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•- WASHINGTON, D. C., April 28—
The briefs on behalf of Congress
man Mitchell were filed by his
attorney, Richard E. Westbrooks
with the Interstate Commerce
Commission of Washington D. C..
on the 20th of April. Briefs were
also filed by the Chicago Rock
Island and Pacific Railway com
pany, Illinois Central and Pull
man company.
Attorney Westbrooks, in his
/m brief, contends that colored peo
ple who buy first class railway
tickets must, under the law be
given first class accommodations,
and that a denial or refusal to
furnish first class accommodations
to colored people who have paid
a first class fare violates the In
terstate Commerce Act. West
brooks also contends that all col
ored persons who have been pay
ing Ihe first class rates of fare,
which is the per mile fare, and
who have been riding in the “Jim
Crow Cars’ are entitled to a re
, fund of le per mile for every
mile they have traveled in a “Jim
Crow Car.”
It is further pointed out that
white passengers who ride in the
“Day Coaches” only pay 2c per
mile, while colored passengers
have been paying 3c per mile
which is the first class rate, while
only second class accommodations
have been furnished colored peo
— pie.
The Railroad companies were
compelled 1o admit that the “jim
crow car” service furnished to
colored passengers paying first
class fare was not “First Class
Accommcdat ons”, and the Rock
Island was compelled during Ihe
Hearing before Commissioner Dis
que to admit an unlawful charge
of fare in ihe sum of $3.74 which
had been paid by Congressman
Mitchell and offered to return the
overcharge.
Westbrooks’ brief ela;med that
this overcharge violated the In
terstate Commerce Act. He fur
ther contended that under the law
it is the duty of every railroad
company engaged in interstate
commerce to provide aill persons
who pay first class fare with first
class accommodations, whether
_fhey are white or colored and that
j *■*'" a failure to provide equal accom
modations for all persons holding
tickets of the same class violates
the Interstate Commerce Act. It
further contended that the Rock
Island Railroad having filed with
the Interstate Commerce Com
mission a tariff schedule of fares
and having charged Congressman
Mitchell a first class fare while
giving him second class accom
modations the Interstate Com
merce Act was again violated.
It was pointed out in the brief
that even the Separate Car Law
of the state of Arkansas provided
for “equal accommodations for
white and colored passengers.”
Westbrooks cited the case of
Professor Council against the
Western and Atlantic Railway
company decided in 1887 shortly
after tlie Interstate Commerce
. Act was established by Congress.
«— • Two cases prosecuted by Bishop
Heard against the Georgia Rail
way company and Edwards vs.
« Nashville, Chattanooga and St
Louis Railroad company, each of
> Which cases were heard by the
Interstate Commerce Commission
ru and the railroad companies were
ordered to furnish better accom
modations to colored passengers.
The Rock Island Railroad eom
't! pany chums that since the filing
of the proceedings by Attorney
* ' Westbrooks for Congressman Mit
chell that all accommodations for
colored passengers have been
greatly improved.
w* Westbrooks’ brief points out
’* further that the same discrimina
te tion practiced against Congress
man Mitchell applied to all eol
' ’ ored persons having occasions to
* travel in the South and who were
* * not fortunate enough to secure a
»* “Drawing Room or Compart
ment” in a Pullman car.
It is further pointed out in the
brief that under cross-examina
*1 tion of Albert W. Jones, a con
ductor on a Rock Island road for
the past 32 years, Jones frankly
admitted that the Rock Island
road was violating the Interstate
:: Commerce Act. It appears in the
.. brief from Jones’ testimony,
which is quoted, the following:
“The Rock Island Railroad
company has no such first class
accommodation for Negroes,
although the Negroes may have
«*■ first-class tickets on the Rock
Island Railway or ‘three-cent
»• per-mile’ tickets. During the
38 thirty-two years I have work
ed over there in Arkansas, for
the Rock Island Railroad com
pany, it has never had any
first-class accommodations for
Negroes (Rec. 149) and they
*> * haven’t any first-class accom
modations in the sleep'ng cars
for Negroes now.”
* “The accommodations furn
ished to Negro passengers in
ihe Jim Crow Car where Con
**■ •’ giessman Mitchell was com
pelled to ride are not equal to
the accommodations furnished
in the observation car by the
Rock Island Railway to white
r». -
V
Baha i to Hold
Annl. Conclave j
in Wilmette, U1J
- i
Delegates from the principal
cities of the United States and
Canada will convene in Chicago
for the 30th annual Baha’i con
vention, April 27 to May 1, in
clusive. The convention will be
hckl in the Baha’i House of Wor
ship at Wilmette, 111., just north
of Chicago. Because of the ex
pansion of the American Baha’i
community, the total number of
delegates has been increased from
95 to 171, by the Guardian of the
Faith, Shoghi Effendi. These 171
delegates will elect the National
Assembly of 1he Baha’is for the '
year cf 1938-39.
Each morning session of the 1
convention will be opened with a j
devotional service held in the au
ditorium. The business sessions t
tegan at 9:45 Wednesday, April
28.
The annual election of members
to the National Spiritual Assembly
will be held Friday. Scheduled
n the activities are the report of
the national secretary, Horace
Holley, of New York City; the re
oort of the national treasurer,
Roy C. Wilhelm, West Englewood,
N. J.; the seven year building
plan by Siegfried Schopfloher
of Montreal, Canada. Other top
ics cf discussion will be the in
!er-Amer can teaching activities;
the three Baha’i summer school
programs; the teaching and train
ing of children and the youth ac
tivities, etc.
On Saturday evening, April
30, the annual Ridvan Feast will
be held. This feast is observed
each year some time during the
twelve days between April 21 and
May 3, for it was during these
twelve days in 1863, that Baha u’- ,
llah, the founder of the Faith,
announced to a few of his fol
lowers that he was the one whose
coming had been foretold by the
Bab, his forerunner. The garden
where this memorable declaration
look place has become known to
Baha’is as the “Garden of Riv
dan” and the feast commemorat
ing this event as the Feast of
Rivdan.
Sunday, May 1, at 3:30, the
Congress will close with a pub
lic meeting addressed by nation
ally known speakers.
The mission of the Baha’i Faith
is 1he achievement of the organ
ic and spiritual unity of the whole
body of n&tions signalizing the
advent of the coming of age of
the entire human race.
16 Killed, 54
Kurt as Roof of
Cafe Collapses
PIIOENIX CITY, Ala., Apr. 28.
_(ANP)—S ixtccn men were
killed and 54 others injured
Thursday as a roof collapsed,
bringing a two-story wall of the
building down with it. The dead
and injured were removed from
1he wreckage by firemen, police,
highway patrolmen and soldiers
from Fort Benning, Ga., across
the liver. Rescue work was re
tarded to some extent for fear
other walls of the building would
fall.
The building, housing the Ritz
cafe, a licensed liquor store, was
weakened by a burden of rain
water on the roof, according to
! R. L. Ray, city building inspec
tor.
SKY BOUND ROADS
Roads that rise with amazing
abruptness lure tourists across the
high and p eturesque hills of
Williamsburg Ridge in Shelby
county, say research workers of
the Federal Writers’ Project, W.
P. A., who have compiled a guide
bcok 1o Illinois. A great gravel
pit near Cold Springs supplies
most of the surfac:ng needed to
keep highways open to automo
bile traffic under all ordinary
weather conditions. This region,
sometimes called “the foothills of
the Illinois Ozarks,” embraces 12
square m’les of peaks, woods,
strong springs, and fine farms.
WATER FOWL FIND REFUGE
IN MASON COUNTY
Wild ducks and other water
fowl find a haven from guns of
Illinois hunt eis in the Chau
tauqua Migratory Fowl Refuge,
established by the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture and the U.
S. Biological Survey near Hava
na in Mason county, according
to the Federal Writers’ Project,
WPA. This area, formerly the
Chautauqua Drainage District,
ccmprises 5,000 acres on the east
bank of the Illinois River be
tween Quiver and Clear Lakes.
Levees have been improved, ve-1
getation planted, nesting islands
formed, and controls built to
keep water at a constant level.
passengers holding first-class
tickets.” (Rec. 155)
It will be interes'ing to note the
decision of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, when the same
is rendered, in view of th:s frank
admiso'on by Conductor Jones.
If all colored passengers who are
required to ride in jim crow cars
begin to purchase “2^ per mile
tickets” to entitle a passenger to
ride in the Jim Crow Car or Day
Coaches.
Many cases were cited by At
torney Westbrooks showing that,
colored persons throughout the
United Spates have recovered
damages for being compelled to
ride in “jim crow cars”, after
having paid for “First Class Ac
commodation*.”
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