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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-05-24
New Golf Course Named
"Putt-A-Wile" AS Best OF
Large Number Submitted

Name Selected for Miniature
Golf Course. The winners. M.
Bailey, 2105 Fairfield Street. The
name Putt-A-While.
Second Choice Tee-Green, sub
mitted by Miss Amelia Amory.
Third Choice Way-Side-Tee, sub
mitted by Miss Frances West.
Fourth Choice, Bo-peep, submitted
by Charles H. Hardy.
Winner can get $1,000 in gold
by applying at Planet Office, 311
North Fourth Street.
Although no second prize was
offered, the management consid-
cred the suggestions of those re-
ceiving honorable mention so APP
propriate, it has issued compi-
mentary season passes which can
be secured by calling at the Plan
ct office.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-05-24
TAILoRs TO MEET IN RICHMOND.

Plans are still going forward
for the convention of the National
Association of Tailors ana Design
ers, which is scheduled to meet in
Richmond, August 4th, 9Th and
9th. A large number of tailors, de-
signers and allied craftsmen will
gather here for the sessions.
Local arrangements are being
made by a committee, of which
Carey Wheaton, local merchant
tailor, is head, He states that the
coming session is calculated to
weld men and women of the tail
oring and allied trades into a clos
err and more compact organization,
as well as to offer discussions on
the latest methods used in the
trade.
Mr.. Wheaton is urging that all
local tailors, dressmakers, clean
ers and pressers, etc. register with
the committee at the earliest posi-
bic convenience, as many more de-
tails for the conventions program
are yet to be worked out. Meetings
are to be held each Monday night
from now until the annual session
in August.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-05-24
Virginia Union
Rated "A" bv
Am. Medical
Society.
EFFORT BEING MADE
TO SECURE LAST 100000
OF 5000, 10000 GOAL

An inspection of Union Univer-
sity was made on April 26th by a
committee from the American Medi-
cal Association. The members of
this committee went thoroughly into
the work of the University and
made report to the American
Medical Association. AS a result of
this report word has just been re-
ceived by the University that it has
been placed in Class l by this ma
tional organization and that it's
name will be included among those
institutions in Class l in the next
edition of the pamphlet entitled,
Approved Colleges of Arts and
Sciences and Junior Colleges"
This well earned recognition
comes as great encouragement to
the staff and the student body of
Union University. The graduates Of
the scientific course, henceforth,
have the stamp of approval upon
them. Their credentials will say
they are qualified to enter a stan
dard medical college and take up
the study of medicine.
Virginia Union University is en-
joying a steady growth. There is
spectacular, but there is
gradual, steady, enduring develop
ment.
Six years ago the school was rat
ed as standard four year college
of Liberal Arst by the Virginia
State Board of Education. Very
soon thereafter the North Carolina
Board of Education gave similar
rating Accordingly, all graduates
of the department of Education are
qualified to receive the highest
grade certificate for teaching in
each of these States. The majority
of those who teach are employed
in these two States. Those who go
to other States receive similar re-
cognition on the basis of the stand
ing in the States named.
Six years ago, the University
launched, in connection with a lib
eral offer from the General Educa-
ton Board, to secure funds for in
creased equipment and endowment.
The goal set was $600,000.00. The
now has all of this ex-
cept $50,000.00. A determined eff
fort is being made to secure this
last $5O,000.00 before the end of
June.
Out of this campaign fund the
University has erected and equipped
a new dormitory which will be oc-
cupied by the young women in Sep
TENDER. Worn out equipment has
been replaced and necessary teach
ers have been secured. The school
is now looking forward to splen-
did future.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-05-24
The Planet Intensifiies
Search for Husband for
Buxom Richmond Girl

Richmond bachelors are given a
splendid opportunity to secure wife
of the old school, the kind that moth
ers wish their sons to marry. The
Planet is in position to render this
service for an eligible man, who can
meet these requirements: He must
be above As years of age, not partic-
ularly handsome, but good provider,
with a home in the western section of
our city. n
The lady in question is one of the
kind to be desired by any man. Thir-
ty years of age, around 165 pounds,
of tantaizing brown complexion
with good hair-just what the doctor
would order. The name of this lady
is withheld by her request, and names
of would-be husbands will be like
wise suppressed until further notice.
Many requests for information
have been received along with several
proposals of marriage, which insures
success for The Planet in it's efforts
to satisfy one of it's readers. We
are here to render any service our
readers require. We have found long
lost relatives, aided in divorce pro-
ceedings, helped ferret out criminals,
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-05-24
Texas Rangers
AidedLynchers
Death Rate Steadily Declining, But
Still Too High-Tuberculosis
Takes Heavy Toll

Atlanta, Ca, May.-Instead of
dying out, as was at one time pre-
dicted, the Negro race in America
is steadily growing more healthy
and the life span of Negroes is in
creasing, according to a statement
given out by the Commission on
Inter-racial Cooperation. Basing
it's statements upon figures fur
nished by the United States Pub
lie Health Service and the statisti-
cal department of the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company, the Com
mission says:
"The gloomy prophecies of those
who expected the solution of the
American Negro problem through
the Negroes extinction have been
completely discredite by the ex-
perience of the last sixty years.
In that period the Negro mortality
rate has decreased fifty per cent
or more, the present death rate
being about II per thousand, as
against IS or 40 per thousand in
Reconstruction days.
"The present life span of Ne
groes is about 46 years, which rep
resents gain in the last decade
of approximately five years. Both
in mortality rate and life expect
ancy the Negro today stands about
where the white American stood
thirty years ago-by no means a
bad showing in the light of the
well-known background disadvan-
tages under which the Negroes pro-
gress has been made.
"a study of the two million poll
cyholders of the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company reveals a NOR
tality rate still lower, the figures
for 1926 being 14.6 per thousand
among this group, as against 17.5
per thousand in 1911. Most graft
flying has been the decreasing NOR
tally from tuberculosis, which still
causes the death of one Negro in
every six. A decline of "A per
cent in the tuberculosis death rate
between 1911 and 1926 and a de-
crease of 54.5 per cent in tuber-
culosis among Negro children in
the same period indicates that this
peculiarly destructive disease is
rapidly yielding to the determined
assaults that are being made upon
it.
"With all the gains that have
been made, however, due to edu-
cation, sanitation and public health
service, the Negro death rate is
still much higher than that of white
people-S7 per cent higher in the
cities and 40 per cent higher in
the rural communities, according to
the figures Of the Public Health
Service.
ut will be surprise to many to
learn that the Negro death rate is
much higher in the cities than in
the rural districts, and higher in
the Northern States than in the
South. In the census of 1920 Lou
isiana showed the lowest Negro
mortality rate-13.5 per thousand
while seven other Southern
States showed rates of 17.2 or less.
That of New York, on the other
hand, was 17.6, while in other
Northern States the rate ran still
higher, reaching a maximum of
29.4 in Michigan"
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-05-24
RChnOndS Segregation Ordinance Kl|ed By S Supreme Court
SEGREGATION BILL
GETS FINAL DECREE

When ]. B. Deans, connected
with the North Carolina Mutual
Association in this city, purchased
a house on North Twenty-seventh
Street in white neighborhood, he
found that he could not occupy the
dwelling because of an ordinance
in this city which prohibited Ne
groes from living in a neighbor-
hood that was strictly white. He
threw the matter of the ordinances
constitutionality into the courts last
year and applied through counsel
for an injunction from the Federal
District Court restraining the city
from placing the ordinance in eff
feet.
The ordinance was passed by the
Richmond City Council in 1911.
Judge D. Lawrence Groner in the
District Court passed in favor of
Deasn, who was represented by
Attorneys Alfred E. Cohen, white,
and j. R. Pollard. Mr.. Cohen con-
tended that eff it were once con-
coded that the Legisture may law
fully, in the exercise of its police
power, exclude a Negro from resi-
dence in city square, if already
occupied in the majority by whites,
then it would logically follow that
it could deny him residence in
every county in the State under
like conditions, and thus nullify
the Fourteenth Amendment of the
Federal Constitution, which made
the Negro a citizen of the States
as we'll as the United States. The
Negro might thus be expatriated.
He further states that "the right
to own property cannot be regu-
lated by the State Constitution. On
the contrary, the right to own and
use property existed before the
State Constitution, and live every
other fundamental right, it is a
right to which the police power is
subordinate, except in so far as the
use to which the occupier puts it
is offensive alike to all citizens,
white, black, brown or yellow.
An appeal was taken by the city
to the Circuit Court, where it up
held Judge D. Lawrence Groner's
decision, and held the ordinance
to be invali. The city was rep
resented by City Attorney James E.
Cannon and Lucius F. Cary, his as
sistant. Mr.. Cary argued that the
Federal Constitution did not spe-
officially cover the point at issue in
the case. With reference to the
clause in the Fourteenth Amend
ment, which provides that mo
state shall make or enforce any
law which shall abridge the privi-
leges or immunities of citizens of
the United States" He also stated
that "of the privileges and immun-
tiles of citizens of the United
States, and of the privileges and
immunities of the citizen of the
State, only the former which are
placed by this clause under the
protection of the Federal Constitu-
ton, and that the latter, whatever
they may be, are not intended to
have any additional protection by
this paragraph of the amendment.
The city, not satisfied with the
decision of the Circuit Court, ap-
pealed to the Supreme Court of
the United States, which body hand
ed down the final decision that the
law was unconstitutional. This
gives to Mr.. Dean and every Ne
gro in this city the right to live
wherever he is able to buy, and
also full protection by the police
and laws of this city.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-05-24
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Last Sunday was a great day in
Morgan Park with the Ancient Uni
ted Knights and Daughters of Afri-
ca, at which time the Pride of
Morgan Park Council No. 146, of
which DIT. Elizabeth Crawford is
Most Excellent Queen, held it's ninth
Annual Thanksgiving sermon at the
Beth Eden Baptist Church. Rev.
H. B. Hawkins is pastor. Rev.
Hawkins being sick, the Thanks
giving sermon was preached by Rev.
II, P. Redick, assistant pastor of the
church.
Local members who took part on
the program were: Dts. Albert
Quinn, Fannie Graves, Matte Mos
ley, Misses Glenrose Hayes, Mamie
Elkoe. Hayes and Elkoe represent
ed the Juvenile Department. DIT.
Elizabeth Crawford, M. E. O., rep
resented the council and DIT. Addie
Foster, chairman of Program Com
mittee, acted as mistress of cere-
monies. Sir Knight John H. Rogers
Jr., was in charge of the piano.
The following State and Grand
officers were present and took part
in the exercises: Mrs. Eliza Jack
son, State Grand Queen of Illinois;
Mrs. Grace L. Patillo, National
Right Maid of Honor; Mrs. Louise
Hayden White, National Grand Sec
rotary Treasurer of Juvenile Dept.
and M. T. Bailey, National Director
of Publicity. Other visiting mem
bers present were: DIT. Annie Hall,
Egypt Council, and Sir Knight
Christian, Senegal Council. The
whole exercises were fine and all
went away elated. On Monday even
ing, Mrs. Eliza Jackson held the
election of officers and delegates in
the council.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-05-24
lCrusader News Aeencvl

(CruSaQer news Agency
New York, May.-Denouncing the
roasting alive of George Hughes
Friday, May 9th, at Sherman, Tex,
and accusing the white ruling class
of the South of deliberately de-
veloping reign of terror against
the Negro workers and farm labor
ers in it's efforts to detract the
workers from the growing mass of
unemployment and economic mis-
cry arising out of the deep-going
economic crisis in the United
States" the American Negro Labor
Congress today issued a call to all
workers, Negro and white, to sup
port it in general campaign
against the rising tide of lynch
iDgs.
The Call points out that there
have been more lynchings in the
United States, and more vicious
attacks against the workers, both
Negro and white, than during the
two years before, and further
points out that the lynchings Of
Negro workers are not isolated in
cidents, but are part and parcel of
the general offensive capitalism has
launched against the rising tide of
radicalism among the American
workers, who are feeling the effects
of the employers attempts to shift
to their shoulders the whole bur-
den of the economic crisis.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-05-24

exposed the clearing house racket,
saved innocent from prison and death,
ETC., but we have never entered the
matrimonial game before, but we in
tend to see this through, so all eli
gibles will please send in their pleas.
Here goes one sent US this week:
May 10, 1880,
Dear Miss or Mrs, X:
l was glancing over the Richmond
Planet this A. NJ. and found an ad.
of yours. l am a man of forty-two,
weigh one hundred and fifty-fve and
five feet, five inches. / am quite sure
that l can answer all of your needs,
because | have everything a good and
lonely woman needs.
I would like very much for you to
send me your picture and ! will send
mine. I am a sober and very con-
genial man with no faults at all. The
reason 1 have never been married is
because | have been waiting for this
I have two cars and q
beautiful home. Will give you all
other information after / receive a
letter from you.
Yours in love,
Mr.. x,
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-05-24
Charles lSatchell Morris, Jr.,

Charles Satchell Morris, Jr.,
oldest son of Rev. and Mrs. Chas.
S. Morris, of this city, professor
of English and head of the De-
partment of Speech at the Ten
nessee State College, Nashville,
Tenn, and former professor of
Virginia State College, was pain
fully bruised, cut and shaken up
recently. He is suffering also
from wrenched back. The acct
dent happened while returning
here from a weekend trip to Vir-
GINA. The right hind wheel of
his car ran off, almost throwing
the machine down a twenty foot
embankment. The fact that the
automobile did not overturn is
considered little short of miracu-
lous. Mr.. Ollie Stewart, senior
at Tennessee State College, who
was driving the car at the time,
escaped unhurt. 1t is feared that
it will be several weeks before
Professor Morris will recover
fully.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-05-24
HUGHES LEFT TO
FATE BY RANGERS
(Crusad Ter News Agency

(CfuSadler News agency
Sherman, Tex, May.-Additional
details of the burning to death in
a vault of the county court house
here of George Hughes by lynch
gang Friday afternoon connect
more closely the Texas rangers and
the police with the murder.
Hughes was on trial, charged
with an attack on a white wo-
man," at the time the crowd of
lynchers gathered. The trial was
railroaded affair, with the jury
selected in a few minutes, but the
first witness of the prosecution vas
on the stand when the trial was
interrupted by the mob.
Leaves Hughes to Death
At / P. M. Judge Carter stopped
the trial when it became fairly
clear that conviction would result
in a legal scandal, and proposed a
change of venue. The crowd then
made it's attack, and the deputies
and Texas rangers locked Hughes
in the court house vault. The build
ing was set on fire and the troop
ers calmly walked out and left him
locked >in the vault, knowing that
he had not a chance in the world
to live through the fire.
Governor Moody now denies that
he ordered the troops not to shoot
at the lynchers. But there are
many who saw Captain Frank
Manner, in command of the
Rangers in the court house, re-
ceive the message, and heard him
turn and say gleefully to Judge
Carter: "This means that the mob
will get the Negro"
Moody Prefers Legal Murder
Moody himself, in his statement
washing his hands of the killing,
excuses the lynching of the Negro,
prejudging him guilty, and only
condemning the lynchers for not
getting the state to do it. Says
Moody:
"The crime for which the Ne
gro was lynched at Sherman was
a brutal and atrocious one. The
intimation of the mob by its act
that he would not ahve been speed
lily tried and legally executed I'M
der of the orders of a constituted
court is libel and SANDER on the
citizenship of Sherman and Gray
son county"
Mayor Eubank of Sherman issued
a statement praising the fifty troop
ers and deputies in the court house
for not driving the lynchers back
with bullets. Good judgment was
used in not firing on the crowd"
he says.
In the meantime the white ruling
class which furnished leadership for
Fridays outrage has begun a drive
against Negro workers in this city.
Saturday hundreds were fired in
various plants and printed leaflets
distributed calling for the discharge
of all Negro workers.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-05-24
PROF. JOHNSON TO SPEAK

James Hugo Johnston, acting
Dean of the Virginia State College
at Petersburg, Va, and son of the
late James Hugo Johnston, former
president of the school, will deliver
the Welcome Address on behalf of
the faculty to the graduates Mon
day evening, June 2, in attendance
of the biennial meeting of the AL
umni Association. There are more
than 5000 graduates of the college
and many of them will return for
this meeting. DR.. John M. Candy
will be the principal speaker and
Pres. M. T. Bailey of Chicago will
preside over the two days meeting.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-05-24
Hammond and Mckinney Awarded
Fifty Dollars Each in Southwide
College Contest Conducted by
Interracial Commission.

Atlanta, Ca, May.-Clarence E.
Hammond, of Aiken, S. c., a stu
dent in Benedict College, Columbia,
and Richard l. Mckinney, of More
house College, Atlanta, were among
four students of Southern collegts
this week receiving awards of $50
each offered by the Commission on
Interracial Cooperation for the best
papers submitted in the Commits
sion's annual southwide college COM
petition for themes on Justice in
Race Relations"
The other two winners were
Waldo Berlekamp of the University
of Missouri and Vann Woodward of
Emory University, Atlanta. Forty
colleges were represented in the
competition, the purpose of which
was to focus the attention of col
lege students upon practical phases
of the South's race problem.
Morehouse College was a winner
in this contest last year, also Neal
Hughley, one of its students, re-
ceiving an award of fifty dollars.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-05-24
ANNOUNCEMENT

The Market Inn opens this season
under the management of Fred &C.
phas. Every endeavor is being put
forth to max this the city's most won
derful playground. Attractions of all
sorts will feature the Inn in the next
few month, and you are cordially in
vited to come and inspect at any
time. For booking, call Fred Cephas,
30 East Clay Street; Phone: Mad.
1857.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-05-24

New York, May 17.-That the
Imperialists of this country and
their press are no longer attempt
ing to conceal the status of Haiti
as an imperialist slave farm is evil
denced by a headline which APP
peared in the New York Evening
Post yesterday in which the real
significance of the substitution of
Roy in Borno's place as the native
tool of imperialism was very ac-
curately indicated. The headline
read: Haiti inaugurates Hoover
picked chief"
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-05-24
lCrusader News Agency

Port Au Prince, Haiti, May Is.
Eugene Roy, banker and latest ma
tive tool of United States impe-
rialism, today was inaugurated tenn
porary president of Haiti.
The new president, who is 50
years old and one of the leaders
of the natice bourgeoisie who have
consistently betrayed the revolu-
tionary aims of the Haitian masses,
was the choice of the Hoover Gin
vestigating" commission and was
elected by Borno's hand-picked
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-05-24

council of state on April 21st, af-
ter Bornoa had unsuccessfully tried
to defy Hoover's orders.
That the new president is no
more popular with the Haitian
masses than the retiring Borno was
shown today by the attempt of
workers and peasants to fire the
Chamber of Deputies, and by the
tameness of the Inauguration celc-
brations.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-05-24

Konjola, the wonder medicine is
going strong in Richmond. Many per
sons are reporting wonderful results
obtained by taking this health Great
ing medicine, which is 80 medicines
all in one. 1t makes good every time.
Konjola is becoming a household
word here.