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N.Y. SATURDAY, MARCH 8. 1930 5 St Martm E. Chapel Thronged Sunday Evening As Bishop Shipman Confirms Second Class of Hers 111 Are Received Into Ml fP II leieoranon 01 pecona Anniversary Of the Rev. John Howard Johnson, Vicar The capacity of the building occupied by St Martin's Protestant Episcopal Chapel, 122nd street and Lenox avenue, was taxed to its utmost Sunday evening, March 2.

This service which marked the second anniversary of the church was also the occasion for the presentation of St. Martin's second con firmation class by the vicar, Rev. John H. Johnson, to Rt. Rev.

Herbert Shipman, bishop of the diocese. The clait which numbered wai even larger than the one pre tented last year. Rev. Dr. Sunderland, luperintend ent of the Church Mission Society, expressed his happiness in seeing his dream realized.

It is the hope of both the bishop and Dr. Suther land that the main building of the etiorch will soon be rebuilt. The Ret. John' Wesley Johnson, father of the vicar, and Dr. Maximo Duty assisted in the service." Bishop Compliments Church.

In beginning his address, the bishop congratulated the. choroh for its beautifully decorated altar, for the wonderful music, for the large attendance and: for the revenent preparation of the class. But above all. he his gratification, and appreciation of the productive work that has been made possible by the wise and loving leadership of Mr. Johnson.

Speaking to the class Bishop Shipman emphasized the fact 'That men are great only in so far as their names are linked to the Name of Jesus Christ. There must be a. treatness of service and a greatnedi of spirit. God has given to you, a people an extraordinary spiritual sense. And your success de Ms upon its The Musical Program.

The choir under direction of Carl Diton, organist choirmaster, included in its music for the confirmation Krvice the following numbers First Processional Hymn (Goss) Second Processional Hymn (Parker) 5J3 Nunc Dimittis (Monk) Vesper Hymn (Dykes) 27 following Order of Confirmation Hymn 493 (Smith)' was sung; the Offertory Anthem was Gounod's aend out Thv Light," and the Recessional Hymn was No. 397 (Elli (Continued. On Page Five) Promotion Ues ii First Negro Colonel On Active List In The United States Army New Colonel Promoted Remains at Post In Wflbsrf orce University; Reach Retirement Age In 1941 (Special To The New York Atei Washlnntnn i wrs issuea by the War De foment, Friday; February 28, untenant has Dee" promoted to L.01 "'vary, the first time to K'u um er nas oeen raisea rank of colonel on active While oionei i oung 'He rank of colonel, it was tirHi only, being re rom service as colonel when mat i up for Promotion to that irom Lieutenant Colonel Cn' 5 DOrn' in the iT a first in th Wk 'n the Lr n'5h Air i i J. to March 6 1899. He as L.

Church On Occasion of service Educator Visits State College at Tallahassee Tallahassee, Fla. W. W. Saunders, execntive secretary of the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools, completed a four week tour of the state qJ Ftyrjda with a' one'' day' stop oyer "ar thV and M. College In an address to the teachers of this institution, Mr.

Saunders as sertea hat ttie tacuity ot.tbe lqM Ida College was the first to enroll itself with the association 100 per cent. Mr. Saunders was accompanied by H. H. Moats of felarks burgh, W.

Va. ArchibaD Grimke Dies Washington, D. Archibald diplomat, public servant vice president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored. Poeple. and winner of the 1919 Spingarn medal died this week aged 80 years.

Mr. Grimke, who retired from the presidency of the Washington Branch the N. A. A. C.

P. ten years ago continued in office as one of the national vice' presidents. He was graduated from Lincoln University and fromHarvard School of Law. Prom 188J to 1885 he edited The Hub, a weekly paper in Boston, contributing to other papers' and beinir appointed U. S.

Consul to Santo Domingo from 1894 to 1898. He was president of the American Negro Academy from 1903 to 1919; and was a member of the Authors' Club in London, and president of the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Hi torical Association. His writings include a life pf William Lloyd Garrison, a Ijfe of Charles Sumner and numerous' pamphlets on abolition, African coloni zation and American race relations. Lieut CoL Davis By War Department appointed' to the rank of lieutenant in the regular army by exanv ination when a sergeant major in the 9tnLU. Calvary on May 19 the World Colonel Davis served as a lieutenant colonel of the.

National Army and, since the retirement last November of Lieutenant Colonel John E. Green, is the only Negro officer of the line remaining in tbe army. Colonel Davis' promotion was made on the basis of seniority as be stood number 11 when the January issue of the Army List and Directory was published. Colonel Davis will not reach retirement agt until July 1, 1941. He is as ignl at the present time as military instructor at Wilbcrforce University Wilbcrforce, QJ)iw 1 COPS BRUTALITY ALLEGED IN CASE OE BENJ.

CHASE Bruised cn Face, Body, Died la to Of Per itemtis, Not Rom Benjamin Chase, 31, of 2083 Madison avenue, who died in Harlem prison last Friday, following an arrest on a charge of disorderly conduct, was not the victim of acute alcoholism, as reported in the daily press. Medical Examiner Gonzales, after an autopsy, ascribed death to peritonitis, and this condition grew out of an alleged beating he received when arrested. Patrolman William Baushbach er of the 25th Precinct arrested Chase, and, according to the policeman, Chase appeared to be drunk and attempted to make his police dog bite the officer. The policeman denies having struck, his prisoner, but when the man appeared before Magistrate Walsn in the Fifth District Magistrate Court a few hours later, he was in great pain and practically collapsed in the court room. He expired a few minutes later in the detention part of the court, without having been given any kind of medical attention.

Bruited Face and Body. The body, was viewed by a representative pj The Age at the chapel of B. Sterrctt on Monday and it was noted that there jwere two bruises on tb side of his face and the lower lip was split as though by a blow. Other bruises reKcmly 'rnade appear about the leg? aim iuwci pn vi uic uuujr. Although the nearest relative, a sister, expressed the belief that the policeman had not only beat her brother but kicked him in the groin.causmg his death, she had not decided to make any charge against the officer.

She had just returned from the South where she went to bury her oldest brother, when the other brother died, or was killed here. The two deaths had so upset her she was unable to do anything at this time, she concluded. The deceased was at one time a prominent member of Imperial Lodge of Elks but had been out of work for several months and had become unfinancial in his lodge. Harlem Republicans Attend Dinner To Chairman S. S.

Koenig Harlem was well represented among the 2000 diners at Hotel As tor Saturday March 1, in honor of Samuel S. Koenig, Republican leader for twenty five years of the Sixth Assembly District and chairman of the Republican County Committee of Manhattan. Among those present Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia United States Attorney Charles H. Tuttle, Attorney General Hamilton Ward, State Senator George N.

Fearon, Congressman Fjorella LaGuardia and others. From Harlem came Col. Charles W. Fillmore, Assemblyman Francis K. Rivers, Michigan C.

Brown, John J. Fitisimmons, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin E. Morris.

Herman Kapner, Thomas O'Neill, Harold Forstenier, Miss Ida Goldman, John E. Dunn, J. E. Leinhoop, Alexander King, Walter Kline, Alderman Fred R. Moore, Deputy Attorney General Myles Paige.

Max Berlinger, Felix Prince and Ruihford Lord from the 19th A. Also, William A. Cornelius, Dr. Charles H. Roberts, Solomon Johnson, Arthur E.

Francs, Alderman John C. Hawkins, Assemblyman lamar Perkins, Miss Sadie F. Hamilton J. Travis, Miss Hester Green and Charles W. B.

Mitchell. One Killed, Three Hart, In Excaradon Care In One workman was killed anr three others injured when several tons of rock and sand, released by the breaking of a shoring brace at one corner of the excavation for the new Union League Club foundation at Park Avenue and 37tb street, buried the men. on Tuesday. Albert Johnson, 59, of 261 West 134th street, Negro, workman was one of the three injured and was sent home after treatment for la, ccratim of the Ve. TI70 LOCAL CetOSED BOYS NAMED AS CMiDATES FOR AtWOUS NAVAL ACADEMY 1 1 I fc PresineDt; Following a competitive examina47 tioh in the office of Congressman Joseph A.

Gavagan of the 21st Coot gressional District, two colored youths' from Harlem, one an alternate; were selected along six white take the. entrance, exf aminations for ihe United State val Academv at IhexX; amination will be held iff April. I The colored boy selected as I pfi cipal is William Chisholm, ye of age. of Z36J Seventh 'avei Youns Chisholm is a freshman Columbia University. 'and a brothti of Patrolman Louis Chisholm 'of th' 32nd He highest all the boys wno toox me preuminmi examination before Cdngressi Gavagan and several educators; Fiae Bacorl ia SckooL Young Savannah, Ga bnt tame here, jhea three years of age, with, his mother, Mrs.

Bertha Pennington. He has been an excellent student since be first entered public school. He was a honor student throughout his term at Public School 89, and also won many honors while a student at the Frederick Douglass Junior High. While at this school he won the bronze medal in the New York Times oratorical contest of 1927. From the FretlericV Dopglasi Junior High, he was 4elkterf if.0 ihe Townsend Harris High School, cou nt cted with the College of the Crty of New York.

Only boys making exceptional records in. public school are permitted to attend this high school and Chisholm was the only colored member of his class. While in high school, young Chisholm found time to devote to extra curricula activities. These included the presidency of the Hi Club of the West 135th St. Branch Y.M.C A.

He represented this club at a conference in Rochester, N. several months ago. He was also in terested in handball and rowing, and upon his entrance to Columbia, he joined the freshmen rowing crew. Before taking tbe examination for Annapolis, he had planned to study medicine. By FRED The letter files of The New York Age Contains interesting private correspondence carried on durjng the Taft administration between the President and me.

relative to the. appointment of Negroes to important Federal positions. During Mr. Taft's occupancy of the White House, The Age waged a persistent and consistent fight that the race be fittingly recognized in the matter of political, preferment, playing an important role jn the naming Of J. C.

Napier of Nashville as Register of the Treasury, and William H. Lewis of Boston as Assistant U. Atorney General. On May 21, 1910, I forwarded President Taft the following communication "A year ago I had the pleasure of calling on you at the White House, and in our interview you spoke of your determination to appoint Negroes to positions not before held by and asked me to encourage in every way possible the confidence of Negroes in your administration. You further said that you would perhaps desire to talk ith me later on contemplated appointees, and I assured you I would be very glad to Come to you at any time you felt to honor me through such confidence.

"This paper strongly advocated confidence in you and your purposes, but unfortunately there were so many removals of Negroes, particularly in the South, that the advocacy of The Age in defense of your administration made it appear inconsistent in the eyes of those whom we seek to represent. "The New York Age is looked upon as the. mouthpiece of the Negro, and when we continued to espouse your cause we were ridiculed by Negroe opposed to the' policies of your administration which were regarded as hurtful. You, Mr. President, are aware of the strong support this paper gave you when you were a candidate for nomination.

We can truthfully say that wl helped very materially. And aftes younominatioo The Age in When ft His Vievs Un I CANDIDATE FOR ANNAPOLIS WILLIAM CHISHOLM Daalel R. Piyer, AlUraate. The other colored boy selected is Panicl; Piixr of 75 St Nich aW who is a native New Yorker. He the 'son of Mrj, McCleary.

4 After (finishing pub ir Wl 'he attended the Ethical Cultufe School, and also made a fine scboUstk record. He tt now a clera in the Dunbar National Bank i tNesromidshspsnea 'have ap pea'rechatl Annapolis since the days of ecohMrUction. In 1872 and 1873 three Sooth Carolina youths were aooointed to Annapolis but failed in their second year. In 1874 a Ne gro came to the Naval Academy fnm a Mississippi Congressional District, but he left a year later. Desnite this discouraging record of the past, young Chisholm is con fident he will pass "the entrance ex aminations and is confident he can make friends with the other midshipmen, many of whom come from the South.

Gavagan character ized the successful candidates as "fine, clean cut, upstanding boys, who without a doubt, render distinguished service to their country the years to come. mbnents R. MOORE equally as strong jn supporting you for election. "Your, utterance that you would not appoint 'Negroes to office in any community where it was likely to increase friction, is regarded by Negroes' as most discouraging and hurtful to them as citizens; for in every community a few white peo. pie who are prejudiced can easily manufacture sentiment against the Negro.

"This utterance of yours was tak ne up by enemies of the Negro and by Negroes to your nomination and election, and flaunted in the faces of those who were your strong friends and who are now asking: 'What do you think of him From all parts of the South and West we are receiving letters indicating a most discourae ing situation among the masses of the race. "The average Negro voter, if the election were held tomorrow, would vote for a Democrat 'rather than a Republican, and if the Presidential election were held it would be difficult for your friends of the Negro race who have confidence in you, and yet, cannot understand the pursuit of such, a to stand up and' urge the election of a Republi can administration. writer would urge a change of poliCy in this direction, and the sooner it, is done the better. We represent And are publishing our paper in the interest of the Negro race, and we believe that the individual or paper that speaks out in defense of race and endeavors to show a friend his mistakes is the very best kind of friend" President Taffe Beply. On May 23.

1910, two days later President Taft replied to my letter as follows: "I have your letter of May 21st. regret exceedingly that yoii should take the view you do. I announced Continued on Seventh Page) mil i i i i. hi i. i i Sjt Tj) 'I ').

I 1 1 I Blesio Addo r.IETROPOUTAH TO REFUSE CLASS A POLICIES TO RACE Order Reported Issued By New President To Company Agents Information lias been received by The Age that the new president erf the Metropolitan Life 'Insurance CoV successor to the late Haley G. Fiske, has issued orders to agents that no more Class A policies will be issued to colored people. The new president, it is said, based his order on the alleged hitfi death rate among Negroes, making the charge that it is caused by poor and unsatisfactory, living conditions. This, policy discrimination, is said, does not obtain with any other group, although there are many others whose living conditions are even more undesirable than that of many Negroes. The late President Fiske was fair in his attitude towards colored policy holders, it is said, and made no discrimnation as to the class of policies issued to them.

According to this new ruling, only Class and intermediate policies will be issued to colored people. Wait Agents Seek Work. An interview with the manager of cne of the Negro life insurance companies doing business hefe, brcught out the. information that several eeksa JieJud eex approached by three white insuranrc agents, one of. whom was from the Metropolitan, with the proposition that since the Metropolitan was limiting the work of the agents handling colored business, that they would be glad to work for the Colored company.

According to the agents, the Metropolitan were only issuing two policies to Negroes the 25 year ert dowment, and the "endowment at 80. The agents are also said to have volunteered the information' that in keeping with its policy of restricting Negro business, the Metropolitan had issued orders to its agents handling colored accounts that they could only write up so munh busi nes seach week and that if they exceeded that amount they mould be paid no commission on additional accounts. DR. M0T0N NAMES COfilfilllTEE TO GO ON HAITIAN TRIP Foot Negroes and One White Selected For Education Surrey Wasington, D. Simultaneous with the denartur of the Hoover Haitian' Commission for the little island republic, Dr.

Robert R. Mo ton, president of Tuskegee. Institute, transmitted to the State Department the names of the men he has selected as members of the supplemental committee requested by President Hoover to study educational conditions in Haiti. The personnel of the committee is as follows': Dr. Robert R.

Moton, chairman. Dr. Mordecai W. president Howard University, Washington. Leo M.

Favrot, field secretary of the General Education Board. Benjamin F. Hubert, president Georgia State College. Savaiiiah. Dr.

W. T. B. Williams, dean of college, Tuskegee Institute, field agent leanes and Slater Funds. An invitation was extended Dr.

Moton's committee to accompany the Haitian Commission. W. Cameron chairman, on February 25, which from Key West on the cruiser Rochester, detailed by the Navy Department, but committee had not time to formulate its. plans and declined the in vitation. The 'commitfee leaves New York this week.

It will be accompanied by astaff of clerical assistants, and hir Alnhnnt IfjMtninfv burg, processor, department of ro mance languages at Tuskegee, graduate instructor in French irom the Sorbonne, Paris, as official Interpreter. All of the committee are Negroes excent Dr Fiwnt I The Hoover Commission has been enlarged to six by the addition of Willis J. Abbott, editor of tbe Christian Science. Monitor, Boston, who will go direfl tartaiti. Rev Henry ft Proctor (xdmsd By v.j Brccldyn Citizeiis For Article Appearing Id Brooklyn Paners Comnittee Calls Statements Unfortunate And Damaging To Negress; Rev.

Mzr Devotes Entire Sermon As Protest Against Story Condemning the article on racial conditions giv en out Saturday, March 1, Rev. Henry Proctor, pastor of the Nazarene Con gregational Church, more than 1600 hundred people from various churches and civic associations, mt at the Holy Trinity Baptist Church in Brodklyn on Sunday, March 2, to "appoint a committee to draw im if rvrntocf 1 to the Brooklyn press by to enlist the sympathy of white philanthropy in the cause of contributing to the support of his church, he has pursued a policy of terrorization in order Jta accomplish his end. If a survey were made arid the true facts ascertained concerning the progress of Negro churches in the City of Brooklyn, it would be difficult to reach the conclusion that Dr. Proctor should be consid ered1 in any cse spokesman lor the Negro in this Borough, v. Ifisie i Ckmaea ftrtetv There are" at least nine other churches in each of: whose memberships exceed that of rene Congregational Church of which Dr.

Henry Hugh Proctor is pastor. There are stiH other factors in church statistics from which one might conclude that Dr, Proctor is more a favorite among the whites than among his own people." Aside from the protest registered by this CommitJSe, ministers of various churches condemned the article of Dr. Proctor. The. Rev.

Dr. George Frazier Miller rector of St. Augustine Episcopal Church, Marcy and Lafayette, avenues, devoted whole sermon Sunday morning to condemnation of Dr. Proctor's exposition of alleged race conditions in Brooklyn. Dr.

Miller, wfio is nationally known for his religious and political Views, and whose church has the largest congregation of that dc nomination, said in part: "God intends that we stand upon) our feet as men and not grovel for favors of the rich and those in power at the expense of the race. This is most damaging and wholly unworthy of a man who stands in a position of leadership in a community." Boycott Ideedngs The committee appointed consist ed of Dr. Paul L. Jones Alexander F. Boswell, Miss Jeanette A.

Knight secretary of the National Afro Protective League; Courtney B. Cool ey and Atorney Stanley M. Douglas, president of the local branch, N. A. P.

faa SesolttioB. V. The resolution stated in part race, Netf" 1'fc lv abiding, locally and nationally, as any other ne' and when, a member of tlial openly seeks to expose a vulnerable point in its position in Brooklyn, it is time for every other member to voice emphatically his strong and unanimous disapproval. "It is most un Christianlike for one to taint his own group with atrocities for favors among the powerful. And all through Dr.

Proctor's article' one, who is well versed with conditions in Brooklyn, can discern that his staemcnts have been duly exaggerated. For instance he states, 'Negroes carry disease and crime into the homes of white persons who employ This would immediately imply that colored domestic servants have a monopoly on crime while those of other races are' immune from such conditions. Kot Spokesmaa for Kace. "It is indeed a 1 question as to whether Dr. Proctor's remarks were prompted by sincere motives when he holds up before the citizenry of Brooklyn the bugaboo oft impending vices and crime attendant upon the heavy influx of Negroes from Harlem and the West Indies as though Crime were peculiar attri butes of Negro migrants.

"It would seem that in his efforts Uer Pledge of Port au Prince, Haiti The American Haitian Commission, headed by W. Cameron Forbes, began its deliberations on March 1, but found a determined intention on part of op poents to the American Occupation to boycott the Commission's hear ings. It was'only after leaders of the opposing' faction had been reassured the Commission really intended to solve the Haitian problem, if that the opposition was withdrawn. The first witness appearing was Pierre Lespinasse, a lawyer, who sketched Haiti's history for the past 120 years of independence, and bringing out that Haitians had fought side by side with the Americans at Savannah in war for American Independence. The witness declared that "All these things we have been trying to build up, the American soldiers have been trying to tear down ia the past fifteen years." On Monday, Haitian leaders, representing organizations with a total membership, of 500,000, urged immediate recall of the American High Commissioner, Brigadier General John H.

Russell, characterizing him as a virtual dictator. Haitian Ureal To Of American CtimratsiJOD V'Uhdravra president "of a Sincere hlenia group of seven liberal organizations, charged that President Borno, with a French father, was holding office illegally, as the Haitian constitution requires a native born Haitian, for' that office. Seymour Pradcl, chairman of the National League for Constitutional Action, representing 150,000 Haitians, warned the Commission that if a president is elected on April 14 by the Council of State, instead of by popular election the people will not hesitate, to fight in protest. Dantes Bellegarde, secretary general of the Chamber of CommerceT leading economist of the Republic, startled the Commission when he charged that the Americans had taxed the people but failed to give them representation in the government, and that Haiti had made no progress during the. years of occupation.

Chairman Forbes interrupted to say that this last charge was so grave that figures must be brought to prove it Mj Bctegarde declared he had tbe figures and would produce them. Ernest Chauvet, editor of the strongest anti Borno newspaper, "Le who has served four terms in prison for publishing stories the authorities did not like, told the Commission that for the first time in years the Haitian press had freedom, "because tbe authori tiesjre afraid, to censor the awi while the Commission is here." IT I H( i i Hi Hi si er is A 1.