Virginia Supreme Court Case Tests Registrar Authority
Hampton Virginia March 25 The Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals will decide whether registrars after 1904 may ask questions beyond those touching electoral qualification The petition argues such questions are obsolete and must be written by the registrar The outcome will affect thousands of potential voters and guides similar constitutional rulings in other states The case is led by A W E Bassett Jr with J Thomas Newsome of Newport News and attracts broad local attention
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Richmond
Hampton
A. W. E. Bassett, Jr
Zabeth City County
Supreme Court of Appeals
J. Thomas Newsome
Newport News
W. E B. Davis
W. Davis
Thomas ©. Allen
Virinka
Fng
Virginia
Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia
Supreme Court
Bassette
Spratley
Circuit Court
Davis
Queen Street Baptist Church
Frederick Douglass Nominated for Hall of Fame Again
Cleveland G. Allen reports Frederick Douglass has been nominated for the Hall of Fame at New York University for the third time. The NAACP and prominent newspapers support the bid with backing from both white and colored press.
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New York
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Cleveland G. Allen
Frederick Douglass
New York University
Savannah Mayor Pleads for Clemency for Screven
Savannah Mayor Gordon Saussy sent a letter to Governor Hartman seeking executive clemency for Renty Screven a Black man condemned to die in the electric chair Friday for the murder of a woman’s daughter.
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Savannah
CNS
Gordon Saussy
L. G. Hartman
Renty Screven
National Negro Health Week Observance Planned in Richmond
Richmond plans a citywide National Negro Health Week with clinics led by the Medical Society and supported by the Urban League Phyllis Wheatley Branch Y M C A and local churches. Examinations are free as physicians volunteer, with a marathon and mass meeting at the Hippodrome and a health day at Fourth Baptist Church featuring sermons addresses and music.
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Newman and
Roane
Osgood Memorial Church
Martin and Jackson
Second Baptist Church
Southside
Clackwell
Hughes
Fourth Baptist Church
Virginia
Hippodrom Thetre Sandayo
Negro Organization Society
R. R. Morton
Booker T. Washington
Roscoe C. Brown
U. S, Public Health Service
Brown
Life of John Mitchell Jr topic at Fifth Street Baptist lecture
The Junior Choir of Fifth Street Baptist Church presents Roscoe C. Mitchell in a lecture on The Man Who Would Be King detailing John Mitchell Jr. life through five decades in Virginia and the Richmond colored community. The Old South Quartet offers I'll Tell the World. James H. Walls promotes with L. C. White presenting.
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Fifth Street Baptist Church
Roscoe C. Mitchell
John Mitchell, Jr
Old South
Hismond
Virginia
James H. Walls
L. C. White
Planet
The Story of the Cross At Phyllis Wheatley Branch
A special service of worship titled The Story of the Cross will be presented by seniors and juniors from Church Hill at the Phyllis Wheatley Branch Y W C A Sunday March 30 at 5 PM. Mrs Ella P Carter directs with cast including Gladys Lucas Mamie Evans Hazel Evans Mary Lucas Susie Brown Naomi Wilder Marion Evans Anto ette Dabney Phyllis Wheatley Johnson Doris Wilder Thelma Evans Irma Christian Edna Lightfoot Gladys Roberts Bettie Gilliam
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Church Hill
Phyllis Wheatley
Ella P. Carter
Gladys Lucas
Mamie Evans
Hazel Evans
Mary Lucas
Susie Brown
Naomi Wilder
Marion Evans
Antoette Dabney
Phyllis Wheatley Johnson
Doris Wilder
Thelma Evans
Irma Christian
Edna Lightfoot
Gladys Roberts
Bettie Gilliam
Liberia advances radio link to United States and Liberia
Akron dispatch reports Africa’s jungle now within seconds of the United States via the United States Liberia Radio Corporation. Harvey S. Firestone Jr. announces shortwave service with Akron as terminus and Liberia’s growing rubber program, roads, schools, and hospital projects. Monrovia remains Liberia’s capital as Liberia expands trade and communications.
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Akron, C
CNS
Africa
United States
Harvey S. Firestone, Jr
United States-Liberia Corporation
Federal Radio Commission
Republic of Liberia
Liberia
Akron
United States-Liberia-Radio Corporation
Haiti
Ivory Coast
Sierra Leone
New York
Ohio
Toledo Lad Is Youngest Vet Of World War
Arthur Johnson of Toledo Ohio is believed to be the war’s youngest veteran. He enlisted at fifteen years two months and served ten months in France with the AEF earning the Croix de Guerre before his seventeenth birthday. The War Department could not confirm the claim.
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Capital News Service
Washington, D. C
Arthur Johnson
Toledo
Ohio
United States Army
France
American Expeditionary Forces
War Department
Oscar du Test. Lo
Atlanta
Cadillac
Mich
Fort Thomas
370Th Infantry
Eighth Cavalry
Stewart
Harriet Pickens First in Race to Earn S Pin
In New York on March 13 at Smith College Northampton Massachusetts Harriet Pickens daughter of William Pick ens field secretary of the NAACP became the first of her race to receive the S pin the college athletic honor presented at chapel to the student body amid cheers and applause
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New York
March Pickens
William Pickens
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Smith College
Northampton
Mass
New York World
Fair Department Store to Open in Washington with All Colored Staff
In Washington D C the Fair Department Store will open on April 15 at Seventh and I streets NW. The store covers about 20 000 square feet on three floors and employs approximately 100 colored salespeople. The Mercantile Trading Company owns it, led by president Thomas H R Clarke, who plans expansion to other cities to boost black purchasing power and alleviate unemployment.
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Washington D. C
CNS
Fair
Seventh and I Streets
Washington
Mercantile Trading Company
Thomas H. R. Clarke
Tailor Gilbert Harden Recovers From Major Operation
Gilbert Harden of Staunton convalesces after a major operation at Dixie Hospital Hampton Va. He is brother of Alonzo and Burton Harden builders in Staunton and proprietor of a tailoring shop in Newport News. He graduated from Hampton Institute tailoring department.
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Gilbert Harden
Alonzo and
Burton Harden
Dixie Hospital
Hampton
Harden
Beulah Jarvis Harden
Juanita Harden
Staunton
Newport News
Hampton Institute
Marcus Garvey Wins Appeal From Jamaican Court
Marcus Garvey leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association sees a legal victory as the Appeal Court in Kingston Jamaica reverses a February six month sentence for seditious libel against his daily paper The Blackman His editor Aikman receives three months and foreman Beecher is dismissed Garvey clubs and UNIA branches in New York celebrate the ruling and send congratulatory cables pointing to his influence and ongoing activism.
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Marcus Garvey
Blackman
Aikman
St. Catherine District
Beecher
Garvey
Africa
New York
Centralia Service and Wedding Notes Highlight Local Events
At Centralia, 12 o'clock services were led by Rev. W E Brown with the Knights of Pythias and Calanthe of Centralia holding their thanksgiving exercises at 2 PM. Rev C A Dobbs delivered the sermon "Go Forward." Visitors included Mrs C A Dobbs and Miss Rowena Johnson of Richmond. A play titled The Fatal Wedding was staged at Chesterfield County High School by Miss Elaine Friend and Miss Lavinia Cogbill. Lucinda Rose portrayed the bride with Master Paul Copeland as groom and Adele Davis as the forsaken mother. The Sunday School Union will meet at Union Grove on the fifth Sunday at 12 noon.
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Knights of
Pythias
Calanthe
Centralia
C. A. Dobbs
Rowena Johnson
Richmond
Elaine Friend
Lavinia Cogbill
Chesterfield County High School
Lucinda Rose
Paul Copeland
Adele Davis
Sunday School Union
Union Grove
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