Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1930 — Page 2

The Indianapolis Recorder*. Saturdayugust 2,1930

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iPTIST GOLDEN JUBILEE TO BE HARMONIOUS, SAYS EDITOR

H. C. Russell Elected National Grand

Master V. B. F.'Arid S. M. T.’s At Meet

eX C™s?d»'‘rf ,! ‘ n w Serio “ s tS Considered — Warning Issued To

Keep Baptist Ship Afloat

50,000 DELEGATES ARE EXPECTED

CHICAGO, Aaauat 1.—(ANP)— e Idea that there would be much

dissension and an ultimate split in the National Baptist convention of America, when the Golden Jubilee is celebrated here August 14-25, is preposterous, according to veteran editor of the American Baptist, the oldest denominational paper pub-

lished by the organlttion.

Discussing the published reports that a split was in the making, editorially, the editor pointed out that "Some of the secular papers

' persist in publishing the statement

j that there will be a split in the denomination when the National Baptist convention holds its Jubilee session in Chicago next month. Not a single Baptist paper in this country shares any such opinion if and it seems that they are better i authorities on this question than

k any other publications.

There are serious matters to be

considered during the session of the convention, but the wise and thoughtful leaders of the convention will be able to adjust any differences that may arise and will guide our great denomination into the haven of peace. "The situation will require the best leadership that the denominaftlon has at its command and since they know and understand the situation it would be suicidal to al- ¥ - low any mistakes to be made at this crucial period. Christian brethren should and will come to Chicago to harmonize and adjust any j differences that may exist or may rise, in the proper spirit and not allow the old Baptist ship to be wrecked. - “The jubilee spirit which has been so prominent through the year should continue, and it should be the most valuable contribution that has ever been made to Baptist achievements in this country." Chicago Ready For Delegates Chicago is ready for the invasion of the 60,000 or more Baptists expected to attend the celebration, according to the reports of j the Citixen committee, which is composed of some of the leading professional and business men and —

women of this city of all denominations. The committee has had the full support and co-operation of Chicagoans and nothing is being left undone to assure the event a great success. Representatives of the various churches who will take part in the pageant which will be one of the features of the program an dsingers who will play an important part in the parade or street musicals, as well as the choral festival, are already arriving and rehearsals are the order of the day. Split or no split the session is going to be one great big celebration, if these plans are carried out. Those in charge of arrangements seem to share the opinion of the editor of the American Baptist that there will be no upheaval but feel that the session will be harmonious in every way and that all differences will be settled and everything will be well with the great organization.

LOUISVILLE, Ky., August 1 — (ANP)—The United Brothers o f Friendship and Bisters of the Mysterious Ten, have closed a very successful national gathering in this city, the birthplace of the order, 69 years ago. While crowds were not as large as in past years, yet there was great enthusiasm manifested by the delegates who came from many distant states. Texas sent the largest delegation. Quinn Chapel Headquarters Monday evening marked the opening session at Quinn chapel A. M. E. church, where Secretary H. C. Russell served as master of ceremonies. Governor Flem Samson in his usual characteristic style tendered a hearty welcome to the visiting delegates. Among the many things that Governor Samson said was that he apologizes to the race for the treatment by his race of the colored race during days of slavery. The mayor of Louisville was out of the city. He sent his secretary to welcome the delegates on behalf of Louisville. Addresses of welcome were also delivered by repersentative citizens. Response was given by Prof. Rhodes who is president of Bishop college, Texas. Africa Sends Delegates Delegates came from Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, Pennsylvania,

Colorado, Alabama, Liberia, West Coast pf Africa, 'Tennessee, Louisiana, Kansas, Texas, Minndfcotk, Ohio, California and Kentucky. The following officers were elected after a very interesting contest: H. C. Russell, Louisville, national grand master; Duke Diggs, national deputy grand master; H. C. McGruder, national grand secretary, Texas; W. A. Gaines, national grand treasurer, Evansville, Ind.; Miss Nellie Hagard of Winchester, Ky., was elected national -grand princess. The next sessions of the organization will be in the State of Texas. The Houston Military band gave special concerts throughout the city. This band was composed of leading Business and Professional Men of Houston, Tex. Prof. H. C. Russell, who was elected as National Grand Master, resides in Louisville and -vas recently appointed to a government ] position as assistant educational director, he has been the national grand secretary of the U. B. F. for the past six years. Mr. Joseph R. Ray, president of the First Standard bank who had charge of the Military outfits and Mr. Henry Allen, who was the general chairman of the local committees merit great praise for their great work in making the stay of the visitors a pleas-

ant one.

PORO COLLEGE HEADQUARTERS MOVEDfROM ST. LOUIS TO CHICAGO

Evangelist’s Attempt To Defraud Flock Lands Him In South Carolina Jail

’ Agsnts Of Progressive Institution ThruIt,® Country Notified Of Transfer To The Windy City In 50,000 Letters 1 ■ f

new home

TO

BE “PORO BLOCK”

DEPARTMENT STORE STAGES HUGE TELEPHONE SALE

A St. Louis department store recently staged a sale of drug and toilet goods in which 9,000 telephone orders were taken in one day and more than 25,000 Individual sales were made. The advertisements in the newspapers carried an invitation to the public to telephone their orders, and forty-five special order-takers, trained to use a telephone intelligently, were called into service and given Instructions as to how to make out the telephone order blanks that were used. An additional number of employees were given Instructions on transferring the Information contained in the telephone orders to the regular sales checks. One of the most interesting features of the sale was that the telephone orders were taken after the ■tore closed, from C to • o’clock.

CHARLOTTE CLEARING DECKS FOR 1930 CONCLAVE, MYSTIC SHRINES

CHARLOTTE, N. C., August 1 — (ANP)—Northern Shriners have been wondering what sort of a time they were going to have in Charlotte, N. C., the home of Coesar R. Blake, Jr., imperial potentate of the A. E. A. O. N. M. Shrine who so sucessfully conducted tne fight for his organization’s existence through local, state and Federal courts during the past half dozen years. Wh6n the Jorth Carolina metropolis was selected as the next place of meeting at the Chicago session, Mr. Blake promised complete southern hospitality and sustaining proof from the mayor of the city, Chamber of Commerce, and other influential local interests. That he will be fully able to “Make Good” on those assurances Is best told in the news story of another large race convention which closed its sessions in that city on July 11th. Woodmen Get Big Welcome The Eastern District convention of the American Woodmen convened in Charlotte during the week

of July 7. The organization was welcomed by ktayor George E. Wil son, in person with Mr. C. O. Kuester, executive secretary of t h e Charlotte Chamber of Commerce; Dr. H. L. McCrorey, president o f Johnson C. Smith university, and Caesar R. Blake, Jr., in the new City auditorium, the* same fine structure which together with the university has been placed at the disposal of the Shriners. Leave Greatly Pleased The Woodmen left Charlotte greatly pleased with the spirit exjhibited by the city authorities, the ! local daily perss and citizens. The broder and completely national character of the Shriners organization will doubtlessly prompt Charlotte to try to be even more hospitable if possible than it was to the district group of woodmen, especially since one of its own citizens heads the order. Shriners and Charlotte citizens are both liable to learn a lot between August 4 and 7 that will be helpful to race relations.

Poro college has moved its head gro quarters to Chicago. Mrs. Annie M, Malone, founder and owner of the famous institution, made the announcement this week .In a letter which was sent to the more than 50,000 agents affiliated with this organization and who are scattered throughout every nook and cranny

of the country.

It has been known for some time in business circles here that Mrs. Malone was (juletly acquiring extensive real estate holdings in Chicago. She now owns the entire block on South Parkway, formerly Grand boulevard, between 44th and 45th streets. This block in former years was occupied by a group of multi-millionaires, John R. Thompson, the restaurant man; Thomas Carey, the brick magnate, and other ultra wealthy men built the magnificent houses surrounded by expansive lawns which fill the block. These buildings have been remodeled and for the present will house the various departments of the business. One structure for sometime has been occupied by the CoHege of Beauty Culture. Poro block will be the designation of this new Poro home. Mrs. Malone. is said to have plans for a pretentious building program, but no announcement of her intentions In this regard has been made public. Mrs. Malone did, however, issue a statement in which she explained the transfer of the business from St. Louis to Chicago. “We have felt for some time,” she said, “that Chicago was the logical place for our main plant.” “In the first place our volume of business among the 200,000 colored residents of Chicago is larger than any other single point. Again we are closer to the sources of

can grow to large

business

magnitude in the south without

supply with consequent savings from a manfacturing and shipping standpoint. [Too, Chicago, in my opinion, is the capital of Negro America. The people here are accomplishing things. The atmos-1 phere is one t of commercial striving, endeavor, and promise. “St. Louis is a wonderful city. I love my own people in St. Louis. I have tried to serve them. But St. Louis in most of its attitudes is a southern city. My expeirence would lead me to doubt that Ne- £

feeling something of restraint as well as a certain sense of insecur-

ity.

"We are hopeful that Chicago will offer us an opportunity for continued growth and development so that we may have the privilege of rendering better service to our

fellow women and men.

The gigantic task of moving Poro, undoubtedly the largest manufacturing enterprise within the group, from - one city to another, was accomplished with the precision and dispatch for which the organization is famous. Everything was planned. It is said that shipping and correspondence suffered only one day’s delay. Nearly a special freight train was required for transportation aside from the fleet of motor vans which brought loads of special equipment over the high-

way.

Practically all of the managerial, clerical and manufacturing personnel moved to Chicago with the business. Many whole families moved to Chicago so as to be with members who were working in the organization and wished to retain

their places.

The employees left St. Louis at midnight Saturday night in a calvacade of buses, arriving in Chicago Sunday. They were met by Mrs. Malone, the Chicago employees, and a number of citizens -vrho accorded them something of a formal welcome. Dean William Pickens, field secretary of the N. A. A. C. P.; Assemblyman George T. Kersey, president of the National Negro Undertakers association; Mrs. Robert E. Wilson, Mrs. Howard, executive director of the Mt. Glenwood foundation; Mrs. Lee, president of the Chicago Poro club, an organization comprising a thousand women, and Dr. C. K. Bartlett, were among those who spoke. Music was rendered by the Cen-

turian club.

Mr. Pickens in a stirring address ended by saying “I marvel at the extent and the possibilities of Poro in Chicago. I thought Poro building at St. Louis was wonderful, but I see now that it was but a stepping stone toward the really great future of Poro in Chicago.”

COLUMBIA, S. C., August 1-— (ANP>—a heart-rending sob story told by “The Rev. W. W. McNeil of how his brother and sister had been killed in an automobile wreck for purpose of collecting funds, landed the “evangelist" In Jail on charges of attempt to defraud. McNeil, anas James Smith, Who has been conducting revival services in the rural districts and hamlet, armed himself with a telegram relating the disaster and went to various churches and fraternal organizations asking help so that he might go to Montgomery and claim the bodies of his lost beloved ones. The plea fell upon

short time.

There was one doubting Thomas in the group in the person of Jas. Dickerson, farm demonstration agent, and deacon ofr one of the churches, and Dickerson decided to do a little investigating before handing over the check to the grief

stricken minister.

The Investigation proved that the whole thing was a haox and the case was turned over to Detective Allan and Instead of handing over the money, "Rev. McNeil” was served with a warrant -i n d placed in jail. At the hearing of the case, McNeil was given the

i

ears that heard and the money was

sympathetically' preference of serving ninety days

raised In a

in the city jail or paying tines

Alice Rhinelander, Kip’s Discarded Wife, Now Claims To Be A White Woman

—•— NEW YORK, Aug. 1.—(ANP)— Comes now Alice Rhinelander, the best news copy colored newspapers have had in their century of existence, with the following statement: “I am as wmte as you are, I could not afford to marry a colored man as some newspapers declare I intended doing. My mother is English and my father is of Indian extraction, with his mother being white. The thing which has hurt me most in all of my litigations in court is the fact that the newspapers have called me a ‘Negress.’ ” All of which is a winding up of the most publicized colored woman ever to break into the front pages of Metropolitan newspapers. The latest news from the warring camps is that the $31,500 which Alice is to receive is merely the first payment o'f a sum estimated at $250,000. To Marry Virginian? The statements that she was to marry a member of a German vaudeville troupe, a gentleman by the name of Berger, was denied by

Alice, who did say that she had been out with Mr. Berger, one or Jtwo times and that the troupe tried to get her to appear in their vaudeville act. But she reneged when it came time to signing a contract.

Following this was a statement to the effect that Kip’s discarded wife, who Is white, according to her own statement, and black according to Kip and a jury, would marry a colored gentleman from Virginia, answering to the name of John Williams.

To Sail For England It is rumored that the former Mrs. Rhinelander will sail for a rip to England shortly, but whether or not the English government will admit her is questionable. England has never forgotten the case of the Countess Cathcart and strikes back with the same weapon of “moral terpitude," which faced the countess on her visit to America, when James C. Thomas, a colored attorney in the Federal service, fought her admission to these fair shores.

Mt. Paran Church To Run Excursion To Lexington Fair

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Train To Leave Union Station Early Thursday Morning— Arrives At Fair At 6:30

The train will leave the Union station next Thursday at 12:01 a. m., and arrive at Lexington^ a t 6:30 a. m. ’ For any further information, concerning the Lexington fair excursion, the public is being urged to call TA. 2975 or LI. 7872.

—•— An excursion to the Lexington fair, August 7, will be conducted under the auspices of the Mount Paran Baptist church of which the Rev. C. H. Bell is pastor. The round trip to tne fair will be four dollars and fifty cents for adults and two dollars and twen-ty-five cents for children under twelve years of age.

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