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Debate AT MOrehOuse

ATLANTA, Ga.-The spring de-
batting season at Morehouse Col
lege will open on Monday evening
April Is, when it's team will meet
Howard University's debaters and
uphold the negative of the ques-
ton: Resolved, that Congress
Should be Permitted by a Two
Thirds Majority to Override De
cisions of the Supreme Court De-
claring an Act of Congress I'm
constitutional.
In announcing the Morehouse-
Howard debate Professor Nathan
lei P. Tillman, president of the
Pentagonal Debating League, of
which Morehouse, Talladega, Shaw,
Knoxville, and Johnson c. Smith
are members, stated that the de-
bate between Morehouse and Shaw
in the pentagonal series will be
held this year on Monday, April
81, and that the subject would be
the same as that involved in the
Howard-Mort house debate.
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BISHOP SAYS
SAFETY Zone
HURTS CHURCH

Los ANGELES CAMP - What
has been pronounced as one Of the
most searching questions was rails
ed in a stirring addrass. rade here
last Monday to the luterdenomin-
ational Alliance Of the city by BIZ
shop J. Arthur Hamlet of Kansas
city.
In the midst Of his address the
question was raised as to the sur
vival Of the church which we re-
present today. said Bishop Ham
lett, 1--WE are living IN a day when
the value Of the existence Of the
church as we represent it to the
people is questioned. Whether that
church is to survive as a redeem
ing agency win depend, not upon
what Jesus said. but upon whether
or not what we are doing that
which represents what Jesus had
in mind when he said. Upon this
rock viii build my church We
bave become so engrossed in trying
to save the church until we seem
to devote very little time IN trying
to save the people"
Continuing, he said, Most Of the
salvation we offer is transferred to
the beyond and the hereafter, and
the people need to be saved here
and now, and that need was never
more desperate than now. They
must work out their problems to-
day in the midst Of a social and
economic order that Is notorious
for cruelty, injustice and exploita-
ton.
''The church spends too much
time inside Of the safety zone try
ing to save itself and defend God,
while the people outside the safety
zone are being crushed and done
to death by forces that the church
should challenge and destroy. God
is not in any danger, and neither
is truth. but the people are and the
church must be willing to take the
risk in order to help the people.
The church must transcend racial
and national prejudice and lead the
way in building the Kingdom of
truth and love and Justice
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BRANCH YNCA
RECEIVES OK
FROM BOARD

DR.. F. B. Cooper, chairman If
the Y.M.CA. Extension Commit
tee, announces this week that thru
the donation Of property generally
referred to as the Tennis Club, by
the j. M. Colnaan Co, through the
Central Y.M.C.A.. an East Madison
provisional branch of the Y.M.C.A.
is to be established.
A maximum budget Of $500 to
October 1. 1886, has been approved
by the Board Of Directors Of the
Y. M. G. A.. this amount to be
used for improving the facilities
on the property, to provide some
supervision, and to take care of
expenses incidental to the pro-
gram" One half of this budget IS
expected to be raised from contri-
buting memberships in the area to
be served.
According to the resolution
adopted by the Board of Directors
of the z. M. c. A., the property
located at 23rd Avenue and East
Olive is to "be used as a means OF
extending more adequate Associa-
ton service to the people living in
that vicinity" a large percentage
of whom are colored.
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Colonel Frank Knox, COP Presidential Timber,
Voices Opinions On Presidency and Negroes

CHICAGO (By Jacob Anderson
for ANP)-Just who is Colonel
Frank Knox, publisher of the
mighty Chicago Daily News, and
a leading candidate for the Repub-
hcan presidential nomination? And
what is his record where Negroes
are concerned?
The history of this mana Nor
therner STEPPED in New England
and Michigan traditions worth
knowing. For Colonel Knox is a
typical successful business man,
one who is safe AMI sane" on all
problems, one whose impression of
the Negro is like that of other
moneyed men born and reared in
the North with very little contact
with darker folk.
It was on New Years Day of
1874 that Frank Knox was born
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To Sell Dunbar Home

DAYTON, Ohio --(By ]. A.
Green for AMP Sale Of the
home Of Paul Lawrence Dunbar,
famous poet. doomed this week
with the filing BY James Bag
gott, attorney for the estate Of
the late Matilda Dunbar, moth
err Of the noted writer, Of a pc
tition in probate court seeking
the property's sale.
The action was filed in behalf
of Mrs. Helen Gillim, executrix
Of the estate, and is directed az
ainst Robert Murphy, Chicago,
half brother Of the poet, and a
legetee. under his mothers win,
and the Miami Savings & Loan
Company, holder of a mortgage
on the property. Mrs. Gillim is
a granddaughter of Mrs. Dun
bar.
For more than 30 years pre-
ceding her death IN February
Of 1884. the poets mother main
tanned the family home as a
memorial open to the public. In
It on view were manuscripts,
first editors and heirlooms.
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REV. D. WARD NICHOLS
Progressive young pastor Of e
manuel AME Church, 81 w. 18th
Street, New York City, who will
be host TO the General Conferences
Of the AME Church from May
to rs, In New York. Attending
the conference will be IA bishops,
1000 delegates, and many college
presidents. Emanuel Church will
be conference headquarters, but
sessions will be held at Rockland
Palace, 1s5th Street and 9th Ave-
nue.. Rev. Nichols was educated
in the public schools Of Charleston,
S. c., received the Alb degree at
Howard, AN. and BID. from Drew
and an honorary DID,. from VIII
berforce and Allen. He started
Emanuel Church eleven years ago
In store front in SIND street with
less than 100 members, and the
church now has 400, and Is hous-
ed in an edlflce costing $1o1 900.
The church has been renovated
completely for the coming confer
ence.-(calvln servIce)
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fatal as Little Hams and she is
equally as promiscuous Natural
ly, they fall for each other and
certain complications develop. The
third and last act is laid at a dance
hall with a miniature jazz band on
the tiny stage and dancers who
hold a truckin' contest.
White critics present on opening
night had praise for the produc-
ton. They mentioned the policy
angle as being purely incidental
but highly informative and consi-
der the whole triumph for both
writer and actors.
What we have here is probab-
ly something unique in the history
of the American theatre, a comedy
about Negro life written by a dis
tinglished literary man of that
race and interpreted by colored
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Points To Need For
Religious Education

CHICAGO (ANP)-Tha a De-
partment of Religious Education
in the A.M.E. church is a need of
the moment was stressed this week
by the Rev. Frederick D. Jordan,
pastor of the st. Mary A. NJ. E.
church here.
Such a department would con-
centrate the religious training of
the youth of the church by using
all the existing machinery and by
making available for pastors of in
dividual churches the materials
and techniques which he needs, the
Rev Jordan said, pointing out that
different churches present differ
ent problems
Young people who now suffer
for want of definite program,
would be prepared through this de-
partment for present and future
church leadership, and would at
the same time bring help and en-
enlargement to the pastor in his
uneven fight to save the youth
to save the church"
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SITS ON
OKLAHOMA JURY

TULSA, Okla. (ANP)-Preced-
emit was broken last week when for
the first time Ia the history of this
state g Negro, Tom crayton, sat
on the jury in the state district
court at Tulsa. He was one Of the
twelve which acquitted ]. D. Bos-
ton, another Negro. charged with
burglary Afterwards he sat on a
civil cese.
The jury system IN Oklahoma
has been attacked for several years
by lawyers Of both races. At
hearing held recently In the case
Of Charlie Miller, bellhop charged
with raping a white woman, it was
disclosed that IN Muskogee county
only once during the six year ten
ure of office as county clerk by
Theodore Frazier had a Negro ev-
er been drawn on the jury panel.
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R. c. PRICE URGED
FOR OMAHABOARD

OMAHA CAMP Announce
ment was made here this week
that petition has been filed with
the city Board Of Education. that
R. C. Price, former president of
the Omaha branch of the NAACP
and correspondent for the Associ-
ated Negro Press, be placed on
the Board Of Education.
This announcement was made
following the filing of the petition
signed by many Of the leading citi-
zens Of this city who believe that
Negroes are due this recognition
and that Mr.. Price is eminently fit
ted for the job. Mr.. Price has TAX
en- an active part In the advance
ment Of the racial group. not only
in education but in every direction
and his appointment is being urg-
ed by the majority Of the organl-
cations operating for the general
progress Of the Negro in the city.
It has been pointed out by reli-
able groups that Omaha has not
had Negro teacher for IS years
and that it is the only city in the
United States that does not en-
ploy Negro teachers, despite the
large number Of Negro citizens and
children within its confine. It IS
the belief that if a Negro can be
appointed to the Board of Educa-
ton, such condition viii not exist
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NAME EXECUTIVE
PERSONNEL FOR
TEX. CENTENNIAL


The Texas Centennial Advisory
Committee composed Of Eugene
Kinel1le Jones. chairman, Attorney
Robert L. vann, DR.. Sadie T. NJ
Alexander, DR.. M. o. Bousfield, DR..
Frederick D. Patterson, and Gar
net c. Wilkinson, announces its
administrative personnel which is
to have complete charge Of all de
tails in connection witt, the Negro
participation in the Texas Centen-
NAL celebration at Dallas from
June 8 to November 20.
Jesse @. Thomas, who for the
past sixtee- years has been en-
ployed by tins National Urbar
League as Southern Field Director
with Headquarters in Atlanta, Gu.
has been granted leave of ar
sence by the National Urban
League to become General Mana
ger of the Negro exhibit. A. NJ.
Smith, who is an executive officer
Continued on Page Three)
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North CaroIinians Urge
Four : Point Program

DURHAM, N. c. (ANP)-At a
meeting held here by the executive
committee of the North Carolina
Committees of Negro Affairs, re-
Gently organized, and dedicated to
muster at least 100000 votes,
four-point program was presented
embracing education, industry, So
cial and civic welfare as well as
politics here Thursday.
Under the leadership of C. C.
Spaulding, well known business
man, and DR.. J. E. Shepard, edu-
Gator, a statewide program is be-
ing prosecuted through the State
of North Carolina, with the idea
of increasing the Negro vote. Ne
groes in North Carolina have
boosted of better advantages in
education than those of the other
Southern States, but have not ex-
ercised their right of franchise.
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HOWARD U. PROF.
COMMITS SUICIDE

WASHINGTON (ANP)- DR.. c.
]. Young, for fifteen years a pro-
lessor of anatomy in the Howard
university school of medicine. end
ed his life here Saturday morning
by slashing his throat and wrists
with a razor.
Dr. A. McGruder Macdonald,
district coroner, gave a decision of
suicide. following an autopsy,
The physician ended his life
while in the Carson hospital un-
dergoing treatment for a nervous
condition. He had been in the hos
pital ten days. Death came an
hour after he had slashed himself.
Mystery surrounds the doctors
death as no note was left and
there was nothing previous to in
dictate that he was in despair. He
had practiced medicine here for %
years, having graduated from the
Howard university school Of medi-
cine in which he was teaching.
DIR. Young was a bachelor and
lived in the Whitelaw hotel. He
had two brothers but he did not
know where they lived, he told his
friends while in the hospital.
In an insurance policy he had
made the Mcclure undertakers his
beneficiary, and his body was turn
ed over to them for burial. To
date they have been unable to To-
cate any of his relatives.
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tie. TO the Negro fighters he
should feel forever indebted for
history says they saved the day.
Returning to Grand Rapids as a
hero, the young man got his first
real newspaper job as reporter
and progressed soon to city editor
and circulation manager. On the
same day when young Knox was
hired, so the story goes, Arthur
Vandenberg, another possible Re
publican candidate, started out on
the same paper. They have been
friends since then.
Frank Knox, who married on his
return, bought paper in sault st.
Marie. After a victorious cam
paign against vice, he entered poll
tics first as campaign manaser for
a successful gubernatorial candi-
CONTINUED on Page 81
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JAMES CHASE DIES
AFTER ILLNESS OF
SHORT DURATION

James r. Chase. Jr., son Of Mr..
and Mrs. J. r. Chase, passed away
suddenly on Tuesday. March 81, at
Providence Hospital after an i'll
ness of only twensy-four hours.
James Chase was born at Great
Falls, Mont. on December %, 1917.
attended public school in Seattle,
and was graduated from Broadway
High School in-June. 1895. He was
a member Of Grace Presbyterian
Church and had taken an active
part in the Young Peoples Society.
Up to his death he was doing post
graduate work at Broadway High
School in preparation to entering
the University Of Washington,
where he planned to study electro
cal engineering. J. r. Chase. the
father, win. arrive Friday from
Palm Springs. Calf. where he was
employed. Funeral services will
be held Monday, April s. at 1:s0
p. m. from the Angelus.
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Lsnsston Hughes Comedy, Little Ham," Has
WorIdPremiere In Cleveland; NY Next Season

actors" wrote William F. McDer-
mott in the Plain Dealer. ut is a
flavorous, earthly, hfghly-individu-
allied entertainment, IN unusual
experience in the theatre, and it
will be hard to find accommcda-
lions on the rough pews of the
Karamu this week."
Said Arthur Spaeth of the News:
IF this is a sample of Hughes
lighter side we can only put in a
vote for more of it.
Around so are used IN the cast.
Little Ham" is played by Festus
Fitzhugh and Tiny Lee" by Irene
Reese. The play win continue to
be shown throughout this week
and will be staged in New York
next season by Maxim Leiber, here
to see the premiere, according to
present plans.
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LAW SUIT AGAINST
DE LAWD IS AIRED

LOS ANGELES (ANP)-- De-
tails of why Miss Pansy Lee Har-
per filed suit against Rex Ingram,
de Lawd' of the Warner Broth
ers film, THE Green Pastures, /"
now awaiting release, were given
to the Associated Negro Press this
week.
According to Miss Harper, In
gram proposed marriage around
August "a, 1884, and she accepted.
The wedding date was set for Eas-
ter Sunday Of 1895. When that
time came, they both mutually
agreed to wait until later date
and to be married this spring in
California.
Around February 16, Rex told
her he would not msrry her, the
woman declares. But between the
date of her acceptance ans this
date, they were in constant con-
munication. The prospective BRIDE
groom also told various friends
they were to be married.
It was not until later that she
learned the actor had a wife. Miss
Harper declares the news came $
shock to her as she believed he
was as free to marry as was she.
Relying upon this marriage pro-
posal, she sacrificed whatever OPP
portunity she had to marry some
one else and his change of mind
has wounded her pride and feel
Ings and has caused her great hui
initiation and mental anguish, Miss
Harper asserts.
Keep Off Date, April IS, 1886.
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of Scotch parents in Boston. Sew
en- years later the family moved
to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where
the young son got his first taste
of newspapers by carrying the
daily journal and eventually at
tending Alma college.
Saved by Negroes
Before he graduated, the Span
ish-American war broke out and
Colonel Knox left to join Roose-
velt's Rough Riders. The presiden-
tial prospect has little to say of
those days, and yet in them he
should haze endeared himself to
all the black soldiers who fought
in this famed martial unit. He
was in the thick of battle and once
narrowly escaped death when a
bullet went through his cap as the
result of a particularly brave sor-
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NAACP LAUGHS AT
SELL-OUT RUMORS

NEW YORK Walter White, the
secretary of the National Associa.
ton tor the Advancement Of Col
ored People, is having a big laugh
here this week upon the receipt OF
rumors from Ohio that the MA.
C.P. had offered to sell 1900, DOC
Negro votes to Senator william E.
Borah for $4,000.
The story is one of several that
has come out of Ohio following the
visit of Senator Borah there last
week. According to information
in New York, Senator Borah held
several conferences with colored
people and endeavored to win them
over to his side by declaring that
he voted against the anti-lynching
bill because he thought it was I'M
constitutional. Mr. Borah and his
managers have refused to face the
citations of his record as set forth
by Louis L. Redding N an article
in the March Crisis. Instead of
this, Senator Borah dismisses the
Redding article by saying that It
is unfair He has never denied
any of the charges contained in
the article.
The Borah strategy is to try to
ignore the damaging accusations
in the Redding article and at the
same time to hide behind the
smoke screen of unconstitutional
ity on anti-lynching legislation.
The Senator from Idaho has never
explained why he made the state
ment that if he were President he
would veto an anti-lynching bill
even If both houses of Congress
passed it.
The $4,000 bride story is one of
the most fantastic that has come
to the attention of the N.A.A.C.P.
in all its history
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MRS. BESSIE J. REARDEN
Nationally known newspaper wo-
man and civic worker, who will
soon complete one year as Deputy
Collector of Internal Revenue, Bird
District, New York, in the Ac-
counting Division. Mrs. Bearden
served several terms as member
Of the local school board in Har-
lem. She received the highest po-
llticaI appointment of any coIored
woman Democrat in New York I'M
der the NEW Deal" She lives at
so Morningside Avenue, at 18th
Street, overlooking MorningsIde
Park, and is the mother of Ro-
mare 5earden, rising young artist.
-(calvin Service)
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DOCTOR NELSON
RECEIVES PRAISE
BY C, SPAULDINC

(By c. c. spauIdIne, Treasurer Of
Shaw University. Raleigh, N. CO.
DURHAM, N. c. (ANP)- The
announcement of Dr. VIM. Stuart
Nelson's acceptance Of the presi-
dency Of billiard University of,New
Orleans was surprise and shock
to those of us who have been as
ISOLATED with Shaw University dur
ing his administration as President.
During the term of DR.. Nelson's
presidency, it has been my privi-
lege to be intimately connected
with the school in the capacity of
Treasurer and Secretary of the Elk
ecutive Committee It has never
been my pleasure to work with a
more efficient, tactful. yet unas-
Stunning Christian gentleman than
DR.. Nelson. To these attributes,
may doubtless be credited the pro-
gress Shaw University has made
during the past five years.
The physical aspects of the in
stitution have been greatly en-
HANGED which fact is also reflect
ed in the splendid student body
and faculty which have been at
tracted to the institution. DR.. and
Mrs. Nelson have made a tremen-
dous sacrifice to accomplish what
they have. speak of Mrs. Nelson
as she has been one of his great
est assets, Notwithstanding the
splendid faculty with which he sur
rounded himself.
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CLEVELAND amp Chang
ing from his social protest prcpa-
ganda and the actors taking no
lday from serious fare, Lsngston
Hughes world premiere Of his CO.
medy, Little Ham," enacted by
the Gilpin players, proved decid
ed theatrical treat at the small
Karamu theatre Tuesday night.
The scene is laid in Harlem. It
deals hilariously with Little Ham,
Don Juan among the bootblacks
in shoeshiring place which han
dies numbers on the side He is
lazy, self-confident and has had in
Vulnerable love affairs, nearly ev-
cry woman who enters his place
falling for his line.
Aa act is laid in beauty parlor
where Tiny Lee, massive proprie-
tress, holds forth. Her lure is as
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Youthful Slayer To Die

MEMPHIS (ANP)-James Tur-
ner, convicted of the murder of
Patrolman Roy Scott. was sentenc-
ed to die in the electric chair al
Nashville on the morning Of May
d, here Wednesday, by Judge J.
Wallace.
Turner's attorneys have filed an
appeal for new trial, contending
that the findings did not warrant a
first degree murder verdict, in that
the killing was not premeditated
but was done through fright and
that the defendant was ignorant Of
the fact that Scott was an officer.
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NATFIELD TRIAL
SETFORAPRIL "A

Date ior the trial Of waiter
Dutch" Stayfield, "a. charged
with assault with intent to XIII on
two counts, Tia first n behalf Of
Miss Mildred Artis and the second
in behalf Of william McIver, was
set for April Il, this week.
Since March 13. Mayfield has
been held in the King County jail
in lieu Of $4,000 cash bail.
Mayfield entered a plea Of not
guilty when arraigned in superior
court last week. His attorney IS
Clarence R. Anderson
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Ted Husing, Charioteers

Ted Husing's vivid "reminiscences
of adventures behind the micro
phone will be broadcast over the
nationwide Columbia network on
Monday, April 6, from AIS to 4:3O
p. M, psf. The Charioteers, not
ed Negro quartet, will sing spirit
uals and some of the seasons hits.
ss-4 rfTW 0L Hi y
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Former publisher of the New
York Amsterdam News, now Pre-
sIdent Of the Dunbar Rockaway
Beach Baths, Inc, 2oe West 125th
srteet, New York, which is pro-
jected to give colored HarIemltes
their own beach facilities on Long
island. The property is over 300
feet deep, and has boardwalk from
tage of more than 80 feet. The
location Is at 18th Street, Rock
away, and the Company plans to
erect a recreationaI building. Har-
lemltes spent 100000 at Rock
away last year, says Mr.. Davis
calvin Service.)
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Spring fashions will blossom on
stage and off at DeIta's first an
nuaI Jabberwock.
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Keep Off Date, April 10, 1886
Fellowship Banquet.