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’ I t”°01 1 T7HE MONITOR i 1 ift-To°! t A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS i t THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor • I ____ _ _-_____ - ■ ■ ■ — $2.00 a Year 5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1921. Vo1 '1 No' 49 Whole No 309 ' _________ SCHOOL CHILDREN COMPETE FOR HONORS I Splendid Showing Made By Colored American Youths in Athletic Contests Staged On Ak-Sar-Gen Field For Pupils of Greater Omaha Public Schools And Witnessed by 15,000 Enthusiastic Cheering Spectatn-s. Two Thousand Pupils Participate in Calesthenic Bril’ ' ---- RACE ATHLE1> SECURE HICH SCORES I Glover of Howard Kennedy; O. McRaven and Ounn of Long and Pollard of Webster, Wi» > of Firsts. Howard Kenne dy's Boys’ Relay Team.Glovei, ,ims, Wright and Smith Wins First in Its Class; Saunders School Wins City Championship With 24 Points; Howaid Kennedy Stands Second With 19 Points And Long Third. | A crowd estimated at between I fJ5,000 and 18,000 witnessed the ex ^ ■/ citing events of the great World | Herald Public School Field Meet on f Ak-Sar-Ben field last Friday after ' noon and cheered the young contest ants striving for honors for their res pective schools. The forty-six grade schools of greater Omaha participat ed. It was an inspiring ocular dem on-tration of the work of true Amrr iyinization which i: being carried on * in the schools of this city where chil den of all races and nationalities are taught in common, play together, and | compete with one another. Perhaps I no more inspiring sight was ever witnessed in Omaha than the cales thtnic. drill given by 2,600 eighth grad*' pupils. This meet was unique in that girls , as well as hoys competed and the -<rbl« mode a great showing. Saun -chool won the* championship l ttbphy by the work of the girls, k There were five colored girls on the } shuttle relay team of Howard Ken nedy school, the school that won the \ second grand trophy. Thfey were: J Charlotte Maddox, Sibyl Merrifield, Li. F.mrr.a Wilholte, Ina Williams and R liuth Hickman, the other members of P the team being Gwendolyn Kcster, B Bernice Rowler, Florence Jorgensen, M f Alice Burnell and F.lsie Furstenberg. y ' Thi.- team won third place, Saunders II I'**n*r first and Garfield, second. This B "gave Howard Kennedy one of the I two points scored by girls for that ML school, the other is-ing scored by a ^B colored girl. Evelyn Battles, who was If third in the 60 yeard dash, Lauretta h Toy <if Dundee, being first, and Edith |> Kennedy of Saunders second. yv Five membcis of the boys’ shuttle f | relay team of Howard Kennedy were They were Eugene Brown, | * (jporr' Macklrn, Eddie Sander*, L l,eonard McGowan and Clyde Framp R ton; the,other boys lieing John Big |f ley, Herman Aliendroth. David Mit m tletran. Harry Schropp and Elmer Y Miller. This team won second, due il to the great spurt of Glover, who l -hot like an 4 row past the fleet-foot I KOVAL RIGHTS VOTED FOR NEGRO ST I DENT Omission From Alphabetical List in Scat Assignments Repudiated by < lassmen. Students in the political science de partment at the University of Minne sota are not willing to have racial dis tinctions made in classes. They re pudiated the action of Professor Jer I emial Young, who omitted the name I of Willard Morrow, a "Negro student, * when he was assigning seats in alpha I betical order, by voting to permit il Morrow to take his place in alphabet Ijcal sequence with the other students. Professor Young told Morrow lie could take a seat at either side or in the rear of the room. Morrow pro tested that he should be allowed to be seated as the others, threatening to I* quit the class. He appealed'to his fel Ly low students. [ Professor Young at first refused to ft accede, but the matter was put to a LJI vote and he students decided that ST Morrow should be seated by alphabet B ical sequence. Bf (The Minneapolis Journal.) ■ H AMPTON INSTITUTE P SUMMER SCHOOL qL* Hampton, June 2.—Under the aus I f pices of the State Board of Educa I tion, a six-weeks Summer Session for 1J Teachers will lie held at Hampton Institute from June 20 through to July 29. Dr. George P. Proenix, vice y principal of Hampton Institute, will J lie the director. The instructional staff will include i thirty-seven men and women, who will give fifty-two courses, which will follow, to a greater extent than L j ever before, the program laid down by the State Board of Education, of k Virginia, for thoae who are working * for Elementary Professional Certifi A cates or Special High School Certlfi j|' cates. ed Hansen of Windsor. S a under 4 was first and Windsor third. How ard Kennedy’s relay team consisting of Cornelius Glover, John Sims, Chas. Wright and David Smith, all colored, won first in the 440 yard relay. In the shuttle race 460 boys and 460 girts competed. The shuttle is a small stick which each runner car ries fifty yards und passes to his team mate who carries ft to the next team mate and so hack and forth until it passes to the last runner. Up until the girls’ shuttle race Long school led, having sixteen points all won bv colored boys, three firsts and one third. Warren Oneal won first in the quarter mile run, Wade McRaven. first in the half mile run; Edward Dunn, first in the stand ing broad jump and Russell Billings ley, third in the 220 yard dash. This school won the third grand trophy. This is the showing made by How ard Kennedy’s athletes; (Cornelius Glover, first in 220 yard dash; boys’ relay team, first in 400 yard relay; Clyde Frampton, second, in running, high jump; Charles Wright, third hi 100 yard dash; Evelyn Battles, third, in girls 50 yard dash; boys’ shuttle relay, second; girls’ shuttle relay, third. Kenneth Pollard of Webster was first in the 50 yard dash, thus win ning 5 of the 6 points srored by that school. Every contestant did his or her level best to bring victory to his or her school. The best of good will prevailed and there was not a single: MONITOR THREE incident or accident to mar the pleas ure of the day. In scoring a first counts .5 points; ! a second 3 and a third 1. The following is the standing of the winning schools: (Championship. trophy, Saunders, 24 points; Second! grand trophy. Howard Kennedy, 19 points; third grand trophy, I-ong, 16 points. Trophy for hoys, Howard Kennedy, 17 points; trophy for girls. I Saunders, 19 points. AWARDED DENMARK SCHOLARSHIP New York, June 2.-—Edward P. Fra zier. a student at the School of Social Work, who has been doing field work at the office of the New York Urban League, has just been awarded a schol arship to the University at Denmark Frazier, who is a graduate of How ard and Clark Universities, won the scholarship over a large number of contestants and will sail shortly to be gin studies. He will specialize in eo-' operative organization—studying its growth and development in Europe. EX-GOVERNOR GAITS HELD FOR PEONAGE Pensacola, Fla., June 2.—Rev. Sid ney J. Catts, former governor of Flor ida, was indicted for peonage heie. May 18, by a federal grand jury. The indictment charges that Catts, after obtaining pardons for two convicts, forced them to work on one of his farms in west Florida. The former governor recently was indicted by the Bradford county grand jury for ac cepting $700 for a pardon for a pris oner serving a life term for murder. COMMUNITY SINGING CLASS Mrs. Florentine F. Pinkston is or ganizing a class of children for com munity singing. All children of the city are cordially invited to become members of this great community chorus. The mieeting for organiza tion and practice will be held Sunday afternoon, June 12, at St. Philip’s Episcopal church, 1121 North Twen ty-first street. Subsequent meetings will probably he held elsewhere. Please remember the date, Sunday, June 12, at 2:30 p. m. This is an excellent opportunity for the chil dren of the city to' receive training I under Mrs. Pinkston before she leaves for Paris, France, for a course of advanced study in music. Talk it up and get out all the children you 'can June 12. RT. REV. HENRY B. PARKS, I). I). Bishop of the Fifth Episcopal District Who Will Speak at St. John’s A. M. E. Church, Sunday. .-..a—Lii-L. Monitor Starts Relief Fund for Tulsa Riot Victims THE Monitor publishes no account of the Tulsa horror this week, because we can add nothing to the accounts published in the daily press. A wire to our special correspondent fpr exact facts could not be delivered, the Western Union reporting that the address of our correspondent was in the devastated district and could not be found. Next week we hope to be able to publish our own story of the shameful affair. In the meanwhile The Monitor desires to call the attention of our readers to the fact, that thousands of our brethren have lost their all and are desti tute in that mob ridden city. They will need help. The Monitor will therefore gladly receive, acknowledge and forward to the Tul sa Chamber of Commerce or some suitable and authorized Relief Agency among our own race in Tulsa, contributions, large or small, for the relief of the victims of the riot. Here is an oppor tunity for us to show our sympathy for our suffering brethren in a substantial way. The Monitor starts the Tulsa Relief Fund with $10. Send in your contributions: MONITOR TULSA RELIEF FUND. Monitor Publishing Company ... $10.00 ■ .—.F»"li!imi . (.RADI ATES FROM WESTERN UNIVERSITY Among the Omaha stuuents who are to be graduated this week from the Western University, Quindaro, Kansas, are Maude Banks, Aline Bentley, Lovetta Bush, Wilia May 1'ianklin, Hattie Gaston, Rcscoe Howard, Hubert (Hover and Hazell Roulette. Most of the young ladies have taken the academic course. Miss Bush is from the Commercial depart ment; Roscoe Howard from the ag ricultural and Hubert Glover from the carpentry course. These young people are expected home Saturday. ATTEND CLASS BANQUET Gladys Brown, William Chambers and James Lewis, members of the1 graduating class of Central High ! school, attended the senior class ban quet at the Country Club Tuesday, night and report a good time. James Lewis has the commission of captain in the High school cadets, the high est rank ever held by a colored stu dent at Central High. DIAMOND THEATRE SOLD By a ileal which was consumated Friday evening, the 27th, the Dia mond Theatre, located on Lake St,, between 24th and 25th, was trans ferred to Mr. A. Melciior, the propri etor of the Franklin Theatre. Mr. and Mrs. Marten Pedersen, the for mer owners of the Diamond Theatre left the city Sunday morning for North Platte, Nebraska, where they have purchased a ranch of sixteen hundred acres of land. They will make their home there in the future. They will engage in agriculture and stock raising. The people of Omaha will regret very much to miss Mr. and Mrs. Ped ersen from their midst. They have, biten the fearless champions of right and justice toward all races ',4ince they have been in Omaha. The new management under the proprietorship of Mr. A. Melcf|*r. promises to be equally as fair to the patrons of the Diamond, and sincere-, ly ask their continued patronage to the shows, which they will endeavor to ni(ike equally as good as those of their predecessors. s :• The Monitor reaches the Colored S people of Omaha and Nebraska and J has a wide circulation in every state S in the union. j: :j It has taken Six Years to build up i j: this circulation and we are still grow- J \ ing \ ;j Merchants who desire to reach the £ j best buyers in the community use :j The Monitor. ^ i.V.VAV-V.VAV^AVAV.V.V/.'.V.VMV.VWAV/AV.V^ BOMB-THROWERS ARRESTED Men Who Recently Damaged Prop erty of Oscar DePriest Alleged To Be In Clutches of Law,—Are Be lieved to Be Agents of Higher Ups Who Would Intimidate Property Owners. CHICAGO, ILL., June 2.—The per petrators of bomb outrages on the homes of Negro citizens are in the clutches of the law. At least this is tne opinion of numbers of colored and white people who have been watching the developments of the campaign recently launched to cap ture the persons and their backers who have exercised a reign of bomb terror for the past several years thioughout the city. Andrew Kerr, a member of a local union labor organization, was arrest ed in the early part of the week as a bomb suspect. Mr. Kerr, feeling that the police had the goods on him. promptly began to talk with the re sult that within a few hours following his confession the police had in their net the man who bombed the home of ex-Alderman Oscar DePriest as well as another number who are alleged to have been the principals in a large number of instances of labor disputes in which the bomb was used as an in strument of quite ungentle persua. sion. It was not long after the arrests that rumors began to fly around that the Hyde Park Improvement Associ ation, the organization which has been accused of being behind the numerous bombing of colored people’s homes, woukl be hopelessly involved in the matter. Kerr admits that he, with others under arrest, were hired to do bombing. Negroes’ homes were among the places bombed by the ne farious gang. It follows, many peo ple declare, that the gang was hired to bomb the homes of colored people by parties who had the money to pay for the work. It is definitely known that the Hyde Park anti-Negro asso ciation possessed a fund acknowledged by its members of more than $200,000 with which to prosecute a campaign to crowd out and prevent the occupa tion of certain territory by colored families. In the DePriest bombing Kerr flatly declares that he and his companions were hired to do tHe job because of their expert knowledge of the game of bombing. Up to the present he has declined to tell who w-ere the parties behind him in this particular instance. The police express the opinion that he is not through talking. That whep he becomes rtiard pressed he will then open his mouth very wide and tell all he knows about the recent bombings. Then the fur is expected to fly with a vengeance. Ir the opinions of the people who have been alert to follow all the clues that have been unearthed within the past year are w-orth any thing, the group of associations who have been busy pushing a vigorous anti-Negro propaganda in our city have good reason to quake -w-ith fear. Two gangs of expert bombers are under arrest. It is now- confidently expected that w-ithin a few days that the hackers of these toughs and crim inals will also be in the toils. In the meantime a group of colored men are adding to a defense fund for the pur pose of bringing the backers to jus tice and thereby end the reign of bombing terror which has caused so much unrest among the respectable colored people in the great city of Chicago. FUNERAL OF MRS CARRIE L- BELL The funeral of Mrs. Carrie L. Bell was held Monday morning at 10 o’clock from the Church of St. -Phil ip the Deacon with Requiem Mass celebrated by Fr. John Albert Wil liams. Interment was in the family lot at Mt. Hope cemetery beside the body- of her husband who passed away eight years ago. The pall bearers were Messrs. C. H. Hicks, Henry W. Black, Philip Letcher, May. nard L. Wilson. John H. Crawford and John Norman. WILL BE EXPELLED FROM REALTORS Chicago, III., June 2.—Any real es tate dealer who sells Negros property in streets or avenues w-here there are only white owners will lx* expelled from the Chicago Real Estate Board. This is the edict recently issued at a meeting of its executive committee, and afterwards indorsed and ^adopted by the full board membership. THE N. A C P. ELECTS CONVENTION DELEGATES The N. A. A C. P. met at Zion Baptist church last Sunday afternoon and elected Mrs. J. Alice Stewart and Henry W. Black, delegates to the Na tional convention which convenes in Detroit, Mich., June 26th. The next meeting will be held Sun day afternoon at 4 o’clock at thb churcfi of St. Philip the Deacon Unfailing Help.—Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart; wait, I say, on the Lord.—Psalm 27:14. ANOTHER HEARING FOR 24thJNFANTRY Soldiers Serving Prison Terms For Alleged Rioting at Houston Several Years Ago Growing Out of Resented Brutality To wards Woman by Police Officer Sparks And The Wounding of Corporal Baltimore To Be Given Another Day in Court. ATTORNEYS SUCCEED IN SECURING APPEAL Judge John Pollock Signs Order Allowing Appeal To Circuit Court of Appeals, Which Will Probably Be Argued at Denver at September Term.—Hurried Conviction of Soldiers Deeply Stirred Race Almost To Point of Rebellion.—Fight For Im prisoned Men Has Never Ceased. LEAVENWORTH, Kansas, June 2. —Efforts have been renewed here to release the men of the Twenty-fourth Infantry who are confined in the Federal Penitentiary here A petition for executive clemency was forwarded to President Harding through Secretary .of War Weeks, and T. W. Bell, one of the attorneys for the men has secured the signa ture of Judge John Pollock to an order allowing an appeal to the Cir cuit Court of Appeals. This appeal will probably be heard next Septem ber before the Circuit Court of Ap peals at Denver. The first attempt for freedom on the part of attorneys for the men was unsuccessful. It was in May of last year that an argument for writ of habeas corpus was made be fore Judge Pollock of the United States District Court. The brief in the case recited testimony, affidav its and copies of military orders, es pecially court-martial orders issued at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, where the men were convicted. Convicted Under Special Orders It was the contention of the coun sel that the order of the cout-martial was not in accordance with laws set out in the court-martial manual, that at the time of the riot the men were not doing soldier duty for the Unit ed States and that the United States was not at war. It was alleged too, that the former soldiers were con victed under special orders from headquarters of the Southern Dea partment not regularly ^issued. It was claimed that many of the peti tioners had no right to appeal and that there was no evidence against many of them. After the case was argued and all the briefs were submitted Judge CONDITIONS ARE CORRECTED Decided Improovements ..Are Being Made In Embarrassments Placed Upon Race by Former Administra tion—Postmaster General Hays Rights Flagrant Injustice. (By The Associated "Negro Press.) WASHINGTON, D. C., June 2.— “Moite Business in Politics; more Pol itics in Business.” is the new slogan of the day. Letters are pouring into heads of departments, Senators, Con gressmen and editors of newspapers these days commientin'g on steps be ing taken in behalf of justice for all American citizens; and an equal num ber of protests are coming in demand ing action against segregation and discrimination. The Associated Negro Press expo sure of conditions has created a stir that is bringing direct results. Care, in the extreme, has been taken not to saddle present conditions on the Harding administration. It has been pointed out that the terri ble state of affairs is a legacy of the discountenanced Wilson regime. How ever, Republicans are cautioned to “Beware the Ides of March,” for the reason that discovery has been made that some appointees are slipping in who are seared to the soul with the segregated notions of American cit ienship. In a story a short time ago, it was stated that certain conditions had been discovered in one of the cabi net departments. The matter was taken up by correspondents with the mem tiers of the cabinet and it has been amazingly discovered that the member of the cabinet lias never been permitted to see the communication. His secretary, who was a southerner, has kept the information from him. This secretary, when informed of cer tain conditions by The Associated ' Negro Press, said that it was a mat. tier for the departments to handle within, and not the newspapers and outside public. He was told that there still exists in that department certain segregation conditions, and this secs retary stated that he could not see why there should be any objections. While the matter is being further thrashed out. the name of the partic ular department is not given. Post master General Acts. A flagrant case is that of Miss Zel ma A. Robinson, a young woman who was certified for a position in the I Postoffice Department. At the time Pollock took it under advisement, and after making a thorough review of the briefs upon his return from an extended vacation the decision was handed down last December. The writ was denied, but Judge Pol lock signed the order allowing an ap peal. The Houtson riot occurred August 23, 1917. It is claimed that while placing a colored woman under ar rest Officer Sparks (white) slapped her in tne face. Private Alonzo Ed wards, attempted to protect the wom an. and as a result was promptly beaten up and placed under arrest by Sparks. About 2 o’clock p. m. of the same day Corporal Charles Baltimoore, Company I, Twenty-fourty Infantry, a member of the military nolice, ap proached Officer Sparks and Officer Daniels, engaging Sparks in conver sation relative to the arrest of Eel wards Sparks struck Baltimore over the head with a pistol. Baltimore then ran. Sparks fired three shots and pur sued Baltimore. When he caught up with him he struck him several blows on the head with his pistol and ar rested him. The news of that incident quickly reached the camp at the Twenty fourth Infantry, where the report that Corporal Baltimoore had been killed served to intensify; the feelings of the soldiers against the city po licemen. As a result of the court-martial proceedings several soldiers were ex ecuted. Nineteen or more were sen tenced to life imprisonment. Others received short sentences, served at the disciplinary barracks of Fort Leavenworth. Only a few were ac quitted. Sixty-three still remain in prison. she was in Philadelphia and was tele graphed. She came immediately to Washington and reported for duty. When she reported, she was told, in the same old way. that the place had been filled. Returning to the Commis sion, she was told that there were at least twenty-five places that had not been filled. The matter was taken up with the committee on Legislative Re. lief, and Mrs. M. L. Grey and a group of women. They in turn took the sub ject up direct with Postmaster Gen eral Hays. He stated that he had heard of certain discrimination in the department, but had not had an opportunity to go at the bottom. But, he assumed the Committee, there must be no discrimination in Post Office Civil Service. He personally investigated M:<ss (Robinson’s dase< and she was assigned to the place that had been filled, and is now working. the MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE. Tlie Alliance met Tuesday at the usual hour and quite well attended. The reports from the fields show a considerable falling off in church at tendance and church finance due pre sumably to the onset of real summer. Observation of the attitude of most religious bodies towards devotedness in high temperatures convince one that /the popular belief; concerning the temperature of the abode of Lu cifer is the correct one. By unanimous vote next Tuesday is to be the last meeting of the Al liance till next Fall and will be mark ed by a picnic given at Elmwood I ark. An address will be delivered by Rev. H. R. McMullen, the new pas tor of Mt. Morrah Baptist church and probably one by Rev. H. B. Parks, D. D. Bishop for the Episcopal Dis trict of the A. M. E. church. by way of announcements the Methodists and Presbyterians will | combine in a gamme of baseball with i the Baptists. While this picnic is principally for the Alliance, any families of the churches are welcome to bring their baskets and spread with us. Weak minds make treaties with the passions they cannot overcome, and try to purchase happiness at the expense of principle.—Longfellow. LSLOGAN: “The Monitor In Every Home And Fll Help Put It There”