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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-09-29
HONEST DRIVER

HONEST DRIVER
Westport, Conn.-(R When Ed.
ward Craig, Saugatuck taxi driver.
ran over . chicken he duly reported
the fatality to the police the first
report Of tho kind on the local head
quarters blotter.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
Memphis White Elks
Sue Colored Order

MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 2S. -
The Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks, Lodge No. 27( white) today
filed a petition in chancery court
citing officers and members of the
Conqueror Lodge No. $50, fraternal
organization, to show cause why they
are not in contempt of court for us
ing the word "Elks" in reference to
their lodge and activities.
The suit, set for hearing before
Chancellor d. w. DeHaven, on Sat-
urday, sets out that in 1909 a per-
petual injunction was issued in chan
Gerry restraining this lodge or any
other organization from copying the
ritual, insignia or name of B. p. o. f..
Elks and claims that the Conqueror
lodge has violated this order.
The petition. for citation reads
against S. w. Qualls, exalted ruler
of the Negro lodge and r. Q. Ven
son, secretary. It is also directed
against r. r. Bob" Church and
James Wright as members.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
Flood Fund Thief
Given Prison Term

NATCHEZ, Miss, March 2S.--
(Special) Stealing money that was
to have gone for the relief of colored
flood sufferers has brought punish
ment upon a southerner.
]. T. Beach, charged with embez-
zling Red Cross funds on three
counts. was allowed to enter a plea
Of guilty to one charge when ar
raigned before Judge Il. NJ. Taliafer-
no at the regular term of district
court now in session at Vidalia, La,
and was given sentence of not less
than three and not more than nine
years in the penitentiary.
Beach came to this section from
Georgia during the Mississippi flood
and was given a position by Red
Cross relief headquarters at Natchez.
After the flood was over he con-
tinued to work for the Red Cross in
Concordia parish. A check up on
his accounts is alleged to have re-
vealed the fact that he was short Of
more than $1,000 and charges of en-
bezzlement were preferred.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
Loses AIimony Suit
Against Millionaire

NEW YORK, Mar. 27.-The trial
of suit by Mrs. Letitia Ernestine
Brown, to establish a common law
marriage with Carleton Curtis
(white) graduate of Princeton, who
lives at the University Club, was lost
before Supreme Court Justice Town
ey. She asserts that Curtis saved
her life in 1911 by pulling her from
the path of an automobile, and that
they lived together until January,
1927, when Curtis left her. and re-
fused to provide for her further. She
asked $500 a week alimony and a
separation decree.
Curtis, who inherited block Of
stock in the Fifth Avenue Bank and
has been part owner of the Hotel
Devon, admits that he knew Mrs.
Brown, but through his attorney,
Max d. Steuer, denied that they ever
lived together, and said they moved
to Freeport, L. l., in 1917 and were
living there when the defendant left
her She said he established a $780,
900 trust fund for her at the Fifth
Avenue Bank and that she got from
81, 900 to $4,000 month for a
time.
Justice Townley dismissed the case
Monday.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
Memphis Preachers
Lose 81, 800 In Holdup

MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 90
Reward of 81 900 was offered We'd
nesday by the Baptist Minister'S AS
sociation for the arrest and convic-
ton of three bandits who at midnight
Tuesday held up and robbed two
preachers of 81 900. The reward
was authorized at a specially called
meeting.
The stolen money was the proceeds
from a benefit show given at the Au-
ditorium Tuesday night for the Rog-
or Williams-Howe College.
The Rev. II. b. Roberts and the
Rev. b. j. Perkins were victims of
the holdup, according to police. Be
sides losing the money for the col
lege endowment fund, the pastors lost
heavily themselves.
Roberts gave up S25 in cash and
his diamond stud, valued at SIPS,
while Perkins and woman were re-
lieved of 500 in cash, a $500 dia-
mond ring and a $3.50 diamond stud,
it is claimed.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
l6 Lynchings
Is the Record
For Last Year

NEW YORK. March 2S.-Forty-
one states were free from lynching
during 1927, states the roll OF honor
prepared by the Federal Council of
Churches through its commission on
race problems made public today.
The l6 lynchings which occurred
last year took place I'm seven states.
The number OF victims was Ia less
than IN 1926, one less than In 1925
and the same as in 1924.
The high mark of states free of
the evil was reached last year. In
1926 there were 3S states without
a lynching; in 1926 there were 3S;
in 1924 there were 3S. and In 1928
there were 80.
Georgia and Florida Cor the first
time since records have been kept
now appear on the roll of honor,
Connecticut has been added TO the
list of states that never had lynch
ing because recent Investigations OF
the commission on race relations in
dicate that the case in 1886 re-
corded as lynching by the The Chic
ago Tribune, the accepted authority
for earl yrecords of the evil. prob
ably was a suicide of murderer hun
ted by posse and not lynching.
All except one of the seven
states that had lynchings in 1927
have been on the honor roll at least
for one year since 1922. Now only
one state in the country has an un-
broken yearly record of the crime oi
mob murder.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
New York Artists Win
Guggenheim Awards

NEW YORK, Mar. 26.-(Special)
announcement was made here
Sunday of the award of coveted fell
lowships of the John Simon Guggen-
helm Memorial Foundation to three
colored Americans, G. J. Ballata,
Countee Cullen and Eric Derwent
Walrond, all of New York.
Ballata, who has been reappointed,
will continue his research into the
musical conceptions of the African
Peoples, with his work chiefly in
West Africa and the Congo.
Mr.. Cullen, 25-year-old poet and
associate editor of the Crisis maga-
zine, will go to Paris to complete a
group of narrative poems and the IL
bretto for an opera.
Mr.. Walrond, who is 80 years old,
will travel and study in the West In
dies for the purpose of obtaining ma
terial for a series of novels and short
stories depicting life there.
The fellowships amount to $4,000
each and are awarded only to young
scholars and artists who have given
unequivocal evidence of marked gift
for research or for creative work
and who are engaged in constructive
projects requiring special facilities
available abroad.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
Porters VIII
Take Secret
Strike Vote

NEW YORK, March 29.-As re-
suit Of the decision of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission that 1t
did not have jurisdiction over the
case of the Pullman porters, a deci-
sion which according to A. Philip
Randolph, gerenal organizer of
the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters, is unsound and untenable
Che ORGANIZATION Il definitely pre-.
pairing to create an emergency. The
first step in the creation of an
emergency is the taking of strike
vote, according to the general or
ganizer. "A strike vote, however,
says Randolph. doesn't mean that
the porters necessarily will strike. a
strike vote Is intended to show tC
what extent the men are commit
ted to eheir demands, how firmly
they believe in their cause and how
many are willing to strike If neces.
sary to achieve their demands.
The strike ballot, according u
Randolph, is n secret ballot which
the Pullman Company will not see
Only the United States mediation
board will review the strike vote in
order to determine the existence oi
the emergency The Pullman Com.
pany will have no opportunity tC
victlmize a porter because he voted
for the strike since it will not be
able to find out who did or did not
vote. The strike ballot will be in
ycstigated by the mediation board
Just as the membership of The
Brotherhood was investigated by the
Board
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
Toms Dixie Kitchen ManiIa's
Costlest Cafe, Owned By Negro

an easv ono As t;r,o u,on+ an Nc
business nrosnered h h I,,,e ond an
the tentb anniversarv 81 nc nnan-
inc of nTon1,s Divic Kitcbann M
Pritchard announced that he had ac-
,,,,;roJ oontrni 80 tL. aS..;sa 1iasi. E
which tbe original tit,,hen was s,,m.
atnJ twelve cool,s 80 cont;n,aii,,
oy d,t, ana h,s 49, sas,,o Az , onS
natrons who dsi,y cnioy h;s ho.n;toI
itv ''Y' ~
' p.-e, NJ. s.
pritchard bas aIso ,nventaJ =, ,,,
boatabIe, cbacLirc svstsn, yyh;nh Sns
been adontad hv tbe ioadirg rasta,'
rnnts tbro,, sba,,t tho 0riant Thi,
;nnoyation can,e yben 10 fornd thas G
ha was Ios;n@ +bomsands ~ So,inas liza
by coII,sion hotwooa n,oi,ars "a
checkers 70 defrand him "'"
0sTo,,,s nil Ei,ahaa, % ,u..
90 eao for, lsr',a sas.n,,n, was ,',is Jne
s,,ry;,,od tho ;nflot tio,' sas;sI I ;'a ~
JiataI,, folioy;na, Az ~. p pna.ar'
ord savs he survived NV ,.,,s;,c : i,,.I.
common sense nee - ~ ~ as " i'''e
Oriental Grill
Very recently Manila,s newest
night club was opened. and declared
an immediate success. aTom's Or
iental Crilp' it's called. and over IL
presides the GENIAL Tom hiu,aelf
faultless in an immacuiate white
serge Tuxedo ffl NT
Nothing quite like this Oriental
Grill exists anywhere in the world.
and the tremendous amount Of mon.
ev remtired 40 nm ;nveut,oant 4, sts
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30

tall.''
Chicago presents q most interest
ing situation in unemployment A
loop clothing firm hired eight male
statesmen who were trained by the
company for the position. Six 9TH
ers are in training. But unemploy-
ment in Chicago is thought to be
critical; for large department
store has cut its force of % workers
to IL. The reason for their dis
charge was given by the manage
ment as experimenting" Though
their work was efficient and salts
factory, doubt was expressed by the
store as to whether the remaining
IL, four maids and eight laund-
resses, would be let out. A well es-
tablished chain restaurant has dis
missed its colored porters and bus
boys from several of its places. A
hotel formerly employing 3S maids
land two housemen, retained only
one houseman. A prominent hos
pital reduced its force of colored
maids and employed 20 Polish won.
en- in their places.
Desperately pressed because OF
the above and other instances, Chi
cago is seeking to offset its losse:
by two innovations. A course II
salesmanship whose registration a
its second class reached 9S gives
promise of relieving the pressure IL
some quarters. Several firms hav,
promised to employ students wht
complete the eight-week course. TIL,
Masons have organized an employ
ment committee on which the grant
master OF each lodge has appointed
a member to serve. The committe,
reports its unemployed Masoni
members and all Jobs called to thi
attention of lodge members to thi
Urban League, which finds appli
cants coming from this source abovi
the average in qualification. SO suc
cessful has the experiment been tina
invitations are to be extended to tn
Elks. the Odd Fellows, the Knight
Of Pythias and other fraternal or
ganlzatlons.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
GarUey Agents Face Murder Charge
0usted Committeeman
Sue the lilly Whites

NEW ORLEANS, La, March "a.
Walter Cohen. comptroller of Gus
toms, and 10 of his supporters
against whom "lily white" Republi-
cans obtained an Injunction restrain
ing them from attempting to eXer-
else the function of committeeman
or from selecting delegates to the
Republican national convention,
brought suit in civic district court
Thursday.
Cohen and the other ousted com
mitteemen contend that they were
elected at regular meeting on Jan.
II, 1928, but that they have been
unable TO fulfill the duties Of their
offices owing TO the interference by
the injunction. They say they are
entitled to the office and ask that
the court pass on their respective
titles
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
Youth, 70, Ends
50CO-MiIe Hike
For $1,000 Prize

CHICAGO, March 2S.- Especially
-Nebrasker Williams, 20. the now
famous boy hiker from Shreveport,
La, arrived in Chicago Tuesday
afternoon, completing carefully
planned 5,000-mile hike when he ar
rived at the office of Mayor Will
liam Hale Thompson in the city hall
Williams started his hike at the
instigation Of The Shreveport Times,
which advertised for somebody who
would agree to hike 5000 miles for
1000. 1t Is interesting to note
that the only person In the entire
state of Louisiana found willing to
undertake the hike was the colored
youth, Williams.
His route led him through many
Of the southern states and as far
east as New York and Boston. Much
of his hiking in the south was done
while the flood was at its height,
having begun his trip last June. He
was shot in the leg at one time
while passing through Lake Pruvi.
dencc, La, when he failed to obey
an order to halt by some guards
during the floods. He stayed i'm a
flood relief camp until he recovered
however, and went on his way.
A stipulation Cf his agreement
was that he was not to ride any sort
of vehicle while on the trip. He
could not accept any lifts on the
road, nor could he use any Of the
common carriers. A checKup was
kept on him to see that he did not
violate his agreement, and he took
nc chances on losing the $1,000.
Williams has many interesting
souvenirs gathered up on his hike,
ipoiudiug letters from mayors and
prominent men in many cities. He
stated that he intended 70 use his
money to finance a law course which
he intends to take at the University
of Michigan.
The Bell Telephone Company is
said to have offered Williams $40
000 for q hike from Paris to London
with a bell on his head. Transpor-
tation across the English channel
will, of course, be furnished.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
AN-Colored Town
Is Raced By Fire

MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 27.-A
ravaging fire razed the entire busi-
ness section Of the all-colored town
Of Edmondson located Is miles west
of this city Sunday afternoon. The
fire started from undetermined orig
in. 1t was discovered in the post
office.
Virtually every business structure
in Edmondson was destroyed by the
fire. The estimated damage was
100000.
Volunteer firemen who fought the
fire were handicapped by a lack of
water. A brisk wind helped the fire
as it swept the frame and brick
structures.
After the fire had been ex-
tinauished the colored officials called
a meeting and laid plans for rchabi-
litation. Plans were made to raise
funds in Memphis to assist the strick-
en- population of Edmondson, which
numbers about 200.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
Jury Probes Bellboy's
Murder In Miami, Fla

MIAMI, Fla. March 27.-Charges
that the present grand jury, which
has been making the most exhaust
i've investigation in the city's history
is without authority because OF ir-
regularitics in forming il were pre-
aentod TO Circuit Judge A. J. Rose
Monday. when Lieut.. NJ. A. Tibbits,
Detective J. o. Caudell and former
Detective Tom II. NaZworth were ar
raigned on an indictment for first
degree murder in the death of II.
Kier, bell boy.
Kier, it was testified. while un-
der arrest was shot to death bw
Nazworth more than two years ago.
Because of the suddenness of the
attack on the authority of the grand
jury, which IL successful would wipe
out all that has been accomplished
by this body, Judge Rose adjourned
the hearing.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
His Teeth In His Stomach

LOS ANGELES, Ca.-(ANP)-C.
w. Boone. cook in a cafe at 3Ol
North Harbor Boulevard, San Pedro,
was recovering last week from an
ailment new to the medical profess
sion. He was recovering from teeth
in the stomach.
Boone repeated an order to put
two in the water" so loud that he
iarred his false teeth loose and
swallowed them. A surgeon poked
them down the rest of the aeso-
phagus. gave him some medicine,
and told him to go home and await
results. Boone will recover, the
physicians said
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
Princess Staying
In Florida Blamed
On Carvey Group

MIAMI, Fla, Mar. ga SEN
sational case, which promises to be
of interest to every colored Ameri-
can, has developed here from the
Staying of Princess Laura Kofey,
daughter of King Knesipi of the
Gold Coast of Africa. Followers of
Marcus Garvey, recently deported or
iginator of the black to Africa"
movement, whose policies she OPP
posed, are blamed for her death.
Opposed Garvey
1t has been disclosed, according
to state Attorney Hawthorne, that
the seven Kings of the Gold Coast
repudiated Garvcy and his plans and
principles, principally because Gar
vey wanted to keep Negroes to them
selves in his proposed colony there
The African Kings saw an opportun-
ity for opening up profitable trade
with the United States. And Prin-
cess Laura was sent as their repre-
sentative to warn colored Americans
to beware of Garvey; also to prepare
them for the proposed opening o.
commerce between colored Americans
and their race brothers in Africa.
Laura invaded Mama on her patriot
ic mission, because it was considered
the stronghold of the Garvey group
in the United States. and was shot
to death in a church here two weeks
ago while conducting vigorous anti
Garvey meeting.
King Sails For u. S.
Claude Green, colored American.
is being held on first degree mur-
der change and James 3. Memo, ia
maican, on an accessory charge in
connection with the dczths of .the
Princess. These men and Maxwell
Cook, said to have been sent here to
train Negroes for military duty in Ii
IBERIA, were reported to be agents
of Garvev. Cook, however, lost his
life on the night that the Princess
was slain when members of her fac
tion suspected that he was participat-
ing in the alleged conspiracy. The
Grand jury is investigating the case,
and King Knesipi has sent word that
he is sailing for America to investi-
gate the death of his daughter. More
than 100 Negroes have been sum-
moned to appear before Grand Jury.
The colored citizens of Miami are
preparing to receive King Knesipi
and the members of his court who
are expected to arrive here within a
month.
1t is said that the Staying of Prin-
cess Laura was bcld stroke on the
part OF Garvey to put an end to her
career, and that letters have been
placed in the hands of the postal in
spector in which the plot is revealed.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
Reports Show Unemployment Increasing
Colored Workers Replaced By Whites

CHICAGO, March (Specian
-ITnamnlovmnn ie NOT marolv hod
for Negroes: IL is critical. From ali
PARTS of the country REPORTS for
February showed conditions grow
ing worse. Not only are colored
men and women not being employed.
hut they are being replaced by white
workers. This substitution is gcing
on in the South as well as in the
North; even though the Jobs taken
are menial and of the type that are
customarily regarded as Negro Jobs
only.
The policy of not working white
and colored EMPLOYEES together
means that today net one or several
Negroes lose their Jobs to white
workers. but that whole shifts and
entire crews of colored workers are
being sacrificed to make places for
white persons. One city is reported
to have adopted the slogan mo Ne
gro must have a job any white man
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
PULLMAN co. CALL EXPORTERS
Former Employees
VIII Get Jobs If
Union Calls Strike

CHICAGO. March 29.-( Specially
Men who formerly were employed
by the Pullman Company In the ca
pacity of porters have, according to
report. filled out applications for re-
instatement and are waiting for the
porters affiliated with the Brother
hood of Pullman Porters TO strike.
hoping that at such time they will
be reinstated The brotherhood is
planning to take strike vote at an
early date. II the releases sent out
by A, Philip Randolph, general or
ganiZer, are true and authentic. II
Is stated that the vote will be taken
in secret in order that the porters
will be protected
AS was accurately predicted by
organizers of the brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters, the Pullman
Company is summoning former
sleeping car porters and having
them fill out application blanks
Many exporters who lost their Jobs
for various causes are anxious to
return TO work for the Pullman
Company. Every district headquar-
ters reports large numbers of for
mer employees seeking reinstate-
ment with the company. Here in
Chicago where thousands of colored
men are unemployed the Pullman
employment bureau is overrun with
men seeking Jobs as porters.
Many Of the porters now em-
nloyed are disclaiming any affilla-
ton at all with the brotherhood.
Even those who have tenaciously
and in many instances conscientious
ly contended that the brotherhood
would solve the difficulties" of the
porters, now have lost enthusiasm
when the call for n strike vote was
made. They now feel that the prop
osition has been carried too far. It
is not expected that the porters will
take any strike vote in-the hope OF
icreating an emergency. r-
II any emergency arises II will be
the emergency OF looking for Jobs
elsewhere and the porters now are
at liberty to do that very thing.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
Youths Fight When Ordered
To Rear of Jim Crow Car

MEMPHIS, Tenn. Taking offense
at the Jim Crow tactic of the street
car company here Nathan Jones, 81
years old, and Howard Eddins, II,
refused TO sit in the rear of a
crowded Jackson Avenue car Friday
and a fight resulted.
The fight started when Herber.
Haynie, nephew of a police turn
key, roughly ordered the youths to
the rear of the ear. The white ruff
fian was cut and bruised. And now
Jones and HowardS are being held
on a charge of disorderly conduct
and the white on charge of pro-
family and assault with a knife
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-30
(En,crprise News Bureau)

MANILA, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
With his establishment covering a
whole block and costly decorations
gathered from the four corners of
the world, Thomas Pritchard, former
Virginia race man and one time cook
on a Chesapeake steamboat, conducts
one of the finest restaurants and
night clubs in Manila and the Orient.
Some 23 years ago Pritchard grew
tired of being cook on the oyster
schooner on which he was employed,
and shipped on an American trans
port bound for Manila.
Pritchard liked Manila and he de-
cided to stay. At that time quite
the smartest eating place in Manila
was Clark's, a famous restaurant on
the Escolta, where the elite of Man.
lila gathered daily TO partake of ex-
otic dainties and exchange the gossip
of the hour. Genial old Mr.. Clarke
readily assented to young Pritchard's S
proposal to inaugurate a daily "home
cooked" luncheon course, and in a
few years Tom, as he is affectionate-
ly known in all Manila, had safely
entrenched himself in the hearts of
epicureans all over the Far East.
The huge frame, dressed in i'm
maculate white, the genial ear-to-
ear smile revealing double row of
glistening white teeth, and the deep
hearty laugh became as much part
of Manila as the Old Wall or the
famous Luneta.
When the owner of the restaurant
died and the place was closed. Plit.
chard found himself without job
but with a few thousand saved, he
started a tiny place, described al
that time as 'hole in the wall" or
Plaza Goiti, one of Manila's busiesi
thofofares. Over this place he hung
shingle telling the world that it was
Toms Dixie Kitchen"
Declined Help
Although friends of every nation
ality, Americans, Filipinos, Chinese
British and German, offered to ex
press their confidence in Toms abil
ity by investing money in his new
venture, the erstwhile ships cook re
fused all offers of help, and bravely
set forth to be his own restaurant
Those first two years were hard,
Tom told the writer. II had only
two boys to help me. L did all ths
cooking myself, and the number Of
people | served was almost unbe
lievable. In the Orient folks demand
the most exacting sort of service
too, and it was often a problem ts
provide both prompt and courteoui
service and tasteful meai''
Entire Block
= Tom Pritchard's path has not bee