[PAGE 1] 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 [page 2] “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 [page 3] 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 1713-15 EAST EIGHTEENTH STREET PRICE 10 CENTS TELEPHONE VICTOR 3804 PRICE 10 CENTS 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.