The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-04-20

liant Charity Ball which attracted a
gOodly crowd to Horticultural Hall
where we rolled up just in time to wit
ness the police pursuit and Staying Of
the fruit store bandit on Falmouth
Street in the rear Of Horticultural
Hall fiction became reality when
the victim slumped against a no park
ing sign and slowly sunk to the rain
drenched sidewalk in a pool of blood
from a bullet wound through his
chest while police kept the milling
throng back . cruising cars rolled
up police ambulance rushed the dying
man to the City Hospital in a vain at
tempt to save his life which had ebbed
another lesson in crime no the crimson
soaked curbstone of dark city street
. the column pauses to add another
red rose to our bouquet of memory to
honor the passing of a grand old man
man of religion, letters and war
all New England incurred the
recent demise of Reverend E. George
Biddle at the age of "a he was
State Chaplain of the Massachusetts,
Division of the Grand Army of the
Republic i. the sphere of his infu-
ence will always remain a splendid
accolade in race history the big
event Sunday afternoon, April q at
3 30 in the Repertory Theatre at Hun
tington Avenue and Gainsborough St.,
will be the concert presentation of Miss
Laura Duncan, noted New York stage
and music hall artist by the Eastern
New England Congress for Equal
Opportunities together with Howard
graduate John P. Davis, National
Secretary of the National Race Con-
gress known as the man Dies was
afraid to question publicly =. Atty.
John S. R. Bourne, Press Club Acad-
envy Award winner for 1899 will pre-
side and Miss Duncan will sing the
famous lynching composition "Strange
Fruit" which recently electrified twelve
thousand spectators at Boston Arena
-. the Boston organization will send
large delegation to Washington April
26 to attend the annual Race Congress
convention the Resthaven Junior
Charity Swing April 90 at George
Brown Hall with Tasker Crosson and
his Twelve Statesmen the proceeds
are to be used to dedicate a new chapel
for individual prayer and meditation
to be presented Resthaven by Attorney
Edgar P. Benjamin in loving memory
of his mother the late Eliza P. Benia-
min . Il. the National Guards Military
Ball Friday evening April 10 with
Erskine Hawkins at Paul Revere Hall
Thursday evening April Is =. Erskine
Hawkins versus Nal Hallett in a battle
of music plus the Jones Brothers
huff sed . the Goodwin A.C. will
feature the Boston debut of Henry
Armstrong, colored boxing title-holder
who will defend his world champion
ship crown against the New England
champion Paul Junior of Lewiston,
Maine in the main event Of an all star
fight card at the Boston Garden Fri
day evening, April 26 our own
Slugger Mclean of Sugar Hill will
clash in the semi-fnal match 4. all you
sport fans turn out for real big time
athletic event and support our fistic
heroes the combined Ringing
Brothers and Barnum-Bailey Circuses
hit the Boston Garden for nine DAYS
beginning May 2 Alpha Phi Alpha
Fraternity in observing Education for
Citizenship Week viii present Joseph
II. B. Evans, Esquire of Washington,
D. c., General Secretary at a Mass
Meeting to be held at the Fourth Me.
Church, Shawmut Avenue and Will
liams Street, Roxbuly-Sunday April
rs at $500 pm. the public is invited to
attend this meeting which is the last
Sunday in April and the subject under