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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17
Harlem Cabarets, Hangouts Of Colored
Folk, Filled With Ofays Says Fisher

was no mistake; my discovery was
repeatedly confirmed No wonder
my old crowd was not to be found
in any of them. The best of Har-
lem's black cabarets have changed
their names and turned white.
"Some think it's just a fad.
White people have always more or
less sought Negro entertainment as
diversion. The old shows of the
early nineteen hundreds, Williams
and Walker and Cole and Johnson,
are brought to mind as examples.
The bowling success--literally that
--cf ]. Leubrie Hill around 1913 is
another; on the road, his 'Darktown
Follies," played in numerous white
theatres. In Harlem IL played at
the black Lafayette and. behold. the
Lafayette temporarily became white.
"And so now, II is held, we are
observing merely one aspect of a
meteoric phenomenon, which simp-
ly presents itself differently in diff
ferent circumstances: Roland Hayes
and Paul Robeson, Jean Toomer
and Walter White, Charles Gilpin
and Florence Mills-"Green Thurs
day" tPorgy.' ain Abraham's
Bosom" = Negro spirituals the
startling new African groups pro
posed for the Metropolitan Museum
of Art. Negro stock Is going up
and everybody's buying.
81 look on and envy them. They
camel and fish-tail, and turkey
they geche and blackbottom and
ncronch, they skate and buzzard
and mess around - and they dc
them all better than II -.
Willingly would l be an out
slider in this II l could read il
aright--that out OF this change In
the old familiar ways some finer
things may come > Maybe these
Nordics at last have tuned In on
our wavelength. Maybe at last they
are learning to speak our Ian
guage."
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17
Coolidge VIII
Continue Cohen
In Customs Post

WASHINGTON, ID. c., May 1G.-
President Coolidge will continue
Walter l.. Cohen. comptroller of Gus
toms at New Orleans, La, in office
without a reappointment, it was
learned Tuesday. Mr.. Cohen's origin
al appointment expired April Is.
The action of the President in
permitting Mr.. Cohen to hold over
will prevent recurrence of the
bitter fight that he faced in the
Senate when his name was present
ed for confirmation four years ago
The Louisiana Senators Joseph Z.
Ransdell and Edwin Broussard,
Democrats. opposed him because he
is a Negro. They had already indi-
Gated their oppositieH TO his reap
pointment.
The outcome of the factional fight
between Mr.. Cohen and Emile
Kuntz, national committeeman for
Louisiana, will not affect the deci-
sion of the President to permit Mr..
Cohen to retain his office. Both
factions have elected delegations to
the Republican national convention
in Kansas City, Mo-. June IL. This
fight may be arbitrated when the
National Committee meets in Kan
sas City a week before the conven-
tion to hear contests. IL
The general satisfaction with
which Mr.. Cohen has administered
the affairs of his office is given as
the reason for his retention without
reappointment.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17
Aiken, 5. C., Called
Niger Heaven
With ''Hel' Beneath

AIKEN, S. c.. May Is. tBy
Thomas l.. Dabncy) Aiken is one
of the most beautiful garden spots
in America; and IL is also one of
the least civilized towns in the
South. II has the extremes of
wealth and poverty, ignorance and
intelligence. labor and leisure. II
is the place where one of the most
horrible lynchings ever recorded
took place; the lynching in 1926 of
the three Lowmans
Public interest i'm justice for the
Negro is so low that the deputy
sheriff who permitted the mob to
take the Lowmans frcm the Jail and
lynch them, still holds his post.
and not single member of the mob
has been punished! There Is nc
excuse for the negligence since the
National Association for the Ad,
vancement OF Colored People made
thorough investigation of the
lynchings and gave a list of mem
bers cf the mob to the officials OF
the law
had an interview with Mayor
henderson relative TO race relations
and lynching The mayor was very
brief and disinterested in his con.
yersation ] learned from him that
Aiken has no interracial commit.
tee The mayor expressed no in.
terest either in race relations OF
law and order. He said however
that Aiken had prov id e d good
schools fer colored people.
On the surface race relations
seem good in Aiken. Both whites
and blacks have about forgotten the
lynching. Yet one thoughtful col.
ored man told me that the same
horrible tragedy may occur at any
time. Neither the whites nor the
Negroes. so far as | could learn
have done anything to prevent its
recurrence. Aiken is a little "Nig.
ger Heaven" with hell beneath It.
but few if any, seem to know 1t.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17
CaGfornians Buy
A $4,000 Club
AT Riverside

RIVERSIDE. Cal, May 16.-What
is without doubt the finest recrea-
tional project the race has known
will reach its zenith when the Park
ridge Country Club, made possible
through the efforts of three of the
wcalthiest men of Los Angeles,
throws open its gates TO thousands
of prominent citizens throughout
the State. to attend its opening at
fair in the ballroom of the club, on
the night of May 90.
To DR.. Eugene G.. Nelson, Clar-
encc X. Bailey, and Journee W.
White goes the credit for the pur-
chase of the G6S-acre tract. when
over year ago the club was in
financial straits, and today, the club
completely owned and operated by
the race Is indeed a million dollar
estate, as appra'sals by experts show
its worth even in excess of that fig
ure.
The clubhouse is n magnificent
structure of stuceo and steel con-
struction, standing atop the hill, a
majestic sight TO be seen from far
distant points. 1t is a monument
to the stability and financial integ-
rity of the progressive Negro. The
furnishings and decorations in this
building cost $4,000 and visitors
acclaim this the finest of its kind in
America.
Fifty small Bungalows, completely
furnished, are now ready for visit
ors. IL Is the intention of the club
management to be able TO take care
of at least 500 people so that visit
ors from all parts Of the United
States can come to Southern Cah-
fornia and live in regal style.
A championship 1S-hole golf
course has been built at a cost of
$685. 900 and in addition nine-hole
course for beginners has been added.
Model tennis courts and a large
tank are also completed. The plunge
holds 125,00O gallons and can be
used for match races.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17
Memphis Puts End
To Discrimination
For Social Workers

MEMPHIS. Tenn, May 16.-With
minor reservations the city of Mem
phis is making good its promise
not to discriminate against any
members of the race at the annual
meeting of the National Conference
of Social Work which is in session
here this week.
Two white organizations, how
ever, which usually meet with the
conference, refused TO follow il to
the South. The Association of jew
ish Charities and the Settlement
House Conference are meeting in
Cincinnati and Boston, respectively
a strange sight is being presented
to the South with colored delegates
to the National Conference attend
ing all of the sessions, including
the breakfast, dinner and luncheon
conferences, without the slightest
discrimination being shown In the
auditorium and other meeting rooms
in the municipal auditorium where
the gathering is being held. Ne
groes and whites are seated to-
gether and wherever they desire to
sit, downstairs or in the balcony.
ColCred walters in the hotels are
getting a thrill out of waiting on
tables at which are seated both
white and colored diners. Three
Negroes, former students of the
New York School of Social Work
IL % 10,
nj association of the School on
Monday morning at the exclusive
Flk's Hotel. Dinner was served in
the tenth floor ballroom and neither
in the dining room nor on the ele-
vators was there the slightest sug-
gestion of segregation Other din
ner meetings have been attended
by the colored delegates with the
same fair treatment.
Even at a group reception given
for the president of the conference,
when it developed that no invita-
tions had been issued to the color
ed delegates, number of white
delegates bolted the affair and at
tended a dance and reception being
given by some colored citizens at
the same hour.
One tradition which could not be
overcome, however, was the fact on
the printed programs the designa-
tion of Mr. and Mrs are omitted
in the list of names of the colored
reception committee This, charged
to the local printing COMMITTEES, is
expected TO be taken up with the
executive committee of the National
Conference
There are about fifty colored
delegates here for the conference.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17
fEnterprise News Bureaul

NEW YORK, May 16.--Harlem
cabarets are places maintained for
the entertainment of whites, and
Negroes are out of place who come
there to see how the white people
act, is the declaration of Rudolph
Fisher, Howard medical graduate.
in an article in the Mercury Maga-
zine.
The article. "The Caucasian
Storms Harlem" declared that the
familiar throaty roughness which
is frequent among blues singers
and admired as characteris-
tically African Is nothing but
form of chronic laryngitis," The
writer says in part:
81 remember one place especially
where my own crowd used to hold
forth; and, hoping to find some
oldtimers there still, ] sought 1t out
one midnight The old, familiar
plunkety-plunk welcomed me from
below as | entered. ] descended
the same old narrow stairs, came
into the same smoke-misty base
ment, and found myself chair at
one of the ancient white-porcelain,
mirror-smooth tables.
~ drew a deep breath and look
ed about, seeking familiar faces
What lot of 'faysp | thought, as
noticed the number of white
guests. Presently ! grew puzzled
and began 10 stare, then I gaped-
and gasped. l found myself won.
dering il this was the right place
If, indeed, this was Harlem at all
| suddenly became aware that, ex-
cept fer the walters and members
OF the orchestra, was the only
Negro in the place.
after a while / left 1t and wan
dered about in daze from night
club to night-ciub. tried the Nest
Small's. Comics Inn, the Capitol
Happy's, the Cotton Club, There
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17
Bites Piece Out of
His Wife's Cheek

NASHVILLE, Tenn, May 16.---
(ANP)-Defying a steady stream
of bullets aimed at him, Jim Pillows
took the pistol away from his wife
and bit large hunk out of her right
cheek.
All of this started when Pillows
carried his wife home about $50
Tuesday morning and left her to at
tend to some unfinished business. :"
Mrs. Ollie Pillows, upon the depart
ure of her husband, decided that she
would follow him, and she did. She
found her spouse seated in an auto
mobile with another woman about
6:3O of the same morning at Twelfth
avenue and Cedar street.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17
Enterprise News Bureau)

CHICAGO, May 16.-( -(Special) =
OF the six hundred clerical dele
gates to the A. M f. General Con-
ference here, about half are an
nounced candidates for the bishop
ric. The other three hundred are
receptive candidates.
Dr.. c. V. Roman, noted surgeon
and lecturer, remarked today that
the church has more candidates for
the bishopric than for the ministry.
This is the strange manner in
which democracy has affected the
African Methodist Episcopal Church,
In much the same way that every
American boy is a potential presl-
dent of his country, every A. M. r.
preacher is a bishop in the making
The oil scandal showed the eoun-
try it takes money to elect presi-
dent of the United States, and II
takes good American dollars tc
elect bishop also. The poor man
has little, IL any. chance for TINS
high episcopal office.
The church is divided into Ia
districts These districts are rep
resented in the general conference
by delegates varying from to w
in number. Bishop w. Sampson
Brooks district in West Africa has
sent six delegates. Bishop Johl
Hurts district in Florida has 5t
delegates and Bishop j. s. Flipper''
district in Georgia has 80 delegates
Each Of these districts has on'
first choice for the bishopric ant
several second choices. The bar
gaining for votes sufficient to &c
majority for election requires
money as we'll as intellectual ant
moral fitness. The best men ar
not always elected because they arr
poor. Ns L
1t requires about $500 for can
didate TO set up his headquarters
here. furnish it and provide re
freshments of ccffee, sandwiches
and cigars for the three weeks tn
conference runs. In these head
quarters trades are made whereof!
two or more candidates pool thei
votes to elect their favorite. ik
When other means fail, some
times delegates votes are purchases
outright. The leader is given tn
money to divide with the others
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17
Bishops Are Not Divilely Elected;
Politics and Gold Win Positions

From $1,000 to $4,000 is spent in
this way.
OF course. hundreds Of delegates
are not for sale at any price. But
hundreds of others are. In many
cases delegates will vote as their
leader directs, not knowing that he
has been paid in advance to deliver
their support.
But when it is all over, the
bishops will be said to have been
divinely elected.
The salary OF bishop is $500.
He is elected for life and fees of
500 are paid him for each annual
conference. In addition, e a h
church at which he breaches pays
him from S25 to $100 for sermon.
Some bishops preach three times
day on Sunday and in salary and
fees collect from the church nearly
$4,000 a year.
No more public campaign for
votes is conducted by the ordinary
ward committeeman than pastors
here are conducting for the bishop
ric
Hugo signs, twenty feet long and
eight feet high, are erected on the
front of the dwellings opposite the
armory, where the conference Is
now in session.
One of them reads Support Rev
]. A. Lownsley of Georgia for Bish-
op-The only man with platform
broad enough for ministers and lay.
men to stand on. Elect him and
bless the connection"
In the name building are head
quarters of j. L. Butler and F. X
Sims, of Georgia, candidates fol
bishop.
Up the street on the same side
are similar signs telling OF the
candidacy of ]. w. Hair; DR.. II. N
Neweome, Alabama; M. +. Sydes
New England Conference; s. 7, Eel
der, Mississippi; f. X. c. burden
Mississippi.
w. III. Peck, Fifth District, an
nounces that he will welcome ms
friends at his headquarters.
For Bishop Montrose w
Thornton" of New York, says bit
poster on the corner
Noah H. Williams for Bishop
reads another sign large enough Z
] be seen q block away.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17
Colored Girl Wins
Bryn Mawr Scholarship

WASHINGTON, d. c., May 16.--
Miss Enid A. Cook, brilliant young
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Cook Of
this city, said to be the first race
girl undergraduate ever enrolled at
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa,
fashionable girls school. was an
iaounced as the winner OF the Maria
Hopper scholarship award by Presi-
dent Marion Edwards Park at chapel
meeting Saturday,
Miss Cook was one Of the four
sophomores of class of 1900 to
receive scholarship. She won her
award through excellency in scholar
ship, having led all Of her white
classmates in her studies.
Miss Cook. who graduated from
Dunbar High School in 1925, was
the outstanding student among 400
freshmen at Howard U. in 1926,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17

Dentists in Miss.
Hold Convention

NATCHEZ. Miss, May 16,-The
eighteenth annual session of the
Mississippi Medical Association and
the ninth annual session of the Mis-
sissippi Dental Society organizations,
opened here Wednesday. In his adj
dress DR.. F. T.. Pinson of Vicksburg,
president of the medical association,
stressed the Importance of health
program among the race people of
Mississippi and spoke at length on
the alarming mortality and the inn
mense amount of sickness among
the members of the race.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17
Johnson To Try Vaudeville

NEW YORK.. Rosamond John
son, composer and singer, who has
the scores of several musical come
dies and the arrangement of spir-
ituals to his credit, is billed to go
on the big time vaudeville circuits
with his aceompanist, Taylor Cor
don,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17
Gives $500 to N. A. A. c. P

NEW YORK.-John D. Rockefel-
Ter. Jr., has made contribution of
$500 to the work OF the National
Association for the advancement of
Colored People, it was announced
today.
This is The first contribution of
Mr.. Rockefeller to the N. A. A. C.
p. He has been actively supporting.
through the general education board
and in other ways, Negro education.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17
Hiker In Kansas City

KANSAS CITY. Mo. - Enroute
from New York to Olympia, Wash
ineton, James A. Combs, Maryland
philosopher and inventor, passed
through this city last week. Combs,
who is 36, said that in some towns
along his route he was forced to
spend the nights in Jail to be pro-
tected from the whites. ...
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17
Kip Rhinelander's
Sister Divorced

RENO. Nevada. Waiic Mrs. Alice
Jones Rhinelander has completely
blocked all efforts of her rich and
socially prominent husband to OBJ
tain marital freedom, his sister,
Mrs. Adelaide Rhireancer Chaque-
neau. more fortunate, was granted
n divorce from her husband here
Thursday.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17
Cohen Wins C. o. P. Tilt

NEW YORK.-"Lily White" Re-
publicans received a setback here
last week when Judge Gleason re-
fused to grant an injunction restrain
ing Walter l.. Cohen, comptroller of
customs. and his followers from act
ing as representatives of the party.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17
Says Porters Will Strike

NEW YORK CITY. - Pullman
porters will not only walk off the
cars, but they will fight to keep
everybody else from walking on the
cars, whether they be white, black,
Filipinos, Chinese or Japanese, de-
clared A. Philip Randolph, national
organizer, in a statement this week.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17
Arrest Memphis Mail Clerks

MEMPHIS, Tenn. Isaac ].
Hughes, railway mail clerk on the
Louisiana and Arkansas Railway,
and Samuel Mosely, local post office
clerk, were arrested mere Monday,
charged with robbing the mails.
Mosely had been in the Memphis
post office for Is years.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17
Keith's Get Tabloids

NEW YORK.-De~es Winegiass,
dancer and producer, is heading a
tabloid for the Keith-a;oee-0 -0rpheum
circuit. Two other race shows, Ma
mie Smith and her Gang" and
Drake and Walkers "My Chocolate
CAL" are already on the white wheel.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17
Harlem Protests Jim Crow

NEW YoRK.-(ANP) - Harlem
is up in protest against segregation
of race police from the line of march
during the city's welcome to the
Bremen flyers, and the naming of
the four-year-old grandson of GEN
eral Robert f. Lee as a member of
the mayors staff.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17
Va. Bank Reports Progress

DANVILLE, Va.--A report show
ing that the Danville Savings Bank
and Trust Company had just COM
pleted a prosperous fiscal year was
read at the stockholders meeting by
M. C. Martin, cashier, Friday.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17
African Merchant Sails

NEW YoRK.-caNr) )--Complet-
inc contracts with white firms for
development Of his country, employ
ing several race men for the import
firm he organized here, Theodore
Anse. African Gold Cast merchant,
sailed for home on she German
steamer Reliance.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17
All the News
TerseIy Told
D. c. Bishop To Trail
Clarence Darrow

WASHINGTON. n With the pur-
pose of ccunteracting recent state
ments made at Suburban Gardens
here by Clarence Darrow. Bishop J.
j. Higgs has announced that he will
trail the lawyer across the country
on a speaking tour, using as his sub
iect, What Negro Churches Have
Done for Racial Progress"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17
Sunshine Sammy" To Sail

NEW YORK. - Sunshine Sam
N.Y." youthful actor who was for
merly with the "Our Gang" come
dies. will sail for Europe following
the close Of his tour on the Loew
circuit, it was announced this week.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
Negro Nurse, Ousted
From Job. May Bring
Suit Against Hospital

Possibility of legal action by Miss
Gladys l.. Catchings, Negro nurse
busted because of her color, against
Sloane Maternity Hospital under the
Civil Rights Act of New York state,
was forecast yesterday.
Miss Catchings has expressed her
intention of suing in case all other
appeals and means Of redress failed.
She will await, however, action from
the hospital. If none is forthcom-
ing within few days, she will bring
suit, she said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
GIANTS NEAR LEAD AS
CARDS LOSE TO ROBINS

The st. Louis Cardinals are no
further ahead of the New York
Giants tonight than you could throw
fair-sized elephant by the tail.
Two little percentage points are
all that separate the National
League pennant contenders, for the
dazzling light of Dazzy Vance's fast
ball blinded the Red Birds this aft
ernoon and cut their lead to half a
game.
While the Giants were enjoying
well-earned day of rest after their
game uphill fight. in which they
won 16 of their last 10 games, the
Brooklyn Robins frightened up the
pennant tussle by beating the Car
dinals. to l.
! DGzzy Vance did the dirty work,
striking out seven st. Louis batters
or what the Cardinals are using
for batters these days. to bring his
seasons record to an even 200
strikeouts. Aged Clarence Mitchell
essayed to maintain the advantage
his club held over the Giants before
the game started, but Harvey Hen
drick took care of that part of the
business with a homer in the sew
enth Just when the bases happened
to be loaded.
The defeat Of the Cards makes
matters just that much more COM
plicated in the National League race
Even the Chicago Cubs are not
yet automatically out of the run
ming, as they won today at Phila-
dolphia, s to 8, while the league
leaders were waving their bats SC
futilely, it might even be said
fruitily, at Ebbets Field.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
STEEL WORKER
FACES SENTENCE
Old Frame-Up Revived
by Courts
Continued from. Page One

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$4,000 dollars in cash was required
in order to get the men out of jail.
As this occurred before the organ
ization of the International Labor
Defense, an organization to take
care of the case had to be formed.
Accordingly the Pennsylvania and
Ohio Defense League was built up
by the District Organizers of dis
trict five and six, the one located in
Cleveland and the other in Pitts
burg. The office of the committee
was located in Youngstown, Ohio,
and an appeal was sent out to the
organized workers of the country to
come to the defense of these first
victims of the steel trust and the
Anti-Sedition laws of the state.
When the case came to trial in
Mercer, with attorney Ferguson of
Chicago defending the men, the klu
klux khan and the American Legion
did every thing in their power to
raise the passions of the farmers of
Mercer County by parading and
having the American flag flying on
the streets surrounding the court
house. The "red" menace was played
up and as in the Woodlawn case the
Department of Justice was brought
into the case by having Henry J.
Lennon, the "red expert" appear as
an expert on cred literature" and as
an authority" on Communism in
general.
The result YVES that verdict of