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Newspaper
Dallas Express
Location
Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1922
Page
1
A dense sampler of Texas towns reports church services social events and personal movements. Heads include Rev J M Fountain and Rev G Gamble in Athens Longview and Carthage. engagements for Otis Wright and Isaac Guyden. students heading to schools such as Bishop College Langston University and Tyler. Local clubs and merchants report moves while theatres and bands plan tours in Old Mexico and Detroit.
In Homerville Georgia on September 31 eighteen sailors and others perished when a collapse trapped people inside a tavern. Rescue efforts recovered several bodies as investigators examined the wreckage and the cause remained under study.
A rally held to benefit Paul Quinn College raised thirteen thousand eighty four dollars and ninety one cents with additional total nineteen thousand eighty four dollars and one cent reported. The event featured Texas Conference and West Texas Conference donations and noted record college enrollment driven by President J K Williams and Bishop W D Johnson.
National Grand Master J W Hunt of Loyal Friends of America tours South Texas visiting Houston Galveston Beaumont Port Arthur Orange Nacogdoches and other stops to promote the order. Calder promises action on the Dyer anti lynching bill and urges progress toward its passage. He notes 3400 lynchings in 83 years and praises Black progress while praising Governor Miller and criticizing federal cost cuts. Garvey group cuts salaries for officials except Marcus Garvey and outlines reduced pay scales across leadership ranks. The lynching committee urges enforcement of anti lynching laws.
Paul Quinn College in Waco Texas plans a longer schedule for the football team guided by Coach T Long. Opening game October 1 against Jarvis Institute and a likely November homecoming against Bishop College are highlighted as the squad builds on veteran players and new recruits for a potentially as strong year as last season.
Grand Chancellor W. B. Willis returns this week to plan a statewide Knights of Pythias membership push. He will visit Cal Lodges September 25 to outline drives and deliver lectures at St John’s Church and the Federated Clubs event. Lectures include Miss F B Patterson on September 25 and other programs through September 27 at City Temple and St John’s Institute.
In St Louis on September 21 the Board of Education approved purchasing a block at Prison Cardinal Laclede and Market for 200000 to build a junior high school serving the city’s dense Black community. Officials say the move will relieve long travel for complete high school training and will be a duty the board owes to Colored citizens. In Temple Texas on the same date Cory Johnson, 26, was killed by a Santa Fe train after being jolted from the track. a companion was only slightly injured.
Wendell Phillips Free Evening High School opened September 13 offering courses in printing linotype and related subjects with a new Model 14 Linotype Machine. Instructor A. B. Lovett leads the day and night programs, while W. H. Shoemaker and A. Sherrell teach shorthand and typewriting. Most Colored students attend Wendell Phillips.
In Chicago on September 21 Dr. EB M Jones Area Secretary of the Methodist Episcopal Church reports the first large meeting to raise $14 600 apportionment for the New Orleans Area. They raised $2 075 and plan similar meetings in five or six other centers. The area is progressing toward the "I Will Maintain" fund.
The Centenary fund once pledged 100 million dollars over five years shows a 2 million dollar shortfall this year. The I Will Maintain fund begins to cover the deficit as the New Orleans Area raises 14.60 of its share. Chicago reporters link nine Pullman porters to a major booze ring after a raid on a New Orleans bound train uncovered metal undercarriage containers used to smuggle 300 cases weekly. English whisky imports via Bermuda New Orleans are noted and special attorneys were assigned to prosecute the porters.
Senator Smitley of South Carolina proposed a one year suspension of cotton planting in the United States to eradicate the boll weevil. He said a layoff could force wholesale abandonment of cotton farms unless the government aids in destroying the parasite. He wrote to the chief entomologist requesting a study to see if a year off would eradicate the pest.
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