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Shoots Up School, Kills Girl, Wounds Boy
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ANMDEPENDENT WEEKLY _Weekly
VOL. IV—No. 8 . CHICAGO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1922 PRICE FIVE CENTS EIGHT PAGES
RUM GRAZED
MAN SHOOTS
UP SCHOOL
BREAKS DOWN DOOR.
” KILLS AND WOUNDS
CHILDREN AT STUDY
0 VALIX>5 I V i.a . Ftb 1 razt Ii
by mean moonshine whisky. John Glovt i
invaded a .1 finolliatiM at Indiatiola. six
mil. .... * Valdosta at noon Friday.
killing Sister" Mami. a six-year-old
child, -11 nittslv wounding Stafford Bcr
rme. a i -urtei -n-year-old boy and in turn
was shut and killed by a posse of col
ored citi/ iis of tin1 fndianola neighbor
hood.
Reports reaching \ aldtista that the
drink-crazed man went to the school
house, beginning to fire upon it a- he
e approached. , The colored teacher, fear
ing for tile lives Ilf the students.-close.|
and liarrii uded tile door. But this did
not deter the murderous man, wjio was
armed with both a pistol and a shotgun.
With a load of buckshot from the gun,
he tore the lock irottt the door and en
tered, continuing firing as he did so.
Without having intentions toward any
one especially, the girl was first in rang"
of his I tail of bullets, she hrmg instantly
killed.
The Berrien hoy was next shot down.
By this time, men from the faim houses
about bad been attrarted by the noise I
nt the firing and the - ru-s of the children. I
Several of the men armed themselves |
before going to the seem ami a- soon a
they got in rane of Glover, all opened
tire He fell with three wounds, but
i ontinued Ins rapid fire at everybody in
sight. The posse of negroes, having ex
hausted their ammunition, turned to
ether means and the wounded man un
beaten to death with a -hovel, although
it is certain that the wounds already in
flicted were sufficient to have eventually
■ aiisrd the death of the madman The
affair created the wildest excitement
among the blacks in the eastern portion
The pi- mptness with uhidi tin tic-.-- ,
? of -.in vicinity rushed to the aid
* heir children and the effectual man
i,r hi which thev disposed of the whisks
, ■ ... ,| demon was highly commended fe
ll, a hit* people of the section, it being
reported that (.lover had been very troti
bh some recently, due to his continued
drinking
Writer Would
Be Register
Of Treasury
I'll!!. \DK1.PH1A. Penn . Feb. 28 —
. ' (ling of many take telegrams ami
1 President Harding from Penn
. . . im ha- caused \V. Harry Baker,
secretary oi Republican state committee,
l,, seek an investigation by the federal
district attorney. .
Mr Baker revealed today that iranu
j, , telegrams bad been sent to the presi
,1,1, , purporting to endorse the candidacy
I I Overtoil, head waiter at a
West Philadelphia hotel, for appoint
ment a- register of the United States
treasury The telegrams bore the name
,,f \|,s George Wharton Pepper, wife
llt sp., ator Pepper; Mrs. John Wana
iiiak.i III, Mrs. Baker and others.
r,.,k r said none of the persons whose
names were signed to the telegrams knew
anything about them.
Mrs Wanamaker said she had received
a letter from George S. Christian,~secre
t ry to President Harding in which he
acknowledged receipt of an endorsement
from her for Overton, and also of a joint
telegram from her, Mrs. Pepper and
Mrs Charles S. Brown of Philadelphia,
endorsing Overton.
Mr, Baker recalled that recently simi
lar telegrams were sent to the president
and Senator Pepper, a-king that appoint
ment of a state prohibition direcfhr be
deferred.
^est Freed Of Auto
Theft Charge
II B. W est, 422 E. 45th PI., was ac
quitted in Judge Fitch’s branch o& the
Criminal Court of charges of receiving
a stolen automobile Friday. He was
represented by Attv. A. E. Patterson
“Lynching Only
Killing Off
A Criminal”
Governor of North Carolina Issues
Statement on Matthew Bullock
Case—Says Brother Was Lynched,
“But It Was Done Quickly"—To
Protect" Matthew —Canadian Judge
Wants Witnesses.*
RALKfCrH, N C, Feb. 19.—Reiter
ating earlier statement- that if Mat
thew Bullock, arrested at Hamilton,
Ont.. on an extradition warrant from
the I’nitrd State- Department, was re
turned here to answer a charge of at
tempted murder. every precaution
would he taken to guarantee a fair
trial. Governor Morrison said yester
day
Nothing More Than Killing
"People in some sections of the
country do not seern to understand
th.i’ - * lied lym hings in th*- South
an- nothing more than the killing of
a criminal b\ the friends, and fre
quently outraged relatives of the vic
tim of the prisoner’s crime.
8he Governor expressed confidence
that the State Department at Wash
ington would .11 t "with high respect
for the S’ .-it* "f North < arolinU." in its
efforts to ’oinc' about tile extradition.
County fudge Snider at Hamilton lias
refused to grant Extradition until wit
nesses have been produced by the
States «.f North Carolina to testify to
the charges against Bullock, which in
volve his alleged attempted murder of
Rabey, Trayler in connection witlj/the
NTn-lina race fftfft
Lynching Done "Quickly**
■ "It is true that Bullock’s brother
was lynched, but it was done quickly,
and before the state authorities had
any knowledge of approaching danger,
an assault being made upon the jail
of W arn iit county. The jailer was
slipped up on and taken unawares.
Within an hour after I learned that
violence was threatened in Warren
ton. where the jail is situated. I placed
the whole situation in the hands of
state troops. It would have been
don< «ooner it it had been humanly
po ihle The troops brought about
17 rtf the rioters here to the state
prison for safe-keeping. They were
afterwards carried to Warrenton and
Huh tried and mercifully punished by
the court for participation in the riot,
which the Canadian prisoner, Bullock,
"Nothing But Ordinary Killing””
"Lynchings are never winked at by
the authorities.” (iovernor Morrison
said in a ..statement, "and are always
prevented where tin- authorities have
am knowledge of the approach of
danger and an opportunity to prevent
it What has come to he called lynch
ing m the South is nothing hut ordi
nary killings in other sections of the
• •ountrv. Because of the fact that
some 'of our county seats are small
villages, with very small police forces,
and flie jail kept by one man, those
who are bitterly aroused and seek ven
geance are able to go to the jail, and,
by -onif ruse or trick, capture the
jailer and take the sought criminal.
“This very rarely occurs, and we
have adopted a rule in this state now
of bringing to the Mate prison in Ral
eigh for safe keeping of criminals who
have perpetrated crimes which, in the
nature, in the community might cause
violence.
"Lynchings of this character are
;\Trv rare: most of these occurrences
| called lynchings happen before the
officers apprehend the prisoner ^f all,
and are nothing hut murders commit
ted by those who are outraged by the
crime, and by the persons lynched.
The offirers kfiow nothing of it until
after it is over, and have no way to
prevent it.
“The sentiment against so-called
lynchings in this state is pronounced
and universal We now have in the
state penitentiary a white man who
led a mob in an assault upon three
Negroes in the hands of the authori
ties.
“f recently refused a grant of exe
cutive clemency to this prisoner. One
of the three men nought hv the mob.
who was convicted f first degree mur
der and sentenced to death in the elec
tric chair, lias been recently commuted
to a sentence of life imprisonment
upon the recommendation of the judge
and solicitor w'Ho tried him.”
Friends Helping Fugitive
HAMILTON. Ont. Feb. 19.— De
velopments in the Bullock case today
were the renewed pledges of support
from powerful anti-lynching organiza
tions in fhcf United States, officials of
which have instructed Freeman F.
Trclevnn. the Negro’s counsel, tn
spare n<4 expense in seeking to save
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In The Limelight Again
Shivering under the shadows of the Nation’s Capitol, tw o hundred and fifty good Americans were initiated into the Ku
Klux Klan. The Flaming Cross, Kileagles and Goldins can now be'seen all over America. When will Congress find it neces
sary to investigate their activities again !
What Georgia
Thinks Of
Pensions
-«—
MAGNOLIA, Miss. I'd) 22 Maj.
W. M Wroten, of Magnolia, commander
of the Mississippi Division of the United
Confederate Veterans, has issued the fol
lowing statement:
“Having learned that the pension com
mittee of our legislature had suggested
,, rt classification of pensioners, placing
all the blind and maimed on the same
basis as tlmsc who were not so fortunate I
and believing 1 might be some service.:
1, in company with Generals Webb and i
Howell went before the pension commit
tee and asked that the same cla-scs as
for 1920-21 be recommended. The blind
$200 and the maimed $150, the balance
to be prorated.
“I am glad to say the committee read
ily adopted our suggestion, and the bill |
has already passed the House.
“We took up with the committee thej
question of the negro pensioners who
have been drawing equally with the white
males and females.
“I advanced the idea that the black
people should not receive a pension at
all; that he deserved no more than the
black man who remained at home and
raised provisipns for our army; that they
had been receiving about one-fifteenth of
our appropriation; that our pension rolls
had been grossly abused by county pen
sion boards.
We had approximately 50,000 men in
the Confederate Army from our state.
Not ten per rent of them are surviving,
less than 5.000. There are 634 black
people on our roll. If this represents
ten per cent then there were 6,340 negro
servant- from Mississippi. We know
that there were not that many in the1
entire Confederate Army. We have now
3,460 whites on our male pension roll and
634 negroes—one black man to every five
and a half white.
“I think prorates will rpceive this year
about $75.00, for 1922-23, $95,100, which
should go into the pockets of the feeble
old white veterans and their widows.
“There were more than 100,000 South
ern black men in the Yankee Army.
When acting as guards for our boys in
prison they wete cruel and inhuman, and
took special delight in shooting them
on the least prnvneatioi
WESTBROOK
SCORES IN
BOMB CASE!
With the quashing of an indictment
charging malicious mischief. Judge John
A. Swanson, of the Cook County ( rim
mal Court, brought
t<% an end last week
a series of outrages
and conspiracies
aimed at a woman
and her husband b<
cause they dared to j
live south of the lit |
set at 39ffi St., a; i
Grand Bl\Vl., by the
Kenwood and 11 v<'
Park Associatioi ^
across which “n ™
blacks should pas- Uy
After a series <• Lv* ;
uiHiiuiiiKa .ti in'
hnnic, 4404 Gram aTT'Y WES I BROOKS
Blvd., the Clarks
were finally ejected
by foreclosure proceeding-,, after numer
ous threats and attempts to buy the prem
ises had failed.
Not satisfied at gaining possession of
the Clark home, the conspirators then
brought action again t their victims,
charging them with malicious mischief
in damaging the premises. It was be
yond contradiction, however, that the
damage to the premises was done by the
hurling of the conspirators’ bombs.
Mr. and Mrs. Clark were held to the
Grand Jury in May. 1921, in Judge How
ard Hayes’ branch of the Municipal
Court. Lawrence Timbers and Patrick
Flanagan, white, were the complainants.
These two men were known to be of
ficers of the Grand Boulevard Property
Owners' Trust Fund, an organization
believed to bj involved in the bombing.
An indictment was returned by the
Grand Jury upon testimony given by
these men.
Attorney Westbrooks, representing
Mr. and Mrs. Clark, appeared before
Judge Swanson, atacking the indictment,
and asking that it be quashed, declaring
that it was returned through fraudulent
testimony. Attorney Westbrooks also
pointed out many other irregularities in
the indictment.
The case attracted wide attention on
account of the fact that Patrick Flani
gan, whose name was endorsed as a
prosecutoi of the charge, is a former
older of the Municipal Court
Dr. Williams
Denies “Jim
Crow” Charge
Objections that the operation of a
training school to be operated by
Northern Baptists in Chicago would
set a Jim Crow precedent were over
ridden in a meeting of Baptist minis
ters at Olivet Baptist Church Wed
nesday. The meeting after heated de-I
bate accepted the offer of the Amer
ican Baptist Home Mission Society to!
take over the Training School noyv '
operated by the Women's American
Baptist Home Missionary Society.
Objections Raised
Objection to the proposal was of
fered by the Rev E. P. Jones, and I
others, who declared that such action I
would set a Jim Crow precedent, and
would he eventually followed by the
dosing of the doors of all Northern
• lieges to any hut white students. j
T)r. 1.. K. Williams replied with the j
duration that the scho’ol would not
■ segregated, hut would be open to
-Members of all races yvlio wished to
attend He further stated that if such
a school were called a “Jim Crow”
school, then all churches of our race i
must be called “Jim Crow” churches j
as well.
After a heated debate, the proposal
was unanimously accepted, and com
mittees for organization were named.
Argo Bus Rolls
Down Hill; fen
Persons Injured
Ten persons were injured, two se
riously when a motor bus with cm- j
ployes of the Corn Products Refining |
company of Argo, 111., turned over j
and rolled down, a hill at a fork in j
the road between Archer and Cicero j
avenues and the Argo plant.
Witnesses say the bus rolled over1
three times and then stopped against
th* water pumping station in Sum
mit, 111.
James Mages, white, conductor of
the bus sdffered fractured legs and
ribs. William Arnold suffered a
broken back. Most of the pasengers
ere employes of the corn company.
After extensive argument in which
much law was chad. Judge Swanson sus
tained the motion to quash the indict
ment. and discharged the defendants.
PROF, HALE
OUSTED,MUST
FADE TRIAL
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 25.—Prof.
V J. Hale, who was arrested several
weeks ago on charges of defrauding ex
service men at the school where he was
principal, has been held for trial to the
United States Court by Commissioner
1 larry Luck.
In addition, Director Forbes, of the
Veterans* Bureau at Washington, has
ordered his removal as head of the
Na-hville school. Hale's counsel insisted
that he be dismissed from further
charges, but Judge Luck was sufficiently
convinced that Professor Hale was
guilty of extortion to hold him for trial
in the United States Court.
Over 100 students testified that Hale
and Robinson, a teacher, at the school,
had loaned them money, charging ex
tortionate interest, and that when their
checks came from the treasury depart
ment at Washington, they never reached
the students, but were kept in payment of
tin- interest on the loan. The principal
was supposed to be still due.
Steals Editor's
Pie, Indicted
WINCHESTER, Va., Feb. 19.—
Frank Timbers, a colored youth of
Strashurg, has been held for the Shen
andoah County grand jury on charges
of rifling the cash register of the local
newspaper office and, worse than that,
of stealing a large chocolate pic owned
by Editor William B Allen. The pil
ferings of Timbers* it was said, prob
ably would amount to as much as $20
or $25, and the value of the pic will
be left to a jury.
Allen also charges the miscreant
with stealing several cakes he had
bought at a sale held by the local
Campfire Girls. The “goodies" were
taken to the editorial sanctum by the
editor, and it was his intention to have
them for his bachelor dinner after Sun- 1
day school today, but, on opening the
cupboard of his attic apartment, he
found only some crumbs and traces of
chocolate and white icing
U.N.I.A. ON
BRINK OF
COLLAPSE
"I WAS AWAY ON TRIP"
IS EXCUSE MADE BY
MARCUS GARVEY
NEW YORK dTY, Feb. 25.
Deep depression was thrown into the
ranks of the Universal Negro Im
provement Association, and the Black
Star Line stood on the brink oi col
lapse when ii was learned here late
Thursday that Marcus Garvey, mov
ing spirit in the "(yack to Africa
movement and three of his aids wee
indicated by a federal grand jury on
charges involving a scheme to swindh
the public in stock for sale in tin
Black Star Steamship Line.
Those indicated with Garvey weri
Flic .Garcia. George Tobias, and Ur
lando M. Thompson, directors of th
Steamship Line,
Indictment a Surprise
The indictment came as a sharp sur
prise to many of the followers of Gar
vey, who placed confidence in then
leader’s cfairn that the: charges had
been trumped up against him, ami
would fall fiat when presented befori
a grand jury.
Charged With Defrauding
The specific charge on which Gar
vey was indicted was the use of the
United States mails for fraudulent
purposes, chief among them cited
being the sale of tickets on the ghost
ship, "Phillis Wheatley.” It wa>
charged that Garvey sold and adver
tised through the mails for sale pas
sage to Africa on this boat, which
records prove near existed.
The complaint also alleges that Gar
vey, by false pretenses and promises,
induced, solicited and procured vari
otts persons to pay and transmit to
him money and property for the pur
chase of stock in the Black Star Line,
and for memberships in the Universal
Negro Improvement Association.
Garvey Blames Employees
In answering the charges, Garvey
declared that while he was ahsem
tonring the West Indies and Central
America, employees of the corpora
tion mismanaged the affairs of the
Black Star Line to the extent that
complete demoralization and disorgan
ization ensued. He also declared that
money which should have been used
for the purchase of the boat was used
for other purposes.
Garvey declares that while he was
in the West Indies and Central Amer
ica, "he was confident that such a boat
as'the Phyllis Wheatley was tied up at
the docks in New York, and ready to
sail for Africa."
“I’m Not A
Bomber”-J.
At a meeting of the civic committee ot
the Appomatox Club, Sunday afternoon,
Attorney J. Gray Lucas tpok the floor
and declared that lie had been unjustly
charged with being implicated in re
cent South Side bombings.
Attorney Lucas declared that the
suspicion against him was on account of
a speech he once made before the Hyde
Park Property Owners’ Association,
which was misquoted by a daily paper
The mistake was corrected on the fol
lowing day, he said.
He said he was willing to hand in his
resignation from the dub if any member
could produce any evidence to show that
he was in any way in sympathy with thr
bombing.
Incipient Race Riot in Movie Quelled
by Police.
Police ere called to quell an incip
ient race riot in a motion picture
ushow at 1900 Soth Wabash avenue
last night. Carlo Stans, a Greek, 18
East 16th street, said a colored man
insulted his wife. He grabbed the
man and attempted to beat him. Oth
ers of both races interfered. Police
men with drawn revolvers restored
order