Omaha monitor., 1929-01-11
NEWS REVIEWS
for 1928
FEBRUARY

Tennessee, went before the Hous
Committee on Public Buildings a
Washington and entered plea fo
the building Of 100000 memoria
to the Negro race.
A lily white organization IN Mis-
sissippi Joined hands with one il
Louisiana to reduce the influence O.
the Negro in the Republican party
Col. Otis B. Duncan, commandin,
officer of the Eighth Illinois Infan
try, was offered detail upon tn
war department general staff.
Mrs. Pearl Mildred Flipper enter
ed suit for $4,000 against Miss Flo
renee johnson, charging alienation O.
the affections of her husband, th'
Rev. Carl F. Flipper.
DR.. l.. X. Williams, president o.
! the National Baptist convention, de
Tended the position of that body ii
respect to the National Training
School for Girls, of which Miss Nan
ME Burroughs is principal, in state
ment to the press.
Robert r. Church, Memphis, wai
unanimously elected delegate to the
Republican national convention from
the Tenth Tennessee district.
Meek Mose," comedy drama
written by Frank Wilson and pro
duced by Lester Walton, opened ir
Philadelphia. It had first been pro
duced at the Princess theater, New
York.
Congressman Martin B. Madder
defended Negro employees of the Chi
cago postoffice against an attacl
made by Congressman William r
Stevenson of South Carolina.
The Regal theater, costing mil
lion and one-half dollars, was opened
in Chicago.
Claim was made by bank examin'
ers that more than half million dol
lars was lost by the Fraternal and
Savings Bank of Memphis, Tenn.
A police guard was placed around
Josephine Baker in Vienna to protect
her from students.
Friends of Hubert Harrison or
ganized in New York to erect mon
ument to him.
DIR. p. J. Maveety, secretary of the
department of education for Negroes
of the board of education Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, re-
signed after 20 years of service.
R. Nathaniel Dett, director of mu-
sic at Hampton Institute, was pre-
sented with the Harmon award OF
four hundred dollars and a gold
medal in striking ceremony at the
institution.
DIR. Ernest Just, DIR. Julien Lewis
DR.. Thomas Turner, and Robert A
Thornton were listed in American
Men of Science, the leading author
ity on Who's Who in the scientific
world.
Mrs. Carrie S. Ramsay was ap
pointed a field agent for Tuskeget
Institute to succeed her late husband
Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, part
ners in the show world for many
years, entered different productions
with the announcement that the,
were permanently separated.
A thirty-thousand dollar home fol
stevedores was completed in Phila
delphia.
Charles Falone, who was fount
guilty of rape upon colored girl
was pardoned after spending q yeal
in the Kentucky state penitentiary.
James A. Myers, who achieved ma
tional and international fame as |
member of the Fisk Jubilee Singers
died at his home in Nashville, Tenn
The anti-lynching bill recommend
ed by Governor Harry Byrd OF Vr
ginia, was passed by the state senate
32 to nine.
The Kentucky state Legislature
passed bill appropriating S142,oo'
for replacing the girls dormitory a
Frankfort which was destroyed b.
fire.
A bin was introduced into the Ken
lucky legislature to compel separa
ton of the races in the street cars i
Louisville.
After arresting more than 10
murderers, Detective Sergeant Joh
IT. jackson, so, retired from the pc
lice force of Washington, d. G.
| Colored business men of New Oh
leans organized the Broadmoo
Laundry and Dry Cleaning compan,
4 State Senator Fielder, New Yorl
announced that he would attempt t