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Wish You a Happy and Prosperous New Year HAPPY NEW YEAR' HAPPY NEW YEAR' Founded by W. E. King. VOL. XXVIII, NO.

13. 1 MOB PARADES NEGRO VICTIM THRU' STREETS OF CITY BEFORE STRINGING HIM UP. Oak That Jailer MEN ARRESTED AS Turned Orer Keys to Them NIGHT RIDERS FREED FOR After Only Slight Remon strance. Jonesboro, Dee, SO Wade Thomas, the Negro who. Saturday night shot and killed Elmer Ragland, policeman, during a raid on a dice frame here, was taken from the jail here Sunday night by a mnb of about 400 cltlsens, and.

after being paraded through the business streeta of the town, waa hanged to a telegraph pole near the scene of hie crime. The body wa then riddled with bullets. Thomas waa arrested at Hoxie, and waa brought to the jail here. Arrangement had been made to call a peclal session of the grand Jury on Monday to handle the case promptly. The mnb went about lta work quietly, the leaders demanding admission from the Jailer, who, after urging that law Le allowed to take lta course, turned over the keys.

Thomas was taken from hi cell and, with a rope around hi neck, waa paraded for several block through the central part of town, the 400 or more member of the mob following quietly. The rope waa finally thrown over the cross arm of a telegraph pole and, af-, tor the Negro wa apparently dead, the body was riddled with bullets. The mob Immediately dispersed, and the town Is quiet. A number of other Ne-groea hold In the Jll In connection with the shooting of Ragland wore not molested. Before being taken from the jail, Thomas, admitted shooting the policemen, but claimed self-defense, as the officer wa firing at him, he said.

Hold Successful Boys' Meet in Paducah, Ky. Paducah, Dec. SO. So great wa the Interest in the Colored Older Boys' Conference, convened In this city, that attendance had to be limited to 100. I-arre delegations of Colored boys and their leader are here from Hickman, Clinton, Mayflold, Princeton, Hopklnsville and other places.

The conference Is being entertained by the entire Colored population. The whit people of the city are lending every assistance In making the meeting a success. The Lincoln High ornooi ana me western Kentucky in- -SQUare 1,1 fe" The confer. ence is under the direction of Dr. James Bond, C.

L. Harris and J. W. Broaddus. stste Y.

M. C. A. secretaries for Colored work, and la an Important part of the state Y. M.

C. A. program for the year. Mass-meetings for men and bove, girls -and women, respectively, were held Sunday afternoon, with addresses from distinguished speakers on the various problems affecting Negro boy and girl life. The Colored cltlsens of Paducah, gave a banquet to the delegates.

This is the first time that a Colored bovs" conference hna ever been held in this section of the state. Would Establish Conserva-tory of Negro Music. (By A. N. Duluth, Dee.

SO. To establish national conservatory, for the purpose of preserving Negro music, as ex-presseo In the folk songs, Mrs. Harriet Oibbs Marshall, the president of the Washington Conservatory of Music organised a drive to last 10 days, to raise 1100.000 to endow uch an Institution. 1b Washington conservatory was the first conservatory movement among Negroes in this country, and during the 17 years of its existence, has among its graduates 40 of the leading artists of the country. GRANT PAROI.R TO DALLAS MCIt-DEIIKK.

(By A. N. P. Austin, Texas, Dec SO. Paro'e from the state penitentiary has been granted tiy the govutaor to Henry Gooden, Negro, who was convicted of murder at Dallas, and given a term of five years.

The parole was secured through the efforts of the United Charities and similar organisations in Austin which have been supporting the wi.e and four small children during his imprisonment CHICAGO NOW USES COMBAT GREAT (By A. N. Chicago, 111., Dec 80. A full fledged "Curfew" la In operation ln dear old Chicago. Negro bandits arc in part the cause for 'bis latest drastlo police or- eyes or mind of the rrlncl- pal actor In tha sordid.

criminal drama now being nlaved ln thl dtv v. emotions. Negro bandl.a have been startling and sin figures in the ho.dup and vuiKi.ii; operanona or in pasi lew weeka. Borne of the most daring "Jobs" have been done by Negroes, They have waylaid and robbed Negro and white innwisi im mniu careiea in- difference tn tha nr Kna that th.lr white brethren-ln-trado bay. displayed.

during the ffSSK-aS wSHSScS C.TMe E.eanaA.M. Thl I. out the here- ine rour-sauaro The confer. i i ueem nnr. rv riv vrv sr in rirv iHl 2lU'lZ.

bee" daner timber of white criminals than address before the conference, appeal- mSch in evident among 111 cUssfts tiiSS8 "vt.l h'f1nwaynien have the department has been able to get lng for aid In his 'effort to evan-1 of Colored pSSSh? raonK aU clM8 H'l'rJ1. rl robbed, cluV heretofore becau.e the Negro citizen gellze the dark continent." Bishop Denouncing 'pernicious' the meth- hl.t( race or color. This situation have Insisted on the closing of pool- Brooks said he expected to establish I Adg'duttfrarces "of ieraons tiEllni jLViek'S11- nl 1'1nllar In-'fnco In room resort that have harbored crim- everal schools there for missionaries, thlmselve" offlShfls of a MMntW ix? which ha been no barrier elth- Inals without regard to their race or Bishop I. N. Ros.

offl- 8J er in the eye or mind of the rrlncl- color. LACK OF EVIDENCE. Were Known as "Obligation Lodge" and Met at Night Li Church. Cullman, Dec. 30.

Cases drawn against 43 young white farmer of Cullman. Blount and Marshall counties, arrested several weeks ago on charges of complicity In "nlght-rldlng activities In Cullman, were thrown out of Onurt here when the State failed to present sufficient evidence to warrant conviction. A forfeiture, on the bond of $500 posted by Robert Voss, one of the original defendants, was ordered when he failed to answer to his name, and It waa ascertained that he wa not in the county. The case occupied the attention of circuit court all day, an unusually large crowd of people from the three counties affected being In attendance. For the State Solicitors A.

A. Griffiths and 13. Bland appeared, the defendants being represented by T. R. St.

John. The State offered ten witnesses and th defense 43. It was brought out at the trial that the alleged "night-riders" met at night at a church about 15 miles east of Cullman. The name which they had chosen for themselves was "The Obligation Lodge," and one of the most prominent and influential farmers in Cullman county waa alleged to have been Implicated In the matter. Notes, threatening gin owners, accompanied wiih matches and dvna-inite caps, were dismayed at the trlst, but owing to the lack of evidence Present it could not he proven that the defendnnts had had anv dealings whatever with the so-called "night-riders." The following is the obligation, which, it was said, all members of the "Obligation Lodge" swore themselves to: "Under the present situation of the cotton market we deem it necessary tn nw ,1.

...1 business body of the lodge deems it nocessary. to secure the full value of me present cotton crop: we do hereby obligate ourselves to abide by the mvself to he chssttHed hv mv fellour brethren. All this we sincerely promise, so help me God. "Written by Committee." State Fire Marshal William J. Williams, who swore out the warrants on 1.

i mk-ii wrre nrresieu, Kna 1 several deputies of the state law en- I forcement squad, who aided In serving them, were In attendance on the trials. Maryland Senator Advocates Development of Africa. Baltimore. Dec 30. The development of Africa and the recently owned German colonies In that comment ny white and Colored Amerl cans was advocated Bv Senstnr lnnh I.

France, of Maryland i tj .1 Aethe National Asspcla- Urio Advancement of Colored iiri.S1 the of Mugl in ItrooKiyn. rsconlly Wr w. a i "I nnouvm- Senator France ittrcr.tn ft, Allies fix the German indemnity at 115,000.000.000. crediting that nation for the African colonies taken, with $5,000,000,000. Then he added: nitrnn AN.

nf A 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1, UH 11 VU UCOllltl DUE TH are ss I i 1 I. for five to fr.Jn rive to seven billion donnr. the i against th' mount 1 VniteS lS. the nited stotes. In this way Europe W.OUkhePaX.i!,arf PaKl her deV.t, to US.

lne would then da In a nnn nn rehfhim.tL her Sltuati ItrnH ZJa reH2ved recon" rapidly. for i ki wouia receive ery dubious assets a minion anYthM M'8' for that ls what farming most one-third her total area and an means in Brazil." OPPortUn tV Will rt he offered A i rii ana lolored Americans to do their part In na" tlons In the development of that won uenui continent- CURFEW LAW TO CRIME WAVE. stop to their depressing operations. This attitude has resulted in creating morn coraiais clvio relationships bs- tween the races than has ex'sted here fc.iS.re color. In reality the cause for the big "crime wave" th.t fc.

lng the city wili. fury during the wul he laid to the large ember of unem- pioyca men wno are moved to deaper- ate mens most Instance, to eke out an existence. Not a few of the ap- prehended Nigroes are first offender. it lease moy nave no criminal record In th. Ine.l n- Chief of Voiles has con- ducted his raids end maintained the The Republican Party Is POSED AS FARM PURCHASE AND HEARD BOAST OF ROASTING WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN HOMES.

SAYS MOST CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE OF DEAD AT THIRTY TV0. CONGRESSIONAL I VESTIGA- TION MIX BE URGED BY ASSOCIATION. New York, N. Dec. 80.

More I Mr. White gained his Information than thirty Negroes were killed In on the Ocoee massacre as a prospee-the election riots in Orange County, tlvo purchaser of land. With such an Florida, according to statements told Introduction he could ask questions to Walter F. White of the National freely and receive unrestrained ans-Assoclatlon for the Advancement of swers without being subjected to sua-Colored People. Mr.

White was a Oc-! plclon. ocee incognito and questioned real- "Although newspaper dispatches of dents of that town, many of whom November 4 declared that five Negroes were themselves In the mnh that were to death, one' lynched, and were inemseives in the mobs that two white men killed in the rioting," committed the crimes. Accounts of the declared Mr. White to the Evening killing at the time declared that five Post today, "evidence-gathered on the Negroes had been burned to death, spot proved that a far larger number one lynched, and two white men kill-1 was killed. ed In the rioting.

Talked With Many Cltlaeaa, A Congressional. Investigation will "I talked with a large-number of be demanded. white citizens of Orange County, In- The testimony taken at Ocoee will eluding lawyers, merchants, court of-be presented to the Department of ficlals, and others of the type who Friday by Mr. White, who Is assis nivo iiitj ucpai buiBu ib rourai tant secretary of the association. He was In Ocoee.

Friday, November 6, and questioned the residents of the little town, which Is twelve miles from Orlando. The testimony that Mr. White will offer Is all hearsay. It Is impossible to make a thorough Investigation, he said, because of the care with which all information Is guarded. An official investigator, he added, is in constant danger of his life.

Photographs and depositions he declared to be out of the question. Rhamho Still Urges Movement of Negroes to Brazil (By A. N. Chicago, 111., Dec iO. 'There is little or no employment to be found as waiters, porters, cooks and similar occupations followed by large numbers of our people in the United States, but there are many positions in large business concerns open and watiing for high class men and women of color." This statement was made recently by George Ranibo.

the President of the Brazilian-American Colon 'zing izing syndicate, in the course of an on the general opportunities In a later interview he declared: Not only are there good business eral directions. This would apply particularly to the large number of towns and small cities in the Interior sections of the Republic." "Most all structural Iron, fabricated metals such as gas and electric fix tures are Imported Into the country. r' V. TJ1'" aUo of grades "I "lcaid houaeho i furniture, shoes, men and women's fur. nlshlngs.

In fact ono can Include most of the manufactured necessities In the list of things that could be made and sold to profitable in nearly every section of this rich country." "The government encourages home production of necessities bv maintaining a high Protective tariff on all manufactured Imports. The wisdom of the government, in this connection. Is! ffuniaiiicu uy me great aDiinonnce or raw materials available evei where that but awaits the dlspositi to turn them into manufactured products. I again emDhaslze. however.

"-l? I Tri" "uu" T' "'J'. OI I nBy wlBn lo nw, ana tnev must also a follow, and they must also i reasonable acquaintance with tugese lanruage which is eountrv the Por-poken in the country." uut tne cultivation of the land," contmuea Mr. Kamoo, "is the shortest I and most Dractical way tn In Brazil. You can't miss It if you go eo ik is n(jYruero on inH earin. i nam 1 no place that I know about where land 18 ns cheaP eood as it is in Tpan a 7 i I crops.

You sow and you reap, and you sow and yu raP 1" almost ur, vi ter ln Bra'-11- Thl8 farming a i- ever ready, both domestic and foreign your products and labor effort is ul8 a nefrlib'e question in the In- vestment Any place in the Brazilian Republic will serve the purpose of the man v. nui uufu iiiiiiK iiiynoii lo a snort presentation of the advantages offer- ed tne of manufacturing and fnrming ln the Republic of Brazil at tins nine. At some other time I siiiill be glad to a statement regarding the minei ul wealth of the cou i-try and the profits that can be realized In cattle and general live stock raising." Mr. Rambo will be ln the United States for several months. He ls actively engaged ln Dresentlng the claims of Brazil as a desirable place for ambitious Colored neonle to settle in.

tie is meeting with considerable i success lq this connection. IIISIIOP BROOK VI1T ARKANSAS t'OWKERRlVCB. (By A. N. P.

W. i r.ee,nt- assigned to werk in Vest Africa, th. African Methodist SSK'i a re" Yu 1 provuu 11alv.tlon. and that Ne- 1 SI HZ prenchers. LEAVKS SMALL FOHTTTWE3 TO HRV 7VViki 'Br A Augusta R.

iW an h.i uec. U. Uenorai KUSh Augusta, Dec. SO. General Rush I der was "an appeal to the mob Hawkins, organizer of the famous I "Ion and to the spirit of lynch law." SlonavYs the civil wa? died recTt! ly leaving i large fortSne Amen hf.

The Ship, All Else Is The TUB DALLAS EXPRESS, DALLAS, TEXAS, SATLKDAV JANUARY 1921. wuum ud cunversani wnn the facta. The lowest number given of Negroes killed wa thlrtytwo; the highest fifty-six. The average number given wa between thirty-two and thirty-tlve. "It was declared that Moses Norman, whose attempt to rote, after the local Ku Klux Klan had warned all Negroes that they would be killed if they attempted to vote, had neither paid his poll tax or registered.

The registration books at Orlando, the county seat, showed that he had qualified in every way and had properly registered. Proposed Negro Stock Ex change Will Deal in Negro Se curities. Now York. N. Doc.

30. A stock exchange owned and controlled solely by Negroes, In which trading will be only In the Issues of corporations owned and managed by Negroes, la to be opened In Harlem about the first of the year. A charter, under the name of the Harlem Stock Exchange, has been obtained, and the Incorporators are arranging for the lease of a building at Seventh avenue and 138th street. The stock of the new exchange is liS.OOO common of S5 par value, and 75.0C0 first preferred 8 per participating stock of SS par value. The trustees of the new enterprise, who have applied to the National Surety Company for bonds of $10,000 'ch, are Randolph L.

Brown, M. Vvniiams and Eugene L. C. Davidson. The directors, all Negroes, are W.

H. Austin, John E. Nail. Rupert M. Williams.

C. Udoll Turnln. A. A. A.

I). Hadley, J. C. Tetley and Charles ine last namea me president of the Harlem Exchange Bank. avidoh, who has an office in 14 William street said yesterday that in New York, alone are more than 100 corporations, all backed by Negro capital, selling securities to Negroes.

"Some bf these are good," he said, "some are very bad, rank fakes. We propose to separate the sheep from the goats and to safeguard the Negro Investor by a guarantee that when the stock Is listed on the Exchange ts management Is honest it is in sound financial condition, it Is a going concern and can fulfill Its promises." Davidson name a real estate cor corprranon. a 101- manufactory, a moving pic lure concern, a and half a HiMnn uusiness enterprises, all owned, managed and patronized by Negroes, as among the probable stocks to be traded in. The Exchange proposes to charge E0 per cent of all commissions on the sale of stock received by Trustees of th'- organization that the minimum trading of 500 Hne.rfH n. nnv nrtt a minimum mission of $1.

the Fxchange will earn $72,000 a year. cnBne win earn White Citizens of Richmond, Condemn Ku Klux Klan. Richmond, Doc. 30 The 'Ku Klux Klan, hazing- been denltd the use of the public press ln advertising and promoting the organisation proceeded to adopt a novel method of calling attention to the movement The City Auditorium was secured for a meeting Thursday night December Sth and during day, men garbed In white with the long ghostly masks appeared In an automobile and In a wagon pessing through the principal "'J" 7" 'A 1 avoided going. Into old Jackson Ward, li T-1, I 1 rm I i.r.

i The mass meeting was held at the City Auditorium, but it did not meet with the reception that was expected. As a result there has been a revulsion of feeling on the part of the white people and the white ministers city deeded "to condemn i the at! tempt to arousr. ill feeling among the races The action of the leadlnir white ha. doSe much to aUay the to be a resuscitation of the Ku Klux K.ian the Rev. W.

Russe 1 Bow D. rector of St Paul's Protestant Kp. recior or hu rauis Protestant Ed- aco'1 urch at a regular Sunday evening service assailed recent propaganda in Richmond as calculated to sow seeds of race enmity and Inject into present tlme.i a spirit of rancor. HV charged that an address In the city Auditorium in behalf of tha or The original Ku Klux Klan. the rector said, 'had the relative Justification of a terrible emergency, but declared that such organization mnr was an Insjlt to the force of, orderly government" Douglas.

11 CITIZENS PLACES MITMDrD "A mob attacked Norman at the polls at Ocoee, beat him severely and demanded that he go home. Not satisfied with this, evidence shows that the mob formed in larger numbers, went to the Colored settlement set ure 10 it. cremating all or the Colored men. women, and children who were In the buildings. Eighteen home, two churches, one school house, and a lodge hall were burned.

"When Negroes attempted to flee rrom the burning buildings they were either shot down or driven back Into the flames. Among those burned to death were a Colored mother and her two weeks' old Infant "It Is said th community that and ten whites were toaI "umber of Negroes killed will probably never be known. Before the embers had cooled members of the mob searched the ruins eagerly for the charred bone oi the victims as souvenirs. This offers but one of the many Instances of the mob violence now occurring In the South, most of which are not reported in the newspapers. "The Ku Klux Klan' revival is causing, a rapid Increaaelh the tenseness of the feeling In the South, and unless the activities In Inviting race th0 ln'Prlal wirard of the.

Klan are checked bv decent law-abiding cltlsens, serlou cannot be averted." trouble Tennessee Governor Pardons Man Convicted of Rape. Nash Wile. Dec. 30 The Dar-don Hill Nathan by Uov. brings to memory one of the strangest nessee 'try Crlme ln en- wnlte man- H1" "nee fao? "ow touched heavily bars wrinkles of time and prison fu" and brown.

Is now thin and white with age and remorse. In prison Nathan was polnt of rvlce he olde8t in the state penitentiary. Nathon was twice convicted of rape, both assaults having been committed a colored woman of Chattanooga. The second sentence began in 1895. and he went in tot Convicted of rape on the woman he had served seven years of a ten year sentence, when the Pardon Board let him out.

nooga and looked upUrhl.a He ar-found her. and begaS a vi.e'.ef flgi. oTe Wor. Immediately he returned to Chatta- Uerlt.adhe'Iab? VZTV H. determledy0t Lirt'M make you Day for It He committed the second rape upon ii mat too screams or tne woman only made him furious.

his criminal instincts hud been framed by seven yfars of confinement and vengeance seemed never to have had a more devoted disciple. He was arrested and charged again with rape. He waa convicted, and the Judge was stern and unrelenting. Nathan, went up this time for life, the Judge remarking that he had never heard of a more beastly crime. Nathan has returned to Chattanooga now far past sixty years of age.

His victim no one knows about now. arc asking If the fires of the vengeance of this strange man have died down. Confesses to Mail Robbery in Order to Get Sleep. Chicago, Dec. 30.

Edward Valentine, a Negro arrested a few days ago at the request of the JCokomo, police, told the police that a "confession he had made last night of a $9,000,000 mall robbery was thought up on the spur cf the moment to satisfy detectives whi kept hlra from going to sleep by their continuous questions. "Those detectives wouldn't let me sleep," said Valentine. "They kept asking me everything in the world and I was getting too tired to keen on answering them. I thought of the Omaha, mall so I told them nice story abctst how I was one of the gang that robbed the car that we got $9,000,000. That satisfied them and they let mo alone and I had a fine nap.

But I wasn't ln that hob- Dory at an. i Just wanted to go to i Valentine today asked that 'the Jailer to "keep those detectives away," saying mil ir incy Kept mm awake too much he might "have to confess to murder so as to get some sleep." Valentine, according to th nolle also "confessed" to mall robberies In-St. Louis, Kokomo and West Chicago. 111. When Dost office offininl hpnrd of Valentine alleged confession concerning the robberies where $3, BG0, 000 worm or securities where $3,500,000 told the police that It was highly im- probable that Valentine was In It with the result that further questioning brought the repudiation of the first MAYS BEING nOOSTED IfOIl DIG OFK1CH.

(By A. N. Chicago. Dec. 80.

R. Lv Mays, of Chicago. President of the Railway i Men's Industrial and Benevolent As- soeiatlon, with headquarter? In Chica- go, I beir.g urged for the position of I'irector oi tne uureau oe negro economics, under tho new Secretary of Labor. Mays Is one of the most aggressive wn.tncr Minn a. V.

kaa Ki. 1 1 im tha nll.kT man, nr ir. nla tlnn tn i a position Of power. Influence and helpfulness. During a recent visit to Washington on business connection with his organization, in company i with Col.

Honry Lincoln Johnson. Mr. Ms visited the Capitol, where he Introduced to a number of the leaders, and the word passed along. It ls sal? that Con-rressman Madden of Chicago, I favors Mays the place. One of the fitness Is that he is a prao FUGITIVE GROES ARE STILL 1 inr rmmn MAIN DORMITORY OF BEN NETT COLLEGE IS DESTROYED BY FIRE.

Loss Placed at $40,000 Explosion Made Fire fighting Difficult Greensboro. Dc. 30. Only the four walls of Carolina hall, a building used for chapel and dormitory space at Bennett college, are stand ing to indicate that such a building, ever existed on the campus. This is "ri.

iTT1.u,i flr ot unknown broke out ln th attic of the building and. continued Its devastating course until the building had wraaw Petel Kutted. President iK "mates the damage at suraici 1B'00 ln- Thls building, a four-story structure, Principal dormitories of this Institution, continued to burn Tin-til it hsd been burned from attic to basement in spite of the fact that the Jour fire companies of the city kept 109 Jew be'ore 10 o'clock In f.V.nJmornlna"..ome "Indents outside the minding noticed smoke coming from JS fourth story. Pres. rwi was on -econd floor making his usual round of inspection heard the students yelling to notify the department by telephone, loi? statement Issued by the announced that for sirtne reason It waa Impossible to secure any response trmn the operator, that quite a rew minutes were used In the at- Kth.at fully 26 "'nutes had transpired between the time the first errort wa made to secure the ftre department and the time when the companies arrived on the ground.

The fclfd thla t'me gained much headway. It was stated, and the two streams that were applied were unable to make any telling effect. Lt Von tn the loss of the build-tnr' i7n inn be restored for $40,000, all the furnishings betis, tables and chairs were either consumed by the flames or made useless by water and arC0.r,dln,,r to thft college authorities. Of the seats, chairs, piano, organ and other furnishings of the nnarji.2Vn,.ch the ground floor Th li. Plano a.nd were saved, Jpn of It Is estimat or to runy ss.ooo.

In of th firemen were Inside the building when the explosion oc imicu. ana one was blown 15 or 20 feet ross the room, but nobobdy I Chlef and Assist Chief Shaw were among those 'n the building. andF their cat. the explosion, men? members of the depart- a.I'i?.. the explosion, as well a what caused the fire, waa a great n.VLry;..and a Borne people thought that It wa due of others nnhndl hav? been dynamite.

But nobody could explain. It was stated that after the was considered both difficult fire dfrer.1U to fight the i from the Inside. iI or 75 tdent room-2 building, according to President "Vlgg although only a few of thum were In the building when the fire broke out. In the attempt to save their personal affects, several of the remained In the building I nger than It was safe for them to remain, and they got out by Jumping from the second story windows. Only a few scratches did they receive.

Trl 'tated that half of the students anl several of the teachers llvlnir in the building lost everything save the clothes they were wearing and the books they had with them In class. A. and T. College and the Lutheran DIRECTORS OF DALLAS EXPRESS PUB. GRANT I The Dallas Express Plays Santa Clans to Employees Gives Substantial Bonus.

'Lat Tim -v. CO, ha-dei EKH LU- Zi "veloP contal.lns;, In addltUa to hn ker weesiiy salary, anuunt equal to ,1 yerrly snlsry togetaer vJII the follawlna- letter! "Dear Co-worker: "Please accept thl little Bonus "wittl0" yoU In the ynS-UJ1 assistance only, has ao approximately worth of business during 1920, 5Kihe rnanfement trusts that with the Incoming year, you will year thnat may P'ove'to be' our banner mutual you the advantage of your (so doing will be With very best wishes for a THE) From editor to office boy. the employees showed their appreciation of such a substantial gift by expressions of thanks and an ln- creased determination to do tbelr share in making nai, the banner year for the eomnanv. becoming a corporation, tne policy of the Express bas been wage and betterment of working conditions for Its fP'oyees a the condition of the business permitted It The past J( hav marked distinct progress along these lines and now their employees enjoy all of the b. nt its as to resularlty of hours, pfcJl overtime work.

Increases fc slnry commensurate with increas- a Pricas and modern convenience: kiiii eniiir-ant PER ANNUM 3.00. TRICES TEX CENTS. FROM GEORGIA CLAIMS NE HELD AS PEONS ON Gaiins Many Overseers Still Used And That Men and Wflmcn Are Forced to Work Fsins. New York City, N. Dec.

10. A startling story of peonage In the Oeo-gla town of Montlcello, with Colored men In the cotton fields whipped by overseers armed with guns, is contained in a letter which The Evening Mail obtained today from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth avenue. The letter, which domes from tha Chattanooga branch of the association, contains a transcrlp of the story told by.AVJU Thomas, who escaped by night talking twenty-five n.lles by road ta escape the virtual slavery which, according to Ms account prevails In Montlcello. Thomas said that he had been In ministerial work on Sundays at Montlcello. He said he was forced to pick from 500 to 600 pounds of cotton dally at the point of gun or crack of a whip.

At Montlnetlj, the plantation owners have from Ave to twenty-five families on their places. Twenty-flve families necessitate the employment of five overseers constantly rme, with guns, whips and clubs which ore used on-upar ngly on th Colored victims, according to Thomas. Thomas further stated that the Colored people know absolutely nothing of freedom within the radius of twen-ty-flwe miles of Montlcello. He said they were guarded in their church worship at time and Intimidated by work by day, and Int lmldated by mobs at night when they were locked up for until o'clock In the morning, when they were aroused to go to work. The wlves and children, tni, must work by their tn, ie owner's plantation, said Thomas.

Children, Thomas, said are allowed to go to school until they are twelve, when they are taken out and forced! to work; under the same conditions a their fathers and mothers. Thomas said Colored people are allowed to acquire real e.tate which is later seized without due process of law. Seek New Trial For Virginia Slayer. (By A. N.

Dec, SO. Counsel fon, William H. Turner, of Alexandria, convicted In the Federal District Court here last July, of the murder of T. Morgan Moore, torpedo expert ln a government reservation the night of May is near that city, argm.1 for a new trial for their client in the Circuit Court of Appeals, their principal that District Judge WaddlU erred ln admitting tnstlmony bearing on the criminal attack which Turner was alleged to have made on Miss Pearl Clark, socretary to Representative Britton, of Illinois, who was on an automobile ride iv'th Moore the of the murder. i'hey Inslrted that admission of such testimony served to prejudice unduly the minds of the Jury.

Meanwhile, Tumor, who is under sentence of fleath, Is being detained In Henrico utinty Jail, this city. trial Turner admitted shooting Moore, but asserted that he opened fire only after had been twice wounded by Moore, It was principally upon tha testimony of Miss Clark that ho was convicted. college, as well a friends of the col-lego Hying In the neighborhood, offered assistance in caring for the students rooms wera -4 k. dnts have been given shelter in near-' ujr The building was erected tbout iO years ago by tha nd t-i. Vle No'I Carolina conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, and is the property of the board of education for ma.nbers of the church, with headquarters In Cincinnati.

The board has been notified that steps will be laxen to replace the building, BONUS AT BIAS. I a substantial percentage hi a evidence of the management's "EXPRBWS," durlSg the yea? It been roasible for THE DALIES Merry we are: DIRECTORS, DALLAS EXPRESS PIB, CO.".