davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-03
DEPRIEST NAMED FOR CONGRESS
Colored Leader
Is Chosen For
Madden's S Post

CHICAGO, May 2.-(SpeciaD-
Oscar Depriest, former alderman and
now committeeman from the third
ward, was chosen the Republican
congressional nominee for the First
Illinois District today. Depriest's
name will replace that of the late
Congressman Martin d. Madden on
the November ballot. Four ward
committeeman empowered by law
to fill the vacancy on the ballot
selected Depriest from among sew
eral Negro candidates for the honor.
Among them were Bishop A. J.
Carey OF the A. NJ. +. Church and
William l.. Dawson. unsuccessful
contender against Mr.. Madden In
the primary Depriost is loyal
supporter OF Mayor Thompson and
II Is understood the Mayor was in
fluential in the selection OF his
colored lieutenant. Mayor Thomp-
son controls the ward committee
men empowered by law TO fill the
vacancy on the ballot. The Firat.
Second and Third Wards constitute
the greater part of the First Dis
trict. The ward committeeman there
are Daniel Serritella, an Italian, and
Dan Jackson and Oscar DePriest.
Negroes. The district also, includes
part CT the Eleventh ward. where
W. S. Finucane is committeeman.
and one precinct of the Thirteenth.
where John Oberta was shown win-
ner on the face of the election re-
turns. ,
Election law experts say the 1927
primary law is unmistakable in It's
provisions for filling the vacancy. IL
specifies that the Congressional CON-
mittee shall fill the place and that
the ward committeeman In a Chicago
district constitute that committee.
Colored people throughout the
country have had an eye on the
possibility of having a congressman
of their race from the First Illinois
District. This district includes the
south aide black belt and III has
been claimed that three-f0urths Of
its registered voters are Negroes.
At each biennial primary and elec-
ton for the last decade, including
the recent primary. the race ques-
tlon has been raised TO some extent
and the general query following the
news from Washington of the con-
gressman's death was whether a
Negro would be given the nomina-
tion won by Mr., Madden on April
10. The question has now been
settled with the naming Of Oscar
Depriest.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-03
Church Balcony Crashes; Score Hurt
New York Editor Is
Endorsed for Congress

NEW YORK. N. Y.-(ANP)-
The Kings County Republican Com
mittee Saturday evening went on
record as endorsing George w. Har-
ris, editor of the New York News,
as candidate for Congress from Har-
lem district. Mr.. Harris, who for
merly served as Alderman from the
21st Assembly District, was present
at the meeting, at which time the
Kings County Republican Mems Con
ference was formed to secure the
fullest cooperation from other or
ganizations in the Brooklyn district.
The former alderman. has an even
better than fair chance of winning
the election IL he is nominated and it
is expected that he will run inde-
pendently Of the organization If he
fails to secure the nomination.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-03
Oldest Person In World Is A Negro,
Age l32, On Island OF Cyprus
(Enterprisel News Bureau)

Joseph speaks Creek, the Ian
guage of the island, but for a num-
ber of years his words have been
very few, according to the report
of those who recently visited him.
He is not able to relate his his
tory, and he can recall only few
incidents in his life. The heads Of
the Church of Terra Sanda, how
ever, know his history from past
narratives told by the old Negro,
and in piecing these together they
have been able to reconstruct some
thing Of the history Of their ancient
ward.
1t appears that at the beginning
of the nineteenth century Joseph
was kidnapped as child from
Darfour, near Sudan, Africa, and
was sold into Egypt, where a
large slave traffic was then con-
Quoted. He remembers Imbrame
Pasha, the son of the ruler Of Egypt,
Mohammed Ali, who was in charge
Of the expedition against Greece in
1927, and who was defeated by the
combined navies of England, France
and Russia at the Battle of Navar-
ino. ~
Joseph was bought by pirate
boat which at that time was sail
ing in the Mediterranean, and which
brought him from Egypt to Cyprus.
where he was resold, and where he
also obtained his liberty like all
other Africans.
In 1868, when Joseph was 81
years old, he was baptiscd By q
priest who converted him to Cathol-
icism and gave him his name, Jo-
seph remembers the hanging Of many
Greeks, on the island BY the Turks
in 1921, when the Greeks first re-
volted against Turkey.
Until recently he was able to
give the names Of his mother anl
father and to repeat the name OF
the King Of Darfour. Aristorp.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-03

NEW YORK, May 2--In the town
of Limassol, on ehe Island of Cy-
prus, far out in the Mediterranean,
lives a man who is believed to be the
oldest person in the world. He is a
Negro, 1872 years old. His name is
Joseph. Daily he attends his duties
as gardener of the Terra Sanda
Church, strolls around the yard
tending the flowers without the aid
OF a cane, talks but little, has no
cares or worries, yet his well-being
and the state of his health recently
were the subject of inquiry at the
request of the King Of England, The
Island of Cyprus, is under British
rule.
Joseph was examined by two
physicians and organically he waa
declared to be in sound health and
has the prospect of living at least
ten more years. His sight is inn
paired by the presence of q double
cataract; he is virtually deaf, al
though he can hear IL the speaker
talks directly in to his ear; he has
only three teeth, but as his gums
have hardened and now are vir-
tually pctrified he is able to masti-
cate his food and has no digestive
trouble.
Joseph, who still remembers q
few outstanding incidents in his
life, recalls Napoleon, whose con-
quests, reign and ruin all took
place before Joseph had reached
his twenty-first birthday.
The ancient Negro was born in
1896, three years before George
/ Washington died. When Edgni
Allen Poe died in Baltimore at the
age of 3S Joseph was "gettine
along in years" He would be
so on his next birthday. When Jo'
seph was born virtually nothing
had happened in the way Of mod
ern industrial development ant
the SCIENCES
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-03
You Are Now Reading
THE ENTERPRISE
Newsiest Negro Newspaper
West of Chicago
In Norfolk, Va, You Can Never
Forget To Which Race You Belong
(Enterpri.e New. Bpreau)


brought tons and tons of gathered
foodstuffs which make the selfish
merciless few rich and the lazy, fatter
still. In one quarter in Norfolk
people are made for vegetables, in
another quarter vegetables are made
for people. ~
Jim Grow At The Ferry
The most absent minded "son Of
Ham, never forgets one thing so long
as he lives at Norfolk: to which race
he belongs. Instead of tying string
around the finger he is given certain
exercises. At the ferry is made to run
around through the station, finally
coming out where he can see the
other race. Upon leaving the
boats he is forced to cross in front
of automobiles. driven mostly by
Virginians, as the Chinese, Japanese,
and other whites pass safely on.
With such exercise there will
soon be. developed in these parts the
Super Race so much dreamed about
Norfolk pays especial attention ia
its colored citizens and visitors.
Pork And Pigs Feet
Before writing his article on Ne
gro Inhibitions, Gordon ought tc
have visited in Tidewater-Norfolk
and Portsmouth in particular. The
Continued on Page Four)
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-03
70 Negroes In
House Since SO;
Two In Senate

WASHINGTON, d. G., May a.
(Special) Selection of n Negro TO
succeed the late Representative Mar
tin b. Madden of Chicago would by
no means set Il precedent.
Twenty Negroes have served the
house. Two Negroes have occupied
seats In the senate. The last Negro
member retired from the house "a
years ago The first entered con-
gress In 1869.
The two Negro senator's were
Hiram d. Revels of Mississippi, who
served in 1870 and 1871, and B. X.
Bruce of the same state, who was
in the senate from 1875 TO 1881.
OF the twenty Negroes In the
house four were from North Caro-
lima, eight from South Carolina.
three from Alabama, and one each
from Virginia, Mississippi Georgia,
Florida and Louisiana.
North Carolina Members
Those from North Carolina were
John A. Lyman, who served in the
forty-fourth congress; James II.
O'Hara, fcrty-eighth and forty-ninth
congresses; Henry p. Cheatham.
fifty-first and fifty-second congresses
and George II. White, fifty-fifth and
fifty-sixth congresses.
White was the last Negro men,
ber of the house. O'Hara had the
distinction OF once defeating Furni-
field NJ. Simmons, present United
States senator.
South Carolina Negro members
were Joseph H. Rainey, who served
for ten years, from the forty-nrst
to the forty-fifth congresses; Alonzo
]. Bansier, forty-third congress;
Robert ID. Elliott, forty-second and
forty-third congresses; Richard IL
Cain. forty-third and forty.fourtll
congresses Robert Smalls. forty.
fourth, forty-fifth, forty-seventh, for
ty-elghth and forty-ninth congresses
Robert C. DE Large, fcrty-second
congress; Thomas +. Miller, forty
first congress, and George w. Muir
! ray, fifty.third and fifty-fourth con-
crosses.
Three From Alabama
Alabama members were Benja
min s. Turner. forty-second con
gress; James T. Bapier. forty-thirC
congress, and Jere Haralson, forty
| fourth. congress.
The other Negro members wer'
! jefferson S. Long of Georgia, one o
the earliest members, serving in TN
forty-first congress;. Joseph t. Wall
of Florida forty-second, for'y-thir'
and fourty-fourth congresses; Char
les f. Nash of Louisiana. forty
fourth congress; John r. Lynch 0
Mississippi. forty-third, forty-fourtl
and fortyseventh congresses. am
John NJ. Langston of Virginia, fifty
first congress.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-03
10000 To Attend A.
M. E. Gen'I Conference

CHICAGO, May 2.-(Special)-
When the twenty-eighth quadrennial
conference of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church convenes here May
1926. il will bring to Chicago dele
gates from Africa, South America,
Canada, and the United States. Close
to 10000 Negroes are expected from
the eighteen Episcopal districts.
Headquarters will be at the Eighth
Regiment armory, 35th street and
Giles avenue. Bishop A. L. Gaines
of Chicago will be official host to
the general conference.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-03
Disaster Stalks
through Church As
Conference Closes

CAMDEN, N. j., May 1.-(spe-
ciaD--Death and disaster, terror
and pain featured in the sudden
closing of the New Jersey annual
conference of the A. NJ. +. Zion
Church when the wooden balcony,
containing nearly 600 people. col
lapsed in the Wesley A. NJ. f..
Church, Sycamore and Ann streets,
where the conference was TO close
within 20 minutes Sunday night.
George Brooks, 81, Keyport dele
gate, was, killed outright, and scores
were injured.
A wild panic suddenly seized the
1r600 people who crowded the edi-
flee to oyerflowlng and a mad dash
was made for every available exit.
About 100 ministers were pres
ent, including Bishop r. A. Wallace
of New York, who presided, but
none of the ministers was injured.
Bishop Wallace and his aids
sought to calm the terror-stricken
crowd, who by this time were AFRAID
that the entire building might fall
upon them.
While the peoples screams of pain
and fright sent chill up and down
the spine and the widest disorder
continued, firemen and ponce ar
rived 10 Degn rescue work. Buses
and private automobiies were press
ed into service TO remove the IN
Jured to hospitals, and 1t was not
until O'Clock Monday morning that
the work was tlnlshed: :,
George BROOKS OF keyport, N. J',
" years old, VINO was delegate 20
tne conference, was the man klhed'
He was seated IN pew under the
rear balcony, and so the faiilne
debris pinned him against the END oi
the pew as ne arose IN Xal ellorl
70 escape. ms Dack was oroheh any any
he died on the way to the New Jer'
sey Hospital.
The balcony was supported oy
lO-inch timber pillars, whicn endcc
in shoulder, and an investigator
showed that the weight OF the GROVE
that packed the balcony mad driver
the pillars through, the fioor below
The balcony on the west SIDE re
mained intact, but those IN the aug
fence declare tnat tne ehtlre puilu
ing rocked as though shaken Dy ai
earthquake.
fortunateiy, the rear lastenlns
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-03
Minister Is Styled .
"Mudfoot Baptist

GREAT FALLS, Mont.-Alleging
that the Rev. A. NJ. Featherston,
colored minister, sis quite frequent
ly referred to as being what is
known as 'Mudfoot Baptist" that
he is illiterate, inefficient and has
made himself obnoxious to his con-
gregation, the Union Bethel African
Methodist Episcopal church and trus-
tees of the church have filed in the
Wilson Justice court an answer TO
the minister's suit for $2S3 alleged
ly due for services as pastor of the
church and as janitor.
Feathers On commenced SUIT
against the church and the trustees
on April 8, contending that he had
not been paid for services. Through
out the answer filed by the defend
ants, evidence is found of the min
lister and the trustees being IN dls-
cord. 1t is alleged by the church
board that Featherston is not an
ordained minister of the African
Methodist Episcopal church and that
he is not religious man. The con-
troversy led to Featherston being
"locked out" of the church, 1t is in
dicated.
In his complaint, Featherston al
legged that on November /. 1927, he
was duly appointed pastor of the
Great Falls church and that he was
an ordained minister of the African
Methodist Episcopal church. He de-
clares that his salary was fixed al
$40 per week and that he served as
pastor from November 8, 1927, un-
til March 81, 1928.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-03
Puget Sound Co. Head
Wires Aid to Gardner

Impressed by the gallant effort
being made by Ed ("Sheik") Gard
ner, Seattle Negro runner, in the
Coast -to-Coast foot race being held
under c. C. Pyle's management, A.
w. Leonard, president of the Puget
Sound Power and Light Company,
Saturday handed $25 to the Post
Intelligencer to be telegraphed to
Gardner en- route.
In his message to the runner, MIR.
Leonard expressed his admiration
of Gardner's condition, the clean
living and hard training it reflected,
and his courage in attempting the
race almost without financial assist
ance. He also mentioned his appre-
citation of the advertising value his
showing to date has been to Seattle
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-03
Urban League
Reports Increase
In Unemployment

NEW YORK, May 2.-(SpeciaD
The National Urban League re-
ports as follows on industrial changes
during the month of April: Though
unemployment is still abnormal, the
month witnessed the beginning of a
gradual change for the better in the
general unemployment situation
which had been said to be the worst
since, 1921. The building trades be-
gan to improve; steel and iron fac
tories increased their working days;
the automobile industry added men
TO their pay rolls and textile opera
tions moved forward. As a conse-
quence the employment situation
among Negroes which in the main
follows the general trend for the
country, is showing signs of improve
ment. Negroes are not returning to
the jobs that have been taken over
by whites but the shift from colored
to white labor began to slow up dur
ing the latter part of April, although
Pine Bluff added one hotel to the
rather long list that have changed
to white service help.
Conditions in Winston Salem ap-
parently grew worse and from there
it was reported: "There are more
Negroes unemployed in the city of
Winston-Salem during the month of
April than has been in ten years.
Cleveland and Detroit show con-
siderable gain among Negroes. The
Negro Welfare Association reported
an increase of 81 per cent in the
total number of placements as COM
pared with the month of March.
The most outstanding achieve
ment came from Chicago where the
South Center Department Store has
provided employment for 80 or 40
colored men and women out of 9
total force Of 100. Negroes are oc.
cupying positions as saleswomen
clerks in the office, receiving clerks
switchboard operator, assistant tC
| the manager and assistant window
| trimmer. Chicago also reports two
oil stations in charge of colored men
| This is the first time that the com
pany owning them has made use Of
| colored help in this capacity in Chi
cago. A large nationally known
drug store corporation has almost 8
complete Negro force including
pharmacist, clerks and cashier. This
revives practice which the same
company abandoned some years ago
Buffalo, Tulsa and Pine Bluff
present unique situations. In Buf
falo Negro musicians lost their job
in dance halls and night clubs wher
they were closed by police beears'
of legal violations. Most of th'
closed places employed Negro or
chestras and those that remainet
open employed white orchestras. II
Tulsa, Republican candidates for CIT!
offices promised an equal division
of labor between the races, This, }
granted, would be a unique lnnova
ton for Oklahoma and would pro
vide for some of the surplus labo
which has come to the city from III
farms because the boll-weevil inter
fered with the cotton crop. In Pln
Bluff where men are working tw
or three days week at the mills an
colored workers are losing their job
at hotels, white business men ar
making appeals for colored peopl
TO purchase goods from them. Lee
lures are. being given to eolore'
school children and free trade TICK
cts, chickens, ETC., are being give
! AWAY.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-03
Bankers and Insurance
Men Meeting in Columbus

COLUMBUS, 0.--C oil m bus is
host this week to the National Ne
gro Insurance Association and %
group of National Negro bankers.
The insurance men are holding
their regular annual convention,
while the bankers have been called
in special spring meeting by Presi-
dent r. r. Wright and Secretary
Wilson Lovett.
The program embraces principal
phases of insurance, banking and
underwriting, supplemented by ad-
dresses of city state and national
officials.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-03
Whites Aid Orphanage

WINSTON SALEM, N. C. =.
(ANP)--Through the gifts of a
group of white men and women, head
ed by w. N. Reynolds chairman of
the Board of Directors of the. \. j..
Reynolds Tobacco Company, the Me-
mortal Industrial School, formerly
known as the "Colored Orphanage'
will be lifted from a mediocre place
of refuge for Negro orphans, to one
of the finest institutions in, the state.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-03
Reds Training U. S.
Students For Africa

LONDoN.--Writing in The ATT
can World, the Rev. Basil Bour-
CHER comments on what he terms a
very grave menace resulting from
the bolshevists of Russia. training
a great number of American Negroes
in doctrines of a highly perniclous
and revolutionary nature for service
among the people of Africa to work
havoc and harm which might prove
irreparable..
Natives are not to be treated as
men with privileges and responsi-
bilities, the Rev. Mr.. Bourehier de-
clared, but as children with enid s
mind.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-03
Housemaids, -Butlers' Union

WASHINGTON.---The vast army
of Negro Workers, engaged IN per-
sonal and domestic service all over
the United States, will be interested
to know that the American Fedora
ton Of Labor has issued a charter to
a household workers union, which Is
TO be known as the Housemaids, and
\ Buffers Union, Local 1894, Chica-
70. Ill. Ten hours has been fixed as
the days work, but the question Of
wages and the days off are yet to be
decided. 49,.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-03
Coolidge at Recital

WASHINGTON. - President Coo
lidge attended recital here. last
Tuesday night by the Glee Club of
the Hampton Normal and Industrial
Institute at the First Congregational
Church. Mrs. Coolidge, who is still
recovering from the indisposition
which troubled her last month, did
not attend.
The recital was for the benefit OF
the National Training School for
Women and Girls, of which Miss
Mamie Burroughs is principal.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-03
Crap Shooters Burn Church

MEMPHIS, Tenn (ANP) --Ac-
cording to the local fire department,
carelessness with a charcoal, stove by
crap shooters caused the fire that
destroyed the Morning View Baptist
church and three houses adjoining It
Friday morning. The fire had Its
origin in vacant house next door
where crap game had been in pro.
gress throughout the night.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-03
Round-the-World Hiker
Completes 1000 Miles

Los ANGELES. - Jimmie Street
er, Jr., 2s, disabled veteran of the
World War completed the first lap
of projected hike around the world
when he arrived here Saturday. He
started here from the Military Home
at Dayton, o., on Jan. 4. He said he
walked the entire distance of more
than 1000 miles, with the exception
Of about seyenty-two miles.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-03
Wins $4,000 Suit

LOS ANGELES. - L. p. Grant,
colored real-estate man, won deci-
sion in his case against Willie King,
part Creek Indian from Okmulgee,
Okla, in Superior Judge Tryon's
court Friday. The defendant in the
suit is reputed to be a millionaire
through, the discovery of oil. The
court action was brought by the real
tv man over contract for the. pur-
chase of a $4,000 residence. He was
given a verdict for the full amount.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-03
All the News
Tersely Told
Father of the Blues"
Plays in Carnegie Hall

NEW YORK. = W. c. Handy,
known as the "father of the blues
gave rebirth OF the music that was
the "craze" decade ago when he
conducted an orchestra and mixed
chorus in program in Carnegie
Hall. Included on the program were
"The Birth of Jazz" "St. Louis
Blues" "Beale Street Blues" and
Memphis Blues"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-03
Fined Policemen Who
Assaulted Race Man

LOS ANGELES. A. Two police
men were brought before the Board
of Police Commissioners here after
they had been charged with assault
upon Walter j. Neeley, colored citi-
zen. The officers, Walter C. Cald-
well and Glenn |. Hasen, were fined
ten days pay each by the board.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-03
Voters Intimidated d

CHICAGO. = Evidence to show
organized intimidation of Negro vot-
ers in the ward and fraudulent voting
under their names were reported in
an investigation of primary vote
frauds by Chicago Bar Association It
was intimated some of the evidence
they have obtained will be placed
before a government grand jury.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-03
Runaway Boy Killed

ST. LOUIS.-"T ran away from
home" these were the dying words of
Henry Wilson, 13 years old, whose
legs were severed by a Terminal
switch engine in the East st. LOUIS
Railroad yards Wednesday. Auth
critics are endeavoring to locate rel
atives of the boy at his home in
Crossett, Ark.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-03
Awarded Harvard Prize

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. = Robert c.
Weaver graduate Of the Dunbar
High School of Washington, d. G.,
class of 1925, junior at Harvard, was
awarded the Boylton prize Of $50
for his recitation Abraham Lin
coln," by Booker 7. Washington, in
the annual speaking contests held
recently.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-03
Plan New National Bank

ST. LOUIS, Mo.--A campaign Tor
the organization of a new bank which
will be member of the Federal Re
serve System and of the st. Louis
Clearing House Association, Is being
carried on here by the Peoples FL
nance Company, headed by George
Ruckner. as