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PHOENIX^TRIBVtNE . fall Associated Negro Press Ser rice. We get the cewe first. • VOLUME 11. NO. 22 Woman Shoots Editor of the Dallas Express ». l m urns MIC DEATH 11 DADDS 011 WOMAN (Special to the Tribune. DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 2.1. —Colonel W. E. King, rditor and founder of Thp Dallas Express, the largest race pnhli oation in the southwest, was shot and lulled Wednesday afternoon about 3:00 o'clock at 2811 Flora street. Mr. King lived only a few minutes after he was shot. He was shot in the upper right chest. Miss Hattie. Q. Burleson, former personal secretary and boarding mis-, tress of Mr. King, voluntarily surren dered immediately aftpr the shooting and an affidavit charging her with murder was filed in .lustire Barnett's court. Born in Mississippi. Mr. King was the son of Richard and Marguerite King. He was born in Macon, Miss., in 1866. He was edu cated in the schools of Macon. After completing his high school education, he taught school for a number of years in the public schools of Ltuder dale and Jasper counties, where he enjoyed the distinction of standing the best examination of any teachers in these counties, white of black. See ing the need of a newspaper to defend the rights of his down-trodden race, hp began the publication of a paper known as “Fair Play,” about 1885, which had a wide circulation and was successfully managed until forced to close his shop and leave the state on account of the position his paper took in defense of his race. He came ot Dallas in 1891, and se cured a position as managing pditor of the Western Star, published by Rev. E. W. D. Isaacs. In 1892, he be gah the publication of the Dallas Bee. later the name 'was changed to Th> Dallas Express. He was editor-in chief at the time of his death and by his uncompromising stand for justice and right the paper is considered one of the strongest publications in the Southwest. The deceased is survived by a brother, Jno. King of Greenville, Miss., who will come for the remains and make funeral arrangements. OPEN SEASON ON TEXAS EDITORS, _ (Special to the Tribune.) EL PASO. Tex., Aug. 26.—C. H. Griffith, unconscious and bleeding about the head in several places, was found, according to police, lying in the back yard of a resort down the valley from here early today. Griffith is known as the publisher of a week ly publication called the Comet, which has been circulated on the streets here for several weeks, and in which several well-known persons, including city officials, have been attacked. o Would Bar Colored Men From The Army (Special to the Tribune.) WASHINGTON, D. C„ Aug. 26. Coming upon the heels of another bill that just had been introduced to prohibit the intermarriage of white and Colored, Representative Caraway of Davis, Tenn., introduced a bill to prohibit the enlistment of any mem ber of the Negro race in the mili tary or naval services of the United States of America, and directing the discharge of all members of the race now serving in any branch of the mili tary or naval service of the United States. The southern members of congress seem to be running wild on the bases when it comes to introducing bills to curb the freedom of the Negro race. The affairs of the government are coming to a bad end when the money of honest taxpayers is used to sup port such narrow-minded statesmen as represent some sections of the south. To them the only way to gain a national reputation is by constantly hammering on the Negro. o NEED MORE SCHOOLS. (Indianapolis, Ind , Times) The race riots have revealed the need of more schools like the Hamp ton and Tuakegee institutes. Prices Beginning To Fall Says Late Government Report (Special to the Tribune. | WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—Attorney General Palmer said today there was evidence that the government cam paign to reduce the cost of living al ready was bearing fruit. A prominent vegetable packer of Maryland wrote Mr. Palmer that prices in many lines were beginning to ease off, as it be j came evident that the department of justice meant business in announcing that criminal proceedings against j hoarders and profiteers would be in i stituted wherever the laws were vio lated. “We want to make clear, however,” the attorney general said, “that noth- I mg we can do can change the immut ! able economic laws on which prices depend. If we can increase the sup ply by greater production and lessen demand by greater saving on the part jof the people then the eost of living ; should come down. We can help that along by forcing hoarders to put on | the market food held out for an ad vance in prices and further by holding up to public scorn or by prosecuting if congress gives us the criminal amendment to the food control law those who are guilty of trying to ex act a greater profit than is reasonable and just. We are going to make the market—that is the law of supply and demand —operate normally instead of ! artificially." o National Race Congress Now Ready For Action i ■ (Special to Ihe Tribune.) . WASHINGTON. D. ('., Aug. 25—The official call for the fourth annual ses sion of the National Race Congress of America, to be called in this city Oc tober 7th, has been issued by the president, Rpv. Dr. W. 11. Jernagin, and is being widely circulated through the press of the country. This congress is to be known as the “Suffrage Ses sion,” and the clans from every sec tion of the land are getting ready to gather at the nation’s capital to em phasize the importance of the ballot at; a solvent for many of the ills that | beset America’s 12,000,000 Negro citi j zens. The call states the case with 1 clearness and force and Dr. Jernagin land his co-workers are urging that large delegations be sent here from the various sections to consider ways and means for the betterment of the civic and economic status of our peo | pie. Able speakers will present the ! issues and the discussions will be i broad and thorough, and the steps to be taken to crystalize thought into action will be prompt and vigorous. All phases of the intricate “race problem” will be treated. Hon. F. M. Hercules, secretary of the Society of the Peoples of Africa, wtih headquarters at London, England, has accepted an invitation to address Ithe congress, and Congressman Mat i thew Agady, of Liberia, is also ex | pected to. speak. Invitations have j been extended to the Hon. C. D. King, i president of the Republic of Liberia: i Hon. Blaise Diagne, a member of the ! House of Deputies of the Republic of i France, who lias had charge of the Colonial Troops, who fought so val ! iantly for liberty and democracy j throughout the world war. M. Diagne I presided over the deliberations of the recent Pan-African congress in Paris. | The Abyssinian government has prom • ised, through its envoys, to send a ! message of cheer. o BIG MINING COMPANY ORGANIZED BY COLOR ED MEN IN TENNESSEE (By Associated Negro Press.) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Aug. 26. j Articles of incorporation were filed yesterday in the office of the circuit I court clerk by the Chattanooga Coal | and Manufacturing company, with a ; capital stock of $15,000. The incor ! porators are all well-known Colored I men and are as follows: J. D. Fazald, E. P. Jones, Daniel R. Brown, Manson Flowers and S. A. Wheeler. It is stated in the application that the purpose of i the new company is to mine coal and | other minerals in Hamilton county, and to manufacture coke and its by products. SIOOO Will BE PAID FOR A SHE WORD; CONTEST OPEN TO ALL ■ World Trade Club Offers Prize For Best Name For "Brit-Ams." SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 14. Can you create the one word which will best denote the United States and all parts of Britania? If so, you will be paid at the rate of SI,OOO a word. The World Trade Club of San Francisco has offered SI,OOO to the person who suggests the word which, in the judgment of the club’s Metric Campaign committee, is best adapted to world-wide use. The competition is open to all hu mankind. The money will be paid to the winner at noon on the 15th day of May, 1920, by a committee appointed by President W. H. Hammer of the World Trade Club. •’Brit-Am," “Amhria," “Ambritlica," “Br-Am," “Sam-Bull," are some words thus far suggested. New names are constantly coming. The World Trade Club is offering this award because in carrying on its present campaign for the adoption of metric units by all English-speaking people— the United States, the British Isles, Can ada, Australia, New Zealand, Tas mania, United South Africa, and so on—it was hampered by the lack of a single short word which would ex press all these. The metric units of weight and measure are now used by all the world except “Brit-Am’’ or “Ambrit tica" or ‘‘Sam-Bull.’’ o Texas Shows Lack Os Civilization AUSTIN, Texas. Aug. 26.—J. R. Shillady, a white man, secretary of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People, was se verely beaten and placed on board an outbound train for St. Louis recently. Shillady had been “inciting negroes against the whites," and had previous ly been warned to leave Austin, ac cording to County Judge Dave J. Pickle of Travis county. The attack on Shillady, Judge Pickle said, was made by himself. Constable Charles Hamby and Ben Pierce, none of whom, he declared,' would shirk responsibil ity in the matter. Judge Pickle em phasized the fact, however, that he and his companions were acting un officially. No charges have been preferred against any of Shillady's assailants. Shillady was returning from a meet ing with Negroes, Judge Pickle de clared in describing the attack. "I told him (Shillady),” the judge said later, “that his actions were inciting the Negroes against the whites and would cause trouble, and warned him to leave town. 1 told him our Ne groes would cause no trouble if left alone. I whipped him and ordered him to leave because I thought it was for the best interests of Austin and the state.” o QUACK “DOCTOR” RUNS AFOUL OF LAW (By Associated Negro Press.) BALTIMORE, Md„ Aug. 26.—Al leged to have been engaged in the practice of medicine in the city and counties in violation of the state law, George W. Johnson, Colored, 50 years old, proprietor of the G. W. Johnson Vegetable Compound company, was arrested at his home, 2006 Druid Hill avenue, yesterday by Headquarters Detectives R. E. Freeman and H. H, Henimersia, and after a hearing at the Northwestern police station, was held in bail for the action of the grand jury. According to the detectives, Johnson has conducted a widespread business In this state, having rnadf: periodical visits in his automobile to many towns, where he visited, “patients” and prescribed his remedies for treat ment of diseases, including rheuma tism, asthma, bronchitis, and other ailments. Although he was known to his “patients” as “Doctor," Johnson did not have the prefix printed on his advertising literature. ARIZONA’S GREATEST WEEKLY Business Woman Buys $35,000 Office Bldg. In New York City (Special to'the Tribune.) NEW YORK, Aug. 25. —The out standing big business deaf of the week has been the purchase of a magnificent $35,000 office, and apart ment building at 118 West 130th street for the expansion of the Hair- Vim Chemical eomjtany, the home of fice of which is al Washington, D. C„ and of which Dr. Julia P. ii. Coleman is president and founder. Dr. Cole man is one of the race’s leading com mercial factors and through Ibis na tionally-known enterprise is opening avenues for lucrative employment for hundreds of the talented and ener getic young men and women of the country. ( O TEXAS BLACKS PRAY FOR SALVA TION OF WHITES (By Associated Negro Press.) AUSTIN, Tex., Aug. 26. —Speaking at the meeting of the State Farmers' Institute this morning, J. E. Clayton, a Negro of a Manor, Travis county, who is a member of the field force of •the Texas Department of Agriculture, gave assurance that there is no occa sion for uneasiness .among the white people of Texas of trouble by the Negro race. "There seems to be unrest over the state that the Colored people are go ing to give the white people trouble," said Clayton. "There is no foundation for this. I stand here and say for the 865,000 Negroes in Texas that they have no intention whatever of pull ing away from the white people. They want your help and they want to help you. They are not going to b“ misled; they know who are their friends.” Clayton told about the Negroes when they meet in convention of praying to the Lord to take care of the white people. “They know that the white folks have the money in the banks and if the Lord will take care of the white folks the Colored people know that they will get some of the white-folks money, because the white folks will always help the de serving Negro.” o —— SEGREGATION LAW TO BE RIGIDLY EN ' FORCED IN ARMY IT WOULD SEEM (By Associated Negro Press.) ALBANY, Ala., Aug. 26. —The per sons responsible for placing Negro and white troops in the same unit abroad will be called to account by the war department and the Color line will be drawn in all cases in the army, according to information fur nished Senator Bankhead by Peter Harris, adjutant general. The announcement followed a peti tion circulated here on July fourth and signed by several thousand Mor gan county citizens requesting that o COLORED MASONS OF TENNESSEE ENJOINED (By Associated Negro Press.) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Aug. 26. An injunction was ordered Thursday by Chancellor Garvin restraining Frank Jackson, Colored, from acting or assuming to act as grand master of the Free and Accepted Ancient York Masons of the state of Tennes see. The style of the hill under which the injunction was issued is the Grand Lodge of the Free and Accept ed Ancient York Masons vs. F. A. Jackson, J. M. Arnold, et al., and the most worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of the Free, Accepted Ancient York Masons. o A GREATER TEST. (New York Globe) Since the Negro has had his lib erties abused, his constitutional rights laughed at, his person insult ed, it is a greater test to ask him to appeal to the law than it is to ask the same thing of the white rowdies who have been the aggressors in most of the recent race conflicts. The re quest must still be made, however, for when both sides descend alike tq the brutal arguments of the mob the angels themselves might despair of bringing peace. PHOENiX, ARIZONA, AUGUST 30, 1919 INTRODUCE BILL i 10 SEGREGATE RACES : IN NATIONAL CAPITAL (By Associated Negro Press.) WASHINGTON, D. €., Aug. 26.—A bill limiting certain sections of the city to Negroes and prohibiting them from living in other districts is now pending in the house. It was introduced by Thaddeus H. Caraway, representative from Ar kansas, yesterday. This is the fourth bill framed by Caraway to effect a complete segrega tion of the Negro and white races. One bill would prohibit the inter . marriage of the races in the District and another would prohibit enlistment of any Negro in military or naval j service. This latter bill also would j cause eevry Negro now in the service j to be discharged. Another bill by Caraway would compel Negroes either to ride on dif ferent cars from whites or have re served compartments. Would Pay Kaiser For Loss Thru Abdication BERLIN, Tuesday. Aug. 19.—A bill has been submitted to the Prussian cabinet which provides that 170,000,- 000 marks shall be given to former Emperor William as total settlement for the civil list he lost through “forced abdication,” according to a Weimar dispatch in the Freiheit. The cabinet has not reached a decision. WHAT AN I. W. W. THINKS WILL STOP RACE RIOTS (By Associated Negro Press.) CHICAGO, 111., Aug. 26.—“ There will be race riots in every city of the United States until the whites allow ihe Negroes to work alongside with them on terms of equality. It is be cause the capitalists know they havo 12,000,000 Negroes in this country to l take the place of white workers who strike that they dare refuse to meet (lie demands of the workingmen." It. T. Sims, a Negro, member for thirty years of the Chicago Federa tion of Labor, and also a member of (he 1. W. W., made these statements at the I. W. W. hall, 119 S. Throop street, at the weekly meeting Sun ! day night. He was speaking on the I "Rarp Question and Its Situation.” Situs is employed in the city hall | and is affiliated with (he Municipal I Janitors' union. lie said a majority of Negroes em ployed in Ihe stock yards do not want !to join any union. In explanation he j said the unions had once had an op portunity to capture all the Negroes j employed in the yards. “But they failed,” said Mr. Sims, “because they allowed race preju dice to stand in the way. Today the Negroes are thinking along more radi cal lines than the organized unions. Bolshevism is spreading among them. "They see that the American Fed eration of Labor, as run by Gompers, is simply a tool of the capitalists,” he said. “I myself am a Bolshevist, if believ ing in the soviet form of government such as is now running Russia con stitutes the making of a Bolshevist And the business interests of the coun try are beginning to realize that there are millions of working men who believe as I do —in Bolshevist. And the business interests of the country are beginning to realize that there are millions of working men who believe as 1 do—in Bolshevism as a means of attaining our demands for a fair share of our labors.” Following his address, Mr. Sims was loudly applauded. “Big Bill’’ Haywood, erstwhile leader of the I. W. W. and recently released from Leavenworth prison, was one of the first to reach the platform to con gratulate “Fellow Worker" Sims on his speech. .—o NORTH *HAS FAILED. (Columbia, S., C. State) It is the North, infinitely ■more than the South, that has failed in a moder ately and hopeful treatment of a problem that requires time and pati ence for its amelioration. The thought ful North will confess it. New Mexico Senator Submits Questions To President Wilson (Special to the Tribune.) WASHINGTON, Ang. 26.—Senator Fall of New Mexico, Republican mem ber of the foreign relations commit tee, at the conclusion of yesterday's White House conference, submitted jto President Wilson twenty written ; questions relating to the peace treaty, ; which the president promised to an l swer. '* -» The questions concerned three sub ! jects, chiefly the possibility of declar ! ing the war at an end prior to ratifi- I cation of the treaty, the disposition |of the former German colonies, and j tlie* reason for appointment of Ameri | can representatives created by the ! peace conference. The New Mexico senator first asked j whether the president could not bv proclamation declare the war at an end; whether congress—the power which declared war —acting with the j approval of the president, could de- I clare peace; whether merely by filing lof the first proces-verbal under th? treaty the state of war was not ter minated, and, if so, could not trade and governmental relations with Ger many be resumed in full, and whether through filing of the first proces verbal and ratification by three of the principal powers, the state of war would be terminated for all nations concerned. The president was also asked to say to what nations or association of nations the German colonies were as signed under the treaty, and if the United States was recently of these territories. Reasons for the designa tion of American representatives on the Saar Basin, the Belgian German frontier and the upper Silesia plebis cite commission and for omission of the designation in part of the nations to have representatives on the Saar Basin and Polish Czecho-Slovakia boundary commission were asked. o Georgia Colored Man Prize Winner In Nation wide Essay Contest \ (By Associated Negro Press.) ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 26. —Louis J. Harper, a young Atlanta Negro, has just been announced as the winner of third prize in a nation-wide essay con test on the subject, “Why We Shoufd Have an American Language.” The contest was coriducted by the state library of Ohio, and was open to all accredited students of all universities, colleges and high schools throughout the country. Young Harper, who is just 20 years of age, was a member of’ the Students Army Training Corps of Atlanta uni versity, and completed his sophomore year in 1919 with honors. In writing of Harper’s success, J. H. Newman, state librarian of Ohio, said: “This young man has great promise for his race. Nothing can possibly contribute more to the uplift of the African than the education and careful training of such men as young Harper. “He is entitled to all the credit he receives, for the reason that no judge knew anything about the name of the individual writer until after the de cision. Therefore, the elimination of all prejudice or partiality from the re sult.” So widespread was the interest in ] this contest that Mr. Newman has decided to launch another contest, along these lines, some time during the coming fall, after all the schools are organized for their new year’3 work. o WHITENING BLACK FACE. (New York Tribune) The Negroes in the United States number 10,000,000 and each decade shows a normal increase. Counted with them are persons of mixed blood, and a gradually whitening black face is developing men and women indis i posed to submit to discrimination. Slowly but steadily the Negroes are becoming educated, are acquiring property, are forcing their way up ward. Largest Circu lation ot any Race Journal in the Southwest. 5 Cents a Copy; $2 a Year WHITES TO BE TRIED FOR LYNCHING OF BUCKS IN TEXAS (Special to the Tribune.) GILMER, Texas, Aug. 20. —The cases of A. B. Boyd and Tracy Flan nigan, indicted for murder by the Upshur county grand jury Aug. 1 as 1 the result of the lynching of Chilton ’ Jennings in this city July 24, have I been transferred for trial to Dallas county. The cases of Charlie Lans dale, William Howell-and Tom Lay, indicted for the same crime, the lat ter being indicted Aug. 14, will he tried at Canton, Van Zandt county. 1 A second indictment against William Howell was brought in accusing him ! ; with the killing of Dave Reynolds, who ■ was run down by a man on a horse ! i during the excitement. Tracy Flanni gan lives in Longview and the other i indicted men in Gilmer. All the in • dieted men are out on SIO,OOO bonds. ! The indictment of these men for ■ murder in connection with the lynch ; ing of a Negro -accused of assault on ■ a white woman is said to be the first’ ■ indictments under similar eircum ■ stances of record in the South. In • making his charge to the grand jury • Judge Warren said in part: "You and I, now, gentlemen, are ■ facing a test. I have a duty to per • form, you have a duty to perform. The i law provides certain machinery for the trial of cases and for the enforee , ment of the law. You are a part of • that machinery, as much so as I am. . In the case of any kind of a machine . that is made for certain purpose, if , one pari of it does not properly func . tion and will not operate it destroys i the usefulness of the whole. It is the i same way in this case. Have Duty to Perform. ’ “In this case this unfortunate of i currence, this outrage upon law afid • order, occurred here, in the town of i Gilmer when there were thousands of people upon the streets. As I safd to you a while ago, I did everything that I could under the circumstances ito prevent the tragedy. I talked to Ihe people, gave them fair warning and urged them to let the law take 1 its course. Now, those that saw fit to take the law in their own hands ■ were violators of the law, and there is no excuse for this grand jury, If you find who they were, not to pre sent them by proper indictments. “I say we all have our duty to per ■ form. I expect to perform mine to i: the very letter, to do my duty in the t ‘ matter, and if the parties who pir- Iticipated in this matter go unwhipped 1 of justice it shall not be upon ray • j conscience nor can it be laid at my >; door. I! "Our law provides that no man can . j be prosecuted in the state of Texas -1 for a felony except upon an indlct ! ment duly presented by a grand jury i 1 that has been duly organized. You, ! j gentlemen, have been organized as - j the grand jury of this county, and po !. party can be prosecuted in this court I for a felony until you have indicted j the party that is to be tried. “Now I want you, in a calm and dispassionate way, to use your calm ! : and deliberate judgment. I don’t want any man presented because of any I prejudice, or on any mere rumor or . suggestion that he had anything to ,do with that mob. I want you to have ! ! the evidence in the case before you [ present any man. I want you to find |! evidence that is reasonably sufficient ; to show any party you may indict to , have been connected with the offense. You are not a trial court, however. ■ When a man is indicted and tried be- I fore a petit jury, he is then con fronted with the witnesses and has I his counsel to represent him, and he ■. is tried under the rules of law so far as the admission of testimony is con- I I cemed. You, however, are not hedged 1 , about with technicalities, and I want you to go right to the very meat of the matter and ascertain who it was that took part in that unfortunate and deplorable transaction. Will Not Tolerate Offense. “I want you, gentlemen, to invest!- i gate this matter thoroughly. You know i as well as I that none of us has any sympathy whatever for a man—a brute—that will commit the offense of rape upon a white woman. We do not approve of murder, we do not ap prove of any offense that is made penal under criminal laws, but the law is made for the purpose of pun ishing the criminal, and . when a man (Continued on Page 4) *