Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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XwaNcw ? ' 7? ? ~ . \ . * , :; / - ~ ,ry-- ~ --? - i - ??. XI ? NO. 41: V.: THE COLORED STATE F^IR A Qnjaler rtnd Better f ate' te The Slogan?Everything il\ ^ \ Readteess.#/ ', : 1~* r/ -SEND YOUR A EXHIBITS Present^ Indications- Are That There Will Be Art immense Crowd Here. Thn nwri.wl HI I Ti>*lu?lil^jutrr event among our people, . showing something of every thing we have produced from a game rooster to a collection of articles in manual arts? will be on display whenTthe gates of 'he Colored Fair swing open next * Tuesday morning to welcome the thousands of visitors coming to Co iumbia next week to attend the fair and to meet new?and old accfUSlnt< and see'the racbs. ? . i ( *?v "in uc niau^ui atcu at ten o'clock Tueday morning and the officials W?H all be at their posts of duty ready to serve all who come. Exhibits "will bff placed Monday and ?- Tuesday. Many of the exhibits at . the white - fair ^ will remain in tact so aa to give the colored vi si torn a chance to see them and to add to the pleasure of the fair. Into the week choir of a thousand of the, sweetest voices |n the stntp, horse rnonn, ting cattle and -feeneh?shows, - band "concerts, foot ball gameB, midway shows, circuit acts, etc. ' .. ?' . Everything Being Put in Readiness. __ Secretary Green Jackson ia one of the hard worked officials nf the fair. -itts?board_*)f directors is backing him splendidly and' the leaders of many of the most progressive counties are pushing the fair this year as never before. In speaking of the ? big demonstration next week Mr. Jackson Laaid: "I have?never Seen anything like it.. It .is the-result of I keenincr ud a svstem of advertising that means much. We are making .._?k final arrangements for the biggest "fair ever seen at the fair gfounds held by our people in South Carolina. The leaders in. nearly every county are cooperating in a manner that is " commendable. Aiken County, under the direction of Dr. Hill, will h^ve , aix exhibiL^Iarger than- aver. Also Greenwood, under the leadership of ProfesRors Hilyardr Riohlnnd nnH Fair field will 'have county exhibits as will many other counties*- in the ' State, There is also many reasons will be more varied and larger than ever. - . "Both Mr. Faig-and Mr, Longshore Hive billed their circuses. Mr. Fair comes Tuesday and remains over until Wednesday night. His excursion will t>e"*-here to witness the ?- great singing contest which is a fea ture at the fair this year. The singing contest wilThe at 2:30 and at 7:30 each afternoon. Big choruses jwill be formed and the contests will be puffed off In good shape, ~ 1 "Mr. Longshore's train reaches here Thursday the 28th to witness the annual classic between Allen and Benedict. This game will~he^ better^ - than ever as both teams are in fine . form and hg^e added some powerful Men. ,to the 'line-up. " They will give I??%he visitors a fine 'y entertainment The game Friday between - Booker Washington Hi and Florence Hi will big crowds. This will be HIGH ' SCHOOL DAY at -the fair and we *td get the spirit and meaning ^JL of what the high school ia doing along certain definite lines. They are com i ing in large numbers. ^ "We have closed a contract with ^ the ShenhBTda. Th&v are ^ETTrfring load of the best race I mVbe refV^yiavo ever seen. Lovers T-? York Clt yriri - " ^7 : ' MB _.-. *L^U Palmetto ? Not-Informant? ? Upon Lowmam Negro Pastor Denies, He Re uueated Raid. LETTER TO SHERIFF Aiken^Officer Withholds Nairn ~ of Signer, "Well Known Man of Monetta." JJenying that he had requested o otherwi se instigate the raid in th spring of 1925 near Monefrta,. ii - course of .whifih -sherm Howard wa . killed, a Negro Baptist minister xr Columbia, the Rev. J. ST Myers brought to The State yesterday cor respondence exchanged between him self and J. Edwin Kerr, _<if Aiken since the three Lovman Negroes of Sheriff . Howard, were lynched a 3?fltehf" October 8. :1?Mr.--Kerry-in aLlcttcr to The Eftafr . published. October 13, said: ";Xh< Negro preacher of the Baptist churcl near "the" LowmiSiT home had writtei - -to?the. sheriff to -atop the Lowmans from "selling liquor to KIs congrega tion, that ne was to have a big rail: at his church ("on -the Sunday fol lowing thp trilling of Shnriflf Una. ard) and wanted the Lowmans raid fid." Tho minister said yesleiday Ilia -by-reason of this statement in Mr Kerr'8 letter his own influence as i pastor had been seriously affected since he was in charge of a Baptis J^owman - premises and ? hia peoph quite generally had accused him .o: being the informantragainslr the Lov mans. He denied that he had givei information to the authorities or hat sought in any way their interven Following is the correspondence. Mr. James Edwin Kerr, Aiken, S. C. UeOT "SiFr-"" " ,1 note in your letter of today'i The State that you refer to the sher --iff having been written to by a Ne . gro Baptist preacher requesting thai the Sheriff stop the Lowmans fronr selling whiskey to his congregation etc. ' ? ? I am serving a Negro Baptisl church within a atune's throw?ol where this tragedy- happened anc congregation there. By not naming the preacher places me in a bad light a3 -my congregation will - blame mt as being the preacher in question; there is no other Negro Baptist church within about three taiiles pi my rhiirchI will appreciate yoar advising me th^ name of the preacher or a statement hereunder to the . effect1 that 1 wish to publish this letter in connection^ With your statement. It appears to f me that" this will be fair to i report could, and would affect me wiHt ijjgi i ^nci,?c,of}^n ?friends, I prompt reply. ~ . , .Thanking you in advance lor your 1 ' (Rev.) J. M. Myers, 1 />m Oi 1 o iiO?i .urcj^K ot.f Viuiuiiium, v/ti, xo, I Please jreply -beret? I Rev. J. M. Myers: IitTeply to the above I have secured-Tropi Sheriff ' Robinson the inclosed statement copied from the original lefeter/whlch wouW not permit tne w anyone efcm to see. The letter was sent in by a well known m*n"~Cf Monetta, just who,. the sheriff refuses to, state, fbnnyKjbe hfla the tynatJira Of the letter. I do not wish to harm yon in your work, or any other good ?,au endcaviintf to uplift humanity ES WELC izens Corn > ~ INev* '^7- : COL * .* . , * ' * ' * -? ;?= ' ; : ?*H Annual Cc OTiri~Wi. -GREAT IS - ^ 3 THE N. A. A.C.P. _ J. E. Spingarn, Treas., of N. A. A, C. P. Issues an Interest j?j . fag Statement. ? BUSINESS METflqns USED e This Organization is the Greatest For the Negro Race in America. n don Jonson, Secretary of the National g~ Aasociation fr thtTAdvancement of f Colored People, fi9 Fifth Avenue, with f the approval of the Board of'Directors, today madie the following, public statement. On reading the attack on the NaL tional Association for the Advancet ment of Colored People in the Pitts_ burg Courier of October 9, 1926, I r Wondered what?induoomont?would e lead a colored editor to put himself ^ in such a position. 1 First, he puts himself in the posi3 tion of "publicly proclaiming his ig. norante of the Garland Fund and its ~ relations to the N. A. A. C. P., despite the fact that the Association has sent out ion this nnhjprt. dnrihg "Hia past year over twenty-five presa releases and these were sent to the edif tor of the Pittsburgh Courier as well --as other papers, xne editor pretends^ Fund. No investigation of the Gar t land Fundhasbeen made except that s phoned the N. A. A. C. -P. for furf :i'formation and was courteously re; ferred to the Garland Fund head1 quarters where figures were freely j given in good faith. As to the" "dissipation" of the Garland Fund, the Fund has been entirely expended or allotted at the express request in writing of the donor of the Fund, Charle3 Garland, who asked "thatr it be distributed Sg soon } as conveniently possible. The Fund will probaly wind up its affairs within th'e next year or two. The admint istration of the Garland Fund has re~ ceived the tavorable editorial comment of the New York Time3 and the New York World in their issues of Sept tember 29, 1926. I ucational labor and other cause* givr were gifts to Mght (not five as stated I by Mr, Vann)) enterprises conducted > by jo^ in behalf of colored -people. , Those enterprises are: The National . Association for the Advancement - of i Colored People, including The Crisis; the Urban League; the Messenger; , (hfl^rtherhood of Sleeping Car Porters ;the Trade Union Committee for - Organising Negro Worker a; tlie Vir- J gin Islands Committee; two scholarships at Brookwood College; and a subvention to Professor Charles Wesley of Howard University for publir cation of his liuuk on Wwffl r?W ] After complaining-in his paper, in much money Negroes received?an ! unreasonable complaint, since the a? mount spent on Negroes enterprises . was less than five per cent of the " uariand expenditures Mr. Vartn now i proceeds to reverse himself in his edi tonal of the following week and com~ plains of the small amounts allotted r As to undue influence averted by himself, even 1/ I had wanted to "Loot" the Garland Fund, aa Mr. Vann impliea, I wag the only Negro , on Bowi ef Dtfeetaw I should hardly have been able to in, duce the other members to abet ma >ON JOH demn R<e< ^ ? ? ; : % l Ynrl ""-""V ' J. . . ? ^ - . 1 TSIyers . ? a SUGGESTS FEDERAL PROTECTION Two NeW~York Citizens EmLynching at Aiken. . DON'T STOP AT AIKEN Says the Authorities Failed to Protect the Lives of These' Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 15?Robert <1 I.PP, RAn.m.lAw <>f Ev^Senato^ William M. Calder and Republican district, ~and Congressman Emanuel Celler of the uptown district emphatically condemned the lynching of a woman and two men in Aiken S. C. recently. - < Mr. Lee deplored the deliberate failure of -the authorities' to -the live? nf ponpln?He-cited newspaper, reports, which indicated that the sheriff left the jail without nrnnpr olfKAiiok 1/nAtwJ r~ "rM?VMVM5U Miv TT"Trig.-of the threatening conditions. He insisted that this was just one reason" why federal law should Jbe passed _ punishing the crime of lynching.. Congressman Celler, whor also said,, that the anti-lynching law should be pased, declared that "amnhg other things,?it?is?suggested that all self-respecting American refust to stop at Aiken as a winter rasort. These people have forfeited all Tight- to~ patronage and should Tie "pariahs by the rout df the country until the \frong is expiated. ?. ? Rev. J. C. White Visits _ Majority Ban. Church Pastor of Zion Baptist Church | Columbia, S. C., Preaches to - Baptist Church?11 | Spartanburg, S. C., Oct. 20.^-The1 death of Rev. T. Elliott Hall, the! Castor of the Majority Baptist "church ~ Spartanburg was a, shock throughout South Carolina and w&s one of the saddest deaths in the history of the state. He was dearly loved by his people and had built a confidence with ~Ki? people-second -^ wnfle in the state. He was called; to the pastoraate of the Majority Baptist church three years ago and now has built one of, the largest congregations in South Carolina, and nearly?completed.', a 1 bricks church when finished mated to cost.$.80,000. -/He was laboring fearlessly against j sin and suddenly in the midnight hour : came the s*d news of his death.' There were but few persons to be-1 lieve * this strange tale. It is only after missing his presence in ^he cn^Tiuffnty, for thoco pool days that1 well thought of Ly both white_and _ of his own"people. He through his i faith in Jehovah and his strenous preaching had saved many souls from the gates of Hell, and he who was for them out of the fullness of his heart, has gone to the great beyond. The congregation?mourned .with heavy, hearts. The doors were r\nn- ed ahd _ the bell In the tower Jjfijfr-: used to cfell to its members each Sunday failed to ring the usua|?'jSdl: "Come." A sad time in Spart^Bttttg it was t$ see the membersg|mfgflh| freshed their minds the tifl fc few wights ago. NSON is; ? " - I'^Mt 1 ' ~. (V, - - 7* :enl Lyncl T. 23, 1926. ' ' r '' ' 1 -* UOUI/ll J Is Viri' AS* AIKEN =SS ':: EDITOR WRITES He Replies Tartly for Aiken to The Np^v y * man. -j rr ' .. ,7J? 4-? writes About aiken" Editor Kerr Says City was Unaware of Lynching Until Next Day. The newspapers are carrying the -Storv of Congressman Einarmpl Cellar Of New York, in whirh ha eng. gsts that "all self-respectng Ameri cans reiuse to stop at Aiken as a winter resort. They (the people of Aiken) have forfeited all right to patronage and should be treated as Pariahs by the rest -of the country -until the wrung Is expiated,f' states As A -truth-rthe- citizens ,of the city of Aiken were unaware of the lynching of the.JLoyunans.Jintil-the following morning, and were/ fearfully., shocked at the"T brutal occurence. Why should they be all branded as mob murderers? ^rit is not so / many years agoSthat Aiken county/executed a bladk man" for his assault on a wWffi^'woman resident from the North- whn KaTT Trusted him as her "guardian" at the family homo, / ~ The wint^ visitors of Aiken come here for /the dear blue skies, the healthful air, the' gloTy of the land that God irr~His~~great care and love has"gi\Teh us, and-that Sherman could not steal. ' ' - 1 . Daily-they. Stroll' the "streets and woodland paths of Aiken with fortune in jewels on their fingers and at their throats. They walk unharmed unenvied and (respected. Whten ' an Aikenite goes to New York, the great metropolis and home of Mr. _ Cellar where Innocent workmen are shot' rlnurn in aw fU/i' 'UI?U ways for a handful of coin, they generally leave their jewelry behind and "tote" their money in their socks! The Northener visitpr need fear no harm in Aiken, we have no thugs and no bandits, and our peaceful, lawabiding ^egroea are hpld dnnr in mmhearts. Aiken has__homled herself to build one of the finest public schools in the state for the Negro children and there are more Negro?children being taught in the county schools today than white children.jjfThe Negro citizens have hundreds of ^them, their own homes, their pianos';and?iheir radios, not to mention thfe hundreds of autombiles and flurishing farms. Aiken, like the rest of. the South, gladly assists the1 honest Negro in his endeavor for bettermPjpt ijad pur. Negro-citizen are fast learning that' those- of their race who go" North generally return with a cheap pane, a glass tie" pin and a brass watch after... .year or two of hard labor; a few gewgaws that a half bale uf 001ton"at its lowest price can buy. Let Congresman Cellar sweep before his own door before he attempts to boycott the grandeur of God, and th? in. born ehivalry of?Pixie:? JAMES EDWIN KERR. Z Aiken. ?The State. * - ^ REV. J. M. MARSHALL RETURNS pv. has re tamed from St. AagusV'pg." Fla.. where he was Mtii to conduct a JMpvist Cnurcn^KidpiP^w^/*' wv. Oh% work Monday ^_.-. V?tq> and ' ' . - y : '. .' ;>*- ' "~v ? <?;f~-~ \ tOHS~ At C . r- .. \ . . . ... ~~ ^ _ r j ??i - --. " mm- I u r*^L -B TRrden of Proof ~ Lies With State, =? I ' aiwut Pmvi Guilt Dl^Omf Rea^ . sonable Doubt. ?W CASE OF <'ALIBI" --NestiTrial Ordered For Chas. R. McGhee and Herbert F. McGirt. The defense of an alibi is not a" ''affirmative defense^' and~~dogg?noT" relieve the prosecution of the burhie doubt" the prcaonce -of the defendant at the plnrp nf thp rrW-irv . cases where his presence is necessary to render him responsible, the^ supreme court of South Carolina holds in an opinion hande^, down yesterday, reversing decision of the lower court in the case of the state McGirt. The two defendants, McGhee and JtfcGirt, were convicted in Kershaw ting fire to an occupied dwelling: _ house," the property of Charlie McGLhee, subject to a mortgage and in- , sured. ^ .. McGhee and McGirt pleaded not [guilty setting up the defense of "a~ \ -ttbi." TfiFV were convieTe<T hmf yvrrr = fenced to four to fright yearc' im-j I prisonnient.. ' ~ " , From the conviction thev apppnl- , ed to the supreme court, which, c uv- sidering only that ?section~-of~the , judge's charge in which it was declared that the defense of alibi was ^ an ajdrmative defense to be proved > by the preponderance of the evT" < lence, reversed the lower court and L lered a new trial of the case. j "The rule heretofore (announced ? respecting the defense of alibi/'-~the t supreme court said, 'has been in sub^ . stance-as?follows; TIim hIhLo must'- , "prove beyond a reasonable""' doubt ; that the defendant is Bfuilty, and if v involved in a crime where his actual presence is a necesary element, c must prove tha tsaid defendant was r at the place, and at the time, alleged r in the indictment. "As stated above, the itate must j show the presence of the defendant f beyond_jLTcaaonable-dutit>t.and-if on"j uji uie eviaence in the "tras a reasonable doubt tjat the de- -r fendant was at the place, j*nd at the (_ time, "alleged in the indictment, in c person, then the jury pmst solve j this doubt in favor of thi defendant and must acquit. j j, "It appeaia to the cboi^that this, ^ i* the logilal statement. the rule on the subject. The fuiiher state- ^ ment found in the cases<heFetofore^ ^ that alibi ig an affirmative defense ^ and must be proved by tie party on trial by the greater weight of the evidence,?4s illogical, lajs down a rule, in part at leaHt^^ncrmsisU'llt' with the rule above ntMfd calculated to confuse tb| fury. In otlief WOtds, if the defendant puts up testimony that will rfrise a reasonable " doubt in the mtids of the jury, why confuse the matter further -i-nrr -i ^Tim Wn>i ] to Stnte. | members the Spirit of meeting j f ly InTertained *hile with ?U >. Bank# WfcJ w? irood people. Rev.',. Banks is the right man in the rift* <gdace and ie greatly hrrcd fav Mm ?_ ' . --- "- *?' - , ? T^. ~ - -' ^TEMENT . ' >.-* ? -fr .- t ' ken IVfob 1 - . ' ' - ' . "" ^ -; ;-=-???57^?? . " * IT -~--- -?r~rr ^?- - Oc A COPY ~ l)CT 2'I v- -:~ *- ..." - . - . - v CONFERENCE > l'he 7tit Episcopal District Confrrpncu Uolil a< ; ?viu ai UCWlgClWWU S. C., Octo6er-T7th. BISHOP - -H*Ht^=PRESIIFES" ~ 1; Bishop Hurijt is IiiLerfealfefl Sf~ Every Department of the -r?- Church. - ^ ? i . >' The Palmetto Annual Conference.? ??? of the A. M. E. church convened in " town, S. G., October 13 and adjourned October 17th Bishop John?Hurst ?" was tTfe' presiding Bjsh"p with z~? ease and dignity ruled, the bodyr-: . Rev. J. L. benbow, the pastor of Bethel and The officers had everything in readiness and homes for all who came to visit the conference. Many visitors were?in attendance from in -? and out of the state. Florida sent a _ niwnhnr pf her b rillia nt - ?ms to?" ~ r~ m^et_th.C. Sout hCarolina invincibles. Drs. E. H. Coit, Secretary of Missions and S. J. Johnson, Secretary of the Church Extension Department * \vt<rr prrT-nr ' and a.LIy -? Hitr-dcpa r ime fits: ~ ~ The financial reports are in excess : of last conference and notably so is the amount raised for education. Ed? JCational night, the conference raised rn_ore_ than?tixa?hundred dullara?iff1 " T:aSh. No checks. Bishop Hurst TIT interested in every ienrtment of the church and allows ? -- mne rrr^uTTcFiVTRTs conference. The rt'h 'Episcopal District is?already noving" Forwardupder the leadership vhc^Bishop and especially is this .rue^ef?AHcn U niversitv. jthe pride ?_ itl- true.African Methodists inSouth raroLina. Presdient |Sims made a, treat speech educational night. Mrs. ,, durst is a great woman and deeply -onrevned with whatever is best for he race and the church. Her address o the student body .of Howapdd High ?~? tcrroonviir be long remembered. She s a queenly woman. Few changes cere. made. ; Rev. Moranfe was sent from St. Stephen,' Georgetown to St. Luke, 1 ^-harlc'oton, Rev. D. A. PerrinTP. E. f the Mt. Pleasant District; Rev. C. J. Mollett, P. E. of the Kingstree )istrict and Rev. J. E. Beard transfiTTftH . frv ~ 1 v ^ " - " bummma conicrencfri z lev. Nichols remains! P. E.-of-the IvuietiLuviu Di.strict. Rev. Beplmw oturns to Bethel and Rev. W.? P. ? ' arolinfi^fb DYckerson. The greatst conference in the history of the 'almetto Conference closed Sunday f.crntiftftr South Carolina is ' safe ' _ rith .BiahojT JuhH Hurst. frhe lay?< ? ham nothing to'learT^' Bishop and Mrs Hurst were the ;uests of Mrs. G. W Howard while olding the Palmetto Conference fa ?- ??* ieorgetow rv~Tast"~weekT SLtFORD REPRESENTS A. ft T: COLKIUrE AT SE^U'l CENTENNIAL ON N. C. ' ) * J'' "1 ' Dr. F. I). Bluford', president of A. Sr T. Colleke* represented the Necrro ? ?? xmM+lucncy -of the Tnr Heel state >n North Carolina day at the SesquiCenterfriial Exposition, Philadelphia. On North Carolina Day, Governor McLean yul nllmf ?.?j* Ujfhte gg f^rtt took part hi tha jn*g~ -?-?- t* - On the retutn trin wmwa -1* ^ ^ Greensboro, Dr. Bluford risited Howard University, During hts tsay fe 1 the capitol >ity, President Btuford met with the executive CdftfHllt?a of the> Negro Historical Society at a K'vrn m inR wn;;c law hotM,^ *S ^x. -X*"7 liaH