE
preston News Service)

Austin, Texas, Sept. 9-William
Robertson, alias Jesse Benkley, under
death sentence for murder in Denton
county, in connection with the Staying
Of Justin farmer last year, gained
new lease on life Tuesday when
twenty-day reprieve was granted to
him by Governor Moody. Robertson
was slated to die in the electric chair
September 2.
1t is reported that when Governor
Moody was district attorney for VIII
hanson county he prosecuted Robert
son and secured conviction for bur
glary and assault, which carried with
it a total sentence of 104 years. Rob
ertson was placed in prison and began
serving the long term. Last year he
escaped from the Ramsey state peni-
tertiary farm and short while after
was arrested and convicted for murder
growing out of the killing of Justin
farmer.
Bonnie Mitchell is now serving l04
year sentence. He was convicted along
with Robertson by Gov. Moody, when
he was district attorney. Robertson
now says that he alone is responsible
for the crime for which he and Nit
chell were convicted and urged Gov
ernor Moody to turn Mitchell loose.
In the request for clemency the
mother of the condemned man said she
was unable to raise sufficient funds to
secure the services of a lawyer to de-
fend her son and that the first time
she knew he was in the death cell was
week ago. She said that Joseph D.
Frank, Columbus lawyer, would pre-
pare statement Of facts and circum-
stances bearing on the case and pre-
sent them to the Governor with a re-
quest to commute the sentence.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-09-10
ExJudge Of the Municipal Court of Chicago, who made
splendid record in that and many of his
and supporters urging him to become candidate

ents of the Graves administration will
doubtless claim much credit for having
enacted the Tompkins gesture. Such
presumption will be Of piece with the
arrogant dismissal of realities which
has marked much Of the work Of this
Legislature.
A great opportunity to relieve the
state Of burning disgrace has been
missed BY the General Assembly. The
mask remains, and that means that the
people of Alabama must continue to
face the prospect of heartless enor-
mites perpetrated by men whose cour-
age and strength in that which hides
their identity from the world.-Bir-
mingham Age Herald.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-09-10
LOUISIANA JURY INDICTS TWO
POLICEMEN ON BRUTAL
ITY CHARGE
preston News Service)

New Orleans, La, Sept. 1.-TWO
white policemen were indicted by the
grand jury in criminal court Tuesday
and released under bail Of $500 each
on charges of assaulting and beating
John D. Johnson, we'll known Negro
plasterer, on August 9. Both officers
deny the charges.
John Doskey and Joseph Tierney,
two patrolmen, are accused of assault
ing Johnson after arresting him at the
corner of St. Charles avenue and Cadiz
street, August 9. According to the
afhdavits the two officers went to
Johnson's home, ransacked it of per-
sonal belongings for purported evil
dence Of burglary, took Johnson to
the Seventh Precinct and beat him.
Johnson visited District Attorney
Eugene Stanley with his employer and
preferred charges against the two Of
fcers. On the way to the night court
Johnson further alleges, blood from
his wounds after the beating was so
obvious that the policemen stopped en-
route and washed the wounds with
salt and water.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-09-10
But Masks Remain

The Tompkins Bill against flogging
is sop to Cerebus. So much hostil-
ity has developed toward the mask
that legislators were bound to take
notice of the widespread feeling. That
accounts for this bill, offered as a
stroke against hoggings, but devoid Of
any means for strengthening the hands
Of the authorities in dealing with the
evil.
The bill makes a felony of what is
now a misdemeanor That does not
improve the situation to any appreci-
able extent. What was needed was a
statute to prevent foggings by making
it unhealthy. What Mr.. Tompkins has
done, no matter how sound his mo-
tives, is to make the adventure of fog
ging just bit more titillating than it
has been. What was needed was a law
to deprive brutes with gift for the
lash of the incentive and the security
of the mask. What Mr.. Tompkins has
achieved is to let these amiable citizens
know that they had better be careful.
The very heart of the matter Of fog
gings is in the mask. Without it,
night-riders take the risk of the Grim
inal. With it, they take no chances at
all. Since devotees Of the whip do not
hesitate to 60 far aheld in search OF
victims, how shall victims identity
their assailants if the latter are hidden
by hood and robe? In Georgia q
woman who had been logged recog-
nized a particular man by his legs. But
how many women are SO observant
and what would even she have done il
the person she noted had kept his
clothes down?
Apologists for the khan and adher-
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-09-10
EXPRESSIONS OF THANKS TO
THE MANY FRIENDS OF HON.
EDWARD H. WRIGHT

The undersigned, wife and sisters Of
Hon. Edward H. Wright, express their
sincere thanks to the many friends OF
Commissioner Wright for their kind
ness during his recent illness in St
Elizabeth Hospital.
They are pleased to announce that
he is greatly improved and is again al
his home. 1914 Calumet avenue.
Very sincerely,
Lucille F. Wright
bessie F. Gonzales
Esther L. Newman
Chicago, Iii.
Sept 9, 1927.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-09-10
ARKANSAS DEMONSTRATION
AGENT RESIGNS POST
preston News Service)

(Presfon News ServIce)
Pine Bluff, Ark, Sept. 8.-Miss Lula
R. Toler, who for the past two years
has acted in the capacity OF home dem
onstration agent for Jefferson county,
has resigned and it is said that within
the next few weeks will probably enter
rural educational work. The resigna-
ton is said to have resulted from
charges Of unfairness made by an ex-
tension worker at the annual district
short course here last week. Miss
Toler has asked Mr.. Reid. head Of the
state department. to investigate her
work here.
Before coming to Pine Bluff Miss
Toler was science teacher in a high
school in Birmingham, Ala. Previous
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-09-10
NINE. WILSON HoNoRED

The California School Of Beauty
Culture Study Class of which Nine.
Collonia Ghee is president and Mrs.
Thee. Harris is secretary, entertained
at the home Of the president, 3425 S.
Wabash avenue, Sept. |, in honor OF
Nine. Katharyn Wilson Of Omaha,
Neb. A program was rendered at the
close Of which dainty refreshments
were served.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-09-10
ly she was home demonstration agent
in Mississippi with headquarters in
Meridian.
SAYS KU KLUX KHAN rs
LOSING OUT NOW"
preston News Service)

Birmingham, Ala, Sept. 9.-The Ku
Klux Khan is losing its grip, according
to J. L. Lilies, vice president Of the
Birmingham Laymen's League, who
declared in an address at meeting Of
church workers last Wednesday night.
Mr.. Lilies thinks the people will now
turn to joining the church as they did
a few years ago in becoming members
Of the khan. He says that the Khan is
not so popular now and the people will
again turn to the church.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-09-10
NEGRO CATHOLICS TO MEET
IN THIRD ANNUAL CONVEN-
TON NEXT SUNDAY
Sessions to Open With Solemn High
Mass at ST. Charles Borromeo's
Church Here-Prof. Eugene Clark
Keynote Speaker

The third annual convention of the
Federated Colored Catholics Of the
United States were held this year
this week with headquarters at St.
Marks hall. 81 West 18Th street.
The convention opened with a
Solemn High Mass in St. Charles Bor-
romeo's Church, 213 West l4lst street,
Sunday morning, Sept 4, at 1880
O'Clock. Ri. Rev. Msgr. Thomas M.
O'Keefe, pastor Of the Church Of St.
Benedict the Moor, preached the SER
mon.
Sunday afternoon, in St. Marks
Hall, at o'clock, the program was
devoted to welcome addresses and the
keynote speech Of the convention. The
keynote speech was delivered by Prof.
Eugene Clark, assistant superintendent
Of public schools, Washington, D. c.
On Monday, Sept. 5, two important
business sessions were held in St.
Marks Hail. In the mornig DR..
Thomas w. Turner, president of the
Federated Colored Catholics, delivered
his annual address, delegates reported,
and Mr.. Clark Of Philadelphia deliv-
cred an address on "The Value of a
Native Clergy"
The Federated Colored Catholics Of
the United States aim to bring about
a closer union and better feeling among
all Catholic Negroes, to advance
the cause of Catholic education
throughout the Negro population, to
seek to raise the general status Of the
Negro in the church, and to stimulate
Catholic Negroes to larger participa-
ton in racial and civic affairs Of the
various communities and OF the whole
country.
It has the hearty cooperation Of the
highest authorities OF the Catholic
Church, Most Rev. M. ]. Curley, Arch
bishop Of Baltimore, being its spiritual
director.
The following are officers of the
Federated Colored Catholics:
Most Rev. Michael ]. Curley, Arch
bishop Of Baltimore, spiritual director;
DR.. Thomas w. Turner, Hampton IN
stitute, Hampton, Va, president; w. J..
Reed, Columbus. Ohio, first vice pres
ident; Elmo NJ Anderson, New York.
second vice president; Joseph E. VIII
kinson, St. Louis, Mo-, third vice pres
ident; Frank Mitchell, Boston, Mass; ;
fourth vice president; Miss Caroline
L Cook, Baltimore, Nd, treasurer;
A. R. Feliciano, Detroit, Mich. record
ing secretary; Miss Genevieve Burke.
Washington, D. C., assistant secretary;
Peter NJ. Quander, Washington, D. c.,
sergeant-at-arns; H. Nj. Smith, secre-
tary, 1913 COrcorsn street, N. w.,
Washington, D. C.; William A. Prater,
Washington. D. C., organizer and field
agent.
Elmo n. Anderson. business man
ager Of the ColOred Missions, month
iy magazine, Room goo, ia Nassau
street, heads committee which is ar
ranging for the convention.
Atty. Miles Paige and Mrs. ElOise
Bibb-Thonapson Of New York City de-
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-09-10

George M. Johnson, a native Of
Roanoke, Va, and who for the past IS
years has resided in Pennsylvania, is
the head Of a concern employing
dozen mechanics manufacturing coal
mining safety devices. Mr.. johnson
has taken out more than score OF
patents on his various safety devices
and mine appliances. The manufac-
turing plant is located at Jeanette,
Pa.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-09-10
WHAT OTHER EDITORS ARE
SAYING
A Sign Of Progress

l;tical League represents a sign q
progress in the activities of the col
ored people Of Memphis. It further
demonstrates the unselhshness Of the
group of men at its head and their ut
ter desire to render service to their
race.
The organization was born in the
brain Of Lieutenant George w. Lee,
who, while fighting in the trenches Of
mo Mans Land" for world democ-
racy, learned the meaning Of sacrifice
and became a convert TO the principle
of liberality through baptism of shot
and gas and shell.
Sunday the organization started a
program Of education in citizenship
that covered an entire week and thou
sands listened while the principles OF
citizenship were being taught through
a coterie Of experienced teachers head
ed by Colonel Roscoe Conkling Sim
mons.
This effort is of great significance.
1t marks the turning point in our po-
litical life. It announces the awakening
Of our racial consciousness.
The encouraging thing about it all
is that the organization is financed by
members themselves and that there are
no paid officers. 1t is happy rehec-
ton to note that the chairman and
founder is the same big, broad-hearted
parsonage, who, when the Mississippi
Life, built out Of the sweat and toll Of
our fathers and mothers, was sold to
the Southern Insurance Company
(white) refused to work for the COM
pany at salary of $1,000 per year
preferring to give his brain and energy
to the building up Of enterprises in his
own race at much smaller salary.
Thus the organization sits on basis
of independence, is committed to no
faction, is controlled by no bosses. 1t
is truly "of the people, for the people
and BY the people" and out Of it must,
indeed, emanate incalculable good.
The slogan for the week was $4,000
qualified voters. And we believe it
was reached, in fact we think it was
surpassed. Experience has taught US
that men in Office cease to hear when
we talk with our mouth-we must talk
with the ballot. Somehow, they do
not fear the law of God or the law of
man, but they will be kind enough to
respect a vote.
Representing as we do third of the
population of our great and growing
city, we are woefully without repre-
sentation in any of its departments,
while two or more cities in our own
state can boast Of having colored fire.
men and policemen. There are many
other positions filed by colored men
and women under the administration
of other cities in our state that we do
not enjoy in Memphis.
Why? you ask. We have the num-
bers and we have the brain; but the
answer is, you are without the power.
Men no longer speak but for them
selves, organizations must speak for
multitudes and races.
The West Tennessee Civic and Po-
litical League is a great organization,
has great program, deserves a great
membership. 1t is our best sign OF
permanent progress.-Editor T. ].
Johnson, Memphis Triangle.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-09-10
GREETINGS FROM MRS.
BEATRICE LEE-cooPER

This week Mr.. and Mrs. Julius F.
Taylor received card Of greeting
from Mrs. Beatrice Lee-Cooper, who
is now in Hungary and is making a
complete tour Of Europe
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-09-10

Mrs. Martha B. Anderson, 1885
Champlain avenue, has sold her three
fat building at that number And- for
some time to come she will reside at
Marshall, Texas.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-09-10

livered the addresses Of welcome to
the delegates and visitors
Col Noah d. Thompson is one Of
the head leaders in the movement
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-09-10
BY CHARLES STEWART, JR.

President Coolidge is breaking camp
at Rapid City, South Dakota, the sum-
mer White House. carrying with him
the contents OF his work shop and i
is reported that labels are pasted on
the car window that he might not be
ANNOYED at the various stations as to
whether he meant the new sentence m
history as hard in construction as the
Vermont marble, Il do not choose to
run" Thus the political wise acres
are framing their own special prop
uganda in order that some things may
be placed before Congress either IN the
special session or in the regular session
which will bring out Of the mind OF
some favorite sons the points which
will be OF such interest that the con-
trolling powers Of the next National
Convention can center around.
Whether or not they have marked
Illinois on the map if they have any
intention Of fair dealing, they will rec
oqnize the fact that Illinois has n
votes in the convention and at no time
in its history has there been man
who was born in Illinois, educated IN
her institutions who seems to nave
been worthy Of the confidence Of the
political dictators in the Republican
convention. The Lowdens and the
Daweses. migrators from Iowa and
Ohio. either married wealth or imam
cial conditions gave them opportunity
70 inherit wealth that it would be Just
and fair if they intend to combine to
nush bv character of Illinois who by
his stern executive worth has proved
his executive ability, therefore It IS
time to recognize the fact that U. >.
Senator Charles S. Deneen IS a son OF
Illinois by birth and made his own
wav bv the mind dedicated to him by
his parents and deserves special recog-
milton.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-09-10

Cornell Charity Club met last Fri
day at the home of Mrs. Matte Finch
451o Vincennes avenue. A large mum
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-09-10

Out Of the chaotic political condition
in Indiana, a governor being convicted,
Governor Jackson now being charged
with malfeasance in Office and personal
crooked dealings with the ex-Dragon
Stevenson of the K. K. KS now in
the penitentiary, as fall approaches
some political way out must be con-
cretely woven in order that the state OF
Tom Taggart and the men of the spirit
Of Dan Voorhees, and English can be
kept in the background. 1t has been
wisely suggested, since the unfortunate
condition deprives the Republican
party of the most powerful man in all
Indiana in half century, the late
Senator Albert ]. Beverage.
Men of the best thinking minds are
endeavoring to put into the running
for the governor Of the state Of In
diana, Postmaster General Harry S.
New. 1t is an undeniable fact that his
management of the Post Office depart
ment has been of that high character
in using every effort to develop the
transportation of the mail in cities and.
the rural districts Of the country that
his name has become household word
and at the ballot box in the forthcom-
ing primary Postmaster General New
will defeat any contender. He will unite
every element Of the party and will
enable them in November, 1923, to put
Indiana in the Republican columns be-
yond all reasonable doubt. He is to
give an answer in short time so that
his friends will have ample time to per-
feet successful campaign.
The funeral of the late Rev. ]. N.
McCracken was held at Quinn Chapel
A.M.E. Church, Wabash avenue and
oath street, Thursday at ii a. m. He
had been a minister in this field for
more than three score years; he was
the dean Of service of the church in
Illinois having served in every section
of the state; he knew his church and
civic history, he is the last Of the old
school in this district.
Cornell Charity Club met last Fri
l.. - - t,,,,,a of Nc AHa+t;a E;1ct,
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-09-10

Mrs. J. NJ. Brumheld and family re-
turned to the city this week after hav-
ing spent the greater part of the sum-
nner at their summer home, Lake Ivan
hoe, Wis.
The Washington times., 1927-04-23

CHICAGO, April ga moderate
supply of hogs gave a better tone
to the market today and prices
were strong to 1Oc higher. Top for
light was 5000. Good heavy sold
at $3.50. The market is 75c lower
for the week.
The cattle market was nominally
steady. Steers showed % to 75c de.
cline for the week and cows SOC.
Bulls are strong to q higher for
the week. Calves declined 81. Feed.
ers sold steady to strong.
Lambs were mostly soc lower for
the week.