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Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1932-11-01

Dear Editor:
Please allow space in your paper to say few words
about Spring Valley Lodge No. 453 We trying to make
Lodge good successful with the help of the Lord
On October 49, the following program rendered. The
president made encouraging remarks in behalf Of the
Order whcn enjoyed by ALL The sermon was delivered
by G. Gordon whose text He that beleveth and
he baptized shall be saved" It treated beautifully
he portrayed the life of David after which small collection
of $44O was raised Let all Afros join with Cousin Tom
heart hand make his efforts what they would be-
RICH WILLIAMS, President,
MARY R. SMITH, Reporter.
LOTTIE Kicker, Secretary.
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1932-11-01
Box 127
Holly Bluff, Miss,
October rs, 1881

Dear Editor:
Please allow space in your Courier say word about
Lodge No. SGT. We few in number but trying
Ito go We lost from rank Brother Perry Oayborn
sorry lose him. but it is Heavens gain and
loss He was good broad hearted man and srove to do
what ne could for everyone. He is survived by q
wife, three sons sisters and brothers and number
of friends his loss October 10 Mrs Clayborn
ceivcd $500 check from Brother Clayborns policy for
the time he was an Afro He lived for something and he
died for something.
We trust that God will bless our leader Prof Hud-
dleston and DR.. Miller.
EMMA GRUDER, f. 81
c. ]. CHAPMAN, President,
JIMMIE BLA I'm, Trsas1rer.
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1932-11-01


kfhe M are usually Settled with at this
,keason or ad here is his farming industry which
NUT be looked Then know that he has much bus
Illness to be looked after not only private way for him
self but there great business of the AfroAmerican
Sons Daughters upon his hands, which is indeed mani
moth business for our folks.
The entire jurisdiction is in sympathy with him and
Drawing for his early recovery that he may take his place
gan family and in the jurisdiction Of the AfroAmer
icar Sons Daughters We need him. the of hope and
cheer get back his feet that he may cheer
the and file of the AroAmerican Sons Daughters to
nober heights and endurance that they break through
this depression without the organization taking ater
ing step
None can do this like Custodian for he alone
that which will strengthen the morale of those of
who becoming weary and Of the depression
which is upon
However, if the many friends and sympathizers Of
Custodian would encourage and strengthen his heart
tre best do that by remaining loyal and true
to the ideals of the great organization which he founded
some few years ago. This will speak louder than words to
he lays upon his bed with reflections of the loyalty
devotion of the many thousands of constituents whom
led into the organization by his untiring energy and
ice
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1932-11-01
Keirns, Miss.


Dear Editor:
Please allow space in the Courier for Lodge No.
1885, We few in numbers but trying to hold up the
trail of the dust for hope that the Lord will bless
leader for he is God sent The Lord has spared
our DR.. Miller for he has treated many of members
May God bless Afro family.
Yours in L. T. j.
WILLIE MAE BROWN FS.
Marks, Miss,
November 8, 1881
Dear Editor:
Please allow space in the paper to say word for the
Rose Bud Lodge No. 1884, We few in number since the
depression has been but times getting better and each
member is working to build our Lodge up
Prof l. E. Edwards with the 18th Of October
had local program Thanks to Lambert Lodge for the
help they gave After the program Prof Edwards
Jus very encouraging remarks and five members
ladded-then the feast Afros until death.
BROTHER H. N BUTTS, Pres,
BROTHER BEN LONGINETTE, r. S.,
BROTHER B. F. WHITE, F. S.
Pleasant Green Lodge No 329:
The following is the Of old members who have
been the job for time and have kept the faith Of
this Order Hattie Miles, France Brownder Robert Alice
Martha and Eliza Robinson and w. K. Robinson.
W. x ROBINSON, r s., Lodge $40
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1932-11-01
Daughters

my gratitude and humble thanks to the
& Daughters Hospital Force for their
eteous services that were given me during
hg i'll with lumbago.
hl thanks to DR.. L. T. Miller and the nurses
Treatment given me which enabled me to
dreadful disease l am,
or and credit do give to the Supreme Gus
dleston, the founder Of this Organization.
e guided by his fertile brain, gift of God
service to mankind and his race.
am your brother,
CHARLIE ANDERSON, Camp 4s2.
Iveland, Miss.
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1932-11-01
Portland, Ark, Nov. 8, 1881.

Dear Editor:
Allow space to say something about my lodge No
1875 We getting along fine and have elected and in
stalled officers On the goth of October had member
ship drive with Supreme Inspector Prof E. Edwards
local program rendered by the F. S. follows Wei
come by Mrs Teretha Allen; Solo, Miss Lille Mae Robinson
remarks Rev. Williams in behalf of the Order; remarks,
Mrs. Indiana Dobbs in behalf of the Hospital Our inspect
made wonderful lecture and members added
membership will say to all the Afros if they want
pep Lodges send Supreme Inspector and he
Wy give them chance to ride. :.
Yours for the Order,
SARAH JONES' Pr1dent
GeRHEtIA KING. etary.
Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1932-11-01

i. Huddleston, is
- because we know
Il Of The home to be inactive
year. We know that Prof.
N projects to look after and for
are usually Settled with at this
Evening star., 1932-08-25

New Zealand's exports show SUBJ
stantial increase over last year.
Evening star., 1932-08-25
RY WALTER TRuMBuLL.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
AHnrxrr N0RK AiIn1irt OE IN a N Z

Special Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK, August Is (N.AN.A).-
Wilton Lackaye, one OF the foremost
figures of the American stage and one
of the great wits Of our time, was buried
Yesterday from st. Malachi's, the ac-
tors church. The pews were packed
I with those whose names have known
the transitory glory of electric lights.
Lackaye was a strong character who
| had friends and enemies. His wit was
as bright as sunshine on a mirror, and
! often as piercing as surgeons scalpel
De Wolf Hopper, Gene Buck and others
sitting around a table at the Lambs
Club today, that club which has known
Lackaye so long, talked OF him and told
many a story of him, stories which Gene
| Buck says will be told to generations
vet to come.
A Virginia Irishman. Lackaye was an
ardent admirer of Robert Emmett and
| was reputed to have an unquenchable
| antipathy to the English. AS a matter
| Of fact, his scorn was only for those
Britishers who came to this country To
make money and who, during long stays
criticized everything American.
once, returning from abroad, he was
in the club, saying how much he had
enjoyed his stay in London. A British
actor, of whom he always had been in
tolerant. approached him and inquired
sarcastically whether Mr.. Lackaye had
really discovered anything in England
not found in America. He said politely
that he had.
"And what might it be?" asked the
actor
"Englishmen," said Wilton Lackaye.
An Onion Brings Tears.
Once, when putting on a Lambs
Gan,bol, Lackaye asked Gene Buck for
suggestions and the latter said he
thought 1t might be well to get David
Warfield to do his old character from
the Webber and Fileds purlesque before
he played the Music Master" Lackaye
assented, but Warfield was unwilling
"I can't do that old comic stuff" he
said. "Since then, I have learned tc
make 'ern cry"
Evening star., 1932-08-25
LION LACKAYE'S KEEN WIT
SURVIVES DISTINGUISHED ACTOR
Many Stories Told of Noted Virginia Irish
mans Ready Tongue and His Popu-
larity Of-Stage as Well as On.

can onion can make 'em cry" retorted
Lackaye but there isn't vegetable IN
the world that can make 'ern laugh"
Charles Hawtrey had revived "A Mes
sage From Mars" in London, and Lack
ave was sitting in his dressing room
when a titled Englishman entered and
began to rave about the show.
Charlie, old boy" he blurbed, cts a
glorious performance. BY Jovel I ac-
tually have seen it four times What do
you think of that, Mr.. Lackaye?"
IT can understand your lordship's en-
thusiasm," commented Lackaye, but In
America, If We don't get 1t the f1rts time,
we give 1t up"
Gave His Address.
Iackaye had once agreed to speak at
dinner given by some sort Of drama
league, but had stipulated he must
leave at a quarter of eight, to reach
the theater The dinner was late IN
starting and long in continuing. When
the toastmaster rose to introduce
Lackaye there was little time left. But
the toastmaster was not going to let
the occasion pass without getting In
his own speech. He talked interminably,
while the minutes fled and the guests
refrained with difficulty from following
Wilton Lackaye now will give you his
address,"
MY address," said the disgusted
Iackaye, ''is 1913 West Forty-fourth
street." and walked out.
At another big dinner a bishop rep
resented the church and Lackaye the
theatrical profession. The bishop, in
his speech, said that he found nothing
wrong with the theater, although he
never went there.
You have heard the bishop" said
Lackaye. He has nothing on me. I
find nothing wrong with the church.
although" But laughter drowned
the rest. AS a matter of truth, Lackaye
was educated for the church, but be-
came an actor.
Other Lackaye Stories
When asked once whether he was
going to produce Lies Miserables" he
Evening star., 1932-08-25

replied he couldn't even get . man
ager to pronounce it.
Entering the Lambs Club one day.
he said that he had seen an unusual
thing. An actor had dropped dead In
front of the Claridge and the under
taker called to remove the body had
refused, on the ground that the actor
was mot the type"
Losing a cuff link in the club,
Lackaye put up sign which read,
'Lost-One gold cuff link. Will buy
or SELL"
These and a thousand other stories
are told of him. Often his wit was
bitter, but he had another side. When
the first wounded came back from
overseas Gene Buck took all who could
leave the hospitals and. by automobile
and ambulance, transported them to
shows which were running on Broad
way. Then he took them to the
Lambs-7,00o wounded boys. first and
last-and made all the famous stars
don aprons and serve them food.
After that had been done, Gene
would rap on the table and say, "A
little order, please" Then. he would
call on John Mccormack, George
Cohan, Willie Collier, David Warf1eld
all the greatest performers OF America
to entertain them. He made generals
and statesmen speak for them and
always his introduction was the same
"Give the kid a chance" 1t became
byword and later Texas Guinar
Evening star., 1932-08-25
EXPLORER is DROWNED
SEEKING ARCTIC AIR BASE
n. G. Watkins, Holder Of Geo.
graphic Medal, Loses Life
When Kayak Turns Over.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANGMAGSALIK, Greenland, August
25.-H. G. Watkins, the man who
rescued Augustine Courtauld from the
Greenland ice cap In May last year,
was killed yesterday when his kayak,
q one-man Eskimo canoe, upset In the
sea.
He was leading a British expedition
investigating possible sites for an air
base to serve an Arctic route between
England and Canada. Details OF the
accident were not available.
Although he was only rs years old,
Watkins had established himself as a
distinguished explorer and had won the
Royal Geographic Society medal. Short
ly before he set out on his expedition he
became engaged to marry Miss Margaret
Rose Graham.
The kayak Is a difficult craft to op-
crate. This expedition had several
made especially and the members went
into training to learn how to navigate
them.
Evening star., 1932-08-25

set parade yesterday for the first time
this season.
The large parade ground at Camp
Pollard could iuyt barely accommodate
the long line of khaki-clad troops
with companies closed into the distances
Of four PAGES apart.
The Marine Brigade Is the largest
The first OF the inter-bettalion bass
ball games for the Spalding Trophy
took place yesterday. the 1st Bat
TALON Of the Goth Marines defeating the
End Battalion Of the 23rd Marines, 10.
to-3, in a well played game.
Evening star., 1932-08-25
HAIR CURLED WITH MUD

CHICAGO, August Is P)-The old
Assyrians used to have nifty way Of
getting a hair wave, the American Cos
meticians' Association was told by
Charles Kutil.
They wound their hair on sticks and
plastered on mud to set the wave. When
the mud dried they knocked 1t on,
leaving their hair in tight coils.
Look at the bas-reliefs and munu-
ments OF that fierce race In Asia, he
said, "all the men have curled boards
and hair"
Evening star., 1932-08-25
picked It up and transposed it to
"Give the little girl a hand"

picked It up and transposed 1t to
"Give the little girl a. hand"
After the war they gave dinner to
Gene Buck. Speakers on the platform
were Irwin Cobb. Patrick Francis Muir
ply, John Drew, Gen. Summerall.
Admiral Plunkett and many more.
Willie Collier was toastmaster. Angus
tuB Thomas made the speech present.
ing Gene Buck with q silver set Of
$50 pieces.
They hadn't asked wilton Lackaye
to speak Nobody ever knew what he
might say. But he rose from his place
at a floor table and made the only
speech the Lambs ever have had
printed. He said that there must be
something in a. club which would de-
velop in q singer of slang and writer
of follies the efficiency of swab and
the heart of Sister of Charity.
"The day will come" he concluded,
"when this dinner will be forgotten,
this silver become tarnished; when
Gene Buck will be called before the
great Stage Manager and asked for an
accounting. Then $4,000 wounded SOL
diers will step from the ranks and say,
as in one voice, "A little order, please.
Give the kid a chance"
And, for all his sharpness Of tongue,
that. too. was Wilton Lackaye.
(Copyright. 1882 by. the North American
Newspaper Alliance, 1nc)
New zealands exports show q SUBJ
stantial increase over last year.
Evening star., 1932-08-25
Marine RESERVES
HONOR COL. MEADE
Sixth Brigade Stages First Sunset
Parade for Commander at
Camp Pollard.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CAMP POLLARD. VIRGINIA BEACH,
August 25.-In honor Of Col. J. j.
Meade, officer in charge Of the Marine
Corps Reserve. the 9Th Marine Reserve
Brigade encamped here presented sun
Evening star., 1932-08-25

Because an American film shows how
two men are shot by means Of q device
attached to a radio receiving set the
picture has been barred by the City
Council Of Kent, England
Evening star., 1932-08-25
FOREIGNERS FALL
PREY Of CHOLERA
Chinese Toll Continues Heavy
Despite Improvement
in Weather.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, August 25.-Cholera 4.
more virulent throughout China this
Summer than at any time In recent
years and numerous foreigners, living
where sanitary conditions are good ano
clean food Is obtainable, have been
stricken.
The disease continues unabatec
throughout Yangtze Valley provinces
despite cooling weather, which usually
quickly puts an end to 1t.
Hundreds are being killed daily In
Honan, Anhwei, Hupeh and Shensi, the
provinces which are hardest hit. The
disease is sweeping towns, village and
the countryside alike.
Many Dying In Sian.
In Sian, in Shensi Province, which
Marco Polo visited centuries ago, ar
average of 100 persons die each day
The city's streets are blanketed with
powdered lime, which has been spread
about in an effort to check the disease
The cholera has made great inroads
in Manchuria, following floods which
have caused heavy casualties.
The exact number of deaths never
will be known, as no facilities exist In
China for gathering statistics. Only the
! larger towns are capable OF reporting
what is going on within their limits, and
| they are only vaguely aware Of the ex-
| tent of the scourge about them.
Travellers and mission workers have
brought in sufficient information to re-
veal that a terrible epidemic Is ,,oing
on. A pitiful and typical picture OF con-
ditions in rural sections Of the country
comes from Shaohing, in Chekiang
about 100 miles south OF Shanghai. A
missionary visiting Shaohing writes:
1.-The city is in pitiful condition. Six
weeks of drought dried up many canals
and the water remaining in the others
Is filthy, stagnant and unfit for use
but the people still wash their rice In II
and boys seek relief from the heat BY
bathing frequently in this unwholesome
fluid.
Impossible to Investigate.
"It Is no wonder that cholera Is tax
| ing a heavy toll. It is impossible II
investigate this disease but what L
happening within these densely crowded
streets and lanes would make a sorr!
tale
Emergency hospitals have beer
opened but a high percentage OF thu
cases there end fatally because thest
| ignorant people resort to this measure
only as a last resource and are beyond
hope when rushed to a doctor who's
skill could have saved them had they
| come earlier.
Typhoid and dysentery also are ram
pant maladies, savagely and quickl!
| claiming their victims"
The Chinese health authorities art
striving to combat these conditions bu
the means at their disposal are woe
| fully Inadequate.
Evening star., 1932-02-19
TAX REFERENDUM
GETS UNDER WAY.
y. S. Chamber of Commerce
Puts 13-Point Program
Before Membership.

4 l3-point Federal fiscal. policy
based on the principle of rigid re
trenchment and moderate taxation and
borrowing. today was before the bust
ness men of the country for an ex-
preston.
The program, devised in report by q
committee Of the Chamber of Com,
merce of the United States headed
by Fred w. Sargent, president of the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway, was
put to a referendum of the chamber
membership yesterday. The result OF
the vote will be communicated to Con-
gress for consideration.
Accompanying the tax plan was a
report on expenditures by committee
headed by Matthew S. Sloan, former
president of the New York Edison Co.,
which specifies more than score of
large items which it is contended could
be reduced Immediately by Congress to
help balance the budget and arguing
for reorganization of the Government
establishment as a means to this end.
It proposes a slash of half billion
dollars.
Presented to Directors.
Both reports were made public short
time ago when they were presented to
the board of directors of the chamber.
Four general fiscal recommendations
are:
Balanced budget by June 80, 1884.
Maximum reduction of expenditures.
New debt borrowings Consonant with
the maintenance of Government credit,
and in decreasing amounts, should be
utilized to keep tax increases moderate.
Further amounts needed should be
obtained through added taxation with
definite limitation of time.
Nine recommendations on taxation
make up the rest of the program as
follows:
Normal and surtaX rates should be
moderately increased.
Personal credit should be decreased.
II needed. corporate income tax
should be moderately increased.
II still further revenues were re-
1uired after this step, there should be
excise taxes at low rates upon a broad
range Of articles of wide use and not
Of first necessity.
Tax rate on capital gains and the
deduction allowed for capital lossei;
should be reduced to low rate.
Tax rate on capital gains and deduc-
ion allowed for capital losses should
apply regardless of the length of time
he assets have been held by the tax
payer.
No retroactive taxation
Estate tax rates should remain as at
present during the emergency.
Reasonable allowance where there
las been shrinkage in the value of
states between time of death and time
or payment.
The Expenditures Committee favors
m immediate remodeling of the Fed
raj administration so as to bring
nto the departments many of the 40
independent bureaus it says are now
,unctioning at an annual cost Of
1900 100000
A arrangement of bureaus and
unctions within or among depart
nents, the report says, would also be
-oducive to better administration with
;esulting economy.
Evening star., 1932-02-19
HOTEL men DEMAND
REPEAL OF DRY LAWS
Association Declares Legitimate
Business Driven to Speakeasies
by Present Amendment.
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 19.-Repeal OF
the eighteenth amendment to permit
state control Of the liquor traffic was
demanded in a resolution adopted yes
terday by the Executive Council Of the
American Hotel Association.
The resolution said hotel patrons, In
sisting that liquors be served with their
food. are patronizing "so-called clubs,
speakeasies and other like places to the
exclusion Of hotel dining rooms, result
ing In a tremendous loss to this depart
ment of hotel operation as well as In
appalling shrinkages in its invested
capital"
The legitimate business of the hotel
keeper, the resolution charged, has been
diverted to the bootlegger and the
speakeasy who evade payment of taxes.
At the same time, the hotelkeepers
claim they have been given no relief
from taxation.
The resolution maintained prohibi-
tion should be considered from its eco
nomic rather than from its moral, re-
ligiouS or sociological aspects.
Evening star., 1932-02-19
|41,0DOPUT TO WORK
IN DRIVE FOR Jobs
1874 Communities Add 11,195
Employed to Previous
Total of 29,930.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February IGNORE
than Al, 900 men and women through
out the country are now at work as a
result Of the war on depression" being
waged by four national organizations,
1t has been announced.
Reports from 134 more communities
added 11,195 newly created to the pre-
vious total Of 29,930.
Mark T. Mckee and Carl Byoir, two
of the directors of the campaign. in
which 10000 American Legion posts
and 10000 locals of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor are cooperating, is
sued statement which said in part.
Mass action, mass thinking and
mass results are proving themselves.
The increasing number of communities
Evening star., 1932-02-19
heard from Is Indicative Of the gather

heard from Is indicative Of the gather
ing strength of the movement.
"Our objective of . million wage
earners does not seem very far away,
and when every community committee
Is fully organized there Is no doubt
about the objective"
Thirteen communities reported rais-
ing a total of $2,173,437 for the express
purpose of supplying work. They are:
Elkhart, Ind, $l64,000; Bloomington,
Ind, $1,000; four cities in Minnesota,
$1,3o4 600; Utica, N. Y. $248.250; three
cities in Ohio, $521 ,007; Clarksburg. w.
Va, $13,52O; two cities in Wisconsin,
$79,71O and Ashland, Oreg, $30,OOO.
Evening star., 1932-02-19

residents Of Cleveland. Buffalo and
Syracuse, N. Y. will purchase six air
planes for their embattled government,
DR.. Tehyt Hsieh, director Of the Chi
nese Board Of Trade In Boston. said
here yesterday.
Tehyi said the planes, which can be
Evening star., 1932-02-19

converted to military use, will cost
about 100000.
The Chinese have pledged one-fourth
Of their income until the amount Is re-
ceived, Tehyi added. This Is in addi-
ito nto funds subscribed for medical
care OF Chinese wounded in the battles
with Japanese troops he said.
Evening star., 1932-02-19
HEADS BYLAWS GROUP
G.. A. Collier Named by Executives
of Arlington Federation.
Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
AURORA HILLS, Va, February 10
George A. Collier of the Arlington Citi-
zens' Association was elected chairman
of the Constitution and Bylaws Com
mittee Of the Arlington County Civic
Federation at meeting Of the Execu-
tive Committee at the home OF G. o.
Basham last night.
j. C. Mcclellan, chairman OF the
Health and Sanitation Committee, was
a guest.
Evening star., 1932-02-19

Less than one two-thousandth part
Of the. heat radiated by the sun Is re-
ceived by the earth.
Evening star., 1932-02-19
CHINESE IN AMERICA
TO BUY WAR PLANES

One-Fourth Of Income Pledged.
Funds Also Being Subscribed
for Medical Care.
BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, February 19-Chinese