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^ ' -?w\ .? *v ;"" ?* " ^ - - '-li?* J \ Cverybod; 5^TIIIS IWIMCK DEVOTED TO THE /#' -TOE PEOPtE. VOL. 11?NO.~8.:~ --TZT,-, INSURA MURDERED IN 1 DUBLIN, GEORGIA ??. Automobile Crash The Direct ^ Cause cf Trouble Which Results in Murder . -I. ^ 3 WHITE MEN IMPLICATED j Dying Statement of Murdered Man Was, He Did Not Have e . v\ A J'istol * >; ---~ ? ? New York, Feb. 26?The Na- r k y tional Association for the Ad-,' j vancement- of Colored Peoplle, 69 Fifth Avenue, has received & \ reports and newspaper clippings recounting' the brutal murder by K i white men of G. H. Donaldson, a Negro insurance agent inthej \ town of Dublin. Ga., when served ( L : with a defeetice warrant. 7?' '. j The trouble arose when Doni* 1 } 1 nlfK-rSn,-driyinpf Viist anlnn^hilp. \ . , wr?s run intj'o by the automobile .< ' of Fzra Keai The crash was wit- ic f J nessed by two white men, Bar- , A / tow Jones and Ira -Clark, who * p . ( are quoted by f- local white news- ^ f [ p.aper as saying ihat the white \ J driver was to blame for the ac f cident. as he wr.?3 running on the * ] wrong side of (Tie roach ~~* T |JL_ T The white man, Kca, together it-'-- with two other white men,-obJ tained a defective warrant for ? Donald.-qn'rs ly-rcnt, not-knowing-; the name of the Negro whose , <0- >. -- ' automobile Kea had run into. The three whites are said to have < ^ . -remarked orr? hf.'Ving obtained ( ? their defective warrant that | they ''were going to_ havo. a set=tlert^ient or a N^g^o.V, A fight ( r ensued when" 'tfre Ifiree whites' j reached Mr. Donaldson's home, b- ?.nd ftlr. Donaldson was shot and 1 , killed, two of the white men be-' ing.wounded. ?V ]_ In a dying statement made by_ Mr. ntona!dson, he~<declared he went to the door at the sum- i i mons of the three whites; that-? ... one white man gabbed hiiyi by 1 the collar and tried to drag him j . ;down the steps as soon as he j opened the door and thr>t the , I .!< ( other white men joined in, one of them shooting him. A Negro-: witness_i8 quoted aa corrobora- : -' ting Mr. Donalds'on's ^tatemciil^ 7 that "Tie had no pistol and that ^ the three white men began beat- . ing him before he had an oppor- l ?tunity to defend himself. The three whites were jailed * following the murder. The mur- j I v dered man had a good reputation* ( | and Clerk of Council A. H. Grier j I is quoted as. having assured the 5 F three whites before they called -i , on Mr. Donaldson that they 1 would find him ready to do what * was right and .would have no dif- j ficulty-i*i settling the matter a- ^ ~1 micably. An, editorial In the local Cou-| riftr./WsJd in commenting oil .1 the ca^B declares: "If our civili- ^ zation i\s Droirressod to the.. point we\aim, it is time to stop' ,<* 'white-wa. ittng' a crime berittwxr^ ['' it is a vy*; of a white mf.-n a-"l I . "gains^i Negro." f *?,*>4me of the white men has al* y^ready been acquitted by a jury J gjjjjk and gggfaret the" flthor ^ ^ two is expected to ba? dropped, < according to latest advices re-.r ~ ceived by the N. A. A. C.P. jl h?Begin to-ffav?-Ar I j. '' V; v' - V y Wins In Our 5 NCE M VA. SEGR , " ^ s ADVANCEMENT, If pnnsiATur\rAT v ??? m. tmi-tvtfiiJii rvu ? Ccnturv Magazine For March K Contributes-Long Review ' ? Of "The New Negro" HIE MOST JOYOUS DANCES : - - r " ' A1 Something Has Roen Uttered Toward The Solution Of The i Color Problem in America .?< Carl Wo Dorcn, Literary Ed-! tor of The.. Century Magazine, ontributes a long review of "The iNew; JNcgro," edited by Alanj Locke, to the March Lumber. j Tw hi n rnninr'-"Mr Ypp Doyen ays ~ * j' ?"Tf any rvblmicpjs needed, the vi colnmc is evidence tbat the ne\V re Ne^-j-o is a civilized and accom- ^ plisTfcd berng, who not only has given to the rr?t ion its most joyous dances, which may have a tG barbaric strain in them, and its K most characteristic music, which as [.nay. be only folk-art, but who hss learned write lucrid. co- (( rontrr.v-d- oharirffhg' prose; which-St s one . or t he uirnTC nkabier signs 'w^ 3f an advanced civilization," er Mr. Van' Drinr declares_ that or S omething, has been uttered to T1 thy between the r:vcs which is PG \j\ absoiii-"e e ;Kevtial 6f any de- m ?ent solution of the Color orob entt-irr America." ~~~ FOi' Whites... Join" Hindus In w Pretest rt White Men's ^j1 . Lav/ In* Africa - lJ" : - 7? ] Clippings- from .the London Wi Daily 'Je'eg'nih. received the N. A. A. C. P.. shows that-^ >urh intense fcoTing hap been a-,w' ou-'C'l in Iirr^ir- by .anti-Asiatic * egislation of the white man's end stature in South Africa/that ^1 Europeans, headed by the Bishop )f Calcutta and members'of the ^ legistr?ture ioined with' HindifXii ird Mohornme'dan loaders in a nnss meeting of protest. _j Latest reports are to the ef- ^ net. thatthe color bar bill, ^ .vhich would limit, cerfr.-in em- "1 Dloyments" cnclusively for whites "lashden advanced In the "South T1^ _Ajflean?Legislajfure'. and that General Srriuf's uttered a gra-ve us * j earning against such a llegisla- ai: ion, describing it as a firebrand tu lufig into a haystrvk. The na- bii :ives all over South Africa were K< seething With discontent, he said an ir.d Jie appealed to the Govern- th nent to modify the legislation an it the eleventh hour.. ;Oi - ;pr Memorial Services to be w' Commcrnci'ated to Late ? J E. Milhollund. j- P Mass Meeting Mar. 14 to Honor ^ ^Former Vice-President of ,, N. A. A.;c. P. New York, Mar. 1.?A meet- ^ ihg in meifftfr^Of the Ir-te John P?' "Milholland, for, many years Vice-President of the National rtent" of Colored Pdople, will be on aohi ni ^he St. James PresbyEe^ffi11 "tan Churchy 5^-W" W.cst "137th tic Street, on Sunday March It, t>t ho 1:30. The Rev. William Llovd - , . . I " mes, Pastor of the Church, will 1 Unparallect Olfc ?tW-"<7. v:V>-* ' . v. ' Subscription " SQLUMBIA. S. C? SATUR INT E EGATION " commen, :hallengfs LU KLUXERS A] ROBEfffTBAGNALL ADDRESSES THEM; bout 250 Ku Klux Klansmer.; Attend the meeting At A Colored Baptist Church VT COMPACTL!Y TOGETHER id Not Appiause Creditable Sole?Ncne Gave_ja Penny In the. Collection*? . r New York, Feb/26?The Na-' onal -Association foi' the Adirrcement of Colored People has ceived a report from Robert \ Bagnall, its Director of ranches, concerning *r.< meeting 5 addressed in Akron, Ohio, at-! ndecf by a group of Ku Klux lansmen. Mr. Bagnall reports r"foltowsr- - - "When we got- to the 6hurch :olored JBaptrst). ^er.e we found -bMV 250 hard-looking in a, group, ahd about' 25 coled people! sitting on the side, tese la?3t afterwards increased 1 i id .out TO and or 5 colored 1 lople came in and" sat in the/ idat of tho whifco group. When a soloist sang very ere- ' tably The~whrtes~appluuded not f bit but sat 'grim and ugly, hen the collection ww taken, ] ey gave nothing, not a pennyi 1 was clear" that our vo'sitors'? 1 e majority of->our audience? ( as a unit of the Klan. This we was up to me to tell them ' hr-trthey needed and believe me did." "Mr., Bagnall then reports what i told the Kluxers, which in- { ided pointed remarks op the ' llacy of so-called race "super. ] >rity, the facts concerning se- 1 egation; the Negroes det-ermin- ] ion not to tolerate or accept ything less than waa guaran-.ed hirrr by the Constitution and * eTaws oi the"land; the absur~H ly or claims aoopt race pu-i ;y." > ' ' /' : ( During his address, Mr. Bag-! ill reports of the Kluxers in his (. idience that "the twis?ed &nd 1 rried and gazed at eaeh other, ( it stuck thr^^gh thef meeting] elley then asked for members factually canvassed among | em. Of course/rone joined,d they marj^hed out in a body, itside, I am told, they gave ex- f noiinn fr\ ViAiu 4-Vioir folf oVmnf < vcoivii i/w ny" vuuj iuii auvuu } lat wr.-s said.*' ( ? ?? h The speakers will be: Mary bite Ovmgton, Chairman of 1 e Bo&rd of Directors of the ( A. A. Gr-R; Dr, William A/] nclair of Philadelphia, a mem- ( r of the Bdkrd of Directors of1 e N. A. A. C. P.; Dr. W. E. B.j uBois, Editor of the Crisis; 1 r.- Andrew^B. Humphrey, at 1 e tim'e a prominent Republican 1 d Secretary^of the Constitn- j >rt League of which Mr. MiL-i lk<nd was President; Dr. Em-ft lett Scott, Secretary-Treaetp J Continued on page 8. . 'r T?^ Contest?Reat mm < DAY MARCH 6, 1926r ? LAW-UN * ?wruiTr c vv ni i il : [TEND MEETING! Char'e-, E. Rusi??l,Quitp Chamber cf Commerce r Resented Dinner to Cel. Clarence Shcrrill, Segregationalist ; ? Charles Edward Russell, mem- ^ ber of the Bor-rd of-Directors-of ; ' * .. . a the-Natitnal Association for the -'Advancement' Q.f Colored People* recently resigned from the Chamber of "Commerce in Washingtcn.'D. C.TTiecause of a festi-cj menial dinner it was planned to :V trive Col. CirV/cnee ~Q."^SlTerrij!, SupcriiU-endcnt of Buildings and ' GvonntU in the National Capitol."^ who has .done his utmost to,pro- '' . - _ u mete segregation. n Mr. Rpssell had: been invited to speak at the testimonial dinner. He consulted Naval H. ' Th'-m;-'. Prcsidyntof the Wash^-" ingtcn N. A. A. C. P., together I-1 with Clyde" C.. McDuffee ani! a] Oapt. Karry Atwood^all of .the n Duni ar Iligh School,-and they ^ v.'cie able.to give him suclVpar- y ticulaij's. as to Col. SheryiU's ac- l; LiVtfies thai Mk Russell decide.1 :i to rr sis i from the Chamber of ,:1 Commerce in protect against*^ the dinner to Shorrill. In his/' letter of resignation,. Mr. Rus-' ' Lclt>Ti.ys in pfrrt; M _ "Colonel Shetirill, by his deli- { Derate' course of 'contempliious njtistice to\yr?:;d the colored peo-: pie of thi.sf^44j>"|/ took him'seif out; Df the category of public serv-l an I s that merit any applause from-their fellow men. Legally constitutionally, and from every new-point #f_social welfare, the t':1 colored prot^le arc entitled to ,r| every right and privilege ac- j :ordejd to the white. Colonel Merrill's defiance of4 this fundii- j0 mental.truth was so flagrant and therefore so injurious to the best pr interests of the, community tliat p, ! think the Washington Chamber f'-( Commerce might h^ bettc1' gJI-TTT^ jr-ged than in showing him hon"I am unable tp think, as I V dmidd be glad to think, that the Chamber of Commerce is awareipon the colored people at the , lorlI1 inri nf i lin I ?v?/v/-wl? Mwv?.v??v?x/41 wa l/tiv i-illlLL/Jll vjf rir-1, of tho, mcans^by which he p. deprived* colored people, of a cl ^thing?beach, while, providing -11 >n efoiMhc white, of the gra-ty .nitons affront comprised in the 111 insolent signs that segregated - ' -+~?-r to colored people in Hock Creek <o Park, of the notoriously unfair p< reatnient of colored people thr-t de h o pnfAraorl of fl^^ ^ ^ f* - ? - ? 1 1? v'4 uv \,uiv/iv.tu at Lilt? tciltJJS ill ine r 1 public government buildings un- "( ler his control. Yoilr action in Baying him this honor Tian 'be construed only as an endorse- as nent of* his-course. It is not t h possible for me to retain mem- Cf jership in a body so oblivious o the found otfon essentials of ^ ustice and equality." "I Tiav^ therefore the honor m, o present my check for member- hr ihip dues-to July 1^ 1926 and my th csignaticn Herewith/' r"* So ^ins?Look op pa ..v.I Our Offer < ICONSTIT W NEGRO" SUPREMACY" 3QE3 NOT EXIST IN ENGLAND light Hcncrahlo Phil'i^rSTiO^vden T 4 < T?_ l k ii * >1 11 .till I i>" Ai;ttr>UJR6<l ?! 6 COLORED TO 1 WHITE J n Inter-Nat.icnal Government, The Fu-vro of "The Wcrld -4 Roots 'With- Colored Races ~Nqw Y-orl-:, Feb. 2o-r-The N. A.' .. C. P. hr.<M'0"eived frOrn Eny- , tndet'-:article pnb" shedj in Enylih newspapers by m PC: Id?II|U" - ?Phillip. fr-wr"?':, ' f Peril 'mailt wUch^liiff 'vorlJ domination by hi?a peovdc: ni' I "v:-ssrl.in# th^t ic idea of white supremacy is i.-virpr to bo abandoned. He ri.es in"part , "The ^<1 idea of .the 11} lit of a~ ionic 'v.-itli a hi.-rh ;r ciyiii/at Jon id with a more H-b'mn/p.d ec.onoiie devoir foment to dominate to verb. of the world will have to Ft':-;.! ' It ia bo ~ :rr ab.mh>i;t-d.- The constituon ' 1' - he I.f:arr".vj of frations is ) oat nn? ir.g inhume of that idv ^r"ip-. "diq^j oiFcrTor. race \f' ..he., r.r.ilbnt1 Sre admitted to te League on terms oj' equality. C .!>' inert! <~>"j*~;Vcc S. ~ 3r. Hoiiry-AHe'^i Boyd ] -Baptist Leaders of Sou 3" CCIk\ * ^g* Last Tl'.nr-ilnv.Pi 'v ^ P.np-l 4- 1 - ~ .1 i' " - ' ' -v itavic-i: i rum an parrs-or 1 * i o Stal-e-oT Sanih Carolina*, met?i the Ziofl-Bapti-t Church. Dr/jd C. White. Pa-tor, to he in a! 1 inferencewith Div Horry Al-j( rTSecretary of the Na^t? -naP Baptist Publishing Boaitl ; id alro Secret r-ry o'f the Na-j' "dial Baptist Sunday School) press/ivpion v.-ill meet in Co-It ?Jvme"I0'2d:? : TBr. ..Boy.J arrived in the Cap. J :d City over th^, Southern via:1 'h.nla and August; at 10 a. m. Rfvr'J. 0.' White- Pastor of Zi- 5 r44ni?l;-st Church. the church |l 'rich invited the XaC'dnal Con-p v'ss; and aho Pre-ident of the 1 ate Sunday School and P?. Y.p V. Convention in the "Stated lied the -mectirg to order arid.11 tr^in-cd Dr. IP yd to the lead- ' s v. ho had gathered,-^aliQut 50 J k all". i .,--r 't Dr. Boyd at once launched in-.., -an address,.-gave the credit 4 the T:\nonted late-Dr. R. H. .1 ~>vJ :'()! the ercaffon of the i-_t a of the National Baptist Con'esc. the building of life Na-l )nal Baptist Publishing Board, c e biggest and the nrost sub- i antial concern of its kind a- 1 ong Negroes on c:r. th,. as far I i - tri-rA*-r? TT - /?? *#?? ? 1 i.i.w ' >1. ? ,: v Jii^i .llliillCU o 280.000 Bapii<ts of South t irol'-r.a for this solidarity, and i r their great work in ostah- ( hinyr Morris College, tTiolarg- r t ph -*?t owned and'., controlled < i-Xogra-Baptist son-fke eopti-4 aintainejHe of the Congress as ( e greatest Summer Bible ( ?- ~? ?' :?rhbflT of Methods in America, ;ge; 3 fort partic , * WW >n Page 3 ^ ~~ j ' 1^1 iiSCIU iSK A N |?4 : 5* "~- ADVERTISE?C u r^~ ~ ^ rent, Socialand lien rtx:?? eral News. ' ?-~-v .-,0 A coi'Y: UTIONAL THIS DECISION . FOLLOWS TEST. Suit was trough* Hy Th? Local | .Branch Of ihe N. A. C. P. " , . ! TRIED TIM PH! i<"T.-> rniTOT .... v.uiv \.'V UiV I ' Case Is To Co To A Higher Court For A Definite Decision ?The rO'stcterTtir'! segregation law enacted in Norfolk, Va., has been . declared unconstitutional by Police-Justice R. B. Spindle and will be carried to a higher court in order to have th?s ruling af- firmed, - > , b The first court test of Nord folk's segregation law came ebout when Nathan Falk, a white merchant, opened a grocery busied 5s in a strictV colored sectLoir l_: bZ of the city.?In order to tort the? it? law, the local N. A, A. C. P. un ?? der the, presidency *of Drcid H. Edwards, made* a complaint and\ arrant charging violation of the law wa-; served on Mr. Fi/k. With Mr. Edwards as complainnrt aiifl *R t Howa. "-j vir ttt . ?. jjoii.V;.! clIIU >> . >V . Foreman acting-i.?; pro ecutir.g attorneys, the ia;Q came before - ' the Police Court Ju-tIce who de- ?-? claveX the law unconstitutional". i . Aii the Policy Coi.nT~rCRoI a ?- ? court of .record, the X. A. A. C. P. plans to e;/;y th:s c a c to th.e r.oxt higher court on appeal, itC'crcter that a~'definite - and re corded decision may" bo had holding ' the segregation orcTF ~~ ranee unconstftutionr.?l. , fv Holds Conference- With ith Carolina?Outines tional S. SfCongress ? - - '? ' ^ : : , -=? Ai^ilihren in Snut^raroMnc- Thi\ will be the largest delegation, \ md-the best etfuipp.ed Bible ex*erts^rangir.g'frt>m leading professors in America and leading BoITeges "even to the backwoods. sunday School workers of Texc-s ind Mississippi, he. said. Two lands accompany the National Baptist Cadets from Cincinnatti > >r)d Nashville, will be here. Be4des?trhe?hMfHlveds?Bt? laymen . opresenling the National Lay- * nen's League. ' ' Many of the brethren made speeches in response to Dn? Boyd's wonderful address, en- ' lor sing * its coming; anmong hose"who spoke were: Dr. J, J.a 5!arkN, President of. Morris-Col- . ege; Rev.t T. S.^Gilmore. Rock lill.; Drs. R,-Wk-Baylor. ColumJhs T. M. Boykin. ,T. C. TohirC_ . F; S. Earle, PrcV nlciii, 0/ rlieJBap-. is 1 State Convention and others. - The t\vo leading Negro newspaper men of S. C., Mr., II. E. Taylor, owner and publisher of ho lie v order-! ndicator and Mr.' Ceo. IT. Hampton. owner. s?nd "lib Its her of The FhTmet toT.eaT-1*- >r; offered thoir respective pa >ers to push the Congress. The rhe white daily newspapers of "Columbia, The KTate and Colum)ia Rccprd, pledged th\ White heir unstinted support, as well >v every white official from the Governor clown,"' besides all denominations of the City." TTenelict College and Alien University fflve-hedt put-their plants at 7 WhiteV disposal, Asheyille Chester, Rock Hill, Charleston, Greenville, Greenwood, Aiken Continued on paRO 8.