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Batnrday, December J yncT theatre In ^ VI..- --' ''I..:?-".... /> - .V;- , %.: ; i ? ; '' i ! ' VOL, ,TT.?N0~ 5ft. jfimi port! v . ; ^IlRENHAS MISCEGK Chart NATI0N CASE. arriv* I ' ' . -^rI The White People Of The Comf _/ munity Warn Couple. To - , ? Leave At Once. . HUSBAND IS ARRESTED. Is Released On a $1000 Bond And is Told Publically by Citizens Not to Return. New '^ork,^-DeeT-l!?==-Tb^ lynching community of Aiken, South Carolina is again in the limelight with a "miscegenation" case," according to information reaching _the .National _ Association for the Advancement of" ?- Colored People, UOFifthAvemie. White people in thfi tween the towns of Windsor and S White Pond have threatened "troui ble" ' to a young married couple if they try to live in their home because the young husband. Arthur Munday, is accused of haying colo. v. feci blood. Munday was arrested after his marriage, Charged with."pOs: ing a 'a whito man," and^fatfcey=*g?; leased in $1,000 bond. A local news? paper reports: ' "Munday gave bond and is now at liberty, but it is understood that he has been plainly told by citizens of the community that if he should un ? derlake to l'Oturn there with his wife there would be troube'. 7?? """^The crime of miscegenation, charged against him is severely dealt with.under the^i&ws of-ihi^-StaMr^ penalty Demg nxca 01 irom not less than 12 months ^nd a fine of $500 to ten years ahd a fine of from $2 ,000 to $3,000 upon conviction. This is to prevent intermarriage between the races. "The woman in the case issaid-te be crushed by thecharges that have been brought and the developments . . fuUowing_her marriage."" ^ PROBE New York, pec. .17?The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People relays from the New York Times a special despatch to that1 newspaper naming the Ku Klux Elan in connection with lynching threats against three Negroes removed from Media jail to the Eastern Penitentiary in Philadelphia for safe-keeping Tw0 of the three Negroes are to be electrocuted for murder, the third is to be tried. The Times despatch says "An investigation probably will be made of reports that the Ku Klux ??Klmt, said To be strongly entrepched in Chester, Linwood and otjier rom' nudities in the County,' may have been cognizant of the alleged plot to storm the jail at Media and lynch the colored slayers." f . WILLIAM PICKENS IN EUROPE. N. A. A. C. P. HIS SC1IE: ' - .t i. DJJLE. .... ; ' r,\ TT ;. ens, Fiel Secretary of the National t Associate for the-Advancement of Colored Pv>pte, now in Enro-ne, hasr sent to theN. A. A. C. P. National Office, his Veiling K^'bpflulo?Arriving in L(don December 1. Mr. Pickens was i lecture there, then , proceed to Ma-.hestert Leeds, Rug Jbyt Coventry, -airbridge, Birming^? ham, Bristol anc.)t?tjb^forth^ peturnHf?ing to London on-gnuary jg in all P" the English cities]yjr Pickens was to meet represemtiv*. gr0up3 of people and make tabVtc ,,ldre3ses> Today;-according to achec,^ ^ p ?Piekcna ia aUondingrege^*>n to ry diriiuc iingCria >i , ' ' -i. . 'f ? -." Sfri . r 7 l'\ in. *. m LOUFIL SPlNGjM T( CASE ( Air" " I ,UARY 3. Involves Disrscment Of Southern >;? I?,v. The WhTe I'r Systcmr. DISCISSION NS MUCH. This 7 .-, ^ \y.rried To Tht ITghest 111 By The N. yc P. New, York, 17?It was an ' nouneed- todaAC ?flices of th | N. A. A. G. 1 Arthur_B. Spin j earn, pr.uminAv York attorne and Chair ma1 he . NationaJT Lrf gal Committee"Advancenum Association ? to Washingfo oh January r the a^^iir^cnt i The U~" Sv~ SiVGowt of the eal cf,Nixon vjhdon, et al. Th ? important c<v?N'ing as it doc the validity'0 disfranehiseorni 1 of Negroes outhern States b means of tilled "white prin avv" -y.sten he en carried to tl . country's h tribunal by' the 1 ^ A. A.C. P;>vorable decision'-w mean anoH^t victory in the 1 A. A. C. pg fight against d Thai "of tfidt fo'Ncgroc.s in tl . South and ake .its place with tl I CS*' which( A'. A. C. P. was i 'strumenta'-aining in 1915 The Acnicnt Associatior attorneys-cor(l i'r this case a Mooi'fic7d?y ?f Boston, Jam 'A. Cohb aahington, and FrodKnollenlind R,. J. Channel nf DIIiKCliTATE WELFARE () NATION'S HERE. i To Alld'Be Convention of Flo ad-" >persons have/fceen lywhed-m the Un >ach I it<?'ci States ft' the last .thirty -ymrr awl most of them were colored peo luns pfc " * )llsc liic nrn'I'iTHc i lU'n1 TTWfWf^tfflT'TR! J(?rt. sci iplion of tho lynching read b; uv.il Mr. Johnson before the Senate Com the nritteor Awl?the article Inter* eon p of tinues: ? "The -colored people propose-wn t0 becoriie human beings with th j rights of all other fellow citizen; j^g Not only by this is meant poTfficf are rights, but social rights. The lash Pr?fiose tQ be heard from on thei Can Jherits as individuals. They do n< - - I (Continued from rage Four) ua l earners. 'J , Tl. I".*'." lj(.\;*xtrctiee K7 Oxley, Din tor 'of Hate Department of Pi lie. V?'e< ?f Raleigh, North Ca iina: tpst outstanding public Tidal "ic South, connected w tTJTy Sfot'tn-nment xvill spend i\ day ai?os<'dy in Columbia. Lie OxleyU'o his connection with North'olina Department of P lie We, hlcl a professorship .JjttTTe" dqllegeT^Sf Italei IIC ir.-%onally admired, bv Pn dent Mrs. Coolidge. Mr. On was r horn and lived in Bostc Hji'ival in Columbia was m kno\y Seymour Carroll, field ! retaf the American Humane ! catTiociefy,- who makes hts 1k qua* here. Mr. Carroll will joii/ere by Lieut. Oxley,-Mon or 'ddy ifriil rrrotoftn?Jatto villHorida. where ' they wTTT (Irohe State ConCer\tion -of Tc (.|?scssioh m that city. ? night-the two Caroliai ^vjiendd in Savannah, as the h< jofe Georgia State Agricull ' aplcchanical College, leaving j piing motiving for the last la i /Van*?in . London?at the h cjters of the Society ef-ftsk 1 subjects oti which Mfr. Pic lectured to Kntflish audiences ? American Nepr0 and the c <plor" and How White People P the Color Question." : frcifY is an6 a ^ ? ?! ? de Iaken 1 T. . r \ , . . : -i: , 1 Give Pla;y mi.T'M'niA, s, c sati - . 'i . ~ ? " " ' ' ' * ; J - *--?' " -- -TT'' ,LE EDIT OI ) BE AT "WHI N. Y. DAILY JOINS I ""PiGiir. , ] ' Belli A , of> ;t New YoiA, Advocates Dver -^-7. Anti-Lynching Act. 1 PHOTOGftAFlIS LYNCHING. ' ! . -?' ' I, v -*A o d >n -Johnson trends J Dcfore AcimteJudiciary A- Committee. ' .! New York, Dec. 17?The anti=? c lynching crusade carried on for 16 . ycai'a-.by. .ther"Xati65ar "Association j y for the'Advancement of Colored Peotic has now .enlisted the interest rt-;<4h? New York 'livening?Graphic, a, n daily "tabloid"' ncyvspaper, which n has begun series of. articles on. ;c racc^rclulicTir!. The^rhphic begpn is the series tfith a. first-page composite ?3?photograph, prepared - from a deft ; script-ion of" a lynching read by iy ,'Jaiv.cs Weldon-Johnson, N. 'A. A. C. n- P. Secretary, "Before the Senate Juitfiip eiary Committee last year. The \,T. photograph shows a Negra...drained . dj?}.?> a stake being- burnod alivq by a vj. Mississippi molS. /Belo'Wthe picture o- i the .following,.caption: "How long le'v. ill this go- on-' -irrf Mvili?r d-Amcrica=?= io This composite photograph was s=. carefully prepared from the den scriptign of the burning of a Negro at' stake in Itocky Ford, Miss. This i's outrage was described before ..the re Senate Judiciary Committee by es ionic- Weld 'if. .folfu.-on, In a plea for C. the Ilyer AnjLi-^V.'^hiug SiTT. which" FMiiirTriM. yet-heen' pTt^ed in Cdngressr Ot? -Hi -the-article1 in 44ie Grupmc afe-~ j following statements: "Not long ago R- there was a strange drama enacted jn .the his tone. Ca pi t qj_of Wash i.ngton. "Within the A\Ttlls of the Congress, rF eloquent statesmen were busy de-? ktxuimeimx-hjirbari.-m to which Antei'i cans were subjcctod in-foreign lands, "The unspeakable Turk was atjlj.! tacked as a*:savage and a monster ro- because of his cruelties, . There was (>f.1 angry criticism against the .Mexicans. jH^'J he. Chinese were denounced. ? *. i "Mean, while in a^notlmr-room in the ut i Capitol,?another voice was raised, the I Quietly,.earnestly, in^a deliberate adulj. I dress to the members of the subat.J eomnTrror<? ~trf the " Senate^ Judiciary r>sj-1 "The speaker was a colored -man, iley*) He was James TYeldon Johnson, Secrotary of the National Association ade f?r tbe Advancement of Colored Peofcc-ple. His job that day was to speal Sdu in behalf of a measure that had nc rad-! chance to pass?the Dyer -Anti' be 1 Lynching act.? 7? ? ?day { ."That measure had no ctran.ce- t( ' * " --i.- -.r a. c??i. Q 99, 1 fappy ytzw Up By "Gi r With Ex( ??? U??: : ? IRI.UY, U^g. 25, 1^26. ?nc iw1 TE PRIMARY 'LAYERS OF NOTE TO PARTICIPATE. iome of tfte'Best Actors of the Raw U> Take Active I'arU^I VLL COLORED AMERICANS. ;iux_AY til -bo--I^^*rrttrti~rTT"T>i o vmeotown?Theatre,?New . York Cityv. --New York--Dee. 17 The-NatiOna Association lor the Advancement oJ Colored People is informed by th< Provincctown Playhouse, that its next production will be "Abraham': Bosom" rignlay bv Paul Green, witl i cast including the well-known sin gcr, Julius Bledsoe; Rose McCleh flint., wlin pl.-iycd nrm < vfiilly in=tfe 'jiuz opera" Deep . River; Abbi Mitchell, who litis appeared frequent ly on Bi-oaawayT Prank \ViTsun, wlv piayed in Eugene O'Neill'sf.'jAll God' Clvillun Got" Wings;"- and] a support ing caut which includes H. Ben Sniit! Klines?..DuiiinurO,?TliuillUS Moshoi YTelvin Greene, Stanley Greene, Ar niithine Luttimer ami R;S. Huey< The play is directed by Jaspe PcoUt with set tings' by fhe well known stage designer, Gleon' Th'rocl mortpn; 1 he opCjVjhg-of the play i set for December 28"ahd it will" b the second bill Jn the' P'royincctow Tho>itvn'e cunqnn P^ud Green, the jauthor of the p.la last, year won the Belasco Cup f.t -the. Dallas Players at the Little Th< atre-Tournament--iBs prrze-^wmmn play. _ ttUft-'' y -Cuutk?~ BovAL??-t N. ,A. A; .C. 1'. . ANTI-LYNCHIN L CRPSADE CARRIED TO EN( | LAND BY PICKENS. ' / r New York, Dee. 17-^First repor of addresses delivered in England 1 William Pickens, Field Secretary the National. Association for the A . vanccment of Colored People, ha just reached the National Ollico, I'il'tli Avenue. Cil^pinggs from o of the most important newspape in Grcatr Britain, the Martche'st . Guax-dian, indicate that his meetin were highly successful in Manchest I Headlining its report "Evil I fccts of Lynching," the Munches! Guardian writes of Mr. Pickens" follows: "Touching on some of~t . facts, which the National Associati L for the Advancement of Colored Pi -V- L_~ 1 u*. i:?l, (. T^v. TJi. j)iu nas uiuu^ui iu 11^111, ?si, ? n r ens. said that-bofore its formation 1 , only attacks on lynching were sp . adic and sentimental. But the J sociation's inquiries had disprcn , the commc>.i_ assumption _that^Nj ^ roes were lynched only as puni . ment lor attacks on white wome rl?1 "" * ? ? NOTICE. _ I in ? run ni \T pj By request of^a grotfp of young . J dies, Itev. Sam B. Wallaee will pre l<r a special sermon on Sunday. Janu rUth, at 8 R M., on the subject,""T ylt.IRT. TTT.\T A11'.\ FORfiKT!-AV HIOR." K. very married man iind yl not engaged at his ow rv-church,js |r' quested to he present to hear .j_sermon. BOYS AND GIRLS 1 ' | PER it; years will not BKj MITTED. J* . . ' 1110 WMhlnrko* St Colum in i iHmilhi n ^ ' year to " rapnic"N. ForN.A :lusive Neg : /Ny _ ^Srv' - r ^r **7.-^^! ? rHELl 5NTA3DC F ARGUMENT SOLD CAKE FOR N. A. " a:c. p. ' . o- r . ; , ""..J _ ' , i i - > Mrs. Louise Davis of Cleveland, zf^Hwa, feells $100 Worth Of ' Cilke.. r c 65jtri6utes annually. !\Irs. foavislias Raked And Sold Cake For Four "fOansecutive > YearsC ^ ~Tcr .four successive , year's'^Ifs. n - * Louise W. Davis, of 1050''East 98th j I. Street,'- Cleveland, Ohio, has /baked i i and sold enough cake to turn in ^ -10U to the National Association Tor the Advancement-of Colored People ?_ ts'her """'1'''ution. T)"-e lition to her $10 membership and the " annual $100 contribution of Harry 0 10. Davis, v^jho is ?1 member of the \. A. A. -0. P,. Board of Directors anc: ^ of the Ohio Legislature.. ,1 airs. Ilyr h,i iln nly tmnril j) $00 for the current year, and xepecti | to have completed' lleY cake quota it ^ the near future. The X. A, A. C. I' mrrnt thr-the "fourth ^rcrrct1 ssive *year vr is TTrs. Davis* work not only as an ex ie. tvaordinary eypresijion of loyalty am n devotion to' the cause, but also as i tribute to the quality of a prod tie which people will be eager to buy fo ji .A ur_ successive years.'-. ~ HKL DLMEOY^ t HOME F ts Fire of unknown origin destroye jy .he lone building of the-;Fairwol oi- -Iiunie. an institution for delinquet (].- .\egro girls, located about ten mil< ve forth of .Columbia, Monday niori CD q- .-il iv1* -M-?cftrQ iire \Vi lie beyond any means oT~ control ; i's band when discovered and resulu er in the total destruction of tl gS building,- whiyh; was insured fi ;er 1 >( * 00, said to. have been les^^hi j;f_ one hidf of its value. >cr At t-he time of the fire there Ave as 17 girls in the home. These gir 0IT -in the-misskm -of- -the St.?^larj a0. Episcopal - church, colored,, throuj he kindness of Bishop Kirkman Me- rrrr"j::.rrr- :11' ft or- 'v . -*" ^s. DUE WEST LOCALS. .'ed ' , 2g- ? - -fib1 QHn L. Smitfrr) sh- Services atY"lttt. Lebanon A. M. n|" church oKTasFSunday were both i __ tvrestirig and fruitful. After the S day_ School hdbr, the Rev. P. J. W . . son preached a sermon based ihi:.U-i.. '.U.i.'omr Afc liSQi-.p. -i la- the Rev. S. D. Lee, of Jadksonvil ach ' Ela., preached another thrilling' s ary mon based on Isa. 22:45 Leag HE services were interesting. IIO - Rev. .S. I).?Tec, of Javknonvi iET I'"la., returned to his home ^fter wo- visit relatives and friends in 1 ittTtT ? - T" r.e- Mrs. P. J. Wilson, and her motV this Mrs. M. L. Richardson, accompan JN- the Rev. P, Wilson to Due W AD- on last. Friday. . Thay stopped nt home of Mr. H. Lee. Rev. Wij ? . . _. -r+y? : - -'-S ' t' ' -VI L Mat. Cj ^tHT PTM. L*dl?I?Oulld ZAU ] ; ??' - _! J Y. DAILY ro Players ] E \ ? , i - -i' ? " t>c~A COPY" t?^ p T T W TIT rwi ^ -It? % FOR AID N. A. A. C. P. PAYS LEGAL FEES. Thf Editors Were Convicted ?And Fined g'250 Each For \? Their -Utterances.?- ' - ^ -* 7^t C 4 ' _ ' |EDITORS RETURN THANKS. " / ! Every Nickel, Dime And DoHrftIs Appreciated By These __i?? ' Editors. - .Mesbib, I. Willis Cole and William ?= Warlev. the two colored editors of - Louisville. Kentucky, who were tried and. fined $2fi0 for their bold utter- :?_> dances condemning the railroading fo death of colored men accused ISf" , . . crime, have thanked the National As--~~~ >UUlclLlUIl 1UI LIIU nu\ UW^CIIICUV Ui ? - Colored rtiupR' Tui^ijayiftg" the en-^ ' tire legal fee of the trial amounting ~ to $300. The Louisville Leader says . ? ' Ld'Torially^?1 1 ???J.. >1. "The case is not1 that of the edi-, tors alohe, but all Negroes, all hews- ? papers, 'especially those published Sy ? ^ Negroes, and we appreciate the many kind words front friend and citizens ' ' ;-c~ here and there, and the contribut1 ions made to the defense- fund F^- ?? ^ery penny, nickel, dime and dollar Is p^p^reciate^j . Especially do we thank ' f.p. for the $500 and the churches and 1 "other organizations That responded -"t0 the local branch of the N. A. A. C. J7 i. P. which is looking after the defense. . We thank "Bishop R. A. Carter, Chicago, 111.; Prof. I). II. Anderson, Paducah, Kyr-and Rev. E. G. Harris, 7 ~~ ? ; r Louisville," Ky., for. personal 'contri- ' ' ' 1 *? ! butions of-$&^a"Ch."" FAIRWOLD . - * "T7 * . * % ' ? OR NEGRO GIRLS j j Stepsfor rebuilding the home are j being considered, but no definite jt have been' decided uopn yet. - " ^ The?home?was - built during the World .war, largely through the ~s 1 UL'lH'liies oi- the State Federation t of Negro Women's clubs and the State Federation of Women's clubs. ' * Although Faifwold ' home serves in or'a public capacity for the state no i in appropriation has ever been mad^ j for the institution by the general Eg fltsnivihly, A request ?for - aid' from - ""-; r? 'Is * the legislature for such a home will ' . r?3 l)L' JllMlll? ai 'Tne.noxi RCncral assem- " ' v ^ bly by the Stiite Federation of WoG. men's *cldbs of which "Mrs. R. B. Fur- " i 3 -"*i, * - man of Sumter is"!president.-" "** ??? *' y ? ' ^ i will move intp ttya manse nf Mt Uh??___ ^ j anon churgj^^jhc near^future. . E. left on lastr4fuesday for Greenwood in- their futur^KS&e; - The " heartiest on good wishes' .off'the congregation of il- Mt. I.ehahrm are extended tp them as on they take up their work with the good ? \Tf I'il-rtnl, lie,j Miss, Ruth'Holmes spent, last week. er- end with home people. She teaches ^ue [ near 11 odges^j ' ' j Rev- 'L E- Vauss is teacfimg_at An. a Mrs. Marie J. Vauss Walker, of )ue Asheville N. C.7 is spending lome" ~7~tTT L with her parents?, the Rev, and ~ ler, j Mrs. J. E. Vauss. lied j The Young Men's Club of which 'est William -Cowan is president gaye - ' the;nn enjoyable fete at UmJiumtt of ttw son 1 writer on last Thursday, evening. 1 - . ^ . -- -... I'Slftffsif?i