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"" ??t??"fnr-jgrrs?&, -v T55? - - -- BROAD SCENTS T" Uf-'B percopy n , - A i JL JL MLd VOL.XXVIL ' tf AX Tfe Fort Deihwm Hm pftal ie Stffl a tfce Me Eye ' CHICAGO. ILL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 192L NclJ The Following Affidavit Executed By Attorney Augustus L. Williams, in Twenty-one Cases, Grow ing Out of the Race Riots, in This Gity in 1919, in Which Many Colored People Lost Their Lives. At the Regular Meeting of The City Council, Wednesday Afternoon, It Was Referred to The Finance Committee For Immediate Action. ALDERMAN HENRY FICK INTRO DUCED THE RESOLUTION SEND ING IT TO THE FINANCE COMMIT TEE AND ALDERMAN JOHN H. LYLE DELIVERED A SANE AND SOUND ORATION IN FAVOR OF ITS PASSAGE .AND DECLARED THAT THE CITY SHOULD WITH OUT DELAY RECOMPENSE THE COLORED WOMEN ANDCHILDREN WHOSE HUSBANDS AND FATH ERS LOST THEIR LIVES IN THIS CITY DURING THE RACE RIOTS IN 1919. ' ALDERMAN E. I. FRANKHAUSER AND ALDERMAN CHARLES G. HENDRICKS ALSO SPOKE ON THE SIDEOF-THE COLORED PEOPLE. A. L. Williams, being first duly sworn, says that he is the attorney of record for twenty-one (21) cases in the Circuit and Superior Courts of Cook County for death and senous personal injury sustained from the within named causes; that on to-wit: the 22nd day of June -and the 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th days of July, 1919, the within causes grew out of the riots of said dates by persons being injured or killed as hereinafter shown; that suits were filed In the amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000) m each case under a statute of Illinois and known as "The Suppression of Mob Violence," which statute is un der the Criminal -Code of Illinois be ginning at Section 256 S to 2 W: that subsequent to the 'filing of said suits, this affiant tried three (3) ot the said cases in the said Circuit and Superior Courts and obtained verdicts in each case tried, to-wit: Ada Doner, widow, vs. City of Chicago, before Superior 'Court Judge Samuel L Stough, verdict twenty-three hundred dollars ($200) from the' juryr Carrie Lovings, widow, vs. City of Chicago, in the Circnit Conrt of Cook County before Judge Thomas G Windes, ver dice thirty-five hundred dollars (?3, 500) from the jury, and in tnecase of James G. Grimes vs. City of Chicago who was permanently blinded m t d riot, verdict five thousand dollars This affiant avers that there is new pending under his supervision, eight een (18) cases as follows: ' Circuit Court . B-62780, Cornelia Baker (widow) vs. Gty of Chicago, $5,000. B-62781, Julia Jackson (widow), vs. Gty of Chicago, $5,000. B-62783 Augusta. Taylor (widow;, vs. Gty of Chicago, $5,000. B-62785, Pearl Mills (widoW) vs. Gty of Chicago, $5,000. B-62786, Lewis C Henry and wile (son and vvife) vsT Gty of Chicago, $5,001 - t v B-63031, Ada Banks (mother) vs. Gty of Chicago,-$5yi B-63034, Josepkiae Doner widow) vs. Gty of Chicago, $5,000. ;B-63035t Gertrade Crawford (wid ow) vs. Gty of Chicago, $5,000. SqperkfrCeext 354266, LaBn Bass (widow) vs. Gty of Chicago, $500. 354267, I2a WiHs (widow) vs. Gty of Chicago, $5,000. 354268, Mary Sasdf erd (wov? as two vchndrca) vs. Gty f Cicff, $5,000. " ' ' i 354269, Robert Taylor (minor son) vs. Gty of C&icagor$S0a- - . 354270wAtiressand;BatdeL5e d pendtrouier ascT sister) vs. Gty of Chicago. $5,000. . 354049, OUie Harris widow arid one child) vs. City of Chicago, $5,000. 354050, Celia Robinson (widow and six children) vs. Uty oi v-nicajju, $5,000. All of the above causes are for deaths of persons killed by .mob vio lence as aforesaid. The following for personal injury were: B-655519, William Stewart vs. City of Chicago (was shot through his body and leg broken). B65520, Lewis Phillips vs. City of Chicago (eye shot out, shot, through head and permanently disabled). This affiant further avers that all of the above cases are now pending and ready for trial in the Circuit and cMn.nr rnttrts of Cook County, as aforesaid, and waiting for the dispo sition of the. Council, so as 10 avom duplicity in the trial of same; that ninety-five" per cent (95) of the plaintiffs are penniless and without means to obtain their witnesses at the hearing of the said causes in j. mVi ont their cases, and will be further handicapped to a great extent; that the City ox unicagu, u u- .r. ni3 already tried, has made absolutely no defense by pro ducing witnesses at the hearing of either of the said causes and this affi ant verily believes that they cannot produce any at the future bearings; thaVthis affiant has. persistently im plored and pleaded with the city; representatives to dispose of the said cause without compelling the said several plaintiffs to go to any further .. f M'nir ont witness fees. and also to save the time it will take to try said cases for all parties con cerned, thus reducing the cost to a minimum lor the said plaintiffs afore--j a M that khe said matter go before the common council of the Gty of Chicago, there to be deter mined as was done in similar cases in East "St "Louis. I1L, on. or aooui 15th day of, April, 1921, when the said .nni-n naastd an ordinance appropriating, the sum of four hun dred and fifty-five thousand dollars to (5455,009) to pay for suits and claims pHximg in tie said courts.of East St LoU as a rcsalt of the mob violence StSfe 1917, and in the Gty of Fraakfert,! Frasklia County, where a the w&m brought in the United States Cbart of the Eastern District T- m::. - there the same Ja4a,aicnt . - plaintiffs were put to the least ex pensejiaj said cause. This affiant further avers lhat ne personaUyikaows pAhe-Sestrtute aad sBHiHiHIIBHv''3IK Cj 'iB JHJHBsHmL T viSPJIKy sKS5 sflBB lvvvHaHBftffvKv" m 'SHBHIflvvvHBIH BBfBsBSBflBH a BOOK CHAT BY MARY WHITE OvTNGTON-CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COL ORED PEOPLE? AUTHOR OF ' "HALF A MAN," "HAZEL?' "THE SHADOW," ETC. "BIRTHRIGHT" HON. GEORGE B. HOLMES One of the Most Honorable and Popular Judges of the Municipal Courts of Chicago, and the Newly-Elected President of the Board of Trustees of the Fort Dearborn HospitaL ocrsonal need of all of the plaintiffs in the said causes; that he has been personally responsible and compelled to nay rent, witness ees, railroad fare and all, even to the extent of paying for food to feed some of the little ones left destitute as a result of the said mob violence and prays that he be relieved by the honorable City Council from further financial respon sibility, etc. Further affiiant sayeth not. A. L. WILLIAMS, Affiant Subscribed and sworn to before me this 16th day of November, A. D. 1921. WILL N. JOHNSON, Notary Public. NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE EXECUTIVE ADDRESSES INTER-RACIAL MEETINGS IN WEST. Eugene Kinckle Jones, executive secretary of the National Urban League has just returned to New York Gty after a flying western trip to Kansas Gty, St Joseph and St Louis, Mo Richmond, Indiana and Pittsburgh, Pa. In Kansas City, Mr. Jones addressed a banquet meeting of the Social Workers! Round Table, led by F X. Lane of the Community Serv ice Urban League oir the subject Social Service and Its Importance in Racial Adjustments. On Sunday, No vember 13th Mr. Jones addressed a large gathering of white and colored citizens of White Temple, the occasion being the opening session of the Mis souri State Conference of Sodal Work. This was -the first time in the history of St Joseph and of the State Con ference that an inter-racial meeting of such, x nature had been held. The opening ceremonies consisted of a ser mon by the noted divine, the Reverend Robert Nelson Spencer, rector Grace and Holy Trinity church, iollowed by addresses By Mr. Jones and O. J. HHL move- millionaire leader in social mentsln Kansas City, Mo Mr. Jones among other remarks said: "The chief difficulties in the way of better understandng- between the races have been first, the lack of knowledge of each other, the failure of members of one race to realize that the mem bers of the other race are human be ings with exactly the same under standings, Iqyes, yearnings, hopes and patriotism possessed by others. Sec ond, the fear of competition especial ly industrial competition. Those pos sessed of such fears do not realize that the greater amount of work done by all and the hiuher the character of this work, the more work and wealth are available for all participants in this work. Third, the developed sense of superiority byvmembers of one group over those of another group, growing out of exploitation of the so-called weaker group by unjust and dishonest leaders in the so-called superior group. These men have sought not only to stir up trouble between the races and to keepthem as far apart as possible, but they have in man" instances used colored men of weak minds and little vision as their agents in disseminating among Negroes the idea that they should remain subservient and without ambition. "We have good examples of this situuation. in the efforts of many em ployers of labor who have sought to instill in the minds of the white work ers that Negroes are chronic strke breakers anil in the, minds of colored men that for them to associate them- jsejves. in any way with organized labor is to sound their death knell in industry. The result has been a larger and larger rift in the relationship- be tween white and black bread-winners to the detriment of the wholft course of sored spirit of good will between these sons oi tofl." These" remarks were well received labor asd the less of an otherwWe ,as by the 5O0white and an -equal number of Negro auditors. The meeting was the result of ef forts to secure more consideration of the social problems of Negroes by the Conference Committee on Negro work, George W. Buckner, chairman. On Tuesday afternoon, the 15th of November, Mr Jones addressed 100 members of the Polity Club of Earl ham College, a white co-educational institution of Dichmond. Ind. and in the evening he spoke before a group of white and colored ctizens in a joint meeting in the same city. These meetings were arranged by Josiah P. Marvel, a member of the Society of Friends, and son of Dr. Marvel, the great surgeon of Southern Indiana. An Urban League is in con templation in Richmond, Indiana and this meeting was preliminary to the final launchng of the work there. THE AVENUE THEATRE CON- TINUES TO RUN IN FULL BLAST By T. S. Stribling, drawings by F. Louis Mora. Appearing as a serial in the Century Magazine beginning with the October number. For sale or can be prdered at newstands. Price per copy, fifty cents. I am leaving my line of books, to note; before the novel progresses too far, the serial "Birthright," which is appearing in the Century magazine. Every colored reader ought to get this serial foe it represents a turning point in Negro literature in America. T. S. Stribling, as the biograph ical note in the magazine tells us, is a young southern man, born in a small village on the Tennessee river, who studied law, turned from that to literature, and has known many pri vations in his wanderings over four continents. His story is laid in a little town like that of his birth, but as one reads one finds the detached view of the traveller who has known- many places and can turn back to his own home divorced of prejudice. The hero of "Birthright" is a young Ne zro, Peter Steiner, born in "Hooker's Bend" who on graduating from Har vard returns to the shabby little own where he spent his boyhood bent upon constructive work. On his way home he meets Tump Pack, jvhom he grew up with, a rough, uneducated youth who yet wears the congres sional military medal upon his coat The two land from, the boat at Hooker's Bend where the colored peo pie come in great numbers to meet their hero. Tump Pack. But Tump has walked only a little way up the street when the constable steps up, arrests him on a three year old charge of shooting and puts him in handcuffs to the immense mirth of the white beholders. .They explode with delight over it. "Just as Tump was a coming down the street at the head of the coons" out steps Bobbs "here the little man who tellslthe story is overcome with laughter. Peter finds the reception the whites give him equally cheering. He gets a deed for a piece of land for his school only to learn that it has what is colloquially known as a "Nigger stopper" and that he has been cheated out of his money. And against this we have the picture of the white con stable going through every home of the colored quarter because- Miss Lou Arkwright' has lost her turkey roasfer. Its Hew Manager, Mr. TomNonnan, Is the Right Man in the Right Place, and He Is a Live Wire. The Avenue Treatre, Thirty-first Street and Indiana Avenue, has been beautifully re-decorated from pit to dome and otherwise improved. A dozen loud lunged boys, who have al ways sold cracker-jacks, soft drinks and so on, during intermission and kept up a continual noise, have .dis appeared, thanks to the new manage ment The vast crowds attending the fkvenue Treatre nightly are more re served and orderly than in times past Mr. Tom Norman, the jovial and big hearted manager of the Avenue Theatre, is seeking for new attrac tions all the tune. Among the numbers the past week have been the famous Byron Brothers and Billy King, with his sew. Musical Comedy Revse. "I declar' " satirizes old - Caroline (Peter's mother) "dis heah Niggah Town is a white man's pockety Evuh time he misplace' somp'n, he feci in his pocket to see ef it ain't thaiuh." And she continues to scold as the constable continues to search utfavail ingly. Petty thievery, ignorance, shabbincss, all this one sees in Hooker's Bend, but the author makes us feel the desire of the Negroes, through Peter, to get away "from their ignorance and low estate and the in tention of the whites to keep them, by every and any means, where they arc. There is a, vivid description of jim crow traveling on poor trains, stopping in an obscure place over night This unremitting insistence upon color, this continual shunting him -into obscure and filthy ways, gradually gave Peter a loath feeling. The impression grew upon him that lie was being handled with tongs, along back-alley routes; that he and his race were something "to be kept out of sight as much as possible, as careful housekeepers manoeuver their slops." But the text is only half the story. The illustrations by Mora, one of our great mural painters, again mark a new departure in the Negro maga zine story. Here are no caricatures. but works of art showing the colored man at his best There are four full oasrc illustrations in the two num bers, any of them worthy of being kept and framed. When one thinks of the rotten pictures in our cheap magazines, one is reconciled to the price ojie has to pay for the Century. Fifty cents is a good deal for a single copy of a magazine. But I, for my part, would rather follow Peter Steiner this year through his struggles to educate the children at j Hookers Bend, through fiis love story with Cissie Dildine. than to watch Douglass Fairbanks or any other movie hero flash through a myriad of films. The movie hero alwavs does exactly what be is expected to do. He has nothincr fresh or nrar tn show us. If he meets a Negro it will be a threadbare, utterly uncon ventional type that does not exist now, and probably never existed. But Stribling is traveling through fresh fields, he is showidg us the actual life of colored and white in a small south ern town. And his interest is so compelling that if we once start out with him we shall find that we are compelled to follow him eagerly to the end. December 7, 8 and 9, Madam Leo Hardin, the fashionable modiste of New York Gty, who is well known in this city, will give a fashion show at the Avenue Theatre, and it prom ises to be the most attractive and ar tistic display of fine gowns and hats so far gazed upon in Chicago. RETURNS .TO CITY. Rev. Daniel P. Jones, assistant pas tor of the Ebenezer -Baptist Church, has returned to the city from an ex- uocal Baptist Convention, naisc, held at New Orleans, La- in interest of the Association. Rev. Joses re ports a favorable outlook of the work being done in the South by the Bap tist Church, and will kavtat an early date for an extensive'trip through the West in the interest of the Associa tion. -.t BOOKER' T, WASHINGTON MEMORIAL PROGRAM. Bethel A. M. E. Church, 30th and Dearborn Streets. tensive trip through the South since the dose of the session of the Na-Lome of the best talent i? Chicago will The regular 4th Sunday, afternoon meeting of the Tuskegee Cfab will be held at Bethel A. M. E. Church, Sun day afternoon, Novemfier 27th- at 3 o'clock. A Memorial Program for the late Booker T Washington will be rea dered. Rev. W. A. BkekweD, pastor of Walter's A, IC E. ZonChurch will be oar priscjpat -speaker, also appear on the program. Yoa and year friends are cordially invited to. be present MRS. TENA PECK THOMAS, Chairman Program Committee. E. A. JOHNSON, Correspondingecretary. - HERMAN BLANDONT . 5 - ., -f Jvesldest :4 .! i ?i i r y , V . . .- .n-.-vi'"-.