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Raid Garvey Meeting, Tear Down African Flag “A PAPER WITH A POLICY” Slje (ttljiavgo *35-5“ AN INDEPENDENT WEEK12T ' U11U nvi —- - .—■ ■■ ■■■ ■ --- ---- - .- - _ 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} ---- .■ , i 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. * 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. r ’' .111 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, (Continued on Page 2.)