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PS) I. To turn your clo ck tack one Clear Priat cay on them Courier pages, ice hour Saturday mSht. 'in columns ixadcx iw ADvnrrotnc CIRCULATION AXD NS.W5 J.XlV.No.37 face IefegKons DHMOTWM (MBit 'VOLLEY Political Aftermath tx reports gointlie rounds i (Sty County tniildins are re 'ktony eitent, there is en foot ij se to elect a member of the lit I. to the office of County Usoncr. It has been hinted tby 'ew political wise iiitW.

C. McCullcugVof the iuepartaent, who; was nomin intl Prohibiticn ticket, is to 'Msl, and thus James jic the present minority iri et This is given, more weight it ii remembered that Mr. 3ta "was taken around a ij ic2 nd mtrodueed many. iBj Robert Humbert, who is a afrBobert GQmbertwho ia a ated along; with oeeph jJrong. Jt i ncwvl)iievcd was to be elected lfi3 md HoulaheTi defeated.

ocki 'on the and' "Armstrong hut out." It'ls even" aaid is to be foojed 'sup McCnIIongh uader the cam that McCullouyh and Arm tcold force Ad. Gumbert to it himself. It now looks as the trick is to put McCuI 9 md Ad. Gumbert in and fool psvng. Nearly every Klans is said, is talking ilcCul Tort3 must $ave some say some of the inside ktsuse it was started by jf the Leslie lieutenants.

It $ed to have been first spokeii 5fjjBe of the lieutenants as a ise Leslie. It is not known BLslie thinks of the deal, but hjUariiy does not bespeak any I wide departure from "well i paths. Leslie will have to be more than a flaming cross to i ton desert the ranks, i printed out that Leslie knows that Gumbert and Cain ri left Houlahen helpless for Sftsa nine months. No one in t' aie camp blamed Houlahen. war between Gumbert and icd ifhen it is remembered is reported to have er the primary that he 4 ft ran with Cain, it can be he would welcome the rf McCuIlough as a running in the control of the office.

probably Gumbert's last ay the workers, and he is ex to do his best for a grand ia krcwn that he feels "a of either faction ia was defeated and he was But on the other hand "ported friendbr to Leslie, frienuly. to try to make friers with the K. K. K. tha; Ad.

Gumbert was a Ft out a little before the bat it was hushed by his rJ no domed that Ad. was with nniMt rnwi at .3 thep. Eftcr ail the lenials, PCwwn McCullough's son, a K. K. and actually i 5ettj in Carr.ecie.

I sarVy frst. few Klansmen at notice that aste to fill public of rren who are ashamed of taere is any truth can be depended i will find it out t. to stop any such the Woman Leaves Hr Estate to Whites fi'op c7Md7sept. 27. Bal r'rT" in society were i 1 probate in by miara F.

djtd July 27 at the age rh2 a'1 srved for 5S years members of the iijiTt rr mi e'' In Hollywood iT if jf .10: tt 1 tf)L 4V. Marie McDanlel Miss Marie McDanlel, of Los An Eeles, who is playing with the asky Famous Players Motion Picture Corporation. Man States Hooded Mob Cut Off Ear vVealthy Oklahoma Man Say Flogger Accused Him of "Relations." OKLAHOMA City, Sept. 27. A revoltinff story of how members of a masked mob at Tulsa, after mercilessly beating a victim, cut oif one of his ears and tried to force him to cat it, wa made public last week by Governor J.

C. Walton in the form of testimony given the Tulsa Military Court by J. H. Smith crmsn, a race man. "This is only one of the hundreds of such crimes committed which the civil authorities of this state refused to prosecute." declared the executive.

I ask the people of the civilized world, in the nresence of this statement, ifI was not justified in proclaiming martial law in the city of Smitherrnnn related how on tse night of March 10. li22, he was summoned to his door by twelve men. eight of whom were masked, forced into an automobile at the pom of revolvers, taken into the country, stripped of his clothing, handcuffed and tied to a tree, whereupon his captors accused him of registering Negroes as Democrats and advising them to vote against the city administration. Next, one of the men spit in his face, Smithcrman testified, after accusing him of ungentlemanly conduct' 'toward a white woman. Thn he was beattn severely by two of his abductors, he declared, adding, "One wVuU whip until he had exhausted himself and then the other would (Continued on Page 4, Col.

2) 4' Southern Railway Company Is Sued JULIETTE, Sept. 27. Mrs. Bessie Usery has brought, suit in federal district court against the Southern Railway for damages, because her husband was sailed while walking on the railroad track early this year. CZAR Defeated at Attacked On All Sides Cauffiel "Crawfishes 4 Woman Seeks Divorce From Aged Husband GOVE.

Sept. 27. Mrs. Anna Howard, colored, forty three, filed a suit in the district court asking for divorce from her 100 year old husband, William Howard, on the ground of incompatibility. Howard, a familiar figure in these oarts, is a farmer, who, de sDite his advanced years, does an average day's work each day.

He. 'HiS'iKjn i a veterJi cf Vthe VHK DVT DrB HIE TT mim ots Giving Love As the Cause 23 Year Old Married Girl Victim of Boarder's Bullet Wanted to Go "Straight" Coming as a sordid climax to an alleged intimacy which had lasted for months, neighbors say, Mrs. Edna Willard Gibbs, attractive 23 year old wife of William Gibbs, of 2463 Fifth avenue, was brutally shot down by Isaac Peters, "star boarder" at the Gibbs home, Sunday evening, at the foot of the steps leading up to Bee Ian street, at the very pot which had so often proven a "love try rt for the pair. "I shot her because I loved her and could not bear to be without her," the man is to have cried, to no one in particular, as he fled the spot. Neighbors who rushed to the aid ef the stricken woman, told of hearing the shots, fired in rapid succession, of seeing the man grab the woman to him, as though in one last passionate embrace and then make his escape, as the victim of his jealous rage, slowly lank to the ground in a pitiful, unconscious heap.

Wanted to "Go Slraijcht While the husband, grief stricken, watches at the bedside of his pretty wife, hardly more than a girl, whose face snows lines of goodness, despite the stories of infidelity, persons "in (Continued on Page 4, CoL 2) Wealthy N. C. Citizen Denes Ku Klux Klan WINSTON SALEM, N. Sept. 27.

Defying the Ku Klux Klan, Charles M. Kooten, one of the wealthiest colored men of the state, literally took. the bit in his mouth here last week, when he ordered building continued on his new home. Woo ten was warned by the Klan against building his heme on property purchased from a white man, threatening him with a note and a truck checK. (The truck check was intended to indicate that it was time to move.) The note read: "Take warning! A stitch in iime saves nine." FARMERS MEET TO DISCUSS STALK DESTRUCTION" ALKEN.

S. Sept. 27. (By A. N.

More than 200 colored farmers met here to discuss plans for the prevention of "stalk destruction." fnirwrsiinn the outstanding Sho Gr feature or me gatnencg. PTTTSBURGH, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 29, 1923 Call Ok 99 OF WEAK! Polls and 99 Johnstown Quiet Following "Pro CUn" Edict Which Proved Boomerang 1 Case Under Investigation. JOHNSTOWN, Sept. 26.

Joseph Cauffiel, "the little czar of of Johnstown," has retreated to his lair under the scourging" ash of rigid investigation and public protest! His tyrannical edict to Negroes and Mexicans to stars'? ails 'gain himJthe cTowii'f glory and badge cf honor, ha expected, for hia world of dreams has come tumbling down upon him and he has scrambled out ot the debris weakened, beatened, his Nemesis, DEFEAT, ready to take him by the hand. Instead of the brass band of victory greeting his pro Klan order, the Governor of Pennsylvania, the Mexican government, through its embassy at Washington, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, began a rigid investigation which ended in "the little czar" assuring the state and country that every citizen of Johnstown, regardless of creed or color, would be given the same constitutional rights in the administration of justice. And, not least, the mayor met miserable political defeat at the polls, a poison thorn in hia aide! Today Johnstown is quiet the excitement of the last two weeks has subsided, and the deserted homes of thousands of colored people are the only evidences that the peace and quiet of the community had been disturbed. All attempts to interview the mayor were futile. Until a late hour Tuesday, no statement was issued from the authorities save the message given out by Attorney General John N.

English, sent to investigate the matter by Governor Pinchot, to the effect that he was satisfied with the investigation and that the local authorities had assured him there would be no further trouble. The affairs resulted from a riot at Rosedale, August 30. when two olice officers were kilied and four r.iured when a moonshined craied colored steel employe ran amuck with two guns. Mayor Cauffiel immediately began drastic steps to rid Johnstown ot its Negro newcomers, He went so far as to say he would "arm the police and walk the Negroes out of town at the point of a gun." Upon being called in question about his alleged remark, the mayor, denied that he had ordered all Negroes and Mexicans to get out of the town, but that he had merely "advised" them to di so on account a threatened riot by the Ku Klux Klan. The mayor's "high handed and arbitrary action' has been properly handled.

Public opinion in the North regards the result as far reaching as concerns the interests cf the Negro laborer in the North; and nips in the bud the propaganda cf the South that the Negro migrant is receiving ill treatment at the hands of Northern labor. Preparing for Race Sandhedrin in Chicago Committee Formally Ini ites All Race Conference CHICAGO. Sept. 27. The Sanhe drin is coming to Chicago and already the local citixenry are scanning with interest the plans of this famed All Race Conference.

A committee of one hundred met at the Appomattox Club last Thursday to formally invite the conference to its meeting November 15 here, and to arrange for entertainment of the deleates who will. represent, it is announced, the religious, civic, business, political, educational, fraternal, and welfare" orgajjfratior ef thyTaee.jr' Pres Reduce Garvey Bail to $10,000 NEW YORK, Sept. 27. Marcus Carrey's bail, originally fixed at $25,000, was reduced $10, 000 through energetic representations of his counsel, George Gordon Battle. Link Johnson In Conference With Coolidge Alb 'Receive 'c at WhiiHouao Ijlier 'Views Secret.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27. Henry Lincoln Johnson, of Georgia, probably the most influential of the Race political leaders of the country, had a private talk with President i Coolidge in the White house Thursday. Johnson is the member of the Republican rational committee from Georgia who caused a stir at the 1920 national Repuliean convention at Chicago when his delegates nominated him from the floor to the surprise of the other Republicans who claimed it had been agreed he would rot make a fight for a place on the Republican national committee. Since that time he was nominated by Mr.

Harding to be recorder of f'eed. the District of Columbia, but the United States senate declined to confirm the nomination. Holds Coolidge An His Teacher Asked what the lurpose of his visit to the White ouse was, Johnson said on leaving the executive offices: "I was feeling bully and I came to pay my respects to President Coolidge. You know I was educated mott entirely by New England Yankees, friends and neighbors of Mr. Coolidge.

so that I feel that through his friends he has been my schoolmaster." Johnson is a tall figure with an oratorical turn of phrase and an emphatic style of expression. "Are you still Republican national committeeman from Georgia?" he was asked by one of the, newspaper men. (Continued on Page 4, CoL 1) Exodus From South Reflected in Market NEW YORK, Sept 27. Migration iz being reflected in the trading here as indicated by remarkable rise in cotton yarn prices which show marked advances. Raw cotton quotations are rising momentarily and constantly.

1 1 is to be doubted if the spinners will be able to make their December deliveries unless relief is found in other markets. The upward movement of prices in the raw product is traced to boll weevil and the migration of colored labor from the cotton plantations. Garvey Cannot Speak in Youngstown, Says Mayor YOUNGSTOWN, Sept. 27. Marcus Garvey.

who is scheduled to address a meeting in the Oak Hill auditorium on October 2, will be prohibited from making the address, according to notice sent the police department Saturday by Mayor W. G. Reese. The action followed a protest by Imjniteja tad citizens, BDKE ident weUKriowg 'The Divine Abbie A i i ii V' i v. To us she Is MA Divine Abbie," tnp abroad, where she captured European audiences.

Miss Mitchell is a fore runner on the colored dramatic stage and the star that brought fame to the Lafayette Players. Dr. Bundy, Of Mo.RiotFame, Is Recovering Attempted Suicide of Cleveland Physician Result of Nervous Breakdown. CLEVELAND, Sept. 27.

Dr. Leroy v. Bundy, who attempted suicide here by slashing his throat, while not fully out of danger, continues to improve. His relatives attribute the occurrence to a nervous breakdown. Dr.

Bundy is the son of Rev. Dr. Charles Bundy, a prominent minister of the A. M. E.

Church, and the brother tf Proffl Richard Bundy, superintendent of the normal and industrial department of Wilberforce University. Bandy tAme into prominence during the East St. Louis riots, where he was held on serious charges, following his escape to Cleveland after the riot. Recently he was active in the Garry trovement. Dr.

Bundy is married, his wife's home. being St. Louis. They have no c'uildren. ELKS TO CONTRIBUTE TO JAPANESE QUAKE SUFFERERS NEW YORK, Sept.

27w Colored Elks will make a contribution to the Japanese nuake sufferers. Many Chinese and Japanese are members thejaklftd y. r. back on Broadway after a triumphant Woman Badly Beaten; Police Seek Husband Beaten and robbed of $160, ac cording to the story sho told police of the Forty third Street Station, Delia Green, of 2156 Mossfield street, was found lyiner in a semi conscious condition in a vacant lot near her home at 9 o'clock Sunday night. She was taken to West Penn Hospital, where it was stated she was prob ably sunering Jrom a fracture of the skulL Pclice say they are looking for the woman's husband, Austin Green, in connection with the case.

Groom Is Ninety Two And Bride Fifty Six Granaaoo, 26. Accompanies Wooer to License Court RALEIGH. N. C. Sept.

27. Ed mund Dudley last week set a new record hereabouts, being the oldest man ever to receive a marriage license in the county. Dudley, whose wife died four years ago, came before Hunter Ellington, deputy register of deeds, and passed through all the formalities necessary to secure a license to marry Mollie Williams. widow, whose age was given as 56 years. Both parties are from near ake Forest.

The applicant was accompanied by his young est grandson, wco is 26 year vx age. OVER 18,000 NEGROES HAVE ENROLLED AT UNTV. OF ILL. CHICAGO, 111 Sept. 27.

Upon a column at the stadium ef the University Illinois the name enrollment showed whites; colored, 18,309. Dunbar High opened with 'Armstrong ManuaL 1470; Shaw Junior High. 994; Randall, 258; Cardoza. 44. Street Manual LforjSna tailed to.

capon. TEN CENTS A COPY, JlentioneSf i i Miss Margaret Hyde Former Secretary" to, "A "Rube" i Foster, Among List Alleged) to Have CHICAGO. HUSeDt. 27. The" famous Stokfes case, volvins the millionare, W.

E. D. Stokes, and hi wife, Mrs.r Helen EI wood Stokes, whom the former sued for divorce several months ago and ed" alleged affairs with j' other has iagain been brought to the attention of the law. Mrs. Stokes, throurh tha assistance of has broueht ko' the attention of the state's at torney, Charles S.

a list of persons alleged to have stoned affidavits iuring' hser reputation. Among the list of persons are six colored men women, soma, prominent in business life of was obtained froasT Robert an" Investigator Stokes" interest. In a raid on. his home at 3723 Indians arenue. a list of names of persons 'who had made affidavits was found in his trunk and.

i half. affidavit, resembling forra used in thei Stokes divorce trial," was also found. When taken the statVs; trail fsmtr fcsdrt ped lhe aiIU i It is S6J1 Miss Uyd admitted: tjp ih thr afSdats in; the garage 5 roster. in west I Lis believed that she knew nothing of the falsity of the' statme ta made. i rl 4 It was broaght out That Le ial been empldj ed by Stokes' New Yorkr counsel to trather afndavits to.

the effect that Mrs. Stokes, before her I manisge, was an inmate cf a notorious club here' 20 years cne ueciares perjurea testimony i. figured in these affidavits and that he was never in the club. Tho colored persbna alleired to have made confessions are: i Emma Dixon, 58S3 South Wabash avenue. Nellie Fihdick, 8757 Giles avenuei John Moore, 340 Prairie avenues Frank Hubert, 2917 South Dear born street.

May Winters, 320 South Wabash avenue. i Charles Blank. State's Attorney Wharton gave out the affidarit of; Frank Hubert. South Dearborn street, as typical of the confessions. Hubert's affidavit! which he ad mits is false, was as follows t' I (Continued en Pge 4, CoL 2) mciOY vase To Be Heard By Gov.

Oct. 2, Fortified with a wealth real evidence; a telcgrara of protest from the N. A. A. C.

telegrams and letters fron hundreds; of race citizens throughout; the state who have interested themselTes and the examples set by Governor Allen, of Kansas; Governor Groesback, of Michigan, and Governor McCalL 'of Massachusetts Attorney i rank iL Steward will go before Governor i Pinchot in Hamsburg on Tuesday, October 2, with final plea that extradition papers for the return of Dock McCoy' to North Carolina bo dishonored, ij Tha case was scheduled to be air ed before the governor last ednes day; but in his absence, the carp was continued to October 2, after being argued with jDeputy Attorney General Brown. .1 Will Be Sent to Death If the extradition papers are honored, McCoy will be sent back to his death at the end of a 'lyncher noose." This is belief exptessed by those who hare; studied the case closely, and this seems to be tha foundation of practically all of letters being received at ilarrifbar ef Case McCoy North Carolina two years ago, when his life was ened by. mob of men, who accused him of murdering i a white farmer; McCoy was at work the the killing was alleged to have "been his. fellow workers claim, but they say that their pleas proved of no avail, and that McCoy was forced to fleej SJJs'iiSlid.