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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-09
ColOred Babe
Born IN To Queen
OF French King

NEW YORK, March o. Especially
Queen Marie Theresa. the eonsort
of King Louis XIV of France, was
the mother of colored girl baby.
says J. A. Rogers, writing in the
current issue of the Messenger Mag
azine.
Rogers is now residing in Paris.
Says he:
"It seems that an African prince
made the queen present of a little
black dwarf to whom she became
greatly attached. He was always
with her, playing on the rich rugs
and even sitting on her lap. Soon
the other ladies Of the French court
began to get such dwarfs, and In a
short time they became the vogue.
This is the reason why nearly all of
the paintings of the noble ladies of
that period always show Africans in
attendance.
Royal Chief Is Colored
mot long after the dwarf became
a part of the queens household, that
lady found herself about to become
a mother. When the baby, girl.
was born, it was black, and every
body agreed that the little dwarf
had scared the queen and caused
her to have a colored child.
"At any rate, the child was bap-
tized. Louise-Marie after the king
and queen, and sent to convent to
be brought up. There she remained
until she died, known as Sister
Loulse-Marie. and visited occasional
ly by members of the royal family"
Rogers concludes: $50 far as the
matter of color is concerned the
Black Nun might have been a mys-
terry in those days, but in this hard
boiled age we are inclined to be a
bit more skeptical."
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-09
Stylishly Gowned Girls
Found to Be Men

NEW YORK.--More than thirty
men who felt perfectly at home
dressed in women's clothes have been
arrested in the past few weeks at the
Lulu Belle Club, Lenox Ave. near
127th St., according to local police.
Five others were taken into GUS
tody last week, fined and sent to
jail in default of $25 fines. The
''flappers" were dressed in low cut
evening gowns and fur wraps. They
gave their names as Llody Kauff-
man, and Harold Pullen of Brook
lyn; Harold Pullen and Edward
Deag, of White Plains and Lafayette
Maurice. e ~
Two detectives told the court that
they dined at the club and were ap-
preached by the five 'girls". who
asked If the pair wanted to, take an
auto ride The "dear things" were
Mortified when they learned that they
had been driven to. the police station.
A white "girP' who was reputed to
be hostess at the Lulu Belle, was
arrested recently but proved to be
the son, of Brooklyn woman. "She"
was reported to have been on the
street in girls clothes the day after
being released.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-09
George SzUayze Commits Suicide
Likes Prison Life,
Pegs to Go Back

ATLANTA, Ga.-Bars do not a
prison make but rather make home.
This in effect is what Tom MCGEE,
colored, has come to believe. He is
lonesome when away from the chain
gang and protests when judges fail
to give him long sentences.
Captain A. j. Holcombe, police
officer is the latest to admit aston
ishment at McGee's anxiety to get
bacl: among the lawbreakers and
stone crushers.
McGee, Just off the gang, APP
preached Holcombe and said he
wanted to go back. .-
81 had a good job out at the river
camp. Warden Mills is the finest
man in the world. | had lot of
work to do, plenty of clothes and
enough to eat. Feedin' the hogs
and cows was my job. Please send
me back, cap'n," McGee pleaded. The
officer laughed and McGee hurled a
rock through a store window and
got what he wanted.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-09

NEW YORK CITY.-Under the
auspices of Colored Who's Who In
America, Inc, the Upper Harlem
Board of Real Estate Brokers was
heard over station WABC, last Thurs
day evening. John M. Royal, well
known realtor and president spoke.
He traced the constructive growth
of Harlem, the worlds greatest Ne
gro community, showed the real es-
tate problems, and predicted an even
greater enhancement Of values yet to
come. ~, M
Said the speaker, "In spite of false
phophets and the alarmist. who fig
ured Harlem values in real estate
would depreciate, the very opposite
has come to pass; as Harlem prop
critics are showing q better return
and selling higher today than in any
other section Of our city, considering
its distance from the financial and
commercial centers Of our 100000
population.
$4,000 Houses
"Colored Harlem occupies about
$50 city blocks and $4,000 houses.
This population owns at least $780,
100000 worth Of real estate; and
pays approximately $1,000. 900, 900
In rents annually to landlords. Col
ored Harlem consumes in food, cloth
ing. car fares, recreation, schooling
and the like $4,000, 900, 900 or more
per year. The insurance companies
collect from Harlem annual prem
iums of more than $4,000, 1000. and
yet in spite Of these extraordinary
overheard carrying charges there are
less than 2 per cent vacancies in Har-
lem properties. It is but fair to say,
II these people were profitably en-
ployed by those who collect and prof
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-09
Postal Clerk Kills
Self With Gun in
Sweetheart S Home


An illicit love affair that blasted
the happiness of two Seattle homes
ended Thursday morning when
George Swayze, 33 years, blew out
his brains with a as calibre auto
matte pistol in the home of his sweet
heart Mrs. Margaret Booker, 1921
East Cherry street. Lying in bed,
clad only in his union suit Swayze
fired the bullet through his right tenn
pie the missile passing out over his
left eye and striking the wall of the
bedroom. That the suicide had been
carefully planned is shown by letters
written by Swayze and statements
made to Mrs. Pauline Swayze, his
wife and to Mrs. Booker. Mrs. Sway
re told police that she and her hus-
band had been separated several
months on account of his love affair
with Mrs. Booker She said she lived
with her two children at the Doug
las Apartments and her husband WIS.,
tied her frequently since their separ-
alton to see the children. On We'd
nesday Mrs. Swayze said her husband
spent the day in her apartment, re-
naming until ten o'clock Wednesday
night. He told her he was sorry on
account of their trouble and asked
her to forgive him for his escapade
with Mrs. Booker. Mrs. Swayze said
her husband was respondent and told
herr he was going to kill himself.
He told her of his plans for the chill
dren's future and directed her what
to do with life insurance money. Mrs.
Swayze said she begged her husband
not 20 take his HE ana Jefore he left
her apartment he agreed not to COM
nit the rash act. Mrs. Swayze was
bitter in condemnation of Mrs. Book
er saying, "My home was happy until
this woman stole my husband" Mrs
Booker told police that Swayze was
roomer in her home. For several
weeks she said Swayze had been act
ing queer. Thursday morning she
said Swayze showed her the revolver
and told her he was going to take
his life. Mrs. Booker said she beg
ged him not to do it." She left the
bedroom for the kitchen to prepare
breakfast for her children, Mrs.
Booker told police, and Swayze cal
he'd to her, Goodbye Margaret"
and she heard the shot that ended
his life. Mrs. Booker is the divorced
wife of Emmer H. Booker, former
Seattle mail carrier. She is the moth
er of four children. Booker in his
divorce complaint named Swayze as
alenating the affections of his wife,
Booker is now in New York where he
transferred after his divorce. Swayze,
previous to his escapade with Mrs.
Booker bore an excellent reputation.
He was a special postal clerk en-
ployed at the terminal station. His
mother, Mrs. M. Hendrix lives in San
Francisco and his father George
Swayze is living in Cleveland, Ohio.
The body is at Johnson and Hamil-
toms mortuary.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-09
Tnilkhan Would
Use Marines l.
In The South

WASHINGTON, d. c., March S.
Two hours of statistics and accusa-
tions against the South for disfran-
chisement of Negroes presented in
the House Tuesday by Representa-
tive Tinkham (R., Mass.), brought
from Representative Tillman 3D.,
Ark.), the assertion that the South
Is proud of its complete domination
by whites and will continue to sup
port that pride with action.
Toward the end of the second
hour Tinkham hurled at William G..
McAdoo the charge of reaching the
pinnacle of nauseating hypocrisy
by urging support of the Eighteenth
Amendment while being "a conspic-
uous sympathizer with the nullifi-
cation of the Fourteenth, Fifteenth
and Nineteenth Amendment"
Tinkham urged approval of res
olution to reduce the Congressional
representation of Southern States
according to the total votes cast.
The marines now in Nicaragua ito
guarantee constitutional and fair
elections" might be put to better
use in the South, Tinkham said, for
the same purpose. a.. .H.
Tinkham quoted Sen. Blease,
(Dem. s. Co., as saying Coolidge
got 1000 votes in his state. He
(Blease) was astonished to know
they were cast, and shocked to learn
they were counted. Blease said there
were thousands of ballot boxes
where no one but whites could vote.
Rep. Tillman said he was all
white, and wanted to know of what
race was Tinkham.
Rep. Shafer asked Tillman did his
being white mean that he would
deny constitutional guarantees to
other non-white citizens.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-09
Ed (Sheik) Gardner
Seattle's S Runner
Leads Marathon

LOS ANGELES, Calf, March 8.
Especial Eddie Gardner, Seattle's
picturesque colored entry in c. c..
Pyle's $4S,000 coast to coast mar
athon logged into Barstow on the
edge of the Mojave Desert ahead of
the band of runners making the cross
country jaunt for fame and fortune.
Barstow is 1873 miles from Los An
geles. Although Gardner paced the
field of 168 runners into Barstow he
ranks second in the contest. To
Olli Wantinen, finnish runner goes
the honor of first in the run having
the lowest total elapsed time of 5
hours &c minutes and 40 seconds for
the distance covered. Gardner's to-
tai elapsed time in 10 hrs. and IT
min. and 46 seconds. Gardner is in
fine physical shape and shows the
least strain of all the runners who
left Los Angeles Sunday afternoon
in the run to New York City. All
the track enthusiasts here have their
eyes on Gardner who has become fav-
orite to win the contest. He Is No.
165 on the list of runners. Gardner
is recognized as the classiest mar
athon runner the Pacific Coast has
ever seen. Three times winner of
the Seattle Post-Intellingencer mar
athon and victor in the Seattle Police
10 mile marathon in 1922. Cross
country champion of Alabama, a
graduate of Tuskegee Institute
(class P17) and the boy who stands
an A No. ! chance of passing Grants
Tomb in the lead of his pale face
brothers.
Gardner is 28 years old, 14O lbs, a
model husband and the father of a
boy and girl and the idol of sports
men, black and white throughout the
entire Pacific coast. Backed and fin
anced by w. w. Burns and j. r.
Akers, well known sportsmen of Los
Angeles, Eddie is entered in G. c..
Pyles' $4,000 classic event. Cover
ing &c miles in 3 hrs and ION and 10
miles in 1hr. 4m., both records ac-
complished by Eddie in capturing the
Seattle marathons prove him run
ner worthy of serious consideration.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-09
(Enterprise News Bureaul

(Enterprtse News bureau1
20 CHICAGO, March 8.--Jobs that
colored people have held for the last
sixty years in the southland, are be-
ing gradually taken over by the
southern whites. This situation is
particularly evident in Georgia, Loui-
siana and Texas. Albon L. Holsey,
secretary of the National Negro Bus
mess League, reports that white wait
ers have taken the jobs of colored
men in the restaurants and hotels of
Valdosta. Ca, and he cited other in
stances where the replacement has
recently taken place. Nationwide un-
employment, where there has been no
replacement, is taking on serious and
alarming proportions. In New York,
Philadelphia and Washington, meet
ings have been held under the aus
pices of community uplift organiza-
tions to consider the problems of un-
employment.
A meeting was held in Norfolk,
Va. recently for the purpose of se-
curing relief from the miseries at
tendant with business depression. It
Is reported that the bread line on the
Bowery in New York is longer than IL
was in Nineteen Twenty-one, when
this country suffered in the throes
and grip of similar unemployment,
but never before have the Southern
colored people been thrown out Of
work and replaced BY whites in such
numbers as now exist. All efforts
to bring the colored workers. into Ia
Dor unions have been halted, except
in the case Of the proposed union Of
Pullman porters.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-09
Howard Prexy
Declares For
Full Equality

NEW YORK, March 8, (SpeciaD
DIR. Mordecia w. johnson, presi-
dent of Howard University, Wash
ington, d. c., stands for full race
equality including amalgamation
and social equality. #
DIR. johnson expressed his views
before the Community Church, in
New York Wednesday night.
Speaking to mixed audience of
whites and blacks, DIR. Johnson said,
he did not believe in inter marriage
Just for the sake of Negro marry
ing white woman, but, he thought
that when two sane persons wanted
to marry, there should be no law
to prevent them, and that while he
could not stop amalgamation of the
races, he did not believe that Negroes
should wait for amalgamation to give
him full manhood rights. ..F -
1t is too long process, he said.
He wanted his rights black, just as
he is, which included social equality
without equivocation or retreating a
single inch, which in turn included
intermarriage. .... .... .. rH-
DR.. johnson emphasized the fact
that anthropologists and other sci
entists are agreed that no harm can
come from intermarriage.
....a Religion
"The white mans religion" said
DIR. Johnson "has made the mistake
of leaving the public under the inn
preston that Protestant religion is
the white mans religion. This is un-
true. 1t is an Asiatic religion"
"The South lost its big opportunity
during the days of slavery by inter
preting the Bible in philosophical
manner instead of an ethical man
ner," DR.. johnson explained
He said one set of white men in
the South took the Book of Genesis
and proved that slavery was right
and another set took the Bible and
proved that it was wrong.
China Laughs
China, he declared. laughs at the
American Missionary who brings him
religion and segregates the Negro.
DR.. johnson recalled church that
sent two white missionaries to Africa
to convert the heathen and thirty
days later, led by the pastor, protest
ed against two respectable colored
people moving into the neighborhood
of one of it's members. He said he
hoped that the Negro would become
more radical along social and econ
omic lines, but especially along re-
ligious lines.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-09
Harlem Expects Population
To Reach Half Million By 1888

fit by underwriting the necessities
of Harlem's life, there wouldn't be
a vacancy in all that section"
Loan Sharks
Discussing the constructive work
of his association in endeavoring to
alleviate the difficulties under which
our group labors in securing mort
cages at equitable prices in Harlem
Mr.. Royal had this to say, "Much of
the borrowing for mortgages has fall
len into the hands Of the loan sharks
who have reaped rich harvest, mon
ey often being sold at 20 to 80 per
cent and under the most drastic
terms and conditions in spite of which
handicap, interest is paid and values
maintained. .
at is this condition which the Up
per Harlem Board of Real Estate
Brokers, composed entirely of color
ed members, is bending every ef-
fort to improve"
Expect Half Million
Forecasting future for the great
Harlem center, Mr.. Royal uttered
the following prophecy: mo one fa-
miliar with the, subject considers the
prediction of a half million colored
people occupying Harlem by 1888, is
in the least exaggerated, and MEM
hers of the Harlem Board of Real
Estate are, of course, thoroughly a.
lert to the opportunities which will
arise due to this substantial oxpan-
sion of the colored population in
Harlem, and what it will do for real
estate values in that section.
Gas Colonel Roosevelt stated, "the
basis Of all real wealth is real estate,
True, whether the real estate be To-
Gated in colored Harlem, or on Park
avenue"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-09

PRINCESS ANN, Va.---Mrs. Mary
1. Braye has been indicted for first
degree murder, charged with killing
her husband, William, while he was
asleep. es si-i
His head was crushed with an axe
and his throat cut from ear to ear.
Mrs. Braye is said to have sought
control Of his real estate and insur-
ance,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-09
U. m. LA. Loses Phone

NEW YORK CITY.-As an evil
dence of the alleged lean times into
which the Universal negro Improve
neny Association, and its publicity
subsidiary, "The Negro World" have
fallen, the disconnecting Of the tele-
phone connections in the papers Of
flee is cited. & slay { 1s s
Uriah Citizen, secretary Of the new
York. local association, speaking in
the business office Of the paper said,
Through an unfortunate circum.
stance our telephones have been
taken away" ,.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-09
COLOR line At "NATION' DINNER
Southern Hotel
Bars Negro Guests
AT Willard Dinner

BALTIMORE, Md, March 3,
(SpeciaD--The Baltimore Nation"
Dinner scheduled for the Southern
Hotel next Saturday has drawn the
colored line. ttp
Invitations were sent out three
weeks ago to readers of the New
York Nation" inviting them to at
tend the dinner in honor of Oswald
Jamison Willard, for ten years its
editor.
Similar dinners are to be staged
next week also in Washington, Ro-
chester, Philadelphia, New York and
Boston. ~
Color Line "Difficulties"
In Baltimore, Wednesday, Mrs. X.
A. Spaeth, 307 Edgevale Road, Ro-
land Park, secret of the local COM
mittee sent to coiored persons the
following notice:
81 have been asked to tell you
that the Anniversary Nation DIM
ner in honor of Mr.. Willard will be
held at the Southern Hotel.
at is unnecessary for me to point
out the difficulties that might arise
il you attempted to attend the din
ner. Please believe that the policy
of the Southern Hotel is not that
nf the Nation and that we regret
very much being unable to take adj
vantage of your kind willingness to
cooperate with us in this celebra-
tion." n lN .ts
No Decent Dinner
Asked why the committee selected
the Southern Hotel. Knowing its
"small town" policy, Mrs. Spaeth said
at was the only. place in town where
a decent dinner could be gotten for
the price of $3.50.
For the Rochester, N. Y. dinner,
which win be held at Temple Birth
Kodesh, tickets will be but $1.00.
For Philadelphia, the Bellevue STRAIT
ford will charge $3.50. For the Bos-
ton Nation" D,nner at the Dnivers-
ity Club, tickets will also be $3.50.
New York's Nation Dinner at the
Pennsylvania Hotel, will charge
$3.50. AF
Willard Grandson OF Abolitionist
Oswald Jamison Willard, editor of
the Nation" is the grandson of Will
liam Lloyd Garrison, the great aboli-
zionist. In his own right, Mr.. Vii
lard is humanitarian, a foremost
thinker and writer. He is vice
president of the National Association
for the advancement Of Colored
People.
At the Baltimore meeting will
speak Arthur Garfield Hays, New
York attorney. who gave his services
to the N. A. A. c. p, with Clarence
Darrow, in defending Henry Sweet
in the famous "Sweet murder case"
in Detroit.
Attitude of this hotel recalls the
fact that the Emerson Hotel barred
Countee Cullen, when the poet ap-
peared in the lobby to address the
City Club.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-09
Chicago to Have M
Soldier Monument

CHICAGo.-A Victory Memoir
ial. dedicated to the World War dead
of the 370th Infantry, is to be erec-
ted on the South Side at South Park
way and 35th st. W
The monument, approximately 22
feet high and circular in design, will
have three figures, Miss columbia, a
colored doughboy and a colored girl.
The models of the three figures
have been made by Leonard Crunelle
in his studios at 6016 Ellis st.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-09
Servant Willed $4,000

RALEIGH, NJ C.--According to
the will Of the late Ivan M. Proctor,
white, Miss Hettie Chamblee, SER
want for many years in the Proctor
home, Is to receive $4,000 with
which she is to be comfortably taken
care of for the rest of her life." The
remainder of the estate was equal
ly divided among his five children.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-09
Woman Named Alternate
Delegate To C. o. P. Con.

PITTSBURG, Pa.---The Pennsyl-
vania Republican Organization on
Tuesday named colored woman,
Mrs. Daisy Z. Lambkin an alternate
delegate -at-large to the Kansas City
Convention. This is the first time
a colored woman has ever been slated
on state wide ticket by, the G. o.
p In Pennsylvania. tt
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-09
Jim Grow Street Car
Bill For Louisville

LOUISVILLE, KY.-A measure
requiring the motor transportation
companies to set aside a certain
portion of their vehicles for whites
and other portions for colored pas
sengers was introduced in the Sta,e
Legislature last week. y
Opponents of the measure declar-
ed, that if passed, it will lead also
to Jim crow street cars. W
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-09

NEW YORK Membership Of the
Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car Porters
is in process Of being zoned.
Each zone will have supervising
director who will be able to secure in
slant action in the event Of emer-
gencies.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-09
$500 Stevedore Club

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.(ANP)--Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph H. Phillips, formerly
of Lynchburg, have just completed
at 221 Christian street near the
water front, a club for stevedores
costing $4,000,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-09
Wife, 60 Bobs Her Hair
Hubby, 63, Beats Her

ALBANY, N. Y.-When Mrs. Min
erva Wallace, 60 year old wife of
Walter Wallace, aged SO, returned to
her home from a shopping tour Tues
day she asked him how he liked her
hair bobbed. Walter answered by
giving Minerva beating. He paid
a $50 fine Wednesday on charges of
assault.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-09

NEW ORLEANS, La.--Eva Rich
ardson, 25, was perhaps fatally stab
bed here Tuesday BY q companion
known. as Ruth. The trouble occurred
over the ownership Of the affections
Of Charles Phillips, aged SO and
known as "Papa-too-sweet,"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-03-09
Race Girl Wgns 1--WE" Prize

LOUISVILLE, KY-Ethel L. Car
man, 13, IA grade pupil of the Ben
jamin Banneker school, outstripped
all pupils in a $50 city-wide essay
contest on "Why am glad l read
Lindbergh's 'We'."
Evening star., 1928-12-17
7 Fur Goats, Now $3.50

Sports and dress coats of Hudson Seal (dyed
coon Leopard Cat and Ocelot Shawl or mush
cuffs of natural squirrel, kolinsky, beaver and +
with Johnny collar.