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growing. i r | jp 1VT mvrrr rvo 1 iifting' th^7toi'! 1 A HL 1VAAAiN 1 A UK i_“_I A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS THE BEV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor $3.00 a Year. 10c a CopyOMAHA, NEBRASKA, DECEMBER 9, 1920Vol. VI. No. 24 (Whole No. 284) MEW TSUI FOR HUBS ARKk VS SUPREME COURT REVERSES DECISION OF LOWER COURT - V---— ALLIED b VR$’ AND INDUSTh.... CORPORATION National Banking Program—Gigantic Enterprise for Economic Development to l>e Launched h.v Representative Group of Bankers and Business Men Which is an Entirely New and Unique Venture Among Our People EMMETT J. SCOTT ONE OF THE PRIME MOVERS IN ENTERPRISE WTA.SHINGTON. D. C., Dec. 9.— ’’ Announcement has already been made of the decision of a group of colored men, representing banking in stitutions and business, to put under Industrial Corporation. The Allied Bankers’ and Industrial Corporation will, it is thought, even tually include the whole group of Negro banking establishments and sene as a clearing house for these EMMETT J. SCOTT Secretary-treasurei of Howard University, One of the Moving Spirits in Allied Bankers’ and Industrial Corporation way a national banking program look ing to closer affiliation with metro politan banking interests. Application for charter has already been made by the following bankers und business men: I.. E. Williams president Wage Earners Savings bank Savannah, Ga.; Harry H. Pace, for merly secretary-treasurer, Standard Life Insurance company, now presi dent Pace & Handy, New York City; E. C .Brown, president. Brown & Stev ens, bankers, Philadelphia, Pa., and president Quality Amusement Corpor ation; John E. Nail, of Nail & Parker real estate, New York City; J. S. Jones, secretary-treasurer, Tldewatei Bank & Trust company, Norfolk, Va.; Charles Banks, the leading factor in the development of Mound Bayou Miss., and Emmett J. Scott, Washing ton. The new enterprise is to be known as The Allied Bankers’ ana SAVED FROM LYNCH FIENDS \ND ACQUITTED FORT WORTH, Tex., Dec. 9.—-Rob , «.rt Lowe, a youth, was acquitted here ’ November 25 by jury. He was res cued -everal times from a lynch mob. It was alleged that Is)we assaulted a white girl at Arlington, Tex. WILL TEACH AGRICULTURE (By the Associated Negro Press) TUSKEGEE, Ala., Dec. 9.—B. F. Hubert, a noted teacher of agricul i Negro banks, for Negro life and fin insurance companies, for manufactur ing companies and for Negro busines: generally. The corporation will alsc serve as a financial reservoir for tie development of industry among the colored people of the United States Representatives of metropolitan finan cial Institutions are giving encourage ment to the movement. The enterprise is to be owned by and operated wholly in the interest of and for the eco nornic development of the race. The incorporators of the new con cern are to meet in New York City shortly for purposes of organization. Contracts, prospect), etc., are now be ing printed and by the opening of th new year a new one million dollar con cern will have been launched by thr strongest group of Negro financial in terests ever joined together in an al lied movement. tture, has been added to the teaching faculty of the institute. He will'fill the position of director of the agricul tural department. On Founder’s day, April f>, 1921, the Washinton me morial will be unveiled with appro priate ceremonei. This event occurs during the National Negro Health Week, which will be observed from the third to the ninth of April. v Ksse quara vldlrl—Be rather than appear to be. SIX MEN UNDER DEATH SENTENCE TO HAVE NEW TRIAL The Nation-Wide Fight of Race for Men Convicted of Murder in Con nection With Elaine “Race Riots” Brings Results. (Special to The Monitor) LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Dec. 9.—The splendid fight that the National Asso ciation for the Advancement of Col ored People, backed by the race, throughout the nation, has been wag ing for justice to the six men con victed of murder in connection with the Elaine “race riots” bore addi tional fruit here Monday when the Arkansas supreme court reversed and remanded for new trial the cases of these men on the ground that the Phillips court had erred in refusing to permit introduction of evidence to support a charge that prejudice had been shown in the exclusion of Ne groes in the selection of the jury. It will be recalled that originally twelve Negroes were convicted of murder in eleven minutes. Upon an appeal to a higher court, six of the twelve were acquitted and six held for murder. These six were awaiting execution, but the fight was carried up to the j supreme couit of Arkansas. — MARINE IS TAKEN TO HAITI TO FACE CHARGE OF MURDER PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Dec. 9. j —Dorcas Williams, a marine ser- j geant, formerly of Birmingham, Ala., accused of killing a native of Haiti, arrived here Saturday in custody! aboard the United States destroyer! McCormick. The court of inquiry which is investigating the activities of the American marines in Haiti de ferred hearing Williams to enable him to confer with witnesses for the de fense. IV TRANS ATLANTIC RADIO WORK Student in Union College Has Had Experience as Member of Signal j Corps. ■ (By the Associated Negro Press) SCHENECTADY, N. Y„ Dec. 9.— Probably the only student in Union! college to have had experience in! trans-Atlantic radio work is Wendell W. King, a Negro student, who en-1 to>v'd college in 1916, but spent two years in the signal corps of the army. H» returned last year to finish his course in electrical engineering. He is now a junior and chief engineer of the college radio club. His hobby, as King himself admits, is wireless telegraphy, in which he has been in terested in an amateur way since 1911. He was among the first to sug irest the use of the powerful Union, college radio set for sending out aerial concerts weekly, a feature which has proved highly successful. In college he is also a member of the Cosmopolitan club. JAPAN EAGER FOR WAR ON U. S. TO PREVENT REVOLT MILAN, Italy, Dec. 9.—A leading newspaper here declares it has learned that Japan is busy preparing public opinion in that country for war with the United States. It states that the Tokio government, fearing revolution, has resolved upon war with America even in face of the knowledge that it may be fatal to Japan. The entire press is urging war. The newspaper Yoredzu bluntly states: “There is no possibility of settling the California question peacefully.” WOULD EQUALIZE TEACHERS’ SALARIES (By the Associated Negro Press) BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 9.—Re vision of the 1921 salary schedule for the teachers in the high schools and! teachers’ training schools, for the pur pose of equalizing the pay of white and colored teachers, was requested of the school board by the board of e-timates. The request was the re sult of complaint from the educa-, tional section of the Women’s Civic I league and a delegation of “Negro I citizens and taxpayers” that in ar-, ranging its salary increases the school board discriminated against; the Negro teachers. DR. BENTLEY IS HOWARD LECTURER (By the Associated Negro Press) ! WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—Dr. Chas.! K. Bentley of Chitago. regarded as j thr most representative man of the race in dental surgery, formerly pres ident of the Chicago Odontographic >ciety, and formerly vice president of the Chicago Dental society, the largest local dental society in the world, is delivering a course of lec tures at the Howard university, the subject of his first address being “Systemic Effects From Oral Infec tion.” I \ EUt’TlON DELAYED ONE YEAR Dnodvillc Thurston, Sentenced to Die December 16, Granted Appeal. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 9.—A stay in one year In execution of sentence Is the effect of Circuit Judge Oareache’s action In granting the appeal to the supreme court of Woodvllle Thurston, under sentence to be hanged on De cember 16. Thurston was convicted on a charge of attacking a white woman. His ap peal was granted Thursday. Thurs ton will remain In custody pending outcome of his appeal. HOWARD WINS INTER COLLEGIATE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP An Immense Throng Numbering 20,000 People Witness Thrilling Game Between the White and Blue and Orange and Blue at American League Base Ball Park, Secured After Some Diffi culty for Great Football Classic of Year SCORE UNPRECEDENTED BETWEEN THESE TWO LEADING COLLEGES Game Witnessed by Persons of Note From All Walks of Life From All Sections of Country Who Took This Opportunity Renew ing Old College Friendships—Remarkable Attendance largely Due to Efforts of Emmett J. Scott, Secretary-Treasurer of Howard University—Details of Game tty NOKMAN L. McUHEE TVTASHINGTON, Dec. 9. — Howard ™ University won the colored In tercollegiate football championship Thanksgiving afternoon at the Ameri can league base ball park from Lin coln University of Chester county, Pennsylvania, before twenty thousand enthusiastic football followers and friends of both schools. The final score of the game was 42 to 0 in fa vor of the capital city lads. The event, which is the ‘‘football classic of the year,” attracted thou- j sands of visitors from all the large cities in the country. Persons of note from all walks of life were seen from as far west as Tennessee and Illinois and as far south as Jacksonville, Fla. New York, Philadelphia and Atlantic City sent the buggest delegations. Bal timore, Norfolk. Newport News, Wil mington and Charleston coming next. Cleveland and Pittsburgh were well represented. Hold Open House Wednesday night the van guard of the visilprs began to arrive, complete-1 ly swamping the Whitelaw hotel and rooming houses. The night previous lo the game the Howard alumni and! the student body held a big ‘‘get to- j gether” meeting in the Rankin Me-| mortal chapel and the Alpha Phi Alpha and other Greek letter fraterni- j lies held open house to all visiting brothers and friends. Parly Thanksgiving morning the big srowrt began to gather. The Lincoln eleven, who had spent the two prevt >us days at Morgan College in Balti more, arrived, closely followed by the famous under graduates' special of a thousand strong from Philadelphia, led by Lincoln’s Old Guard, a society if graduates from that school of years lack. Pollard Aot With Team With Lincoln's eleven was Paul Robeson, former star end on the Rutgers eleven, now a student in the law schools of Columbia University, and William Mathews, assistant Unit ed State* district attorney of Boston during the republican administration, and himself a football player of note from Harvard. Both men were en gaged in a last minute effort on the part of the Lincoln alumni to stop Howard. Pollard, who has been coaching Lincoln for the past two years, did not put in an appearance. GAme a Social Affair The game itself was one of the most brilliant social events it) the history of colored football. Never before has such a crowd of women and men gath ered to see any two teams play, and it might be said too much credit can not be given Dr. Emmett J. Scott, secretary-treasurer of Howard Uni versity, who is wholely responsible for this remarkable turnout. In days gone by this annual struggle between the two universities has been played on Howard’s campus, when that school acted as host, but Dr. Scott saw clearly that the grounds there were not large enough and sought the use of the Washington American league park and after several refusals on the part of the management, he finally succeeded in winning over those in charge to his way of thinking and the park was turned over to him for the day’s game. More Credit for Dr. Scott Then came the real test. Two of the biggest Washington universities wanted the park for the same after noon and every pressure was brought to bear to get it. Dr. Scott again set (Continued on Page Seven i ssoHnNSKI A record-breaking crowd at the popular Booker T. Washington Theatre, St. Louis, Mo. Do you recognize anybody in this group?