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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-04-26
Call Black Americans
'1Hoover's Chocolates"

WASHINGTON, DC, April 25.-
AMP P(-A-1nserting in the Congress
siona Record letter, supposed to
have been written by white woman
in the Department of Commerce, in
which protest was made against the
recent lifting of segregation bars in
the department, Senator Cole Blease,
Democrat of South Carolina, arose
in the senate Tuesday to attack Her
bert Hoover, presidential aspirant.
Blease declared that Hoover was
wrecking the dreams of all those
persons who had hoped that there
might be some way of breaking up
the solid Democratic South. There
was no chance for new alignment,
Blease stated, as long as Hoover
made friendly and fair overtures to
Negroes.
The letter from the woman in
Hoover's department was most un-
ladylike. She referred to black
Americans as "niggers" and "Hoov-
er's chocolates" throughout. Says
she: "We call these coiored people
Hoover's chocolates and all wish We
could make him eat them. Think Of
a secretary Of commerce having to
stoop to niggers to win.
Senator, you must really do
something to help us. The white
girls in every department in Wash
ington are all wrought up about this.
Of course, they won't say anything
because they are afraid of losing
their jobs, and can't afford to do
that. 2.
''Mr. Hoover may think this is
smart politics to bring his chocolates
in with white girls and women, but
if he only knew what the white wo-
men all over Washington say about
it, he wouldn't be SO sure of carrying
Ohio and Indiana with colored
,,nfao -
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-04-26
Color Line Forces
Y. M. {. A. Meeting
Away From Canada

NEW YORK, April 25.--The Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Associa-
tion of General Secretaries of the
y. Nj. G. AS of North America has
Just announced the change of the
place of meeting Of its biennial con
vention from the Prince Edward
Hotel OF Toronto, Canada, to Pocono
Manor, Pa, on account of the pro-
posed drawing of the race line by
the Toronto hotel. As soon as the
Committee found out that the
Prince Edward Hotel was averse' to
Offering equal accommodations to
colored secretaries, Charming II.
Tobias, head of the National Coun.
ell work for colored men, was called
intoa ecnferenee. 81
He reminded the Committee Of
the action taken by the Associa-
tion of General Secretaries at its
last meeting, which was TO the ef-
feet that in the future il would
refuse to hold meetings where all
secretaries concerned could not be
given equal accommodations. After
this conference, the Committee
again opened up correspondence
with the. Prince Edward Hotel, but
the management was adamant in
It's refusal to accommodate colored
secretaries without discrimination,
whereupon the committee decided
to carry the convention, which
meets early in May, to Poconc
Manor. Pa, where no line will be
drawn. -
II is said that the reason the
Canadian hotels are drawing the
race line in this unusual way is on
account of the large and growing
patronage of these hotels by Amer
leans in pursuit of alcoholic liquors.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-04-26

Rep. Victor Berger
Introduces N e W
Anti M OBJ Bill

WASHINGTON. April 2f--( (PNs).
At each turn of the road some
honest-minded American has the
courage of his convictions to en-
deavor to do something to erase
one of this eountry's yilest blots Off
its reputation map. The latest ef-
fort TO make America safe for de-
mocracy is new anti-lynching bill
which would make II q felony to
take part In a mob attack or for a
State officer TO permit prisoner
TO be taken from him, was intro
duced In the House of Representa-
tives Thursday by Representative
Victor Berger of Wisconsin. The
measure would also penalize the
county in which the mob attack oc-
Cured
Participation in mob attack
would be punishable by imprison-
ment from one to five years or a
fine OF 5000 or both. An officer
who failed to protect prisoner
could be punished by imprisonment
Of from two to ten years or fine
of not more than $4,000, or both.
A county In which a homicide or
injury was committed as the result
of such an attack would be penal
lied $4,000. with the sum to be
used by the person injured or by
his family, should he be killed In
the attack.
To enforce payment of tho judg-
ment against the county the United
States District Court would Z levy
execution upon any OF the county's
property or take such other steps
as may be deemed necessary and
proper" - 49,
1t Ms claimed that when this
measure comes up before the House
, 1t will be attacked chiefly upon the
grounds that il, Is an tencroaehment
of the theory Of 'statks' rights.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-04-26
Candidates Refuse
10 Answer Negro
Press QUESTIONABLE


WASHINGTON, ID. c., April 25.--
Especially The refusal of a list of
Presidential candidates to reply to
five questions mailed them one
month ago by the Associated Negro
Press Is causing much concern and
comment among Negro political
leaders. The questions dealt with
the protection of lives and property
in accordance with the Federal con-
stitution. segregation in civil serv-
ice, interstate travel in the southern
states and the unequal distribution
of Federal funds for education, dis
franchisement, in violation of the
18th amendment of the constitution
the appointment of Negroes for ex-
animation to the military and naval
academies and to do any other
position In the government service
which a Negro could creditably fill.
In view OF the fact that an effort
is being made to have Congress pass
q uniform marriage law, the query
was also put to the candidates II
they would sign such measure Il
the measure carried with it a possi-
bility OF robbing Negro women citi-
zens of protection by forbidding
inter-marriage of white and colored
races.
II is becoming prevalent pre-
sumption that these candidates, in
refusing to answer the above ques-
tions have placed themselves in the
position of not being. greatly inter-
ested in the Negroes welfare.
Shortly after the QUESTIONABLE OF
the Associated Negro Press was
mailed to Mr.. Herbert Hoover, sec
retary of the Department of Com
sagree. ant an essstapdixg eandi-
date for the Republican nomination
an editorial appeared in one OF the
Negro publications. In this editorial
complaint was made against the fact
that mo Colored Person Is Men,
ber of the Hoover for President
Committee"
In addition to Mr.. Hoover, the
following received the questionnaire
Senator Charles Curtis, Senator
James Watson, Hon. Frank Q. Low
den, Senator Frank B. Willis, Sen
ator. Thos. ]. Walsh. Governor, Al
fred E. Smith and Governor Albert
Ritchie. The first four names are
those of Republicans, and the lasl
three of Democrats. Senator Wilhs
has died since the questionnaire was
submitted.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-04-26
National Negro Press
Holds 29th Meeting

LOUISVILLE, Ky. = Forty. one
papers were represented at the 29th
annual session of the National Negro
Press Association which met here.
Henry Allen Boyd, publisher of
the Nashville Globe and veteran
secretary of the Association, de-
scribed it as one of the most sue
cessful press gatherings held in
years. Every phase Of newspaper
production and maintenance came
in for earnest and spirited discus
sion.
Resolutions were adopted COM
mending the progress of the Negro
press in all sections Of the country,
favoring full relief to the stricken
flood district, condemnation of the
Lily-white movement, urging anne
Iteration of unemployment, demand.
ing support for Negro business en-.
terprise. and commencing the Ma
tional Negro Business League fol
the surveys of Negro business which
it is making in an effort to work
out a scientific approach to thu
problems of the economic condition
of the group.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-04-26
All the News
Tersely Told
Yellow Cab Company
Makes An Innovation

LOS ANGELES. - Yellow Cab
Company of Los Angeles is doing
such a large business along Gen.
trail Avenue and throughout the
neighborhood that they have found
II advisable to open an office at
2S15 Central Avenue, opposite the
Lincoln Theatre. This office will
be open from p, m. to IL p. m,
and will be in charge of Miss Elsie
Grass. a colored girl. She will at
all times be ready to meet patrons
OF the yellow Cab Company with
a smile and to answer questions
about the city and Yellow Cab
service. The office will have seat
ing accommodation for patrons
whiting for Yellow Cabs.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-04-26
Attempt to Freeze
Negro Ice Dealers


NEW YORK, April 25.-Harlem's
twenty colored ice men nave raised
a protest against the tactics of an
Italian combine who seek to shut
them out of the ice houses. "The big
three" of them is said to have told
the Colonial Ice Company that they
would withdraw their business, said
to amount to about 10000 cakes of
ice week, if the Colonial served
any new Negro ice dealers.
Negro ice dealers fear that if they
withdraw from one who:esaie ice
company in protest, other wholesale
companies may refuse to serve them.
The twenty men given ''cold deal"
by the wholesale dealers plan to or
ganize, and ask greater support
from the Negro public in Harlem.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-04-26
6. 0. Delegates
Continue Fight
On Segregation

WASHINGTON, d. c., April 25.-
Plans for the segregation of Negro
delegates who will attend the Re
publican national convention in
Kansas City in June are being car
ried out, despite denials to the con-
trary, according to letter trans
hitting TO members of the Repub-
lican national committee contracts
for hotel accommodations for their
delegations.
Charles F. Curry, secretary OF
the local committee on housing ar
rangements, advised the national
committeeman that the contracts
he enclosed did not include arrange
ments nor the accommodation of
Negro delegates.
Mr.. Curry told the national COM
mitteemen that II there are any
Negroes in their delegations, they
should forward their names to him
so that he could turn them over to
committee OF local Negroes thar
has charge of the housing of them
Benjamin J. Davis, Republican
national committeeman of Georgia.
has written Conrad Mann, chairman
of the local committee, that he and
the other delegates from his state,
comprising eleven OF Georgia's six
teen delegates, would expect accom-
modations equal in all respects to
those of white delegates and that
rooms with bath and telephone
were wanted" A copy of the letter
was forwarded to William NJ. Butler,
chairman of the Republican national
committee.
At prveious conventions there has
been no segregation. In seeking
the convention, Mr.. Mann promised
Mr. Davis and Perry w. Howard,
Republican national committeeman
for Mississippi, when he solicited
their votes for Kansas City that
there would be no segregation and
that they would be able to obtain
any kind of hotel accommodations
for which they were able tc pay.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-04-26
Jail Fake Masonic
Organizers in Miss.

GULFPORT,, Miss. - BY aeree-
ment before Justice Cox here T. J.
Quincy of Jackson, and Robert
Jones of Picayune, organizers for
the grand Masonic Congress F. q A.
M. of the United States and Canada,
were released until May I on bonds
Of $500 each for reappearance be-
fore Justice Cox. fst Nara
Cuney and Jones were arrested
during the progress Of lodge organ
ization meeting at Lyman, nine
miles north of here. on complaint of
Alex Stamps, member of Rectitude
Lodge 323, A. F. & A. M, Of Gulf
port, who claimed the two Outside
men were defrauding Lyman appli-
cants by offering them membership
in an organization without standing.
In an amended affidavit filed by
County Attorney d. M. Graham, Jr.,
both Cuney and Jones were charged
with cheating and defrauding John,
nie McLouId Of 81 by claiming they
represented the "onIy recognized
and existing Masonic lodge in Mis-
sissippi," Is s-~ \.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-04-26
Five Issues Loom for
A. M. E. Conference

CHICAGO, Ill.,, April 25.-Many
imported matters are slated to come
up at the, Am. E. General Confer
ence which opens here May, z, and
spirited meeting is expected.
The questions that it is predicted
will attract the most attention are
as follows:r 3. ss 81.
(D Effort to elect laymen to
membership on the Episcopal Conn
mittee led by Ira T. Bryant. (2)
Effort to settle by positive law the
question of the length Of office of
bishops on Episcopal districts. cay
/. Movement for increase, of bishop's
salary to $1,000 annually (4) Max.
! ing editor, Of, A. M, +. Sunday School
literature full-fledged' general Of
ficer (5) Establishment Of IA De-
partment Of Pensions for 4 super
annuates and atDepartuient of Evan
gelism and Social Welfare.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-04-26
Jesuit Fathers Prayed
While Josephine Danced

VIENNA, Monday, April "a
The Vienna Roman Catholic Gazette
announces three days Of atonement
"for the many recent outrages on
public morality committed by revues,
particularly by. that of the Negro
dancer, Josephine Baker" recently
held here. 2
The services were held in the
Paulana Church. The Jesuit Father
Frey, Dr.. Fiala and DR.. Lauenroth
took turns in preaching. A toll of
penance" was rung during the SER
vices on the church bells.
A touch Of piquancy .s added by
the coincidence that the tolling OF
the penance bells sent forth their
chimes just at the time when Jose.
phine Baker, in her theater almost
next door to the church, was sing
ing 'T Could Be Good. Could Be
Bad; II All Depends On You."
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-04-26
Candidates Dodge "A. Mp. QUESTIONABLE
Seek to Gust Colored
Help at Chicago School

CHICAGO, H., April 25.-(ANP)
"A motion was adopted by the
Eighth Ward Business Mems Asso-
citation, calling upon the Board of
Education to discharge all colored
help employed by the schools of the
Eighth Ward and to fill the yacan-
cies with white workers.
The motion resulted from dis
cussion at the Monday meeting and
luncheon of the association, at which
time it was asked that the organiza-
ton sanction a request that Negro
help be eliminated from the Emil
Hirsch Junior High School, on Ingle-
side Avenue and nth Street. This
request was then made to include all
of Che schools of the ward and the
motion passed without a dissenting
vote.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-04-26
Room At Top, But The Elevator Is
Not Running Mamie Burroughs
(En,srpri.e New. Bureau)

ed the civil service examination in
Washington, with an average of 81
per cent. When it was discovered
that she was a Negro, she was told
that "there must have been some
mistake" She resigned her first posi-
ton to take another, which required
cleaning, scrubbing. making fires,
and transferring equipment from one
building to another besides the regu-
lar office routine. She laughed as
she said. 81 worked like man on
that job"
1t was seventeen years ago that she
began to see the realization of her
hopes. At her suggestion and pri-
marily through her efforts, the work
on the Training school began. How
she struggled to continue the work is
revealed in q statement later releasd
to the press. 81 would work Ike a
galley-slave =. .to'keep the school
going It has meant loneliness. seorn
from the people and sacrifice"
She continued. w.tlr touch of pa
thos in her voice. "After seventeen
years we are without funds, and with
little hope of getting any. But | am
not discouraged. see in this institu-
tion the foundation for a great uni
versity for Negro women. In twenty
five years, perhaps, my hope viii be
fulfilled. Someone has to lay the
foundations That is why would
not accept a salaried job"
In speaking Of "salaried jobs" Miss
Burroughs said, never could en-
dure Just job"--something tc
which | was let in at nine O'Clock
and out at three. would rather &c
out and be in the orchard, raise flow
ers, and take them on the streets
and sell them. IL things continue a,
they are. may have to do 1t YETI
"Jobs,7 she continued, like tht
modern school system, are attempt
ing moral impossibility namely, t.
standardize human beings. We do thu
same things in the same way, reas
the same books, think the same
thoughts borrowed from these books
The result is an army of mcdiocres.'
Our conversation about jobs lct
Miss Burroughs to discussion of th'
Negro's hope for success.
(Continued ON Page Four)
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-04-26
Killed Under Wheels
Of Smelter Train

ANACONDA. - Paul Chase, col
ored, who resided at ia Commercial
avenue, was instantly killed Sunday
evening when he fell under the
wheels Of the air line at the smelter.
He apparently was in the act of step
ping on a car when he lost his bal
ance and fell.
The accident happened at 1850 this
evening. George Edstrom, who was
running the engine, stopped at once
but Chase, was dead, the wheels hav-
ing passed over his head. 1t is be-
lieved that death was instantaneous
Chase was about AZ years old, un-
married, and had been employed as a
switchman at the works. He came
to Anaconda from Helena about 1916
and 80 far as known had no relatives.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-04-26


Paris, France-(By j. A. Rogers
-Montmartre! The jazziest and SEX
lest spot on the two continentsl The
first place visited by all good Ameri-
cans!
Cut out Montmarte and you make
an awful dent in the tourist trade.
Last year when the price of the
franc shot up, Americans deserted
Paris in droves and dozens of these
places had to close. With the pres
ent war against cabarets and sexy
places in New York, Montmartre is
doing a finer business than ever this
year. aat
Is Like Harlem
This zone of hectic night life some
how reminds me Of Harlem and Chi
cago's South Side. The respectable
Nordic frowns on such places in his
neighborhood, but comes into the Ne
gro Neighborhood when he wants to
cut loose
When the Englishman wants tc
have a good time he comes to Mont
martre, Paris, but Montmartre oil
a fiuQC ouOW III IOuUOH WOQiu W
unthinkable. One mus. be clothed
from head to foot to bs respectable
in England. The English and the
Americans are great manufacturers
Of clothing. Are prudery and eco.
nomics twin sisters? III,
Three Principal Halls
The three principal music halls OF
Montmartre, the Folies- Bergere, the
Moulin Rouge, and the Casino De
Paris, frankly cater to the nude.
Scores Of ladies throng their stages,
some with figures eclipsing that Of
the Venus de Milo, and almost eelip-
sing her in the matter of clothing OF
lack of it. The Paris ladies, who BY
the way, are mostly English girls, do
wear a garment about one-fiftieth
of an inch larger and thicker than
the piece Of ham one gets in rail-
road sandwich. ! visited Mont
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-04-26
Conditions Bad
On Isle OF Haiti
Assert Natives

NEW YORK CITY, April 49,,
Belhomme Auguste Nicoleau, sehol-
arly young Haitian who has studied
three years in France. says that
when he left Haiti on March Is,
conditions in the island republic
were outrageous. A
Two editors of a newspaper pub
lished at Cape Haitien. jailed for
riting an article offensive to an edu-
cational inspector, are still in jail,
he says. Seven we're originally ar
rested; but of these all have been
released with the exception OF
Clamart Ricourt and Descartes Al
bert, the two editors. They have
been there for more than two
months.
Marines in Control
Mr.. Nicoleap also says that the
u. s. Marines are in control of Haiti,
and economic conditions there are
very bad. Little sugar is being ex-
ported, and in the coffee and dye
industries exploited by Americans,
the natives are given opportunities
to do only the lowest form OF work
Public opinion has been especially
stirred by the recent "amendments'
to the constitution of Haiti. TO quote
Mr.. Nieoleau further. They were
ratified at an election characterized
as farcical, by which judges, for
merly holding life tenure were made
subject to removal.
5. He also says that the present ex-
odus consists not only OF laborers
but also of young educated NEIL
who have studied abroad.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-04-26
Negroes and Whites May
Marry In Mississippi

JACKSON, Miss. - (ANP)-The
House of Representatives has refused
to pass the bill seeking to bar mar
riages between persons of the white
and colored races. Representative B.
B. Guion, Yazoo City, is the author
of the racial integrity bill which
failed to pass, and which sought TO
make it unlawful for white persons
and those of Negro blood to be mar
ried. No law is in effect in Mississip-
pi now prohibiting the inter-marriage
of the two races. .s sf
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-04-26

LOS ANGELES, Calif.-(ANP) ~
The influence which a ghost can ex-
ert beyond the grave was blamed fo1
the marital difficulties Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard Hoertig.
The dead man is Mrs. Hoertig's
father, who the husband charges, ex-
ercises an uncanny influence over
Mrs. Hoertig. The wife is suing for
divorce on the ground that Hoertig
smashed her fathers picture because
Of the ghostly influence over her,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-04-26
Chicago Physician Heads
Tuskegee Clinic

TUsKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala. -
.(ANP)-A week. of skilled clinical
service to large number of patients
and of intensive study of medical and
surgical problems was completed
when the John A. Andrew Clinical
Society closed its eleventh annual
session here Saturday morning.
DR.. Roscoe C, Giles was elected
president at the closing session SAT-
urday morning. DR.. Giles, the first
Negro to graduate from the Cornell
Medical College, is prominent ply
sician in Chicago. ISL
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-04-26
Nude Negro Actors In Bal de eLOpera
Feature OF Paris Music Hall

NeWs DureauJ aaas4 IA ~.
martre in 1925. It's the same this
year. only one sees more, much more
Of the ladies'.
"Unmentionablss"
In 1925 at the Folies- Bergere II
was Benglia, the magnificent Negro
dancing with one Of the white ladies'
clad In the above mentioned unrhen-
tionables. This year it is Josephine
Baker, dressed in two tiny tufts of
red and yellow feathers, back and
front. This l have been told. took
the place of three or four bananas,
which looked as If they would fall
off any minute. There Is also q
moving picture at the Folies with
nudes and then ever so many more.
nudes.
Casino de Paris
At the Casino de Paris, which Is
even more gorgeous than the Folies
this year, is a black girl of such
matchless figure and bust (what /
really. mean to say is breasts) that
the audience applauds when she ap-
pears, which is all she does. French
audiences applaud little, hence the
actors are in the habit Of hiring their
own applause better known as the
claaue.
U. $. Dancer At Moulin Rouge
At the Moulin Rouge, the black
dancer, Harry Fleming, Of Philadcl-
phia, dances with a white girl When
she finally falls into, his arms. one
expects the roof to fall in or an
earthquake ar at least riot but
truth to tell nothing happens.
West Indian
In the Balls de Opera very. dark
Negro. Joe Santiago from the French
West Indies dances with Madame
Sandralv holding her over his head,
their almost nude bodies close to-
gether. It is easy to understand now
why the Kluxers gJr ready to give
henWcn reception to the boys when
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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-04-26
Bonding Company
Is Organized

+ LOUISVILLE. Ky.--License was
issued last week to the Allan Man
agement Corporation of this city
by the State Department at Frank.
fort. 1t is the first institution of
its kind in Kentucky. The chief
holding of the company is the
beautiful Allan Hotel, Louisyille's
only up-to-date hotel. b. w. p.
Allan is the brain Of the organiza-
tion.