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The long cherished dream of a prop vr armory for the 15th Infantry, N. G. is nearing its realization. Present La Guardia, of the Board of Al Jermen, who is chairman of a special emmittee of the Armory Board on Site jnd Plans for 15th Infantry Armory, jw recommended to the full Armory Board that the armory be on the lite now owned by the city and cover fiJ the entire block bounded by Seventh tnd Imox avenues and 147th and 148th Itreets. Plans for a one story concrete building ji serve as a repair shop for the Public Service Commission have alreat' Seen prepared to be erected on this prop wy.

and it is the idea of the Armory Board special committee to recommend the' Commissioners of the Sinking fund that the height of the building increased to provide an adeauate ar that will include all the welfare efsories designed and advocated by Arthur Little. P.everting to Former Custom. inn would be reverting to the old P'an years ago when armories were 'reeled oyer city markets. The Sev "iili Regiment was houed for many yr.irs in an armory over Tompkins Mar 'i. ihe site of the present annex to miprr Union, and when the present arm 1' of the Seventh was completed the ustine Choral club, and the Negro National Anthem by Ote audience, preceded the Mayor Eldridge Presided.

Mayor Eldridge presided. He welcomed the audience to the Auditorium and the speaker to the city, and pn stnted Jutephus Daniels, who in turn prcjinted Dr. Moton. Mr. Daniels fe i cilatied both races upon the fact that during the sutits sad history of race troubles in the South, when there had been almost daily stories in the papers of racial strife, none of them had carried Raleigh date line.

"High tribute was paid to the Negroes fur their loyalty. The former Navy Secretary related the instance of Ger man endeavors to stir up the Negroes of the South against the whites at the beginning of the war, to which he had replied, when the aituation was. presented to him, that it was idle to consider it for the Negroes were as loyal Americans as there were in the country. To Dr. Moton he paid a high personal tribute, reminding the audience that he had been selected by the President and sent to France for special service with the Negro troops.

Moton a Master Orator. Dr. Moton is a master orator, keen in his appraisal of an audience, happy in his choice of words to fit the thought in his mind to the thinking of the audience. He is tall, thick et, and as he himself says, a "deep mahogany His voice is clear, easy to to, and without being loud, carries to the far corners of the great cavern of the Auditorium. No better Negro jokes have ever been heard than those which he laid the preamble to his speech.

"He stirred deep enthusiasm before lie had spoken three sentences when he alluded to the presence of Governor Bick ett on the stage, and accentuated it when he included Mrs. Bickett and Mrs. Daniels. Direct approach to his subject was avoided, he seeking rather to work around it through lighter allusions to himself, and his subject generally. His audienc was thoroughly good humored, (Continued Fifth Por) Armory Board Reports Scheme of Provide Home for on 7th Avenue.

69th Regiment succeeded to the Tomp kins Market armory. It is recalled that the 71st Infantry armory was originally over a market on the site now occuped by the Herald building at Sixth avenue, JMh and Joth streets, and Broadway. By putting the 15th Infantry armory on the second floor level the city would save $120,000 yearly. Avoiding Extravagant Waste. The report further states that it is the opinion of the committee that "the ornate and defensive character of the designs of the armories previously erected in the city are etxravagant and and that the level of the first floor of the armory, if the plans are accepted would be only fifteen feet above the ground at Seventh avenue, thus permitting prompt egress and ingress.

The location proposed is in the heart of the district where the rank and file of the regiment ar recruited, and a site could be selected, the committee, declares, which would be more suitable. It will be remembered that Colonel Little's plans will make the 15th Infantry Armory a community center an also provide for public baths, etc. It is expected that the full Board will act upon the report within a very few days, and within six months the armory will bS'" take visible shape. FOR QUALITY READ The New York Age THE HOME PAPER WHENYOU SEErriN The Age YOU CAN DEPEND UPON IT News That la Informing VOLUME 34. NO.

28. THE NATION A'. NEGRO WEEKLY NEW YORK, N. SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1921 BEST EDITED REST KNOWN PRICE FIVE CENTS a Gov. Dorscy, Denounces Ku Klux Klan Orator as Liar "Possible Race Riot" in Atlanta a Fabrica tion Klan Officials Make Bitter Attack On Atlanta's Interracial Committee.

(Special Cvrrcspmuknce to This Act) Atlanta, Ga. Evidence of the methods' used by Col. Win. J. Simmons and his Knights of the Invisible Empire, the Ku Klux Klan, was brought out here last week when Governor Hugh M.

Dorsey was compelled to issue a public statement characterizing utterance alleged to have been made by one of the KJan's orators as "a fabrication out of the whole doth One J. Q. Nolan, Klan lecturer, speaking at Hart well, is reported to lhave told his audience that only the patriotic influence of the Ku Klux Klan had prevented a serlcus rare riot at Atl ata a few months ago when Negroes of that city demanded that two of their race be placed on the board of Education. The Rev. Homer Thompson of Hartwell wrote Governor Dorsey concerning the Nolan speech and it was this information which called forth the Governor's denunciation.

In making this statement, Governor Dorscy withheld his informant's name. 1 his omissicn gave opportunity tor w. S. Cobuin. supreme attorney for the Ku Klux Klan.

to include in a defense of the Order, following the Governor's denunciation, the following statement, calculated on its face to have a prejudicial effect. "I notice that in the press reports the name of the Hartwell preacher who has attacked this organization was omitted, the reason for which is obvious. His name is Rev. Rauschen berg." Misrepresentation! Exposed. The attempt to arouse anti German sentiment with nullified by publication of another letter from Rev.

Thompson, addressed to the Rev. C. P. Wilmer, one of Atlanta's most distinguished min isters and a member ot UK Atlanta Interracial Committee, which, when made public, disclosed the writer's iden tity. In this letter.

Rev. Thompson em phasized the charges of misrepresenta tion the Kians orator, and de clared that fifty men stand ready to testify to the truth of the charges, not withstanding denials Uiat had been made by Supreme Attorney Coburn, who ailed in the absence ot supreme izard Simmons. In his letter to Governor Dorsey, the Rev. Mr. Thompson gave details of the alleged to have said that when a request for placet on the Board of Education was refused, the Negro delegation served an ultimatum upon the City Council which vinuany meant a race riot wnnin a few hours.

Nolan is quoted further as declaring that the Governor appealed in turn to 1'olioe Chief Beavers and JUNE 9 DOUGLAS DAY AT ROCHESTER, N. Y. Rochester, N. Y. June 9th, Douglass Day is to be a great day in Rochester.

Plans are being laid for an extraordinacy celebration, with many organizations taking part in a parade and with speeches by distinguished orators of both races. Various other entertainments are being projected, and an effort is being made by the Monroe Republican Council to have the day set apart as a holiday, that all the people may take part in the exercises which will commemorate the twenty second anniversary of the unveiling of the Douglass Monument. The following resolutions have been adopted by the Council, and ministers of the city have promised cooperation. Among them are the Rev. H.

W. Campbell, Rev. A. J. Graham, Rev.

1. E. Rose and Rev. A. M.

Kearney. The resolutions are as folios: VVHEKLAS, neither the colored people ot the State of New Vork or of the United Mates of America have a natitnal daiy of their own, as to many other great races ot people, and since as a race we are intelligent, honest, thritty and patriotic, and believe in justice and right f' all mankind, i'HEKEi'URt Be. IT RESOLVED, that we, the executive committee of the Momoe County Republican until, do hereby set apart the Vth day of Jure, 1 21, as a holiday, so far as in power lies, for the purpose of commemorating the nd anniversary of the unveiling of the Douglass Monument at Rochester, the day to be known as 'Frederick Douglass Confidence Day. RESOLVED FURTHER, that wc call upon colored citizens of Rochester, Y.i Monroe county, the Empire State and nation to make this a nation al holiday annually for colored people, because Frederick Douglass was a statesman, and we at tihs lime enjoy the fruits of his labors. As a great national character, he enjoyed the confidence of the people at home and abroad.

RESOLVED FURTHER, that we urge all ministers and ever orator to impress upon the members of the race confidence in our people, the State and the Nation, and to sugges the enjoyment of proper festivities befitting the celebration of this John VV. Thompson, pr. sident J. Frank Marshall, first vice president: Miss Frank Marshall, first vice present Mi's Ethel Van Buren, second vice president Miss Susan M. Hilterman.

organizer; Geo. V. De'rham secretary; Henry L. Smith assistant secretary; William H. Stockton, Chas.

Majett, sergeant at arms. Mass Meeting on Georgia Horror Sunday Aorll 3, at 8 P. M. Nazarene Congregational Church Herkimer St. Troy Brooklyn.

Principal address by Dr. H. H. Proctor, 25 lears Ocorgia, Petition to President Sheriff Lowry, neither of whom could handle the situation. Then the Ku Klux Klan was annealed to, and the run was averted.

Rev. Thompson asked the Gov ernor for either confirmation or denial. Gov, Dorsey Is Emphatic. Gov. Dorscy immediately replied that the statements were absolutely untrue and without any basis whatever.

Said he "1 do not believe any such occurrence ever took place in so far as the others are It it a fabrication out of the whole cloth in so far as the statements relate to me." This correspondence was transmitted to Dr. Wilmer, ho wrote the Governor as follows This is certainly a brazen piece of lu hnl itu. ihinw' such a secret order is bound to exe porated in 19.U This company propos cute. For you information, the trt American fond products to onlv thing the Negroes did about the Africa and import in exchange Beard nf Kdncation was. first, to ask hes products mahogany, a certain increase of pay tor (Cnw4 ja Paftl 1110 IV llrtIL IN THE NEW YORK AGE In response to urgent and insistent requests, to give our girls an opportunity to express themselves through writ ing, and at same time alt or them an avenue of becoming acquainted through correspondence with other girl in all sections of the country, The Yoik Age has arranged to start a column devoted to the interest of our girls.

Plans for its development have been fully consummated, but it' will be given a beginning, and the girls themselves will have a chance to express their opinion as to how it shall be conducted. The following letter from one of the girls will serve to show the idea of the column as expressed by the girls themselves, and its continuance and growth will depend entirely upon the girls. from Newark, N. writes as follows: "I am going to ask (you a very big favor. Will you please start a column in your paper for the girls of our race? from different cities and states can correspond with each other under a different name thereby creating a lot of fun.

Once or twice a year we could give a play or some kind of an entertainment to help defray the expense pf the column, or we could join the column on a club plan, and this would induce a number of girls who never read the paper, to buy The Ace. "Please answer my letter through the columns of your paper. If your answer is in the affirmative, I will send you a letter to start the column. "Each girl should give her correct name and address, in addition to her column name, but only the column name is to be used." The column will started as soon as buowNiE ano tne oiner gins sena in their letters. Sign a fictitious nar for publication, hut sure to send correct name and address, or leters will not he used.

Gol. Hayward Makes Trip To Locate Graves of Old 15 th i Sailed for Battlefields Unmarked Graves of His Old Col Wm. (Bill) Hayward sailed from New iork on the Cunard liner Aauita nia on Tuesday, March 22nd, for Cherbourg, France, from which point he will go to the battlefields ot the Aisne and the Argonne Forest Col, Hayward was the commander ot the famous 309th Infantry, A. E. (the old 15th New York and his trip to France is for the purpose of locating and marking the.

graves of the fallen heroei of the regiment which remain unidentified. The state and national governments have both failed to supply funds this purpose, and so Col. Bill is making the trip and paying the cost of the mission Oil! Ol niS pvivaiC pur.Kei. The Old 15th won undying fame for itself in the Aisne and Argonne cam paigns and both We rreneh and United States governments recogniied its achiev; meats oy awaruing regimental anu inui COLORED DOLL CO. HAS MADE BJGjXPMION Oldest and Largest Negro Business Enterprises In Harlem, on 135th St.

IJ5th street is the oldest colored 'si ness street in Harlem. Some of the oldest and largest colored businesses arc located on thorough ar. Among these businesses is the largest colored manufacturing establishment in Harlem, localcd at Mj and 38 West U5th. This company, the Berry Koss Company, was incorporated under the laws of this state in 1918 with a capitalization of UK). It started out to manufacture colored dolls, and is now the largest manufacturers of colored dolls in the country.

But as the manufacture of dolls is seasonable, the company also began the manufacture of women's house dresses, children's dresses, bungalow aprons and shirt waists. For this work tlie company has all modem electrical machinery, and employs forty people as operators, finishers and pressers. Recently the demands for the things manufacture by this company has been so heavy that the employees have bee.i working over time. Six salesmen are employed to sell the goods manufactured. The progress of the Berry Ross company has been so rapid that a retail store for the sale of its products was recently established at 65 West U5th street, and a southern branch was established at Norfolk, Virginia, over a year ago.

The company has made foreign sliipmncts of colored dolls to West Africa, which has resulted in the organizing of the Gold Coast Import Kxport Corporation, which was inor neans, paim on, eic. Sent Agent, to Africa. Since its organization this company has sent four purchasing agents to the west coast of Airica. Re intiy the first shipment of mahogany assigned to the company arrived in this country on the S. S.

Mr. Arkhurst, a leading African merchant, in this country a few weeks ago, and contracted to do business with this company. H. S. Boutin, the president and general manager of both companies, is very optimistic about the present outlook of his companies.

In speaking of the Berry Ross company, he said that colored salesmen going into white stores and selling products made by Negroes had tione (Cirii4 on Stco4 I'tgr) ELECTION OF VESTRY AT ST. PHILIPS CHURCH St. Philips Protestant Episcopal church, West IJ4th street, the Rev. Hutchins C. Bishop, rector, held its annual election of wardens and vestrymen on Easter Monday, March 28th, between the hours of 12 and I p.

in. It was one of the most interesting elections held in recent years ana one in wnicn a very large vote was cast. Considerable opposition developed against some of the old vestry board and when the balloting was over and the votes counted, it was found that three of them had been displaced. H. Mars of Brooklyn, VV.

H. Norwocd, and S. H. Balcy of Yonkers were the three new members elected, taking the places formerly held bv Clarence W. Kcbinson, Enoch W.

Newtson A. Manson. The old members reelected were Dr. Alfred T. Robinson, Thomas H.

Harrison, illiam J. Pilray, Ernest H. Pulley and Richard C. Clarke. Francis H.

Carmand and Theodore A. Morse were reelected as wardens. When the result was announcer. Rector Bishop made a short speech, thanking the parishoners for their interest and expressing satisfaction at the results of the election. He has been somewhat worried during the past year, he is re ported as saying, over sone conditions that existed but now he felt sure that he would he given the stipoprt and as sistance ot his board ot vestry men and wardens.

of France to Identify of Fallen Members Regiment. vidual honor: But manr; of the reci mcnt dead are laying in unmarked graves in the fields of France. Col. Haj ward is devoting the next few weeks to discovering and identifying lost graves and hopes to nring back to rria. lives and friends fthe fallen men in formation that will satisfy and console them.

Another purpose of his mission is to restore the quaint o'd ston? church at iewie I ille, on the Kiver Aan ne at the edge of the Argonne. At Vicnne la ille Col Hayward had his hcadquar ters for a long time, his men occupyinit dugouts that the Moroccan had abandoned. German shells had shattered (be beautiful vilbice church, and Col. Ilill I made up his mind that if he ever got mn of the war alive he would find the money to restore the church to Its i original charat, mm. remmg iMled oevemi North Carolina Whites Hear Dr.

Mo ton On Race Issues A Week's Tour Included Speeches at State University, Trinity College and the State Agricultural College for Whites. 3,000 Raleigh Auditorium Ex Gov. Bickett, Ex Sec'yofNavy Daniels, Dr. Riddick of State College and Mayor Eldridge Among Those Present. (By Auox L'HntsEY) Raleigh, X.

Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal of Tuslcrgce Institute, con tluded a week's speaking tour in this state at Charlotte on Monday afternoon March 21st, when he spoke to a larcg audience of white and colored people, which grreted him in tht City Auditorium. During the week Dr. Moton addressed three white school.

the State University at Chapel Hill, the Trinity College at Durham, and the State Agricultural College for whites at Raleigh. The other communities visited included Holly Springs, Method, Zebulou, Windall. Garner, Fayetteville, Chadboume, and Wilmington. And at each place visited both white and colored people were present (a hear him. In all of hit addresses Dr.

Moton stressed the importance of justice, forbearance, frankness and good will between the races as the U. is for solving the race problem. The meeting at Raleigh where he ad. dressed three thousand white and colored people at the City Auditorium was upical of meeting held at all the places visited by Dr. Moten and his party.

A special writer in the Raleigh Uraa and Obscntr described the meeting is folio Simple, straightforward and earnest in ht appeal, the Negro leader spoke for more than an hour after he had been introduced by former Secretary of the Navy Joscphus Daniels. He. told the Nejtoes what the while people are thinking ahem them as a race and as in he told the white people in the audience what the Negroes are thinking about th'm as a race and as individual and upon that basis, appealed to both for frank co operation and understanding in their relations. Talks to Conference. "Preceding the address, Dr.

Moton ipoki briefly and informally to two score ading citizens of both races at a conference held in the office of Mayor Eld ridse He laid before them the problem oi race relations as he sees it, and appealed to both evry directly to put their interests together to the end that pre jirfce, and suspicion may be climinatrd from the relations of the white and Hacks. "Present at the con ference were former Governor and Mrs. W. Bicket, Josepl.us Daniels and Mrs. Daniels, 'Dr.

Wallace C. Riddick. president of State Ollege, Mrs. B. H.

Griffin, and othet Teprcse rrtative white citizens, Berry CV Kelly and others of the Negroes. Oth: er conferences will be the outgrowth ot last night's session, if Dr. Moton's sug lotions are followed. All participant oi ihe conference sat on the stage at the Auditorium during the address. "Two thirds of the audience that waited for the speaker was black.

The west dress circle was filled with white people, among them many leaders in State and city official circles. Students of to Negro educational institutions occupied secMcns of the dress circle. Mus aal rumbers by the Shaw University fl neb and orchestra, the St. Aug 15th Infantry Armory Plan Presented To President LaGuardia Special Committee to Harlem Regiment Deaths of 11 Negroes Charged to Employer John Williams, Wealthy White Georgia Farmer, Indicted For Murder Solve River Mystery Bodies Chained Together, Weighted With Rocks, Found in River, Were Killed by Planter Who Faced Peonage Charge. OF IMMEDIATE TRIAL (From The New York Atlanta, Ga.

Gov. Hugh M. 1 'or sey fixed April 11 as the date of the special term of the Jasper County Su perior Court of Montirello, and stated! his purpceto send Assistant State' a Attorney (nciieial Graham Wright there to present evidence and other ritiai i.wfu were advancing on km h.ibl the Grand Jury a n.d(Covj' (()hwi ou, )WIlialld nvrsngauon peonage 0 friKUened white women the country, to consider the possible itw ttr a am df i I am. thrfM .1 'itourt House Square, was the out in the murder case, and also the. v.

lynching of the Negro, Eugene Hamil ton, some six weeks ago. The liovernor decision was made known through the telegram to Judge J. B. Park of Okmulgee Circuit as fol lows: "After a conference with Solicitor General Campbell, I suggest that you convene the Jasper Superior Court Monday, April 11, not earlier, because it would take thar time to prepare, and not later, for reasons that to us are entirely satisfactory and which cannot be explained to you." When seen later by he World cor respondent the Governor declined tol explain ibout the "inexplicable rea sons, but inference drawn from othcrLounty officials that the hoy saw no sources is that he referred in a vcilcd'such crowd of Negroes and was paid fashion to conditions existant in las per County. A substantial citizen of Covington told The World correspon jthus dent to day that for a Negro to tes sirous public til against a white in Jasper County; ordinarily would mean one more dead'here is against Williams.

If he is Negro, and that conviction ot a white man by a jury of friends and neigh Dora lor uie kiiiiok oi a nearo is un possible there unless the circum stances are extraordinarily atrocious and the evidence practically (Special Correspimdtnce lo Tjir. Age), Atlanta, Ga. For more than a mouth, state, county and federal officials have been puzzled 'in attempting to solve the mystery attaching to the finding of tht hedies of hrce colored men in Yellow river, near Covington, Newton county, but the matter is cleared up with the arrest of John Williams, a. wealthy whit rlanter of Jasper county, under charges eleven Negroes who had been held in a The arrest of Williams was brought about' through the confession of Clyde lianning, a Negro employed by Williams, who declared that he had been Tom pclled, under threats of death for himself, to assist his employer in of those Negroes who had threatened to inform the autlioriics of the conditions under which they were being held. The first Intimation of murder came with the discovery of two bodies bound together with a trace chain and weigl ed down with rocks.

Later, unothcr body was discovered chained to a sack of rocks. All were young men. United Stales District Attorney Hoop er Alexander, of the Federal District Court, northern district of immediately begun an investigation as to the cause of the deaths, but with light success. He issued a statement which he declared thpl Newton county citizens were not divulging all they knew as to the identity of the men and the reason for their death. Indictments Follow Confession.

"It is no doubt true that the coroner's iurv in Newton county has r.ot sufficient evidence as to who committed the murder." Mr. Alexander stated. "But I am morally sure, and I have no doubt that half the people of Newton county county are eqtailly sures as to where the victims came, from ana why they were slain. It is not trie, first time by any means that the same things have have happened, and for the same reasons, and the situation is a challenge to the conscience and civilization of the state." Manning's confewson was made to the Newton county strand jury on Thursday. March 24th, and both Manninr, and Williams were immediately indirtea for murder and rnhcd to this city and placed in the Fulton Tower for safe keeniiiir.

The confession of Manning was re pcated byjiim after he had been lodged OF MURDER CASES World, March 30.) INVESTIGATING FALSE REPORTS. Covington, March 29. Deeoer investigation by the Grand Jury' of Sunday niuht. when it was reDrted .1.... I a A story which the N'ewton County l.rand Jury here is investigating recites that a white boy of nineteen whose name is withheld, was given $J50 by a person not yet identified to go to Munticello and swear an affi davit that he had been at Waters Bridge on Sunday night after the bodies of two Negroes had been dredged up there from the Alcovy Kiver and had seen a number ot auto mobiles filled with armed Negroes on the'bridge with the bodies of two dead Negroes, and that these XegToes had pointed pistols at him and shouted they were going to wipe out the white population.

This story became the source of a near panic. It is the belief of Newton money to tell the story by a man ue of stirring anger and panic and swinging to the side of Williams sentiment, which is now strong ly against him. 1 he general feeling guilty ol tlie alleged hcndish slaugh jtcr he has violated also the noblesse uiuiKC wimn me i.esi cirim ni oi Georgia's white population observes in dealing with childlike and helpless egrocs. i of having killed or caused the death of state of ieunage on his farm. in the Tower.

He described how he had killed five of the Negroes and help ed drown six others, acting in each in stance, he said, under the orders of his employer. For fifteen years he had resided on the Williams farm, he asserted, and he charged that a numbtriof Negroes were being held in pebnaiw there. Killed and Buried Four. "I knocked four Negrces in the head with an axe in one week and buried lln in in a pasture back of Mr. Williams house," declared Manning.

"Why did 1 do it? Because tlie boss said lie wanted to get rid of the N'cgroel and, that if 1 didn't get rid of the Negroes and that if 1 didn't make em disappear he'd kill me. And 1 know ht meant what he said. i "Mr. Willaims made me get Charlie liisholm, a Negro trusty, and Mr. Wil Uunj and I.

took him to the river one night and piuhed him off the bridge after we weighed him down. Charlie begged hard, but Mr. said: 'Let throw him over and have it over with." Following upon Manning's confession, and the indictment and arrest ofi.Wil bams and Manning, agents of the De partment of Justice took Manning frdhl lic Fulton Tower on March and made a search for the five bodies whih he declared had been buried on the Wik liams and Campbell plantations. Three, were found in a pasture near the Williams' bouse during the morning and irt tlie aiternooti a trip to the Campbell place. siIhhh fivr mile tk Williams' place, resulted in the finding i i.

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