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Alabama Senator S
Daughter Is Fond
OF Harlem Whoopee

NEW YORK, Feb. 1f.--While the
white newspapers are playing up the
recent visit of Representative Oscar
DePriest and his wife to the White
House as guests at the Hoover recep-
ton, daughter of one of Alabama's
Senator's, recently returning from
England where she gained fame as an
actress, is whooping it up in the
night clubs of Harlem.
Her companions are composed of
members of both races with decid-
ed preference for colored.>
The attractive actress is Tullulah
Bankhead; daughter of Senator John
H. Bankhead of Alabama, well known
for his opposition to Negro political
and social development.
While in England, Miss Bankhead
met several persons of color from the
United States and on her return she
renewed this acquaintance, in appar-
ent open defiance of the policies of
her father.
She appeared on the stage in New
York, prior to her European trip. Re-
Gently Miss Bankhead has been a
frequent visitor to Harlem where she
has appeared in public places in the
company of cultured, refined and
highly educated Negro men.
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C0LORED CONGRESSMAN ADVISES
AGAINST DOLE. CH|DES SOUTH
Mound Bayou Seeks Aid
For Drought Sufferers

WASHINGTON, ID. ca plea for
aid for drought sufferers in the vi
entity of Mound Bayou, Miss, was
made to President Hoover by Eugene
P. Booze last Wednesday.
Mr.. Booze called at the White
House and discussed with the Presi-
dent the matter of relief through the
American Red Cross and government
tai agencies for colony of Negro
farmers at Mound Bayou.
According to Mr.. Booze, not only
has Mound Bayou, but the entire del
ia district of Mississippi has been
severely stricken by drought since
last August. Conditions are steadi-
ly becoming worse due to the inabil-
ity of farmers to meet their obliga-
tions and many of them are losing
valuable farm lands as bank in the
neighboring cities foreclose on their
property.
Food, clothing, medicine and medi-
cal aid are needed to care for the
people through the winter and early
spring, he says.
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Colored Attorney Is
Illinois Law Ace

CHICAGO.-The unique position
of being recognized as the most pro-
ficient interpreter of various statutes
of the state is the distinction which
is borne by Edward Wilson, who for
more than twenty years has been a
star member of the states attorneys
staff in Cook County.
His ability was again given at
tention recently when Edward Lit
singer, white banker, asked the states
attorney to prosecute Mrs. Myrtle
Blackledge, white, collector of inter-
nal revenue. because of the loss of
$4,000 which she borrowed from
him and lost in gambling game.
The matter was given to Wilson,
who ruled that the charge or rob-
berry was the only valid one and that
jurisdiction lay in the Springfield
courts, where the money was lost. al
though it was borrowed in Chicago.
The law-enforcing agencies of the
county recently upheld Wilson's in
depreciation of the state law as it
relates to the prosecution of crimi-
mails, and new law conforming with
his opinion is being drafted for pre-
sentation to the state legislature.
He is one of the highest salaried
men in the states attorneys office,
being reported to receive $1,000 per
annum.
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FIpinos Create
New Race Problem
In Naval Academy

ANNAPOLIS, Fe b. los e.
cial. "A new kind of race war has
developed here ut the u. s. Naval
Academy. The trouble is between
Filipino enlisted men and colored
walters employed in Bancroft Mess
Hall to serve the Filipinos There
were two fights last week which re-
suited in two walters being beaten
when attacked by a group of Fill
pinos. Two Filipinos are in the guard
house.
Another outbreak occurred Satur-
day when p. Rey, enlisted Filipino
knocked Irving James, colored pam
try employee. unconscious.
Racial Status
The trouble, it seems, has grown
out of the fact that Filipinos, who
refuse to accept the racial status
and discrimination generally meted
out to Negro citizens, have develop
ed complex which keeps them at
odds with white and colored in the
community.
Many of the enlisted islanders pass
their time among whites while on
the other hand many of them prefer
the brown-skinned associates in the
community, especially the brown
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Dep REST Helps
Reject Senate
Relief Proviiso

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. .
Especially Opposition to the dole
system as a means of affording re-
lief to the drought stricken and the
unemployed was asserted by Repre-
sentative Oscar DePriest. Republican,
of Illinois, while the House last Fri
day had under consideration the Sem
ate amendment to the Interior De-
partment appropriation bill providing
relief fund of $25, 100000 for dis
tribution through the Red Cross.
It was Mr.. DePriest's third speech
in the House and he talked for just
three minutes.
Explaining how C h icago under
takes to care for it's poor, Mr.. De-
Priest went on record as favoring
each locality and State caring for its
own distressed people without asking
"for public funds to make mendi-
cants out Of the American people,"
The remarks of Mr.. DePriest were
as follows:
| heard my friend Representative
Elliott w. Sproul, Republican,, the
gentleman from Illinois, q while ago
accused Of not being sympathetic be-
cause he was not one of the poor
people. God knows that | cannot have
the same accusation made against me.
come from the poorest of the poor.
My mother and father were slaves in
the territory that some gentlemen
here control ~ Alabama SO that l
sympathize with the downtrodden
and the privileged people.
Charity Organization
In our great city of Chicago, realiz-
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Billy Rex, Colored Barber In Springfield
Was Greatest Confidant OF Abe Lincoln
enterprise News Bureau)

Abraham Lincoln, the lonely and
tragic figure whose strength saved
the Union from destruction, is hon.
ored by the nation today, on this
the anniversary of his birth. Many
stories of Lincoln are being re-
called, many anecdotes told. The
story of BILLY the Barber one of
Lincoln's few confidants, is told
here by Bruce Cation, Enterprise
News Service writer-The Editor.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Feb. IA
gaunt, raw-boned figure pulled his
homespun coat more closely around
his neck to shut out the biting chill
of an early Illinois morning, as
his eyes searched warily for game.
He snuggled the rifle closer in the
crook of his arm.
Suddenly from the underground
appeared the tousled head of a
Negro as a twig snatched off his
coonskin cap, and he started in
surprise at the nearness of his fell
low hunter.
The meeting might have been just
an incident, but out of 1t grew a
lasting friendship between the col
ored youth and the man who was
later to set free the Negroes race.
Historians Quote Him
One was Abraham Lincoln. The
other was William de Fleurville.
known in the Springfield of that
day as BILLY the Barber" or just
plain BILLY Rex" who was destined
TO be called by historians probably
the greatest confidant Of the Great
Emaneipator.
Lincoln prevailed upon Billy to
go back to the Tavern at New Sal
EN-, where he then was living
Learning that Billy was barber,
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RebelEous Elks
Open Court Fight
In Charlotte,

WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. o.
Argument in the case of the |. B. P.
0. Elks of the World against the Vir-
ginia Grand Lodge, in which the for
mer is seeking to prevent the latter
from using the name of the order,
will be heard in the u. S. Circuit
Court of Appeals in Charlotte, N. c.,
next Wednesday.
The court action was started some
time ago when the Virginia Grand
Lodge withdrew from the parent body
and set up a jurisdiction of its own.
South Injunction
The Improved Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks of the World
sought an injunction in the United
States Court at Richmond, Va, to re-
strain the use of its name. Federal
Judge d. Lawrence Groner refused
to grant a permanent injunction. An
appeal was taken to the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals.
The appellees, James T. Carter,
DR.. Leon A. Reid, Joseph r. Pollard
and John B. Neblett repeat their con-
tention in their brief in the case
on appeal.
Their counsel, Carter, Pollard and
w. W. Foreman. say: 1--WE think il
there ever was shown case where a
name had become public property by
being in common use then the numer-
Gus instances in which the name in
question here is shown to have been
in use in various sections. of this
county for more than 40 years pre-
sents that case in the most striking
way that can be imagined, and, in
the light of the above authorities
show how thoroughly warranted was
the decision of Judge Groner that 'it'
(the name) has thus become by aban-
donment more or less common prop
ertv.'"
The attorneys for the Improved
Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks, Perry W. Howard, George E. C.
Hayes, T. ellis Nutter and William
C. Hueston, insist that Judge Groner
erred in his decision and contend that
Carter, DR.. Reid, Pollard and Neblet
are estopped from questioning the
right of the grand lodge to the use
of its name under the pretense of be-
ing authorized to do so by the Vir-
ginia State Association, a subordinate
branch of the grand lodge because
they are and have been members of
the grand lodge for number of
years and Carter was for 5 years the
grand treasurer.
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Whites Threaten
Mob Violence To
Get Jobs On Farms

CHARLESTOWN. No, Feb. H.
Hundreds of colored tenant farmers
and their families are threatened
with being driven from their homes
under pains of mob violence il they
do not vacate their tenant holdings
on the vast plantations in southeast
ern Missouri. by the return of whites
who left the farms several years ago
to work in the industrial cities, who
are returning in large numbers. driv-
en- back to the plantations by unem-
ployment and starvation.
According to reliable reports, doz-
ems of colored tenant farmers have
received anonymous threats that un-
less they and their families vacate
the farms and move out of the coun-
ties quickly, they will be shot down
or burned out by the lawless whites
who are demanding that they be re-
stored to the tenancies. The plan
tation owners have declared them
selves powerless to protect their col
ored tenants in the face of the threat
of violence from the hungry, jobless
poor whites.
Eighteen Ousted
On the huge Isaac Cook plantation
of 1900 acres, managed by man
named Roland, eighteen Negro fam
lilies have been forced to move since
January 1 and ten more have been
told to get out or suffer the conse-
quences. They have been threaten
ed with bodily harm.
In Huntersville and Grays Ridge.
Mo-, the Negroes have been ordered
to move with more threats of vio-
lence. They have been told that their
houses and churches would be burned
down if they did not get out.
In Stark county, twenty-six miles
from this place, Negro school was
burned down and threats were made
that the Negro homes would go next.
Blocked Red Gross Aid
It is reliably reported here that
Roland, manager of the Cook plan
tation has blocked the aid of the
Red Cross to Negro families, telling
the Red Cross that Negroes did not
need any help. The Negroes are re-
ported to be in great suffering, but
are unable to draw relief from the
Red Cross.
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FILIPIN0S AT TACK COL ORED WATERS
DePrieSt Make< I bird Speech In,COn9reSS
Black Shock Brigade
Features Demonstration

NEW YORK CITY.-(C.N.A.) =
A big feature of the City Hall DEM
onstration here for immediate relief
to the unemployed was big truck.
loaded full of leaflets and a shock
brigade of Negro workers, and COW
cred with slogans of the hunger
marchers. The two largest slogans
were, Immediate Relief of the I'm
Employed" and Death to Lynchers.
The truck parad e d the streets
around the city hall, followed by the
cheers of $4,000 demonstrators.
Among the delegation elected to
present the demands of the workers
to the Mayor was Richard B. Moore,
president of the Harlem Tenants
League. He bitterly flayed the city
administration for it's part in the evic-
ton of unemployed Negro workers.
He demanded free rent for all I'M
employed workers, Negro and white,
and $15-25 per week to all I'M
employed.
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adjectives and the author and pro-
ducers were so flattered that they
actually believed that they were
authorities on Negro religion.
This was because the Harlem liter
ate did not know anything about
the religion of the deep South
themselves, but rather than reveal
their ignorance they climbed upon
the band wagon and blew their
horns.
Whoever heard. she demands, Of
colored persons heaven pictured
as that in Green Pictures" where
an angel with wings walks around
with dust broom and mop and
cleans off the boss's desk? II there
is anything that is not In the Negro s
conception of heaven. II IL work.
This tx the white mans idea
of heaven palmed off to perpetuate
the belief that the Negroes status
even in eternity Will be that OF a
mental.
There Is nothing so common
place as fish fry In the Negro
heaven, she said. There are gold
en- slippers, long white robes, pearly
gates and harps.
The Negroes heaven Is a great
big SHINY place that glitters and
dazzles the eyes.
AS long as the leaders sit sub
timely down and applaud the white
mans versions of what he would
like Negroes to be, this exploita-
ton will continue. The critics of
the race must stop publishing these
phoney limitations and demand the
real thing.
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Too Much Pampering Of White Writers
Who Give False Impressions Of Negro


NEW YORK. - Self appointed
leaders of the race and members Of
Harlem's supposed intelligentsia are
blamed by Miss Fora Neal Hurston,
brilliant young writer. for the flood
of cheap plays and literature CIV
ing false Impressions of Negro life
that have become the rage In recent
years.
Oh. no. they did not write these
travesties on truth, says Miss Hurs-
ton, who seriously doubts their
ability to create such splendid lies.
but they place their stamp of APP
proyal on all the trash of talented
but Negro-ignorant white authors
and playwrights who do, and herein
lies their crime.
Whenever a hungry Nordic is sud
denly bitten by Negrophobia and
sets out to scribble a true" pic
ture of his darker brother at 80
much per word, he just takes his
brain child to such people as James
Weldon Johnson, DR.. w. f.. b. Du
Bots, Charles s. Johnson and others
and submits II for their approval,
which is generally forthcoming.
This gives open sesame to the
publishers because If Negro ap-
proves IL, 1t must be good.
The truth is, contends Miss Hur-
ston the Negro leaders who cham
pion the Negroes cause at so much
per camp don't know the Negro
themselves. This was evidenced in
the profuse and lavish praise that
attended the success OF THE Green
Pastures. Supposed leaders rushed
TO print with waste basket full OF
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Threaten Bad Eggs
When Minister
Attends Revival

RlDGELY. Nd, Fob. Threats
of rotten eggs and epithets of ID
Niger" greeted the Rev. w. II.
Johns. pastor of Replanted Zion NJ.
f.. Church. when he attended special
revival being conducted at white
church here Sunday. = q -
The Rev. Johns. il Is said, was the
first colored man to have attended
the church.
Having heard that the revival was
creating much interest and that il
was being conducted by well known
white evangelist from PENNSYLVANIA,
the Rev. Mr.. Johns decided TO visit
the service. Although he took a seat
in the rear of the building, the at
tention of the audience Immediately
shifted from the sermon of the evan
gelist to him.
lie remained, however, for most of
the service, and as he left il was
found that more than forty members
who had knowledge of his being pres
ent had refused to enter the build
ing and worship God in the presence
of a dark skinned minister of the
gospel.
Monday one of the officials of the
white church called upon the mnitser
and upbraided him for having attend
ed the service. He frankly told him
he was not wanted and that he was
the first "nigger" to have crossed the
door sills of the edifice. "lf you had
remained LONGER" he said, "you
would have been rotten egged.'
The pastor of the church is said
to be broadminded white minister,
and he has been severely criticised
for having preached in the pulpit of
a Negro church. Rigeley is in Caro-
line County.
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FEUD BETWEEN RACES RESULTS y
IN CLASH AT NAVAL ACADEMY
Pullman Car PiIferer
Not To Be Prosecuted

MEMPHIS. Tenn. - Walter Ma
hone, who rode to fame last August
as the sole passenger of Pullman
car he had ordered for run from
here to st. Louis. is being held at
Jonesboro. Arkansas. but is not to be
prosecuted for his royal ride at the
railroads expense.
Malone fell into the tolls of the
law Monday because of bad check
charge. but railroad officials are at a
loss for a charge to prefer against
him on account of the ride.
The poser called the |. C. Off
cials. claiming to be the assistant
superintendent, and asked for Pull
man to be attached to Train 1876. The
order was carried out and a porter
appeared and took charge. He alight-
ed before the car stopped in st. Louis.
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Job Scandal In
Chicago Hits
Major Patterson

CHICAGO, Feb. 10. The graft
and corruption probes which have al
ready involved Bishop A. J. Carey
and Judge William H. Harrison, en-
meshed another last week when Ma
ior Adam +. Patterson, politician and
lawyer, faced disbarment proceedings
for accepting a salary in the sani-
tary district office without perform
ing any work.
Major Patterson was on the district
nayroll from September, 1927, until
November, 1928, and admitted that
during all that time he was never
given any work to do nor called upon
to act in his official capacity.
Reported Daily
Major Patterson stated that fol-
lowing his appointment he reported
daily for the first five or six. weeks
and insisted that he be given some
thing to do.
"After four or five MONTHS" no
said, 81 began to feel that was being
Disseminated against on account of
my color. But when | complained to
the department heads was told not
to be too impatient" He received all
told $4,000 for his supposed services
with the district.
Major Patterson has held other
public offices, having been assistant
corporation consul from 1928 to
1927. He is being tried before Judge
Taylor, sitting as a commissioner of
the Supreme Court. His decision as
to whether Patterson is to be dis
barred on the evidence will be final.
Bishop A. ]. Carey, who has had
his trial postponed from time to time,
is still under indictment for fraud.
Judge Harrison is under indictment
for bribery.
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Southwest States
Peeved at Influx
OF Mexiicans

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Feb. o
The consideration of measures to linn
it migration of Mexicans into the
southwestern states indicates that that
section of the country is very much
peeved by the color line.
John C. Box (Dem., Texas read
in the House last Friday. statement
from various southerners and organ
2ations which indicated dissatisfac-
ton with present conditions.
Mexicans are accused of breeding
more rapidly than Americans, of suf-
fering from tubercular and venereal
diseases, of carrying lice and bed
bugs.
In 10 states of the southwest
where Mexicans live in large num-
bers, il is said, 1,157 reports show
MeNicans and whites attending the
same schools while l48 reports show
that the two races attend separate
schools.
Cora Campbell. white public
school teacher in Houston, Texas, was
reported as saying:
Look Negroid
"Some of our Mexican children
look decidedly Negroid, but we can
not prove it and so cannot send
them to the colored schools where
they probably belong. They are very
dirty
Questions Serious
Max r. Webb, white, retail mer-
chant in Miami. Ariz., reports that,
Mexican and whites attend the same
schools which is most disgusting. The
Mexicans have now boycotted our
new theatre because the manager
has given them separate section.
| II Il wasn't for our strict police de-
partment, the race question would be
serious"
To the committee, 429 instances of
intermarriage between whites and
MeNieans were reported in states.
There we're 250 reports of inter-
marriage between Negroes and Mex
leans in II states.
The report continues:
Mixing Races
mo other alien people entering
America have freer channels for
blood mixture through intermar-
riage than do these Mexicans with
whom black and white races inter-
marry to a limited extent.
| II must be kept IN mind that the
humber classes of the Mexicans are
basicaliy Indians. many of whom
have a strain Of Negro blood derived
from black slaves carried to Mexico
from Africa and the West Indies.
Blood Strains
MANY Of them have a considerable
strain of Caucasian blood of Spanish
and other stock sufficient to increase
the number of intermarriages be-
tween them and Observation-Disclosures
while their Indian and limited amount
Of African blood facilitates marriage
between them and Negroes.
"Such a situation will make the
blood OF all three races flow black
and forth between them in a dis
tressing process Of congratulations"
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League Measure
Would Curb U. S.
Power In Liberia

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. Ii
What is regarded in diplomatic cir
cles as an international movement
to curb the development Of an Amer
lean financial hold on the rubber
industry in Liberia, cropped out in
a project introduced in the League
of Nations, Saturday.
The United States Government
was invited to join eight powers in
an effort to crush slavery in the Re-
public through a participation in a
loan for this purpose.
Adopted Unanimously
The proposal, which was adopted
unanimously, was made by August
Zaleski, Polish foreign minister, and
provides for the creation of COM
mission composed of members repre-
senting Germany, Britain, France,
Italy, Spain, Venezuela, Poland, the
United States and Liberia, which
would organize state administra-
ton in Monrovia to prevent further
slavery and otherwise protect the ma
tives.
Since the ascendency of the Fire
stone Company in the republic, Lii
IBERIA has been somewhat under the
wing of the u. S. Government. That
other nations looked upon this grow
ing control of the rubber industry in
Africa askance, is known in all dip
lomatic headquarters.
While the recent report of the
commission to investigate slavery in
the republic gave the Firestone Com
nanv a clean bill of health. it is gem
orally known that the manner of OBJ
tanning labor by this concern was
through. native leaders who forced
some of the laborers to work.
The Polish minister also set forth
that his proposal would halt slave
trading with adjacent French, Span
ish and British colonies. 1t is pro-
posed to finance a new loan of from
S10,0O0,O00 to $20,000,000 to estab-
lish stable government, to drive out
grafters and the slave raiders re-
sponsible for the present conditions.
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Arkansas Seeking
Jim Crow Buses

LITTLE ROCK.-A "Jim Crow"
law for buses was introduced into
the Arkansas legislature, Monday.
The bill provides that bus compan-
les must segregate members of the
two races while they are riding. 1t
also proposed partitions in the buses
similarly to those now provided in
Jim Crow" railroad passenger
coaches.