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Enterprise News Bureau)

PRISE NEWS DuItduJ
PARIS, France. = White beggars
abound in South Africa and a humid
red thousand whites live in the ut
most filth, poverty, and degradation
in or near johannesburg, city of
gold, in order that color line may
exist for the exploitation of the
blacks, says Max Mascot, staff cor
respondent of lie Journal of Paris,
who has been writing a series of
articles on South Afica.
South Africa labor conditions as
portrayed by M. Mascot bear a strik-
ing resemblance to those that existed
in the South before the Civil War
conditions that forced the poor
whites out of the South in large
numbers into the Middle West, be-
cause they were helpless against the
competition of slave labor. History
is merely repeating itself, for the
blacks in the South African mines as
M. Mascot reveals are slaves in all
but name.
cone hundred thousand whites. or
q tenth of the Europeans. inhabiting
this Eldorado, says NJ. Massot, ARE
the prey of a perpetual absence of
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Binga State Bank
Pays First Dividend

CHICAGO.-After a wait of more
than thirteen months, the hearts of
some 1000 depositors in the defunct
Binga State bank, whose savings and
commercial accounts were tied up
when the bank was ordered closed
by the State bank examiners last
July, will be gladdened this month
when the receiver for the bank will
issue checks for the first dividend
in the liquidation of the bank. The
receiver, Edward H. Morris last week
sought and received a court order
for the declaration of a dividend of
approximately twelve and one-ha1f
percent, to be paid to depositors as
the first installment on their saw
ings. The total amount available
for the first dividend is reported to
be approximately $144,000, raised
through the rigid collection of loans,
notes and interest owing the bank,
plus such deposits as were on hand
at the time of the closing. The Of
flee force of the receiver are at pres
ent making out checks which will be
mailed to reach depositors about
September 18th.
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One Hundred thousand Beggars Live
Amid Poverty In South Africa

employment which degrades them.
They live on private aims and semi
official doles, which the masters al
low them through fear. declare
that there is not another city in the
world where the well-dressed stroller
is so much 'pan-nandled' as in johann
nesburg, the capital of gold. In full
daylight these ragged whites follow
you like shadow and recite to you
their woes in the two national Ian
guages.
why, you viii ask, are these mis-
cradle whites, citizens of the South
African Union, not sent to replace
the Portuguese Negroes in the gold
mines?
UNFOLDING Racial Statues
Because the upholding of the ra-
cial statues, of racial dignity and
prestige, of racial segregation, de-
mands that a Negroes wage be not
offered to a white man. In such a
case no wage at all is considered bet
ter than little. Both the employers
band the degraded whites are agreed
on this Therefore a hundred thous-
and whites continue and will con-
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THOUSANDS AT
BISHOP GAINES
FUNERAL RITES


BALTIMORE, Md.-With bishops
of the A. M. +. Church gathered to
ray last homage to their deceased
coworker, with $50 pastors of all de-
nominations present, and a church
packed to capacity. the funeral serv-
ices of Bishop A. l.. Gaines was held
from Bethel A. NJ. f. Church, Tues
day morning.
A number, estimated at 100 min
listers of the Baltimore district, which
was headed by Bishop Gaines, at
tended and formed two lines outside
the church. headed by the attending
bishops, through the center of which
the coffin was borne. Large delega-
tions from the Methodist Episcopal
and Baptist churches were also pres
emit and stood in the lines of honor.
More than 1000 persons unable to
gain admittance stood outside the
church.
Bishops Attend
Bishops who attended were: w.
Decker Johnson, S. l.. Green. J. A.
Gregg, w Sampson Brooks, M. II.
Davis, X. A. Grant Reverdy C. Ram
som. w. A. Fountain, W. T. Vernon.
and ranking members of the general
board: DR. A. J. Wilson. DIR. J. G.
Robinson, and Dir. John r. Hawkins.
Masons' Services
Bishop Gaines died at his resi-
dence, 1922 McCulloh Street, Friday
after a brief illness. He is survived
by his wife, Mrs. Minnie Gaines, and
three children. Burial was in Mt.
Zion Cemetery. Members of the Ma
sons, jurisdiction of Maryland, had
charge of the services at the ceme-
terry under the direction of Willard
w. Allen, grand master, assisted by
Irving w. TAYLOR, grand master of
Masons, jurisdiction of Virginia, Of
which Bishop Gaines was grand
chaplain.
Bishop Gaines was SIS years old.
He was born in Washington, Ca,
May 8, 1866 He was elected bishop
of the A. M. +. Church Nav 10.
1924, At the time of his death he
presided over the diocese of Balti-
more, Washington, Virginia and
North Carolina.
Bishop Heard Selected
Following the funeral, the bishops
met and selected Bishop w. Fl. Heard
Of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Vir-
ginia District to take over the work
Of Bishop Gaines until the 1892 Gem
eral Conference Bishop Heard as
sumed charge Immediately.
The passing of Bishop Gaines
makes the fourth prelate of the At
riean Methodist Episcopal church to
die since the last general conference
in Chicago in 1923. Preceding his
death was that of Bishop Archibald
James Carey, Chicago, who succeed
ed Bishop Gaines to the Chicago Dis
trict. Bishops John Hurst and J. AL
bert johnson are the other two
whose vacancies must be filled at the
next general conference in 1882.
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Belief That Harlem All Negro Community
is Wrong; Many Races Reside In Area

and after settling here a while many
of them built up prosperous bust
nesses. Today many of them own
their own stores and drive about in
motor cars.
The newcomers in Harlem are
principally Porto Ricans, Porto Riean
Negroes and Filipinos. They are not
under the immigration quote law and
they are arriving IN ever increasing
numbers, swelling the Negro popula-
tion and giving it impetus. As a
result Of this invasion there have
been intermittent clashes between
them and other races. These new
arrivals have settled south Of 1926
Street in the side streets between
Fifth and Seventh Avenues. The
Porto Rican Negroes are strongly in
trenched in the neighborhood Of
Madison and Fifth Avenues between
117th and 1i9 Streets. They are
distinctly of a Spanish type and a
study of their shops shows their
Spanish origin. The signs above
shop doors are in Spanish, the books
exhibited in store windows are in
that language, and the food served
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HISTORIC NEGRO
CAVALRY UNIT
TO END SERVICE

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The War
Departments denial of plans to sus-
pend all promotions and new APP
pointments until further notice and
its intention to abolish any of the
present four colored United States
Army regiments contained in its or
der of June 26 marked mot for
press release" in an answer to a
query of the N. A. A. c. p, seems
unquestionably contradicted in its
more recent order, dated August 20,
1891, and furore is being created
among colored army men every.
where by the same.
New Order Is Issued
The order of August 20, which ap-
pears in the Army and Navy Journal
just released, directs the breaking
up of the Twelfth Calvary regiment
stationed at Fort Hauchuca, Arizona.
Detachments are to be scattered to
Fort beavenworth and Fort Riley,
Kansas, Fort Myers, Va, and West
Point, as well, taking all the men,
bers of the cavalry's band and dis
tributing them to the bands of the
9th Cavalry, and oath and 25th In
CONTINUED on Page Two.)
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BLACK SULTAN
ISSENSATION In
PARIS, FRANCE

PARASITIC sensation of the mo-
ment is the visit of the young Sultan
of Morocco, Sid Mohammed, direct
descendant of Mohamet. with his
famous black bodyguard and his
band of fifty pieces, dressed in red
zouave costume.
Band and bodyguard are darker in
color than the average colored
American, while most of his entour-
age are mulattoes.
The Sultan himself is of NEGRO
descent, being a scion of the Awilet
dynasty, whose founder, Mulai Is
mail, was the son of Negro slave
mother and whose father was a dark
mulatto. In Morocco as in Ancient
Egypt Negro strain of greater or
less intensity has always run in the
veins of the rulers. An uncle of his.
brother of the last Sultan, was coal
black.
Sid Mohammed was entertained
by President Doumer, and other high
French dignitaries, and feted at the
Colonial Exposition. Recently he was
received at the Town Hall by the
city authorities, and was escorted
from the Hotel Crlon in great pomp
by the National Guard. Immense
crowds lined the way from the hotel
to the square of the City Hall to see
the dark-skinned monarch.
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HIGH TENSION
/. i'm ALABAMA
WHITE REPORTS

NEW YORK CITY.-"A state of
tension exists in Alabama which
might easily turn into disastrous race
conflict, and the only measure that
will avert such disaster is exceed
ingly great wisdom and hard COM
mon sense"
That was the comment of Walter
White, secretary of the National AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement of
Colored People, who has just re.
turned to this city from Alabama.
end who is giving the Negro press q
vivid picture of the present situa-
ton there.
Mr.. White finds that in Alabama
this tension is due to two circum-
stances. The first of these is the
avalanche of threats against the life
of the governor of Alabama and of
other officials which have been dis
patched to him from points safely
away from Alabama.
The second is a series of crimes
which have raised the already tense
situation to point where during the
past two weeks one of the most
bloody conflicts of recent years was
threatened. After a Negro allegedly
shot and killed two white women who
were on their way home from a pic
ture show in Birmingham, the whites
are prepared for a great race war.
Communist propaganda will not be
useful to the eight bows who face
death in Scottsboro, Mr.. White be.
lieves.
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enterprise News Bureau)


NEW YORK.=There is popular
misconception due to careles writer's
that Harlem is almost entirely pop
ulated by eolored persons. They
have unconsciously given the impress
sion that this old-time section of the
city has gone completely colored.
Although Harlem has a colored pom
ulation close to 100000, other races
and nationalities likewise have large
representations
For instance, on the east side of
Harlem in uptown Little Italy It is
conseryatively estimated that there
are more than 10000 members Of
that nationality The Jews have al
ways been strong there. If anything
they surpass the Italians in numbers
Besides the Negroes, Jews and ital-
ians there are colonies of Russians,
Firms and Swedes, and mixed races.
Come From West Indies
Before the World War there was
a large exodus of Negroes from the
British West Indies to Harlem. They
came to this Promised Land in
steamer after steamer. These Ne
groes are well educated and clever
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KLUXERS STIR
UP TROUBLEIN
JACKSONVILLE

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.-Assertions
that the colored people of Jackson
vile have organized to take over the
city government from the whites and
install one of "Tony's Bootblacks as
Mayor" are said to be without foun-
dation and have caused both races
much concern.
This is fair sample of rumors al
legged to have originated in the fertile
brain of local Klan leader, who has
almost starved to death the last sew
eral years while irving to find an
tissue" to bolster his declining or
ganization.
There is no unrest in Jackson
vile; no organization movement I'M
friendly to the white people; and
there will be none if scheming white
politicians will mind their own bust
ness" says one announcement of
leaders this week.
"a public enemy is any man who
would seek to ferment distrust and
hatred among the members of either
race against the other. There is no
law too severe to deal with his
case -
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NO COLORED ON
HOOVER'S JOB
COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, d. C.-President
Herbert Hoover has announced the
names of sixty white persons to
serve as members of the Unemploy-
ment Relief Organization to advise
with the President of the United
States with regard to unemployment.
A communication has been sent to
the President and to Chairman Wal
ter Clifford, white, by DR.. Emmett j.
Scott, who served during the World
War as advisor to the Secretary of
War. DR.. Scott urged that, since
during the War Period, the services
of all citizens were very definitely
enlisted in all activities which af-
fected them, SO they should be en-
listed in peace time.
The letter says, in part:
an connection with the committee
just appointed to serve in an advis-
DRY relationship to yourself on UNI
employment relief, no colored or
ganization is represented. This, be-
lieve, is mistake. There are some
twelve million colored people in the
United States. From the standpoint
of unemployment, they probably feel
the pressure throughout the North
and South sooner than other groups,
In fact, it is common saying that
the colored is the last hired and the
first fired Although the colored
population Of the United States is
only 1876 of the total, it is rather
reliably reported that one-sixth of
the whole number of the unemployed
is composed of colored workers.
81 therefore hope that attention
will be given to the suggestion OF
utilizing the advice and services of
some of the outstanding colored men
and colored organizations of the
United States. | am sure that such
action on your part will be heartily
appreciated by this large group of
our American citizenship who un-
fortunately are likely to feel that
their interests are not likely to be
very specifically regarded during
this period of national depression. y
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Civil LIBERTIES COMMISSION ASKS
COMMITTEE TO LOOK TO INTERESTS
Truxton, Virginia, Is
Thriving Negro Town

TRuXTON, Va. This town, Is
miles from Norfolk, is a thriving al
colored community established by
the government for colored Navy
Yard workers in 1916. The present
residents purchased it from the Unit
ed States at very low price.
After the place was secured it was
subdivided, bungalows built on each
lot and completely furnished, AT
first policemen. collectors and post
office employees were white, but
they have been replaced with an
entire colored force.
Truxton boasts building and loan
associations, stores, schools and play
grounds. Teachers, lawyers and
preachers represent the professional
residents with generous number of
mechanics.
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Tenth U. S. CAL VARY TO BE DISBANDED
Interstate Commission
investigates Complaints

MOBILE Ala. - The Interstate
Commerce Commission will receive
and consider any formal complaint
regarding persons being denied sleep
ing car Accommodations in the South
solely because of color when they are
interstate passengers.
This was the statement of Score.
tary Gimby, of the commission to
j. l.. LeFlore, secretary of the Mo-
bile branch of the N.AA.C.P., in cor
respondence started by the branch.
The branch may present test case
at an early date.
The Mobile branch also has taken
up with the Mobile and Ohio Rail
road the question of furnishing bet
ter coach Accommodations. The rail
road has assured the branch that
coach facilities for both white and
colored passengers were being i'm.
proved.
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''The White Band" New
ku Klux Organization

BAYONNE, N. J. - Rev. A. NJ.
Young, white minister of Bayonne,
N. j., gives US the information that
he is the founder of 1.-The White
Band" The organization has for it's
principal aim the stamping out of in
terracial marriages, and putting an
end to social mingling between
Negro and white workers.
The organization will receive a
charter from the state of New Jersey
and launched as an American insti-
tuition by New Jerseys best people.
In this case, as in all other the So
called best people.
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Elder Robinson Fails
To Rise From The Dead

NEW YORK.-The late Elder War
rem Robinson, self-imposed Cod of
nationwide religious cult, who
promised his followers that he would
arise from the dead at the expira-
ton of go days, disappointed his fol
lowers here last week.
Robinson was secretly buried in
Woodlawn Cemetery June %, three
days after his death at his home on
St Nicholas Avenue. Despite his
failure to redeem his promise" il
is understood that his followers plan
to keep the cult together under the
influence of the dead founder.
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- -
ELKS REFLECT
FINLEY WILSON
EXALTED RULER

PHILADELPHIA. Pa.-Praise for
j. Finley Wilson and the work he
has accomplished for the order as
grand exalted ruler followed his ad-
dress to the convention which ended
their annual grand lodge sessions
here Saturday.
Under n temporary suspension of
the rules and by reclamation. the
delegates reelected j. Finley Wilson.
Washington newspaper publisher. as
grand exalted ruler of the order.
and, with him Joseph Il. Kelley. of
Birmingham. as grand secretary, and
VIM. h. Hueston as commissioner OF
education, Magistrate Edward w.
Henry, only colored member of
Philadelphia minor Judiciary, elect
ed grand treasurer. Dir. Shelley II.
George, Padaeuh. Ky. grand es-
teemed leading knight; Roy S. Bond.
Baltimore, grand esteemed loyal
knight; Edward w. Simmons, New
York. grand esteemed lecturng
Continued on Page Two)
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ARMY Department ORDER ISSUED
ABOLISHING FAMOUS FIGHTING UNIT
Rich Senator Defends
Civil Rights Bill

DETROIT, Mich.-Senator Charles
Roxborough left here this week for
series of addresses in counties
which contain sections of Negro vot-
ers. His object is to inform them
concerning the members of the ju-
dietary committee of the house of
representatives who aided in destroy
ing the Roxborough civil rights
measure at the last session of the
legislature.
Roxborough's bill, introduced into
the senate with the object of
strengthening the present law, passed
through the upper body without a
dissenting vote. When it was sent
to the lower house, it was referred
to the judiciary committee from
which it was never reported.
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Free Girl Hecklers
Who Bothered DePriesI

CHICAGO.-Two white girls who
were sentenced to work out 800
fines for disorderly conduct after
disturbing a meeting of the MA.
C.P. here where Congressman Oscar
DePriest and William Pickens were
the principal speakers, were freed
last week when they promised to
Quit the Young Communist League.
A third girl was freed when Judge
Joseph B. Davis decided she had
violated no law.
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COLORED WHITE
CLAIM BODY OF
WEALTHY CUBAN

WILMINGTON, Dela.-Louis Con-
Cubans in the U. s., was killed here
last week and Sinclair Williams, al
legged SLAYER, is being sought.
Gonzales died five minutes after
he was taken to the hospital. His
body was claimed by coored wom-
an and a white girl who said they
were married to him but were not
able to prove it. The body was turned
over to a brother. He had been
stabbed eight times.
George Northan. of 405 Rodman
Street, was cut last week on the
face and neck and was treated at
the Delaware Hospital Police are
seeking Reese Smith, of 81 East
Sixth Street, his alleged assailant.
Almost all of the disturbances and
cutting is done in the Sixth and
Poplar Streets district, which is con-
sidered one of the worst sections of
the city.
There is tent church on the
corner and the crowds congregate
around there, some to see the fun,
Others to create a disturbance. The
public safety department has made
a ruling that the tent will have to
close promptly at ten o'clock every
night, including Sunday.
Superintendent of Public Safety
George Black blamed recent stab
bling cases among colored residents
of the city, on idleness and bad
liquor. The liquor, he said, incites
those who drink it and makes them
uncomfortable and irresponsible.
During the past week twelve stab
bling affrays have been reported to
local police
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Skaggs Trial Date Is
Set For September IS

NORFOLK, Va. - Date for the
trial of Mrs. Dorothy Skagg, white,
of Portsmouth, under indictment for
perjury for the testimony she gave
in the Harper Case" once set for
September 1, was changed to Sept
ember Is, by Judge R. T. Wilson,
sitting in Corporation Court No. l
for Judge William Fl. Sergeant, last
Wednesday.
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After Losing Job
State Employee Arrested

OLYMPIA.-George Moore, for
two years, an employee in the State
License Department, is held in the
city jail on a charge of lewd con-
duct with Mrs. Gladys Barker, white,
also former employee in the license
department. Moore was arrested
last week on complaint of relatives
of Mrs. Barker's husband from
whom she is seeking a divorce. Both
Moore and Mrs. Barker lost their
jobs in the license department when
the charges became known.
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Progress Exposition
Is Held In Detroit

DETROIT.-0pening with a So
float parade that traversed a five
mile course lined with cheering cit
izens, the first race progress exposi-
ton was held at the Masonic audi
torium here last week,
The exposition uildin g was
iammed with persons inspecting the
rs booths displaying food, health and
household appliances. A popularity
contest, cake walking and pie eat
ing contests were among some of the
features which eliminated with the
crownine Of ''Miss Detroit" on Fri
day night.
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Paper Is Sued For SIS, 900

NEW ORLEANS, La. The New
Orleans Clothing Store has filed suit
against the Louisiana Weekly of this
city for $4,000, charging libel. The
Weekly, it is said, printed stories re-
garding numerous dissatisfied Gus
toners and quarrels which are said
to have resulted from the stores
policies.
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Bishop Held For Theft

MONTGOMERY. AIa.-Bishop So
crates 0'Neil, self-styled prophet
lecturer, has been arrested for theft.
Bishop 0'Neil has created a great
deal of attention in Alabama because
he preached against miseegenation
and favored a separate development
of the colored and white races.
In a recent public sermon he con-
demned newspapers, Reds, and Con-
gresham Oscar DePriest in the same
breath.
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u. S. Takes Virgin
Islanders Back Home

SANTIAGO, Cuba. - Aboard the
United States transport Kittery,
which left here Thursday, were ESQ
destitute Virgin Islanders and Porto
Ricans who are being repatriated by
the United States Government.
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Negro Democrats
Organize League

WASHINGTON. = The National
Negro Democratic Voters League
has been established here in prepara-
ton for the 1882 presidential cam
paign. DR.. F. o. Willisteen of Sails
bury, Md, president of the organiza-
ton, and James Fl. Howard of this
city, secretary-Treasurer
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