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Woman Mysteriously Refuses to Prosecute Assailant ' tf ~~ ~ 'V - , r —T— *' " * - — ' : ■ T. „ ~ . ? * ’ ■ 1 * ■-r: Read, Think and Act. 'j— PRICE FIVE CENTS SAYS HE DOES NOT CONSIDER KLOXA MENACE Amazes Delegation Of Citizens By Frank Statement Of t Hi* Opinion. WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct K — President Harding’s attitude on the question of the Ku Klux Klan was re vealed to a delegation of citizens who appeared at the White House to inter cede in behalf of the members of the 24th infantry now serving sentence for rioting in Houston in P>17. In the course of the conversation with the spokesman of the delegation, the Ku Klux question arose. The President startled his hearers by saying: I do n**t believe that the present day Klan IiK«• the Klan of i860 is hostile to Negroes.” The members of tin delegation did not attempt to argue the question with him. and were excuse*! I Clinnin Denounces Klan As he completed investigations into the working oi the local Kit Klux Klan, Col. John V Clinnin, first as* si ,taut Cnibd States distri* t attorney, mad* a remarkable statement relative t*» the doctrine of iare hatred dissem inated by the Ku Klux: Race Riot Danger Numerous complaint* have been re ceived inviting attention to the fact that a puhlu demonstration by the Klan might result ill a bloody rare riot in which many live would be lost and thousands of dollars’ worth of prop erty damaged for wliy.li the city and county would bi- li< Id responsilde. Col. Clinnitt said "These complaints hay* been under investigation. "There is nothing in the charter of a sinisttr or mystic nature." lie d< • rlared, "hut it i- apparent that mull brrship is .Ultomatirally h.rrred to Ne groes, Catholics and lews \nd then It is unfortunate that an organiza tion of this kind should be instituted at this particular time, v. Ik n the world i- seeking to recover from the shell hock sustained in the world’s war " Urges Golden Rule In the reconstruction period, the col onel aid, iln country should turn to the Itible and its teachings for a guid ing impulse hack to the doctrine of the Golden Rule. The history of the world, he declared, is "replete with in cident- where might has triumphed over riglu and crime mocked at mercy .j.' . , " The discovery of America by Chris topher Columbus,” he continued, "opened the way for a country ami a people wlipc with foresight beyond iuim'kii conception, were the first to c re ate a nation beneath a Hag of free dom, which had for its basic rule the declaration of independence. Who ever interferes with these happy dis positions is an enemy to society." Ire continuing, the colonel mentioned that it was Toussaint i-’Ouverture, a Negro in Santo Domingo, who wrote the first doctrine of Religious freedom to be proclaimed on this continent; be spoke of heroic acts of Negro soldier^ in the Civil, Spanish-American, and World wars Indicts “100% American" Phrase "Shall any one class or line of ilc 1 >cent be accorded the right to copy right a title of 100 per cent American ism?" he asks. "The ashes of the Jew, the Protestant, and the Catholic mingled in the ashes of <j* ranee as the American flag was carried into Ger man)—" Then swinging into an indictment of the methods of the organization, he declared: "Organizations which have for their object the usurping of powers of gov ernment. either executive, legislative or judicial, are against public policy 4 Class prejudice, hatred, persecution discrimination, whether against color or creed, by corporate bodies Vor indi viduals, can bring hut one result—riot disorder, anarchy. The courts are out tribunals Whoever resists the de cision of these tribunals or seeks fc self-kdniinistcr the law strikes a blow at all of our liberties and places us a the mercy of passion and Violence. Appeals to Reason "It is’to lie- lipped that the bettc judgment of the American people wil discourage the organization of fratcr (Continued on Page >.) • / Fleeing Hubby, She Jumps 2 Stories, Is Unhurt Fleeing in panic from her hit hand, Mrs. Lydia Chapelt jumped from a | window at her home on the second floof of a house at 40J1 Federal St. She alighted on her feet on the ground be*low, apparently unhurt. Mrs. Chapel! was later taker} to tlit County Hospital where it was found that she was severely shaken up. but -had suffered no serious injury. She L under observation of physicians there. She says she was fleeing from her husband who was beating her. Cha pel! is under arrest GLOVER'S RANDS ORDERED Off LODGE'S CASD + ’ Chief Ranger Of Forester* Restrained From Further Handling Funds. Tlu* Cook County Circuit Court at ; its September term issued an order' restraining Roh< rr I*. Glover. Chief Ranger of Court » General Robert El liot, Ancient Order of Foresters, from, further handling the funds of the order. Suit was brought by Henry Goins, Samuel Alston, and George R. Wood son, representing, the Foresters, asking that Glover be ordered to release the funds of the organization, make art ac counting b*r money received, and re train from further collection^. According to the hill filed by Goins, he with \lsti-i and Woodson had been authorised 1<* handle the financial af fair*. of the I nresters and to hold tin funds In spite of tlii- authorization, however. Glover continued to make con I rafts, create obligations, and to collect rent - die flu- organization from it' property. This property. located at 4f»44-4o4h Champlain \ venue, was rented for; $275.00 per month. According to Goins, Clover kept in his possession! all accounts, leases and hills relating to t hi - property, depositing the funds in the Binga State Bank as his per sonal account When Glover was pressed hv the of- S {trials of the lodge t«. turn over to the! trustees the lca-es and papers relating! to the property, to- promised to do so,; hut continued to evade the issue, never! complying with the ordc r Takes Control of New Building When the Foresters bought their new building at 4.158 State Street, j 'Glover at onee#assumed control, ;»nd without authority, entered contracts) with various parties for work and im provement lie thus,spent 55,000, ac cording to Goins. Through these un law fill and unauthorized acts tlu* funds of the organization were reduced from I$30,000 to $5,000, said (Joins. On the strength of the representa tions made, the court enjoined Glover from collecting any rent, handling any money, or otherwise interfering with the financial alfairs of the organiza tion. With Glover, Frank W. Taylor f and Frank E. Crittenden were named. On other occasion Glover has been, charged with hazy mishandling of I funds in connection with Quinn j Chanel. Institutional Church, the l*or I ter Estate, and the trusteeship of the 1 Atigolus Building. v U • USES BLAZING GASOLINE ; ' DRIVE PRISONERS : FROM THEIR CELLS i > * i NEW ORLEANS. LA., Oct. R.— Riotous scent s occurred here last week j when Captain Archie Rennyson I (while) attempted to remove five pris ! oners from their evils and put them in foul dungeons. , TM prisoners refused lo he removed (and1 stood the jailers at hay with broomsticks and cudgels. Prison authorities finally overcame , their resistance by saturating the place with gasoline ami setting it afire. The Haines arose and enveloped the cells where the men were, confined. All j were badly burned. A. M. E. Clergymen Return From London -L __ * Photo by Underwood ft Underwood, N. Y. A group of bishops and ministers, with their wives, on the White Star Liner Adriatic, dock ing at New -York. They are returning from the London African Methodist Episcopal and I A. M, E. Zion conference, to which they were the American delegates. Steals Bolts of Cloth, Wraps Them About Him One of the most unique methods of robbery wa - revealed Wednesday night when police of the Stanton Ave. station, assisted by operatives of the Keystone Detective AgMicy, arrested Samuel Waddcl. 340b State St . and Lewis Jackson, 3912 State St Waddi 1, who was arrested in the men’s washroon} at the'A venue ILiild ing* 31st St and Indiana Av« . bad wound ;• complete bolt of cloth around bis ln*l> underneath his clothes. He had just stolen the bolt from the Australian Wool Mills, in the ground floor of the same building. Waddcl was trailed to the home of Lewis Jackson. 3912 State St., where Jackson v ;• found to have hidden in ,i trunk $700 worth <d fine woolens, all of which were stolen. % It appears that the two were in the habit of entering a ’tore just before closing time. While onc^ engaged the attention of the salesman, the other would make off'with a holt of cloth. They are said to have plied a brisk trade in woolens through the neigh borhood. Waddel was given three months in the bridewell. Jackson, who is thought to he the brains of the affair. wa.« held for the grand jury. MAURICE MAYS CASE IN SUPREME COURT AGAIN KXOXV1LLK. TENN.. Oct. 8.r TIu* Tennessee- Supreme Court again has in its hands the case of Maurice Mays, who i- charged with the death of Mrs. Bertie Lindsay (white). In it' new light for the life of the condemned man. the defense has $u< reeded in establishing what is thought to lie a perfect alibfc w\tteutioft ha? also been called to attacks of a simi lar nature upon other white women , Responsibility for these attacks ha? been laid on other men, who have sinc< i paid the penalty. Prominent New Yorker Dies NEW YORK CITY. Oct. 8.—W ID. Brown, ;i prominent undertaker 12.115 7tli Avenue, died here last weel I after an Mines- of several months. Mr Brown was 58 year- of as;e, and hai ; Been prominent in business here for 51 I years lie was a prominent cljurcl and fraternal titan. i t 1 . PLEAD FOR HTR! INFANTRYMEN AT WHITE ROUSE Large Delegation Seeks Pardon | For Soldiers Convicted Of Rioting. # j WASHINGTON, Oi l X \ dele- ! I gaiion ot thin> leading color'd men I and women, loaded b\ Janu \\ • Idnn i [Johnson of Nr-' York. -«« « r* l:i r\ * *i ; the National Association for the Ad I vanceinent of Colored lYoplc, i in ; Washington 1 *- iring a petition signed ! by 2)0,000 naim-s to President'J larding asking him l" pardon <»1 members ot 'the 24th C. S Infantry (colond) now I serving long tinu sentences in Leaven worth prison, convicted of rioting at | Houston. Texas, in August, PM7. (President Harding has grant'd the j delegation an audience on W din -day [ morning, September 28. at 10:30. I Upon his arrival in Washington, I Mr. Johnson issued the following statement: “Although nineteen colored iddi« i> were banged and 01 sentenced t » life and long-term imprisonment after the Houston riot Vugust. I*> 17. colored people in the Cnited States felt little disjmsed to appeal for paidoit and clemency for tiny realized such an appeal would be fruitless. ’ Now, however, under a chajiged administration fifty thousand dena tures have hecn appended i" -uch a petition circulated by the National Association for the \dvaneement ot Colored Poop!- , and colored \m* > ieans are looking to President Hard ing to retire-s what thee i\ - 1 and t have felt to I" undue sc\ it v < \ i j cised against i regiment with*such a record of soldierly In a ring. cnuragi and devotion i the 24th C. S. In-] fantrv. • “ I hi* personnel or tin- deVgalmn | is sufficient guaranty of the wide spread and general desire lor a par don among eolored people throughout the country." In the delegation with Mr. John son, are Major Mr* ton, principal of Tuskcgee Institute; Emmett J. Scott special assMant to the Secretary of War during the World War: Profes sors George \\ Cook and Kcll\ Mil I ler of Howard University: Vehibald ; If. Grinik<\ preddertf of the Washing , ton branch. National Association for Continued on Page 3. Lasso Young Girl, Drag Her Behind Speeding Auto K INSTON, X. C.. Oct. 8.—One of j the most brutal atrocities ever perpe trated in this State occurred when sev eral young white men threw a lasso >\ < r the head of Minnie Whitehead, a twelve-year-old girl, snatched her from i buggy in which she was sitting, and dragged her 200 yards behind an auto mobile. I'he men then coolly stopped the car. disentangled the bleeding and bruised body of the girl from the rope and left her unconscious in the road. She is so badly injured that physi cians say she cannot live. Her assailants have not been iden-j l i Tied. NAB GARY MAN 10 j ALMOST STARTED RIOT Leo Cole, who almost precipitated a riot in Gary, lud., last week by kill ing Policeman Julius Gunther, was captured in a rooming house at 4400 Dearborn St., Tuesday afternoon. He gave tip when four detectives pounced upon him while he was still in bed. In an inside pocket of a coat hang jug on the wall the detectives reported finding a loaded .38-caliber revolver. The capture ends the search of a self-appointed c itizens' posse in Gary. On the night of the murder hundreds of nun were looking for hint. He es caped by begging a ride to Chicago. “I won’t go back,” said Cole. Tm going to light extradition.’’ FRUSTRATE ATTEMPT TO HOLD UP LINCOLN BANK A lone bandit was frustrated in his attempt to rob the Lincoln State Bank. 31st and State Sts., Monday. The bandit entered the bank and ap proached the cage where Miss Mae Burke is employed as teller. As he de manded the money in sight, she scoop ed up $15,000 in cash and tied to an other part of the bank, screaming for help. The bandit then beat a hasty retreat, pocketing his revolver. I To was not captured. Put Thru Third j Degree, Man Dies of Heart Failure - I JACKSON. MISS.. Oct. 8.—-Gus Davis, who wa* put through a most grilling third degree to gain from him a confession of murder, has died in jail of heart failure. Davis was convicted on the strength of his confession and sentenced to I die. He was in jail pending an appeal | from the Supreme Court. The trial of Davis several weeks ago attracted considerable attention, ovi-1 deuce offered by the defense showing that the prisoner had been taken to the scene of the crime and left chained to a tree all night in the graveyard where his alleged victims were buried. On the following day he was compel led to >;t on a coffin, with pick and shovel in his hands and told if he did not confess that he would be required to dig hi* own grave. WOLFSQN SAYS "POOL YOUR i INTERESTS’ Must Put Money Together And Form One Big Organiza tion Is Expert’s Advice Mr. M. E. Wolf son, pro m i n e n t. mortgage ban k e r and wealthy philan thropist, is aiding the colored people in their real estate difficulties in many ways. Mr. Wolf-4 son was born and roared in Chicago Hnd has always been profoundly interested in find saved many pieces of their prop erty from being foreclosed against when everybody else refused to lend a helping hand. Explains How to Pool Interest Realizing how hard it is tor a col ired man to secure a loan on his prop- , erty. he came to the front and in ap-j pearances on the south side has made dear hi.- position that colored people! should pool their interests in one great j •<>in ern which would be able to handle their loans and mortgage*. He has I preached and advocated the theories of modern business before hi- many au diences and has secured the respect and admiration of the community for. hi* brilliant ideas and uncompromising i spirit. Mr. Wolfson i* a white man and i* president of the Chicago Real Estate Mortgage and Rond Corpora tion. It is regretted that more white men of Mr. Woltson’s caliber will not take an interest in the greatest prob lem of the day. The colored people art to be congratulated on securing a friend of Mr Wolfson's type, fie will be found at his office at 139 North j Clark Street and will take a personal interest in the real estate difficulties j and economic problems of the day. WOMAN. BEATEN. CBT, WILL NOT PBQSECUTE Is Said To Have Confessed Theft Of Jewelry To Church Worker Chicago was startled last week by reports of the brutal heating and stabbing of Mrs. Mamie McCray, 3120 LaSalle St., at the home of Dr. George U. Lipshulch, white, 1201 W. Roosevelt Road. Further interest was aroused in the matter when it was learned that no police action had been taken against the woman’s assailant. Mrs. McCray applied to the Dou glas Employment Agency for em ployment and was sent to the home of Dr. Lipschulch. When his wife missed jewelry, the girl was accused of the theft. Efforts to wring from her a confession were unavailing, t At this juncture, Mrs. McCray charged that the doctor, his sons, and several young white men from the neighborhood stripped her nude, beat her about the body and head, thrust scissors down her throat. When it was learned that the po lice had--imleen -no-ire-arm* 4+r. Lipschulch, several agencies offered Mrs. McCray legal aid. All of -this she has refused, however, and has absolutely refused to take any action against her assailants whatsoever. , When arrested on complaint of the doctor, Mrs. McCray was re leased for lack of evidence. Since then, however, it is reported that she has confessed to a Mrs. Cone, a ,-hurch worker at the Salem Baptist Church, 30th and LaSalle Sts., that 'he did commit the theft. She re fuses, however, to confirm this con fession. No reason can be ascribed for her •eluetance to appear against Dr, Lipschulch. SECOND VICTIM Of BAPTIST SHOOTING DIES XKW ORLEANS. La., Oct. 8.— Mrs. Janie Miller, 830 Orange Street, who was shot by her husband, Dave Miller, in ITecrnan's Auditorium doi ng the National Baptist Convention utv several weeks ago. has died of her wounds. Mis. Miller was tin- snood victim of he shooting, Dr. J. C. W. Boyd, of Nashville, who was struck by a stray mllet. having died shortly afterward. Miller, who did the shooting, has >een held for murder. Kills Common Law Husband NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 8.— ITer nau Smith, 2400 7th Avenue, was killed last week by Mrs. Carrie Williams, with whom he teas living as her com non-law husband. The killing is dmuidcd in mystery and no motive is known for the crime. I