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348 THE CRISIS

a business as merchants and provision dealers. Mr. H. Chritchlow is Managing Director.

¶ In Pittsburgh, Pa., 3,000 Negro miners have Union cards of membership int he United Mine Workers. Samuel L. Pangburn, a Negro, is district organizer.

¶ The Over-All Manufacturing and Industrial Association, Inc., at Hot Springs, Ark., with a capital of $100,000, has been organized by Negroes for the purpose of operating manufacturing plants and to secure enough land to develop a manufacturing center among Negroes. George S. Washington is president.

¶ George H. Benjamin, a Negro clerk at the Willamette Iron and Steel Works, Portland, Ore., has been promoted to the position of private secretary to the General Superintendent.

¶ C. W. McCraye, a Negro in St. Louis, Mo., has invented a new five-power plow combination. Mr. McCraye is also the inventor of a cotton chopper and an automatic railway gate. He anticipates forming a company for Manufacturing.

¶ The Souther Labor Congress has ended a three days' session, at Asheville, N. C. It voted unanimously to admit "Negro labor in the ranks of organized labor union." Jerome Jones, white, of Atlanta, Ga., was re-elected president.

¶ Robert Isaacs and Cable Cheatham, two Negro delegates of the Massachusetts State Branch, A. F. of L., held at Greenfield, had the following resolution recorded int he minutes of the convention by unanimous vote: Resolved: "That the State Branch of the A. F. of L. go on record against the denial of justice to any person regardless of their color and that we call upon Congress to see to it that these amendment to the Federal Constitution are strictly enforced." Messrs. Isaacs and Cheatham are members of Locals 14,936 and 34, respectively, of Boston.

¶ Charles E. Hall, Supervisor of Negro Economics in Ohio, started a campaign last May for building and loan associations, to be organized and financed by Negroes in each of the congested communities. A model form of constitution and by-laws of building and loan associations was sent to interested persons. Four companies have been organized, with a combined capital of $235,000, and stock sales are already in excess of $50,000

¶ Hotel Roscoe Simmons has been opened by Negroes in Louisville, Ky. It is situation one block from the City Hall. Mr. Henry Allen is manager.

¶ Negroes in Savannah, Ga., have organized the Consolidated Realty Corporation for the establishment of a hotel, theatre and department store building on West Broad Street. J. G. Lemon was elected president of the corporation.

¶ The Whitelaw Apartment House, costing $110,000, is being constructed in Washington, D. C., by John W. Lewis, a Negro business man, with colored people's money and mostly colored labor.

¶The Mechanics and Farmers Bank, a colored institution in Durham, N. C., has had an increase of 125 per cent in its resources in one year–Sept. 1, 1918, $72,000; Sept. 1, 1919, $165,000. W. G. Pearson is president and C. C. Spaulding, cashier.

¶ Negroes at Chattanooga, Tenn., have filed articles of incorporation for the Chattanooga Coal and Manufacturing Company, with a capital stock of #15,000, to mine coal and other minerals in Hamilton County and to manufacture coke and its by-products. The incorporators are J. D. Fazald, E. P. Jones, Daniel R. Brown, Manson Flower and S. A. Wheeler.

¶ The Savings Bank of Virginia, capitalized at $50,000, has been opened by Negroes. The president is E. T. Pritchett.

¶ At Columbus, Ohio, Negroes have organized the Supremee Life and Casualty Company, with a capital of #100,000, for the greater development and expansion of insurance along casualty lines among Negroes and for the acquisition by purchase and reinsurance, subject to legal and departmental supervision, of life, health, and accident organization in various parts of the country. Its incorporators are T. K. Gibson, G. W. Hayes, C. R. Davis, C. S. Smith, Jr., D. C. Chandler, G. A. Steward, B. Beaty, and R. R. Hawkins.

¶ In Memphis, Tenn., at the celebration of Labor Day the white committee included the Negroes in the parade, and they marched with the units of various professions. There was no "Jim-Crowing" or bringing up the rear.

¶ The estate of a colored man, Charles Loman, valued at more than two million dollars on account of its oil wells, is in litigation. A white banker has been appointed guardian of the children, but the widow is suing to oust him.

THE WAR

THREE posts of the American Legion have been organized among Negroes in Philadelphia, Pa.

¶ An effort is being made to raise $50,000 among Negroes in New York for a monument in the New York City to the dead of the 369th Regiment of Negroes, New York's former "Fifteenth."

¶ A fully-equipped club house for the use of returned Negro soldiers and sailors has been opened in Buffalo, N. Y., by the War Camp Community Service, with an employment department. Lieutenant Mosby B. McAdam is in charge.

¶ The Second Separate Company, New Jersey State Militia, colored, won the company team match in the Interstate Rifle Tournament, wining 130 out of a possible 150 points. This is the first time that a colored team has been represented in the Interstate Rifle Tournament of the New York and New Jersey Rifle Association. George E. Cannon is captain of the Second Separate Company.

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¶ Rhode Island's returned Negro soldiers have been given a welcome home in the State Armory, at Providence, in which 4,000 persons participated. A street parade preceded the assemblage.

¶ Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper, known as the first colored graduate of West Point, and formerly of the 10th U. S. Cavalry, has accepted the position of interpreter and translator with the Mexican Investigating Committee, at Washington, of which Senator Albert B. Fall is chairman.

CRIME

WILLIAM A. SHUTTER, a white man at Vincennes, Ind., has confessed to the assault and murder of a white woman, Mrs. Anna Leinbach, for which one colored man had been arrested and other Negroes were being detained.

¶ The following lynchings have take place since our last record:
Whatley County, Ala., August 1, Argie M. Robinson.
Star City, Ark., August 3, Flinton Briggs, discharged soldier, shot.
Fayette County, Ga., –––––, Charles Kelly, discharged soldier, shot.
Monroe, La., September 6, unknown Negro; alleged attack on a white woman.
Jacksonville, Fla., September 8, Bowman Cook and John Morine; charged with murder of George Dubose.
Athens, Ga., September 10, Obe Cox burned at stake; charged with murder.
Pueblo, Colo, September 14, Salvador Ortex and Jose Gonzales (Mexicans).
Omaha, Neb., September 28, Will Brown; accused of assault on a white woman.
Montgomery, Ala., September 29, Miles Phifer and Robert Croskey and Ben Miller shot to death; charged with assault on white women.
Montgomery, Ala., September 30, John Temple; shot and fatally wounded Policeman Barbare.
Jonesville, La., –––––, unidentified Negro found hanging to a trea; reason unknown.
Americus Ga., October 2, Ernest Glenwood.
Washington, Ga., October 5, unknown.
Lincolnton, Ga., October 6, Jack Gordon and Will Brown, burned; charged with shooting two white men.
Lincolnton, Ga., October 6, Moses Freeman, shot; misleading mob searching for Negroes.
Macon, Ga., October 7, Eugene Hamilton.

MEETINGS

AT the International Conference of Women Physicians, held in New York City, at the Y. W. C. A., the Negro race was represented by Doctors Iona Whipper and Sarah Brown, of Washington, D. C., and Dr. Rice, who has been doing service in the French Army.

¶The Puget Sound Conference, A. M. E. Church, has been held at Spokane, for which the mayor delivered an address of welcome.

¶ The Oklahoma Federation of Negro Women's Clubs has held its ninth annual session, at Guthrie, Okla. The president, Mrs. Judith Horton, presided. There were seventy-four delegates and eleven officers present, representing thirty-seven clubs and eight cities.

¶ The Centenary Council of the C. M. E. Church made up of six annual conferences, covering the territory from Pennsylvania to Florida, has convened in Columbia, S. C., with Bishop R. S. Williams of August, Ga., presiding. Three hundred delegates were present.

¶ Delegates from thirty states were in attendance at the conference of the National Equal Rights League, held in Washington. It was decided to launch a drive for $200,000 to be used to suppress lynching, disfranchisement, segregation and the "Jim-Crow." The Rev. C. M. Tanner of Washington, D. C., was elected Financial Director.

THE CHURCH

THE will of the late Mary Benson of Brooklyn, N. Y., bequeaths #30,000 to the American Church Institute for Negroes.

¶ Cardinal Gibbons has issued a call directing the attention of the Catholic clergy throughout the country to the need of a larger development of the work of this church among colored people.

¶ The General Convention of Negro Baptists in Kentucky has met in Louisville, in its fifty-first annual session. Five hundred delegates and visitors were present. Reports showed that $26,000 had been collected for state work during the year and, including the pastors' salaries and local expenses, a total of $212,000. There were over 8,000 additions to the church. Dr. J. E. Wood was re-elected Moderator.

¶ The Lott Carey convention has held a three days session at Third Baptist Church, Washington, D. C. More than 500 delegates were enrolled. President-elect King of Liberia and his wifer were present and spoke. There were reports from twenty-two missionaries–Liberia, 6; South Africa, 6; and Haiti, 10. Nine new workers are to be sent to foreign fields. The actual cash carrie dup to the annual meeting was $25,460. The budget set for the ensuing year calls for an expenditure of $40,000. Dr. C. S. Brown was re-elected president. Dr. A. A. Graham of Phoebus, Va., was elected corresponding secretary succeeding the late Dr. W. M. Alexander of Baltimore.

¶ The fortieth anniversary of the entrance of Bishop J. S. Flipper into the ministry and the educational rally have been held. A purse of $4,000 was presented to Bishop Flipper and $37,190 was raised which completely pays the indebtedness of Morris Brown, Central Park and Payne Colleges, institutions in Georgia for Negroes, which are worth, combined, more than $300,000.

FRATERNITIES

THE Supreme Royal Circle of Friends has held a three days convention at Olivet Baptist Church, Chicago. More than a thousand delegates were present. Dr. R. A. Williams, of Helena, Mont., is president.

¶ Negro Odd Fellows of Indianan and members of the Household of Ruth have held their annual convention at Shelbyville. Three hundred members were present.