The palmetto leader. (Columbia, S.C.) 1925-196?, November 21, 1925, Image 1
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DEVOTED TO THE
-INTERESTS O K '
THE PEOPLE.
VQL7T?NO. 46. " ?
GETSP,
GETS JUDGEMENT
of $sf>lnnn nF A
_ RICH ESTATE
Ned Brooks it Awarded Judgement
Against the Estate of
J. H. Herndon?~
?WORTH NEAR A MIH30N
Brooks Claims that he Has
Worked for Herndon Nearly
50 Years Without Pay
Texarkana, Ark., Nov. 18?
"Ned Brooks, 62, has-been a"
-I. . J A ?fn *t\r\
TY 01 ucn g_jUUKHiem JUI $OU,UUU
a?gain3t tlie estate of the late J.
H. -Herndon.? Herndorr was 82
when he died. In the suit filed
by Brooks, it was stated4hat the
plaintiff?had wurked?for the
deceased defendant for nearly.
~ fifty years without pay and that
that if Herndon died, Brooks
was to get the estate. Shortly
before ha died, Horndon diacov_/
and his wealth grew to nearly
... one million dollars. He left it
to near relatives and Brooks
contested the will. As soon as
-the -&uit_waa filed, $60,000 in a
local bank was attached.
a_-1? f m mm '?.
? -Miss Charlotte?Jnekaon?-Wav_
j eriey School Principal?and
-Mrs. Mamie Dunmore-?Principal
oL Booker Washington
Heights School Led in Contest.
** iy
Splendid Affair ' Held in Audil"
~ 'a' Aft 11 m 1
Iiorium ai Alien Tuesday
Night. ^
In a contest for the most popular
seventh grade pupil in the
grammar grades in city and ad?
jacent schools was held in the
auditorium at A lien University
| last Tuesday night. Votes were
. * cast for the most popular seventh
grade pupil. Pupils from
old Howard and New Howard
schools of the "city were , in the
contest with1 pupils from Miss
? Jackson'ti school in Waverley
and-Mrsr Bunmore's school in
Colonial Heights. The Waverley
school led with a report of
666 votes at ten cents each;
Booker Washington Heights was
second with 014f, Old Howard
82 and New Howard 48.
In the contest the sum of $140
T^was raised. The program rendered
was very good being made
up withjnumbers from all of
the contesting _ schools. Many
parents attended tfie-affair and
had an enjoyable time. '[
PROGRAM.
Song?Waverley School.
The Lord's Prayer.
. Song?Colonial Heights.
Inul. 'Duel?Old Iluwaid.
Song?Waverley School.
Recitation?New - Howard.
Vocal t)uet?Waverley school.
v Quartette?Old Howard.
Concert Recitation?Colonial
g Heights.
Song?Waverley School.
ycport^Mr.?Fostcr.
Chorus?Waverley.
P?? Editor J. D. Carr, of the Asheville
Enterprise is spending a
? /"
Nine states , now require that
, the Bible be read at stated times
in the publis schools.
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4RT0F
CONVICT
BOOKER T
SAYS BOOKER T. IS
WELL KNOWN
IN ALL GERMANY
H?? Translated Into 'Getman
Booker T. Washington's
"Up From Slavery."
AUDIENCE IS INTERESTED
He Says the Missionaries Must
Learn the Various African
Languages^
?T:r " 7"~
Hampton. Va.. Nov..?Sunday
evening at Ogden Hall an address
was given by Dr. Diedrich
rican languages .at the University
of Berlin. He has translated
into german Booker T.
Washington's autobiography*.
"Up from Slavery". In fact,
according ' to the speaker, the
speaker, the names of Tuskeege
and its founder are known to all
in Germany who are interested
an Africa.
Dr. Westerman laid great
stress upon tho necessit.v of tho
[^8s_iona^riM_lejrdming_the vari6us
African languages and said
that it was possible for- them
to win the confidence^of the natives
if they were only able to
1n"r* n mi
rious African dialects are-most
difficult .'to learn some words
having three or four meanings
depending upon the inflection
or kind of 'click' used.
RICHLAND CHI INTVTFATU
ERS ASSOCIATION TO
MEET SOON
- The regular monthly meeting
of the Richland county Teachers
Association will bo hold, Saturday
Nov. 28th at the Booker
Washigton High School.
Devotional Exercises to be
conducted by the Rev. T. M: Boy
kin, and methods in geography
presented by Mrs. C. D. Saxon.
Refreshments will be served
by the faculty of Howard Graded
School.
'TVIiss C. A. Jackson, Pres.,
' Mrs. M. E. DUlmore, ~CRrr~
Program Committee
prv
?AN.P.
Reading from left to right; C. A: Trt
'* L. Holae?, Robert J. N<
Oleage A. Bernet
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COLUMBIA, S. C., SATU
11
ED OF CF
9. TRANSLA
WHITE AND
STABS COLORED
E. P. Hall, White Boy Stabs to
lieath Earnest Wood Colored
at Richey Grocery Plant
CLAIMS IT WAS ACCIPENT
Other EmpIoyeesState that Hall
was Running Around Plant
Looking for
El Dorado, Ark., Nov.,-?E. P.
TTnll, IS ypar nlrl "Tvhitn hny, i>i
held in jail here, charged with
first degree murder as a result
JOTThe stabbing to death of Earnest
Wood, a colored employee,
Hall, the white boy, explains
that he did not mean to kill
Wood, although they had been
arguing. Other employees.state
that Hall was running around
the plant of the Rithchie Groce
ry Cotnpany looking for Wood-..ESSAY
PRIZE CONTEST.
1
Any School-Child May Enter
This Prize "Essay Contest.
The Central WomanV Christian
Temperance Union, of Rock
ford, Illinois, has- a-nnouncetP'a
.Prize Ksshv Pnnfp*+
ject: "Why Drunken Drivers
Should not be" Par oiled," which
school children anywhere may
enter. Eleven prizes will be offered
.in the high school group,
the first prize being five dollars,
and the other ten awards one
dollar each. *>The same prizes
school group.
Essays should not be more
than one. hundred words in
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1 length, shoulcHyo written on one
side of the paper, bear ttnmame
address, school and grade of the
writer, and be mailed to the.1
Central Union's Headquarters,
102 West State Street,
1 ?Rockford,
Illinois.
| "Drunken Drivers Contest.'*
i?The contest is to close on Nojvember
28.
Tho Mpjj cjViri'np, nParin^-oAnv.
4j>Iet?ion in Tokio, is the latest
atheletic field irl the Orient.'
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MEMBERS NATIONAL PC
knkltn,.Rev. Chafles SUHnrer Williams, Miss Joant
ison, B. W. Rat*, W W. ChtsnTTr, BTT. MaVIS^X"
t, Parry W. Howard, L. R. Lautler, Wast A. Ham
Dr. W. Jarrla Bawaa, Jamas A
di#?
RDAY, NOV. 21, 1925.
10 Ml
UMINAL j
tor visit's
mi ORFD Ml
> BOY TO nFATH
A TTV n*'*TTiiru;c
mi 11. i>ia\ i i nc vvo
WINS CASE FOR
THE GGVERNMEN1
Mr. Matthews is the Recognizet
NationalLeader of the Negro
Republican Gioufl
, \
TVLKELFlNED $2,50(T-?ACh
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-A?Skillful Lawyer,?arrd?tin
,^Special-Assistant of the U.
S. Attorney General
Lincoln, NebrasKa7 Nov.?
General William if."* Matthews
special Rs'sisslant of the U. S
SA4terney^ G ener ai, ^rvar^ ~el e c t e c
i to prosecute the case of two for
mer officer^ of the City Nationa
Bank of Lincoln. .They were L
J. Dunri and L. B. Howey
uliui'gtil in the Federal"?Cour
with misapplication of the bank
funds. The acceptance on the!
part of bad papers which the di
i rectory of the institution had b
i make good was included in th
charges,^ Under the skillful an<
jable direction of Mr. Matthew:
the cas<?" wng i,ynn for the gov
Ternment and the charges sus
jtained. Dunn and Harvey weri
forced to accept such fines a:
the voitrf saw lit nr impose. Tin
j-coui't?penalized trhem $2,5U(
.each. ? /. ..."
rni. a i /? i r* .
mis is me nrst 01 me case:
brought to trial by Mr. Mat
thews, the recognized nniionn
Reader, in t1n? Keg l?.-?pni?U.->riv
group, since his appointment a<
special assisstant* td the govern
ineht's fcygai ioryesTMIe made i
fine showing during the- trial?
-j- Leaving" Linqohr""after tli(
winning of his case, Matthew:
[was . banquetied by a distill
guished group of leaders in O
maha.
A finger and toonnilloKs fami
>ly has been discovered in Italy.
??The military ban against ~t"hi
general use of radio sets in "Pal
jestine has been lifted.
I .
>LITICAL AND ECONOMIC CONTE
> ?
*ttn Oartor, C. H. Hicliarilson, J. W. Mct'onlro. It
b, Mllclipll, Rev. Nonh WIl.taDis, K T,. Pattoii, S
itlton, JOscfch D. Bibb, A. G. Fro*, C. C. Kpauldin
. Cobb, Jotopb John ton, Henry A. Bty<\. W. B,J
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MTACK (
i" HATv'E'l'QN
vN -OR PANCT
JOIN iIAN^-3
' TO BETTER
J CONDITIONS
'White and Colored Longshore
j men Organize After a -Twd
EYears Strike
^BY'/r'UNAIVir^OSF^eYi
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J Harry Keegan, yrhitp, Presiden
and Mose Johnson,'Colored
Vice President .
'New Orleans, I.a. Nov.,?A'
ma 1 carnation ot' "the white am
i nlhi'pil lnmrdvirorm n. v.ii\.> h.ru
j been um strike for ihe past fwr
. years was porisu'nuitod Su'nday
j when the two oi-yJtnidations b:
Jan unanimous vole .(led.-.led t<
. j join hflgtds in an --el'l'ort- to wii
t~Tjettor Wiiffl.i anil umditioils yd
^orally. Hereafter the two orgai
jizatioq^?\ri}l meet, as olve". body
.'With ilafry Kecjrah, white a;
j president, and Mi ye-.-Johnson
e ; late iwe.idn.mt oft he Negro long
] j shoremen, lis vicc~T;IT:si{feTit.
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-j A Mum iifi' ?y
Oln't Iul lu Tllb !! 3.'
J Dr.T." O.h\lilj:r, widely knowt
; "phyd Of a iv~ a ncT surgeoiu of th'i:
).eity i oceiv iny many letters o:
congratulation* from "all section:
? ' of the country, on the editoria
. "That appeared in The Ashevilh
1 iheteriii'ise i'nTVt oh or tho.'hiih
Negroes?.I'v..r.eet?Ci irni
...nn'ls ?" The original article die
_ "hot carry Dr. Mtiler's. sigm.vuro
^ Tine toJ ihe niary'demands upor
>>: . 4: .1,^ .i i
...Li I I II, till ,ll.|; -J-Ui
v H was-an oversight or ndpli
j pence: The last issue of thai
_ Oarer -makes known that lie i:
.'ihe >tnt.hor-'of 1 he editorial,
jj Aside-from hoinjr a great sur
geeif, he is i:< scholar and oraloi
? of excellent ahilily. lie reeeiv
Uc(i-a part of his irnininp- at Clai
lin University and later enierei
th.e School of Liberal Aris Nev
2 V'>i'k Ci v. -Friar! there hs
- wort (a fission University frhn
iwhich?school he graduated h
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RENCE AT WHITE HOUSE.
A. ,1' I V. ^ 'i iu iu iu \.TV peek, \y,,
c. Hcv. IV M_ TiunHMvS.^rfe'lriKk;, I'. B. Young,
Driver and Charla* U, Calloway,
/fsi IiS(:HFHK AND^V
ff_ L^^4^^^Cur^^
j: oral Nch s. "j~' *
WWyj ^-'m 11 r i ? jmm* ?? "*"*jj
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ON CHILD ' \
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child was an ^
INMA'I E OF THE
.1- ORPHAN HflMF.
j The Mfcu is llenrV Wilson John- .
; son, white, Superintendent
of an Orphanage
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THE CHILD IS 13 YEARS OLD >
. '
Three Otljer Indictments Charging
Him with the Same oi- " '
fense, Awaits Him
Tj
.\ew York, X. Y.. Nov.. nu '' |Henry
Wilson Johnson, white, .Vj
ja tut iiiei.' Superintendent of the
L-Jukircns' Homo of the Long Island
baptists' Orphanage, pleadcd
Q-mliv "i'iii -.iy'?i-.cl'oi'o Jus- ?~
tice Orop^gy in Supreme Court
- lJrookIyn> to a charge of crimi1
ral a Hauls ^n Efizphelh Sullivan .
j 1M .u'tt:old, lrmaie oi tne home
) lie will ho sentenced Mondav.
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V-j l-iiiia tinentx cnarging Johny.
>on with the sajue "offense ad'gainst
three other j>irls in the
n-home" were returned last week, .
tl , J t:hn.-< >n 'l'l'f s> vva>, f li r> vol
l -ult at an^inyestrgadon by the ?
-^Society' for the Prevention of
i Cruelty to Children. - *
_ -3OIS?being?t<ho (mly Negro in -ft-"dfiis
class. - .
lie lias established r? wonder-*
All It" ! i Ml ? >>: a- 7 re fii-Ut nf r.nr- ?
gerv.- The statistics at the
|Blue Id lye H?5Spit5l show that
j in 102 1. he\i>erformed twenty-1
5; two -abuQTTtTTOF ope radons'." and "
f 'lo&t tWU:- > ;";r
\ PRESIDENT HALE ^
ABSOLVED OF CHARGES
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1 .^ashvi:ie- Tenh... Nov.-The
t giro unci K s.s -charges Hied against-' ' r
Y-ri rc''d t nt\\. J, ! !a!e of the Agri- 1
cul:i!i,i! ;jn.i'i Induceyj il Si^im v ?~
Ic^-e, if? -ft^rrrrl crnTrr. 'rnAi'e' "than
? yeaTs ago, which-! attracted
nation-'wiq.ie attention, were set at
naugnt "today when a jury in the ?
midule ..7 enrwssre.district of fed- '
t era! court, presided over by Judge
not gouty ;>.* c inrnn^fl all the
j chat ges agam^t the Well-known
educator.
^ The charges grow out of deal.
_lhS-< ^'Ith the^iilduit's wHo were in tra::j:ng
at the St-i'e C. >l!ege, of
which Pi t 'tdr.-nt 1-i-iUr is the head.
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