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vertisements, many of the lat
ter occupying full pages, which
would do credit to a great met
tropolitan daily, and is there
fore a distinctive journalistic
triumph. What enhances the
merits of the publication is the
fact that all the work was done
in the Calls modern and we'll
equipped plant, which has the
latest linotypes and Goss high
sped press. The operatives, of
flee force, editorial and report
orial staff are all Negroes and
demonstrate what brains, abil-
ity, integrity and hard work
can accomplish.
Started ten years ago by it's
able editor, Chester A. Frank
lin, assisted by his mother, and
one or two others, the Call in
ten years has grown to the
place where it owns its own
modern three-story brick build
ing, with it's splendid mechani-
cal equipment and employs a
staff of eighteen persons. With
its circulation rapidly ap-
preaching the 10000 mark, the
future of The Kansas City Call
as one of the great outstanding
weekly race publications of the
country is assured.
Omaha should take a special
pride in the success and prog
ess of The Kansas City Call,
for its foundation was really
laid here, when George F.
Franklin started '"The Enter
prise" and Chester, then a
lanky school boy, acted as
devil around the office, while
his mother set the type for the
publication by hand. It is far
cry from "The Enterprise" of
Omaha, thirty-five years ago,
to the splendid progress edi-
ton of The Kansas City Call of
July 27, 1928.
Congratulations, Che s t e r.
May God continue to bless and
prosper you.
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over many years.

over many years.
Al Smith has spent most of his
days in public life, and in it has earn
ed his advancement. New York is not
the nation, but as far as a state can
show the man, he has proven himself
a thinker who has definite ideas
about government, which have been
approved by his constituency.
As the campaign develops, and the
fight gets hot, the Negro vote will
count. Much as the party man tries
to see walk-away for his candidate,
the campaign of 1928 is going to be
close! The small vote which Negroes
in northern states will cast can easily
be the deciding factor. We shall be
worse than fools if we do not make
our support the fair exchange for a
mans chance, and a citizens right.
We will be wise to pledge ourselves
after, rather than before the candi-
dates speak out on the Negro. Lea
the campaign, rather than the con-
ventions, tell us where we stand.
Let Hoover and Smith do what their
parties failed at.
The Kansas City Call.
The monitor., 1928-08-03
A HEARST PUBLICATION

Omaha now has a Hearst
publication. The Omaha Bee
News on August l was formal
ly transferred to the Hearst in
terests which controls a chain
of newspapers and other pub
locations from New York to San
Francisco. Henry j. Allen, for
mer governor of Kansas and
we'll known journalist, heads
the local publication. He an
nounces that the policy of the
paper will be that of construct
i've service to the community
and that ''it will champion all
those progressive and con-
structive projects that will adj
vance the interests of the COM
munity in which it is pub
lished."
We do not know, perhaps
this is due to inexcusable ignor-
ance, what has been the gen.
eral attitude OF the Hearst pub
locations towards our particu-
lar group, in other places,
either in their news and editor
ial policy, or in the matter OF
employment, but we assume
that it has been just and fan
and will prove so locally. II
so, the Bee-News will gain the
support and appreciation OF
our people and win the place in
our confidence which the Bee
held under the editorship OF
Edward Rosewater and for a
time under his son and success
sor, Victor, but subsequently
lost for reasons which it is not
necessary to recount.
Although little a m o n G
newspapers, nevertheless we
wish the Bee-News under its
new management abundant
success in this progressive city
of the middle west.
The monitor., 1928-08-03
WHAT OTHER EDITORS SAY
Let's Hear From the Candidates

Let's Hear From the Candidates!
Party chieftains may beat their
tom toms, the orators may make the
welkin ring, but Negroes know there
platform, or in the deliberations of
either party convention. The thirty
six words of the republican platform
entitled 1.-THE Negro" were really
claw enforcement" and bore more
upon the lawlessness of thousands of
white lynchers than upon the few
Negroes who are the mob's victims.
The democratic platform said as much
and as little as the republican when it
said nothing.
The conventions were alike in lack
ing advantage for us, and both were
marked by deliberate affront. The
republicans gave their official en-
dorsement to lily-whiteism. The DEM
ocrats seated their Negro visitors, not
only in a segregated section, but be-
hind screens.
Choice of party this year for Ne
groes will depend upon the candi-
dates, because there is no other rea-
son. The old arguments, for and
against, are claptrap, and whoever
makes them, is fooling nobody but
himself. The real issue is Hoover
or Al Smith. Happily for the coun-
try, both men as shown by their rec
ords, are better than Harding or ever
Coolidge at the time he made his first
race for president.
The difference between the two
nominees is one of kind. Hoover, as
befits an engineer, has ben getting
things done. He has worked accept.
ably as a private citizen, and as q
public official. He has done it at
home and abroad. He has done =
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LINCOLN NEWS

Mrs. Kathryn Moore, accompanied
by Mrs. w. w. Mosley, Rev. and Mrs.
H. w. Bolts and Mrs. Alma Wiley of
Plattsburg, Mo-, returned home Sat
urday night after four days tour
ing trip to st. Joseph and Plattsburg,
Mo-, where they spent several days
at the home of Mrs. Alma Wiley's
parents. They returned by way of
Atchison, Hiawatha and Horton,
Kan, and Beatrice, Neb., where they
were entertained at sumptuous din
ner by Mr.. and Mrs. L. J. Gordon at
their cozy home Saturday at 10 p. m.
Mrs. Alma Wiley will spend about
ten days here as house guest of Mrs.
Kathryn Moore and Mrs. w. w.
Mosley.
Mrs. NJ. L. Todd is yet confined at
home with illness.
hio. OiilS IAdy entertainer buc
Mission at her home Tuesday night.
Attention, all Master Masons and
o. E. S. chapters: The annual meet
ings of the M. w. Grand Lodge of
Nebraska jurisdiction will convene in
Lincoln the third Wednesday, August
Is, 16 and IT, 1928, with Lebanon
Lodge No. 3 at their hall, 1913 M
street.
Amaranthus Grand Chapter will
convene at Lincoln in Mt. Zion Bap-
fist church, same dates.
The regular services were held in
all the churches as usual Sunday.
w. w. MOSLEY.
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family went to California, leaving
their home with me to rent. Twas
too far gone to rent. l remodeled it
all except heat. Seven rooms. A
snap! Get it at your price. ! want
my money for repairs out of it. Cali
Webster 1867. He left second one,
same thing, four rooms, call Webster
3567.-Adv.
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CONGRATULATIONS,
CHESTER

The Monitor extends sincere
congratulations to The Kansas
City Call upon it's tenth ami
versary and progress edition.
This splendid issue contains fif-
ty-six pages of excellent news
matter, feature articles and adj
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WHAT OTHER EDITORS SAY

A Thrust at Race Leadership
The fact that Walter Cohen, Bob
Ben Davis and Perry Howard
are being called into question for
their acts both civically and criminal
The monitor., 1928-08-03
MRS. VENUS PARKER WINS

In the Trip-to- California contest
sponsored by the Woman's Auxiliary
to the N. A. A. C. p, which closed
last week, Mrs. Venus Parker, who
reported s103.S0, was awarded the
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prize of $1,000, the amount of a
round-trip ticket to California. She
met the conditions for the second
prize, which were that the winning
contestant must bring in $4,000 or
more.
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AN IMPORTANT WORD TO SUBSCRIBERS

The postal regulations require that for newspapers
be sent through the mails subscriptions must be paid
in advance reasonable time, thirty days. is allowed
renewals At the expiration of this PERIOD where
subscriptions not renewed the paper must be stop
ped If this not DONE postal privileges denied the
publication Those, therefore who desire to continue
receiving The Monitor must to that their subscrp
lions paid, the law requires in advance. State
ments being sent to all those who owe COL
lector will ca-and unless your subscription is paid
will be compelled to cut off your paper which, of
course do not want to do.
We, publishers MUST comply with the law
pay the penalty.
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The regular services were held il
all the churches as usual Sunday.
w. w. MOSLEY.
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HERE'S YOUR CHANCE, GRAB 1T!
] Am Not a Rental Agent, but a
The monitor., 1928-08-03

Amaranthus Grand Chapter will
convene at Lincoln in Mt. Zion Bap-
fist church, same dates.
The monitor., 1928-08-03

Mrs. Alma Wiley will spend abou
ten days here as house guest of Mr.
Kathryn Moore and Mrs. w. "
Mosley.
The monitor., 1928-08-03

Mrs. Ollie Ray entertained the
Mission at her home Tuesday night
The monitor., 1928-08-03

Mrs. M. L. Todd is yet confined al
home with illness.
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1928 Banner Year For
Sale of Radio
Sets

American radio manufacturers
and dealers anticipate q 1928 sale
OF more than 100000, 900. =
record.
Manufacturer said today the
demand for radio receivers and
equipment has been greater 30
far this year than at any time
since broadcasting became general.
Sales were given great boost
by the Republican and Democratic
national conventions. and will get
further stimulation by the world
baseball series in October and the
broadcasting of election returns
in NoveBlberl -
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Actor, Is, Passes For
Old Man Taking
Own Life
" international News Service

~ AlScEnAS4DAtAA 1NEsNN CHEbACS
BOSTON, Aug. William
Scott. SIS. gray hair. dressed in
old-fashioned clothes, killed him
self BY irhallng illunlinating gas
IN Carver streetf, rooming
house
From out OF this routine police
report today came one Of the
most tragic stories ever written
of the American stage.
Assistants of Medical Examiner
George Burgess Magrath were
performing an autopsy when =
wig fell to the floor OF Southern
Mortuary. The wig had hidden
the fair hair of young man of
Is. Then the story was un-
folded.
Robert Noble had played as
character actor in Boston and
New York. His favorite role was
that OF the "Old Colonel type"
Noble was 50 ambitious and he
studied so hard that his eyes
failed him.
Police failed to see that the lines
on his face were those of paint
and that the gray hair and goatee
were false.
character"
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ABLAZE
GIVES RITES
To FIVE

NORTH BAYON. Ontario, Aug. IL
Blinded by fire. his clothes ablaze,
a priest stood on his burning gaso-
line. launch in Lake Lavigne. and
crucifix in hand. granted absoll-
tion to five others of his faith, and
then plunged with them into the
water. from which only one was
to emerge alive a few minutes later.
The five who were drowned were
the Rev, Father j. b. Dubuc, La
vigne, parish priest. Miss Leonie
Sylvestre. his sister. OF Sturgeon
Falls, and Mrs. Albert Lafrenfere
and her children, Marc, one month
old. and Claude, three.
Albert Lafreniere barely had
strength to reach small island
after Claude had slipped from his
benumbed arms when close to shore.
All the bodies with the exception
of Miss SyIvestre, had been recov.
cred today
Mrs. Lafreniere was clasping Marc
to her breast. when Lafreniere
cIutched the other child in his arms
and commenced to swim ashore.
Father Dubuc, a powerful swimmer.
went to the aid of the two strug-
Cling women.
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Polly Radios
Her Love
To Gene
lcontInued Frorn &c d

small English Avian biplane cir
cled over the Mauretania and Fred
Darius Benham dropped 4 wreath
on deck almost at Tunney's feet.
from his friend, Charles ". Bob,
wealthy capitalist.
1t was inscribed s'F'or Gene from
Charlie Bob. Gene picked UP the
wreath and waved it at the airman.
Not so breath-taking as Tunneys
reception st the dock; but just
as cordial was the welcome given
him by. his fellow passengers.
Among those with whom he struck
up an immediate acquaintance are:
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Durant. the
latter a daughter OF u. +. Hutton,
capitalist.
According to his present plans.
Tunney will upon landing, so to
Dublin to attend the Tailteann
Games as the guest OF President
Cosgrove, of the Irish Free State,
and John Mccormack, the tenor.
He will then return to England,
where he will join Thornton Wilder,
novelist, and proceed on the much
heralded walking tour OF Europe.
Efforts in England to match Tun-
ney with the non-retired George
Bernard Shaw have not yet been
completely successful.
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Know the Independence that comes
with home ownership select the
home yvu wRnt q buS fFem taAayle
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BLADENSBu R G
ROAD UNDER
WATER
CONTINUED From page u

Continued From Page IL
BIadensburg and still rising. Peace
cross at the Bladensburg terminus
of Defense Highway is an island sur
rounded by three feet of water.
Many cellars in that neighborhood
are filling up again. some even be-
fore they had dried out from the
floods nit the beginning Of the week.
In Hyattsville proper, the Balti-
more pike is under water for a dis
lance of ] 900 feet, the water vary
ing in depth from one to four feet.
store Flooded
In Bladensburg grocery store
and gas station are badly flooded.
Motorists on the Baltimore, Pike
are being detonred through Mt.
Rainier to Hyattsville, where they
are turned back onto the Pike.
Residents of the Bladensburg
neighborhood are alarmed over the
continued rainfall. IL the storm
abates this afternoon little per-
mancnt damage will be done, but
if it continues through the night
many more homes will be flooded
AMI business in the town will be
at a standstill.
= Washington's well press agent
rainy weather is with us for another
day and night, at least. the Weather
Bureau announced today.
Showers today and tonight, tomor-
row and tomorrow night are fore
cast. The Weather Bureau declared
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SHIP REFLOATS,
HEADS SOUTH

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. Ire.
fioated after being caught early
yesterday in a treacherous current
and grounded off the coast of
lower California, the Panama mail
liner Ecuador was today steaming
south with all well "
With the assistance of the Amer
1can.Hawaiian freighter Pennsylya.
MA at high tide the Ecuador was able
10 get off the sand bar, where she
had been pitched.
Her ninty-five passengers had
been transferred to a southbound
ship late Thursday afternoon and
the Ecuador will pick them UP
again At Mazatlan, Mexico, and con
tlnue her trip to New York via the
Panama Canal.
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WE At HER BALKS
HASSELL IN
NE " HOP
lcontinued Fron &c d

$40 a. m. Central tinle) and ar
rived here at 2:29 p. m. Canadian
timel
A large part Of today's flight
will be made over open water. The
route will carry the daring airmen
over James Bay, southern extension
Of Hudson Bay, near Moose Fac
tory, from there over practically
uninhabited land to the promono-
tory Of Labrador at Cape ChidIey
and thence to the Mt. Evans OBJ
servatory on Greenland, where the
plane will take on gasoline and
oil.
After flying from Mt. Evans to
.Reykjavik, Iceland, the aviators
will attempt the long hop to Stock
holm.
The entire population at Coch-
rane was on hand when the greater
Rockford hove into sight here. The
plane made a perfect landing on an
improvised runway which had been
constructed hurriediy at a point
three miles north OF Cochrane.
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ROME PLANE TESTED

ROOSEVELT FIELD. N. Y, Aug.
17-The sesquiplane Roma, with
Roger Williams. Capt. Cesare SabeIlI
and Capt. Piero Bonelli, who will
comprise It's crew on the flight to
Rome. took off from Roosevelt
Field at 5 a. m. today on what Is
believed to be their final test flight.
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STARS IN
GOLF meet
Ry International Newa serrIee

ny Ahterhauohnt NEWS service
CHICAGO, Aug. 17.-Playing some
OF the most remarkable golf seen in
the women's western open at Indian
Hill here, Miss Virginia Wilson, OF
Chicago turned six up over Miss
Dorothy Page, of Madison, Wis.
Miss Wilson had five brides in 4
row beginning at the second hole.
A big upset at the turn was the
shooting OF Mrs. o. Hill, of Kansas
City, who had the defending cham
pion, Mrs. Harry Pressler, of Los
Angeles, two down.
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Find Goal Easily

Both TIassell and Cramer were In
fine condition and confident OF sue.
cess in their daring venture. They
said they had no trouble in locating
Cochrane. which is located at the
junction point OF the Canadian Ma
tional Railways and the Temiskam-
ing and Northern Ontario Railway.
The two lines of steel furnished q
splendid guide for the fliers.
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ANTHRAX FOUND
ON VIRGINIA
FARMS
CcontInusd From Rage y

Continued; From Page y
apent BY many snstions In an effort
e eradicate II
% Hnleas IT ig discovered In an In.
1eipient stage It iH said to always be
fatal To human beings. 1t is con-
tracted by humans usually through
the handling Of hides or the car
cases OF injected animals.
The Health Department Is using
every precaution to prevent the dis
tribution in Washington of milk
from herds of cattle infected by the
disease.
81: Fatal to Humans
One authority on the subject says
that while the disease does not oc-
seur as a natural injection in man in
the same sense as in animals, man
frequently becomes infected from
handling infected animals or their
product, such as hides and hair"
Once the spore OF anthrax reaches
the blood Of man he rarely RECEIVERS.
Periodical vaccination of all stock
In infected localities will minimize
the losses from the disease. Depart.
ment of Agriculture scientists have
made extensive studies Of the disease
ana nave dNdlldDlS nu1liCAphS
tins and other publications on the
subject.
The effect on human beings Of
milk from q COW suffering from an.
thrax has never been definitely es-
tabIished. but each outbreak always
results in the suspension OF per.
knits Of farms in infected areas.
Brushes Infected
The Department of Labor has
made an exhaustive investigation OF
anthrax and reports:
Anthrax statistics also include
many cases Of persons between whose
occupations and the disease no con-
nection can be traced, such as chill.
drsn, housewives, persons without
any occupation, school boys, teach
ers and professional men,
In 1915 and 1915 several widely
scattered British cases of the dis
ease, including one death, were
definitely traced to shaving brushes,
manufactured by one firm from
bristles of Chinese origin: a number
Of the suspected brushes were exam
iued and found TO contain anthrax
spores which had survived the
process of manufacture.
This possibility of unexpected at.
tack and the fatal consequences
which may ensue, even despite ener.
getic treatment, add greatly to the
urgency OF adequate measures for
Graduating the menace
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PLAN LAWN PARTY

The Catholic Daughters of Amer
lea, Court ID. c. 212. will hold u
lawn party at Goa T. st. N. W.. to-
night.
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| D RCH Staying
or GIRL AGAIN
MYSTERY
e In.ernaIIonal go 80.

~ TnternatIOnaI News Services
CROWN POINT, Ind. Aug. -
Shot through the face and then
burned alive, the body Of q young
woman, apparently about rs years
old. reposed In an undertaking
establishment here today. All at-
sempts to identity her have failed.
Police first believed the body was
that or Adeline zaccard. alleged
sweetheart or Angelo Francisco.
who was shot to death In an Ruto-
mobile near Mount Prospect, Ill.
yesterday. Francisco was believed
to have participated in the West
McTIenry, III, bank robbery on Mon.
dav and to have been killed by
town guards who answered the
alarm.
The police theory was that Miss
Zaccard had been taken for q
ride by members OF the slain
Francisco's gang to seal her lips
against betrayal of the other four !
bank robbers.
Clothes Set Afire
But last night, four members Of
Miss Zaccard's family. including
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Felix
Zaccard, viewed the remains and
failed to recognize the victim.
The woman had been shot
through the Jaw. hut coroner's
physician declared the wound would
not have caused death. 1t il be-
lieved while she was still uncon-
scious her captors poured gasoline
over her clothing and set her afire.
The tracks OF an automobile were
-. ~ - u H..
lance from where the body was
found. The ear evidently had
driven in there, halted for time,
tAen backed out and drove away.
August Hooker, q farmer living
in the vicinity, said he saw the
headlights. of an automobile near
the scene of the murder while
driving home Wednesday night He
said the lights went out as his
car drew near.
Awakened BY Screams
Mr.. and Mrs. Nieneyer and their
14,sear-old daughter, who live a
half-mile across the fields from the
murder scene. told OF being awak-
ened at midnight "Wednesday By a
woman's scraams and four shots
fired In rapid succession,
Early yesterday, Elmer Gard,
another farmer went out with q
team to grade the road. he found
the body. 1t lay on its back, about
feet off the road but in plain
view. 1t was burned black.
DIR. G. r. Pettibone, coroner's
physician. discovered blisters on the
body. These, he said, were avi-
dence that the young woman had
been burned alive. A dead body,
DIR. Pettibone stated, does not blis-
ter.
DIR, Pettibone suggested that per.
haps the girl had been taken for
a ride" by bootleggers when she
exposed or threatened to expose.
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these will be light showers and Of
short duration. but like movie
show, will be continuous.
Last nights deluge sent the water
In the Eastern Branch out of bounds
again and shortly after . o'clock to-
day. the A. Al. A. reported water was
running high.
Private automobiles and busses are
stalled in the water and passengers
are being taken out OF the vehicles
and moved to higher ground.
Weekend motorists to points in
southern Maryland are warned to
stay on the concrete roads.
The A. A. AS. latest bulletins
Indicate that most of the trouble
in Southern Maryland has been
cleared up. But, the organization
said, it is extremely dangerous TO
run off the concrete and into the
dirt at the side of the roads.
Roads through Virginia, to Pich.
mond and Norfolk, are reported by
the autoists' association as being
in good shape. South of Rich
mond, however, floods have washed
away many of the principal high
ways and detours are impossible.