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A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS
THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor
$2.00 a Year 5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10th, 1922 Vol. VII—No. 32 Whole Numfoer 343
LOUISIANA COLORED GIRL AN HEIRESS TO $29,000,000
DYER-VOLSTEAD
ANTI-LYNCHING
BILL PASS'- HOUSE
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Lower House of Nation . 'ature
by Vote of 230 4o 119 At. \ ss
ure AVhith Makes Lyi. Sv.
a letleriil Crime. V
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THREE NEBRASKANS VOTE Y> 7
Congressman Andrews, Jefferis anti
MeLoughlin Vote for the Hill, as
Evan* A’oles ‘‘Present,” and
Reavis is Silent
WASHINGTON, IV C„ Feb. 10.—
As was notetl editorially In the Mon
itor of last week the House of Repre
sentatives, Thursday afternoon. Jan
nary 2fith- declared itself in favor of
the Federal goverment exerting its
authority to free America from the
crime of mob-murder bv passing the
Dyer-Volstead anti-lynching bill by a
vote of 220 to 110. The bill as it was
passed carried certain amendments
introduced by Representative Vol
stead of Minnesota, chairman of the
judiciary committee.
Three of Nebraska’s five represe
tatives voted “Yes” or for the meas
ure. Thev wetp Andrews, Jefferis,
and MeLoughlin. One, Evans, voted
"present.," and one, Reavis, who had
bitterly opposed the bill, refused to
vote.
The hill provides life imprisonment
or lesser penalties for persons who
participate in lynehings and for state,
county and municipal bfficers who fail
through negligence to prevent them.
Th« measurp also stipulates that the
county in which mobs form or kill
anyone shaLl forfeit $10,000 to the
family of the victim.
Except for a few perfecting amend
ments offered bv Chairman Volstead
of the judiciary committee, amend
ment* proposed bv individuals were
rejected. One by Representative
Trench. Republican. Idaho, would
have eliminated the provision requir
ing counties to forfeit $10,000 to
families of moh_victims.
Democratic opponents of the bill,
defeated in attempts to recommit it -
to the judiciary committee and to j
strike out the enacting clause, made j
amendments adopted. They declared i
the principle of the bill could not Ire j
changed by amendments hut express-!
ed confidence that the hill would
never receive Senate approv
Amendments .Accepted
One committee amendment approv
e) removed from the hill the require
ment that counties through which a
mob passed should pay a $10,000 pen
alty.
Another one accepted defined a
mob as three or more persons acting
together to take human life illegally.
The bill originally defined a mob as;
five or more persons anting together.
During debate, which continued in- i
termittently for a month, opponents i
of the measure declared it would he j
an unconstitutional invasion of states’ j
rights and would have a tendency to j
increase rather than decrease l.vnch
ings. They also charged that Repub- )
lirans were supporting the proposal
for political reasons.
Proponents, however, contended j
that states, especially in the south, |
had failed to handle the situation and j
that to afford all races protection j
guaranteed to them under the federal
constitution, it was necessary for the
federal government to take a hand.
Democrats Favoring
Eight Democrats and one Socialist
(Ijondon, New York) voted with 221
Republicans in favor of the measure,
while 17 Republicans joined 102 Dem
ocrats in voting in the opposition.
Democrats who voted in the affirm
ative were Campbell, Pennsylvania;
Oorkran, New York; CullPn, New
York; Gallivan, Massachusetts; John
son, Kentucky; O’Brien, New Jersey;
and Rainey, Illinois.
Republicans who voted in the nega
tive were Barbour, California; Brown
Tennessee; Clouse, Tennessee; Cur
ry, California; Hersey, Maine;
Jones, Pennsylvania; Kelley, Michi
gan; layton, Delaware; Luce, Massa
chusetts; Nolan, California; Parker,
New Jersey; Robertson, Oklahoma,
Sinnott, Oregon; Slemp, Virginia, and
Stafford, Wisconsin.
DOES THIS FORI) CAR DELIVER
BOOZE?
A Ford car which bears the license
certain places located among the col
certain 1 paces located among the col
ored people in the northern section
of Omaha and delivers a jug, which
the Monitor believes to contain rot
gut, reason-destroying booze. At all
events the Monitor knows two men
who frequent one of the places visited
regularly by this car and get crazy
drunk.
N. A. A. C. P. TO OBSERVE ANNI
VERSARY
The N. A. A. C. P. met with the
Congregational church last Sunday
ifftomoon. Quit* an appreciative
audience was at this meeting anil.
several topics of lively interest werej
taken up and discussed.
The Dyer Anti Lynching Bill came
in for its share of the discussion and
everybody seemed to be glad that the
inie had passed the House of Repre
tatlves, and pledged themselves to
•ip carry the fight through the Sen
ate, by sending telegrams and letters
to the Senators from this district
urging them to support the bill.
Next Sunday is the 13th anniver
sary of the Association and the an
niversary of one of the greatest
statesmen that ever trod the earth—
Abraham Lincoln. The day will be
fittingly observed by a monster mass
meeting and specially arranged pro
gram at St. .John A. M. E. church.
At this meeting those who are not so
well informed on the Association and
its .work will have the opportunity of
finding out how, when and where it
functions.
We urge all fraternal bodies to send
telegrams and letters to the Senators
from this district asking their sup
port of the Dyer Anti l.vnching Bill.
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HORC VS Cl.l'B HONORS ORGAN
IZER AND PRESIDENT
The Dorcas Club, of wihoh Mrs.
Mattie Penn was organizer and presi
dent, and Ivy Leaf Court of Calanthe,
No. 138, gave a party last week Wed
nesday at the residence of Mrs. R. C.
| Price, 2411 North Twenty-second
street, complimentary to Mrs. Penn
prior to her departure for St. Louis.
Ivy Leaf Court presented Mrs. Pnen
with $5.00 as a small token of es
teem. Mrs. 1). W. Gooden made the
presentation. Mrs. Little on behalf I
of the Dorcas Club presented her a 1
purse of $10.35; and Mrs. Price in the
name of five friends of long standing,
Mesdanlhs J. H. Russell, Hon. Phan
jnix, Ko> and t'ochran presented Mrs.
I’enn with a beautiful bouquet. A
| luncheon was served.
I W. MANNING DIES
AT KNOXVILLE, TENV.
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i Associated Negro Press.
Knoxville, Tenn. Feb. 10—J. W.
Manning, the only man of color in the j
class of 1881 at Yale University, and j
said to he the only negro ever obtain- j
ing a place on the speaking program [
at a Yale alumni reunion—that of ;
last June—is dead at his home here]
where he has been a teacher and ex- j
ecutivn in the city schools for 40
years. He recently had been recom
mended to President Harding for ap-/
pointment as minister to Haiti and
was recognized as a scholar of
ability.
COLORED INSIRANCH COMPANY
ENJOYING PROSPERITY. *
Associated Negro Press.
Denver, Colo. Feb. 1.—The Su
preme Camp of the American Wood
men of this City announces that ne
gotiations are now pending for enter
ing the states of California, Massachu
setts, North Carolina and New York.
It is the plan of the management
to make one million and a half of
assets its goal for the close of 1922.
CANADA REFUSES
EXTRADITION OF
MATHEW BULLOCK
Colored American Youth Charged
With Inciting Riot at Norlina' N.
C., Is Given Sanctuary by
Canadian Officials
PROVEN EXEMPLARY CITIZEN
Successful Fight is Made Against Re
turning Man to Southern State
Where he Would be Lynched
ns Was His Brother
OTTAWA. February 10th.—Do
minion of Canada will not permit
North Carolina to extradite Mat
thew Bullock, a Negro, charged with
inciting a riot at Norlina, N. C., and
whose extradition the North Carolina
authorities have been fighting for for
some time, nor will Bullork be de
ported to the United States.
The Minister of the Interior end Im
migration, Charles Stewart, made this
announcement on Thursday, January
26th, following a meeting of the Do
minion Cabinet, and lie declared fur
thor that the immigration authorities
at Hamilton, Ontario, would immed
iate) v release Rullock from custody.
He had hern held pending a decision
in the case.
The action of the Cabinet was tak
en after Mr Stewart had made an
analysis of the legal points involved,
and the derision was based on the fact
that Bullock had proved an exemplary
citizen of Ontario, even though he
may have evaded the immigration
laws in coming into the country’. Af
ter the law officers from Nortji Caro
Mpa had made request for Bullock's
extradition, it was found that he had
entered Cannda surreptiously- with
only $4.r> in his possession, while the
immigration law requires $2.r>n as the
minimum sum.
The Rullock case has attracted wide
attention throughout the United
States and Canada, and it was not
believed that Canada would surrender
Bullock to what was certain to be a
summary execution.
The Rev. W. Bullock, of Washing
ton, D. C., father of the young man,
is reported to have joined him at Ham
ilton, Ontario.
A Review of the Case
On January’ 2H, 1921, Bullock's 1 < -
' ear-old brother quarreled with a
white grocer in Norlina, N. C., over
the incorrect change given him when
purchasing some apples. The quar
rel precipitated a race riot, in which
-ovoral persons were shot, none ser
iously. Following the riot, young
Bullork was taken from the county
jail by a mob and lynched.
Fearing that he would meet with
a like fate, Matthew Bullock starter!
North. Knowing Canada’s reputation
for freedom, he sought admission,
which the immigrant officers refused.
Bullork then entered Canadian terri
tory bv crossing the ice at Fort Erie.
He broke Canada's law by this act.
BACHELOR BENEDICTS GIVE
DANCING PARTY
One of the social events of the sea
son was the dancing party given on
Wednesday night at Ben Hur Hall by
the popular Bach-Ben^Club. It was
largely attended and many handsome
gowns were in evidence.
CHARLES YOUNG, COLONEL
The tilling* just relayed from the
Liberian boundary of the passing of
Charles Young deeply stirs the emo
tions. For there was but one Charles
Young and there was*no regular army
colonel like him. Upon his shoulder
straps the colonel’s eagle I wire a spe
cial significance—he had soared to
win it and no other of his kind had
,.ver achieved it. For this man’s skin
was black. He was of a race despiqpd
_an American with the bar sinister
stamped upon him. He was of those
of our countrymen for whom, so some
would have it, there is ordained only
tillage, serfdom, the ranks, and the
private’s uniform, but never the offic
er’s. Distinction and leadership are
not to be theirs; good enough they are
to be thrown into the maelstrom of a
world war by the hundred thousand,
but not good enough to lead Others
or themselves. Was there not a Con
gressman in Washington once who
said of our Union thatit "is not worth
a curse as long as a distinction exists
between Negroes and horses”?
Yet here was this man Charles
Young who had truly recognized such
a distinction, When but a lad he
dared to enter the portals of a West
Point dedicated to the military caste
and the white. For five long year*
he endured ostracism and insult.
Where others had failed he persevered
and triumphed. There was a German
general about that time, when it was
still fashionable to regard the Prus
sians as the ablest sons of Mars, who
visited West Point. “What was it,”
he was asked, "that you liked best
there?” "The best thing I saw was
a black cadet in charge of a section
of artillery'; that IS a soldier.” And
so Charles Young went forth a lieu
tenant to rise by steady steps tn the
two cavalry regiments of the blacks.
He knew Jiow to avoid the pitfalls laid
for him; he understood perfectly tha®
for him there must be a special code
of uprightness and of duty. For him
would be fatal the slip that would
mean glossing laughter fpr one of a
lighter skin. So he bore himself
blamelessly and looked daily in the
eyes of all men without shame, with
out fear, and with a great pride.
He had God-given tact; he knew how
not to offend and yet how to keep a
complete self-respect. He intruded
nowhere, yet he asked all the rights
of his uniform and so compelled the
respect of his associates that, be it
set down to the credit of the army, he
obtained the justice which alone he
asked.
So it came to pass that years after
he had had his baptism of fire he com
manded a battalion of his regiment in
the field in Texas where the black men
were once slaves, and there he messed
for months with his subordinate of
ficers, every one of whom was white.
It was social equality, if you please,
that dreaded scourge to offset which
men are burned and hanged each year
under the Stars and Stripes. But
nothing happened in this organiza
tion; there was no friction, no quar
rol, and no cataclysm. The heavens
above did not fall;' neither did any
inspector-general report aught but!
what was soldierly and good of this
battalion. Perhaps it was because of
this, perhaps because it was known
that of all the smaller volunteer bod
ies of the Spanish war there was
none better than Charles Young's
Ninth Ohio Separate Battalion (with
which no white man served), that
when Charles Young was lieutenant
colonel and our flag went into Mexico
in 1010 he led his entire regular regi
ment after its colonel was disabled.
It was John J. Perilling who com
manded that column sent, fruitlessly,
to capture Villa, "dead or alive,”
and throughout it was Pershing who
kept Charles Young at the head of
| the Tenth Cavalry when it would have
, been easy to put a white colonel over
the black lieutenant-colonel’s head.
Alas, the justice of the serv ice end
ed there—without question because
i Woodrow Wilson, the Southerner,
was President. Soon there were
military medical men found who dis
covered in Charles Young a disease
no civilian doctor could ever detect.
I Just "Vhen the opportunity to show
i what a colored commander could do
1 when the greatest of wars was at)
I hand, came for Charles Young the
retired list with the full rank of col
onel as an undesired sop. Activity
was his, yes, hut it would not do to
|pt this man show what he could he
j in the field. Idleness his spirit could
not brook; this "disabled” man was
ready for service anywhere. To Li
beria, where he had already com
; man led the frontier guard, he went
l once more, and there in the iungle on
a dangerous reconnaissance the jungle
fever claimed him. “Sooner or later,”
[he had said in speaking of it, “it gets
vnu.” So died one who being a Ne
>to, vet distinguished between him
self and a horse and smashed to
smithereens, as haVe the colored
generals in the Franrh armv, the ab
surdity that Negroes can follow onl
if whites lead. It was the black
Tmissnint L’Ouverture and his blacks
who successively defeated the veter
ans of France, of Spain and of Eng
land on the fields of Haiti. There
was the stuff of L’Ouverture in
Charles Young, in the flash of his
eve and the lift of hi hea l.—Tin- Na
tion, Feb. 8tli.
W’POINTED RECORDER
OF DEEDS.
Washington, Fob. 10.—Arthur J.
Froe, West Virginia lawyer has been
chosen recorder of deeds for the
district of Columbia on recommenda
tion of Senator Elkins of West Vir
ginia. Announcement was made after
a conference at the White House be
tween President Harding, Elkins, Rep
resentative Goodykootz and Froe.
ATTORNEY T. W BELL VISITS
CENTRA! HIGH
Attorney T. W. Bell of Leaven
worth, Kansas, who has been a wel
come Omaha visitor for th«j past ten
davs, and has thrilled hi audiences
with his plea for united action and
support for clemency towards our
soldiers in the Federal prison at Leav
enworth, visited Central High School
in company with Miss Ameretta Jack
son, formerly of Leavenworth, but
now a student at Central. Mr. Bell
was pleased with everything he saw
'with one exception, and that is with
the small number of colored boys and
girls attending the school. Said Mr.
| Bell to the Monitor:
‘1 have just returned from a de
lightful visit and inspection of your
splendid Central High school, which
is in charge of an accomplished and
excellent gentleman, J. G. Masters, a
Kamsas man, with the Kansas spirit
of justice and fair play. It's a school
of which all citizens should be justly
proud. Tell my people for me, that I
was highly pleased with everything
I saw, but one; and I am displeased
about that. There are too few black
boys and girls taking advantage of
the splendid opportunities offered
them there. I understand there are
only about thirty colored students.
There ought to Ire at least 200. I
am a firm believer in mixed schools
for true Americanism and in every
community where our people have the
educational advantages they have
here they should make full use of
them. Urge the children to go thru
high school.”
The Monitor agrees with Mr. Bell
that in proportion to our numbers too
few go to high school. He was ad
vised, however, that a comparatively
large number attend the High School
of Commerce, and this helps out the
situation.
Live merchants advertise in live
newspapers; that’s why their business
is not dead.’
SENATORS WHO WILL
DECIDE FATE OF
THE DYER DILL
_
Norris of Nebraska is a Member of
Judiciary Committee Whose Deci
sion is Most Vital to the
Senate’s Action
LET THEM KNOW YOUR FEELING
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National Association Which Has
Championed Measure Confident of
Success if People Will Only
Do Their Duty
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NEW YORK, Feb. 10—The Nation
al Association for the Advancement
of Colored People following the pass
age of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill in
the House of Representatives, has
made public the names of Senators
on the Judiciary Committee, to which
the bill was referred on Jan. 27.
If the Judiciary Committee reports
the Dyer Bill, its enactment by the
Senate is almost certain. The Sen
ators on that committee are:
Knutc Nelson, Minnesota
William P. Dillingham, Vermont
F. P. Brandegee, Connecticutt
W'illiam E. Borah, Idaho
Albert B. Cummins. Iowa
LeBaron B. Colt, Rhode Island
Thos. Sterling, South Dakota
George W. Norris, Nebraska
Richard P. Ernst, Kentucky
S. H. Shortridge, California
Charles A. Culbertson, Texas
Lee S. Overman, North Carolina
James A. Reed. Missouri
Henry F. Ashurst, Arizona
John K. Shields, Tennessee
Thomas J. Walsh. Montana
Despite all predictions to the con
trary, the National Association foi
the Advancement of Colored People
maintained the Dyer Bill would be
passed by ;he House. It has been
passed. 1 i,° Association just as fiim
ly believes that it will he passed by
tA’e United States Senate if every man
j and woman who wants it enacted lets
| the members of the Senate Judiciary
Committee know of the tremendous
public sentiment for it.
HOUSE BUILT BY COLORED
MAN IS 139 YEARS OLD. I
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■ Associated Negro Press.
Front Royal- Va., Feb. 1.—What
is believed to be one of the oldest
frime houses still standing and
occupied in this part of the country
is the small house on the Gordon es
tate directly opposite William North’s
store about a mile beyond Huntley
Postoffice on the Flint Hill road in
Rappahannock county. According to
Jim Williams, who now' lives in the
house, the building was erected by a
colored man by the name of Isaac
Russell more than 139 years ago.
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OPENS NEW BARBER SHOP
John H. Russell has opened a neat
three chair barber shop, known as
the Central, at the corner of Twen
tieth and Cuming Street. It is most
attractively equipped. Mr. Russell
and his efficient assistant, T. A. Ed
wards, both pleasant and popular gen
tlemen, as well as skilled workmen,
are always on hand to take care of
their large and growing patronage.
COLLEGE HEADS MEET |
TO RAISE STANDARDS.
Nashville, Tennessee, Feb. 4.—
Heads of colleges and other educators
met with representatives of the Na
tional Medical Association here re
cently to consider how to raise and j
maintain higher standards of educa-'
tion and with particular reference to |
the study of medicine. The meeting!
was held under the auspices of the j
Commission on Medical Education foj
Negroes.
Sixty persons, some of National
prominence, were in attendance at the
sessions, which were held at Meharry j
Medical College; Dr. Green of the
National Medical Association presid
ing. Among the speakers were Pres
ident Hope of Moorehouse College.
Dean Johnson of Lincoln University,
President Durkee of Howard' Presi
dent McKenzie of Fiske, and Dr.
Claxton, former United States Com
missioner of Education. The latter
urged the same standards of educa
tion for both Negro and white col
leges, and emphasized the fact that
the elementary and secondary work
must also be improved.
GETS PENSION FROM
NORTH CAROLINA
Raleigh, N. C., Feb. ”.-—Aunt Jane
Robertson, a 91-year-old colored j
woman of this city, is the only
woman of her race to be voted a pen- [
sion and to have her name placed on j
the Confederate pension roll by the j
general assembly of North Carolina.
Her husband was killed at the bat
tie of Manassas.
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I N. Y. NATION CALLS
DYER BILL PASSAGE
GREAT ACHIEVEMENT i
The New York Nation, one of the
oldest liberal publications of the j
United States, in its issue of Feb. 8|
rails the passage of the Dyer Anti-!
Lynching Rill “the most important
legal step ever taken toward ending
our peculiarly national disgrace.” The
entire editorial paragraph in the
Nation reads a^s follows:
“The passage of the Dyer Anti
Lynching bill in the House of Repre
sentatives by the large majority of
230 to 119 is an achievement. Every
American should derive distinct sat
isfaction from this, the most impor
tant legal step ever taken toward end- |
ing our peculiarly national disgrace.
For this accomplishment the Nation- ;
al Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, which for years has |
labored to arouse the American con- j
science about lynchings and to crys
tallize public sentiment into effective
legislation' deserves full credit. But'
the fight is not yet won; the bill still
has to pass the Senate. Those who
feel the sting when Europeans ask:
‘Do you really mean that crowds gath
er to see men burned alive in Amer
ica?’ should give the National Asso
ciation unstinted support until the bill !
not only passes the Senate and be- |
comes a law, but is enforced.”
Those who wish to act in accord
ance with the suggestion of the Na
tion, which for more than fifty years
has championed the cause of colored
Americans, may send donations for
the Anti-Lynching Fund of the N. A.
A. C. P. to J. E. Spingarn, Treasurer,
70 Fifth Avenue, New York. Dona
tions of one dollar up will be wel
comed.
TURNER W. BELL
Well-known Attorney of Leavenworth, Kansas, and a recent
Omaha visitor, who is fighting for the freedom of 61 Boldiers im
prisoned for Houston, Texas, riot, August 23, 1917.
COLORED WOMAN •
BECOMES HEIRESS
TO MANY MILLIONS
Courts of Louisiana Favorably Decide
Claim of Lillian Turner to Valuable
Land, Oil Wells and Refineries
After Long Contest
WEALTH IS ALMOST FABULOUS
Her Possessions Are Estimated to be
Worth $29,000,000. Which Will
Make Her one of the Richest
Women in the World
HOMER, Im., Feb. 10—Twenty-nine
million dollars in accrued assets, num
erous oil wells, and a big oil refinery
in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, have
all been found by the Louisiana Su
preme Court to be the property of
Miss Lillian Turner colored, as sole
heiress of her mother, Mrs. Lona Mc
Ghee.
Through the decision of the State
Supreme Court last fall Miss Turner
was awarded a rehearing in the case
after an iniunction which prevented
her from obtaining title to her in
heritance at the time. Formerly,
April 11, the third district court of
Claiborne Parish awarded the lands
and .property to the Colored heiress,
the State of Louisiana contesting the
decision and obtaining a rehearing on
the whole case on the grounds of a
contention that Miss Turner was an
illegitimate child of her mother, Mrs.
McGhee.
Another contestant, Mrs. Angelina
Allen, mother of Mrs. McGhee and
grandmother of Miss Turner, began a
contest of the claims of her grand
daughter when oil was discovered on
the otherwise worthless property but
was defeated in both the lower and
higher courts.
The final big battle in the case
came up in the courts at this place
on January 17. There were many
witnesses on both sides, and every
effort was made bv several white per
sons with the assistance of suborned
Negroes to wrest the colored woman’s
enormous holding from her. The ex
cellence of the case jmd the strength
of the claim which was made by the
rightful heiress, though, were of "a
nature to bring to her aid some of
the best legal talent of this section
of the country, with the rare result
that Miss Turner received an absolute
ly fair decision and come into full
and absolute possession of what is
possibly one of the largest fortunes
in the United States owned by a wo
man.
The land upon which oil was found
and which is finally the sole property
of Lillian Turner, was originally a
part of the worn out Louisiana bot
tom land, practically worthless for
farming purpose and only useful as
a place of residence for a few poor
people. At no time until finally its
value went up by leaps and bounds
with the coming in of the first big
gusher, was the land worth at the
outside of more than $6,000. No in
terest was taken in it nor its owners.
The poverty stricken Angelina Allen,
Loma McGhee ond Lillie Turner,
grandmother, mother and daughter
were of no consequence, apparently,
to themselves, their neighbors nor the
community.
No thought was ever taken of any
of the parties to the case. Like many
other farms in the district, the Turn
er farm was in the oil belt. Experi
ments upon it were the same as
thousands of other experiments which
have been conducted and nothing ob
j tained from them excepting hard work
and blasted hopes.
Once it was established, though,
that the oil upon the place was real
oil and that the money to be made
from it was real money, some of the
best legal talent of this section be
came the ardent solicitors for the
favors of the despised three colored
women. No case in the history of
Louisiana has ever attracted more
widespread interest and at this time
no woman in the state is more cor
dially received nor more warmly
thought of than Lillian Turner, wdth
her $29,000,000 golden halo.
POPULAR HEADWAITER LEAVES
OMAHA
Irving W. Gray, one of Omaha’s
most popular and successful head
waiters, left Wednesday for Hot
Springs, Ark., whence, after a brief
visit, he will go to Chicago, where he
expects to enter business. During his
fourteen years residence here, Mr.
Gray has made hosts of friends who
regret his removal. He has served
as headwaiter at the Hotel Loyal, the
Rlackstone, the Athletic Club and the
Brandeis Cafe. He has the reputa
tion of always standing up for the
rights of his men. Mr. Gray- for the
present, at least, will retain his pro
perty interests here.
