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Hr ( % 'o^ i \ Vo. yhe M.onItOR —™ A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS THE REV. JOHN ALBERT 11 .LI AMS, Editor * $2.00 a Year 5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, TUNE 30th. 1922 Vol. VII—No. 52—Whole Number 364 COLORED PEOPLE BARRED FROM WORK IN HOTELS THE ADVAHCEMEHT ASSOCIfl ION HOLDS GREAT MEETIHG Thirteenth Annual Session National \ssociation for the Advancement of Colored People Pilled With Intereat. SILENT PARADE A FEATURE lb-legates Present from Thirty States South Being Well Represented— Not a hie Persons Deliver Addresses. Newark, N. J. June 30.—With thir ty states, including a dozen states of the South represented, delegates to the Thireenth Annual Conference of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People met here during the week of June 18-23. The conference was opened with a ilent parade through the down-town section of Newark ami past the City Hall, in front of which a reviewing j stand had been erected. One group j of young boys carried a banner in-' -cribed: “We Are Fifteen Years Old. f l'.wv of Our Age Was Roasted Alive, Recently." Other banners contained i the -Inguns: “Lynch Law Must Go’', L • and “Pass the Dyer Anti-Lynching ' \ Bill”. Immediately following the parade,! a mas- meeting was held in Newark’s Armory where 3,000 members and. friends of the association were wel comed in behalf of Governor Edwards of New Jersey by Janies Baker, chair man of the state tax commission;! Governor Edwards being unavoidably! absent at an encampment of state militia. Moorfield Storey, national president of the N. A. A. C. P. and former pres ident of the American Bar Assoc ia \ tion, delivered an opening address in which he suggested that Negroes in the South might go on strike if neces Mr. Storey defended the constitution-| -ary, to obtain justice and lilierty. ality of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. Monday, June 18th—Warning to Kepiiniicaiis. On the opening day of the Confer ence. warning wus issued hy the N.: A. A. C. i’. to tlie republican party j that republican senators would be held responsible for a failure to enact the Dyer Hill. James Weldon John on. national secretary, urged colored Americans to vote for men and meas-1 ' ure independent of party lines in I the fall elections. T. G. Nutter, col ored member of the West Virginia legislature, told of the successful fight to have an anti-lynching law en acted in his state. j Senator Joseph S. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey sent the following tele ^ gram which was read at the night meeting, definitely committing him self to support and to vote for the Dyer Hill: “1 am doing everything I can to have the Dyer Anti-lynching Bill reported by the Senate Commit tee against determined opposi tion. I have seen Senator Ster ling, a member of the sub-rom mittee, several times and urged him to act immediately. I believe in the legislation and it must and will lie enacted. Civilization and humanity demand it. It is jus tice long delayed. You may count on my continued effort until it is j passed,” Another visitor and speaker at this session was Robert T. Kerlin, author I of “The Voice of the Negro.” former professor of English at Virginia Mili tary Institute. Tuesday, June 20th—Women’s Day. Culminating in the award or tne Spingam modal to Mrs. Mary B. I al bert, the first woman to receive it and eighth medallist, the night session was devoted to demands for full citizen thip rights for colored women. With Mi Aildie W. Hunton presiding, the following women addressed the con fWenco: Bailie Q. Brown of Ohio, president of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs; K1 la Rush Murray of New York; Clara L. l.addey of New Jersey, representing the Women’s Peace Party; Mrs. Nathan Kussy, representing the National Council of Jewish Women; Mrs. Flor ence Halsey, representing the New Jersey League of Women Voters, and ji Mrs. H. N. Simmons, representing the New Jersey Federation of Wom "k en’s Clubs. The Spingam medal was presented A to Mrs. Mary B. Talbert, former pres | Blent of the National Association of ft Colored Women, in recognition of her if having raised a fund to preserve tin : home of Frederick Duoglass as a na N, tional memorial. Wednesday, June 21st—Mr. Dyer Speaks. The day sessions were devoted to the value of the press and of publicity and two editors addressed the con ference. Royal J. Davis of the edi torial staff of the New York Evening Post urged colored Americans to be come acquainted with editors. Nahum D. Brascher of Chicago, president of the Associated Negro Press, told of the work of his organization in news distribution. Representative Dyer's Speech. Representative Dyer was welcomed with cheers in Bethany Baptist church by an audience crowding the church to the doors. He delivered a stirring address in which he urged upon col ored people the following principles: 1. That colored Americans should work together and not fight among themselves. “If there is a pastor of one of your churches who will not work with you and for you,” said Representative Dyer, "you ought to turn him out.' 2. That colored Americans should vote irrespective of party, for men and issues, and that senators should be made to know the republican party would be held responsible for failure to enact the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. .*!. That the membership of the N. A. A. C. P. should be raised to one million. “You go back,” said Mr. Dyer, “and tell the colored people, I said the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is en titled to credit for the passage of the Anti-Lynching Bill in the House of Representatives.” Mr. Dyer said that, “ those who get | up and snort about the unconstitu tionulity of the bill are those who have prejudice in their hearts. “This is not a race issue. This is a question involving the honor of the republic. The senate of the United States is republican and unless it obeys the mandate to protect human life from mobs, those in control of the republicans are entitled to and deserve the condemnation of the peo ple of America.” At this meeting, T. G. Nutter of the West Virginia legislature gave a rousing description of the West Vir ginia anti-lynching law and urged col ored Americans to organize for the fighting of their own battles. Capt. Arthur B. Spingam, charrnan of the , association's legal committee, then spoke. Thursday, June 22nd—Boat ludc. Delegates and friends of the N. A. A. C. I’, went on a day's Imat ride in the harbor of New York and up the iiudson river on the steamship Poca hontas. The evening session was devoted to “The Negro and the* Making of Public Opinion,” Dr. Ernest H. Gruen ing, managing editor of The Nation, and Kelly Miller, dean of the Junior college, Howard University, making addresses. A dramatic story of the burning at stake of three Negroes, probably in nocent, in Kirvin, Texas, on May 7, was told by Daniel Kelly, white Texan from Waco, who made the investiga tion for the N. A. A. C. P. Friday, June 23rd—Closing Day. The Conference heard reports and adopted final resolutions, hearing able addresses at the night session by Dr. A. A. Goldenweiser of the New School for Social Research, Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, editor of the Crisis, and William Pickens, field secretary of the N. A. A. C. P. "Vote for Bunce Once" —Adv. SHOOTS tYIKK AM* COMMITS SUICIDE Twenly-Sevelilli and l.ake Street the Scene of a Double Tragedy Fast Thursday Afternoon. Ijist Thursday afternoon Twenty Seventh and Fake Street was the scene of a tragedy, when Anson Knight, of 2402 North 27th Avenue, whose wife was about to sue him fot a divorce for cruelty, was fatally shot by him. Knight met his wife, who was walk ing with her mother, on North Twenty Seventh street He asked her about the proposed divorce proceedings. She told him that her mind wiib made up to go through with it. Knight then drew a gun. His wife then ran tip om the porch of Mr. Pirro on North Twenty-eeventh street, where she was shot three times by Knight, the wounds being In her left side, arm and hip. Going to Twenty-seventh and Ijtke streets Knight shot himself, dying instantly. Mrs. Knight was rushed to the Ford Ulster hospital, where she died Friday morning. Mrs. Knight’s body was taken to the Silas Johnson Western Funeral Home, and that of her husband to Jones & Go's, undertaking establishment. Hei funeral was held from the Seventh Day Adventist church Monday. In terment at Forest Fawn. “Vote for Bunce Once” —Adv. VICTIMS OF TEXAS MOB, IT SEEMS WERE INNOCENT Special Investigator Seal by N. A. A. ('. I'. Makes Ills lleporl Showing Peculiar .Method of Fixing Crime on Negroes GIRL'S MURDER DUE TO FEDD Evidence Indicates Thai White Men, Not Negroes Horned at Slake, Were Guilty of Assault on the Girl. New York, June 30.—Three men were burned at the stake at Kirwin, Texas, May 7th and the bodies of two others were found tilled with shot ana hanging to a tree, a day or two later, on suspicion of having assaulted and murdered a seventeen year old school girl, Knla Ausley, whose mutilated body was found in a thicket not far from her home. The press dispatches said that Snap Curley, colored, under torture,' had confessed to the crime, implicating two others, who died with hymns on their lips and protest ing their innocence. The sheriff, it is alleged, publicly stated at that time his doubt of the guilt of two of the men. Tracks found around the body of the girl were fitted to the shoes of two white men who were arrested but released after the “confession” and lynching of the colored. The National Association tor the | Advancement of Colored People, ac- j cording to its custom, sent an inves t.gator to the Held. He was a white ( Texan. Had they known his errand they would have made short shrift of him. Mr. Kelly has submitted his report which gives the following facts: ‘ A white land owner, John King by name, owns several farms in this back woods community, where black and white alike, with few exceptions, are illiterate. He had as neighbors a white family by the name of Prowell. Between the family of John King, grandfather of Knla Ausley, and, the Prowells, there had been a hitter feud of long standing, beginning with King's accusing the ProwelP's of cat tle stealing. As a result of this feud King's son was maimed and two of the I’rowells were driven from the county. Permission was recently asked by one of the Pro wells to return. King of fered him “six feet of ground.” The Prowells swore vengeance. Knla Ausley, an orphan, was Ihe apple of her grandfather’s eye. She lode daily to school pust a thicket some distance from home. One day In May she was late reaching home. A colored man found her horse neat the thicket and took it home. Search was made for the girl. Her body was found In the thicket with knife wounds in, the abdomen, but the physician found no evidence of rape. Prom the thicket where the girl’s body was found foot tracks led to the Prowell’B, and the two Prowell boys disappeared while the posse was hunting for the perpetrators of the V '. n: ■ rr?i 11 itjtill Nebraska Civil Rights Bill Chapter Thirteen of the Revised Statutes of Nebraska, Civil Rights. Enacted in 1893. Sec. 1. Civil rights of persons. All persons within this state shall l>e entitled to a full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advan tages, facilities and privileges of inns, restaurants, public conveyances, barber shops, theatres and other places of amusement; subject only to the I conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to every person. Sec. 2. Penalty for Violation of Preceding Section. Any person who shall violate the foregoing section by denying to any person, except for reasons of law applicable to all persons, the full enjoyment of any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges enumerated in the foregoing section, or by aiding or inciting such denials, shall for each offense be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, and pay the costs of the prosecution. “The original act was held valid as to citizens; barber shops can not discriminate against persons on account of color. Messenger vs State, 25 Nebr. page 677. N. W. 638.” ; i “A restaurant keeper who refuses to serve a colored person with re freshments in a certain part of his restaurant, for no other reason than that he is colored, is civilly liable, though he offers to serve him by setting a table in amore private part of the house. Ferguson vs Gies, 82 Mich. 358; N. W. 718.” | murder. After the burning of the Negroes ttie Prowells were arrested and later released when they explain ed that they had been making bran mash in the thicket. The truth of their story was not investigated and it was not ascertained whether the bran mash was there or not. John King said he was certain that white men were implicated in the crime. The sentiment of the people gener ally was that an "example” had been made; it was of small consequence whether the Negroes • were guilty or innocent. (IHIMH OK ST. PHILIP THE DEACON Bishop Shayler visited this congre gation last Sunday morning, addressed and catechized the Sunday School and confirmed a class of three adults and preached an instructive sermon. The confirmees were Mrs. Olive (Estil) Richardson, John Joynes and Arthui Burgess McCaw. A good sized congre gation was present. The services next Sunday will be Holy Communion at 7:30 a. in.; mating at 8:30; Church school at 10; choral Eucharist with sermon at 11 o'clock. WHITE SHRINERS OF FLORIDA LOSE CASE AGAINST COLORED Writ of Injunction Restraining tlie I m' of Ihe Name, Insignia and Emblems of Order by Negroes Is Not Nusfaijied IS THE FIRST INTERFERENCE (Associated Negro Press) Jacksonville, Fla., June 30—What has sent a thrill of triumph through the hearts of Attorney 1). W. Perkins, legal adviser for the masonic frater nity of the jurisdiction of the Most Worshipful Grand L'nioir Lodge of the State of Florida, arul ,w,j twenty or more thousands who pay allegiance to that Jurisdiction, handed down in the Circuit Court in the city of Tampa on the 5th of this month, wherein the temple of the Mystic Shriners, white, has sued out a writ of injunction, re straining all colored men in Florida from using the name, insignia, para phernalia, words, cutoms, etc., of the Ancient Arabic Mystic Shriners. Ar guments were made before Judge Rob inson of Tampa, who holds the reputa tion of being one of the fairest judges that ever sat in any court in this state. The case was fought hard, and every assault made by the opposition was smashed by Attorney Perkins, and Judge Robinson gave his decision, de nying the injunction. This is the first time white shrill have attempted to interfere with color ed shriners in this state, and their failure may not he the last of it. At torney Perkins is being lionized over his great victory. The while press quickly published the entrance of this case, but so far not one of them has had a word to say about the denial of the court to grant the injunction. SENATORS CONDEMN RACE PREJUDICE AT AUNAPOLIS _ >1 is) real input, of Jewish Midshipman forced Issue to Attention of the Senate, But the I’rineiple Is Ear licncliing. SENATOR SUNDERLAND SOUND Itegardless of Nationality or Itaee In This Country Every Man Should Stand on an Equality Before the Law. Washington, D. C., June 30.-~Race prejudice in Annapolis has been dealt a terrific blow i,n the senate. It was aimed in defense of the Jews, hut as stated by Senator Sunderland, “every man should stand on an equal ity before the law.” Demands were made In the senate for the punishment of members of the Annapolis naval academy graduating class who are alleged to have perpetrated cruel pranks upon Leonard Kaplan, a Jew ish member of the class. Senator Sunderland, West Virginia, Republican, from whose state Kaplan was appointed, called the senate’s at tention to the incident. He told how the graduating class issued a year hook, in which a page was devoted to each member of the class. A mock I biography of Kaplan appeared in the I last page of the book, which was un numbered and perforated, so that it could be torn out and eliminated eu j lirelv from the record, and his name i was left out of the class roll. Senator Sunderland denounced this j action as “the refinement of cruelty,’’ Senator King (Utah) wanted to know ! whether action had been taken to ! bring to the attention of the author ities in charge of the Annapolis acad- j emv. Senator Sunderland replied that J ] In' intended making further investiga j tiona. Senator McCumber (North Dakota) said he believed the authorities of the academy were responsible for the class j book, and “could not conceive” of a hook to he issued without being under the control of the academy in some form. ‘‘In my opinion,” said Senator Suth erland, ‘‘we should not allow such an offense to pass unnoticed and uncor rected, nor should those guilty be al lowed to go unpunished. If such inci dents are permltled to pass unnoticed then it is better that our navy should be scrapped, because they show liow far we have departed from the tenets and principles which have made our country great and powerful.! “Regardless of nationality, regard _ss of race, In this country every man should stand on an equality be fore the law.” ELITE WHIST CLUB CLOSES SEASON The closing of the season of the Elite Bridge Whist Club at the resi dence of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Hunter, 2012 North 28th street, Monday eve,n ing, was marked by the entertainment of the husbands of the members and a few friends at a very sumptuous dinner, which was served at 7:00 p. m. The men played against the women at whist and the men wan, first prize going to Messrs Seymour and Solomon and the “booby” prize going to Messrs Pryor and Pinkett. This club is composed of some of Omaha’s most prominent matrons, it was their desire to make the eve ning Monday all that the most punc tilious could wish, and they succeed ed finely. The guests are wondering when and how they can return so fine a service. HR. PRICE TERRELL TO HANG OUT SHINGLE Dr. Price Terrell, who graduated in medicine from the Meharry Medical School, Nashville, Tenn., where he ranked among the four highest in bis class, and won an internship, which he declined, has arrived home, much to the joy of his wife and family and many friends. Price graduated from the Omaha high school and from the Creighton school of pharmacy and for some years conducted a drug store on North Twenty-fourth street, which he sold when he decided to study medi cine. He will practice medicine here. The Monitor wishes him success. BETH El. BAPTIST CHURCH NEWS Rev. Thos. A. Taggart, Pastor There were splendid services all day Sunday. Rev. J. A. Burt of Hast ings preached excellent sermons both morning and evening. Prof. G. W. Rogers gave a lecture to the young folks in the afternoon. It was a mas terpiece. There will be a debate be tween the Pilgrim Baptist Church So ciety and Bethel Society next Monday evening at the E. D. C. hall, So. Side 29th and T Street. Everybody wel come. The pastor will preach Sun day morning, subject, "Your ways ana doings are the cause of these things;” evening, “Repent of your sins”. Ev ery member and friend is expected to bring his tything cross with one dol lar Sunday. JEFFERIS SFEAKEK SUNDAY AFTERNOON Congressman Will Address Hie Local Branch of N. A. A. C. P on Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. Congressman A. W. Jefferis, who voted right on the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, will deliver an address on that important measure before the Omaha Branch of the N. A. A. C. P., Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock at St John’s A. M. E. church. This bill is now before the United States Senate and is being bitterly assailed as an invasion of State's rights. It was passed by an overwhelming vote in the House of Representatives some months ago after bitter opposition chiefly from the South. The tariff, merchant marine, soldiers’ bonus, and ail other legisla tion from the colored American’s standpoint is secondary to the ques tion of the suppression of lynching at which the Dyer bill directly aims. The N. A. A. C. P. has been fighting for ten years to secure a federal law against lynching. Congressman Jef feris is an eloquent speaker and a capacity audience is anticipated. The public is invited. LIBERIAN MINISTER RECEIVES LL. D. FROM LINCOLN Lincoln University, Pa., June 30— At the 67th annual commencement of Lincoln University, the board of trus tees conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws upon Solomon Porter Hood, U. S. minister to IJberia. Senator George Wharton Pepper delivered the com mencement address. Degrees were also conferred upon Dr. E. P. Roberts, Rev. A. C. Griggs and Rev. I, N. Mxitnha. GHANIll’S SUCCESSOR IS SENTENCED TO PRISON Amhadbad, Brinsia, June 30—Quer eslii, the nonco-operationist leader in British India who succeeded Mhandas Ghandi when the latter was arrested and imprisoned an charges of sedition, has been sentenced to a year’s rigor ous imprisonment and to pay a fine of 500 nupees, with a further three months’ imprisonment in default of payment. YOUNG GIRL KILLS WHITE RAPIST; FREED Roxboro, N. C., Jane 30—Twelve year-old Marie Lunright, daughter of a prosperous colored merchant here, received a verdict of acquittal here in connection with the killing of G. N. Walker, a white man, here last week. The girl killed the man In self-defense it is allegen, when he attempted to attack her in the rear of her father’s large store. “Vote for Kuncf Once” —Adv. DENIED PRIVILEGE BY ORDER OF CHIEF OF POLICE Colored Men Cannot Be Employed ns Bell Hops, Clerks or Elevator Operators in Hotels or Hoarding Houses “SOCIAL REASONS” IS CLAIM Chief or' Police Moran Says the Order Is Designed to Prevent Race Mixture and Curl) the Social Evil. Tulsa, Okla., June 30—The barring from all hotels and rooming houses in the city of Negro bell hops, clerks and elevator operators was announced by Chief of Police Rees D. Moran Wednesday night. All of the hotels and rooming houses were notified of the order Wednesday night, Moran said, and the larger hotels given a short time to replace the Negroes with white employees. The order is looked upon as being the most far-reaching and one which touches more positions than any other issued under the present police administration. For the first time in Tulsa’s history all of the hotels, from the smallest to the largest have been included in the prohibiting of Negro help. In the past the order has been directed to the rooming houses employing Negro clerks. Hits Two Dig Hotels At the present time only two of the larger hotels employ Negro bell hops and elevator operators. These two are the Hotel Tulsa and the Kaufman Hotel. The Ketchum has employed white hell boys and eleva tor operators for several months. No one thing is the direct cause of the new order, Chief Moran said, but general conditions existent in the hotels and rooming houses where Negro help is employed, made a con tinuance of such a state out of the question, he said. Prohibited by Ordinance “While we can’t control absolutely the social evil, we can at least keep the Negro out of it and prevent a mix ing of the white and black,” Chief Moran said. “'Through a city ordi nance we can forbid the employ of such Negro help and we mean to do It.” That arrests would follow if the or der prohibiting the employing of Ne gro help in these positions was hot followed in the allotted time by the hotel managers and rooming house proprietors was the statement of Chief Moran. While he was not cer tan, he said, that he believed the employer of such help was also liable under the law. THE KOTAL CIKCLE ANNUAL SERMON SUNDAY The Local Circles of The Supreme Royal Circle of Friends of the World will hold their first Annual Thanks giving Services Sunday, July 2, 1922, at Pilgrim Baptist Church on 25th and Hamilton streets at 3 p. m. Rev. Wm. Franklin, pastor of Pilgrim Baptist church, will preach the sermon. Several special musical numbers have been arranged and the Choir will render several special numbers The public is cordially invited to attend and learn something about this great order which is doing more foi our race than any other order or in surance company in the United States. The Executive Committee of the Supreme Royal Circle met only last week and the order having grown be yond expectations last year, both numerically and financially, decided to increase all members’ policies to $300 without additional cost to mem bers and abolishing ALL TAXES. Thereby giving the prolits back to its members in benefits. Members are now paid $7 per week for sickness or accident, $300 at death, a monument placed at their grave, free hospital treatment, medical and surgical attention, room, ,nurse and board. The advantage of a loan and charity department, old folks home and school for orphans of the deceas ed members. After a membership of 90 days policies niay he Increased as high as $1000. Joining fee $3.50, monthly dues $1.25 per month and NO TAXES at all throughout the year. Over 860 members have been added m Omaha in three months. For Infor mation see A. I*. Richmond, Supreme Supervisor, 1516*^ North 24th street. Phone Webster 3567. CIRCULATION MANAGER I. Mr. C. C. McDonald who has worked successfully on the Omaha Bee is now Circulation Munager of The Monitor, Be ready to give your subscription when he calls.