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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-21
STOCKS UNSETTLED
by HEAVY SELLING
Market Closes Irregular After
Early Gains-'Aotors
Under Fire.


NEW YORK. October 20-Heavy
selling of the motor shares unsettled to-
days stock market after an early out
burst of strength had carried a score of
issues to new high ground. Extreme
gains Of l to nearly 10 points in a
long list of pool specialites were offset
by q number of | to point declines.
Trading was again in large volume,
with the ticker 20 minutes or more be-
hind the market during the greater
part of the session.
There was nothing in the overnight
news to explain the selling of the
motors, although the strong resistance
encountered on recent rallies probably
discouraged the speculative following in
those issues. General Motors was
hammered 4 points below last night
final quotations and Nash. Chrysler and
Hudson dropped ? points or more.
Fluctuations in Interna tional Nickel
became extremely cratic. Opening d
points lower at 1870. the stock then ran
up to 1877 and then fell back to the
opening price in the last hour. Radio
broke points, Allied Chemical 4. and
Greene Cananea Copper 2.
Most of the coppers continued to
press forward in expectation of an early
advance IN red metal prices. Amer
lean Smelling. Anaconda and Kcnne-
colt all sold at the years best prices.
National Tea scared paints to 800.
Electric Auto Lite, 6 to 1171,. A. M.
Byers, to las: Johns Manville a., to
ISL, and American Express 4 to
268'2. al rev high records. Mont
gomery Ward touched another new top
at 351. w
The closing was irregular.
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time as they only tend to lower the
values of the better class Of stock.
Old roosters in ample receipt and thu
market rules easy at Is to 10. Demand
ONLY fair for large fat ducks. q pounds
and over. at ~ to 2S, and all stock
under 4 pounds as we'll as old ducks,
generally slow sale l8 to 20. Guinea
fowl. 81. pounds and over. meet with
ready sale at so and IS each. but
smaller stock not SO desirable at 40
to 65 Pigeons steady at 80 a pair
for both young and old.
Cattle Market Easy.
The live cattle market rules generally
easy ami shows little change from last
week. Wharf receipts light, but ample
at the stock yards Demand fair for
top.grade cattle. but all undergrades
are slow to find favor and boat re-
ceipts consist largely of this class Of
stock
Quotations today at Light Street
Wharf-Beef cattle, first quality. pound,
12a1312: common to medium, BALL.
Bulls, as To quality. Bae: cows, choice to
fancy. Sac: common to fair. SAT.
Oxen. as to quality. 6a8la: calves,
veal. choice IS: large, fat. l2a14, large.
rough. Gallo: thin. Sa9: rough and COM
mon. 6a7. Sheep-Choice, 5a6; old
bucks. 3a4
Thanksgiving. choice, i2laal3: fair
to good, HAP; common, thin, 3ao.
Hoss-Straight, loa10i2 sows. 8a9;
stays. sa6.
live pigs-lnsi1. shoats. selo
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PACT WITH BRITAIN
HELD FRENCH NEED
Accord Regarded as Funoa-
menta!-Community OF In
terest Is Pointed Out.

PARIS (P.-A world wide, cn-opera-
tive understanding between England
and France is envisioned by French
foreign office circles as the true sub
stance of the Anglo-French naval agree
ment.
Conversations leading up to the pres
ent accord brought out the clear mutual
recognition. the correspondent is in
formed. that British and French inter-
ests did not really conflict In any part
of the earth. They are III agreement
in China. They work together reason
ablv we'll in SYRIA They both have
North African spheres of influence.
They are not commercial rivals They
are not military competitors on the
Continent. France comedies fully Eng
lands superior position on the sea,
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D. c. BANKERS ORGANIZATION
PROVING WORTH BY ACTION
Unequal Taxation of Financial Institu-
tions in Some Lines of Business
Is Vital Subject.

all members of the Federal Reserve
system for a period of six years is given
by r. " Fleming IS So per cent. for
the national banks In this regional dis
trict So per cent.
Local bankers want uniform taxes.
Those favored in the discrimination
admit the injustice Of it. Hope for
relief by congressional action from
much of the annoyance and inequalities
is expressed.
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Public Map Guides Guests.

tourists and out-of-town visitors
often find themselves at a loss to make
their way about large cities, and it was
to meet this difficulty that the author
itles of Berlin recently ordered a man
installed in the Potsdam Platz. # Is
covered with heavy glass to prevent
mutiiation. 1t is being consulted every
cay by hundreds of newcomers to the
German capital '4i0
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BERLIN GROWS RAPIDLY.
German Capital Ranks in Area
Next to Los Angeles.

BERLIN tP.-With a speed eouanng
that of any booming Western CITY in
America, Berlin has become the second
largest city in the world territoriallv.
tooay covering an area of 1880 hec-
Isrs or 1881 acres, according to the
Berlin statistical bureau, It is onlv eys
ceeded in size by Los Angeles while
London. with it's 100000 inhabitants
is only half AS large and Paris, with
population of 100000, only one-tenth
the size. WIZ
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New York Stock and
Bond Averages.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20.

STOCKS
Total stock sales: @.2t1.400 shares.
Twenty irdustrials averaged os4..2,
net loss, l.5?.
High, 1923. ::519; low. 1881.
twenty r. ,lroads averaged 1878;
net loss, LIS.
High. 1928. 1898; low, 1885.
BONDS.
Total bond sales tDar vaiue), ST.
39l 600.
Ten first-srade rails AVERAGED 9t.sa;
net Gain. ~.
Ten secondary rails avtraked g:.4s;
net gain. AZ.
Ten public utilities averaged 9;.is;
net gam. .Ai.
Ten industriais svera SSd i0N. 10; net
gain. 10.
Combined svtrase a1.a3: net gain.
rs.
Comhined .averae.. month aec, 9;.ss,
year $50, hs.s2.
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In comp 'rison to the three months
time required to take a consignment of
tea from India to introduce it into
London 30 years ago. q shipment b.
airplane recently covered the distance
In less than FIVE davs
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ments 1t is deduced that Britain has
chosen now to have close cooperation
with France rather then with Italy.
since that country's government has
taken up a somewhat still attitude to-
ward British conceptions of Mediter-
ranean questions.
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TOURS.
MEDITERRANEAN c .s1n Sc

So "Transylyania" sailing Jan. so
Clark's 18th cruise, 6e days, including Madeira.
Canary Ielands CasabiancA. Rebat. Capital of
Morocco. Spain. Alyiers. Malta Athens. Con-
stantinope. Is days Palestine and Egypt. Italy.
Riviera, CherhourT Paris Includes hotels.
guides motors. etc.
Morway- m sditerranesn. June 40. 1895 $500 ~
nhnr,x s. rnnrist Acency. 1i,n II II
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PRICE. S4. 500
$3.50.
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England the predominant military power
of France on land.
Door Open to Accord
The door was found to be wide open
for a far more comprehensive working
together than in naval questions alone.
England attaches immense Importance
to her sea power, France to her military
strength
The big question opening up for
France is the fixing of the final terms
Of Germany's reparation payments.
France needs the powerful aid of Great
Britain. France in return can place
her diplomatic strength at Englands
disposal either in Europe or elsewhere
France desires British insurance against
her North African colonies or her Syrian
mandate being touched by covetous
neighbors.
1t has been remarked here that for
some months a chill existed between
the British and the italian govern
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Door Open to Accord

England the predominant military power
of France on land
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-09
Colored Man Is
Seriously Shot
By White Woman

Ed Gibson. West Indian, 80
years old, is in the city hospital
seriously wounded in the abdomen
by a bullet and Mrs. Sadie Doug
las. white, who passed as Gibson's
wife, Is being held on an open
charge as a result of a family bat
tie Tuesday evening at their home,
1923 East Spruce street. f. w
Hauptman. white, owner of a gaso-
line station at 18th Avenue and
Main Street. who was present in the
home during the shooting, Is also
held by the police. Gibson told po-
lice he and the white woman got
into a quarrel and she grabbed a re-
Volyer TO shoot him. He struggled
with her for possession Of the gun
and during the scuffle she shot him.
The bullet that hit Gibson went
through the woman's hand. Mrs.
Douglas told police that Gibson was
Quarrelsome and had beaten her dur
ing row last week. She said he
blaCkened her eyes. According to
police all three, Gibson, Hauptman
and the woman. had been drinking.
Hauptman has been on a spree for
several days and Gibson had been
him around in his car. At
tendants at the hospital expressed.
little hope for Gibsons recovery.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-09
Negro Golfers Barred
From National Contest

PHILADELPHIA. - Robert Ball
Of Chicago and Elmer Stout of New
ark, who were disqualified in the
national public links golf champion
ship after they qualified, threatened
to seek the aid of the courts. After
they had been ruled out for alleged
infractions of the rules, they took
the matter to a race attorney and
said that an injunction would be
asked 10 stop the tournament unless
they were reinstatad.
There were some protests Tuesday
when Ball and Stout applied for en-
trance into the tournament. Both
carried certificates from their home
cities. An executive meeting was
held and it was decided to accent
their entries.
When both qualified there was an
other conference behind closed doors
and both were disqualified. Officials
said the race question did not enter
the case, declaring Ball was droppcd
for violation of a rule relating to the
method of dropping a ball. Stout
was disqualified on the ground that
he had taken seven strokes on the
fifth hole and turned in six on his
card.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-09
Negro Dancers Quit
After 572 Hours

CHICAGQ.-Awarding of the first
prize of S2,500 and extra awards
totaling 800 to MIR. and Mrs.
Lewis LaSalle at the Savoy Ballroom
here Saturday completed the final
chapter of the marathon dance dur
ing which the winners shuffled 572
hours across the floor.
Denial has been repeatedly made
since the contest ended Tuesday that
Miss Alma Wilson, of the runner-up
entry, lapsed into state of uncon-
sciousnoss as the long drawn out bat
tie ended. Arthur Dantzer, her part
ner, was fresh at the close.
LaSalle is a garage mechanic who
began the derby dance on his vaca-
tion but had to have it extended
when the contest stretched out over
two weeks.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-09
Baptists Lead
Negro Churches
In Membership

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. S.
The Department OF Commerce an
nounces that, according to the re-
turns received, there were in the
United States 2S,OS2 Negro Baptist
churches in 1926, with 3,196,S23
members, as compared with 2l,071
churches and 2,93S,576 members in
1916.
The figures for 1926 include data
for the National Baptist Convention,
U. S. A, Inc, National Baptist Con-
vention, Incorporate d; 243
churches which were reported with
the Northern Baptist Convention in
1916; and a number of independent
Negro Baptist churches.
The total expenditures for 1926,
as reported by 20,210 churches,
amounted to $19,476,9S1, including
$16,211,927 for current expenses
and improvements, S2,444,067 for
benevolences, missions, etc, and
$S20,9S7 not classified. The total
expenditures reported by 1898
churches in 1916 were $S,361,919.
The value of church edifices (includ-
ing furniture and equipment), as re-
ported by 1884 churches for 1926,
was S103,473,259, which may be
compared with $4l,1S4,920 reported
by 20,ll7 churches in 1916.
Sunday Schools were reported by
1876 churches of this denomination
in 1926, with 14S,077 officers and
teachers and 1,l21,4S7 scholars.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-09
Courts Uphold
Barring Negroes
In Texas Primary

HOUSTON, Tex, Aug. e. (ANP)
The efforts of w. A. "Gcoseneck
Bill" Mcdonald to influence Negroes
to vote the Democratic ticket in the
forthcoming presidential election re-
ceived a setback here Saturday
when Negroes were refused the
right to vote in the Democratic
primary.
The refusal was upheld by two
federal judges, one in the Western
District and one in the Southern
District. Federal Judge Duval West,
in the Western District, denied the
application of r. ID. Evans, Waco
attorney, who sought to have a rul-
ing that Negro Democrats could vote
in the primary, which was held
Saturday. The Judge did not pass
upon the constitutionality of bar
ring Negroes but based his denial
upon technical grounds"
In the Southern District, where
like case was brought before Fed
eral Judge J. C. Hutchinson. he
ruled that the rights of the Negroes
who were denied the right to parti-
cipate in the primary, had not been
infringed upon by the present Texas
Election Law, which sets forth that
every political party through its
State Executive Committee shall
have the power to prescribe the
qualifications of its own members
and shall in its own way determine
who shall be qualified to vote" in
its primary elections.
Those fostering the movement
have signified their intention of
carrying the case to the Supreme
Court. While Negroes will be per-
mitted to vote in the general cleo
tions Republican leaders believe that
the action of the Democrats at the
primary will do much to bring dis
gruntled Republicans and would-be
Democrats back into the fold of the
@. o. p.
The National Office of the N. A.
A. c. p is negotiating with attor-
neys to appeal the case to the U. s.
Supreme Court. The Association is
working on cases involving the same
issues in Virginia and Florida.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-09
Chicago Demos
Plan To Oppose
Oscar Dep riiest

. CHICAGO, Aug. S.-(ANP)-
White Democrats are now seeking to
learn what will be the possible at
titudc of the Chicago Negro toward
the Democratic County ticket at
election time. They have the prece-
dent of the mayoralty election of
1873 when Negroes voted large ma
iorities for William E. Dever, the
Democratic victor.
If the right man can be found
Oscar DePriest, Negro. out-in-front
Republican candidate for Congress
from the First Illinois District. may
shortly find himself staunchly op-
posed by a Negro Democrat.
In this connection, two problems
are presented: the first is OF finding
the Negro who might be more ac-
ceptable to Negroes than DaPriest;
the second is that of getting the
white man who is now the Demo
cratic nominee to withdraw. Both
problems are difficult.
About twenty per cent of the vote
in the district is normally Demo-
cratic. 1t is believed the percentage
will be much greater this year. The
white candidate is aware OF the dis
sension that now exists in the Negro
Republican ranks, and expects the
Republican vote to be split up be-
tween two or three candidates, two
perhaps running independently.
Straw votes gathered in the Negro
district have so far given Herbert
Hoover lead of less than ten per
cent over his Democratic rival, AL
Smith. This is significant in view of
the fact that straw votes in previous
presidential years have revealed the
Democratic nominee picking up on
ly the crumbs from the table. John
w. Davis in 1924 received between
eight and ten per cent, as agains,
forty and forty-five for Smith to-
day. II is apparent that these straw
votes disclose an Unprecedented
amount of good will for Smith that
ought to be nursed and used to good
effect for the Democratic state and
county ticket.
White Democratic leaders are also
considering what is going to be the
strength and position of such men
as Dan jackson, committeeman OF
the Second Ward; Oscar DePriest.
congressional candidate and com
mitteeman of the Third Ward, and
Bishop A. j. Carey, civil service
commissioner, who dominates the
Fourth Ward. They and other Ne
gro office-hclders have heretofore
gathered the Negro vote for Will
liam Hale Thompson, the mayor
But viii they be. able to repeat?
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-09
Here's Why Governor OF So. Carolina
Seeks To Revoke Pardon OF Ben Bess
(By William Pickens for Enterprise
News Bureau

(By William Pickens for Enterprise
News Bureau)
Nobody who knows the South is
surprised to hear that the Governor
of South Carolina is endeavoring to
revoke the pardon of Ben Bess and
so save the face" of that State. A
white woman had Bess sent to the
penitentiary thirteen years ago, for
a term of thirty years. on a charge
of rape" although she had been
living in adultery with him under
the consent of her husband for
years. Recently this woman, think
ing she was about to die, confessed
the truth and had Bess pardoned
Newspapers all over the world
used her confession as a fair ex-
ample, indicating how innocent Ne
groes can be convicted on the word
of white people in the South.
But-immediately the South was
aroused, South Carolina in partic-
ular. It would never do to let the
world know that white woman
who had sent a Negro to jail on a
charge of rape later confessed that
she had simply been that Negroes
paramour, with the consent of her
husband. and that she and her hus-
band had decided to frame the Ne
gro in revenge for the Negroes de-
cision not to support the two of
them any longer No, no; 1t would
look too bad for the superiority"
pretensions for the whites to allow
thing like that to come out.
And so the State detectives" got
busy They no doubt threatened to
put this weak woman into the peni-
tentiary. Finally she confessed"
again. that she only meant to for
give Ben Bess for what he had
done to her, not to say he was
not guilty.
Who in thunder ever heard of
any person looking up a Judge and
witness and making voluntary af-
fidavit to forgive" somebody for
something? When one is going 10
forgive anybody he does not need
to look up anybody but God--and
one would certainly not go into
South Carolina court to find Him.
No such formality or legal process
OF affidavit and oath is necessary
in order to forgive" fellow crea-
ture.
This poor woman--we pity her
more than we pity Bess Perhaps
the Governor and the civilization OF
even more.
So, the Governor decides to re-
woke a pardon-an unheard Of pro-
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-09
(By Walter White for Enterprise
News Bureau)


NEW YORK, Aug. 81 believe I
have told the story before, but per-
haps it will stand repetition. This
story related to the native notion
that by ones fingernails one can de-
tect the presence of any amount of
Negro blood, no matter how small
the amount may be. / was on a
train in Georgia. 1t was a fearfully
hot day. In the chair car two child
ren, noisy and literally bestuck with
candy, were enjoying themselves by
running over the feet of other pas
sengsrs and making of themselves
pests and nuisances. | sought and
found refuge for few miles in the
smoking compartment. My seclu-
sion was short-lived. for at a small
station a garrr?ous peach grower
took the seat opposite me. Promptly
he beqan conversation which the
heat did not induce me to foster. He
told me how many acres of peach
trees he owned, how many crates he
expected to ship that year, how many
"niggers" he employed and how gen
erallv worthless they were unless
watched consistently, and many,
many. other things about himself.
Receiving little encouragement to
continue his recital, my vis-a-vis be-
gan asking questions about my own
life, undiscouraged apparently by
my lack of enthusiasm. When, in
answer to his question of whence
came, told him New York, he in
stantly assumed that | knew nothing
of the South or of Negroes,
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eedure. The awful case was so
much commented on by the whole
world that South Carolina's face
must be saved, even II this poor.
weak woman's soul must be damned
by another lie.
Well, we are not bit surprised.
Rather have we been looking for
this. We wondered how the truth
ever slipped by them in the first
place. Wen bet those State de
tectives' never got wind of the
fact that the woman was about to
confess, or she'd never have got
the chance
A few years ago in Arkansas a
Negro was about to be hung for
"raping" a white woman. But a
few days before the execution the
woman (women are superior in con-
science to mem repented and went
TO the Governor and told him that
the whole charge of rape" grew
out of the fact that some white
men ran across her and this colored
man in the act of kissing each
other, and that she acquiesced in
the charge of rape to save ner own
reputation; and that she and the
man had been living together for
fifteen years and would have been
married II they had lived in civil
ized State.
The Governor tried his best to
bully her out of this confession, but
the woman had been wise in that
case; she had gone and confessed to
other prominent white and colored
people first and took delegation
along when she went to confess be-
fore the Governor-otherwis she
might have been simply confined as
an insane person--until after the
execution was over Even then the
Governor refused to act, and the
friends of civilization had to resort
to habeas corpus in a Federal
court to save this innocent mans
life.
The present Governor of South
Carolina found 1t impossible to pun
ish anybody for the beastly triple
lynching of woman and two boys
In Aiken, S. c., but the Governor is
full Of righteousness when Il comes
to furnishing poor, bcsten, robbed
and plundered Ben Bess.