UNITED STATES: Harlem's Columbus

First class on the Cunard White Star's S. S. Aquitania and fresh from a costly Thameside London hotel that ebullient Negro romanticist Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, the Richard Halliburton of his race, last week got home to Harlem from one more Glorious Adventure. With him he brought a 68-page hand-written manuscript titled, "Why I Resigned from the Abyssinian Army."

His elegant haberdashery and expensive shipboard accommodations Negro Julian explained by saying that an Englishwoman has given him $60,000.

Famed as Harlem's pioneer in Ethiopia long before there was any war, "Colonel" Julian first came inescapably...

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