Law and Order League Formed in Nashville to Curb Lynch Law
In Nashville on February 24 a white civic group organized a Law and Order League at the YMCA to promote enforcement of laws and curb mob violence. The group plans education campaigns, new or existing laws, and public meetings to foster respect for the law and deter crime.
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Nashville, Tenn
Wilson Auditorium
Nashville
Samuel Cole Williams
Supreme Court
Gupton
Law and Order League
Commander of 368th Infantry Warns on Delayed Passes
Colonel W. P. Jackson of the 368th Infantry at Camp Meade denounces soldiers who fail to return on time from passes and exposes adults forging telegrams to obtain leave. He warns such actions are crimes, sometimes punishable by death, and urges families to avoid aiding breaches of discipline.
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W. P. Jackson
368Th
Camp Meade
Seashore Romance Ends in Marriage
Atlantic City N J March 4 A romance begun last summer ends in marriage as Miss Eunice Dioneze Yantye of Atlantic City wed Mr Harvey Oliver Brooks of Philadelphia The Rev A Martin pastor of the Asbury ME church officiated The bride sister Verna M Norris was maid of honor Best man was Alexander Upshur The couple plan a brief honeymoon to York and will reside at the Bon Ton Apartments on Arctic Avenue
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Atlantic City
Eunice Dioneze Yantye
Harvey Oliver Brooks
Philadelphia
A. ©. Martin
T. D
Asbury M. E. c
Verna M. Norris
Germantown
Alexander Upshur
Washington, D. C
Yancye
Brooks
York
Bon Ton
Arctic Avenue
Maryland Court Declares Segregation Law Invalid
The Court of Appeals of Maryland ruled segregation law invalid, aligning with a U S Supreme Court decision and reversing the lower court's ruling. The announcement came from Baltimore, Maryland, on March 1.
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Court OF Appeals OF
Maryland
Baltimore, Md
Court of Appeals
State of Maryland
S. Supreme Court
Baby Dies After Stove Fire While Mother Absent
Fifteen month old Aubry Braxton suffered fatal burns when he played with a kitchen stove as his mother was away. He died en route to Presbyterian Hospital after a kitchen fire at 3818 Mt Vernon Street was started but extinguished by a nearby engine company.
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Aubry Braxton
Presbyterian Hospital
Mt. Vernon Street
Louisiana Lawbreakers Lynch Three Men
Three colored men named Jim Lewis Jim Jones and Will Powell were lynched by white men near Delhi Richland Parish last Tuesday. The mob action followed violence between whites and blacks in the area after a white farmer and a colored man were killed the previous Sunday.
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Rayville
Jim Lewis
Jim Jones
Will Powell
Delhi
Richland Parish
Death of Dr W Bruce Evans Former Armstong Principal
Dr W Bruce Evans died suddenly at his Washington home last Friday night after years of poor health. Former principal of Armstrong Manual Training School he built it to high standards. Survived by wife son Joseph a St Louis public school teacher and daughter Lillian a local teacher. Funeral services were held yesterday.
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Washington
W. Bruce Evans
Armstrong Manual Training School
Joseph
St. Louis
Lillian
Oil lamp explosion kills Mary Powell in home parlor
Mary Powell seventy five colored of 1022 Naudain Street died at Pennsylvania Hospital at 8 30 P M following an oil lamp explosion as she tried to light it in her parlor. Her clothing ignited and she suffered serious burns to head face arms and chest.
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Mary Powell
Naudain Street
Pennsylvania Hospital
Blindness Among World War I Soldiers Reported
French and British authorities report over 3,000 soldiers in England and Belgium totally blinded and about 25,000 blinded in one eye. Many will lose sight in the other eye due to shock or wounds.
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England
Belgium
Police Raid Captures 200 Arrests in South Street Sweep
A city raid led by Captain Kenny arrests 117 men at shady South Street establishments. Magistrate Pennock convicts them while 60 others are released. Seventy-nine more faces include white arrestees near Market Chestnut areas. Several carry concealed weapons and await court. many loiterers and laborers receive short sentences or fines.
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Kenny
Pennock
City Hall
Duffy
Twelfth
Pine Atreest
South Street
Market
Chestnut Streets
Locust
Jeffries
Fifteenth
Market Street
Women Rally Plans and Local News in Chester
Chester, March 6. Visitors from Darlington Md stop on Central avenue. Women at St Daniels M E church plan a March 17 rally with a $500 stake after a strong February men’s rally. Local clubs meet at Mrs Hyland Smith residence and Mrs Georgie Henry’s. Activities include Mothers Club, Camp Meade knitting, and W C A suffrage talk by Mrs Noel from Massachusetts.
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Chester
William Smith
Darlington
Hartford Co
Central Avenue
St. Daniele M. E. Church
Hyland Smith
9Th Street
Emma Bell
Ethel Brooke Bell
Miss McLendon
Mothers Club
U S Regulars Fire Upon Rioting Stevedores
Newport News Va March 2 One member of a colored stevedore regiment was killed and two wounded when guards of the Forty-eighth Infantry fired on about 300 stevedores who tried to wreck a store near their camp after an argument between Private Turner and a white clerk. Three men were shot, one dying immediately.
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Newport News
Forty-eighth Infantry
Pak Paniel van Voorhis
Here
Turner
Forty-eighth Infantry Guard
New Jersey Establishes Negro Welfare Bureau
Special correspondence from Trenton reports New Jersey acting ahead of other states by creating the Migrant Welfare and Employment Bureau, authorized by late legislature action. Since November 1, Governor Edge designated officers include Isaac H. Nutter director, T. Thomas Fortune assistant director, Dr. J. R. Hawkins medical inspector, and Mrs. Pauline L. Baxter delinquent inspector.
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Trenton
N. J
New Jersey
Vice of
Ernor W. E. Edge
Iing
Isaac H. Nutter
Atlantic City
T. Thomas Fortune
Sunday Stewardesses Day at Bethel A M E Church Smyrna
Smyrna Delaware reports Sunday services at Bethel A M E Church attended by many. Maggie Morse of Dover preached in morning and evening services. Collection totaled 25 dollars 87 cents. Red Cross unit organized among Smyrna colored ladies at Clayton home February 28 under supervision of Kate Speakman Mary Hoffecker and Anis Anthony. A speaker urged girls not to neglect their mistress in favor of Red Cross.
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Anis Anthony
Red Cross
Sam
Clarence Thomas
Smyrna
Louisa Watson
Wildington, del
A. Hemsley
Du Bois Lecture Critiques Philadelphia Politics At NAACP Event
Dr W E B Du Bois addressed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People branch at First African Baptist Church on 16th and Christian streets Monday night. He said democracy fails where industries control politics and warned prices ignore supply and demand laws. Also spoke on postwar possibilities, with Archdeacon Phillips urging racial pride and progress, and Marian Anderson singing Deep River.
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Philadelphia
W. E. B. DuBois
Iff
National Association For the Advancement of Colored
Peo
First African Baptist
Christian
Theople
Henry L. Phillips
Phillips
Marian Anderson
J. Max Barber
Association
DuBois
Prision Society
Hastings
Eastern Penitentiary
Leroy Nash
National Association
G. Edward Dickerson
Levi J. Coppin
T. 8. Bur
Isadore Martin
Seventy Thousand Colored Troops to be Called
Washington March 4 seventy thousand colored troops will be called soon to finish the first draft for all states. They will come mainly from the South where camps were not yet selected. White troops total 10000 called today to fill vacancies. Camps for enlisted colored men will be in Northern states with sites to be announced in spring.
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Washington, D. C
War Department
Iowa
Department
Ardmore Business Men Buy Splendid Haverford Property
The Main Line Negro Business League has purchased a 14 room house with seven acres on Buck Road Haverford. Plans include erecting several houses and opening a country club in the mansion after improvements. President York Nelson, Ardmore contractor, leads the growth of this race promoters group.
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Main Line
Negro Business League
Buck Road
Haverford
York Nelson
Ardmore
Art of Africans Exhibited at University Museum
A reception Tuesday February 26 marked the first exhibition by the museum’s own lecturers. The show features West African art from the 16th century to modern times, spanning Niger and Congo basin tribes in carved wood and bronze with notable casting and period styling.
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University Museum
West Africa
Niger
Congo
Colored Soldiers Riot at Camp Pike Mess Hall
In Camp Pike training near Little Rock, 28 colored members of the 612th engineers service battalion were arrested after a fight erupted in the mess hall when a white officer abused a colored soldier. Dishes and chairs were smashed as white officers and non-commissioned officers intervened to quell the clash.
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Little Rock
Ark
612Th Engineers Service Battalion
Camp Pike
Payton Apartments Ownership Denial and New Corporation
A 1918 statement asserts the Terry Holding Company has no interest in the Payton Apartments at 117-137 West 1141st and 130-148 West 142nd Streets. It names Payton Apartments Corporation officers, describes the six building complex with 306 modern elevator apartments, cost of 1.5 million dollars, and notes only six units vacant amid praised civic impact.
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142Nd St
Payton
Terry Holding Company
Philton Holding Company
New York Title and Morgage Company
Terry Holding
Phillips
E. C. Brown
E. J. Scott
A. F. Btevens
W. H.C. Brown
H . E. Perry
New York
New York City
Real Estate Bargain Listed in Local Classifieds
A compact ad highlights a house for sale by owner in a mile distance with bargain pricing. It notes location and basic terms, urging quick inquiry for more details and viewing times.
Police awake under charges get busy
Police arrest Edward Boyd, a barber shop operator on South Street near 19th, as head of a syndicated car theft ring blamed for about 1000 stolen vehicles. Authorities say Boyd, who has been jailed before, used the nearby fire station telephones to issue orders to his gang, with suspected city officials and detectives connected to the syndicate.
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Tia
Edwar Boyd
Lombard
South St
Engine Co. N 1
Tssues
Tate
Boyd
Detective Bureau
Breezes from Union AME Church Show Warm Easter Spirit
Sunday service at Union AME Church featured Rev J L Witten Cy with a sub sermon Open Windows and fine choir music. Many attended and some will join the church. Easter plans and Sunday school activities were noted along with community updates and personal health notices.
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Union A. M
J. L. Witten
Bible School
A. M. Bu
Buey
Lillian Vaughn
Young Ps
Mary EL
Clara Harris Downer
Stephen Hunter
Croydon
George Norman
Richmond
Virginia
Chester Fisher
John “Reed
Rikeo
John Corbin
Thoms’ Teal
N. 13Th Bt
Moses Waters
Brooklyn
Union A. MM
Leon Pavis
Zear M. E. Church
Mary Pennoth
Messrs. Ciffis
Leon Robinson
James
Daisy Gross
C Recorder
Portale
Josie Henderson
Wyche
Jim Kherron
Robinson
Taylor Street
Tillie Jackson
Ridge Avenua
Carolina Miller
A. M. EB. Church
Elia Whitaker
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League
Hollander & Fleishman Co
Chestnut Street
Aration Tribune
Louisiana
DR. W. E. B. Dubois
Shady Resorts
U. S
Negro Welfare Bureau
Smyrna News
W. E. B. DU Bois
Southland
Payton Apartments
Haas
Markes Se
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