TENTH ANNIVERSARY AND PROGRESS EDITION Vol. 10 No. 13 Kansas City, Mo., July 27, 1928 ...

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KANSAS CITY CALL

TENTH ANNIVERSARY AND PROGRESS EDITION

Vol. 10 No. 13 Kansas City, Mo., July 27, 1928.

PROGRESS

THE PROGRESS of Negroes in the United States is so great that history will point out what you
have done as one of the achievements which mark this age. Your rise is one of the best proofs
of the value of the American theory of government. Successes by individuals here and there
have been multiplied until now yours is a mass movement. You are advancing all along the line,
a sound basis for your having confidence in the future.
The world’s work needs every man. I look to see the Negro, prepared by difficulty, and
tested by adversity, be a valued factor in upbuilding the commonwealth.
In the Middle West, where The Kansas City Call is published, lies opportunity. In addition to
urban pursuits you have available for the man of small means, the farm which is one of the
primary industries. The Negro in your section can develop in a well rounded way. Above all
things, take counsel of what you are doing, rather than of the trials you are undergoing. Look
up and go up!

Julius Rosenwald

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“PROGRESS EDITION” CELEBRATING THE KANSAS CITY CALL’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY

Kansas City, Missouri, Friday, July

YOU ARE WELCOME!

The changes in The Kansas City Call’s printing plant are completed. We now occupy 1715 E.
18th street as an office; next door at 1717 is our press room and stereotyping room; upstairs is
our composing room; in the basement we store paper direct from the mill. We are now ready
to receive visitors. Come yourself and bring your out-of-town friends to see The Call, one of the
three modern newspaper plants the Negro race has in America.

[T]he first step toward a successful business is a good bank connection —
When The Call was started ten years ago, the City Bank was its [dep]ository. We were then
in one room of the two-story building that [?]d to occupy our corner. The Call came to us not
only as a pro[?]tor for its deposits, but it came to us as a friend. This we have [?]n, as we are to
all our depositors. They grow and we grow. We [?]p each other.
The City Bank offers you a complete service, which includes a savings department, safety
vaults, real estate department handling mortgages and loans, bond department, trust
department, as well as the usual bank accommodations for your checking account. Give your
business a chance to succeed by dealing with a good bank as The Call has done.

THE CITY BANK
18th and Grand Ave.

SOLID AS A ROCK!

The foundation upon which the Press of The Kansas City Call stands is our READY-MIX
CONCRETE.

Wise builders are finding the product of our plant not only better but actually cheaper and less
trouble than concrete made on the job.

The Call will tell you our READY-MIX CONCRETE is as Solid as a Rock.

READY MIXED CONCRETE CO.
Grand 3800

T. J. PENDERGAST
W. A. ROSS

A. R. Ewing
Carpenter - Contractor
I am prepared to handle your job, from making the simplest repairs to building a new building.
A pleasure to figure on your work.
Phone Fairfax 1211 2506 N. 7th St.
Kansas City, Kansas

L. W. Bellamy
Painter and Decorator
My Work Is My Recommendation
1508 Park Avenue

R. L. Evans
Contractor - Bricklayer
Builder of Six Units of the American Radiator Co’s Plant.
1912 E. 23rd Street

Plant 25th and Summitt

Lumber and Mill Supplies for The Call building
were purchased from
A. O. THOMPSON LUMBER CO.
3100 E. 18th Street
Phone Benton 7221
9th and L Road
Phone Fairfax 1577

The Call’s six motors, aggregating 42 horse power and the lighting for The Call’s new equipment
were installed by
EVANS ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, Inc.
1626 Walnut Street
Grand 3397

The heavy moving, and handling of The Call’s new equipment
was done by
GRANT RENNE,
The man who moved the buildings back when 18th street was widened.
2640 E. 28th Street Phone Linwood 0510

Plumbing supplies for The Call building
were purchased from
GOLDBERG PLUMBING SUPPLY and PIPE CO.
800 E. 18th Street GRAND 4814

Plaster, sand and cement for The Call building
were purchased from
WELCH-SANDLER CEMENT CO.
1311 E. E. 19th St. Phone, Grand 1216

J. S. Golden
Plasterer
Residence 1718 Euclid
Phone Harrison 7877

Ed. Douglas
Sheet Metal Works
Repairs and New Work in Tin, Sheet Iron and Copper
Ten years in the same location
Phone Grand 2563 1429 E. 19th St

J. W. Kincaid
Plumber
I do The Call's Plumbing and Will Be Pleased to Do Yours.
1605 Virginia Phone Grand 3990
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Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt Denies Charge of Lily Whitism

56 PAGES KANSAS CITY CALL PROGRESS EDITION

[V]OLUME 10 NUMBER 13
Kansas City, Missouri, Friday, July 27, 1928
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SCHOOL TEACHER’S WIFE HANGS SELF

[L]loyd Is Re-elected Head of Pythians
[P]RESENT HEAD [SE]RVING HIS [2]9TH YEAR
Opposition In Many [?]ars Aroused; Defeat for J. H. Coleman
[HAN]NIBAL.—A. W. Lloyd, St. Lo[uis,] was elected grand chance[lor of] the Missouri Knights
of Pythians [f]or his 29th term at the grand [?] Thursday. For the first time se[ver]al years Lloyd
received op[position from] A. C. Maclin, St. Louis, [?] the race. Chancellor Lloyd [?] 100 out of
the 117 votes.
Ch[arl]es Baker, Farmington, by vote [?] 95 to 23 defeated J. H. Coleman, [C]olumbia, for
grand master of exch[equ]er and Geo. P. Jones won over A. Knox, Kansas City, the gran[d]
attorneyship of the order. The [?]m of $197,500 was reported at the [?]sion. St. Louis will be
host to the lodge next year.
The officers elected Thursday were [?]t and chancellor, A. W. Lloyd [St. Lou]is, 29th year; W.
P. Kinney, Kans[as] City, vice grand chancellor; Fran[?] Amos, Kansas City, grand [?] Rev. A. Ross
Brent, Sedalia, grand prelate; W. T. Ancell, Huntsville, grand keeper of records and seal; Charles
Baker, Farmington, grand master of exchequer; Dr. Thomas A. Jones, Kansas City, grand medical
director; grand attorney, George P. Jones, St. Louis; G. Emervay, grand master at arms; C. B.
Whitcomb, grand master at arms; J. T. Ancell, Macon, grand inner guard; Edward Anderson, St.
Louis, grand outer guard.

MURDER NO. 29 LAST TUESDAY
Killing Wave Continues to New Record
Notwithstanding that two murders were committed the week of June 16, the murder mill
grinds unceasingly on in Kansas City and last Tuesday Ludie Northington, 815 E. Eighth street
engaging in a fight with an unknown Negro, was killed, bringing the total to 29 murders for as
many weeks. The fray took place at 1118 Campbell in the rear. Northington’s throat was cut.
The Negro has not been apprehended.
Despite the supposed tightening of the law’s dragnet and action by a law enforcement
league murder has not abated and its committers are not being brought to justice in the
manner that they should. Only when the full penalty for murder is meted [ou]t to those who kill
for trivial re[as]ons will such wholesale killing [?]op.
Men [a]e killed in arguments over dice, sm[a]ll money matters and other such flimsy causes.
Of those arrested and formally charged with murder has any one of them received is just
deserts. The 30th murder will no doubt be committed soon while those forces that can partially
remedy this deplorable condition prefer to let “sleeping dogs lie." It is probable that the
unfavorable homicide record will be broken this year as the murders thus far exceed those of
last year.

LARGEST NEWSPAPER
This [e]dition of The Call, numbering fifty six pages, is the largest edition, a[nn]iversary or
regular, ever published by a Negro newspaper.

In the year 1928
29
Negroes have been murdered by Negroes
45 Negroes were murdered by Negroes in 1927
[in Ka]nsas City, Missouri!!

The Call
WILL BE
5c
NEXT WEEK
AS USUAL

QUARRY BLAST HURTS WORKER
Dynamite Cap Explodes Prematurely
Clarence Barbour, 51, of 2115 Flora avenue was dangerously injured in a premature
dynamite blast at a quarry at 70th and Agnes Wednesday. Fellow workers state that Barbour
had prepared a charge to be used in his work and when he attempted to place it in the hole
which he had drilled, the cap exploded, severely lacerating the man’s head and left eye, and
driving bits of rock into his arms and body.
Physicians at General hospital No. 2 state that Barbour's condition is serious.

Man Who Robs Call Newsboy Gets $100 Fine
"You ought to stay in jail the rest of your life,” said Carlin P. Smith, judge of police court No.
1, to Walter Moore, 64 years old, who was arrested last Thursday morning for stealing 75c from
Lafoy Daniels, a Call newsboy. Moore was fined $100, or to one who cannot pay, means 200
days in jail.
Daniels, 12 years old, who lives at 2214 Forest, was shouting “Call paper! Call paper!” last
Friday morning about 7:30. Moore accosted him at 24th and Tracy and inquired if he had
change for a dollar. As the boy took the money from his pocket the man snatched his 75 cents
and fled.
The newsie shouted again, not The Call however but for help. Q. J. iGlmore, 2440 Tracy,
heard the appeal and with the boy started in search of the culprit. Moore was found at 27th
and Troost where according to Daniels, he was attempting to rob another boy. The man
possessed 75 cents but denied robbing the boy. He was haled into police court and thence to
jail where Fridays will elapse before any newsie will again become victim of his “taking ways."

Mason Tenders Union Elects Officers for Year
Local Union No. 555, Mason Tenders, located at 1731 Lydia, held their last meeting on June
11. W. M. Gatewood was elected president for the fourteenth term. He is also president of the
district council, delegate to the Building Trades council, vice-president of the Lyric association,
and member of the Urban league. C. H. Harris was elected for the twenty-fourth term as
business agent. He is a member of the district council, Building Trades council, Urban league,
and president of the Lyric association. Other officers elected have been in office from five to
fifteen years. They are as follows: O. H. Lacy, third term, recording secretary; J. E. Washington,
finance secretary, fifteenth term; James Holley, treasurer, third term; W. M. Yokum, vice-
president, second term.

The world is the best of schoolbooks. The most useful knowledge is that which is acquired,
not by reading but by experience and observation.

These Newsboys Earn $12,000 a Year Selling The Call
These are part of the army of small boys who earn between 12,000 and $15,000 a year
selling The Call. The picture was taken at 5:30 one Friday morning while the boys were after
their current copies of The Call. The paper is printed each Thursday night and is released to
newsboys at five o’clock each Friday morning. Some boys who live in distant parts of the city
come as early as 4 a. m. in order to be first waited upon
and free to get back to their sections in time to catch customers as they leave their homes
for work. Many workers purchase their Calls at daylight and read them on the way to work or at
lunch time on Friday. Lower left photo shows Walter “Mose” Perkins, who for several years has
been the champion Call newsboy.

National Bar Association Convenes in Chicago
The National Bar association, representing Negro lawyers from all parts of the country
convenes in Chicago next Thursday and Friday, August 3 and 4. It is reported that all of the
business sessions will be held in the club rooms of the Cook County Bar association on South
Michigan avenue.
The feature public meetings of the association are to be addressed by Dr. Mordecai W.
Johnson, president of Howard university, and the Hon. William C. Todd of the Republic of
Panama.
Carl R. Johnson, president of the Harlan State Bar association of Missouri, L. A. Knox, C. H.
Calloway and W. F. Clark will make up the Kansas City delegation.

SERVES AS ASSISTANT CIRCUIT COURT LIBRARIAN
Kansas City has a Negro citizen who is the fifty wheel of its Court of Appeals, the branch one
step higher than the Circuit Court. He is Wesley Ellington. Mr. Ellington has been seventeen
years in the employ of the court, going there first as janitor. He did that work exclusively for 7
years. Then he began to help in the library and was relieved of janitor duties. Finally his services
received the extreme recognition of appointment as assistant librarian with some clerical work.
He conducts the bureau of information on the appellate practice of the Kansas City Bar
association and is the assistant to the judges of the court for case week.

PHILADELPHIA HOSPITAL TOTAL TO $335,000
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — (ANP) The campaign of Mercy hospital, which campaign had been
extended ten days, for a fund of $2200,000 for a new nurses’ home, ended with a total pledged
of over $335,000. More than one hundred colored people were enlisted in an effort to raise this
amount of money. Two hundred fifty white workers were also engaged in the work. Many
persons gave large sums of money, Mr. and Mrs, George W. Deane, well-kinwn in social work,
donated $22,000.

National "Y" Head Asks Better Housing
New York—Assailing the increasingly crowded living conditions of the Negro populations of
New York, Boston and other cities of the North as a dangerous menace to the health and
morals of the country as a whole, the Rev. Channing H. Tobias of New York City, senior
secretary of the colored work department of the National Council of the Y. M. C. A., made a
plea for reasonable housing districts for Negroes in a recent meeting at East Northfield, Mass.
His speeches in the afternoon and evening were the outstanding features on the program
devoted to study of the problems of Negroes by delegates to the Northfield Foreign Missionary
Conference.
“Colored people must live somewhere. They believe that they should have the opportunity
to show that they can be good neighbors. Unless openings are made such as those made by Mr.
Rockefeller for th accommodation of 500 families, the people will be so jammed together that
they will be a menace not only to themselves, but to the health and morals of the country as a
whole,” Mr. Tobias said.
“There is a racial deadline in industry and colored people are supposed to do nothing but
the most menial tasks and domestic work. Trade unions hold them out whereever they can, and
many establishments, even in Harlem, where they provide 75 per cent of the trade, the
business houses give them practically no recognition so far as employment is concerned.
“What we plead for is a chance," the speaker concluded. “We don’t want to be given
positions because we are colored, but we do hope to get the chance to make good, and it is up
to the Christian people to give the colored race that chance because many are in a position of
control of these business establishments.”

DOING DUTY BY INDICTING PERRY HOWARD
Woman Assistant Attorney General Says Race Is No Factor
WASHINGTON, D. C. (ANP)— Declaring that she was actuated "in the prosecution of Perry
W. Howard, Mississippi national committeeman, by no other motive than that of doing her duty
as a law enforcement officer, Mrs. Mable Willebrandt in an interview Wednesday with a
representative of the Associated -Negro Press, insisted that she would not be swerved by public
opinion or political pressure from her program of seeking indictments and convictions wherever
graft was found, no matter how big and powerful the person involved was or what his racial
identity happened to be.
Public attention has been directed toward Mrs. Willebrandt recently because of the militant
attitude and eager zeal she has shown in her post-convention prosecution of charges of selling
federal offices in Mississippi, a practice which in the absence of financing the Republican
organization in that and other Southern states, is reported to exist in most of them.
While it is understood that most present day state political organizations are financially
assessments levied upon patronage, the practice was made a felony by a law passed last yet,
sponsored by Southern senators for the express purpose of trapping those who levied upon
federal jobs.

Kansas City, Kas., Newsboys

Wholesale Arrests Made in Coffeyville
COFFEYVILLE, Kas.—Like a bolt out of a clear sky the federal authorities cooperating with
the county forces, swept down upon the citizens of Coffeyville Friday night and made what
might be termed a wholesale arrest of Negroes along with a few whites.
According to statements of eye witnesses no discrimination was shown in the gathering of
those who were to be arrested, good citizens, questionable citizens, guilty citizens and visitors,
were all landed behind the bars without a chance to explain themselves.
Those who happened to be passing, going home or about their business were gathered in as
though they were a flock of sheep, it is said.
The story is told of a man arrested who had just gotten home from work; when he
protested that they were mistaken, they said well, some one gave us your name, so let’s go.
Another is told of a woman who was arrested while nursing a sick child. She was forced to
give up the child and carried to jail, later upon reflection the child was carried to its mother,
where she could be. administered to by the mother, behind those gloomy walls where the sun
never shines and souls are always sick.
There is a considerable amount of indignation arising over the city because of the manner in
which the arrests were made.
Men and women are wondering if the spirit of the Ku Klux Klan is not trying to shake its
detestable and ignominious arms over the city and county once more.

Missouri Pacific Picnic Tomorrow
The Missouri Pacific Boosters club will hold its annual western district picnic at Heathwood
park on Tenth street boulevard, Kansas City, Kas. Saturday, July 28. The picnickers will come to
Kansas City on special trains and in special cars on regular Missouri Pacific trains. Boosters will
be here from Sedalia, Atchison Omaha, Coffeyville, Ft. Smith, Van Buren, Wichita, Joplin,
Pleasant Hill, Hoisington, Osawatomie, Pueblo, St. Louis, Kansas City and Nevada. A baseball
game will be staged between the teams of St Louis, and Kansas City freight houses as a special
entertainment at the picnic. Other games of various kinds and races will be features.

Court Denies Texans Vote in Primary
HOUSTON, Texas.—Only person: classified as white will be allowed to vote in the
Democratic primaries in Harris county as the result of a decision handed down Monday by
Federal Judge J. C. Hutcheson, jr., in the case of J. B. Grigsby against Guy Harris, chairman of the
county executive committee of the Democratic party.
Additional Copies
of This Edition
Are Available for
Out-of-Town and
City Readers

BABY DROPS THREE FLOORS
Infant, Rolling from Cot, Dies of Skull Fracture
Lavaughn Jones, two years old, of 1514 Harrison, died Wednesday afternoon at 5 p. m. at
General Hospital No. 2 as the result of a fractured skull received when she fell from the third
floor of her home. The child, said to have been playing on a bed which adjoined the window,
when she rolled too far and fell to the yard below. A father and mother, Timothy and Treva
Jones survive the infant. Funeral services have not been arranged.

“Kid” Williams, Blind Saxophonist Waits for Aid to Get Instruments
“Kid Williams” is missing from his old haunts. For many months his old acquaintances have
wondered what has happened to him and why he is not seen around making harmonius music
with his clarinet or saxaphone, both of which he is master. This article is to let his friends know
that the “Kid” whose real name is Walter Wright, is an inmate of the Jackson County Home for
Aged and Infirm Negroes, where he sits patiently waiting for some one to help him regain his
place in society. The “Kid" is blind, you know, and his instruments were his only means of
supporting himself, and he wants the world to know that he is not satisfied to let the county
take care of him.
His ill luck started, said the “kid”, January the 8th when his wife, Anna died. And as though
that was not enough he stated that he was beaten badly by a policeman in the early hours of
February 11th as he made his way home from a "Job.” The injuries he is alleged to have
received from the beating kept him in the hospital for three and one-half months, at which
time, having no other recourse, he was taken to the county home.
“I had to pawn my saxaphone,” he sighed, “and my clarinet this January to help pay my
wife’s funeral expenses. And then when I got beat up that did settle it! I’ve played concerts at
the Lincoln theatre, and at other places, such as Ebenezer church, and people know I can really
make my instruments talk. All I want is for somebody to help me get my clarinet and my
saxaphone out of pawn and then I’ll be able to support myself again. Just because I am blind
don’t mean that I want anybody to take care of me."
The “Kid” or Wright, has been playing some kind of musical instrument since early
childhood. He is only 26 years old now. If there is any one who thinks the “Kid’s” desire to help
himself should be encouraged, The Call will be glad to accept contributions to help the blind
boy redeem his saxaphone and clarinet from the pawn shop. The clarinet is “in” for $7.50 and
the saxaphone for $15. Address all donations to Walter Wright, care of The Kansas City Call.

When a man owns himself to have been wrong, he is only saying in other words that he is
wiser than he was.
BODY IS FOUND IN ST. LOUIS ROOMING HOUSE
Was on Way to Kansas City to Visit Chauncey Jenkins, a Relative
By R. C. Fisher
ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 27.—The dead body of a woman, discovered last Monday morning,
suspended by the neck with a sheet that had been fastened to a third-floor banister in a
residence at No. 3 South Twenty-third street, has been identified as that of Mrs. Ethel Jenkins
of 613 Twenty-second street, Cairo, Ill., wife of L. D. Jenkins, manual training teacher in Sumner
high school of that city.
Prominent Church Worker
Mrs. Jenkins, who was organist at Ward Chapel A. M. E. church of Cairo, started on a trip
last Sunday morning with a book, entitled "Turbulent Duchess,” and a handbag, enroute to
Kansas City, Mo., to visit her brother-in-law, Chauncey L. Jenkins, of 2434 Harrison street, a
railway mail clerk. Arriving in St. Louis Sunday afternoon, she engaged transient quarters at No.
3 South Twenty-third street, where Mrs. Fannie Alcorn operates a rooming house. Mrs. Jenkins
made it known that she would continue her journey Sunday at midnight as she had purchased
her ticket in Cairo for Kansas City.
She was immaculate in appearance, wearing a blue silk dress with hat to match, and black
slippers. Despite the fact that she seemed to have been cringing in abject terror, the young
woman displayed intelligence and refinement in the course of a conversation in which she was
engaged last Sunday, according to Mrs. Fannie Alcorn.
"My first impression of the woman--stranger to me—was her highly nervous condition. She
appeared to have been a woman who suffered from a delusion of persecution.” related Mrs.
Alcorn.
“She called me upstairs, and after entering the room she had engaged, Mrs, Jenkins told me
she was undergoing an ‘awful strain'. She said she had to slip away from Cairo—to get away
from the persecution of public criticism and the white people who hounded her for the purpose
of administering violence.” Mrs. Alcorn explained that Mrs. Jenkins admitted to her that the
wrath of the white people of Cairo was upon her because she had been admired by a white
United States Congressman, who resided in that section.
"Later during the night the worn an became greatly perturbed an asked me to lend her a
pistol, explaining that she wanted it to protect herself against her white enemies, should they
come. I assured her that no harm would befall her in St. Louis, With this encouragement Mrs.
Jenkins changed her mind with reference to leaving on the midnight train for Kansas City, and
said she would continue her journey the next morning, Monday. I left her room, retiring to my
quarters,” Mrs. Alcorn explained.
Arthur Shaw, of 2301 Eugenia street, was the first to discover the lifeless body of Mrs.
Jenkins at 8 o'clock last Monday morning as it suspended from a banister of the third-floor
when he entered the Twenty-third street house. The tragic scene was within his direct view
when he gained entrance to the hallway on the first floor. Shaw said he awakened Mrs. Alcorn
and other occupants of the house. When they learned of the tragedy, their excitement aroused
the entire neighborhood. Police were notified. When they arrived blood in the dead woman’s
body was warm. Efforts to restore respiration failed.
Coroner’s Inquest
"Mrs. Jenkins met death by her own hands," was the verdict of a jury at the coroner’s