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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-20
White Clerk A
Suicide; Girls
Love Was Cool

NORWALK. Conn, Sept. 19.---
(Special) Mad because pretty Eve
lyn Thorpe, 20. refused his love.
James Love, white. shot himself In
the girls presence Monday after
noon.
There are not many oolored FAM
lilies in Norwalk and for this reason
pretty Evelyn had to seek her
friends among the opposite race.
Love met her AZ house party
and Immediately fell violently In
love. She turned deaf ear toward
his advances.
On his death bed in the hospital
Love made the following statement:
He said he had called the girl To a
small attic room where he pleaded
with her to relent.
II wanted TO arouse her sympa-
thy. l didn't have any idea OF kill
ing myself. told her l couldn't
live without her and that would
kill myself before her eyes unless
she came back to me.
II pulled the gun out of my
pocket, the trigger caught on joist
OF the attic wall. and the gun went
off"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-20
New England Woman
Leaves Girl Estate

ANNAPOLIS, Md. = Miss Char
lotte Andrews-Johnson has been
made a beneficiary in the estate of
the late Miss M, Andrews, New
England white woman who died here
recently.
BY terms of the will, Mrs. Hester
johnson, mother of the girl, will also
receive a part of the estate.
Miss Johnson had been a member
of the Andrews household since her
birth and had been reared prAeticaI-
ly as a member of the family. In
Miss Andrews will she refers TO Miss
johnson as "a friend who has meant
so much to the family" and under its
provision she is bequeathed the
house at 2SS King George street
outright. She is also given one-third
interest in the dwelling at 242 King
George street and store on Main
street occupied by T. Kent Green, a
white druggist.
One-third interest in the house at
244 King George street is left to
Mrs. Hester R. Johnson but will re-
vert to the daughter at her death.
The will further stipulates that up
on the sale of the Andrews home
stead at 16 Maryland avenue, ST.
500 shall be set aside for the up
keep of the Andrews lot in st. Anne's
Cemetery and the remainder shall &c
in cash to Miss Johnson.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-20
Georgia Senator
Says He Started
D.. c. Segregation

ATLANTA, Ga, Sept. 10. =
Charging that Herbert Hoover, as
secretary of the Department of Com
merce, had revoked an order which
segregated Negro workers from
white workers in the census division,
Senator William J. Harris, of Georg-
ia, in a statement released here Tues
day, criticises the Republican NOM
inee severely and scored his avowed
policy of according an equal oppor-
sunity to all American citizens.
In his statement, the Georgia Sen
ator declared that he, himself, was
responsible for the segregation poll
cy in the census division, having or
dered the Negroes separated when
he was chief of the division under
Wilson's administration in 1918.
"When | became chief of the GEN.
sus division of the Department of
Commerce" said Senator Harris, IL
observed Negro men and women
working along side of white men and
women, and was told that the custom
had always prevailed. | Immediately
sent for the chief clerk and ordered
the Negroes put into separate places,
away from the white workers. This
order prevailed until it was called to
the attention of Secretary Herbert
Hoover, who revoked it and now Ne
groes can be seen again working side
by side with white people"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-20

5l,SS2 Colored
Workers Employed
By Uncle Sam

WASHINGTON, ID. c.. Sept. 10
(SpeciaD-From 22,540 employees
in 1910. whose total yearly Salaries
aggregated S12,456,760, to 51,SS2,
on June 90, 1928, whose yearly
share of pay from the United States
Treasury totals $64,4S3,133 is the
story of the Negro workers who are
at this time being carried on Uncle
Sans pay roll
These are the facts disclosed in a
report which has just been released
by the Secretary of Labor.
The postoffiee leads with 25,390
colored workers and annual payroll
of $35,127, 7,433-War, Navy and
State Departments follow in the or
der named. The average pay is
around $1,000. In the post office it
is 1890 In the District of Co
lumbia $1400 and the Veterans
Bureau, 1900.
In 1923
Al the close of the fiscal year
ending June so, 1928. the Negro
civil-service personnel of the Fed
eral Go. .ernment was surveyed and
found to number approximately 5l,-
sos workers, with a total annual
earning capacity of $50, 2,655.9 .959.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-20
Filipino Workers
Driven From Town

CASHMERE, Wash, Sept. 19.--
Attempt of a Puget Sound fruitbuy-
ing concern. buyers of apples on
trees in orchards here. to import
Filipino labor TO pick and pack their
fruit. failed last night. when $50
Cashmere district citizens met two
bus loads OF the Filipinos and escort
cd the buses and their passengers
bach orar Rlew- d'Ss.s ssssa ~.
While many Of the Filipinos APP
peared terfor-stricken while being
escorted out of the valley, there was
neither violence nor threat of vio-
lence during the deportation.
Two Seattles buses, loaded with
between forty and fifty Filipinos.
were met at Dryden, four miles west
of Cashmere, by about $50 Cash
mere men, about 9 o'clock last
night
Drivers were warned that their
passengers would not be allowed to
get out of the buses. After about
thirty minutes, during which the
local crowd assembled automobiles,
the buses were escorted cut of Dry
den. back over Blewett Pass. On
passing the summit, some thirty-five
miles from Cashmere, the drivers
were told to keep going" and to
not return to this valley.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-20
A. N. P. Reporter
Cannot Get To
joe Robinson

Lynchburg, Va, Sept. 1S.-(Spe-
ciaD - Senator "Joe" Robinson of
Arkansas, Democratic vice presiden-
tial nominee spoke TO 5000 persons
in the city auditorium Monday night.
Crowds on the outside were un-
able to get in and hear the Senator's
appeal for religious federation. s
The senator's secretary denied an
Associated Negro Press reporter an
interview at his hotel before the
meeting. The reporter was referred
to a publicity man, who in turn, re-
ferred the reporter to the colored
democratic committee in New York.
The question asked was whether the
party really wanted the Negro vote
and would promise any changes from
the old order.
When advised that the New York
ers views were second-handed, the
publicity man gave out a copy of
the speech the senator was to make
and said: "Unele Joe did not have
authority to discuss such questions
as are not contained in the party
platform"
Senator Cloe Blease (dem., S. C.)
and Senator Carter Glass (dem.,
Va.) sat on the platform. Senator
Swanson, (dem., Va.) introduced the
speaker.
The nominee referred to Senator
Swanson as knowing more about for
eign affairs than any man in the
Senate and as the next chairman of
the foreign relations committee.
The race question was not men,
toned.
Senator Robinson in an appeal to
the Masonic order quoted one Albert
Pike:
"Free-Masonry makes no war up
on the Roman Catholic religion. To
do this is impossible for It, because
it has never ceased to proclaim its
cardinal tenets to be the most per-
feet and absolute equality of free
opinion in matters Of faith and
creed"
President Andrew Jackson ap.
pointed Roger B. Taney, Catholic
to membership in his Cabinet. Mr.
Tanev later became Chief Justice OF
the United States Supreme Court.
President Taft, himself Unitar-
ian, and therefore, disbeliever, in
the divinity of Jesus Christ, appoint
ed Senator White of Louisiana, de-
vout Catholic, Chief Justice Of the
United States Supreme Court.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-20
lrginia Governor Refuses Pardon To
Couple Violating hter-Maniage Law

doorway, speechless for moment.
He looks white, except for a tawny
complexion. His hair, close cropped,
was straight and dark, his eyes blush
gray and his nose acquiline. He was
limping, because he has two cork
legs.
"How were you crippled?" the
Governor asked.
II lost them working on the Nor
folk and Western Railroad" he re-
piled. 81 was working on donkey
train"
In few minutes he was telling
about his troubles.
''Did you always consider yourself
a white man?' the Governor asked.
"Yes, sir" was Woods reply.
"You always went with white peo-
pie 2" the Governor pursued.
Eyes, sir. The brothers Of the
girl ! married used to visit my sis
ters."
"Did you ever have any social
contact with Ncgroes?" the Cover
nor asked.
mo, SIR"
How did this happen7v
"Weil, SIR. (the mans voice
broke and he swallowed several
times) Well, sir
The Governor changed his line Of
questioning.
"Did you marry her with her faith
er's consent? ~ he asked.
"Oh, yes, sir. went to her father
and he gave his consent. We were
married and, after while, we went
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-20
Both Parties Yield To Ani-NegrO
Sentiment In Southern Campaign

may be expected generally if Smith
should be elected.
In order to offset this propaganda,
the Democratic National Committee
boldly came out this week with a
statement from its Washington Of
flee denying that Governor Smith
had ever had colored stenographer.
This statement also declared that
the only positions eolored persons
had held under his administration
we're menial.
Jim-Crow Headquarters
There is also the fact that the
Democratic National Committee is
running a iim-crow headquarters in
New York City The headquarters
of the Democratic National Commit
tee are in the General Motors build
ing. The headquarters of the Smith
for President Colored League, which
is sponsored as an independent
movement by the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, is in the Leavitt
building. A white man, William
CASTOR, of Boston, is in charge.
Over Million Voters
There are approximately 5,5SS, 500
Negroes of voting age in the United
States. A majority of them are in
the South where disfranchisement
is 'practieed There are, however, a
sufficient number in the states OF
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylva-
mia, Illinois. Indiana, Ohio, Tennes-
see, Kentucky and Missouri to deter
mine the result in a. close election.
There are other states in which
there are large Negro votes. They
include oklahoma, Kansas, Massa-
chusetts. Delaware and Maryland.
To What Extent
With these facts and figures. the
question confronting both Chairman
Work and Chairman Raskob is. TO
what extent shall their parties look
upon the Negro vote as undesirable? ?
The colored voters division of the
Republican national committee is
making an intensive drive to get the
rebcllieus Negro vote solidly for
Hoover. but Il is handicapped by
the efforts OF the Republican party
managers TO win the Solid South.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-20
Smith Gives Negroes
Only Porter Jobs

WASHINGTON, ID. Clamp. -
The only recognition that Governor
Smith has given TO Negro Democrats
has been in their appointment to jobs
as porters, janitors, charwomen, etc.,
according to an official statement is
sued by the Washington office of the
Democratic National Committee last
Sunday. This statement denies en-
phatically that Governor Smith has
ever had a -col0fed stenographer or
has ever appointed a colored Demo-
erat to position of trust and re-
sponsibility under his administration.
"The truth Is" the statement
reads, "Governor Smith does not
have, and never has had, a Negro
stenographer, and in the employ
ment of Negroes by the State of New
York under his administration this
has been done only to fill such Jobs
as they are given in the South, to-
wit: porters,, ianitors, charwomen,
etc"
n This answer of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee is to a aFcharge al
leged,to have been made by "a preach
er at Foley, Ala. that Gov. Smiths
private stenographer was. Negro
wench and that Smith had placed
thousands of Negroes on the payroll
in New York State. Exceptions
were also taken to Negroes riding up
and down the eastern shore of Mary
land in automobiles displaying on
their sides "Al Smith" straamers.
Senator Millard Tydings, chairman
of the Democratic Speakers Bureau,
says that he is informed that Repub-
licans have hired these eolored per-
sons to do this.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-20
(En.erpri.e News Bureau)


RICHMOND, Va. - Governor Har-
ry Flood Byrd has refused to pardon
Mary Hall, convicted in the Circuit
Court of Amherst County under the
law prohibiting inter-marriage of the
white and Negro races. This is the
first conviction under the new state
racial integrity law.
cat my, request, Frank Bane,
Commissioner of Public Welfare,
made an exhaustive. personal invest
igation of the reasons advanced for
the pardon" the Governor said in
the statement announcing his deci-
sion. at was the opinion of Mary
Hall that she did not know at the
time of her marriage to Mot Wood,
that he was colored, and she was suf-
ficiently punished.
ut is the Judgment of Mr.. Bane,
after careful personal investiga-
ton, that Mary Hall knew that Mott
Wood was colored when she married
him and that it was generally UNDER
stood that he was colored in the
neighborhood.
"The necessity for racial integ-
rity is so important that, after ma
ture consideration, / find myself un-
able to act favorably on this applica-
ton, notwithstanding the fact that it
Is strongly indorsed by the trial Of
fiicals and other persons
Byrd Interviews Couple
Governor Byrd recently interview
ed in the prison what was said at
the time to be "the most miserable
couple in Virginia" Hamilton
Wood, alleged mulatto, and Mary
Hall, the white girl, who says she
married Wood believing him to be
white. The pair are serving two
years in the State Penitentiary here.
Governor Byrd sent for the man.
Wood limped in and stood in the
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-20
Enterprise News Bureau)

: WASHINGTON, ID. Cone of the
striking developments of the present
campaign is the surrender of both
the Republican and Democratic par
ties to anti-Negro sentiment
The Republican party wants to
break the Solid South. The Repub-
lican party managers were led to be-
lieve at first that there is a splen-
did chance for Republican success
in North Carolina. Later Virginia
and Florida Of the ten states that
constitute the Solid South were add
ed to the list.
Lily-Whitc Named
Horace Mann, who has recently
come boldly into the open as the
Republican southern manager, now
believes that there is a chance of
Mississippi going Republican He
has named Lamont Rowland, a lily
white leader who was opposed to the
Republican organization in Missis-
sippi headed by Percy W. Howard,
colored national committeeman, to
conduct campaign in that state.
The next few weeks may see the
remaining states of the Solid South,
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Louisiana. Arkansas and Texas, add
ed to the list that will probably give
their electoral votes TO Herbert Hoo
yer in the November election.
The Democratic party wishes to
hold the Solid South intact. Propa-
ganda regarding Governor Smiths
attitude toward Negroes, however, is
being used in the South by anti
Smith Democrats. who are opposed
to him because of his religion and
his stand on the prohibition ques-
ton.
Social Equality
The white South is being told that
Il Smith is elected. Negroes will be
appointed to offices, requiring con-
firmation by the Senate. The old
bugaboo OF social equality is also
being raised by white Southerners,
and to make their arguments con.
vincing race relations in New York
City are cited as an example OF what
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-20
Word Niger Used
In Welcome to Big
Baptist Convention

SHREvESPoRT, La, Sept. IT,
A warm and hearty welcome given
5000 delegates and visitors at the
National Baptist Convention in ses-
sion here chilled the audience When
Mayer Thomas, delivering the ad-
dress used the word "nigger" more
than half a dozen times.
The Mayors address, altho intend
ed as a genuine welcome in good
faith, became the topic of whisper
ed discussion, following the session.
His reference also to the status of
the race in Shreveport, and in which
he adroitly told the gathering that
delegates and visitors from some Sec
tons of the country would not find
the condition they left in their home
towns was also regarded by many as
a veiled warning.
Following his annual address,
which was said to be one of the
most rnasterful efforts Of his career,
DR.. J. Edmund Woods was unani-
mously reelected president of the
body for the ensuing year.
In the early stages of the session
friends of DIR. David Over, of Balti-
more, carried on quiet campaign
to have him elected as president and
1t was thought that his name would
be placed before the convention. This
was forestalled, however, when ad-
herents of DR.. Woods had the rules
suspended on the reelection by ac-
clamation.
The convention was the most larg-
ely attended in its history, some of
the states registering as many as
500 churches.
James A. Jackson, assistant Busi-
ness Specialist of the U. S. Domestic
Commerce Division of the Depart
ment of Commerce, delivered talk
upon the responsibility of the church
toward the business progress of the
race.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-20
All the News
Tersely Told
One Passes Test
Another Takes Job

WASHINGTON, D. c. = William
Harris has been held under $4,000
bond and William Clayton under $3,-
600 bond charged with violation of
section $50 of the penal code, which
is falsely impersonating another
person. Harris is also charged with
forgery. The men are charged with
having taken an examination for un-
skilled laborer, Clayton having taxi
en- the examination and when he was
called on, he sold the job to Harris.
Harris took the oath of office and
signed Clayton's name to two pay
checks. Harris was working for the
office of public buildings and
grounds.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-20
Jailed On Drug Charge

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - CAMP. >
Arrested Saturday on a warrant
charging him with peddling narcot-
les. DR.. X. B. Woodson, dentist, with
office in Galatin avenue, is being
held in Jail on a $4,000 bond. Po-
lice say the dentist recently COM
pleted a five-year sentence in the
Federal penitentiary, Atlanta, on a
similar charge.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-20
Holds Off Guards
For Twelve Hours

TUSKEGEE, Ala. - (ANP.) -
For more than twelve hours, Mrs.
Mary Chambless, barricaded in her
cabin at Reba, lS miles from here,
held off police and national guards
men who sought to arrest her, until
she was compelled to come out by
tear gas hurled into the cabin in
bombs. In the meantime, she shot
one man,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-20
Parade Precedes Baptizing

CHARLOTTE, N. C.-Following
a brass band and the church's or
chestra, thousands took part in a pa
rade preceding the baptizing of $50
converts of the Church of the Rock
of the Apostles Faith here Sunday.
Following the parade through, the
Brooklyn section of the city, the vast
crowd assembled on the sloping; hill,
house tops, church roof and upon au-
tomobiies to witness the baptizing.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-20

RICHMOND, va.--on Thanksgiv-
ing Day the Lawn Town Shoe Com
pany viii be a year old. w. H. Wal
ton, manager feels good over the
first years success. Some weeks
we sell more shoes to children, others
more to women, and others more to
men. think, though, that men are
better buyers-nlore willing to pay a
good price for shoes"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-20
Darrow Cites 18th Amend.

CHICAGO. - Members of the
group here are watching the outcome
of the musicians strike orders here
in which Clarence Darrow, noted
lawyer. has cited the 18th Amend
ment in advising the musicians union
to defy court order prohibiting
them from staging a walk-out. Dar-
row cites the amendment to the eff
feet that every man has the privil-
ege to say when he would or would
not work.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-20
Briggs to Edit Magazine

NEW YORK. - Cyril Briggs, we'll
known in the colored journalistic
world, his Just returned from a trip
to the West Indian Islands, which
took him to practically every one of
the islands over period of two years
He will edit the champion" maga-
zine. e't
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-20

HAVANA Crusader Service -
Cuba's foremost poet, Vincente Sill
veira Arizona, Negro, died last night
at his home in Oouaiay, says, a dis
patch to FL Mundo. He held DOM
inarft position in the Cuban literary
world for three decades.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-20
Boy May Go to South Pole

I NEW SYORK.-Becaus Of his per-
sistence and determination, Robert
White Lanier, 90, Jersey City boy,
who with two white boys was found
as stowaway on the Byrd Antarctic
Expedition, may be allowed to take
the trip to the bottom Of the world,
according to G. f.. Lofgren, person
mel officer Of the fleet.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-20
Renders in Convention

BALTIMORE, Md.--With IL east
ern cities represented and more than
100 delegates present at the sixth an
nual convention of the Grand Lodge
and Grand Chapters, B. p. O. Rein
deers went in session here Tuesday.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-20
Ex-Gov. Favors Lynching

JoNESBoRo, Ga. = In a speech
in which he warmly supported the
candidacy of AL Smith for President,
Ex-Governor Tom Hardwick of Geor-
gia upheld the lynching of Negroes
here Friday night.
Hardwick who has been posing as
a "liberal" said it was all right to
lynch Negroes "if the public thinks
they are guilty of a crime"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-20
DR.. Montgomery Is Dead

WASHINGTON. - DIR. Winfield
Scott Montgomery, rs, retired Asst.
Supt. in charge of colored schools,
died at his home, 1912 Eleventh
street Monday.
He was Phi Beta Kapps grad
uate of Dartmouth and the first prin-
cipel Of old M Street Hi School.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-20
Judge Urges Child Welfare

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Declnr-,
ing that the present delinquent and
dependent situation among colored
children is alarming, Judge William
M. Lewis urged citizens to form an
association to care,for wayward juve-
niles, Tuesday.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-20
Two On Nebraska
Workers Party Ticket

OMAHA, Neb.---W. f.. Davis and
Dole Albert, members of the Work
ers Party, we're selected to go on the
statewide ticket as lieutenant gov
crnor and secretary of state, respec-
lively. at the convention held here
recently. tt
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-09-20
Indict Four Ala. Lynchers

MONTGOMERY, Ala. = -Four al
legged klansmen, charged with lynch
ing Mrs. Lille Cobb at her home in
Blount County April 20, have been
indicted by the grand jury here.