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'North c ills 1 \ VOL. IV?NO. 4. LegiJfi IN CfARYr ' , INDIANA' *7"* . 1 ' o * Race Students Still Excluded From Emerson High S School JLk. k. k. spirit prevailing a Negro Advancement. Association < ? r To Fight Case to-Last Notch New- York, Jan. 20?R.' L. Bailey, 4 , Of Indianapolis, retained as attorney !by the National Association' fpr the Advancenletjt of, Cblored People, to" assist in the fight against the Jim * Crowing .of colored high school students In tUaify, reports that the cases arising out .-of the "exclusion of colored students-from tVi<? Fmi-ivnn Hipil) School have been venued to Valprai80. / -These cases will be closely contested, as Ku Klux Klan sentiment in paIry is determined to bring about school segregation and the- N. A. A. C. P. resource. - - .; ' ' -*1 ^ MILTON STARR CHAIN OF JSJA TRES I'L'KCHASES THEATRE AT ENSLEY, ALA. r * . At- a cost of C'50,000 the Milton Starr chain of theatres.- has. just acquired the Palace Theatre in Ensley, Alabama. This theatre?is-the tenth house comprising this circuit of Race Theatres which is the largest in the - country* The Ensley Theatre will be taken over by Milton Starr on Feb?ruary 1st and will ha operated as a combination house playing high class . pictures antf T.O. B. A. vaudeville. The Palace Theatre Is'onFoI the best appointed Race theatres , in the country. Built a little more than a year ago the house is equipped with modern features of construction and equipment. Included is a modern stage wim an uppurenances ana equipment, I' a $5,000 pipe organ, a newly installed ventilating system "and many othI. er desirable features. In the opera(Jk, tiori of his theatres Mr. Starr is asJm sociated with Mr. W. S. Scales, of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, one of the foremost rac.e business Imcn of the South. Mr. Starr is president of the Theatre Owners Booking Association, the .leading- booking oflice for colored attractions in the country and Mr. Scales is a prominent stockholder in this company. At present negotiations are pending for further additions to this theatre chain and an uuuiiwciiicii^ ui aUUlllUIlUl UCI{U1S111UI1^ are promised for the near future. HOWARD UNIVERSITY FROSH ELECT MEMBERS TO STUDENT ? COUNCIL ?; Edward. Taylor and Mercer. Mance were elected to the student council By the Freshman clas3, Friday afternoon, January 13. Both Taylor and Mance were members of the Frosh debating team. This team won r&xom the Sophomores in the annual Fresh man-Sop homore debate hekl in the fall quarter. Membership to the Student Council is a position coveted by nearly every I Freshman-. Being- amambar of the Council Is considerdM^arT honor. The Frosh, who has this honor, lian dcjmpnd hearing and respect of the up per olaoompn.?? '??? ? Harry Landers and Miss~ Efinoi Hariston were the losing nominees . MR. JOHN "MCKINLEY HERE Mr:.Johnl Mcl&nley, of Chicago, is r? the guest of Professor I. M. A.-Myers on Pine St., while in. the city, . Mr - ^McKinley is field agent and investi? gator of the Association for the Studj of Negro Life and History, Washinggr toil, D. 0. He-wlil be herre a fen da; ..feathering data for Dr. Cartel | G. Woodson's publication. Mr. Mct Sml'h University. Sunday: .returnij I , to Columbia Monday to finish his worli * J***... AROLINA %? $ ght Cont Los Angt Arkansas Ir WOULD GATH- ' j ER IDEAS : < ?\ ( r, * Party Led by Arkansas} Supt."of Public Education and Composed of Eight 10 BUILD $500,000 PLANT Impressed With elf-Paying. I Farm at North Carolina's \ Agr. & Tech. College. ' l . ? 1 Led by Arkansas' superintendent of t publ e education a party of eight jjer- 1 i pas from the state spent the . better I i par' fo yesterday afternoon inspect- , 1 tig A. ;rut T. College, leaving last ( night for IVte'rsburg, Va.," where they t will vi$it the State Normal school, "pi The. party, coinpostal-.of high cdu-:" ea' ibnlfl c Hi c hits' arid a?prom inertt-f ba-nker of Arkansas, is visiting rjjne Negro schools of the So'uth to !gath- ~ er ideas for'the construction of a state school for Negri es at Pinc BlulIT, Ar^ j kansasj. ;? 1 "This is the finest thing we 'have j' --?*een-yet" vWs tlie comment of one of;,* the; parly soon after reaching the A. and T. campus. During and follow- ( irig the'.inspection the members of the* party expressed their .unusual pleasure and satisfaction over t3ie Negro school. "You know it has the highest"rat " "IHff or any Scluwl for Nodious in the country?" I)r. II. A. Dawson, state-statisciun said last nijtht before L?ayinjr.-,,They have many thing's out there that we would like, to imitate and several things that We would like^1 " to take to Arkansas .with us.-'-. ' lie" waS particularly pleased - with the manner in which the school was | handled stated that that the president, i' F~f). Bluford, and the registrar and i _ business mahajjfr were three |men 1 ] that sonic oTFcr state was going to . take away frotiv'here unless North,! Carolina paid a high class figure for 1 their'services.- " j' While die was busy, .examining thfc '1 managcnient/'ipf the school the re- j' matador of*the .party vinjted an(l >n*! sported practically every, phase of: tile plant. They Visited the dormitor-1 ins tKo ivne .'nfl'haa tin, If several departments in thc. science ; TTuildinjr, the dining?room and kitchen, the central heating plant, and the J . i--seHfrnPs-farm out on route No.-Uk The party listened in on several . ;m.I. ^nw <^nm(. frf thi> ^Indents = wtvaly - u'ivtik .!ig-, .mlJL.m>iHl._li| -t?he- - ^anue) training department, and laying hr:cks in another in addition to o work in the electrical and nucham ' cal departments. "I am most impressed,"- said J. P. i Womack, state superitendent of puh11 lie instruction, "with thc farm. For 11 the first time I have found a college | farm that actually pays." A* far as I- the school in pen oral was concerned the caliber of the officials and the ~ L -hiirh t ype of professors at work there r seemed^ to he niosF talked of by the" r party" as a whole. ?5?? 3 The party left Little Rock, January - 10, slopping over In Nashville, Ten nessee to inspect Tenncsee A. and- I. school and Fisk University there. They canie here via Atlanta. Other schools to be inspected orr" the trip are: State Normal school, i Petersburg. Virginia; State Teachers* , Training Institute,-Hampton Virginia, . State Normal school, 'Montgomery, Alabama; Tueskegce Institute, Che1 kaw', Alabama ahd Southern Universl- " ty, Baton Rouge, L'ousiana. phey will ' return to Little Pock, January 26, President Bluford of A. and T. Col Icgft greeted the visitors in his office ^ yesterday afternoon about B:00?o?-|; t clock, leading them about hll after- i ; | noon. G. H. Ferguson and N. C.Newbold, of Raleigh, connected with , r. COLLEGE ftlme COLUMBIA,'S. C., SATURDAY .. .... .. . inues Ai % ;fes Mayo: isnedHon P i~ - : ~ _r~-- r: Officers of J fidelity ' j ' Mr,. A. Moore Shcarin; Manager, * md Mr. C. O. I'earsoh, of the South- j rn Fidelity and Surety Company Have 1 * r " ( . f > C )?en for the past week visiting the j arious district in which agencies!1 lave been established. As have here-j |ofore been announced, "this company j 1 las been licensed to carry on its busi- j ^ ioss in this State after a thorough | 1 nv^stjgation of the . State Insurance^ TViJo nnmnovnt i ...o vuillfxilj 'a < ('*= >bly Negro company in the world.' hat writes surety bands of all kihds. TTiTsd will write aueldont and healthp Mr. J. jM. Dawkins and Mr. R pointed City Representatives' and to pay up back dues and renew 1 '-.v V'' v . \ :. j: . . Only ; unless they pay at the otli< ; ' V \ > GEO. 1 l:tin Asssomldv Xtront Pli?iiu /IK' - ^Vfvv v.jr J. 11V4IV i OI.ANDE DU BOIS TO MARRY ] PORT, coentfk riI.IF.V . . ? New York, Jan. 2G?Dr. anil Mrs. < W; E. Burghurdt Du "Bois, of this > city announce the engagement of ' ihcir only child, Nina Yoli^nde to Mr. Eountee- Cullen,,son of Reverend and 1 Mvs. Frederick A. Cullen, also of New < i'ork. The- wedding will be celebrat- : oil at Easter time. ' ' Countee Cullen, .the -well known 1 poet, was born "and educated in New York und is a graduate of New York 1 University (A. B., lJhi Beta-Kappa^l and of Harvard (A. M.) He is the1" author of t^vo volumes of poems and an anthology, and is Assistant Editor of the Magazine, Opportunity. He , is a member of the Alpha Phi"Alpha fraternity. Miss I)u Bois was born in Mssaachusetts and educated in N-gw York and Engl&bd. {Slit* is a graduate of . risk University (A.Ti.) and Colum-1 htA ( \ M \ nnrl i? n c*- I lish and Drawing at . the Douglas^ High School, Baltimore. She is a member of the Delta Sigma Thetn Botority. _, _ j TRAFFIC COF AT OAK AND GERVAIS STREETS ' & ' : ? , :.v The police department of the city has "put an "officer on duty to handle the traffic at the corner of Oak and' Gcrvaia streets. This furnishes prolection for the pupils going out in that direction from the Waverly school, and will likely eliminate ac-cidbnt that oaeur freouently at that particular intersection. the state department of education, 1 rame -over to nsaiat in thc inspection. -.Governor Mortineau, of Arkansas, was Scheduled to make the trip but was taken sick the day before the day len, of -Morth. Carolina's public in- j struction, had also planne'd'to be here but did not arrive. The Arkansas party was composed^ of J. P. Woltfack, A. B. Hill and Miss j Erie Chambers, members of the board of directors, and five "others, J. C. Coftman, Harrison, Arkansas, banker* Fred McCulston, states superintendent of Negto schools, D. R, A. Dawson, rhrt^-atatlstlclAn and Theo M. Saixr ders, architect for the new college. (Taken from fhe^ Greensboro Daily " News, January 20, 1927.) > HEAD K tfo - ' V V:V - >' ? JANUARY, 28; 1928^" ;ainst J arty Praise southern In State nsuranoe.." the object.of Messrs. bhcarin's am 'ear son's visit was ?or the puipus* >f meetjing the general agents of tin :oinpa?y to Kive instruction in tin conduct of the business. The com .any. intends that the business o \ ruing contracts of insurance shal jegih, February 1st W)tn a "pang." "ihe ohiciais. were-at Spurlanlmri luesuay, Wnei'e were guthereu 10 gen ;rul iBtems. WeunesUav- tnt-v n.ei n CoTumoia and 1 nursuay; they nie mother group in Charleston. QITY SUBSCRIBERS. ,oosevelt Johnson have been ap will call 611 all City Subscriiair :heir subscriptions for the net I to pay these Representative } i :e. I. HAMPTON,-Publisher. 4 , ... * 23. .. . . SEW YOUR N. ArA. C. 1'. AL \IL IAKY TO HOLD SPRING DANCE [ New York, Jan; 2G?The Commit .ee of 1U0, composed New Y'ork, wo nen, Auxiliary to the National As sociation. Lor the Advancement . o Colored People announces that, fo Dance thi year in the Manhattan Casino, Ktl Avenue and 155th Street, they hav engaged Fdrd 'Dabney and his or jhestra of fifteen, men, which has jus L'cincluded its Broadway, and out-ol town bookings with Kang-Tang. Two Ampico Grand Pianos will b oancd loc the Spring Dance throug the courtesy of Mr, William Mofri of. th'e Morris Music Company. For this-dance , 86 floor boxes w.i be arranged at the Manhattan Casi no;~?n addition to the uuper boxe ALLEN'S MUSICAL TROUPE Al' [ PEAKED IN GEORGETOWN On Friday evening, January 20t the Alle'n University musical tt'Olip rendered a recital at Beth.el A. M. b Church before a record audience o both white arrcPcobored. ThiS cOncei was in the class those rendered b profession singers. ': rl ho minrtot piininnuo/1 for orite (Messrs. Cannon and Green an the. charming Misses Clark and Wil liams, who surprised thcv audicnc with their wonderful singing. Mis Fountain, who 'sang Two soTds, als a duet, taken from Blpssom time, wit Mr. Cannon, was?4\lao a favorite 0 the program. - She, made the. Tug notes with alleftsW ed her versatile ability. ... Capt. Thomas and . hia orchcstr played no-little part oj? the progran Ilis numbers were both popular an classic. The boys and girls of th orehestra-Took- -of their parts in bi stylo with the most diflicylt selection: PrtsicTeru Stms- in his usual mastoi TuT wayT delivered a well instruete address 0n "The New Negro." H rrrs f it.- : ~ me iiluuiii ui nw peopie open o telling His usual antidotes thpn mad them swallow facts as to the pre gre&a of tlit-Negro.. .. As an expression of appreciatio and In keeping with the hospitabl spirit of Georgetown, the Eurek Club tendereaTKe^vlsttofs a Wffptio at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. I Alaton. i ' # a 5SUES ST A' ve On Co < . "^~ " A '1 ? > v I T. >s A & 1. , ' ' > '} PRESS WOULD II( KNOW FACTS ) Chairman of Fact-Finding Con?ference Not Yet to Give Details of Recent Meet , . 1 1 "WHERE ARE THE FACTS?" ~ Above Question * Continuously . i Asked of Fact-Finding Cdn- . - fi?ri?nfP**t Henri tl -'T." on 1 Durham, N. C.?In a statement, for | the press of the etnauv-y. Dr. James E. A-1 r Shepurd, President -of the North Ca- pit . rolina College lol- Negroes who last CM j inunUi was elected chairman of the ?1' t Durham Fact-Finding Conference, rej:-ponds to numerous inquiries coming C - from" all sections the country re- A questing detailed information con 1 ; ?- , * . . vj, O i cornintr t 1m firwlmirc r\f tho nnnfn*?o?/?ft Ui One of the inquiries that the state- a - ment aims to answer is that of a vt -'prominent Negro. pulicist tvho asks,'*-' ".Where arb th& .facts?" Dr. Shepr 3. V aid's statement Hrwis*ft^6$jKaV * ^ ''From the great -numbcr-of. -inquir- lA ies coming, from both races as to the lL* findings. of the Durham. "Fact-Finding r hi Conference, it appears that the piib- 1 C. lie lodked-fohvard to the broadcasting B of the material presented at the con- B - 1 eri'in'i. in the manner usually char acteristic of our national meetings, tb The Durham Conference, however, un- ia like most of our national gatherings C< - was not simply 'a forum lor th<r pre^-^ - sentation of opinion, but a ' Serious [ tr _ elfort to : determine, the present-day E' f status of the-Ameriean Negro. From ! B< v the very natura of the case, there-.zc s fore, before the release of any of the) h- material presented the fncts had care-; of (Tffally to be reviewed both by the au- | - thors and the, committees appointed t for that purpose and essential facts tb - weighed and measured not only for! their values as facts but as to ^heir C< e 1 worth to the Negro public.' This re- . be h ; view is about to be Trompteted and a Pc jj '-summary of the findings of .the con- b: j fert'nee stripped of' all elements of t. a more opinion, will shortly be issued j. to the Negro press, followed by more at ,s- detailed statements.' In Addition to ra statements' for the " press arrange-! -sI >. mtmts have neatly been completed for vi publication of a volumetto. contain the , documents presmtad-^atelfhe -meeting. ?s n',. .u ?t.iL ...:ii f._ ajy viii.t incaita jjuuiic \vh1,uc jmuc- 1 I c'd in possession of a .jeolleqtion of au- or . i thcntie facts regarding the Negro in '! J America which, for theirs wide range, sc t j CJU'e of ' collection?nrrri?authenticity, i? will hardly be equalled -by anything y at present available in prin." , ^ Di\ Shepard, who conceived the i{j dea of'the Conference, was made its l' I [chairman at its opening session. It c was ht. who skillfully-confined its ac-. ^ ' tivities within the limits of a fact-! S m - finding meeting. For many years anf ^ irrtportant factor iQ- the Durham Iw , group, idealistic to a fault, the dream- a ^ | or in a group predominated by practi? Teal, hard-headed business men such ^ as .were his-associates: C. C. $pauld.ing apd V\. ti. Pcarsbn, Dr. Shdpard j.^a ' has place iifindelibly, the stamp of his t , 1 personality upon the business institu-! l otions of the South's leading Negro' " e business center, many of whijrh owe g their actual existence to his dreams, j.l Participating, as he does?, as an | -' organizer, director or stockholder in J c, e terprises,. he has also contributed in 0f y Targe measure to the culturalTite of e Durham over a "long period of years". C? >_' B&ck in the days, twenty years ago, 0( J when, Nggre business waa in it* In- ^ n fancy, Dr. Shepard was bringing to m q the city the leading white and Negro 4 a lecturers of the country. This, he did | CJ h through the medium of the Volkeme-; p ! nla Ciqb, a literary Bflclcty which frtr: a Continued on page five. ]t , . ' V*?V * ' * . TEMENT \ - "V V ' * ' . ? > ft* . ** \ : ' *? ' u^__, 5c A COPY mmittee 0 WELCOME CONVENTION . :>n. Geo. F. Cryer, of Los Angeles, Together VVilhOiher l'ublic Oliiciuls, Prepare. INFERENCE 1N_ JUNE resident of Denver Rranch to lave Canyon "Trout Fry'4 tor Passing Delegates """" : New York, Jan ?Mayor George . Cryer of. Los Angeles has connted to ferve ex-othcio' oiT a Cun-fCT Co CdiYini'Uft' wji.c-h he- ft.11 him If anoint, in-, ejection 'with .l'Jth rmuul Spring Conference in tlf&t" ,y next June of 11i rm j innl A ;?r.otCoa lor the "Advancement of Col- -ed People, it was announced today. 111IS news Coit.es to toe .> a..uuUl * lice, oj Oil in it i eo'.uOi ouin of. J. , botticrviae, oi ano0.ts, u no, gOrtliei? Nil til .UCSsls. L,. U. iiOU.MsuU iU litus /cicXuUuer ttt'i'f Ui-l/oaued Coliini.t McTlO llttel'es t. pl'O.U .llCilc Clt- . C-hS 01 LOS .-liigeus in w.u..'v n. Ai i ;?=?, i\ meeting ii'oitf June * > lo Joiy - * T In ^BiitiOn to the Mayor of Los htfoloa. ltoii. Aiiiiur l.tu.iuCe, ires-. * . kent of the board of i uoiio Works is consented to serve on the N. A. A. k* , P., Conference Conumute.as liuve on. James: E. Liavis, Civiei io police;, on. 11. Sehwaibe, C. S.' Col/OL'ter'of ustoms; Dr. hniury S. Cugardus", of" ' . ie Umversity of ?outhcin Caiiforn; Judge ArchiBali oT the Superior" jurt; Judye Cuerin of rhn Sunrome [>nrt; B'ishrips .1 .t Cant well. _Beam Stevens and J. J. Mart,n; Itabbi' tlgar F. .Manin, 'Supe'rvisor J. II. , ean.and Dr. Walter' Sylvester IlerZZ? ' In addition^' many oTRor .citizens : Los Angeles *preiwnen-tdiverth- in? [icial and civic life, have consented scry? on this' Committee to receive e N. A. A. C. P. ~ . It is confidently expected that* this inference of the C\*. A. A. C. P. will ine 'greatest gatneung of Colors*. ^ 'pj lo and their friends ever-to hav.e ? en heldon the. pacific Coast of the . nited States-. 'The X.-tf.rtK.- C. P. is at present ranging with the Rock island Rdil- ? ad for -special cars and possibly a lecial train to carry delegates arid si tors fro'T^he TIast tw I.os Ange-. s, covering' points of scenic, intert along: the way.- Representatives **" the' -Rock Island road are'at prcs- . it- working out an itinerary of which ill details will be made public as >t n a>? completed. Ura&s.lI'fosiU(ynt of the .. enver Branch of the Association, has stended an invitation to all "dele*-.11' - , ' r~ itcs passing through that city, to be > b le guest- ?tV?~the- Benvoc Bra^h at -r i t-ii nouse on me dale they pass . . rouph. .. "We will arrange.fdr the ontertainmt of all <hl;p;a^fs nn ;hat day." rites Mr. Gross,' "having in mind 'trout fry' in ore of our <J:T;gh;fui inyons. You h'nvo otry permission > pass this information on., to-lall ?? dogates passing through Denver, ' ith tTurre(|iiesi that flpy notify iis ~ i due tinfe as to the probable num- ' . . * ;i lliul "U'llf he' in t-nejr-party.'!. . , RESIDENT OF STATE .A & ,M. 'OI.I.rcr Annnrccrc rvu vnfv V wv -,ti; I ' ? I RALLY IX CAM BEX . Camden, Jan. 27?Tomorrow teaches tfroni .every .schoof in Kershaw VUW.ty wlTl rotiio to Camden for the " ^ >unt? rally _in which .they expect "to { A i;n the Palmetto, Association 100 per ^ f int strong. The Association is head1 by Mrs, Elise McLester and they *e looking forward trO a real good ?? eeting. * |l The principal speaker at th0 teaeb s* TOOotmR.-_here.jtohaorrow will he resident R. S. Wilkinson of thg State . and M. pollege at Orangeburg. he city will go out to hear him. J