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Raid Garvey Meeting, Tear Down African Flag
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VOL. III.—NO. 43___CHICAGO, in SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22nd, 1921_EIGHT PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS
CAPTURES MAN
AFTER CHASE
THRU STREETS
Women Captures Husband’s
Slayer As He Steps Into
Taxicab.
Dewey Strickland, 22 years of age, was
fatally shot Friday afternoon in his home,
4821 St. Lawrence avenue, by (jeorge
Sykes, 4827 St. Lawrence avenue, a for
mer roomer in Strickland’s home. Strick- :
land was rushed to the office of Dr. S.
VV. Smith, 4666 State street, where he
died a few minutes later.
Killed Over Old Debt
The shouting occurred at Strickland's
home, where Sykes had gone to collect a
debt of $30.00 owed him by Strickland.
The two men faced each other in
Strickland's dining room and are said to
have quarrelled over the terms of the
debt. Heated words followed, and Sykes
was ordered from the house. Strickland
is said to have accompanied his order
with a threatening movement toward his
pocket. Sykes then drew his gun. a ..58
cf*;K- • oiver, and fired one shot.
'tn# bnfVt entered STrtrfctand’* trft
breast, just b< low the heart, and he fell
mortally wounded.
Attempts to Escape
As Strickland fell, Sykes fled from the
house, running through St. Lawrence
avenue to Forty-eighth street. When he
reached the corner, he hailed a passing
taxicab.
Mrs. Jimmie Strickland, wife of the
dying man, pursued the slayer through
tin* street, screaming for his capture. As
he was about to dash away hi the taxi
cab, she renewed her screams. At tin
the chauffeur refused to speed his car
away.
The crowd attracted by Mrs. Strick
land’s screams held Sykc* until policemen
could arrive at the scene. He was put
under arrest and held for investigation
At the coroner’s inquest over the re
mains of the slain man, Sykes was for
mally held on a charge of murder.
Strickland s remains were shipped to
Detroit, his home, Monday morning.
LAYS HAITI REVOLT TO
MISMANAGEMENT BY
UNCLE SAM
WASHINGTON. Oct. 22.—Failure
of the American government in 1918
to outline a definite policy lor de
velopment of Haiti ltd to a renewal
of revolutionary conditions in worse
form than those that prevailed before
the marines occupied the island in
1915, Roger Farnham, vice-president
of the National City Hank of New
York, testified recently at resumption
of hearings before the special Senate
committee investigating conditions in
Haiti.
The island, however, has again be
come e|uiet, revolutionists having
disarmed, and is ready for compre
hensive developments, said Mr. l arn
ham.
Questioned by Chairman McCor
mick as to who was to blame for re
newal of the revolution three years
ago, Mr. Farnham said:
“Washington, not officials at Port
au Prince, was responsible."
Mr. Farnham told the committee
he was confident that if a far-sighted
policy were put into effect Haiti within
a few years would become as pro a
perous as Cuba. Schools should be
provided and steps taken to system
atize government finances, he said.
Bond Forger on Trial
ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 22.—.Ray
mond Boswell, on parole after serving
six years of a twenty-year sentence,
has been put on trial in Federal Dis
trict Court here, charged with forging
the owner’s name to $250 of stolen
Liberty Bonds.
IN ERROR
In last week’s issue of the WHIP it
was erroneously stated that Harvey Cole
man, Mrs. Harvey Coleman, and her two
sons were white.
The statement was in error. None of
the parties concerned were white.
| BACKED TO THE WALL}
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Congress has halted the investigation of the Ku Klux Klan. “Wizard” Simons has
■tone to Georgia, and as Klan still lives to perpetuate its villiany and scatter its unholy doc
rines, our backs are to the wall.
Masked Mob Beats
Texas Hotel Man
For Peeping”
LONGVIEW, Tex., Oct. 22.—Texas
igain felt the 'ting of masked mob
violence here Wednesday night. One
Hundred masked men, apparently
members of the Ku Klux Klan, wear
ng hoods and nightgowns, seized
Charles Hagler, took him into the
•ountry, stripped him to the skin and
flogged him. He was so severely
beaten that he was unable to return to
his work the next day.
Hagler was charged by the masked
hand with having ‘'peeped” into the
homes of citizens.
KILLS FELLOW CONVICT
WITH KNIFE MADE
IN PRISON
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 22.—
Felton Fuller, a convict in the Banner
mines near here, recently killed Gil
bert Reed, . fellow convict with a
knife, it is s- '. he fashioned from an
old scrap of ron.
Reed was sent to the penitentiary
from Morgan County, in 1912, and was
sentenced to 11 years. Fuller was
serving a life sentence for murder.
The cause of the trouble could not be
learned.
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WOMAN DIES OF
SIMMS
Mrs. Mattie Marshall, 42, 3846 Vin
cennes Ave., died of burns Saturday
at the Fort Dearborn Hospital, vic
tim to a newly-patented gasoline stove.
Mrs. Marshall purchased a newly
patented gasoline -tovc and was till
ing it with gasoline at her home Fri
day. When she attempted to light it,
the stove exploded, saturating her
clothing with oil. Flames quickly en
veloped her body, and she was badly
burned before they could be extin
guished.
She was removed to the Fort Dear
born Hospital, where she died Sunday.
BOY, 15, FIS BODY OF
NEWLY BORN BABY
William Johnson, 15, 3714 Wabash
Ave., while playing in the rear of 3831
State St., Oct. 13, found the bodj
of a newly-born baby. The child hac
been dead several hours, and was eve
dently abandoned at fcirth.
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Vamps Man Into
Cab, Robs and
Stabs Him
Andrew Hughley, 2900 Prairie Ave.
is a sadder and a wiser man as a
result of a wild joy ride in a Yellow
Cab last Thursday. Incidentally he is
a broke and a wounded man.
According to Hughey, lie was lured
into a taxicab by a woman he knows
as Minnie Brown. He is ignorant ol
her address. A wild ride through
darkened streets followed. What went
on in the cab is only to be conjectured,
but the plot had so thickened that at
43rd St. and Champlain Ave, Miss
Brown leaped frdm the cab and dis
appeared into the darkness. Brown
was found stabbed in the side, and
minus his bankroll.
WHITE MINISTER LEAVES
WIFE OF 28 YEARS FOR GIRl
MERIDIAN. Miss., Oct. 22
Chargcd with deserting his family, tin
Rev. W. E. Bennett, a Nazarini
preacher, testified at his trial recenth
that the woman with whom he ha
been living for twenty-eight years, an<
the mother of his eight children, is no
his wife.
Rev. Bennett said his only legs
marriage was to a young colored gir
of Bell County, Tex.
DOWN FLUE
Ex-Soldiers Protest When U. S.
Flag Is Flown At Half
Mast In Parade.
FT, WAYNE, Ind., Oct. 22.—A
near-riot was (precipitated here last
week when a group of ex-soldiers
raided a local ice-cream parlor and
tore down the Black and Green flag
of the African Commonwealth, pro
posed by the Universal Negro Im
provement Association.
The flag was flying in front of the
ice-cream parlor, the proprietor of
which is a prominent member of the
Garvey movement. At the time of
the raid a meeting was being held in
honor of a visiting member of the
organization.
The ex-service men broke up the
Garvey meeting, claiming that the or
ganization has been holding nightly
parades through the downtown section,
carrying an American flag at half-mast
and another flag of American design,
but instead of having forty-eight stars
had one large star.
Police quieted the disturbance after
several had been injured.
SAYWDMAN SOLD
EXAM QQESTID1S
TO TEACHERS
Leak Bared When Applicants
All Gave Same Answers
To Questions.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, Oct. 22.—
Mrs. Alice Hunt of this city was put on
trial here last week in connection with
the stealing and selling of examination
papers and certificates to teach in lexas
schools. ;
She was arrested following investiga
tions conducted several months ago hy
the State Department of Education. With
her are involved several applicants for
teachers' certificates.
It is charged that questions and an
swers were disposed of through Mrs.
Hunt and that a number of applicants
received the questions previous to the
time of examination.
An attempt will be made by the state
to prove that Mrs. Hunt acted as an
agent and that the test papers were
stolen and turned over to her for sale.
It is believed that other arrests may fol
low the trial here.
Investigation that led to the present
charge against the defendant followed
the receipt of several sets of examina
tion papers in the State Department of
Education to be graded, in all of which
the answers were identical. Comparisons
of the papers showed that the same
wording was used in three instances
throughout the entire list of questions,
which, it is said, proves that the three
applicants obtained the answers from a
common source. The investigation was
carried on here by members of the coun
ty attorney’s department, assisted hy W.
E. James of the Department of Educa
tion and County Superintendent W. A.
Thurman of Bexar county.
FOUND NOT GUILTY AT THIRD
TRIAL
■ NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 22.—At
: their third trial for the murder of
■ Raphael Purlmutter, a Russian Jew,
; Alfred Smith, Jim Madwell and Will
l Robinson were found not guilty.
: Verdicts of first degree murder were
rendered in the first and second trials,
I but the Supreme Court ordered an
I other hearing because the judge, and
not the jury, fixed the penalty.
Texas Judge Quells
Mob of200 Men
by Telephone
GEORGETOWN, Tex., Oct. 22.—
At midnight, Wednesday night, 200
armed men, coming from Liberty Hill
and Leander, invaded this city and
stormed the county jail here.
They demanded that Sheriff Lee Al
len turn over to them the prisoner
arrested on suspicion of assaulting the
wife of a farmer near here.
Having anticipated the crowd, the
sheriff and hi> deputies held the hood
lums off until he could communicate
with Judge James Hamilton at Austin.
The judge talked with the mob
leaders over the telephone, urging
them to disperse, assuring them that
the prisoner would be given as speedy
a trial as the law allows.
DIE AS LINED
NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 14—Six
members of the “Southern Syncopated
Orchestra” are reported to be missing
as a result of the sinking of the Laird
Line steamer Rowan, off the south
west coast of Scotland in a collision
with the American steamer, West
Camack.
The accident was dup to a heavy
fog.
Thirteen of the Rowan’s crew and a
number of its pasengers are missing.
Although details are lacking, it is
known that 81 of the 140 persons
aboard were rescued. Two passen
gers died after being rescued by ves
sels which responded to the wireless
S. O. S. call.
Orchestra Abroad
Among the many passengers of the
Rowan were members of the "South
ern Syncopated Orchestra, ’ who have
been touring Europe since June, 1919,
introducing Southern melod:es and
folk songs, with amazing success. Lon
don and Paris had given them en
thusiastic receptions and they were en
route for Dublin, where their coming
had been widely heralded. A six
months’ engagement at the leading
theaters had been arranged. There
were originally thirty-eight members.
Six of the minstrels are among the
missing; one, a drummer, Peter Rob
inson, is known to be dead, succumb
ing to exposure on the destroyer’s deck
after being rescued from the icy water.
Leader Is Hero
The hero of the tragedy was Eg
bert E. Thompson, leader of the or
chestra, who served in France during
the late World War with the immor
tal “Buffaloes" Infantry. He was car
ried down by the ship, but struggled
to the surface and swam to a life raft,
onto which he dragged manv women,
children and men from the water.
Time after time, seeing a person help
less and drowning he would leave the
safe raft and assist others in getting
close. He continued this work of
rescue until chilled and exhausted, hu
man nature would permit him to do no
more. Among those saved tsvas a
young hoy, Edward Spires, who was
almost unconscious when Thompson
picked him up.
Goes Down Fast
At midnight the West Camack, in
bound, and the Rowan, outbound, from
Glasgow, were both proceeding with
slow speed. The West Camack hit
the Rowan a glancing blow on the
stern. The Rowan’s passengers stood
by their boats with lifebelts adjusted.
While the West Camack was lowering
its boats the Clan Malcolrti’s whistle
was heard. A moment later the liner
loomed out of the fog, slicing into
the passenger ship ami cutting it in
two as with a huge knife.
The Rowan sank immediately, drag
ging down the passengers with it.
S. O. S. Call Sent Out
At the moment of sinking, how
ever, the kowan radio operator sent
broadcast an S. O. S. call, which was
picked up by the British destroyer
Wrestler, eighteen miles away. The
destroyer sped to the scene.
EVIDENCE MAY
NOT WARRANT
Committee Discharges Wit
nesses, Orders “Wizard”
Simmons Back To
Georgia.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 19.—
A decision on whether there shall he a
congressional probe of the Ku Klux
Klan is far from being reached.
The committee adjourned last night
after a full day’s session of the grilling
of Imperial Wizard Simmons. After
the grilling the committee voted unan
imously not to call any more witnesses.
By many this is taken as an indica
tion that the investigation will be
dropped. Others contend that the
committee merely wishes time to ad
duce evidence from the testimony al
ready presented.
Representative Campbell of Kansas,
chairman of the rules committee, said
today that it would be at least a week
before the committee would announce
its findings as to whether evidence ad
duced in this hearing would warrant a
thorough investigation. Meanwhile,
there will be no examination of wit
nesses and the present hearing will not
be reopened, he said.
Delays Decision on Klan
“Do you think it is the sentiment of
the committee, or will the rules com
mittee so advise the house of repre
sentatives that a thorough investiga
tion is necessary?” Mr. Campbell was
asked.
“That is something that I cannot dis
cuss," was his reply. "Three members
of the committee are in New York, two
others arc occupied with other matters
and one member, Mr. Fess, has been
called to his home in Ohio. It will be
necessary to have the full committee in
session before any announcement tan
be made.” There are twelve members
in the full committee.
Imperial Wizard Simmons was ad
vised last night that he could go to
his home in Atlanta and he left Wash
ington with Paul S. Etheridge, chief
counsel for the Klan, and another man
who accompanied them to Washing
ton. Simmons was advised, however,
that he might be recalled'after a week.
In his questioning of Simmons yes
terday, Mr. Campbell seemed to indi
cate that possibly this hearing would
end it all, when he asked the Imperial
Wizard if upon his return to Atlanta
he would fully investigate and act
upon certain allegations that have been
made against the Klan. In effect, Mr.
Campbell wanted *o know if Sim
mons would clean >use in the Klan
upon his return. Simmons said he
most certainly would. These remarks
were called forth when the chairman
asked Simmons if it had occurred to
him that masked violence in some sixty
instances in the last year, whether
committed as alleged hy the Klan or
not, was not inspired by the mask and
name of the Knights of the Ku Klux
Klan. The chairman also asked Sim
mons if it had not occurred to him
that certain persons were using the
wizard as figurehead in the Klan and
collecting large sums of money.
Simmons had been very hazy regard
ing books and statements of the Klan,
and, although he had stated that he
was the final authority in all matters,
he was not familiar with finances, use
of the mails, the matter in certain
news letters sent through the mails
for the purpose of gaining members
and so on.
Mr. Campbell would not say whether
this attitude presaged dropping of the
subject with this committee.
Wants Teacher to Testify
Representative Tague of Boston,
who introduced the most bitter reso
lution in Congress, demanding an in
vestigation, wishes to bring to Wash
ington a Miss Riordan, a discharged
school teacher of Atlanta, who, it has
been charged, was not re-elected to
her teacher position this year because
she was a Catholic and that the Klan
had something to do with it. Mr.
Tague gave a letter to the chairman
addressed to him from Miss Riordan,
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