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CHICAGO. ILL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 192L
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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.
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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
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plaintiffs were put to the least ex
pensejiaj said cause.
This affiant further avers lhat ne
personaUyikaows pAhe-Sestrtute aad
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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.
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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.
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