Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-04-01 | Page 1 | German Money Bribes Negroes

uu GERMAN MONEY BRIBESNEGROES Ten Thousand Dollar Brick Church and $25,000 Residence Resi-dence Built. JACKSON, Miss., April 1. Charges that German money is being used to encourage Mississippi negroes to evade the selective draft are made in a report filed at the adjutant general's office by F. K. Ethridge. state inspector in-spector of selective draft boards. The report declares it has been almost al-most impossible to get negro regis-trans regis-trans to respond to the draft and that C. H. Mason, pastor of a negro church at Lexington, Miss., known as "the church of God in Christ," has been preaching pro-German sermons and advising negroes to resist the draft. Tho inspector's report said "The church of God In Christ," has headquarters head-quarters In Los Angeles In August last year a $10,000 brick church was built at Lexington for which local negroes furnished only a small part of the building fund, the report says, and also that the pastor, hitherto an ob-;cuie ob-;cuie negro preacher, recently erected a $25,000 residence in Memphis. nn