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The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-07-14
VAUDEVILLE ACTS
 BY POPULAR TRIO
 AT PALACE SUNDAY

The Van and Gilbert variety show performers, will appear in new vaudeville acts appearing at the Palace Sunday and Monday nights, two complete shows each night.
 This popular trio made hit when it recently appeared at the Palace for a two weeks engage. ment and comes back again with brand new stuff. Van will be seen in some of his initimabie drol- lery, Marie Gilbert will give new dances and whistling and Lee Perry will present new selections on the accordion and banjo. All appear in skits bubbling over with good comedy and the big sketch for the present engagement will be Tommy Edison, Jf." The complete show runs for fully 40 minutes and it always satisfies the audiences.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-07-14
MAX SAUL FINED

Max Saul, who was arrested on June 2S, and charged with the manufacture of intoxicating liquor in violation of the prohibition laws, was fined $25 and costs at hearing in the U. s. Commis- sioner's Court, this morning.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-07-14

ingenue who has appeared with much success in "The Johnstown Flood" "The Midnight Kiss" and other Fox Films productions, and Richard Walling, handsome young juvenile who won fame in "The Midnight Kiss" and Marriage License?" plays opposite Janet.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-07-14
COMPANY INCORPORATED

Articles of incorporation were filed in the office of the Secretary of Alaska this morning by the McCcrd Alaskan company. fore ign corporation, with headquarters in Delaware. Cassius M Clay, Leslie B. Soper, and Norborne r. Calling, Jr.. all of New York, are the incorporators
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-07-14
AT THE HOTELS
Gastineau

Mrs. Barnett, Haines; Mary Bar nett, Haines; w. P Mills, Sitka; Guy F. Craig, Seattle; Granville H. Peets, Seattle
 Alaskan Ben Kittel. Skagway; H. Cham bers, Benjamin Island; Gus Mattu- lat. Yakobi; Peter Layton, Ylkobi; L. M. Jones, Aux Lake.
 Zynda Mabel M. Briggs, Binghampton, New York.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-07-14
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

= Girl to work in shooting gallery. Salary and commission. Apply in person evenings at Arcade Gallery on South Front Street.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-06
Say al" Made One
Appointment Only

NEW YORK CITY. - A careful
check-up on the record of Governor
Alfred L. Smith, shows that only one
Negro has been given an appoint
nient by the New York executive DUR
ing tie eight years he has been Gov
crnor of the State.
1t is said that in 1922 and 1924
Negroes in Harlem supported the
New Yorl; Governor in large num-
bers but refused in 1926 because of
mis- failure to make more appoint
ments.
Ferdinand @. Morton, Civil Service
commissioner, and "Chief" Lee, Nor
tons aid, were blamed for failure to
support Smith, when Smiths atti-
tude towards Negroes in the matter
of appointments, was the real cause
OF Negroes leaving Tammany.
Smith leaders firmly admit that
they ere up against a proposition
asking Negroes of New York to vote
for Smith as they are unable to point
to any thing he has done for the
race.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-06
Communists Nominate
Negroes to Office

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.-(ANP)
The California State Nominating
Convention of the Workers (Com-
munist). Party was held here Sunday.
Anita Whitney of Oakland was NOM
mated as the party candidate for the
office of United States Senator. Ami
ia Whitney is we'll known both local.
ly and nationally as a champion of
the Negro and all oppressed minority
groups. Her arrest and conviction
in 1920 was due in part to the fact
that she addressed the Oakland Wo-
mans club, white organization, on
"The Negro Problem In The United
States" in defiance of police orders
not to do so.
The three Negro delegates of the
Convention were |. B. Davidson, and
w. A. jackson from the Oakland dis
trict, and John H. Owens from the
Palo Verde Valley. l. B. Davidson
was nominated for assemblyman
from the 39th district. Applause
and cheers greeted the nomination
of Davidson.
A Negro, John H. Owens, was elect
ed Vice-chairman of the convention.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-06
Boy Would Go to Pole
Hides In Byrd's Ship

NEW YORK-Inspired by the ex-
perienees of Matt Henson who was
Commodore Peary's right hand man
on his trip to the north pole, Robert
White Lanier, 20 years old, hid him
self away on Byrd's flagship, City of
New York, which sailed from Ho-
boken en- route to the Antarctic re-
gions and was not found until late
Saturday by the ships crew.
Lanier was the third stowaway
Byrd's crew had located on board.
The first two were sent back.
While slowed away for more than
day under the forecastle head Lam
ier had withstood the effects of a
funigation of the ship, but capitu-
lated when the aroma of food from
the crews mess was waited up the
hatch.
Between bites of watermelon, his
first food or drink in many hours, he
told how he had hired a rowboat,
lodged the police patrol, and board
ed the ship at night. Lanier begged
to be allowed to go with Commander
Byrd. No decision wS5 reached.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-06
Extend Date for
Harmon Nominations

NEW YORK. - An announce
ment made recently by DR.. George
E. Haynes, secretary of the Commits
sion of the Church on Race Relations
states that the date for the proposal
of candidates for the Harmon awards
has been extended to September 10.
Indications are that before this eX-
tended date arrives, a large number
of desirable candidates for the
awards will be sent in. The late Mr..
Harmon provided fully for the con-
tinuance of the awards through the
Harmon foundation and officials in
charge are making an exhaustive
quest for distinguished accomplish
ment.
Fourteen awards are open to man
and women of the group. Seven car
ry an honorarium of $400 and gold
medal and seven an honorarium of
500 and bronze medal. In addi-
ton there will be one award in race
relations of a gold medal carrying an
honorarium of $1,000 to be confer
red every two years. The awards will
be announced in January and pre-
sented on Lincoln's birthday.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-06
May Run for Congress
Down in Florida

NEW YORK.-(ANP)-W. w.
Sullivan, President of the Congress
sional Life Insurance Company,
Gainesville, Fla, and one of the lead
ing Negro business men of the state,
has been here attending the National
Negro Business League. He is keen
ly interested in the political situa-
ton as it relates to the race and feels
that the Negro should have larger
representation in the affairs of the
government. When interviewed here
Mr.. Sullivan said: 81 am seriously
considering the Importance of the
nomination for Congress from the
End Congressional district of Flori-
da. The Negroes and their staunch
white supporters of this district are
not pleased at the Lily-white meth
DDS. instituted by the skipper faction,
nor the attitude of the national par
ty towards them"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-06
Suspend Rules
To Elect Ruler
For Seventh Term

CHICAGO, Sept. 1.--At the con.
clusion of his annual report Tuesday
night ]. Finley Wilson was reelect-
cd by acclamation Grand Exalted
Ruler for the seventh term, Grand
Lodge suspending rules. This ac-
tion on opening day was unprece-
dented Wilson stated he would
reappoint Perry Howard Grand
Legal Adviser. In his report he
recommended establishment of a
Fidelity Fund.
The motion to re-elect Wilson was
made by George Lee, a delegate
from Memphis.
Lee. in making the early nomina-
tion, reminded the convention that
Ruler Wilson had turned down an
official post on the colored voters
section of the G. o. p. campaign
because he was disappointed with
the way the late Republican admini-
strations had treated colored voters
by failure to enforce the 18th, 14th
and 18th amendments.
When Lee resumed his seat, the
1900 delegates present cheered.
then arose and reelected their exalt-
ed ruler by aeclamation, thus car
rying out the expectation that Ruler
/ Wilson would regain his seat un-
opposed.
Following his election Wilson
made plea to the grand lodge to
choose members for his cabinet that
would fully cooperate in his plans.
This cooperation had been wanting
on the part of certain grand lodge
officers and he asked they be not
reelected. The plea of Wilson re-
suited in the defeat of George Bates.
grand secretary for many years OF
the Elk's order. James Kelly OF
birmingham. Ala, was chosen sec
retary. James G. Martin of Chicago
was elected grand treasurer. A near
riot marred the Elks' Oratoricai
| Contest.
The contest. all orations of which
were on the constitution of the Unit
ed States with special reference to
amendments 13, IA and Is, was
won by modest young man, Joseph
C. Waters, whose home is in Alex
andria, Va, and who was the only
male orator in the contest. Award
of the first prize of $500 to young
] Continued on Page 81
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-06
West Indian Immigrants Have Made Good
As Progressive American Citizens

industries have been developed with
West Indian labor. So, too, was the
Panama Canal built. Thus encour-
aged, America is carrying no an
economic invasion of Central Amer
lea, again utilizing the same forces,
the West Indian blacks. This little
excursion is sufficient for the pur-
pose in hand, and l turn to the
West Indian in the States.
Immigration
immigration OF the West Indian
to the United States in appreciable
numbers dates seemingly from the
'7O's to the year 1920. During the
last five years OF this period It
reached its peak. Here in that land
Of opportunity with every Incentive
to work, he has exploded the old
fallacy of his Incidence and shift
lessness. He has developed habits
of industry, has created wealth for
himself, and very progressive. In ad-
dition, being on the whole more ann
bilious than the American Negro, he
furnished the first Negro profession
ais in America, and to-day in all the
professions-in law, medicine, dem
tistry, commerce and literature-he
occupies prominent position. In
fact, the unisue Negro community in
Harlem, New York City-Mr. Van
vechten's Niger Heaven--has been
largely built up by West Indian en-
terprise.
II is gratifying to note how re-
Gently the different island organiza-
tions of the West Indian in New
York City are being federated into
West Indian League. They have
done so without. destroying their
Identities. Surely in this is the germ
thought of federated West Indies
with its obvious advantages.
There is, too, large number OF
West Indians who would, | venture
to think. be prepared. to return to
their native land--many OF them
skilled artisans--if only they could
themselves find dignified work and
proper schools for their children.
There are the resources and un-
doubted native talent whereby these
poor, static unhealthy islands may
be transformed into industrious
healthy and progressive communal
ties, making their, own peculiar con-
tributions to self-supporting and
united Empire Everything is there
for the development of West In
1ian nation, but some unified con-
Istructive policy Is sorely needed,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-06
Elks Reflect Finley V7ilsonHeadofO Orde,
Possum, Melon Story
Flat at Convention

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - The sec
retary of the local chamber of COM
merce found a chilly audience when
he told 'possum-and-w watermelon
story Monday at the city's official
welcome to the 800 delegates from
26 states at the Madame C. J. Walk
er convention here.
In direct contrast were the well
come speeches of Mayor l.. L. Slack
and Governor Ed jackson.
Mayor Slack said: "What is there
to race? Go out and accomplish
something for the world. That is
That is what counts" Speaking fur
ther of Madam Walker, he said, at
is great thing to start life in a
humble way and work your way up.
1t makes you know that you have
done something. | am mayor of all.
We work together here for the good
of all the people"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-06
Enterprise News Bureau)

From singing spirituals in deep
ly religious Methodist church to
grooming the jazziest of Jazz songs
amid the most brilliant lights and
receiving the plaudits of the most
celebrated people of the world, may
seem a long jump or fall, depending
upon your point of view, but this is
what happened to Noble Sissle, en-
tertainer par excellence, song writer
and one of the best known actors of
all races in the world today.
This famous jazz artist, whose life
reads like Horatio Alger story, like
his famous contemporary, AL Jolson,
had an ultra religious background in
his early years. And like Jolson,
Sissle feels today that there is q
deep and artistic aspect to his work,
of which he might be as proud as
though he had remained a choir sing
er in the little church of his child
hood.
He was born 80 years ago in the
little Methodist parsonage in Cleve-
land where his father pastored.
With an unusually good voice as
child, his father soon formed the
hope that he would become a great
evangelistic singer. And young Noble
gave promise of just such a career
when he took an enthusiastic part
in the singing in the church.
Many times as a child he let his
soul and body swing with the rythm
of the spirituals crooned by his eld-
ers, and there he got the first inn
pulse of the emotional swaying which
has made him famous as one of the
jazziest of jazz singers in the world.
Mobiles father died before he COM
pleted his education in De Paul Uni
versity, and one of his last wishes
was that the boy become great
church singer.
But this was not to be. Like
many young genius, young Sissle
began to strike out along independ-
ent lines and his first step to the
career of fame which he later made
was to join troupe of jubilee sing.
ers which picked up few dollars
by entertaining in hotels and similar
resorts.
That Sissle here laid the founda'
ton for his career is borne out by
the fact that until this day his prom
inence as a society entertainer !:
one of his biggest assets. Wher
Sissle left the Jubilee singers he went
to Palm Beach where he entertain
ed at the Breakers and other popu
lar hotels.
By this time the young entertain
er was attracting considerable atten
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-06
enterprise News Bureau)

By Professor II. Hudson Philips.
Seven years residence in the
United States has left me with cer-
tain impressions. In addition l had.
as foreigner, the rare privilege of
meeting and associating with many
of the people, white and colored,
in all walks of life. In the course
of my stay there l became greatly
interested in the American educa-
tional system and the development
of the American Negro.
But l could not help at all times,
consciously or subconsciously, trying
to discover the part the West Indian
has been playing in the history and
development of that country. | have
been greatly exercised to find out
why it is that the phenomenal prog
ress of the American Negro and the
marked Improvement of the West
Indian Negro in the States do not
find the semblance of counterpart
in the British West Indies. 1t is
fully conceded that intimate contact
with a virile and progressive people
in a country rich in natural re-
sources has had and has its un-
doubted effect on the Negro in Am
erica. But that does not answer
the question and only offers an ex-
planation in part.
Slave Trade
If / may be permitted an histor-
ical depression, 1t is to be observed
that, coincident with the first Brit
ish colonization in the New World,
the Negroes of the West Indies have
exerted a profound influence on the
economic development of the United
States. 1t was the slave trade and
its profitable triangular voyages
from Boston and otlSer New Eng
land ports to West Africa, thence
again to New England via the West
Indies-which gave New England
much of its commercial start and
made possible much of her higher
culture. 1t was Touissant Lower
ture, the black. Haitian general, who
thwarting Napoleon's dream of a
new French colonial empire in Ame-
rica, indirectly induced the Louisi-
ana Purchase, whereby the thirteen
Colonies were enabled to extend to
the Mississippi and over the prairies
to the Rockies and the Pacific Oce-
an. Moreover. by her absorption Of
the Spanish West Indies the Amer
lean Republic has succeeded in con-
trolling two large industries. These
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-06
Dead Princess Is
Mourned by 10000

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. With
ten thousand mourners looking on,
the Nubian Princess" Adorka Laura
Koffey, 35-year-old Negro, was bur-
led by members of her African Uni
versal Church congregation.
The princes" was shot to death
by another Negro in the pulpit of her
church at Miami on March 9Th, and
the killer was slain by members of
the congregation. Her body had been
kept since as the result of controv-
ersy between the st. Petersburg,
Tampa and Jacksonville congrega-
tions, the former two wishing to re-
turn it to her native Africa.
She was a leader in 4 Back to
Africa" movement among southern
Negroes, and organized several
churches in the South.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-06
Methodist Preachers Son Is Now !
Leader OF Jazziest Band In Paris

tion and coming North he stopped
at Joe Cans Goldfield Hotel cabaret
where he met Eubie Blake, who was
conducting the orchestra.
Here began a partnership which
has perhaps influenced the rise of
the racial group in the theatrical
world as perhaps few other events
in stage history. When Noble Sissle
and Eubie Blake formed their part
nership they commenced to ''think
double" From these two flowed a
stream Of musical compositions
which set the whole world humming.
Blake wrote the melodies to
Sissle's lyrics and soon they were
writing songs for such celebrities as
Sophie Tucker, Bell Baker and
others. Perhaps, if these two ar
lists had applied the modern COM
mercial methods to their compost
tions, they would have reaped even
greater reward in money, but like
| their singing of the spirituals. they
wrote when the impulse prompted
and many of their best numbers
were sung by celebrities without
even the usual credit. During their
career they have turned out rs
songs.
The best known composition Of
these artists is "The Big Parade" a
stirring song of war days which was
sung in every corner Of the civilized
world.
From Baltimore the pair went to
New York where they added to their
laurels wherever they sang. When
the World War broke out Sissle
Joined the late Jim Europe's band
and went overseas with the 15th New
York Infantry.
| Everybody remembers the famous
and perhaps first great hit of its
kind on Broadway, Shuttle Along
This grew out of a meeting with
Miller and Lyles, and the merging
of these four made theatrical history
and has opened the way folt several
successful hits in the country's
greatest theatrical centre.
Although the partnership of Sissle
and Blake has been temporarily dis
solved, friends of the two look for
a reunion of the pair at any time.
This has been tragedy.
Word comes from Paris that Sissle
has signed a contract under the
management of the Casino of Baer-
itz, to appear there in September.
Immediately after this, it is said,
he will finish an English engagement
and come to America.
In Europe Sissle sits on top of the
theatrical profession.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-06
New York Elks Resent
Howard's Persecution

NEW YORK. - Monarch Lodge,
No. As Negro Elks, at meeting at
No. 245 w. 18th street, adopted res
olutions voicing resentment of what
is characterized as a persecution" of
Perry w. Howard, Grand Legal Ad-
visor of the Independent Order of
Elks and Negro Republican National
Committeeman from Mississippi.
Assurances of sympathy and sup
port are expressed in the resolutions,
which charge that Howard is sacri-
feed for political expediency and
through race prejudice.
Monarch Lodge is one of the larg-
est in the country. 1t has 1900
members. A similar resolution was
passed recently by Negro Elks of
Baltimore.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-06
Only 4l9 Race
Voters On Book
In Birmingham

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Sept. s.
Especially Only 419 colored per-
sons. 81 women and 852 men. regis
tered as voters in this city July.
Some 1853 white females and
37,267 white males registered the
same day.
November and are two addi-
tionaI registration days provided be-
fore the presidential election.
Birmingham has 1920 colored
population and 147,00O white. Ev-
cry third person in Birmingham is
colored. but only one out of every
100 voters is colored.
Legal qualifications, by means of
which whites maneuver to disfran-
chise colored persons include: two
years residence in State, one year
in county and three months in pre-
cinct; the ability to read and under
stand the Constitution or, as an al
tentative, to own 40 acres of land
assessed at $500 for taxes, on which
taxes must be paid. Also every vo-
ter. male and female, must pay
$3.50 poll taxes up to the age OF
As. Women must have paid poll
taxes from 1920. No re-registration
is required biennially if taxes are
paid. Registration is with the coun-
ry registrar.
Absent voters can write the coun-
ty Judge of probate for absent-voter
ballots and instructions 5 to 30 days
before election if they are register
ed. but otherwise legally qualified
absent voters can register by mail
by writing county board of regis
trars, stating the facts and apply
for registration affidavit and in
structions to be executed before a
notary. Thus registered by mail
the absentee can also vote by mail,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-06
Carvey Made
Mistakes Says
Howard Prexy

WILLIAMSON, Mass, Sept. A.
Two mistakes of the Marcus Garvey
program were pointed out by DR..
Mordecai Johnson, president of
Howard University, before the In
stitute of Politics Monday.
Garvey, he said, was wrong in
urging Negroes to renounce Ameri-
can citizenship and return to Africa.
Africa's, redu.aption, he said, would
come through the aid of humanitar-
ians in London, New York and Paris.
Garvey's other error was in adopt
ing for Africa the western principle
of nationalism, DR.. Johnson said;
and added, the duty of the American
Negro is to consider himself the pub
licity agent of his African brother.
He denied the benevolent aims of
missionaries in Africa have served
to counteract the evil of European
colonization and eXtolled the dig
nifty and innocence of African max
edness.
How European powers are ex-
plotting Africa was told by r. Leslie
Buell., white research director of the
Foreign Policy Association.
There are three forms of forced
labor, said DIR. Buell..
First. for porterage, or the trans
port of goods upon the heads of
human carriers; second, natives are
Obliged to travel hundreds of miles
down the Congo to work on railways
on the West Coast; third, in many
territories, notably the Portuguese,
French and Belgian, and indirectly
In some British territories, natives
are being compelled to work for pri-
vate enterprises. Thousands, If not
millions, are annually obliged to
submit to this type of servitude.
In the past sleeping sickness was
confined to the coast, but European
soldiers have carried it to the inter-
ior. other diseases. he said, have
been taken there. In the artificial
labor centres the death rate some
times is as high as so to 100 per
thousand.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-06
Appeals Court Keeps Ben
Bess In the Pen

COLUMBIA, S. C.-Circuit Court
ruled against release of Ben Bess,
convicted of assault on a white wom-
an given S0-year sentence, 1S years
ago.
Bess was pardoned several weeks
ago, when the women recanted her
story, but the pardon retracted when
she withdrew her recantation.
Bess' attorneys claimed a pardon
once issued cannot be retarded.