Paris Nightclubs See Battling Siki Clash With Americans
Paris reports recount Battling Siki entering an American area near L Opera demanding drinks and offering to fight after being refused. He boasted of French status, displayed two large diamonds, and caused many Americans to walk out. The piece notes reactions over his race and a white French companion, plus local club notices and events for October 26 27 including a Halloween party and gatherings for employed women.
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Paris
United States
Siki
Georges Carpentier
L'Opera
L’opera
Dempsey
Carpentier
Beacon Light Club
Bessie Smith
Norman named for National Baptist Convention president
Washington Oct. 26 At a meeting of local Baptist ministers Rev Dr M W D Norman pastor of Metropolitan Baptist Church was unanimously endorsed for the presidency of the National Baptist Convention to succeed the late Rev Dr B E Morris who died months ago.
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Washington, D. C
M W. D. Norman
Metropolitan Baptist Church
National Baptist Convention
BE. C. Morris
National Conference Voices on Law Enforcement and Civics
A collection of quotations from the Great National Conference in Nashville October urging lawfulness, civic action, and social reform. Notable figures such as Bishop R. E. Jones, Prof T. W. Tally, J. Weldon Johnson, Mrs Mary Bethune, and Ida Wells Barnett weigh in on education, race relations, and public morality.
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R. E. Jones
Vesper program at Triangle Branch YMCA on Oct 29
The Triangle Branch YMCA hosts a Sunday vesper from 5 to 6 p m under the Industrial Committee with Acting Chairman Mrs Grace Drew and Secretary Miss Wyoline Swan. Registrations are open for Choral Club Millinery Bible Council Negro History class First Aid and more. November sessions to be held at Mt Carmel Church. The Magnolia Club entertained Mrs Kate Royal on her recent wedding with a silver pitcher presented to the couple.
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Industrial Committee
Grace Drew
Wyoline Swanon
H. A. Johnson
Rickman
Women’s Bible Council
Alexine Crawid
Martha Ross
Mt. Carnel Presbyterian Church
United States
J. H. Robinson
E. N. Elliott
Josephine M. Norcom
Etta C. Forte
Yass
Margaret Evans
L. P. Byrd
Kingdom of God
Isobel Lawson
Magnolia Club
Kate Royal
Wethern
Sunshine
Idea Clubs
Lawyers Seek Moonshine Return in Seizure Case
In Lexington Kentucky on October 25 lawyers for Mrs Annie Lee Johnson filed a motion in Circuit Court for the return of 60 gallons of moonshine poured into sewers five months earlier. Johnson was acquitted on the possession charge after it was shown the seizure warrant was illegal. Judge Stoll said he would consider the motion.
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Lexington
Annie Lee Johnson
Lee Johnson
Johnson
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