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Two Youths Arrested
For Murder OF Lawyer

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Two colored
youths, George Mcfarland, 10, 4243
w st. Ferdinand avenue and Angus
tus Brooks 18, his friend, 2410 Whit
tier street, were indicted Thursday
afternoon by the Grand Jury and
charged with first degree murder in
the death of Attorney Homer G.
Phillips. The parents of Mcfarland,
who had been arrested, were not
held.
The two youths were arrested af-
ter detectives learned that the Nc
Farland family had been represented
by Phillips in litigation over the
$4,000 estate of young McFarland's
grandfather. Phillips obtained the
estate for the family, over a wom-
ans counter claim, but the family
objected to his fee which it is under
stood was about $1,000. A white
man, Abner Parker, 1928 Fountain
avenue, testified he was within 10
feet of Phillips at the time and saw
the shots which killed the lawyer.
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White Soldier Of Revolutionary War Drank
Negro Sweetheart's Blood When Married

had Negro blood in her, and Butler
was full-blooded white man.
Hid in the Home of His Sweetheart
Butler remained at the home of
his sweetheart in an unfrequented
part OF the country, and cultivated
the small farm where he lived--iso-
lated and ignored, an alien enemy,
a fugitive hiding under a Negroes
roof. He finally conceived and i'm
mediately acted upon a plan to
thwart the law, which forbade him
marrying the woman he loved.
In those times the Letting of
blood was regarded almost as a
panacea in the treatment of all bodl-
~ ailments. The mulatto girl was,
for some physical disorder. bled by a
surgeon.
Her sympathizing lover was at
hand during the operation, and to
the astonishment Of the surgeon, de-
liberately drank an appreciate por-
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COURT
RULES IN FAVOR
OF GRAND LODGE

ASHEVILLE, N. C. Reversing
the decision of Federal Judge d.
Lawrence Groner made in Richmond
last year. the Fourth Circuit Court
of Appeals made permanent an in
junction sought by the Improved
Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks of the World, of which Finley
Wilson is the grand exalted ruler,
preventing the use of that name by
a Virginia grand lodge of Elks, last
week.
The decision is victory for J..
Finley Wilson, Perry w. Howard,
William C. Hueston, T. G. Nutter
and George E. C. Hayes. present Of
ficers of the order, against the Vir-
ginia corporation and DR.. Leon A.
Reid, James T. Carter, John B. Neb-
lett, named as defendants in the
original suit.
Organized Grand Lodge
The case started two years ago
when James c. Carter of Richmond,
formerly grand treasurer; George E,
Rates, former grand secretary, to-
gether with Leon Reid and John
Shivers organized state body which
they set up as the Improved Bene-
voicuI AloleCIiNe OTuer Oh GikS OF
the World.
Grand Exalted Ruler Wilson and
his associates Immediately went into
court and asked that an injunction
be granted preventing the Virginia
body from using the name. A tenn
porary restraining order was signed
by Judge Northeutt,s but when the
case came up before Judge Groner,
he refused to make the order perma-
nent, ruling that the name had be-
come public property. The decision
last week, given by Federal Judge
John j. Parker, reversed this deci-
sion and made the injunction per-
manent.
Had the decision of Judge Groner
been upheld, it is said. it was the
purpose of the leaders of the Nir-
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Pierson Murder Case Is
Reported As Dismissed

acknowledgements dispatch
to this city from DIR. A. M. Townsend
indicates that the Pierson murder
case has been withdrawn from the
docket with leave to reinstate. 1t
is stated that reported action has the
effect of freeing all those charged
with the crime.
This will mean that DIR. Townsend,
chairman of the Sunday School Pub
fishing Board of the National Bap-
list Convention, will now be free to
leave the state of Tennessee to which
he was restricted by virtue of his in
dictment in connection with the ease.
Ii is also reported that Dir. J. +.
Westbrooks, indianapolis pastor, also
indicted as one of the parties to the
staying, set in motion forces to free
himself and that DIR. Townsend and
George Washington, held as the real
murderers, were freed in process.
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Honors Black Heroes

BOSTON, Mass.-Memorial serv-
ices in honor of Peter Salem and
Salem Poor, who fought In the Re
evolutionary War. were fittingly OBJ
served Wednesday afternoon at the
Bunker Hill monument. The affair
hundred persons.
The exercises were conducted by
the National Equal Rights League,
assisted by other patriotic associa-
tions. Albert G. Wolfe, president of
the Boston branch of the National
Equal Rights League, presided and
paid glowing tribute to the men who
fought in the battle of Bunker Hill.
Peter Salem, before he died in the
battle, shot and killed British
major.
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NEGRO INCREASE
in ME M P HIS
EXCEED WHITES

WASHINGTON, d. C.-The col.
ored population of Memphis, Tenn,
shows 3 per cent larger growth
from 1920 to 1880 than that of the
whites, according to figures lust re.
leased by the Bureau of Census.
The population of the four Ten
nessee cities of 100000 or more in
habitants announced this week by
the bureau of the census. as returned
IN the 1880 census, shows that Men,
phis, with total population of 1884,
143, has 96,550 colored; Nashville,
with total population of 1886,
has 42,S36 colored; Chattanooga,
with 119,708 inhabitants, has 1929
colored, and Knoxville. with 105, 1902,
has 1908 colored persons.
In Memphis during the last dec
ade, 1920 to 1880, the white popu-
lation increased 55,415, or 54.8 per
cent; while the colored population
increased 34,369, or 57.8 per cent.
I'm Nashville the white population in
creased 2S,322, while the colored
population increased only 1908, or
20.2 per cent.
In Chattanooga the white popula-
ton increased 1874, or 1918 per
cent, and the colored population a.
400, or 1872 per cent. In Knoxville
the white population increased o.
1874, or 51.2 per cent, and the col
ored population 500, or 1874 per
cent.
The colored population 81 years
of age and older in Memphis is 65.-
453; in Nashville, 27,672; in Chatta-
nooga, 20,818, and in Knoxville, TO-
SD.
As the total increase of the col
ored population in Tennessee was
only 25,888 persons. or 81 per cent,
the increase of 1,763 shown in the
four principal cities indicates greater
drift from the small cities and rural
districts of the state than from 1910
to 1920, when the state showed a
decrease of 1880 in its colored
population. while three of these cit
les, Memphis. Knoxville and Chatta-
nooga, increased respectively $40,
1864 and 947 in Negro population.
Nashville, in the same period, showed
loss of 500 colored inhabitants,
dropping from 36,523 to 1888.
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DENY REPORT
WHITES CONTROL
NATIONAL ms. co.

WASHINGTON. - by Wire) -
The Associated Negro Press reports
that the National Benefit Life In
surance Company, through unwise
Investments in the Standard Life
Company of Atlanta, had become
financially impaired, and is now con-
trolled by white group independent
Of and superior to the directors,
were emphatically denied by the
newly-elected president. John T.
Fisher, Tuesday.
The A. N. P. release named AL
fred Dawson, white, consulting ac-0
tuary of the company, who commit
ted suicide Sunday, and the Guar
anty Trust Company of New York.
as sharing in this super control.
Mr.. Fisher said:
Dawson did not control the situa-
ton. | can tell you with absolute sim
cerity that the rumor that the COM
pany is owned by white interests is
untrue. This comany is not owned
by any white interests. The A. N. P.
statements are very unfair.
st isn't the attitude of the pres
ent directors to hide anything. We
are making an exhaustive examina-
IlOH Ol The CoinpdHys anu we dIe
very hopeful that the various ru-
mors that have gone out can salts
factorily be answered. This board of
directors has nothing to conceal or
to hide.
"The rumor has been out for some
time, that the company is controlled
by white interests, but the whole
thing is distorted"
President Fisher said that the
company was formerly under the
control of a voting trust. dominated
bv the two Rutherfords and Morti-
ner Smith, all Of whom recently re-
signed.
s'But," he said, 81 am frank in
telling you that we are going to at
tack that"
President Fisher said that he was
surprised to learn that stock in the
voting trust had been sold recently
with the understanding that the pur-
chaser was buying stock in the Ma
tional Benefit. The company, he
said. has had no stock to sell since
1927.
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BAN AGAINST
NEGRO LAWYERS
TO Be REMOVED

NEW WORCESTERSHIRE New
York, New Jersey and Connecticut
branch of the Federal Association of
LAWYERS threatened to secede from
the National organization at a meet
ing here Monday night unless IL is
permitted to retain as members four
eolored lawyers barred from affilia-
ton under the constitution of the as
ISOLATION.
Two of the four Negroes are
Francis X. Giles, an assistant United
States attorney in the eastern New
York district. and Hubert T. De-
laney, an assistant United States at
torney in the Southern District of
New York.
A severance from the association
seemed inevitable for the branch.
whose members include present and
past attorneys in Federal service, of
Ulcers OF It's metropolitan area
branch asserted as the meeting
adopted resolution to notify the
national association that it would
De glad TO continue affiliation il
1t can retain its disputed members.
While those present at the meet
ing appeared to be overwhelmingly
~ iaFpi VI tne action, discussion OF
its policy heightened a brief bust
ness meeting into an hour and a half
of debate. Two months ago the ma
tional organization with headouart-
ers in Washington, wrote a letter
to the branch here giving notice that
under the rules membership was
open only to white persons of good
moral character"
The feeling responsible for the
ultlmatum,' as it was referred to.
is said to have been aroused at din
ner of the national organization two
years ago, when representatives of
Southern branches noticed with some
surprise few Negroes were present.
1t was to settle a difference of
opinion that the local Association
acted yesterday after a committee
headed by Peter A. Abeles, special
attorney fer the Customs Division
of the Department of Justice, re-
ported that public Motley does not
permit us to subscribe to the limited
membership provisions laid down by
the national association Mr.. Ables
said his committee did not believe
that the great majority Of the local
group would have joined had they
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Insurgents Lose IN Fight
TOSPLIT ELK GRAND LODGE
New Trial Denied
Scottsboro BOYS

SC0TTSB0R0, Ala.-Motion for
a new trial for the eight boys con-
demned to die for alleged rape upon
two white girls cumming their way
in box car, was denied here Tues
day.
Attorneys for the International
Labor Defense Immediately filed no.
tice of appeal which will automati-
cally stay execution. That organiza-
ton also announced that it would
carry its fight to the highest court
of the land in its effort to save the
lives of the boys.
To Stage Denomination
Plans for a large demonstration to
be held in Harlem and other Sec
lions of the country, Saturday, are
being made, it was also announced.
international demonstrations will be
staged in Europe, it was said.
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Deny Photograph Requirement For Civil
Service Is Subterfuge To Bar Negroes

The commission has also contend
ed that discrimination against APP
plicants on account of color could not
be stopped by abolishing the use Of
photographs. II points to the regu-
lations which give appointing Of
ficers the right to return eertifica-
lions and ask for new Qualifications.
Each eertifieatlon has three names
on II.
Probation
After an appointing officer has
made a selection. the employee IS
given probationary appointment
and may be dismissed az the end OF
his six months probationary period.
The procedure Is also being followed
now of having eligibles report to Of
ficers In the field for physical in
spectlon Is almost infallible as a
means Of racial Identification.
There have been cases in the Fed
eral service where appointees have
been discovered to be colored only
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Raps Young Reds

PHILADELPHIA, Pa u d e
MacNeille spoke the following words
to Anna Lynn, 21year-old eolored
girl:
you are only child. You are a
poor, foolish little girl. When you
get older, you will get more sense.
You are just Il baby crying for the
MOON"
Miss Lynn and two others. Adolph
Lewis and Raymond George, botn
colored, members of the Communist
Labor Union Workers and the Coun-
Gil of the Unemployed, were charged
with attempting to halt an eviction
for non-payment of rent, last month
She was placed ON probation for
six months, Lewis for two years, and
and George received a suspended
sentence.
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STATES THREATEN TO
SECEDE FROM LAW ORGANIZATION
Colored Boy Shares
Estate of White Lawyer

Los ANGELES, Cal.-By a will
filed by the late Byron Mar b | Q,
white, prominent Los Angeles attor-
ney linell French, 33, will receive
one-third of his large estate.
The Marble family reared French
from the time he was II years of
age. He served in the World War
and returned to live in a bungalow
adjoining the Marble property.
OF French the will says:
"He has been like son To myself
and my dear wife"
Another third of the Marble es-
tate was divided between two sisters.
brother, and several nieces and
nephews. The last third went to
relatives of the deceased Mrs. Mar
BILE,
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(Enterprise News Bureau)

RALEIGH, N. C.-(By Joseph
SewelD Joseph Butler (white), a
member of. Cornwallis's army. was
severely wounded in the battle of
Guilford, March Is, 1871.
In CORVALLIS retreat toward Eas-
tern North Carolina Butler became
straggler and was lost from the
English army. He was succored by
a free mulatto woman, who hid him
in her home until the surrender Of
the English army the following 0c-
tober.
During Buffers confinement he
was faithfully nursed by the daugh-
ter of his benefaetoress, who was
nearly white, and there grew be-
tween them mutual affection. 1t
was Buffers ardent desire to marry
the young woman, and he was great
" distressed upon realizing that, I'M
der the laws of North Carolina, to
wed the woman was impossible-she
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OHIO PROFESSOR
FIRED BECAUSE
OF MIXED DANCE

COLUMBUS, O.-The secret is
out. The reason Professor Adolphus
Miller. white, of Ohio State Univer-
sity is out of a job today is because
his sociology class visited Wilber-
force University frat houses and
danced there.
Whispered rumors about white CO.
eds from Ohio State University dane
ing with Negro men in Wilberforce
University fraternity houses during
field trip" to the Xenia school
were public property today.
DR.. Herbert A. Miller, white. re-
Gently busted Ohio State sociology
professor. related details of the trip
while being questioned by the house
of representative colleges and uni
versities committee last night.
After the Ohio State men and
women had discussed academic prob
lens with the Negro students. "in
little groups of four or five. they
made a tour of the campus" DIR.
Miller said.
"Some one led the way to fra
ternity house and before long the
white girls were dancing with the
Negro boys" he added
Our Ohio State girls said they
liked to dance with the Negro boys
because they danced so much better
than their own male companions.
"Since most of the students were
FL years of age or older. | didn't
interfere. although didn't approve"
DR.. Miller, whose liberal views on
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Orders Negroes To Bed

LAKE VILLAGE, Ark.-An ordi-
nance requiring every colored citi-
zen of this town to be off the streets
after twelve O'Clock at night has
been passed by the City Council
here.
Under the law none but whites
may hold parties, entertainments
or church services after the 1900
O'Clock hour. AS a result many of
the citizens are preparing to leave.
A hand bill protesting against the
Dixie law has been distributed on
the streets here.
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NATIONAL NEGRO
BUSINESS LEAGUE
IN ANNUAL MEET


NEW YORK.-The thirty-seeond
annual session of the National Ne
gro Business League was called to
order for a four-day session. Sunday
at Mount Zion A. NJ. T., church bv
the president, DR.. r. r. Motion Of
Tuskegee, Ala. Hundreds of dele
gates were present from every Sec
ton of the country. Many outstand-
ing leaders were ON the program to
speak including DR.. Carter G. Wood
son, noted historian of Washington.
VIM. l.. Butler. editor of the Pro-
gressiVe Grocer; Edward l.. Gerish
of the u. S. Department Of Com
meree, and Kenneth Collins, adver-
Using manager of r. FL. Macy e Co.
Trips to the Westinghouse Light
ing institute, the Educational Insti.
tute of the General Food Corp. and
the Peoples Model Grocery stores in
Harlem were important.
The Negro Institutional Buyers
Conference and the meeting of rep
resentatives Of the Housewives Lea
que were important features on the
program.
Hoover Sends Greetings
President Hoover sent the follow
ing telegram to the convention from
the White House.
Ny Dear Mr.. Holsey.
! should ike TO extend to the men,
hers of the National Negro Business
League my greetings and good
wishes for the success of its annual
convention in New York, June 21st
to oath. Courage and confidence on
the part of the business enterprises
Of our country are major factor in
readjustment to current economic
conditions. | hope that the delibera-
tions Of your League may contribute
their part toward this result.
Herbert Hoover.
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1873 Per cent Increase
In Jersey Population

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The col
ored population of New Jersey in
creased 1873 per cent between 1880
and 1880, while the population in
creased only 26.1 per cent. the CEN
sus bureau announced this week.
The total population of New Jer-
sey on April /. 1880, was 4,041, 1874,
comprising 2.030,644 males and O.
010,690 females. or 101 males per
100 females. There were in the
state on that date 1880, 209 white
persons, 208,S28 Negroes and 1897
of other races.
The total number of this latter
group comprises 545 Mexieans, 213
Indians. 1888 Chinese. 439 Japanese.
286 Filipinos, 10 Hindus and 70
Koreans.
In 1929 there were 3.037,087
white persons, 117,132 Negroes and
1851 of other races.
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fEnterprise News Bureau)

~ iSt NEWS DuiihAY
WASHINGTON. ID. C.-The re-
quirement of photographs from ap-
plicants for Federal positions will
not be discontinued by the Civil
Service Commission when it begins
July l the policy of fingerprintfng
them.
There will be no change in policy
respecting the submission of photo
graphs, but after July / the finger
print records will become a part Of
a Federal employees record with his
or her photograph and the result Of
the character examination and men
tai test.
Subterfuge
The requirement Of photographs
from applicants has been regarded
by colored persons as subterfuge
for keeping them out of the civil
service. The commission takes a diff
ferent view. II has regarded photo
graphs as the most practicable means
of Identification OF applicants.
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COLORED GIRL
CLAIMS ESTATE
OF JEWISH DAD

CHARLESTON, w. Va.--Charles-
ton was honored with having a Me-
gro-Jewish girl stop over for a short
visit on her way to New York to be
IN court for the reading of her faith
ers will.
Miss p w. Strathe is from Geor-
gia. Her mother is dead but did not
fail to leave on record the fact that
the father of her child was a wealthy
Jew in New York. As the only off
spring, she is entitled to her portion
of the estate. she was wired by her
fathers attorney.
Miss Strathe never saw nor knew
her father, but was supported by his
monthly allowance.
She is a sweet girl graduate from
Georgia college and represents an
idealistic type of Negro. Miss Stra-
the has received letters from her
father addressed to her as "Dear
Daughter" and in return she wrote
to him as "Dear Daddy
Wilmer says she remembers how
good her father was to her mother
as far as sending finances was con-
cerned. Her mother worked but did
not have to. She banked her earn
ings for their future after her 21st
birth anniversary, when she expected
no allowance for her illegitimate
child, even though she had the prom,
Use that the allowance would go on
until death. She has been advised to
follow the advice of of her fathers
lawyer and she is hoping that he
will advise the sale of her portion
to other members of his family.
She cares nothing for publicity nor
chickering's, so she is willing to accept
their price, for her heart is i'm the
southland and there she hopes to
return.
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Insurance Heads
Arrested In Chicago


CHICAGO.-Harry H. Pace, presi-
dent: Wilson Lovett, treasurer, and
W. Ellis Stewart, secretary of the
Supreme Liberty Life Insurance
Company, were placed under arrest
here Tuesday night on charges of
larceny.
The arrest, it is said, was at the
instance of white lawyer, repre-
senting woman client in Oklahoma,
who claims that the company Off
cials refused to return to her $780,
600 worth of oil stocks which she had
traded for $4,000 worth of shares
in the insurance company. ''.Te's s
1t is understood that the officials,
who were released under $4,000
bond, would file suit against the
woman for false arrest.
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Eddie Savoy To Retire
From Government Job

WASHINGTON. - A personal
chapter of American diplomacy, six
ty-two years in the writing, has end
ed. Eddie" Savoy handed Secre-
tary Stimson his hat for the last
time Friday.
Presidents, potentates and diplo-
mats have been ushered into the sec
rotary of states office by the sew
enty-six year old Negro messenger
since Grants administration. ED
die entered the state department
as a page to Hamilton Fish, secretary
of state in 1869.
He will retire from government
service in August while Secretary
Stimson is still in Europe.
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Jim Crow Signs
Violate Nebraska Law

NEW YORK.--Signs Inscribed
mo colored patronage wanted" have
been held violation of state law in
Nebraska, by Attorney General So
rensen. who rendered his opinion in
legal letter to II. G. Price of the
legal redress committee, Omaha
branch of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People,
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Pullman Takes Back Porters

NEW YORK.-Approximately 200
Pullman porters were recalled to
service today, by order of District
Superintendent ]. Bryce. This num-
Der includes all men who were fur
Laughed in the New York district.