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Vol. 2.—No. 41 CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9th, 1920 EIGHT PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS
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REMOVAL OF
DR. COOK
DEFIED
Member* of Historic Church
Claim Graft and Politics
Dominate Situation
The recent changes made in the ap
pointments made by Levi J. Coppin of
the Fourth Episcopal District affect
ing Bethel Church, 30th and Dearborn
Ms., Chicago, III , has caused a dis
sension which has gained wide pro
portions and threatens to wreck the
congregation of Old Bethel. The at
titude of the Bishop in 'bringing to
the leading church Rev. S L. Birt,
formerly of St. Paul Church, Des
Moines. Ia., and the sending of Dr.
Cook to Des Moines as his successor,
precipitated a situation in Bethel
which in itself presents a parallel cir
cumstance to that of Bethel Church
ui Hrw York under the dioeese of
Bishop Herd.
.. Members Make Statement
In an utter view w ith a re;>reseata
ttve’of the Chicago Whip it was operT
ly charged by such prominent men as
th Rose Or Giles, IL A. Watkins,
Charles A. Griffin and .1 I’ Faulkner
that the cause which led up to the
removal of Dr. Cook had its begin
ning in the tight made by the now
Bishop A. J. Carey for his present
ascendency in the church. It is al
leged by these gentlemen that at a
midnight conference held at Quinn
i bapel at the last Annual Conference
September, 1919. At which time a
caucus was held in which the Bishop
participated. I his caucus was for the
purpose of selecting delegates to the
(Continued on page 6)
MORT SHOEGRAFT IS
FOUND DEAD
Mort Schoecraft, age 50, 3105 Calu
met Ave., apartment 30, was found
dead jtt his room by his wife on her
return from her vacation Sunday, Oc
tober 3rd. lie was said to have been
lolly dressed lying on the floor. Mort
was well and favorably known by hun
dreds of people on the south end of
the city. He was a member of the
files Lodge Great Lakes 43, and had
for years been prominent in the af
fairs of the order, lie is survived by
several brothers and a wife. Front
preliminary investigation on the part
of the police it was said on authority
that his death was of natural causes.
Challenge American Le
gion on Race Issue
NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 6. —
Charging that the American Legion
had refused to grant charters to col
ored posts of the Legion in certain
southern states in violation of the con
stitution of the Legion, the N. A. A. C.
P. sent the following telegram to the
American Legion in session now at
Cleveland, Ohio:
■'American Legion has not kept
faith with colored soldiers. Southern
states have absolutely refused to grant
charters to colored Posts in Missis
sippi, Louisiana and other southern
states. National organizer has writ
ten Major Joel E. Spingarn that it is
useless to make any protest to nation
al organizer. It is highly essential
that a clause be added to national
constitution providing that no char
ters be refused to any Post by any de
partment organization on the grounds
of race, creed or color. Knowing your
record in World war and since, we
rely on you to sec that this provision
is submitted and adopted.”
Must Cease Playing His
New Piano
ATLANTA, GA., Oct. 6.—Louis
Wofford, of 6 Hunnicut Place, this
city, has just bought a new $800 play
er piano, but late last week Recorder
George E. Johnson issued an injunc
tion preventing Wofford from enjoy
ing the music of the piano any longer.
It appears that Wofford, who lives
on the second floor of the apartment,
was in the habit of filling himself with
corn whiskey and playing the piano
'all night long." Wofford was also
fined $f> for being drunk at the same
lira*. —-- -
§§I! ed By “Other Man”
Dr. W. D. Cook.
formerly of Bethel
4.M.E. Church, 30th
and Dearborn its.,
whose removal by
Bishop Coppin
precipitated the
split in the his
toric old church.
Dr. Cook's ad
herents charge a
* breach of faith on
the part of the
Bishop.
I
DR. BIRT MAKES
STATEMENT
By S. L. Birt, D. D.
The action of the last Chicago Con
ference which session was held at
Des Moines, la., it was said by those
present that this was the greatest con
ference in the history of the church.
The reports were tar ahead .of those in
previous years.
At the close of the conference some
important changes were made. Among
tlte changes were that of our hostess.
Dr. i>. L. Birt, who was sent to Bethel
Church, this city, and Dr. W. D Cook,
who was assigned to St. Paul, Des
Moines. Some dissatisfaction has
arisen over this appointment, so much
so until it is said Dr. Cook has with
drawn from the connection and es
tablished an independent t hurch. This
is the rights ot any man, but that the
public may know the facts in the case
there was nothing irregular in this
change of Dr. Cook's, ile was sent
to a first class church, the finest
owned by negroes in America, with a
seating capacity of 1690, a member
ship of 1457, paying a pastor's salary
of $2800 per year and a fine parsonage
of 10 rooms.
The law of the A. M. E Book of
Discipline gives the Bishop the perfect
right to remove any man at the ex
piration of one year, The cut-going
pastor of Bethel was assigned to this
appointment five consecutive times
and according to law lie could not be
reappointed unless the Bishop used
the discretional power which is left
wholly vjith himself.
Let the fair-minded public who may
not understand the facts in the case
read the A. M. E. Discipline and know
the facts in the case.
Do not make the mistake by falsely
accusing the Bishop for removing any
preacher at the end of tlie year, for
they are in the bounds of right.
Mexico Invites Negroes
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 6.—Itt reply
to a letter signed by several Amer
ican Negroes as to whether colored
immigrants would he welcomed in
Mexico, and as to whether they would
be subjected to segregation and dis
crimination, the president of the re
public this morning dictated a letter
in which he said among other thugs:
“The doors of Mexico are open at
all times to immigrants without dis
tinction of race or color. Mexico
would be protttl of a colony of Amer
ican Negroes." „ __
47TH ST. VICTIMS
HELD TO GRAND JURY
Samuel Hayes. Harry Snow and
Frank Gatewood, the three colored
men set upon by gangsters at 47th
and Halsted Sts., on Sept. 20, result
ing from the death of Thomas Bar
ret white, were held to the grand jury
by the coronerji jury Tuesday morn
ing Hayes was held on a charge of
murder, and Snow and Gatewood were
held as accessories.
STORM JAIL TO AVENGE
COLORED WOMAN
PITTSBURGH, PA., Oct 6—An
insulting remark made by a white man
to a lady on Center Ave., Monday
evening and his refusal to apologize
when called upon by her escort near
ly caused a serious disturbance after
his arrest by policemen when several
hundred men attacked the police sta
tion in an effort to secure the assail
ant here Monday right.
The real trouble i alleged to have
been that two white ?n attempted
to flirt with some colored girls who
were passing. This was resented hv
their escorts and a fight ensued.
The explanation given by the ar
rested men at the police station is al
leged to have been that they were
recently from the South, and that their
conduct would have been permitted
in any southern locality.
Supreme Court May Halt
Electrocution
KNOXVILLE, TEN'S'., Oct. 6.—
! When the Supreme Court of Trnnes
j see opens sessions this morning, one
of the first cases on the docket to he
I tried will be the case of the People
i vs. Maurice Mayes, colored. Mayes
was convicted of the murder of Mrs.
Bertie Lindsay, white, and condemned
to die in the electric chair at Nash
ille. According to the sentence,
Mayes would have died in the electric
chair several months ago, hut his ex
ecution was stayed automatically, due
to his appeal to the higher court.
Believed To Be Innocent
In view of the fae‘ .hat since Mrs.
Lindsay was murdered, several other
murders have been committed In
precisely the same manner, it is be
lieved that tile murderer of Mrs. Lind
say is still at large, and that Mayes is
innocent.
UNLAWFUL RAIDS
SCORED BY
COURT
Raid on Legitimate Home
Caused by Presence of
White Woman Brings
Judicial Rebuke
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The ease of Mrs. Casey Sneed, 3335
I So. Park Ave.. finally terminated in
i the Municipal Court presided over by
I ludgr llosea VV. Wells late last week.
Mrs, Sneed, in the ftrst instance was
arrested by a squad of police headed
by Lieut Paul Duffy and Sgt. Fit7
gerald of the 3rd Precinct without any
warrant several months ago.
From her attorney, Richard K.
Westbrook, it waif charged that the
invasion of her apartment by the offi
cers of the law was not due to the
fact that she vva» violating any law,
hut because they saw a woman there
whom they thougfct was white. In
this ease, which Jlra.^ heard before
I ludgr Rooney.%ns discharged,
i It was then that the police officers in
question sought to apply the Abate
ment Act, which was sued out be
fore Judge Wells, endeavoring to
force her to vacate the premises.
The court heard all the testimony
and ruled with the defendant. It
appears that the activities on the part
j if the police was due solely to the
I appearance of a sick woman whom
{ Mrs. Casey had befriended and who
| was of a very light complexion.
Police Murder
Whitewashed,
Is Claimed
—
Charged that Picked Jury Ex-:
onerated Policeman Who
Killed Man in Cold
Blood.
The carefully picked Coroner's Jury
which continued the case of the shoot
ing of Oscar Brown of Indiana Har
bor, Ind., Monday September 20th, in
a clothing store at 3322 State St„ Chi
cago, reconvened Friday last at the
Cottage Grove Ave. Police Station
and under questionable influences ex
onerated Policeman John Shannon,
white. Notwithstanding the applica
tion of whitewash applied by the
jurOTs to Policeman Shannon, the case
tVX be taken before the Grand Jury
firWurther investigation. The shoot
ing was nothing more or less than a
cold-blooded murder, either deliber
ately intended or out of unnecessary
fear. Oscar Brown had committed no
offense and was said to have been shot
while he held his hands in the air.
L. Wolen, white, owner of the store,
has admitted that his testimony was
guided by police instructions.
BANKERS BACK MANN'S HOUSING PLAN
Eugene F. Manns, of 50015 State
St., Chicago, a colored real estate
expert, has by means not ordinarily
used by business men of his kind
been successful in relieving the hous
ing tension and congested living con
ditions among colored people of Chi
cago. Mr. Manns, a quiet unassum
ing kind of a fellow with few words,
whose hair is streaked with grey,
has by his own untiring efforts .se
cured nine apartment buildings, two
hundred and fifty-two flats after
housing commissions, government ex
perts and real estate hoards had
failed in this task.
UNSANITARY CONDITIONS
MOVE MANNS.
Because of the unsanitary condi
tions among colored people in Chica
go, who have been crowded iuto such
close quarters that vermin, contagion
and disease threatened the vitals ot
the whol **" ns for six
months means to
relieve t___ . ... _; first plan
was a gigantic apartment building
under the first mortgage system. Fail
ing to get the co-operation of the
prominent citizens of his race, he
immediately took the housing prob
lems as it exists in cold blood to
the white finaneers of the city and
explained to them the inherent dan
gers involved in the conditions
among colored people. So firm and
insistent was he in his demands that
he was able to convince these men
i that the health of the community
i outweighed the private whims of
those who would have Negroes, live
| in confined sections. Through the
influence of these men, long time
leases were secured by Mr. Manns
on some of the most valuable and
choice residential properties in the
city.
NEW YORK WIRES MANNS.
The real estate experts of New
York, who have been confronted with
a more acute and an equally difficult
probX'm sent telegrams to Eugene F.
Manns asking him to immediately
“Come over to Macedonia and help
them”. The Chicago Whip reporter,
after investigating the housing prop
osition in New York found that 200,
000 Negroes were locked in a con
fined acreage of less than one half
square mile in Harlem and after tak
ing these issues up with Mr. Manns,
asked him what could be done. His
nonchalant answer was, "My first
duty is in Chicago”. It is extremely
interesting to note that Doubting
Thomases and cynics among Mr.
Manns’ own people have stated that
he will fail, but the signed leases and
the correspondence, bearing the sig
1 natures of those men who control
most of Chicago’s wealth has con
vinced those who are opened to con
viction that a colored man single
handed has done more to relieve the
housing tension than all community
uplift societies and blind real estate
theorists together.
MANNS SAYS NOTHING.
When the reporters of the daily
newspapers sought to interview Mr.
Manns, lie said that he had nothing
for publication, but his work would
bear mute witness to his plans and
methods.
Parted 60 Years, Ex-Slaves
Meet
_y
WAYNESBORO, PA„ Oct. 6.—In,
slavery-time days Before the civil war,
George Simmons and Edward Sim
mons. brothers, were the property of
the same slave owner oil a plantation
in Virginia.
I'liey left the home of their master,
Edward, the elder, going into the
army, and George following civil pur
suits. Thus they became separated,
lost each other and never reinet until
the other day litre. The meeting was
brought about witen a lady of Green
castle, Pa., met ’.he daughter of Ed
ward Simmons *><l noticing her re
semblance to George Simmons, asked
her if she were ajrclative. Investiga
tion revealed the fact that she was,
and the reunion '»s effected. t
Amercan Legion Men
Turn Lynchers
JONESBORO, TENN., Oct. 6.—A
mob of fifty men said to be members
of the American Legion and inmates
of the government sanitarium at John
son City, were foiled in their attempt
from lynching William Dallas, col
ored, on last Friday night by the
comity sheriff.
Prom information obtained Dallas
was said to have been seen talking
wfth a white waitress at the govern
ment institution. This was sufficient
in itself to send out the alarm that he
had attacked a white woman.
The men who incited the disturb
ance were wounded ex-soldiers who
had served in France and were con
valescing at the sanitarium.
TAKE MILKMAN ON
CHARGE OF
ASSAULT
Englewood Woman Assailed
by White Milkman; Assail
Captured; To be held to
Grand Jury
Louis Shorndorf (white), driver of
wagon 717 of the Bowman Dairy Co.,
residing at 3720 VV. 63rd St., was ar
rested Monday on a John Doe war
rant for attempted rape of Mrs.
Blanche Purdy, 6345 Ebcrhardt Ave.
It is alleged that while Mrs. Purdy
was returning from the grocery store
at 64th St. near Eberhardt Ave., about
9:00 a. m., on Sept. 22, she was ac
costed by Shorndorf who jumped
from his milk wagon and seized her
and dragged her into an alley.
Assailant Escapes Unidentified
, For several days the identity of her
assailant was clouded _ in mystery.
Through extraordinary investigations
firm of Ellis & Westbrook, 3000 S.
State St., Shorndorf was arrested and
positively identified by Mrs. Purdy
when brought to her home by Officer
A. A. Weber of the Grand Crossing
Station. The attorney was assisted
in the apprehension of Shorndorf by
the officials of the Bowman Dairy Co.,
who stated that they would use every
means possible in the prosecution of
the culprit.
Victim Delirious
For the several days after the as
sault Mrs. Purdy was seriously ill,
and for periods delirious, requiring
the attention of two physician-.. The
Purdy family enjoys the highest con
fidence and respect of the community,
and have the moral support of all who
know them.
Case Continued
At the preliminary hearing of the
case at the Grand Crossing branch of
the Municipal Court. Shorndorrs case
was continued until Oct. 6, at which
time it will be urged that he be held
to the grand jury.
3 KILLED IN GAMBLING
BRAWL
INDIANA HARBOR, IND„ Oct.
6.—VVilie Moore and Archie Higgins,
both of Chicago, and one other col
ored man, as yet unidentified, were
shot to death in the Last Chance
Saloon and Gambling House here,
late Friday ,ight. From meager in
formation nat can be obtained, the
fight took place after the colored men
had won all the money in the game,
and were on the point of leaving the
place.
Six white men were arrested as a
result of the triple murder, who, at
the preliminary examination, swore
that the colored men had attempted to
hold-up the saloon. There were no
reliable witnesses to the affair and the
defendants were exonerated by the
coroner’s jury.
It is claimed by those who have
some knowledge of the affair that the
location of the wounds in the bodies
of the men were of such a nature as
to have made it impossible for them
to have been shot attempting to com
mit a holdup.
Boston Cop Wins Sprint
BOSTON, MASS., Oct. 6.—Calling
I into play the athletic training he had
received at Boston English high
I school and Exeter Academy track
team, Policeman Irving T. Hough, at
tached to the Roxbury Crossing Po
lice Station here, engaged an auto
mobile containing 60 quarts of liquor
in a road race, ran it down and came
off victor. The race took place in the
vicinity of Hammond St. and Shaw
mut Ave., Roxbury.
■■ -.- ■ —
MAN AND WIFE
SLASHED IN
LOVE MIX-UP
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Wife Fatally Stabbed as She
Tries to Defend Her Hus
band Against Her Lover
The “Other Man” who is ever pres
ent in domestic triangles caused an
other tragedy Monday night, when
John Whitlow,
age 35, 567 East,
35th St., fatally
stabbed Mrs. Roy
Bell, 3810 Elm-/
wood Ave„ and|
at the same timef
tf«l his ,knifq
effect upon herl
husband, R o y
Bell. Mrs. Boll.
who is said to be
dying at th el
Provident Hospi-j|
tal, was stabbed;!
in the jugular!
vein, while her;;
husband was!
slashed several
times on the!;
wrist, face and,
arms. .
Stolen Sweets
Cost Dear
At Whitlow's
residence it is Roy Bell
said that the tragedy was the culpi
iiation of the same old story—unfaith
fulness and disloyalty to the marriage
vow, and that the association between
Mrs. Bell and Whitlow resulted part
ly from inattention on the part of
Mrs. Bell’s husband.
Stories of Tragedy Differ
Witnesses differ in their version as
to the cause of the immediate results,
some claiming that Mr. and Mrs. Bell
visited the home of Whitlow Mon
day night together. Others contend
that the trouble began when Roy Bell
found his wife in Whitlow's room.
It has also been learned that Bell and
his wife were not living together and
at the time of the tragedy were living
apart. It was said by one of Mrs.
Bell’s friends that Whitlow had been
the cause of their separation and much
of their domestic trouble.
Bell Said to “Love the Ladies”
Roy Bell was also charged by his
friends with being somewhat void of
the fidelity which should characterize
a man’s feelings toward his wife. They
hint that he was quite a favorite
among the ladies, whose names were
handed to the reporter.
Did Old Love Return?
It is alleged from one source that
Mrs. Bell was wounded when she at
tempted to prevent Whitlow from
stabbing her husband. This could not
be verified owing to the numerous
rumors circulating concerning the
tragedy. Whitlow was taken in cus
tody by the Cottage Grove police.
Oaklahoma Lawyer J "iled
For Swindling
MUSKOGEE, OKLA., Oct. 6 —
C. T. Burns, a white lawyer of this
city was last week sentenced to the
federal penitentiary on charges of
having swindled colored people of this
district out of thousands of dollars.
Howard Banks, colored, was sen
tenced at the same time as having con
spired with Burns to defraud his own
people. Burns and Banks, in addi
tion to receiving sentences of four
teen months in the pen, also drew
fines of $500 each.
BULLETIN
Leavenworth, Kas., Oct. 5. — (Special.) — A race riot between 300
white and colored soldiers in which two white soldiers and one colored
soldier were injured severely occurred here last night. At the army hos
pital today it was said none of the men were dangerously injured. There
will be an inquiry.