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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-05
Italian and Race
Mothers Mix Babies

NEW YORK. = A traffic jam,
which required the strenuous inter-
vention of police, was caused here
Monday. when Mrs. Addie Washing
ton and Mrs. Antoinetti Donnetti,
white, got their babies mixed in the
125th street shopping district.
Two baby carriages which re-
sembled each other were blamed for
the mistake, which caused Mrs. DON
netti to hurry out of store, hand
the sidewalk checker quarter, and
roll off with Mrs. Washington's
young hopeful at about the same
time Mrs. Washington was wheeling
away the young son of Italy.
But when down the street few
PAGES, Mrs. Washington, with moth.
erly instinct, peeped into her car
riage to COO some baby talk, ther
the trouble began.
"Good Lawdy, this amt mine,
she gasped. There was confusion
aplenty, and when officers over
hauled Mrs. Donnetti and she als'
discovered that there had been sons
kind of changes made, there wa
more confusion and machine-gu
talking in the Italian language.
But the real fun began when tn
two women met, each accusing tn
other of having done the mixing
Officers finally cleared the crow
and the mothers went their way.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-05
Dancers Evade
Sunday Laws;
Set New Record


PITTSBURG, Pa, July 4--(Spe-
cia) Having shattered all previous
worlds championship" records and
with 356 hours behind them Tuesday,
three colored couples are still
dancing in the Motor Garden dance
marathon. The New York white
dancers are only three hours ahead
of them. They arrived back at the
East Liberty hippodrome at 1:l5
O'Clock Sunday morning. They evaded
the Sunday blue laws by dancing at
the home of Ernest p. Owens, $50
Lowell street. They were pronounced
in good physical condition W h n
examined by a physician shortly be-
fore noon. During the "a hours in
the private residence they were sup
ervised by doctors, nurses, dance
judges and promoters of the event.
The white dance marathon being
staged at Duquesne Garden is 66
hours behind the colored record.
Whites evaded the Sunday blue laws
by transferring the dancers to boat,
Japanese Gardens anchored in
the Monongahela River. At Greens
burg, Pa, another white dance mara
thon had gone 184 hours.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-05
In Jacksonville, $4,000 Colored Folk
Live, Love, Hate and Die In Niggertown'

dition as a basis for this article. En-
route several barefoot and barehead-
ed children were met; all dirty and
all happy, but deprived of the pro-
lection and safety of a playground
the street was their only outlet. One
group lowered near a dead cat, which
I learned had lain undisturbed in the
street for three days. They were
in the act of covering 1t with sand
so that the offensive ,odor would not
interfere with their play. Down
town jacksonville is kept quite clean,
but "Niggertown"-- we'll, that's
differently
just around the corner we found
Z the object Of our Nearch, a three
room cottage that housed two fam
ilies-each family had q bedroom
while the kitchen was jointly used,
and for these elaborate quarters the
sum of five dollars week was paid.
Mrs. A.--was the mother Of three lit
tie children; her husband drove a
truck and got all of twelve dollars
a week for it. Mrs. A.---washed for
some folks" when she wasn't busy
having children, nursing them (and
sometimes when she was) cleaning
house. cooking OF otherwise engaged
in attending to her brood. Mrs. b..
the other tenant, had one little girl,
pitifully thin, about six years old,
and fat little baby boy. Granny
who lived with her and her husband
comprised the quintet occupying the
! second bedroom. Ten human beings,
five to the room and each room only
twelve feet square.
Careful questioning brought out
Mrs. AS admission that, "times sho
are hard, when the man at the store
and the doctor, and the insurance
man, and the 'stalment furniture man
gifts through with us, US Is kongr5
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Enterprise News Bureau)

NASHVILLE, Tenn, July 2.-|
One person has been found who does
not want to go to heaven when she
dies. She is Miss Eulacie Sham
berger, a sweet girl graduate OF
Fisk University, one of the outstand-
ing institutions of learning for col
ored people in America. Miss Sham
berger, beautiful girl, age Fl years.
led her class of eighty, graduating
magma cum laude, poet, writer, men,
her of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
and a prospective 1929 graduate stu
dent at Radcliffe College.
Writing in the current issue of the
college paper, Miss Shamberger calls
heaven place of difficulties and
stupidities and earth a much better
place. She says: "Now am not
one who possesses a sweet tooth Z
True enough | can eat sweet things
but not too sweet. When, therefore.
thev sing to me of heaven as land
flowing honey--a thing | despise-
nv heart uuails and | cannot hell
thinking how stupid place it mus
be where there are rivers or perhaps
great lakes with streaming outlets
Of the sweetest brand of bees honey
pTfen there is the question of milk
Milk IS SO plebian! Think of having
to live in a place that probably ha
Niagara Falls of milk to be sur
that there is plenty for all of tn
rood folks who come there to live
Having taken at least one pint o
milk per day for the past five year
and facing the same thing forever
can think of nothing more stupi
than being transplanted to a Ian
flowing with the detested beverage
Cows In Heaven
"There are further difficultiel
viii 1t be buttermilk or sweet mil
and IL there Is an eternal sun foi
ever shining isn't there fear that th
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-05
White Landlady
Weds Colored
Truck Driver

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, July a.
No public clamor attended the we'd
ding of Gertrude A. SwceZey, 36,
to Clarence l.. Phillips, truck
driver, at Walters A. NJ. +. Zion
Church Saturday.
The bride was recently divorced.
'I was married to a white man."
she said, "and he mistreated me. 1t
isn't the color of the skin that
counts. l expect the man with black
skin will treat me better than the
man with white"
The couple may live in the bride S
home near the railroad, where she
keeps a boarding house.
The couple spent nearly a week
trying to get a preacher. Rev. Hill
lard r. Johnson, who first refused,
finally consented.
Tho witnesses were Fred Herbert
and Miss Bertha Mitchell, and Phil
lips 11-year-old son, William King
Phillips, child by a wife who died
two years ago. Following the cere'
mony the couple returned to the resi-
dence which had been occupied by
Mrs. Phillips before her marriage.
Mrs. Phillips was divorced from
Charles Reeves Sweezey, whose pres
ent address she does not know
Phillips is engaged in trucking gar
bage, ashes and other material TO
Fairfield residents. He has secont
son. Clarence L. Phillips, Jr., a stu
dent in trade school in Meriden.
When he planned his marriage
Phillips went to the Rev. Mr.. John
SON and obtained his promise tina
the latter would perform the cere
mony, Phillips told a reporter. Th
minister, upon learning that it wa
white woman Phillips was marry
ing, said he did not think he shoul
marry the two, but was prevaile
upon Saturday night by Phillips {
keep his promise and marry them.
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Heaven, Stupid Place With Milk, Honey !;
Fisk Graduate Prefers This Earth

sweet milk will sour, or if it's but
termilk, that it'll separate into curds
and whey? What would be done
then? Nobody works in heaven, stu
pid beings, so who would remove the
curds, whey and sour milk so that a
fresh supply could come down to the
starving angels. But that isn't all
what color would the flowers and
vegetation be if milk instead of
water flowed through the land? I'm
taking it for granted that the milk
is cows milk and therefore white.
Where in the world-Oh, I forgot
it is heaven | am talking of isn't it,
where in heaven would the cows be
kept?
What kind of fish would grow in
streams of milk and honey?
Liquid Diet
Eating all liquid foods must be
tiresome. I'd soon conclude that
heaven was resort for typhoid con-
valescentsl Although ] don't eat q
tremendous amount, Pm sure that
good chicken, steaks, cakes, roasts
fruits and pastries of earth woulf
haunt me like. ghosts and I'd make
mad rush for earth crying CIV
me food. or give me deathw
Heavenly Choir Practice
..They tell me that when you ge
to heaven you are given harp am
place in the heavenly choir wher
you are supposed to "do your stuff
in helping make music enough t
praise God rightly. Now don't mis-
understand me. | don't mind prais
ing God. but | understand that thi
music continues all the time
"Here are two difficulties. 1 eel
tainly can't play and as for playin
a. harp---I've never had my hands 0
one, and wouldn't even know ho'
to hold one. think Gabriel is tn
director Of this choir and I'm scare
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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-05
Pennsylvania X. Of P.'s
In New Temple

PHILADELPHIA. - The twenty
first annual session of the Pennsyl-
vania grand lodge, Knights of Pyth-
las, will be held in their new $780,
600 Temple. 20ii Central avenue,
Pittsburgh, the week Of July %. ac-
cording to B. G. Collier, Grand
Chancellor, here this week.
There is only one building in Am
erica that cost more than this struc-
ture, and that is the Pythian Tenn
pie in Chicago which was built at
the sum of over 100000. The
Pittsburgh building was opened last
week. 1t has three store rooms, nine
offices, five lodge rooms and an
auditorium seating 1900 people.
Mr.. Collier said the organization
now totalled 107 lodges, 1000 mem
bers. and property owned by the
grand lodge valued at more than
$500, 900 in the state. He is ma
tive of Missouri
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-05
Lost
$4,000 Savings
In N. Y. Swindle

NEW YORK. July 3.-The Queens
County grand Jury yesterday heard
H. S. Warner, real estate operator,
654 Lenox Ave, near w. 143rd ST.,
tell how one of his tenants and two
companions got $4,000 away from
him by means of an ingenious
buried treasure" swindle about two
months ago.
The strange story was told to the
jury as evidence against Walter Ra-
fael. He had been Warmers tenant
at 2465 Second avenue.
The swindler's story was that War
ner was six, knew where there was
a pot of gold. Rafael divulged that
an occult African, Bolancia, while
conversing with the dead, had been
told about the buried treasure.
The condition on which il could
be obtained, Warner said he was told,
was to "pass" $4,000 over the spot
where the treasure" was buried.
Warner, Bolancia and a man, known
only as Hezekiah Johnson, drove in
Warmers automobile to a lonely spot
in Queens.
$4,000 Produced.
There Warmers $1,000 with some
money Bolancia produced, was pass
ed" over a spot indicated by Bolan-
cia.
Then Bolancia took up a shoveI
and dug a hole. Two feet below the
| surface the shovel struck something
hard. 1t proved to be concrete
slab on which was the inscription
$500, 900 in gold, 1776, r. !. P
| (meant ''rest in peace"D.
When the slab was lifted Il re
vealed box. Three shining $50 gol'
pieces met the gaze of the men
while the edges of what appeared t.
be hundreds of other gold piece
were seen.
FinSs Hidden Treasure.
Warner wanted to dig up the bo,
and take it back to Harlem with hin
where he and Bolancia had agreed t
divide it. But Bolancia said that t
touch the money would mean death
So the four men returned to Harlem
agreeing to go to the spot the mex
day and get the treasure, after plac
ing the slab back and filling the hol
with earth.
After waiting for several hour
the next day for Rafael to appear
Warner went to his tenants hous
and found that the tenant, his wifi
and children, had apparently left !
hurry with the $4,000. They di
not return.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-05
Three Leaders
Would Direct
COP. Campaign,

WASHINGTON, d. c., July g.
(SpeciaD colored Republic
ans are interested in mostly at this
time is the selection of one of them
to handle the colored end of the
campaign.
The struggle for this post is des-
perate There are three distinct
groups fighting to control the selec-
tion. One is headed by Robert Rus
sa Motion, principal of Tuskegee In
stitute, successor of the late Booker
T. Washington. He is represented
here by Mr.. Holsey and Mr.. Barnett.
This group would have Homer G.
Phillips, an attorney, of st. Louis,
Mo-, to manage the colored end of
the campaign. Mr.. Holsey and Mr..
Barnett conferred with DR.. Works
secretary last Monday.
The second group is headed by
Emmett j. Scott. secretary treasurer
of Howard University. He is pro-
posing John r. Hawkins, president
of the Prudential Bank, who second
cd the nomination of Mr.. Hoover in
Kansas City, to head the ,colored
end of the campaign. Mr.. Hawkins
has conferred with DIR. Work, out
lining the policy he would follow if
he should be selected.
The third group is led by Perry
Howard, of Mississippi. He denies
that he is seeking the post for him
self. He says that by virtue of be-
ing a member of the national com
mittee, he is a member of the cam
paign committee having charge OF
the entire campaign.
Mr.. Howard says that he favors a
program that would include promi-
nent party workers in every section
Besides those who would be IN
charge of eastern and western head
quarters, he would have an advisory
committee and would make use OF
the services of such men, he states
as Robert r. Church, of Memphis
Robert L. Vann. of Pittsburgh. Will
fan7 IA. Lewis, of Boston, DR.. Scott
Mr.. Hawkins. Robert S. Abbott, OF
Chicago, S. D. McGill, of Jackson
Vile, Charles H. Galloway, of Kan,
sas City, Charles E. Mitchell, of In
stitute. w. Va, Fred r. Moore anC
George w. Harris, of New York
Thomas w. Fleming, of Cleveland
DR.. J. H. p Westbrook, of Denver
w. T. Andrews, of Baltimore, Phi
Dabney, of Cincinnati, Rev; Casslu
Ward, of Boston. Oliver Randolph
of Newark, DR.. W. G. Alexander, o
Orange, N. j., Oscar DePriest, o
Chicago, J. Finley Wilson, Charlie
II. Vena, of Toledo, and others. :.
There is one man mentioned Il
connection with the work who is no
seeking the job. He is Mr.. Church
1t is believed that he would accept !
if it were offered him by DIR. WorE
At conference held here in Decen
Der when the national committe
was in session for the purpose .
selecting someone for this worl
Mr.. Church was agreed upon. A
that time he declined. his reason b
ing that those who offered him th
place were not in position to give |
Mr.. Church is in Memphis. He h'
not been here since the Republics
national convention.
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CONTEST TO LEAD G. 0.P. CAMPAIGN
Garvey's London
Meeting Cost $4,000

NEW YORK. - Garvey's meeting
in the Royal Albert Hall, London, re-
Gently was staged at a cost of over
$4,000, according to information
which has reached the Garvey office
here.
"This money was well spent"
Garvey is reported as saying, be
cause it has opened way in public
opinion and in other circles that we
could not have gained otherwise.
The Garvey program, he declares,
is to bring about an independent
place for Negroes in Africa.
Dozens of other meetings, he de-
clares, will be staged in other sec
tions of England, Scotland, Ireland,
France, Switzerland, Germany and
Belgium.
While in London, he is domieiled
at 81 Castletown Road, West Ken
sington, w. IA, London, England.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-05
All the News
Tersely Told
Texans Launch New
Twenty-Acre Park

BEAUMONT, Tex.-Taking the
lead in race development of recrea-
ton centers, this city opened a $780,
600 amusement park last week.
The Oriental Amusement Park,
combining features of the country
club and athletic center, is under di-
rection of l.. M. Hopkins. 1t occu-
pies 20 acres, has a club house, gym
nasium, library, athletic field with
accommodation for tennis, football
and baseball, a regular park midway,
and owns its lighting plant.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-05
Girl Too White
PhiHy Police
Arrest Couple

PHILADELPHIA. Pa, July A.
Surrounded by seven policemen, one
of whom remarked "She is a smart
white woman going with a Niger"
resulted in the arrest of Mrs. Mamie
Chase Washington, 202S N. Mervine
street, and John Givens. a merchant
tailor, 243 West 129th, New York
City. as they were leaving the Stand
ard Theatre, on Monday night.
Mrs. Washington, woman who
could easily be mistaken for white
person, and Mr.. Givens left the
theatre at . p. m. and We're about to
enter an automobile, when officer
Lazerle accosted her and said, "What
are you doing with this nigger?'
She responded, "Why, | am colored."
The officer became smart and re-
marked. 81 believe you are white
woman, anyway. You have no busi-
ness walking with this Negro. We
know you anyhow; you are wanted
in three states" He then grabbed
her by the arm, called the other
policeman, and said, Lets lock this
pair up. We have got to break NJ
this black and white combination"
They were taken to the 7th and
Carpenter Street police station ant
held for a trial in the morals court
Tuesday mornin ng before Judge
Brown. Through the plea of Ray
mond P. Alexander, who appeared
for Mrs. Washington, and Mr.. Civ
ems, they were dismissed.
Judge Brown denounced the ac
ton of the police officers and state'
that had such case happened il
London, England, the Officers woul,
have been placed in Jail for mali
cious arrest, and stripped of thei
/ uniforms. Efforts are being mad
to bring the officers before the tria
board for q hearing; also action ha
been taken by the defendants to SO
cure damages for assault and mali
cious arrest.
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Railroad Men Organize

CHICAGO, ILL.,, (ANP. Railroad
men throughout the country are
marshalling their forces to combat
''the insidious campaign being con-
Quoted by white unions, which ex-
clude Negroes from their member
ships, to eliminate black men from
skilled and good paying jobs in rail-
way service"
The movement, which is headed
by Luther Foster. Birmingham, Ala.
hama. George Crawford, Memphis,
Tennessee. and Samuel Etzel, New
Albany, Mississippi, is the reorgani-
zation of the Interstate Order oi
Colored Locomotive Firemen, Engine
Helpers, Yard and Train Service EN-
ploYees.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-05
Two Chicago Preachers
On City Pay Rolls

CHICAGO, (ANP.) = That two
prominent ministers were on the pay
roll of the Corporation Counsel was
revealed here Saturday when the list
Of so-caIled investigators was made
public.
The ministers are Rev. Millard I.
Breeding, pastor of the Michigan
Avenue G. M. +. Church and the
Rev. Charles H. Clark, pastor of the
Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Just what was the duty the min
isters performed was not stated
Rev. Mr.. Breeding refused to discuss
the matter. Both, however, have beer
dropped since the investigation,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-05
DR.. Bullock's Case
Ends in Mistrial

RALEIGH, N. C. = With $500
people packing the court room, mis-
trial was declared in the case Of the
Rev. Oscar S. Bullock, accused by his
former stenographer, Miss Elias Ma.
tilda Evans with being the father of
her iliegitimate child, here Friday
Rev. MIR. Bullock is A. b., A. M,
p. T. r. II. D.. a teacher and pas
tor of the largest Baptist church III
the South. ~,
The. case, which began Monday
and ended in the 64-hour jury dead
lock, Friday, was featured BY sensa,,
tional testimony, spicy letters and
scorching cross-examination. A pol,
Of the Jurors showed that IL stood
for conviction while one stood out
firm for acqpittal
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-05
One Hundred Years Old

NEW YORK. - Mrs. Sarah Lowe,
recently celebrated her one-hun-
dredth birthday. Mrs. Lowe was
born in New York City. The Hew-
let's estate at Woodbury.. Long Is
land. is still in the possession of this
family. She has one sister, Mrs.
Harriet Brown: granddaughter,
great grandchildren, and nieces and
nephews.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-05
Force Shoemaker to
Quit Alabama Town

NEW YORK. - According to a
report sent the N. A. A. C. P, Ed
gar Raspberry, of Columbiana, Shell
by County, Alabama, has been
forced to leave town with his wife
and four small children.
Raspberry had well equipped shoe
shop and because he would not sell
his business for half its market val
ue, he was sent many threatening
and anonymous letters, ordering him
to leave under penalty of death If
he ignored the order.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-05
Bank Cashier Dies

CHICAGO - Albert Young, Go, a
real. estate man and formerly cash
ier of the Douglass National Bank,
died of fractured skull Monday at
Chicago hospital, where he had been
taken after being struck by vam-
pire auto.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-05
War Veteran Wins So, 900

NEW ORLEANS, La. (ANP.)-
Aaron A. B. Chaters, formerly head
Of the Louisiana Elks, World War
Veteran, and delegate to the A. +.
+. convention, Paris, has been award
cd damages of $4,000 against the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
Chaters was travelling into Washing
ton several years ago when a win
dow of the coach in which he was
riding fell. glass nearly destroying
his eyesight.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-05
Doctors Degree Is
Received by Woman

CINCINNATI. o. - Miss Jeene
Davis Porter, principal of Stowe Ele-
mentary and Junior High School. re-
ceived the degree of Doctor of Phil
osophy in Education from the Uni
versity of Cincinnati last week.
Stowe has 5000 children and 113
teachers.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-05
Cab Drivers Strike

NEW ORLEANS, La, tANP. -
The drivers Of the Owl Cab Conn
pany, owned and operated by colored
people, went on strike, Tuesday.
The cause was the appointing of
William Gaudott, white, as road
manager. atiaf v x spe
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-05

KNOXVILLE, Tenn.--Accused of
attempting undue familiarity with
Mrs. Anna Stewart, member of
his church and an insurance collec-
tor, the Rev. S. A. Downer has been
enjoined by Shiloh Presbyterian
Church from entering his pulpit.
He has been offered the pastor
ate of a Presbyterian church In At
lanta.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-05
Bar Girl From Hospital

NEW YORK. = Discovery that
she was not white led to the barring
last week of Miss Dorothy Marie
Rennie, of Anntigua, Leeward Islands,
B. w. l., from the Babies Hospital
as a student nurse after her applica-
tion had been accepted before she
sailed
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-05
Files FOR Governor

CLEVELAND, O.-Papers to en-
ter the race for governor of Ohio
have been filed at Columbia by Har-
ry g. Smith, veteran editor and for
mer legislator. While in the legis-
lature Mr.. Smith was the father of
the Ohio Civil Rights bill, which was
passed some years ago.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-05
First Cotton Bloom

ROCKINGHAM, N. C.--The first
white cotton bloom, of the 1928 crop
was picked on the Leak River farm
Monday. by Charles Watkins. This
is four days later than the first bloom
last year, .--- --.---.--l.--- > II
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-05
Appointed P. o. Foreman

CHICAGO. = Chicago added an
other postal foreman to its list last
week when j. H. DeBruhl was ap-
poi, ted to the Armour Station. D..
Il. Harley is assistant superintcnd-
ent of the station.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-05
Pastor Caught in Raid

LOS ANGELES, Cal. = The Rev.
w. A. Venerable, Baptist pastor, was
arrested Tuesday night with a wild
CIV. Mrs. Mary Coleman, aged 3s
BIZ police making raid in the al
legged red light d'strict --------
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Hard Times in Cuba

JAMAICA, B. w. I. - The Jamai-
ca Times reports tales of continued
hardships in unemployment of pas
sengors recently arrived here from
Cuba.