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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-06-14
All the News
Tersely Told
Western Republicans
Organize

CHICAG0.-The Western Divi.
sion of the National Negro Repub.
lican Organization, headed by Hon.
George H. Woodson, of Des Moines,
Iowa; Attorney Olander j. Smith, of
st. Paul, Mimi; Atty. Homer Phil.
lips. of st. Louis. Mo-; Atty. Charles
H. Galloway, Kansas City, Mo-; Atty.
5. Joe Brown, of Iowa; Miss Halle
Q. Brown of Wilberforce, Ohio; Mrs.
Myrtle Foster Cook, of Kansas City,
Mo-, and other prominent Repub-
licans of the Western District, ad-
journed from successful confer
ence, held Saturday at the Hotel
Vincennes, Chicago, Ill.
The conference marked one of the
initial. movements anon" race Re
publicans to form an organization
and formulate plans for carrying for
ward successful campaign, this
year. in behalf of the Republican
party.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-06-14
Spingarn Medal Goes
to Charles w. Chestnut

NEW YoRK.-The fourteenth an
nual award of the Spingarn Medal
this year. is made to Charles Wad-
dell Chestnut, of Cleveland, novel
list and short story writer. according
to announcement Wednesday by the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People.
The medal, which goes each year
TO the man or woman of African
descent and United States citizenship
for most distinguished achievement
in some field of honorable endeayor,
is given to Mr.. Chestnut for his
pioneer work as a literary artist
depicting the life and struggle of
Americans of Negro descent, and
for his long and useful career as
scholar. worker and freeman of one
of Americas greatest cities" The
medal is to be presented in Los An
geles on July 3, by Lieutenant
Governor Buron l.. Fits of Califor-
MIA. at the 18th Annual Conference
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-06-14

Or course, they had a big family
reunion and every old and young
and big and little Barney expressed
his or her opinion as to how to get
at the money. 1t was finally decided
to place the matter in the hands of
a lawyer. A white one was chosen.
but the family became dissatisfied
with him and he was supplanted by
Attorney Lennie L. George, 200
West 135th Street.
Mr.. George did some shrewd de-
tective work and finally found out
that account No. 23493 in the afore-
mentioned bank was being retained
in the name of Abraham Barney. He
later got in touch with the bank
officials and was told to produce Mr..
Barney's handbook which, of course,
he was unable to do.
The bank then wrote him, saying
that Abraham Barney had with
drawn the original deposit of $50
after a number of years, but had
failed to withdraw the interest. An
ME, Andrew and the other children
did not believe this because what
could neutrality-suspicious. do with
$50 and no place to go in 1929?
Failing by the use of legal meas
ures to force the bank to produce
its records, the family was forced
to accept the final statement issued
Saturday morning by the bank GER
tifying that the original interest had
multiplied itself 50 many times that
1t amounted to $269.14.
Stephen Barney, living at 23S
East Seventy-fifth Street, this city;
Annie Barney Osborne, residing at
363 Marion Street, Brooklyn; Char
lotte's husband, Samuel, living in
Springfield. l.. l., and Alfred's' four
children, Daniel and William, who
make their home at 144 Franconia
Avenue, Flushing, l.. l.; Mary Bar
ney Goodman Of this city; and AL
fred Barney, Jr., a theatrical actor.
have all agreed that $40 at 4 per
cent for 80 years ought to amount to
little more than 100000 and they
are determined to fight the bank for
this amount.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-06-14
Honor Sheriff
Who Stood OFF
Mississippi Mob

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss, June 12.
In recognition of his successful
stand against a mob bent on lynch
ing two of his prisoners, former
Sheriff Joseph v. Bontemps was
honored by his fellow-citizens here,
Monday morning, by the presenta-
tion Of handsome bronze medal,
awarded by a committee of distin-
guished Southerners.
The incident commemorated took
place on April 18th of last year when
two men accused of killing a white
man were threatened by a mob num-
bcring 1900. Sheriff Bontemps sent
in a hurried call for troops and
meantime with thirty-nine citizens
whom he had deputized stood off the
mob with shotguns and pistols.
The medal. of handsome bronze de-
picting heroic figure standing guard
before the temple of justice, was
supplied by the Southern Commits
sion on 1nterracial Cooperation, and
was awarded by a committee COM
posed of Gov. John w. Martin, of
Florida; Hon. Hugh M. Dorsey, of
Georgia; MRS. J. H. Mccoy, of Ala
bama; Marshall Ballard, editor of
the New Orleans Item, and George
B. Dealey, editor of the Dallas News.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-06-14
Parson Had Spirits

BEL AIR, Md.-The Rev. Walter
johnson, evangelist" from Virginia
found the coming of the "Holy
Ghost" too slow and brought along
his own Spirits" according to of
ficers who have changed his preach
ing place from the First Baptist
Church at Snow Hill to the county
Jail.
At the Jail he is not only dispens-
ing the gospel, but waiting the action
of the Federal authorities who claim
that they found him dispensing small
bottles of pure corn whiskey to men,
bers of his congregation and arrested
him for violating the local option
laws.
Although the Rev. Mr.. Johnson's
original congregation has somewhat
turned their backs on him, Deputy
Sheriff Bowen says he is finding
plenty of spiritual work to do in the
Jail and devotes himself to preaching
and reading the Bible.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-06-14
Pres. Borno To
End Regime In
Haiti In 1880

WASHINGTON, d. c., June II,
President Louis Borno will ster
down and out of the presidency OF
Haiti in 1880.
This promise made public last
week by Senator Oddie (Rep., Neb. },
is taken from an official document
read recently to the Haitian Council
of State by the president.
This important document. which
Senator 0ddie said came to him
from official sources, also promises
elections in 1880 and forecasts Am
erican withdrawal from the republic
in 1886.
II also defends the present regime
and denies what is purported to be
false accusations against the policy
of the American government in that
country.
The decision of President Borno
comes at time when the American
policy in Haiti is under one of the
most terrific fires that that country
has ever seen.
Throughout the Borno administra-
ton the republic has been drifting
farther and farther into the grips
of small group dominated by the
American government under the pro-
lection of the marines.
The Haitian natives declare that
the recent suppression of the Su-
preme Court judges and the cleo
tion of new members of the Court
of Appeals bench were among the
last acts intended to wrest control
from the natives and place absolute
powers in the Haitian high commits
sioner through Borno.
In an address in New York recent
ly Henry Rosemond, first advisor to
the Haitian Patriotic Union in Amer
ica, an organization fighting in be-
half of 2,700,000 workers in the re-
public, told of the misery and bitter
hardships to which the Haitian peas
ants had been reduced as a result of
the Borno administration.
He described Haitian conditions as
one in which there was a mass of
exploited natives kept under the
heels of Wall Street by puppet gov
eminent protected by American ma
rines.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-06-14
South Africans
Revolt Against
Caucasian Rule

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, June
S.-(SpeciaD-A large crowd of ma.
tive South Africans marched in pro-
cession through the city streets Fri
day, headed by the musical band of
the Independent Colored Workers
Union, bearing posters inscribed
Away With Slavery" Africans
Arise" Down With White Mans
Rule"
The demonstration is believed to
have originated from unrest among
the natives who threatened riot acts
against the whites, claiming that
they were made by God to live in
liberty and freedom. Police squads
charged the mob with fixed bayonets.
A large number of police and natives
were injured and scores were ar
rested.
The Beers and the Afri-Kaandes,
largely of Dutch and English extrac-
ton, attribute the unrest to Commu-
nistic propaganda and Garveyism.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-06-14
Says Brotherhood
Funds Are Protected

NEW YORK. N. Y.--According TO
A. Philip Randolph, general organ
izer of the Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters, the Fidelity and Casu-
atty company of New York paid
over to the brotherhood check for
$3.50 to cover the money which ID.
]. Jones. local secretary-treasure
of the brotherhood in Oakland, CAL,
absconded with.
1t Is the policy of the brother
hood. according to Randolph, TO
have all of the officers who handle
funds bonded by the Fidelity and
Casualty Bonding company Ran
dolph continued that Il myself am
bonded although handle no funds.
The brotherhoods accounts are also
handled by Stuart Chase, certi-
fled public accountant of the Labor
Bureau. Inc, 2 West 43rd street.
All of the monies of the union,
Gays Randolph, are scrupulously
handled
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-06-14
Ex-Slave's $50 Deposited In Bank
80 Years Ago Now Amounts to 100000

NEW YORK, June 13.--Ninety-
nine years ago Abraham Barney, a
freed slave, who lived in Bedford.
Staten Island, where he worked as
a laborer, took the day off to make
a trip to lower Manhattan. New
York City, where he deposited the
sum. of $40 in the Bank for Saw
ings of the City of New York, now
located at 2S0 Fourth Avenue. Prob
ably it will always remain a mystery
whether he ever withdrew the origi-
nal deposit or whether he allowed
it to remain in the bank indefinitely.
After his death, his son, Isaac,
found a note in which mention was
made of the deposit, but which
failed to specify the bank. Appar-
emily Isaac was never able to solve
the riddle, and when he died in 1858
the note passed into the possession
of his son, William, who spent a
life time trying to do likewise When
William died in 1887 the question
of which bank still remained un-
answered, and the note passed into
the hands of his wife. Abigail
Abigail Barney was of the old
ldSHluHtu SCHOol WHOSe DelieI IL was
that children should never be told
secrets Of their elders. As a con-
sequence, the five children, Char.
lotte. Alfred, Andrew. Stephen and
Annie, all of whom are living ex-
cept the first and second, never
knew about the deposit until four
years ago, when Annie went to visit
her brother, Andrew, who resides at
81 Kalmia Street, Flushing, L. |.
IT also happened that an old fam
lily Bible more than 150 years old
had been passed down to each sue
ceeding generation. Andrew had
kept this Bible for a long time, but
somehow had never felt inclined to
open 1t and to thumb its worn-out
yellow pages. Annie, however, was
blessed with more curious trait,
and perhaps in a moment of devout-
ness she opened the Bible, and 10, be-
holdl one of the pages carried men
tion of the deposit and the fact that
1t had been entered in the Bank for
Savings OF the City Of New York,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-06-14
Thomas Fortune, Dean Of Negro Editors,
Dies In New York. Had Fiery Career

NEW YORK, June 10-Timothy
Thomas Fortune, widely known as
the dean of Negro editors, died Sat
urday night at Mercy Hospital in
Philadelphia. For two years Mr..
Fortune had been in bad health, and
for the past two months he had been
under treatment at Mercy Hospital.
Last Wednesday, against his physi-
clans advice, he wrote editorials for
the Negro World, and the task
brought on a spell from which he
was too weak, to recover.
Mr.. Fortunes death ended one
of the most active and useful car
eers in his race. He was born in
Mariana, Florida. in 1865. His
father was the famous Emanuel For
tune, town marshal of Jacksonville,
at times the acting mayor, and often
the target of Ku Klux Klan bullets.
Timothy Thomas's earliest adven-
ture was in the Florida swamps,
where he and his mother, armed with
guns, held off the Shareholders till
Union soldiers came to their rescue.
A Fiery Youth
Finishing the public schools, the
ivy DttaHiO PdkG III JIt
Legislature. His friends often won-
dered why he was not killed, for his
fiery temper would suffer no insult
nor show the least servility to white
people. Then, and for forty years
after, he was always in fight.
He soon became a United States
railway mail clerk, the youngest in
Florida. After that he taught school
for a while. then he entered Howard
University. His conduct at Howard
was typical. A Washington editor
was terrorizing society by scurrilous
articles, One day his sanctum was
invaded by a fiery-eyed youth, who
burst out; "My nams Is T. Thomas
Fortune, and the next time see it
in your dirty sheet I'll knock your
brains out"
Fortune was a bright student, but
was impatient at academic restraint.
When his teachers insisted that he
should study drawing, he said: "The
devil with i'll Teach me how TO
draw a checkW In his second year
at college no quit and got married,
at the age OF 81. His wife was Miss
Carrie Smiley, also Of Jacksonville.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-06-14
Defunt Bank
President Was
Only Front

MEMPHIS, Tenn, June 11.-Tes.
tifying that he was absolutely ig-
norant of the actual workings of the
defunct Solvent and Fraternal Saw.
ings Bank. T. II. Hayes, former pres
ident of the Solvent Bank, told the
court Friday that his only duty was
to walk around and look impor-
tant."
Hayes, who has been a successful
undertaken and at one time rated as
enc of the wealthiest men of the
group in the South. not only pro-
fessed complete innocence as to the
internal operations of the bank, but
declared that he was innocent of
any wrongdoing.
The jury, however, after three
hours of deliberation brought in a
verdict of fraudulent breach of trust
against Hayes, G. w. Atkins, vice.
president, and ]. l.. Yancy, teller.
Hayes was sentenced to one year
IN the penitentiary while Atkins and
Yancy got fve-year terms each. Inn
mediately following the sentences at
torneys representing the three men
gave notice for motion for a new
trial, which will be argued Friday.
1t was also indicated that if the
motion Tor a new trial was denied.
the case would be appealed to the
Supreme Court.
Attorneys representing the State
expressed surprise at the, light sem
tence given Hayes, whom they de-
clare had been directly connected
with the theft of SoI 10a OK Of tba
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-06-14
Heflin Said to Be
In Pay Of Ku Nux

WASHINGTON - Senator Heflin.
democrat of Alabama, was paid by
the Ku Klux Kian for speeches de-
livered in various states, William
zumbrunn, general counsel for the
Khan, testified today before the SEN
ate Presidential Campaign Commit
tee.
Zumbrunn declared that the Klan
had received $3.50 for speaking in
ohio, $3.50 for speaking in New
York State and either $3.50 or $3.50
for speaking in Iowa. The payments
were made by national organizers OF
the Klan, Zumbrunn testified.
Numerous meetings had been ar
ranged for Heflin by the .Klan, he
admitted
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-06-14
DR.. Sweet Now in
Home He Defended

NEW YORK.-Dr. Ossian II,
Sweet is now occupying the home he
bought in Detroit, from which a
mob sought to eject him and which
he, together with his brother and
friends. defended, according to Ro-
bert w. Bagnall, Director OF
Branches of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People.
In Tucson, Mr. Bagnall met Mrs.
Sweet, who has been there recov-
ering her health after the terrible
strain OF the trials she and her hus-
band had to undergo. Mrs. Sweet
told Mr.. Bagnall that her husband
had moved into the home they had
defended and that she was very
happy oyer this latest development.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-06-14

Weak Treasury
Causes POrters
To Fear Strike

NEW YORK, June S.-(Special
The threatened strike of Pullman
porters set for today was called off
Thursday by A. Philip Randolph,
general organizer for the Brother.
hood of Sleeping Car Porters. II is
understood that the plans for the
strike failed for want of finance, II
is reported here that the treasury
OF the Brotherhood has less than
$4,000 and the porters realized
their union would not be able to
support them and their families if
they left their jobs.
Randolph said, however, the ac-
tion was taken at the request of viii
liam Green, president of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, who said
that although he felt the porters
were fully justified in striking, the
public had not been fully informed
of conditions.
II am of the opinion it would be
unwise to engage in a strike now,"
the federation president said in a
telegram. Economic conditions are
unfayorable to the success of such an
undertaking."
Randolph and Henry 7. Hunt.
counsel, will appear before the U. S.
Mediation Board in the interest of
securing the establishment of the
Emergency Board. The Emergency
Board is only established when the
Mediation Board considers that a
condition is fraught with danger and
therefore recommends to the Presi-
dent of the United States the estab-
lishment of said Board.
The final count of the strike bal
lots of Pullman porters shows 6,O13
affirmative votes in favor of the
strike. In the opinion of the Off
cials of the Brotherhood and its
counsel, there is no way for the
Board to avoid recommending the
establishment of the Emergency
Board. - { - ~ ssssss
Randolph said the strike machin-
cry would be kept intact ito be set
in motion at a more propitious time."
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-06-14
Singers Please Frenchman

PARASITIC old time songs from
the'land of cotton are becoming more
and more popular in France, even
among the people who do not under
stand word of them.
The Fisk Jubilee Singers, a Negro
quintette from Fisk University in
Tennessee, has visited Paris three
times in the last six months and
packed audiences applauded each ap-
pearance. In former years they
were content if Paris provided an
audience for one concert. They
spent part of the winter on the
Riviera, where the audiences were
mostly British and American people.
In Paris, however, more thu half
the seats at each concert were occu-
pied by French. Ps
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-06-14
No Decision Given in
Mystic Shrine Case

WASHINGTON, d. C.-No deci-
sion In the appeal of the Ancient
Egyptian Arabic Order of Mobiles OF
the Mystic Shrine, from an injunc.
tion issued by Texas courts restrain
ing the colored organization from
using the names. emblems and in
sigma of the white order was hand.
ed down Monday by the Supreme
Court of the United States.
1t was the last decision day OF
this term and the court adjourned
Tuesday for the summer. A deci-
sion is not probable until the court
resumes next October.
The case was argued January IL
and 13.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-06-14
Three French Deputies

PARlS.-Threc of the five colored
deputies have been returned to Par
lament at the last elections.
They are NJ. Gratian Candace, of
Guadeloupe; Blaise Diagne, of Sene-
gal, and Alcide belmont of Martin
ique. All have held various high
positions in the government, and are
outstanding in the Chamber of
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-06-14
Goes On Rampage

OMAHA, Neb. = Goaded to a
frenzy by his wife and two women
friends who made fun Of his straight
ened hair when he returned from a
barber shop, Aubrey Lewis went on
a rampage Saturday and severely
beat the women with anything he
could lay his hands on. A shovel, a
bucket, hammer, an ash can, his
feet and his teeth were used as
weapons by Lewis. He Is being held
without bail on a felonious assault
charge.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-06-14
Stole Pullman Sheets

NEW YORK. Charged with steal
ing ten bed sheets from train of
the New York Central Railroad, Will
liam Hogans, Pullman porter, was
arrested Monday and held in $500
bail. When police searched the
apartments where Hogan resided
they found many towels and sheets
with the Pullman label,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-06-14

In 1878 Fortune came to New
York, where his achievements were
to make him one of the most famous
men in the country. He got a job as
a printer on the New York Sun,
which was then at the height of It's
prestige under the great editor,
Charles A. Dana.
The restless youth began to write
letters to the paper, Mr.. Dana no
ticed their unusual style, sought out
the author, and was surprised to find
him printer on his paper and
colored man. He Immediately pro-
NOTED him to the editorial staff Of
The Sun, which in those days was
the goal of every newspaperman.
Then began a brilliant career. Mr..
Fortune became one of the most
widely known newspaper men in
America. He wrote not only on the
Negro question, but on everything,
and his editorials appeared regularly
in the Morning Sun. Soon he was
made assistant editor of the Evening
Sun, under Amos Cummings, and he
was the acting editor-in-chief when
Cummings ran for Congress. Hc was
personally known to every man of
prominence in the city, he was very
well paid, and his future was as
sured.
Starts New York Age
But he was not satisfied. The
condition of his race at that time
especially hopeless, weighed heavily
upon him. The Negro in New York
and elsewhere had no leader to re-
dress his wrongs or fight for his
rights. In many parts of the city
a colored mans life was not safe.
for the Copperheads Of New York
were still bitter about the Civil
War. A well-dressed Negro was La
Bile to have his clothes torn off or
muddied by a street mob, and to be
told to go home and dress in rags
"as nigger should.p
Fortune himself would have been
attacked If 1t had not been for him
magnetic personality and his we'll
known readiness to fight at the drop
OF hat The west side Irish called
him "the fightin naygur." TO
champion the cause Of his race For
Continued on Page Al
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-06-14
Gets Diploma in Paris

PARIS.--Dr. r. M. Williams, of
Chicago, who is pursuing further
studies in surgery at the University
Of Paris, has been awarded two diplo-
mas in surgery. He leaves shortly
for London, to take special courses,
and after studies in Berlin, Budapest,
and Vienna, will return to Chicago.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-06-14
Murder or Suicide?

HAMBURG, Ark.-Mystery sur
rounds the double tragedy in which
A. W. Ramsey, well-to-do white man
here and his colored housekeeper,
Mrs. Cindy Thomas, were found
dead with a double-barreled shotgun
nearby Sunday. White neighbors
had voiced objections to Ramsey and
the woman living together.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-06-14
Gets Tuskegee Post

PARIS.-John C. Tildon, who will
graduate from the University of
Paris this year, has received cable
from Tuskegee Institute, offering him
a position teaching languages. Mr..
Tildon also studied four years in the
University of Marburgh, Germany.
He has accepted the offer.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-06-14
Wins at Horse Show

WEST POINT, N. Y.-Lee Pres.
ton, one of Cavalry's star horsemeni
won blue ribbon in the West Point
Annual Horse Show held at the Ca
diets Riding Hall. Chester Johnson,
also cavalry man, won third prize
in the same event.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-06-14

NEW YORk.-Phillip Granville
and Edward Gardner, runners in c.
G. Pyle's coast-to-coast marathon,
who were listed among prize winners,
are slated to show their wares at
fairs in their home communities this
fall,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-06-14
New $4,000 Theatre

GREENVILLE, S. C.-This city's
latest theatre for race trade, $780,
000 house owned by the Starr-Scales
chain. opened here Monday with
Frenchie Davis, of Nashville, Tenn,
as manager.