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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-02-19

sermon, we Are ftDle.
C. E. 6 Divisions) ------6:30 P. M.
Evening Service -------7:30 T. M.
Tracy will bring about. twenty-five
people over to put on the following
pageant this Wednesday evening in
the church basement at 1880. There
will be no admission but an offering
will be received.
Spiritual, 'I's goin' to Walk the
Streets of Glory"-Mesdames Turner,
Seely and Radke.
Danny Boy"-Misses Norton, JAG
obs, Norton.
Favorite Poems-L. r. N.
"Papa's Letter"-Ruth Jacobs.
Prayer Perfect" Ladies
Trio.
The Patriarch Abraham CA Bible
Pagaent). abraham could be traced
by the building of his affairs, but Lot
was builder of barns"
Synopsis of pageant:
Song: "The God of Abraham
Praise"
Scene 1. Abraham at Altar hears
Voice of Promise.
Intermission, Reading, Madame X
Mae Norton.
Scene ii. The Land of Canaan
reached.
Scene III. The Battle-Lot taken
captive.
Intermission. Song, "The Fight Is
On"
Scene ~. The Blessing.
Intermission. Spiritual, 81 amt
agoin' to grieve My Lord any more"
Ladies Trio.
Scene V. Abraham at 80 promise
renewed, son promised.
Scene vi. Interrupted Devotions.
Jealousy of Ishmael.
Intermission. Violin Duet.
Scene. VII. The Human Sacrifice.
Solo ''Crucify"-Mrs. Norton.
All Welcome-Always
Oscar Joneson. Pastor.
Middle Creek Ev. Church
w. G. Schendel, Pastor.
Evening Worship at 500 o'clock.
North Redwood Ev. Community
Church
w. G. Schendel, Minister
Sunday School, 1:SO.
Worship Service, 2:30.
Vesta-Seaforth Presbyterian
Churches
Services on next Lords Day, Feb
ruary 10th, will be as follows:
Z Sunday School --------10:30 A. M.
Morning Worship ------11:3O A. M.
; c. E. Society ---------6:45 P. M.
Robert Alexander Pastor
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-02-19

North Redwood Ev. Community
Church
w. G. Schendel, Minister
Sunday School, 1:3O.
Worship Service, 2:30.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-02-19

Middle Creek Ev. Church
w. G. Schendel, Pastor.
Evening Worship at 500 o'clock.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-02-19

You are heartily invited to our
ervices.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-02-19
Church of Christ

Church of Christ
"The Church of Kindness"
All Sunday Services in the Church
Basement.
Bible School ------------10 A. M.
Morning Worship ----------11 A. M.
Co,,o,o, UyVo Arc A hIo -
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-02-19
Methodist Episcopal Church
"The House of Happiness"

The pastor gladly offers his serv-
ices and would welcome any informa
ton concerning who need the same.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-06-14

Capt. M. NJ. Barnard, superinten-
dent of penal institutions for the
District of Columbia, who was wit
Messing his twenty-sixth execution,
said he had never seen. a man 60 to
his death in such an inspired way.
Hawkins arose at 5 o'clock and ate
a hearty breakfast. He amused him
self in the cell until about z o'clock,
when Rev. Mr.. Pinn arrived and took
his final statement. Then he was
read the death warrant by Col. Peake.
Immediately afterward, at. about $3.50
o'clock, with the electrocution sched-
ules for 10 o'clock, he called for the
colored quartet of the jail to sing to
him. They stood outside his cell and
sang "Throw Out the Lifeline" and
"My Mothers Prayer Will Follow
Me-
Hawkins thanked the quartet and
borrowed one Of their song books and
began singing lowly, "When Morn
ing Comes"
Four minutes after the first flow Of
current was thrown into the electric
chair, Hawkins was pronounced dead
by DR.. A. j. Connolly, jail physician.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-06-14
,rIANTA UNIVERSITY, MORE
rOUsE AND SPELMAN TO HAVE
NEW LIBRARY

Word has just been receibed from
My York Of a grant of s45O,O0o from
IN General Board for the cost OF
site and for the erection Of library
for Atlanta Universityand and affiliat-
! ea colleges.
Ser more than sixty years Atlanta
Gas been an important center Of ed
location for Negroes. No other city has
had five colleges for Negroes, each
With it's own constituency but main
aiming friendly relationship and fu-
tual respect. A year ago three of these
institutions entered into an affiliation
whi,h provided that Atlanta University
should be developed as center Tor
graduate and professional courses and
that undergraduate work should be
conG rcted by Spelman College ana
Gogrhouse College.
Trio utilization itself was notable
ep in the advancement of education
n Negroes. In the three institutions
enrolled more than seven hundred
,.u, nts of collegiate rank exclusive
school. All three colleges came into the
affiliation with heritage of honest
achievement behind them. They have a
total initial plant of eighty-seven acres
of land twenty-eight buildings, and are
located in the strategic center states.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-06-14
KILLER OF SWEETHEART DIES
IN ELECTRIC CHAIR

Washington (CNS) Andrew Jack
his sweetheart, Ruth Watkins, here
on December %, 1929, died in the
electric chair at the district jail
Thursday morning at 10 o'clock for
the crime.
With show Of bravery the like Of
which never has been witnessed be-
fore by Jail attaches who hav eseen
a score or more of executions, the
slayer took the final penalty before
a small group of witnessed COM
posed of Jail guards and officials and
four newspaper men.
Hawkins literally went to his death
with a smile on his face, leaving
statemen with the Jail officials tell
ing them he "forgives all' and asks
Ito be forgiven" He walked steadily
from his cell, the first in death row."
While he was being strapped in the
chair, the Rev. James L. Pinn Of the
First Baptist Church, 1884 S Street
sang the same song Hawkins had
been singing in the cell few min
utes before, when The Morning
Comes" AS the minister sang, Haw-
kins kept time with his left hand on
the arm Of the chair and patted the
rubber carpeted floor with his bare
feet.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-06-14
GILPIN REBURIED FOLLOWING
HARLEM FUNERAL SERVICES

New York-(CNS)-Harlem did hon.
or last Sunday to Charles Gilpin, bet
eran actor who was buried May IL, al
inferred for funeral which hi.
friends considered more seemly for the
creator of the Emperor Jones" role.
The funeral rooms of Duncan Bro
theirs at 1903 Seventh Avenue were
packed with stage celebrities and out
in the street hundreds of peovle gather
ed. Oldtroupers whohad toured the
country with Gilvin and starring In
player who had brought distinction to
the race.
Gilpin's favorate hymn "Abide With
Me" was sung and its echo was taken
up by the throng gathered in the street
The last song he had bought but had
not been able to sing because his fine
barytone voice was gone was sung by
The flowers were from the Colored
Vaudeville Benevolent Association, the
Rhythm Club, the Clef Club and the
Dressing Room Club.
Gilpin's sister, Mrs. A'Lelia Brown
and his son, Paul, was present, along
with a number of relatives and friends
of the family. Burial was in Woodlawn
Cemetary. The earlier funeral services
held for Mr.. Gilpin was in the Shiloh
Baptist Church. in Trenton, and burial
was beside his mother, Mrs. Caroline
Gilpin, in Riverbiew Cemetary, Lam
bertville. The actor died on May in
the four-room cottage in Eldridge,
Park, to which he retired year ago
when he lost vioce.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-06-14
HAITIAN COMMISSION ON EDUcA-
TON SAILS

Washington-(CNS Robert r.
Motion, chairman of the Haitian Com
mission on education recently appoint.
ed by President Hoover, to make q
study Of the educational situation in
Haiti, sails on the steamship Ancon of
the Panama Railway steamship line
June 10.
DR.. Motion called at the White House
on June and announced that he had
received final instructions from Presi-
dent Hoover as to the scope Of the
work whicht he commission is to under.
take.
The other members of the commits.
sion selected by DR.. Notion to assist
him in his work are DR.. Mordecai John
son, vresident of Howard University;
Leo M. Favrot, white, field secretary
of the General Education Board, Ben
jamin F. Hubert, president of Georgia
State Industrial College at Savannah,
and DR.. w. T. B. Williams, of Tusks-
gee, Alabama.
Accompanying the commissioners are
DR.. G.. Lake lines, who has been ap-
pointed secretary to the commission;
Prof. Alphonso Henningburg. inter-
prefer; w. A. Shields, stenographer;
and Percival L. Prattis of the Associ-
ated Negro Press and Carl Murphy Of
the Baltimore Afro-American who who
will represent the press.
The commission appointed | several
months ago, found it advisable to wait
untilthe close Of school to sail for the
little Republic.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-06-14
Prof. Rayford W.LOgan
Forum Speaker

The Forum of the l. o. of St. Luke
held their regular monthly meeting
in the assembly room of the Home
Office Building, 900 St. James Street,.
A very interesting program was rem
dered after the roll call.
The Forum was honored with the
presence of the R. w. G. Secretary
Treasurer, Mrs. Maggie L. Walker,
who after few remarks presented
Mr.. C. V. Kelley who in turn intro
duced Prof. R. W. Logan in a most
eloquent manner. Prof. Logan, using
as his subject, Citizenship, point
ed out the many advantages that we
might enjoy, but fail because of the
non cooperative spirit that exists
among our race.
He also pointed in a most elo-
quent and enthusiastic manner the
benefits and privileges accorded to
our group in the fourteenth amend
ment that we are satisfied to see
Jthers enjoy.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-06-14
Cities Subdue Typhoid
Commissioner Says

Richmond, June Why hastyphoid fe
yer virtually disappeared from our large
cities DR.. Ennion G. Williams, State
question in radio talk which he just
gave.
The cities, he said, protect their pc.
ople by giving safe water and safe sew.
age disposal. This the municipalities
can do through public effort; but in ru.
raj sections projections must be secured
almost wholly from individual action
Dr.. Williams made it clear that there
must be sole reason for the great incre.
ase in typhoid during the summer mon.
this. He said that, if polluted water wa
the principal agent for spreading the
disease, there would be just as much ty.
phoid in winter as in summer. Evider
thy, therefore, the other method Of tran
smission must be to blame.
If human wastes are accessible to flies
there will always be the danger of typh.
old fever spreading. Unfortunately
there are many people who give no signs
of having typhoid but are menaces to
their neighbors. These people are call
ed carriers. They may have had typh-
old long ago or they may have such q
slight case that it was never reconized
nevertheless, they carry the gems; and
if germs frof carrier get to a person
susceptible to typhoid, that persian will
have typhoid fever.
So, the health commissioner, urged his
hearers to sanitate their homes so they
would not imperil their families and
their neighbors, and as futher and
necessary precaution he urged them to
get rid of flies or screen their houses a.
gainst flies or trap those dangerous
instcts. -....
He pointed out that the decline Of
more than ninety per cent in the typhoid
annual total of Virginia since 1908 shoy
what can be done; and he promised
that the state could confidently look
forward to a time when there would be
no typhoid, if our people would gener-
ally sanitate their premises, would see
to it that all human wastes are So dis
posed that flies can not reach the filth
and water supplies can not be polluted
by it.
DR.. Williams made big point obout
flies because this is the season when
those insects are most numerous and
most dangerous. He expressed his gra-
LITIGATION at the interest which is now
being displayed in the fight against fiji
es and urged an unremitting war again
st the pests.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-06-14
Virginia Unions
Commencement

On Wednesday June 3. 1880,
large enthusiastic CROWDS wended
their way to the Chapel OF the
Va. Union university at a P. M.
to witness the commencement ex-
ercises. the program of which may
appear elsewhere in this journal
The exercises above referred to,
reached the high water mark IN
many respects and those present
expressed their entire satisfaction
with the program.
The address delivered by Or.
Benjamin Brawley Of Shaw Uni.
versity, Raleigh, N. c., was full OF
sound advice.
The graduates in the several de-
partments of the University made
a splendid showing as they pre-
sented themselves to President, DR..
w. ]. Clark, who conferred upon
them their degrees which they
had won by their diligent applica-
ton to study. Honorary degrees
were conferred upon four persons
who had won distinction in THAR
chosen fields of activity.
At the close of the program.
President, DR.. W. J. Clark, an
nounced two very important
things.
1. That the Va. Union Univer-
sity had been given Class A rating
by the American Medical Assocla-
ton. -.
2. That the American Baptist
Home Mission Society had voted
$4,000 to Va. Union University
to enable her to close the $6O0,oeo
campaign. When these announce
ments were made, much enthusi-
asm was engendered.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-06-14
LIE, TENANT GOVERNOR YoUNGMAN
NJ MASSACHUSETTS TO WELCOME
n. A. A. c. p. in SPRINGFIELD

Springfield, Mass, June g. Lieutenant
Governor Williams s. Youngman of Mas
rhletts, viii deliver an address OF
come to the National Association for
Advancement of Colored People at
opening mass meeting of its 21st A
u.-qi Conference to be held in Spring
tiei4 ON June % through July l, it
nounced todad. Other welcome
es will be delivered in behalf
~ City of Springfield by Mayor
v;gr r. Winter; in behalf of the
yrin field Changer of Commerce by
ajor Frederick ]. Hillman; and in be-
of the SPRINGFIELD branch Of the N.
C. P. and citizens by Rev. William
JeBerry.
alter White, Acting Secretary and
roert Seligman, Director of Public
of THE N. A. A. c. P. journeyed to
'ingfield on Wednesday to confer with
lch officers and va.
> Committee. Both officers OF Il
.ociation delivered short addresses
the assembled committee of citizens
1ue L.,l-.- S lo5.a OF TIE 5. l-iab,
fie.J Chaplin National Bank and w-re
g.,el .o.d.al reception. On thel
return to New York they issued the fol-
lowing statement:
No Annual Conference in the history
II tie National Association for the Ad-
yan3ement of Colored People has been
repaired for with greater care and in
touigent than the coming 21st Annual
conference in Springfield. The lead
ne citizens in all phases of the City's
e, editors, professional fen, business
,ea rs, clergyfen, men, and women, are
on re committee, and it is being made
ter of civic pride in Springfield
10 help make the Conference a stirring
success.
Springfield is a relatively small. but
exceeding active and progressive ploce'
Its spirit of tolerance and cordial lin
terest is living thing, and the N. A. A
C. P. Conference will be not merely one
event among many, but the outstanding
event, during it's sessions"
The N. A. A. C. P. olso reports the
following list of organizations which
have been invited and have accepted
the invitation to send fraternal delegat-
es to the Springfield Conference: Ma
tiopal Urban League, National Associa-
tion Of Teachers in Colored Schools, to
be represented by Dr. Mordeccai W,
Johnson, President of Howard Univer-
sitv. American Interracial Peace Com
mittee, by Mrs. Alice Dunbar-Nelson;
Young women's Christian Association,
by Miss Clara Reed; American Mission
ary ,ssociation, and the National Coun-
sl Congregational Churches, both by
nr Fred L. Brownlee, with W. A. Dan
el. alternate; Commission On lnterrac-
,ai cooperation, by Robert B. Eleazer.
>'~tional Medical Association, National
% Bosiness League, A. M. E. Church
FEDERAL Council Of Churches OF Christ
in America.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-06-14
Police Think Baptist Auditor
Killed By Gunnlan For
Baptist Official
INDIANAPOLIS. June

INDIANAPOLIS. June 49,
The Staying two months ago of E.
D. Pierson, Sd, Chicago, auditor, OF
the National Baptist Convention
killed, police said, because he "knew
too much" about the juggling of
$4,000 fund in the Nashville, Tenn,
office of the negro organization, was
solved today.
Under arrest here were the Rev. B.
j. F. Westbrook, pastor of the largest
Negro church in Indianapolis, and
George Washington, Al, described by
police as hired Negro gunman.
At Nashville, police arrested A. M.
Townsend, reputedly one of the
wealthiest Negroes in the country,
secretary of the Baptist Sunday
school publishing board and auditor
of a Negro bank in Nashville. He was
released on $4,000 bond.
The arrests, detectives believed,
complete the investigation inc the
Staying of Pierson, who was found,
tied hand and foot and his body rid
died with bullets, where he had been
tossed into the Muscatatuck river
near Snottsburg, Ind, April 16.
Pierson was slain as he was re-
turning to Chicago from Nashville,
where he had uncovered the discrep-
ancy in the Negro Baptist conven-
ton loan fund. Townsend would have
been ruined" by the exposure, detec-
tives said, and plotted the killing to
cover it up.
Police said that Washington, who
was arrested here Wednesday, had
confessed to the Staying and said he
received $4,000 for it. He was held
strictly incommunicado at city pris-
on under $4,000 bond on vagrancy
charge until the arrest early today
of Westbrook.
Westbrook, who was acquainted
with Pierson, but denied implication
in his death, was alleged by detec-
tives to have written letter intro
ducing Washington to the the Chicago
man.
At Persons Chicago home, Wash
ington presented himself to Edward
D. Pierson, Jr., the auditors son,
who is known as a singer. Informa-
ton supplied by the son, detectives
said, led to the solution of the STAY
ing.
Young Pierson told the detectives
Washington represented himself as a
farm and owner of chain of Neg
no drug sores, saying he wanted the
auditor to work out a system of book
keeping for him. Washington then is
believed by police to have met Pier
son at Louisville, KY, and driven
north towards Indianapolis with him.
Near Scottsburg, police believe Pier
son was fatally shot and tossed into
the river. He was still alive when
found the next day, but died before
he could be pulled from the water.
Washington, detectives declared, is
q gunman of wide reputation, and is
said to be wanted at Fort Wayne,
Ind, for "shooing up" a crowded
courtroom and escaping.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-06-14
Indian Masses In Revolt
Against British Rule
1913 STUDENTS GRADUATE FROM
ATLANTA COLLEGE

Atlanta, Ga. June 6-Five Negro col
leges and a theological seminary. To-
Gated in this city, this week graduated
192 students with bachelors degrees,
and turned out in addition large num-
Der of normal and high school grad
yates. The total number enrolled in
hundred more in the preparatory
he college grades Of the several in
stitutions was 1888 and with several
grades and normal training.
The six institutions which gave At
lanta prominence as center Of Ne
gro education are Atlanta University,
Morehouse Spelman Colleges, Morris
Brown, Clark Universities, and Gam
mon Theological Seminary. The three
first named were recently affiliated
to form a single university system.
under the name Of Atlanta University.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-06-14
Sec Negroes Gain,
More Than Loss

That the'Negro in America has gained
more than he has lost in the changing
structure was the consensus of opinion
of those experts, social workers and &C.
onomists who assembled here to attend
the Annual Conference of the National
Urban League, The theme of the Con-
ference Vocational Opportunity for Ne
gro Workers-served as the magnet which
attracted large number of the leaders
of both races to what is considered to
have been the most successful confer
ence in the history of the Urban League
movement.
In addition to the representatives Of
the Urban League, which included over
fifty cities affiliated with the Urban Le-
ague movement, there were many laymen
of both races who came to participate
in the discussion of this important ques-
ton. For the first time in America
the industrial status of the Negro was
critically analysed and a graphic of his
future place in industry projected. At
the same time, stirring plea was made
for larger industrial opportunities for
Negro men and women. The general
excellency of the sessions which were
addressed by many outstanding figures
in the field of sociology and economics
can be readily seen by the following
names which grace the program;
Merdith B. Owens, Research Secretary
of the Social Science Research Council;
T. Arnold Hill, National Urban League;
Williaf Hodson, Director of the Welfare
Council, New Yory; Niles Carpenter, Pro
fessor of Economics, University of Chi
cago Settlement; Miss Marp Van Kleeck,
of the Russell Sage Foundation; Eugene
Kinckle Jones, Executive Director of the
National Urban League; Franklin Hop
per of the New York Public Librarp; L.
Hollingsworth Wood, Chairman of the
Executive Board of the National Urban
League; DR.. Sadie Alexander, Philadel-
phia; whose remarkable paper on the
Negro woman in industry held the atten-
ton of three hundred dinner guests at
the Hotel Statler. Other speakers
were Ira DeA. Reid, Director of Reserch
of the National Urban League and E. A.
Carter, Editor of OPPORTUNITY.
1t was generally conceded that the sue
cess of the conference in Buffalo was
due to the smooth working machinery
which was created and developed by
William L. Evans, Executive Secretary
of Memorial Center and Urban League
Inc. and his Executive Board. Among
the others in attendance at the confer
ence were George Arthur of the Rosen-
valid Foundation. Chicago. ILL: James
Jackson, U. S. Department of Commerce,
Gertrude Brown, Phyllis Wheatley
House, Minneapolis; Forester Wash
ington, Atlanta School of Social Work,
DR.. Monroe Work of Tuskegee Institute.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-06-14
MADLY JEALOUS MAN STAYS
HIS AFFINITY

Lexington, NC. (CNS) A promi-
nent law firm here has been retained
to conduct the defense of Lee Har-
grave, young colored youth, who is in
Jail here awaiting trial in connection
with the murder of Lille Belle Gill
more, married woman with whom
che accused is reported to have be-
come enamoured.
Hargrave slew the woman by al
mos tsevering her head with razor
after successive strokes had cut off
three fingers and inflicted other heavy
cuts here Decoration Day. The two
had been to a dance and were return
ing home in an automobile with two
other persons.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-06-14
OKLAHOMA MOB KILLS YOUNG NE.
GRO BOY

Chickasha, okla.-(CNSD-For the
third time within the last month, 9
mob of nearly 1000 men and boys shot
and stabbed to death 10 year old col
ored youth last week. Similar riotine
took place at Sherman and Honey
Grove, Texas, while at the former place
the county Jail was burned.
Henry Argo, the lynched man was
charged with attacking white woman
A bullet fired by an unidentified mem
Der of the mob, pierced the brain OF
the boy as he was sitting Gagged in his
cell. AS the boy was being removed to
a hospital in nearby city, the hus'
band of the alleged attacked woman
stabbed him through the heart.
National gaurdmen were on the scene
but could do little with the mob which
cut the light and telephone wires and
fired at the guards several times. NO
harm was done to other colored people
of the town.