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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-03-15
NvEl HUNDRED HAITSANs
STAGE PROTEST
CRUSADER News seryiee)

CRUSADER News Service)
PORT AU PRINCE, March-The iarg-
est mass-protest demonstration ever
held here, comprising 5000 people, gre
eted the arrival of Hoover's Haitian
Commission, which arrived here yester-
day on the warship Rochester. The
Commission is headed by the imuerialist
tanker, Cameron Forbes.
The protesters carried banners de-
handing the immediate withdrawal OF
the U. S. marines and against wall
Street domination in Haiti.
Petty bourgeois leaders headed the
demonstration. A boycott was declared
against the hearing of the commission
and for some time nobody appeared
However, one of the petty-bourgeois
nationalists, Pierre Lespinasse lawyer
finally broke the boycott and appeared
before the imperialist commission. he
recited the history Of Haiti and de-
nounced the American occupation. He
did not, however, put forward the de-
mands of the majority Of the Negro
masses who are peasants bitterly ex'
plotted by the American masters. He
demanded general election.
William Allen White was put on the
commission by Hoover to give it LIB.
era" favoring. White can be safely
counted on to do Wall Streets and
Hoover's will so far as Haiti is con-
cerned. Another vancouver of Hoover's
was to appoint the head of the petty.
bourgeois Negro Tuskegee institute into
a committee to investigate the "edu-
cational system in Haiti. Thus AN
enemy of the Negro masses in the
United States is sent to Haiti to help
betray the Negro masses there.
Chicago Jobless
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-03-15
COLORED EDUCATORS
TO HOLD CONFERENCE

Greensboro (CNS)-Everything
in readiness at Bennett College,
near here, for the conference of
college presidents of colored schools
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
which will open Friday morning.
Gathered at the conference will be
presidents of IL institutions located
in States extending fro Delaware
to Texas.
The program includes addresses
by DR.. J. M. Holmes, secretary of
the board of education of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, Chi
cago; President M. s. Davage, Claf-
lin College, Atlanta; DR.. j. H.
Cooke, dean of North Carolina Col
lege; DR.. ]. o. Spencer, president
of Morgan College, Baltimore; DR..
M. W. Dogan, Wiley College, Mar
shall, Texas; DIR. J. H. billiard,
president of the Slater Fund; DR..
Floyd D. O'Rear, associate profess
sor in the department of education
Of Columbia University; and Dwight
Furness, Chicago.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-03-15
0rganic,Union 0fMethodist
ChurchesMeeti

Washington, D. G. tCNs)-The
organic union between the African
Methodist Episcopal and the Afri-
can Methodist Episcopal z 20 n
Churches is meeting with favor
throughout the country. TINS is
shown by the canvass of the votes
of the ministers Of the several An
nual Conferences of the two de-
nominations made public here March
4, by the Joint Commission Organic
Union.
The reports were made by Secre-
tary John R. Hawkins, for the A.
M. E. Church and by Secretary
J. W. Eichelberger. Jr., OF the A.
M. E. Zion Church. Their figures
showed that more than three
fourths of the ministers OF the two
denominations favor the union.
The proposed United Church will
represent a CONTINGENCY of approx
imately two million members, with
over ten thousand ministers and
property values Of several millions
of dollars in church and school
property.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-03-15
IMPORTANT PLAN ANNOUNCED
BY ATLANTA UNIVERSITY
Will Conduct Modern Demonstra.
ton School in Connection With
Department of Education

Atlanta, Ca, Marcia demon
stration school, beginning with kin
dergarten and going through four
years of high school, is among the
important plans for the next aca-
demic year of Atlanta University,
according to an announcement by
President John Hope. The school
will be conducted in connection with
the university's department of edu-
cation and will be for the purpose
of giving to students in that de-
PARTNERS practical observation and
training in teaching methods.
The kindergarten and elementary
grades viii BILE taught in the Ogle-
thorpe School on the university
campus and the high school grades
in Giles Hall on the Spelman cam
pus. The latter building will be
remodeled to accommodate the
school, laboratory, library and other
facilities being provided. If de-
sired, high school students attend
ing the school may enroll in the
boarding department of Spelman
Collegel. In announcing the plans
for the new school, President Hope
says:
Education for Negroes can be
improved only through better teach
ers. The university will be meet
among Negroes if it can provide
ing one Of the greatest needs
the proper training of teachers
teachers with thorough knowledge
teachers who can think with accur
acy and precision, teachers with
character and personality, and with
such a contagious enthusiasm TO,
their work as will inspire and slim.
ulate young people coming under
their direction.
"The demonstration school
through its faculty, will provide ar
example of good teaching, but its
main emphasis will be the welfare
of the pupil. The aim will be to
train the pupil in thoroughness, in
accuracy and in knowledge of the
subject. The purpose of the dem.
onstration school is not primarily
to give students in the department
of education practice in teaching
but to provide them with an oppor.
tunity to observe good teaching and
its results"
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-03-15

NEW Jersey N. A. A. c. P.
BRANCHES DISCUSS STATE
xun KRACE PROBLEMS :.

New York, March Problems con-
fronting colored citizens in the state
of New Jersey were thoroughly dis
bussed in a Stat Conference partici-
pated in by twelve branches of the
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, and help in
Orange, February % and March 1, with
upward of fifty delegates present. Among
the subjects discussed were segrre-
CATION in hospitals, schools, theatres,
business and the problem of housing.
Segregation, it was brought ou was
being practiced in the following WAYS:
Negro women segregated in the Essex
teachers refused employment in nor
thern New Jersey; Negro students
denied use of gymnasiums and SWIM
imng pools; Negro normal school stud
ents denie practice teaching in mixed
schools; and attempts made to prevent
colored children from qualifying for
college entrance.
In southern New Jersey, it was
brought out that Negro and white were
given seperate class rooms with wire
screen separating Negroes and whites
in the Fairgrounds. In other places
no Negro children were admitted to
white schools and where they attenden
such schoolsattempts were made to
tranfer them to colored school even
though such school might be far distant
from their homes. To this end well
equipped colored schools have been
built in a number of places 10 tempt
colored students to withdraw from
white schools.
DIR. Walter Alexander, former member
of the state legislature, speaking on
the Negro in politics, stated that in
the entire state not single appointive
position was held by Negro above the
position of messenger and that the race
vote was blindly partisan. He urged
organized action toward intelligent use
of the ballot, and propaganda looking
toward use Of the New Jersey Civil
Rights Act.
At amass meeting of the Conference
on Friday night, February %, the
speakers were Arthur B. Spingarn,
vice-president of tht N. A. A. C. P. and
chairman of its National Legal Com
mittee, and Robert W. Bagnall, Dir
ector ofBranches. The State Confer
ence elected the following officers:
President, DIR. Vernon Bunce, Orange;
Vice-President, Rev. Fred Handy, Jer-
sey City; Secretary, Mrs. Bessie N,
Hill, Trenton; Treasurer, Dr. w. J.
Parks, Asbury Park; Executive Com
mittee, Mrs. Bertha Randolph, Orange;
Mrs. Mary Hayes Allen, Montrlair;
Mrs. William Cave, Atlantic City; DR..
Branch, Camden; and Mrs. Virginia
Brown, Plainfield.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-03-15
DOING OF YOUNG MEMS CHRIS.
TIAN ASSOCIATION

Saturday at 5 P. M. DR.. w. L.
Ransome, pastor of the First Bap-
fist Church, South Richmond, will
explain the Sunday school lesson.
Free. Come.
Sunday, $50 A. M, workers
meeting.
At 10 A. M, meetings in the
Jail and penitentiary.
At $3.50 P. NJ, a real gospel SER
vice at the Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist
Church. Music by the senior choir
of the church. Special sermon by
Rev. F. w. Black, pastor of Mt.
Carmel Baptist Church. Women
and men are invited.
At the Y. M. C. A. building,
P. M, meeting for boys. Mothers,
send your boys.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-03-15
WOODMAN'S
SAFE is ROBBED

While the clerk, Mrs. Sahar John
son, of the American Woodman,
was out to lunch from 2 to 3
o'clock, burglars broke in her of
flee and robbed the safe of SAB.
The job evidently was done by
someone familiar with the place,
who held a key to the door and
knew the combination of the safe.
Mrs. Johnson was positive she lock
ed both the safe and the door. The
transom was found open when she
returned, the door unlocked, and
the contents of the safe spread
around the floor. The money or
ders and checks were left untouch-
ed. Mrs. Johnson Immediately mo-
tilted the police, who arrived a few
hours later. No finger prints were
found and no arrests have been
made.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-03-15
ALLEGED Rum
Runner Killed

John Moss was killed and his con-
panion Henry Moss badly cut and
bruised about the head when their
whiskey laden automobile crashed into
into an automobile driven by W. A.
Ward vrominent shoe repairer, at the
corner of Chamberlayne and Melrose
Avenues, last Sunday morning. Police
man Godfrey and Kelly were chasing
Moss in an endeavor to capture the load
of contraband, which was being run in
for Sunday observance festivities and in
attempting to escape arrest, Moss ran
full into Wards car at seventy miles an
hour.
The two machines were completely
wrecked and the wonder is, that any
passengers escaped death. Wi 18th Mr..
Ward we're his ,on, joseph Ward and
Mr.. James Wood, hho is employed in
his shop. All received minor injuries
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-03-15
TWO KILLED AS POLICE
RAID CULT HEADQUARTERS

Two gin-crazed Negroes flourish
ing revolvers were fatally wounded
and a police sergeant killed in a
pistol duel following raid on a
disorderly house here Wednesday
night.
The shooting took place on a
third floor apartment of a mystery
house which is reported to be the
headquarters of an underworld
cult.
AS the fight ragged from roof to
room Cokey Joe was killed with
a bullet in his mouth, and his
partner Audley Billings was fatally
wounded with nine bullets from
police pistols lodged in the muscles
and bones of his body.
Sergeant Anderson was fatally
wounded by q bullet in the chest.
The nine men and women in
the apartment were rounded up
and have been detained at police
headquarters IS material witnesses
to the shootings.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-03-15
Refuse to Pay Alleged Bet. Harri-
sonburg to Have Cleanup

The Numbers" Racket got ano-
Their black eye in the Valley last
week, when it is alleged that O
player was not paid off. This is
the second time within six months
that such has been the case. Last
fall the hacker of the numbers"
racket was alleged to have skipped
Harrisonburg, after switching the
number of certain day, and later
announcing that he had been robbed
of $1,000. !.
According to news items in local
white papers Harrisonburg, which
has been the Numbers" capital of
the Valley, is now under scrutiny,
and it won't be long before some
body will have some explaining to
do. Numbers" have become to be
popular in practically all the Valley
towns, which include Lexington,
Clifton Forge, Wrightville, Coving-
ton, and also in Lynchburg and
Roanoke. 1t is reported that the
hackers in Harrisonburg were sim
ply the second men, that the real
bank roll was in Washington, D.
c. Just why the bankers failed to
pay off can't be learned, as it is
reported that they took many dol
lars of the gullible public in the
above mentioned towns each day.
Connected with the Numbers"
was also a little pamphlet that was
sold that was supposed to have q
''Hot Number" just from the clear
ing house in Ne wYork. This fas-
cinating little piece of literature
sold for ten cents, and it was re-
ported that a printer in a Valley
town was cleaning up. This shot
tip" also had the clearing house
figures for the past year, tabulated
daily. The history of the Numbers"
here in Staunton, it is said, shows
but few "hits" were made here in
the time the racket operated. 1t
is alleged that there was two five
dollar $500 hits, one twenty-five
dollar (S25.0O) and one fifty dol
lar (S50.00) hit The bankers are
said to have carried away from the
city around thirty-five dollars
$(S5.00) day when the racket
was at its height.
In Norfolk the ministerial asso-
citation went on record against
Numbers" and broadside was hurl-
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-03-15
RACE FRIENDSHIP SOUGHT BY
CHURCHMEN

Raleigh, N. y. (CNS)-1he IeW-
ly formed Church Relations Com
mittee of the Commission on Inter
racial Cooperation has launched a
move to create among North Caro-
lima churches and churchmen q
ne winterest in improved racial
relationship. From one to 29 repre-
sentatives of each of the IA differ
ent denominations met here this
week on invitation of the commit
tee.
After hearing talks and discuss
ing various interracial matters,
with especial reference to improve
ments that could be made by the
churches, the committee voted to
make the meeting an annual affair
and the representatives of various
denominations went home intent
upon putting into practice some
of the things recommended by the
conference.
The various denominational del
egates met in separate groups and
later reported back to the commit
tee the things they planned to do.
The report of the Baptist, made by
D. w. l.. Poteat, president-emeritus
of Wake Forest College, was adopt
ed by the committe as the guide
for the work of all.
Among the suggestions made by
the Baptists were that course in
racial relationship be given in
schools and colleges, especially
church institutions, that the religi-
Gus press of the State give racial
relations as much space as possible,
than an annual sermon be preached
on the subject of racial relations
by every preacher in the State,
that every Sunday school give at
least one lesson year on the sub
ject, and that there be closer CO.
operation between white and Negro
pastors.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-03-15
Numbers Racket I'm Bad
I'm Valley OF Virginia

ed against them in every church in
the city recently. AS far as can
be learned the ministers of the
city have laid 10 won the subject,
only on one occasion has anything
been said about them, and that
was by an out of town minister
who was carrying on a revival here
last fall. This last failure may
mean the death knell of the racket
in this city, as the players have
lost confidence.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-03-15
FIFTH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH

Filth Street Baptist Church was again
packed last Sunday morning,tocontinue
the installation services of DR.. C. C.
Scott, as pastor. Rev. T. j. King, pastor
Of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Pittsburg
Pa, and former pastor of Filth Street
believed the messages of the day. DR..
King pleased his hearers at the morn
services with well prepared and force.
fully delivered sermon, the subject of
which was, Back to Your Bibles!' He
secuted the idea that any system OF
philosophy or any collection ofbokc
would ever supercede the Christian re.
hgion and the Bible.
Dr. Scott is being congratulated on
every hand and the Church is taking
on new life preparatory to launching
out upon big program under his ad-
ministration.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-03-15

the attack with self-defense and for a
time gave blow for blow. The Negro
workers fought heroically side by side
with their white comrades, but in spite
of this the Hearst news service in re-
porting the affair lyingly gave out that
"all the Negro demonstrators fled.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-03-15
NEGROES LEAD WASHINGTON
DEMONSTRATION
lCrnsader News servicel

(Crusader News SerVlceJ
Washington, March-Negro workers
made up the bulk Of hugo demonstra-
ton in front of the White House short
ly after noon on international Unem-
ployment Day, March 9Th
The demonstration has no sooner
gotten under way than it was brutally
by police with gas bombs and
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-03-15
BAGNAL GOES ON TOUR TO vIRG

BAGNAL GOES ON TOUR TO VIRGIL
MIA N. A. A. C. P. BRANCHES
New York, March Robert W
Bgnall, director of branches Of the
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People is to go on {
speaking and organizing tour in Virgi
MIA, from the 18th to the goth Of
March, it was announced today.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-03-15

NUMBERS" RACKET
IN BAD AGAIN
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-16
Political Upheaval in Tarrant
County

July primary results disclosed a remarkable po-
litical upheaval in Tarrant county and the city Of
Fort Worth. In 1928 State Senator Robert A. Stuart
made the race for district attorney. Jesse Martin was
. rival contender. It was SO close that a contest fol-
lowed and Martin lost the contest. Stuart resigned
the office of state senator and Julian c. Hyer was
elected his successor.
Hyer supported the policies Of the administration
He became a candidate for denomination for q full
term. Frank H. Rawlings Of Fort Worth was a second
entrant. Stuart became a candidate for denomination
and reelection to the office Of district attorney
Martin threw his hat in the ring. When the votes
were counted there were two staggering surprises.
Hyer and Stuart had been showed under by the Tar
rant county voters.
Martin will be district attorney following the No
vember election. and Frank Rawlings will qualify as a
state senator early IN the month Of January. 1881.
Stuart had the backing Of the ultra pros and the in
fuence Of a widely known militant preacher was be-
hind him in the contest which he won and later in
the contest in which he was the victim OF Jesse Mar
tin and his followers.
Julian G. Hyer IS a South Carolinian by birth. A
very dashing chap. high in the roster Of officials Of
the Lions. and was confident that he had a walk-over
in the July primary. He won a push-over instead or
a walk-over.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-16
Pat Neff as a Runner

Pat Neff is a remarkable sbrinter. He sprintea
into the house OF representatives after he had sprint
cd into the office Of county attorney-this in the long
ago. He sprinted into the office Of speaker. He
sprinted away from Joseph Weldon Bailey and Rob
ert Ewing Thomson and became governor OF Texas.
They say governors never come back.
Well, In 1880 Neff sprinted again for the office CT
railroad commissioner and when 500 $50 primary
votes had been counted he lacked only 4s7s votes 70
insure his nomination. This over his three oppoa-
ents for railroad commissioner. II there Is a run-off,
Col. w Gregory Hatcher viii be the run
ner-up.
There are s~printers who can run In the mud. there
are %sprinters who can run in the rain and snow. there
are ~sprinters who can run IN the heat. but Pat Neff
appears TO be a Splinter who sprints regardless Of con-
ditions or circumstances.
Lest we forget. Joseph Weldon Bailey is in his
grave. and Robert Ewing Thomason is on his way 10
the big dome IN the city OF Washington as an M. @.
from Texas. Col. Benjamin F. Looney failed to
sprint" in the gubernatorial race in 1920. Neff cop
ped the prize easily; then he named Col Looney pre-
siding Judge Of the Dallas court Of civil appeals and
the erudite gentleman from Hunt county continues ali
ornament Of the Texas judiciary.
Political history IS fascinating If one happens to
know its highlights and its lowlights. its wrecks and
its misfits. its idols and It's shattered idols. its vic
tors and its vanqushed ones.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-16
Neff and Hatcher

Former Governor Neff and State Treasurer Hell
Raiser Hatcher are enjoying life In the great open
spaces. Hatcher HIS made the discovery that the
former governor is playing both sides" IN the cam
~paigning for votes now on. Why not? All candidates
for office do their level best to win voters to their
andidacy. They appeal TO voters Of all shades Of
opinion and all viewpoints. If nominated and elected
to office there IS a theory afloat that a public SER
want is a servant Of all the people and not some OF
the people. A voter is a voter. A ballot Is a ballot
and is said to be the thing on election day and the
candidate who scoops in the greatest number OF bal
lots is the gentleman whose face appears on the
front page the morning after.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-16
MEXICO TOWN
SUFFERS BOOM
Sound of Hammer and Saw
Heard in Ancient City
OF Cuernavaca
BY CHARLES p. NUTEER
ASSOCIATED Press staff Wrlterl

CUERNAVACA, Morelos, Mexico.
August 16-qP-This once sleepy
little city where col. Charles a.
Lindbergh courted Anne Morrow
and before him. Cortes. MACMILLAN,
Carlota and DE la Borda romanced.
Is awakening from a half dozen
centuries Of repose. its quiet dis
turbed by the hammer and saw OF
the builder.
A tourist consciousness has
brought about a building boom un-
dreamed Of a short while ago. Al
ready there is q chamber OF COM
merce. a tourist guide agency, VA
half dozen swimming pools, a hard
surfaced highway between Mexico
City where buses and public auto
mobiles operate on hourly sche-
dulles, and a smoothly running
divorce mill where bonds can ne
severed In three days.
Part OF the boom ~ credited 60
Dwight w. Morrow, American am
baSSador, who has a weekend home
AGIE4 AAAC 1AA~GGE%1QlA 4C@A 80 WV
with the town when he came TO
Mexico three years ago, and his
place now Is a virtual museum or
modern Mexican art. 10 was In the
charming gardens Of this place that
Colonel Lindbereh wooed his wife.
Cuernavaca, one Of the oldest
cities IN the Americas. was former
ly known by the Tlahuicas Indians
as Cuauhnahuac. translated aS
The Place OF the Eagle. The
SpaniardS. who captured Il. IN
April. 1921. changed the Indian
name 10 Euernavaca. meaning
Cows Horn. after the manner IN
which barrancas surround the town
forming roughly a cows horn.
Ccrtes was the original landed
Baron OF Cuernavaca. The balmy
climate and constant sunshine ap-
realli greatly 20 him and In 1880
he started building his palace
which still rye as the state gov
eminent palace.
Diego Rivera. Mexlco's greatest
mural painter, is painting the his
tory enacted By Cortes on the
walls OF the great building, AlnbaS-
sador Morrow l. paving for the
work as he has paid for other
renovation and reconstruction.