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The Washington times., 1928-05-10
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NEW YORK, May 10.-Gov.
Alfred Il. Smith testified be-
fore the Senate committee in
Ivestigating campaign fund ex-
penditures today that he had
authorized no one to act as
chairman or treasurer of any
national campaign fund in his
behalf.
He said he understood that
some of his friends in New
York city had started Smith
presidential boom, but he, per-
sonally, had "done nothing
about it.
The Governor said that any
money spent in his behalf in New
York city could be explained by
George r. Van Nance. Person
ally, the Governor had taken no
active interest in the finances of
friends who had interested them
selves in his behalf.
Smokes AS He Testifies
The Governor smoked a cigar as
he testified.
Senator Steiwer (R.) of Oregon.
the chairman Of the committee,
then questioned the Governor.
First he read a telegram to the
committee from Governor Smith.
dated May 3, in which Smith said
he had authorized no one to act
as national chairman or treas
urer of any Smith organization.
II can only say what / said in
the telegram, said Smith in his
deep voice. 81 know of no activi-
ties in any State beyond New York.
In New York a committee of
friends have interested themselves
in my behalf. Mr.. Van Nance can
explain what expenditures they
have incurred.
Inactive Even In New York
"Have you done anything about
your candidacy in other States?"
Steiwer asked.
II have not done a thing-even
I'm New York city," The Governor
replied.
Governor Smith told Senator Stei.
wer he had made no effort toward
securing the Democratic presidential
nomination and was unaware 81
Continued on Page 2, Column A.
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liz You See This Man,
Call The Police!

Description of his assailant.
given to police by f. Percival
Wilson. kidnapped banker. indi-
Gates that the man is about p
years old. feet II inches tall.
stOckiIy built. weaighing about
100 pounds. The man was
attired in a dark suit and over
coat and when last seen was
wearing a gray cap. He ap.
peared to be nervous and
slightly unbalanced, Wilson
stated.
Leonard II. Kephart. while
vague as to the descriptions of
his three aSSaiIantS. said that
the description given by Wilson
would fit the man who stood
in the road and stopped his
machine.
The Washington times., 1928-05-10

Attractiyely arranged apartments --
either furnished or unfurnished--can be
Iocated and rented through tOday's
Times and Herald classified rental ads.
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filters
HOP WEST
BY International News Service

PHILADELPHIA, May 1O.-The
three members of the transatlantic
plane Bremen crew took off here
today in their monoplane F-13
shortly after 3 o'clock for Cleveland
on the second leg of their Ameri-
can tour. The plane got away
without mishap, heading northwest
as Baron Won Huenfeld, Capt. Her.
mann koehl and Major James
EitZmaurice waved farewell to the
small crowd that had gathered at
the Philadelphia Navy Yards air
port to see them Off
No fewer than 400, 900 persons,
it was estimated lined the streets
Continued on Page 2, Column s.
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Bagdad to Have Girls
To Check Phone
Profanity
BY international News Service

CONSIANTINOPL May ~
In an effort to check profanity
over the telephone, the govern
ment has decided to install girl
operators in the exchange at
BaGdad.
The telephone system through
out Turkey is Anticipated and
difficult to use, but that at Bag
dad is said to be the worst.
Patrons of the telephone sys.
tenn usually become so angry at
their inability to get number
that they give vent to their feel.
ings in profanity directed against
the telephone and the operators.
The "centrals" at present are
men.
Basra is the only city in the
Near East with the up to date
system of automatic telephones.
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WOMAN BURIED
ALIVE BY HER
TTACKER

LOS ANGELES. May 10.-Mrs,
Marie Billings. Sc, is in a serious
condition at hospital today after
having been beaten and buried
alive in a semi-conscious condition,
according to her story to the
sherifrs office.
She said a man came to her
home and tried to sell her some
real estate. Suddenly, she declared,
he struck her on the head with a
club.
II remember struggling" Mrs
Billings said. He struck me again
and again. I was almost COM
pletely unconscious.
HE tried to choke me to deaf
then. He wrapped one of my silk
stocking around my throat and
twisted it until | was senseless."
Investigators said it appeared the
woman's assailant had taken her In
an automobile into the Puente Hills
laid her in a shallow grave and
covered her with dirt, in the
belief that she was dead.
Mrs. Billings hands and feet had
been bound. She said she was
semi-conscious when placed in the
grave, but could not make an out
cry.
Later she freed herself and
struggled out of her makeshift
grave. A taxi driver found her
wandering on a road a mile east
of Whittier.
She still wore the blanket which
had been wrapped around her by
her assailant,
Mrs. Billings is the wife of How
ard r. Billings. head of the Bill
ings Manufacturing Company.
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That t.thriII slayer Is the who kidnapped f
Percva Wilson, secretary the National Savings and
Trust Company from his home in Chevy Chase, MIDI last
night after attacking and robbing Leonard W kephar
Department Of Agriculture scientist of his automobile
and clothes the Soldiers Home Grounds is the theory
nov advanced by police.
Kephart Is fighting possible attack of
at his home in Takoma Park the result of exposure
while wandering through the wilderness of the Govern
ment reservation clad only in his underwear Only the
vaguest kind of description of his assaants could De
given by Kephart who is in state of exhaustion as the
result of his experience. .,..,. H..
The scientist said that about o'clock last night ne was
on his wav to his office write story OF recent trip 10
West Africa when hailed by near the COW
barns in the Soldiers Home grounds
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Attacked By 2 Men

Told that there had been accident and man injured
Kephart said he stopped and left his car CONG TO
budded form the side of the road ne sa one
man hit blow in the stomach and the other struck MN
over the head rendering him unconscious
While Kephart wandered through the woods OF the reseVa
the same general description the who stopped
the scientist was rushing banker from his home toward
Lake Nd in the stolen
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1t was about 10 O'Clock
when the bandit stepped from
the dense shrubbery near Will
son s home and pointing a gun
at the banker ordered him to
Get in the machine, later iden-
tilted as the one taken from
Kcphart. >,
"Get In Bottom of Car"
Wilson said that his at
tacker told him: "Get In the
bottom of the car and stay
there"
Still holding the weapon to
the side of his victim, the man,
keeping up a running CONVEX
sation, drove from Rosemary
Street to Connecticut Avenue,
then turning in the direction
of Chevy Chase Lake. To
every appeal made by Wilson,
to take his money and allow
him to go to his home where
his wife lay ill. the kidnaper
is said to have replied:
81 don't want money, keep
fC'ontin,Ied on Page 2 Column ~
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-01-06
Ebony Philosophy

TWO Children
WERE dangerously near
BEING LATE for school which
WOULD PROHIBIT the class from
having
A HALF HOLIDAY. "OH," Said
one. Lets kneel
DOWN RIGHT HERE AND PRAY,
that we don't be late"
mo-" SAID THE OTHER, LETS
HIKE, and pray while we're
Hikin'
NOW SOMEHOW I BELIEVE
THAT IT is POSSIBLE For us
as struggling
BITS OF HUMANITY TO REALIZE
MANY OF THE DESIRES
THAT GO TO MAKE
OUR AIR CASTLES THAT MANS
FUTURE FUTURE, is IN HIS OWN
ANY WAY, IF WE "HIKE AS WE
PRAY" WE HAVE TWO
ROUTES THROUGH WHICH
17-Enterprise ...-.-.---..
THE VICTORY CAN C0ME-FOR
AS A PREACHER SAYS BE-
FORE A REPAST OF HOT
BISCUITS AND CHICKEN
THE LORD HELPS THOSE
WHO HELP THEMSELVES"
l.. MINOR GRINAGE
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-01-06
The New Negro

Hon. E. B. Knox, speaking at Lib
erty Hall, in New York, Sunday
night, told the big audience all about
THE New Negro" and what he stands
for. Here follows Mr.. Knox's def
milton: "The New Negro is the Ne
gro that is glad he is black, and if he
is so or 100 years old, if he knows
that and feels that, he is a New Ne
gra-.. And sou didn't have that until
Garvey came on the scene"
It is a great thing to know what
you are andSto be proud of it and to
sec. TO make the most and not the least
of it.7<4t is just as much honor to be
a black man as it is to be a white
man, and the black man is no more
responsible for his color than the
white man is for his color. The black
man is in small business when he dis
likes white man because he is white,
and the white man is in bad business
when he dislikes a black man because
he is black. The Creator had his own
purposes in making the one white
and the other black, and neither of
them can change his color without
running his complexion, and other
things.
The Negro will never amount to
until he thinks as much of
his race and colcr as the white man
thinks of his, and stands as ready to
endure any sacrifice in defending his
race and color from wrong and out
rage, as the white man does.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-01-06
Ridiculing Help

A lot of people are making human
itarian efforts to be of some lasting
and beneficial service to our people.
Some sit in interracial gatherings,
and sacrifice both money and time in
order that they might serve our cause
but it seems that every effort that is
made honestly is misconstrued by
some of our people with perverted
mentalities and evil dispositions. They
seek to impute a selfish motive to
every attempt to help their people.
They usually say whenever a white
man "goes out of his way to help a
colored man that he has something
up his sleeve" There would have
been those who would have doubted
the integrity of John Brown end inn
Dugned the honor of Wendell Phil
lips. They believe that those who are
trying to helD them either are seek
ing to advertise their business or gar
ner political favor. Mr.. Rosenwald,
who has given so beautifully to our
people, is questioned and none of his
benevolent colleagues and contempo-
raries are accepted in full faith. II
occurs to us that we are benefited
by the willingness of these people to
help us and that We should be the last
people In the world to question their
motives. even tho they gained some
thing out of their charity.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-01-06

selves. The taking of the Victory
Life Insurance Company, of Chicago,
into New York, is both an education
al and commercial opportunity, fur
nishing concrete example. This in
stitution is taking a sympathetic in
terest In educating our people on the
value and possibilities of insurance.
and it is affording openings for our
intelligent men and women. New
York will be a better New York.
and we will be better Americans, ali
of us.
Finally
The year 1927 has closed, the rec
ord is made. ONE dreams have fad
ed into airy nothing, others have be-
come a living reality. We cannot un-
do the past, but we can use it as a
record for the future. We have much
for which to be thankful, and we are
not without hope. We are jealous,
but we are not foolish. We have Wis
ion, but we realize that however no.
BILE and beautiful, there must be COM
nonsense and industry, backed by or
ganized power and money. We be-
lieve in God, but we likewise believe
in mankind, and we believe we have
place worthwhile in America to fill.
Measured by our own eloquent STAN
dards, we have come far and accom-
plished much; measured by the STAN
dards of the world, we have long
way to go. We are learning to be
practical without losing the glory of
our ideals. Colored America, For
ward Mar=h-192S is here!
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-01-06
A Practical Way

There were many grucsome lynch
ings of our people during the year
and no positive steps have been taken
or anything even intimated that there
will be change of southern policies
toward US. Senator Blease has intro
duced highly prejudicial bill seek
ing to bar intermarriage of races all
over the nation and no clear cry has
been raised in our favor or defense.
We will have to do that ourselves and
those who expect sudden change in
the hearts of the southerners have
not estimated either the depth or the
magnitude of their hatred of us. This
is a condition that America will not
long endure but we must strike the
first blow in our behalf. This writer
has always felt that there is a prac-
teal way to check the lynchers in
their ruthless course.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-01-06

mess with our group, spent more
than 50, in weekly advertising,
covering a weekly period of three
weeks, just before the holidays. This
cent infirm promises to increase its
appropriation more than 100 per cent
in 1928. This is genuine awakeing
and progress.
Varied Organizations
The varied organizations, dealing
with, by, and for Colored America,
continues to function with yigor,
none of them, perhaps, with the
crash and gush of financial support
that the causes they represent merit.
We come more. nearly paying our
dues in secret societies than anything
else, except church. The National
Urban League, the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Col
ored People, the Inter-Racial bodies
and other splendid organizations that
have long since proven their worth to
Negro progress and development, are
handicapped more than fifty per cent
in their activities because of the need
of appealing to the people for funds.
This should and must be overcome.
The Jewish people set most impress
sive example for. Colored America in
organized giving for betterment and
uplift. They can raise more money
in one night for those of their own
race in other parts of the world that
they will never see, than we raise for
all our organizations combined in one
year. They have more money, some
say; and with it, more of the spirit
of cooperation and giving.
Marcus Carney
The release of Marcus Garvey from
the Federal Prison in Atlanta, has
made him martyr, according to Bis
hop r. c. Ransom. There has been
almost universal praise of Carney as
man of vision and organizing pow
er.
s. Education
We continue in school everywhere,
and will continue to continue. In
the field of education, North and
South, and especially in the South,
there has been more advancement in
the last year than in any previous
year. In state, county and city
schools, appropriations have been the
largest in history.
The people of America, if they
have denied many things, they are
saying that colored boys and girls
must be educated. For what? This
final answer is yet to come. There
will be new openings among whites,
and there may come great upheav-
al of some kind as in the World War,
that will open many doors of oppor-
tunity, but it now appears that in the
larger places of commercial and in
dustrial opportunity, we must make
more and more openings for our
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-01-06
A Big Improvement

Statistics compiled by Tuskegee
Institute show a big Improvement in
the lynching record of the United
States for the present year. There
were sixteen persons, all Negroes,
murdered by mobs during 1927. This
is fourteen less than the record for
1926 and equals that of 1924, the
best previous year. Twelve were
taken from the hands of the law.
-Four were burned to death, and two
were killed and then burned.
All these outrages were perpetrat-
ed in the Southern States. Mississippi
had seven, Arkansas three, Tennes-
see two, and Texas, Louisiana, Ken
lucky and Missouri each one. Due
to the recent anti-lynch laws and
more civilized public sentiment in
these parts, officers of the law pre-
vented forty-two mob murders
either by removal of the prisoner
or armed resistance. The lives OF
sixty-eight persons, fifteen whites
and fifty-three Negroes, were thus
saved.
In spite of this considerable i'm
provement, lynching is still a nation
al disgrace. 1t would be a disgrace
If only one life were taken by a
cowardly, blood-thirsty mob. The
fact that, even this year, six were
burned and fifty-eight efforts were
made to cheat the law shows how
savage the mob spirit is and how
often ii can be invoked. The hope
full phase of the situation is that this
kind of horror is decreasing, since
recent sentiment is compelling Of
ficers of the law to resist mobs reso-
lutely, where before there was much
tacit approval of 'lettin' 'em burn
the Niger"
Some day civilization will prog
ress to the point where, even in the
most benighted of places, every
member of a mob will be duly
caught and tried either for murder
or attempted murder. Some day
the crime of lynching will be uni
versally regarded as a curious relic
of barbarism, as the once respect
able ordeal-by-fire is now regarded.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-01-06
Poem This Week
The New Year
n

Dy - ~ ACHiPActoh
| am the New Year, and ! come to
you pure and unstained.
Fresh from the hand of God.
Each day, precious pearl, to you
is given
That you must string upon the silver
thread of life.
Once strung can never be unthreaded
but stays
And undying record of your faith
and skill.
Each golden minute link you then
must weld into the chain of
hours
That is no stronger than its weakest
link.
Into your hands is given all the
wealth and power
To make your life just what you
will.
| give to you, free and unstinted,
twelve glorious months
of soothing rain and sunshine gol-
den;
The days for work and rest, the
nights for peaceful slumber.
All that have l give with love un-
spoken.
All that | ask-you keep the faith
unbrokenl
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-01-06
Forget the Past

The past is helpful only as we
profit BY il y does no good to re-
count past failures, ..lor dissapoint-
ments, or shortcomings, just to be
brooding over them. Unless. we can
use the past, with all that 1t has
brought TO us, good and bad, as
stepping stones to higher and betcsr
things, then it were better for us
il we adopted the injunction of the
Apostle Paul to forget the things
that are behind" A calm airri~dis-
passionate appraisal of our status
as American citizens viii disclose the
tremendous amount of work necess-
airy to secure and guarantee to us the
full enjoyment of our rights and priv
ileges. The odds against us are
staggering. But we must face the
New Year first with hope; we must
train ourselves to see the sun shin
ing behind the clouds. Secondly, in
addition to being hopeful, we must
determine to work in the New Year
as never before for the removal of
every barrier interposed by those
who would forever confine our group
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life. This requires faith. Faith in
the ultimate triumph of right and
justice; and, lest We forget, faith in
ourselves.
All the abve might be considered
trite, but our aim is to drive home
this one thought: that the year of
1928 ought to be made to count in
a positive way in our racial advance
ment, and that we cannot hope to
achieve this desirable end by COM
planning, and whining, and unduly
emphasizing and magnifying the
difficulties with which we are con-
fronted, and permitting ourselves to
be haunted by the CHASTITY specter of
the past. Let each of us give our
self to the task of self-improvement,
and throw ourself to the task of
making conditions better for our
Race everywhere in this country.
Forget the past. Look forward.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-01-06
Do You Know
What Is a Federal Reserve Bank?

"nat 10 Feuerai NeserVe Danks
There are IL districts, each having
Federal Reserve Bank. Their cap
ital is furnished by member banks"
They have control of the legal re-
serve of ali the member banks, and
are, therefore, able to. concentrate
funds where most NEEDED. The Fed
eral Reserve System provides an
elastic currency which is susceptible
of increase or decrease as business
conditions justify. Member banks
can make legitimate loans with
funds derived from reciscounting
the paper of their customers through
the Federal Reserve Bank BY con-
trolling rates of discount, they act
as a safety valve on excessive specu-
lation and tend to prevent panics.
They also function as repositories of,
and fiscal agents for, the Govern
nleBt.
Tell your friends if they don't
look in The Enterprise every week
they won't see all the news. Don't
say paper-say The Enterprise.
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5000 In Phoenix

PHOENIX, Ariz. (PCNB) -Phoen.
TX. largest city between FL Paso,
Texas and Los Angeles, Cal. has a
population Of $4,000. 5000 of whom
are colored.
$50 own homes worth $4,000. 900.
Businesses include 2 hotels, insur-
ance company, IL barber shops.
doctors. ! dentist and churches.
An $4,000 school is under con-
struction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-29
Educating Patricia"
BY CORNELIA III. MILLER

walls of rough laid stones SO character
istic of New England weaving scraggy
pattern. Here and there the merry
girls in the station wagon" could de-
Scry an ancient manor house of yellow
stone. reminiscent of the days when the
Dutch owners extended their hospital
ity-Shorn now of the acres that once
surrounded its early splendors.
The Gay seemed made for singing
and they sang. their fresh young voices
rousing such tardy birds as had not yet
undertaken their southern migration,
making them think. perhaps. that sum-
mer had not yet gone. Occasional squir
relS darted hastily across the road and
perched. frightened. on their Launches.
fixing their bright eyes on the rafting
wagon that disturbed their peace.
After some hours they could glimpse,
from the top of a hill, a little req
cottage almost hidden in its nest OF
trees In gala attire. In the descent OF
the hill it was lost to view. and then
a turn In the road brought them upon
It. Its shining diamond-paned win
dows twinkled a gay welcome through
their ruffied curtains Of dotted swiss.
the brass knocker on the green door
PLAYED at catching sunbeamS that
strayed 81 from the low step and across
the veranda Out at the back an old
well stood with its bucket inviting them
to drink the cold. clear water It had
held for so many years. Talkattve
birches. glad to gossip with their more
brilliant neighbors, the naples, whis-
pered that a picnic was in the wind.
The pines hard the news and bent
down Solemnly to see about 1t.
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tCsat this out and save L. With
other lessons, appearing each week II
this page. YOU will soon have TIE com
plete Chinook Vocabulary
ATS-Tne A Is sounded IS In Nat,
and the rs ~ though II we're written
T-S-S-S. or almost TISS> Accent the
A and pronounce "At-ssS~ This word
means sister and nothing else. II my
sister" is meant. use ErKA tny-kaN BE-
fore Ii, and II your sister. MrHA
tr,y-kal. Thus NIKA ATS means my
sister
RERE Pronounced Bee-See, This Is
q corruption OF the EaglisA word BABY.
and is used e. mean any small eaild
II . Stra IS meant the word KICCgTS-
NAN tWcmanl Is used ecfore ESksg.
This means Woman BABY ". IS We
would say It. - glri-naayA Or - little
girl
cANrN-Soand the c As X. tire A rs
In Fate. and the - IN n, Accent tsse
nyss two letters saying ~KAy~rGss"
This word means canoe and nothing
else, Thus NIKA cANlM Is my
canoe"
cAro-Scaad the c IS X. the A A.
m Fate. and the = as In Oats, AecSas
the last SYLLABLE. saying "KaS~seh-~
Cayao IS = corruption 81 TIE FTSgsSA
word Calsote. and means c<Aat ~ eA,AS.
or even roee or blanket. III TACT q
covering NJ almost any ktad