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MR. CHARLES McKfi^VfeH
NEW MANAGER AT
~ ROYAjL THEATRE
??- 5 -Mr. Charles- McKeeyer of Nashville,
?? Tennessee", is now managing, the Royal
Theatre. It was known some weeks
ago that the present, manager" was to
i, McKeever has been in the City some
weeks to become accustomed to the
work, so well conducted by the former
manager, Mr. Earl Pinkerton.
* From the general deportment of
Mr. McKeever tjie,, public* cah be assured
that the Royal will still be a
high-class moving picture Theatre.
Mr. McKeever has been with the Bijou
Amusement Co. for some years
^ and ?is not a novice in the moving
.. ' picture business. He will continue to
give the public high-class motion pic
tuses, and other interesting programs.
_Wq ask our people to continue togive
the Royal Theatre their patronage.
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Earl Pinkerfon Goes To
-??- Augusta, Ga.
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Mr. Eari-4-Pinkerton, who has sue-"
Jessfully managecl Royal Theatre
for Tt~year or~more, has been sent to
Augusta, Georgiu, to manage the
Lenox Theatre of that City.
Mr. Pinkerton, during his stay in
??- -Columbia) has made qiiite a_crcditahigr
impression upon- the pooplu here.
He has been an asset to the business,
social and religious welfare of
"our^cttv: He has by~ his?sturdy and
a manly deportment buil| up a business"
that will be cherished b"y bur citizens
for many years. ' i? .
- * We loath to give him up, but however,
we assure th? people of Augusta
"-1" * that "they have in fylr. Pinkerfoiv a
young man who is a r^al genius in
the moving picture business.
We hope that every effort of Mr.
Pinkerton will be attended with much
" success. 1 "
?-"BrCrGontracting?
Company
This Company Has Been Awarded
Contracts Aggregating
$33,500.00
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Messrs. J. W.* Beachuni and E. F.
Calhoun, contractors of this City, op^ferating
under~the firm name of
?Contracting CompanyT have been awarded
the following contracts recently:
Buie's Creek Academy, Buie's
' '<Sreek,~N. C., $8,500.00; Sunday School
addition-, First Baptist Church, Raleigh,-N.
C^, $5,000; the Eugene Jtair$7,000;
Hall-Fletcher Hgh School
kin High School, West Ashevlle, N. C.,
Building, West. Asheville, N. C., $13,
000.00.; ~
These contracts are for the plastering
only labor amf material for the
plastering to he furmsjreff by- B.Gv
Contracting Company.
, These young men have by thrift
^ - and industry mastered their trades,
fand are now among the Jeading contractors
in this State and adjoining
States.
t In conversaton with a member of
the firm, the writer ?was told that
'*T the Company growing financially
and its sueeeae is assured.'
The above contracts show that.
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JURY P
FOR KILLINGT~7~
COLORED BOY
Lad is Deliberately Shot Down
Following Dispute Over
Pay For Work
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BOY ONLY 11 (YEARS OLD
Third Murder of Colored Boys
Under 13 Years of Age By
White Men in Norfolk
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New^ York, April 9-rr-Israel Banks,
a whit% merchant of Norfollc, "Va.t
I has' been fined $600 for "involuntary ,
I manalaughteri' jn -connection. with the
-death of a little colored boy shot- to .
I death in his store, according to re
I port to the National office from the
Norfolk Bianch of the N, A. A. C. P.
FHt-irirl H Fnl'iYnrd". -f the 1
Norfolkj Branch, W. L. Davis, Chairman
Of the Branch Legal Committee!
and J^mes Thomas Newsome of New- j
port News, assisted the Common- |1
wealth's prosecutor in conducting the ,<
case against the- white me'chant. Banks,
the convicted mg-chant, testified
that ' the shooting va i a.'ci- 1
dental, that- he broke open a revolver
he kept itr the store~a7Kf-g-bullet-in-the?
chamber accidentally exploded kil- i
ling the young colored boy. DetecJj
tives testified however, that the height 1
of the counter was such- that the boy-p
could not have been accidentally shbt
from behind it unless the revolver had <
been held at the height of a man's
shoulder.
Rjenovts sent by Mr. Edwards indl-~
cate that the Occasion ."o^-the killing '
was a dispute over pay for work that j
the colored boy had done. The boy, I (
It was testified, had carried in a load J
of wood for Banks. Having completed1
his job, the boys asked for his pay and "i
was offered 5 cents. "That is not
what you promised ," .he is reported j
to have Said, whereupon the merchant j
-TCT?Uimft UM w?*IU ? r. * i?^
Prtiint.f.i* and r.hnt the 11HyeaY-nhl child
through the head. Mr. Ed\<rards states
it as of his personal knowledge that
this is the third murder of a colored <
chlid under 13 years" of agp by- whiti
men in Norfoik wk.hin--*fe?&-past ten
months. ?. ? ' , '
To fight the case the Norfolk Branch j
held mass rti.ee tings to'raise a defense!
fund. * J
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A SUCCESSFUL
' YEAR'S WORK
-Seymour -Xarroll Will Deliver ;
The Commencement r(
Address h
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LARGE CROWD EXPECTED (
The Principal Slates That Thisfj
Was The Most Successful " f
Year In School's History / j
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Special to The Palmetto Leader:-. ]
Perry, S. C., April 16?The
Commencement program of the
Perry Normal and Industrial Institute
located in this p^ace was <
made public here this morning by (
| the Rev E. L. Gordon, A. M., D-, ^
fD., the principal. It i? the mostj
{successful year in the 29 years|]
that the school has been loca- i
ted here at Perry k became^
known here to-day..
On the campus there are four (
j large buildings, the enrollment ,
for the year has been oveT~fWe hundred,
most of the students <
coming from th^ rural agricultural
section of Aiken County, 1
where the schbot is tdcated. The following
ia the commencement^
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COLUMBIA, S. C.f SATl
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ATTACKJ
HISTORICA
WILL NOT ATTEND
THE MEETING
Mr. Leiper, Secretary of American
Missionary Association
Writes N. A. A. C. TV
WROTE 40 PROTESTANTS
. r.Jt"UiuLer_ihe
<Circiimstanc.es, We_
Will Have^-Nltfftting To Do
a WtPH tfretfrmrentlon"
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Henry~SnTTTlr"Leiper, Associate Secretary
of the American Missionary
Association has sent to the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People a copy of a letter he
has written protesting < a^ainst the
Jim Crow plans for the Birmingham
Sunday Sahopl Convention.
Mr. Leiper writes: "I have written
to about 40 prominent leaders since
I heard about the matter. We of the
An1r>rio?n Missionary Ajasociation will
lave, nothing to do with the Convention.
under the circumstances and we
vant our' Negro friends to know it."
program as announced by Dr.
Gordon the principal:
Sunday^April 18th, 4 p. m.?
P.flcralnnreate sermon by Rev.
Samuel D. Riokonbacker, A R.,.
B. D., pastor First Baptist
Church, Branch vllle, S. C.
Monday April 19th, 3:30 p.
rrr.?Primary exercises, conducted
by Mrs. Emma VC Mayes,
head of the department.
Tuesday, April 20th, 10:00 a.
of Tt'u^leeyr-?2:00 p. m. ^ A>nntial
meeting of the Alumni Association.
3:30 p.-m.?Closing
exercises for-the Intermediate
Dopartemnfc,-Conducted by Mrs.
Henrietta, L. Gordon.
Wednesday, Commencement
Dayi 11:00 a. m., Perry Auditorium.
Orations by the graduating
classes, awarding of diplomas
and certificates.
^ Commencement address to the
classes^wilL be delivered by Mr.
Seymour Carroll, Field Secretary
of the American HumaneTMuca-"
tio" Society of Boston, with Southern
field headquarters af
Greenville, S. C. ? ?
The public is invited to all of
;Jiese exercises.
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Livingstone College
PRESIDENT BLUFORD OF A. & T.
COLLEGE DELIVERS ADDRESS
AT LIVINGSTONE COLEGE ?
Salisbury, N. C., April 11.?Prestlent
Fr D. Bhtfor4r A. &. T. College,
ielivered an epoch making address at
vesper services, Livingstone College,
this afternoon. President Bluford
spolte on the subject, "The Need of
Better Trained Teachers." He visualized
this section of the country as one
facing new crises a'hd new problems,
in the solution of which hangs the future
security of the-South. Upon the.
:olIeges rest the burden of producing
trained teachers who as leaders may
worl^ out^togethef the industrialization
j and humanization of our lives
was the general trend of thought" of
the college chief executive.
The address met the hearty approvaI~of
the officials and~stud nf)i of
Livingstone. ~?
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JRDAY APRIfcr-17, 1926
fSTEl
5 THE AFI
L RICHMON
| MAYOR STANDS
1 FOR EQUALITY1
Mayor Qui'nn Told Manager
There would Be, "No Segregation
Or No License" .
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SAYS DECISION IS DEFINITE
One Manager has Several Ailbis
But Was Told License Would
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ijuoiun, muss.-, /\pru iz?i ne uniet j
magistrate of both Boston and Cam- j
'bridge have Il^U'd pfoliTptly^Tid
- rously against the_?ver on^creeping4
color segregation abomination in the- i
atres within the last fortnight. In i
both instances, the complaint was the;
Boston Branch of the NattonatTEqual j
'Rights League, Rev. E. E. Thompson,!
..President; in behalf of Race;>citiaens
who would not tamely submit to thee,
-indignity? : ?
; \ President Thompson secured an audience
with Mayor Edward Quinn of
'Cambridge on complaint of Miss Georgia
Harris" and Miss Yvonne Gorde, |"
whofn he had present at the City Hall, 1
to gelher with Rev. W. D. McClane j
i^nd W;, M. Trotter of the local league's I
-executive committee. The mfinager of'
j the Plasky-Players Movie Theatre deLnli.inrl
llin AT.iyrir'c inir.itntlrm nwr tho
telephone to appear and had several
alibis. The complainants stood firm
and Mayor Quinn' told the manager
j there would be "no .segregation jor no 1
j license."
John Allen Sanders, graduate of
|the Northeastern University School of
Business Administration in Boston,
derbirngr he. had.Jb.een ordered to-the
ITTrst balOohy on hls^orche'stra ticket '
by usher and head usher of the Keith.fAlbee
Movie Theatre on Huntington
Avenue, accompanied President Thonrjpson
uf the loeal leaguo to City Hall,
j the second, time for an audience with
the City -Theatre -Censor, by . direction
of--Mayor Malcolm Ef. Nichols. Cyril
E. Butler, Esq. and?W. M. Trotter of
the local executive comniitte and the '
theatre manager were also present.
The Matter disavowed the action of
the sub-alterns as contrary to his, '
practice and policy, apoligized to Mr. '
Sanders and assured the League Of
his stand for equatity.
HaitTwould have Negro "
As U. S. Minister^
New York, April 9.?Before his de- *
parture - for Haiti, Perceval Thoby, t]
ful fner charge d' affairs of-the Hai-r
tan Legation in Washingtefit^nd now;1
representative of the Patriotic Union 1
of Haiti, requested .that the National !
"Association for~the Advanccmentr-of^-1
Colored People issue for him a public '
denial of the report that Haiti citi-,
zens would 0pp9.se the appointment,
of a colored man as U. S. Minister to'
Haiti. - . ' V
The statement Has been madt7 find '1
spread that Haitians would not wel-!1
come,a colored man as the r'epresenta- '
tive of the United States in Haiti,".'
sad Mr. Thoby. "This is of course ab-1
surd. There have been several col->.
ored ministers from the United States]1
to Haiti and they have been received -J
ivith utmost cordiality. Moreover, 1
when American colored people have [
emigrated to Haiti, they have found
the consideration and the courtesy
which was their due, and they and
I their descendants are among the most'
i respected critizens of .the country W|'
Haiti would be glad to welcome, as she
has dona-m the past, a colored H.
Minister."
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SCENES OF MANY
HISTORIC EVENTS.1
Dr. J. C. White Writes More
About Richmond And Its
Inhabitants ?: h
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VISITS PLACES OF INTEREST
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Visits Church Where Patricfy i
^Hciiry-ftelivered Fiery Speeeh -P
Saw Battlefield of 7 Pines
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I was in Richmond/ Va., ten days ^
conducting a revival meeting for Dr. 'A
Gordon B. Hancock, who is pastor of C
the Moore St. Baptist _ Church and^ U
professor of Anthropology and Socio- n
logy, at the Virginia Unioij University. 1 g
I repeat .what I said in a former aTti- Q
cle that_pr. Gordon B. Hancock is one y
of the brainiest Negroes on the-Ame^c
rican continent, having finished the y
hjghest course otfered at -Benedict
College. Colgate Unversity, and Har- tl
vard University. '/*- . h,
Dr. Hancock has been accorded hon- %
ois in {Richmond by the white peo- rj
pie, undreamed of. He has been in- ~t]
vlted to address the student body of n;
the University of Richmond. # ^
Dr,. S. C. Mitchell, Ph. D.; once the
presiderit of the University of South Si
Garolina is at Uuvhertfi of.llial greatschool.
Only ia>il' Friday 1 unu week ft
ago Dr. Hancock addressed the white g
women of Richmond. He is indeed
great, and yet one can enjoy his com- ti
pany as when he was a high school tc
student. He does not "put on airs." n,
composed of some of the best people vj
of Richmond, they give one a respec- sv
ful hearing?they have some of the tl
finest deacons in the* worlds Every hour )tj
I spent in Richmond_?:as filled with ai
pleasure. , "
V Places of Historic Interest r{
.. I.^visited the 'Virginia Union Uni- rt
versitv Fridav mnrninp and addressed
the student-Jjody. I was received by w
president Dr.Cfark. and the faculty,:
with a nTDst hearty greeting", and with w
applause by the students. The young C(
men and women there are^among the
this to my mind is one of the best p,
finest of the race; with rpanly bearings tc
schools owned by the Baptists in.A-'^
nrerica. ? ' tl
I visited the St. John Episcopal
Church?where Patrjck TTpnry made:^
that famous speech of, "Give me lr-jei
herty orrgive'me death," there looked'Cj
at the very spot upon which he stood,
saw the pews where George Washing-*^
:on and Thomas Jefferson sat.' Looked 'Cl
upon the grave of the old school.!sj
master who taught^Thomas Jefferson jj
and Chief Justice Marshalh?J- vioitod . ft;
:he St. Paul Church and looked at the a.
seat where Jefferson Davis was sit-;0]
ting when General Robert E. Lee sent;
him word, tlyat General U7~Sr Grant
had broken-through' his lines of
fense which protected RichrfiOnd.
I went down to Petersburg afid i
viewed the Crater, where one of the
greatest..slaughters_pf _the Civil War
Look place. My father, was at that!
battle as a bodyguard to his master, | ^
n^i Tp r.sir, o r
CUl.- U Villi 1W. Vu'|' wI VIIVOI.CI, u. V-/. ^
Gulp was blown up in that awful ex- ^
plosion but was nov' killed. I saw
ft1 here, the Union soldiers tunelled the
ground, going down 30. feet and run-|
ninR the underground passes a hun-*^
dred yards up to the Confederate oj
breastworks. I was told that the
r<
Union Army lost 6,000 meh dfnd Con-'federate
,2,000. This was the place
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where the Negrp soldiers of Massa"*
i - . * ' m
chusetts were used as shock troops,
and rushed into that Crater and ^
slaughtered like
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LOR BAR
:OLOR LINE ALSO
IN SOUTH AFRICA
bishop of Pretoria Attacks The ..
South African Color Bar
Bill
Natives are held back,,,
iishop Talbot': "The Passing Of
?The Bill Is An Kyil Omen
For The Future"
New York, April 9.?The National
association . for thp Ajlvancewent of
plored People has received-frofti Eng
ind a report of^the protest recently
lade by the Bishop_of Pretoria aainst
the provisions of the proposed
'oloj- Bar Bill in South Africa which""
roll Id keep natives out of 'SkiTk-d ocupatio'ns
where they might compete
ith white men.
Bishop .Talbot in his protest assarts?- ?
lat "evidence from America of what
as been attained by the .Negro sugets
that he is not inherently fnfeor"
to the white man'il'although at . :
le present time" "the great mass of
ative life is at a lower level of fyu% .
lan attainment that the^ European." "
As to the bill itself, Bishop Talbot ^ .
aid "Thp passing of the- bill by the
^errrtrlv is an e\nl omein^or-the fo, -.i.-,??
Ifg. Eveb thohgh It >s hmnliltlS' and
ently administered it cannot but enanger
a sense in the intelligent, nqve's
mind that the white man rriearis
) keep the black man down, '"it is
ot only a question of its actual proisions
nor its administration,-hut?its
,'mbolic character. It will symbolize ^
le inherent inferiority of the?na?
a means'to white-convenience. ';"'; .
think it is a blind; and es.srrr&iM tyinnical
measure, .and if it is finally - v
itified it will have inevitably disstrous
results to the true peace and
e'alth of South Africa,,.....
"Surely this legislation is- in the
rong direction?namely that of dis>uraging
native growth. The right
rection is that of encouraging native ,
rogress. If the black man can rise ?
1 thelevel of capacity with the white
ien, then it should be the- endeavor of
le white men not to keep them out
at to bring them in at Ihejwhite.level
it-ail the surmounting of great diffi
ilfies. It would be no short, cut to
lis end, it would be no solution of
le native problem. There-is no shor^ i
it, there is no solution. There is.no
iort cut through this whole business.
pt it is the right direction. lUlKoyld
ft the native's tioul with" ho no--and ?r
spiration. It would leave the road?
aen ifcefore hi'm.*"
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Negro Homes Burned
In Tampa, Florida New
York, April 9.?The N. A. A.
. 'P., has received reports? of the
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41II1H6 ui ij*j111l"in vv esiern
ampa, unidentified menTiaving posid
warnings that Negroes were not
isired as residents of the community.
Despite-^m^ice guard statioao^i-n_
le settleniomt, following the burning
? two Negro homes, two recently built
?al estate offices were destroyed by
re. Five men arrested in connection
ith the fires, were discharged in the
unicipal court.
"Negroes are not desired here,'* say
uge signs printed in red letters on
gn bor4^s\indy **Nogroes should iTP
Mtigate bSiore buying here,"
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