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\ A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS
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V $2.00 a Year 5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 16th, 1922 Vol. VII—No. 50 Whole Number 362
VICTIM OF MOB
FILES SUIT FOR
HEAVY DAMAGES
rnrr Driven From Home by Lw
Imm Rand, Members of Which
Recognized, Brings Action
Against Them.
RESTRAINING ORDER DIVER
Petiti«* Recites Revolting Story of
Intimidation and Brutality
Against Prosperous
Citizen.
Atlanta, Ua., June 16—Acting on a
sensational plea filed by Asbury Mc
Cluskey, colored, who lives near Slat
ham, Barrow County, in which he al
leged that he was shot and wounded
by a mob and driven from his home,
Judge Blanton Forteon of Athens,
Saturday granted a temporary tnjunc
tio» restraining Jim Johnson, Mathew
Sttnchcoinb and Ouv Thurmond, whites
who live near Statham, from further
interference or molestation of -
(Huskey. loiter McCluskey, through
his attorney, W. C. Mundy of Atlanta,
filed suit for $.r.0,O00 damages against
, be men and asked permission of the
court to include the names of other
member,, of the tnob as soon as their
name* could be ascertained.
McCluskey alleged in his petition
,hat the mob visited him on the night
„f Mav 5 and said there were fifteen j
i„ the party, all masked. He declared
ll(. recognized Thurmond, Stinehcomb
and Johnson. He said the mob
came to his house and demanded ad- |
mission. On being refused admission
he said the members of the mob shot ;
into the house, broke down his door 1
with an a* shot him In the arm, at- ,
tacked and heat his wife and three ,
minor children and shot twenty-eight
bullets Into the walls of the room. He
said he had been warned to leave that
section and that he did so, being
forced now to live in another county
leaving his crops untended and his j
farm valued at $40,000 going to waste, j
The petition was presented to Judge
F„rtson at Athens, Saturday, by At
torney Mundy, and the temporary re
straining order was at once granted.
Attorney Mundy then went to Winder
where he filed the suit for $50,000
damages against the three white men. j
Is Revolting Story
In the petition of McCluskey, a story
of Intimidation and brutality Is told
that is one of the most revolting re
lated in Georgia in yearB. He sweats I
in his petition that after he had been j
shot by the mob the members heat. |
him and maltereated him, terrorized ■
his wife and children and warned him
to leave the country under threats of
death if he remained.
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CENTRAL HIGH GRADUATE
SHOWN APPRECIATION (
Miss Bertha Lewis Presented With a
Gold Wrist Watch as a Mark
of Esteem
An unusual event happened at the
Hotel Merriam last Saturday night
which shows that ability, courtesy and
merit are appreciated. Miss Bertha
Lewis, who graduates tonight from
Central High School, has made a good
record, being exempted from examina
tions. While attending school, Miss
Lewis has been working as a wait
ress at the Merriam Hotel, where her
courtesy and cheerfulness was the
subject of comment among the guests.
Last Saturday night at the dinner
hour, Mr. H. J. Twitched, superin
tendent of Burgess-Nash store, in the
presence of the guests of the Memam,
presented her with a beautiful 15
jewel gold wrist watch in the name of
those upon whom she had been wait
ing, as a token of their appreciation
of her scholastic work, her ambition
to secure an education, and her marked
courtesy and cheerful service to the
guests.
AKRON BRANCH N. A. A. C. P.
STOPS KU KLUX PARADE
Akron, O., June 6.—The local bronch
of tho National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People has
been instrumental in stopping a wide
ly advertised parade of the Ku Klux
Klan which was to have taken place
in that city on May 24th, it was an
nounced today. The Klan parade was
to culminate in a huge mass meeting
in the local armory.
Upon learning of the proposed dem
onstration the Akron branch at once
wont to the Mayor of the city and suc
ceeded in obtaining an injunction pre
venting both the Ku Klux parade and
the meeting In the armory.
The result of this victory was the
receipt of numbers of threatening let
ters addressed to Samuel Kelly, pres
ident of the branch. Mr. Kelly how
ever, was given protection by the
sheriff.
WINS MEDAL AND COMMISSION
Among those receiving promotions
and commissions at the Central High
School Knc^pipment at Camp Masters,
Valley, Nebr., Thursday, was Worth
ington L. Williams, who was promoted
from sergeant of Company B to First
Lieutenant and Adjutant of the first
battalion. He was also awarded the
second medal in- competitive company
drill.
SPINDADN MEDAL FDD
1921 60ES TO WOMAN
>lrs. Marj II. Talbot, Former Presi
dent of National Association of
Colored Women, Awarded
Coveted Prize.
New York, June 16.—Mary B. Tal
bert, former president of tho National
Association of Colored Women, has
been chosen to receive the Spingarn
Medal on Tuesday, June 20th, at the
Newark Conference of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, It was announced to
day. The committee on the award
issued the following statement:
Mrs. Mary B. Talbert
"The award was made to Mrs. Mary
n. Talbert, and this award waa given j
in consideration of her services in or
ganizing the women of the country so
that the debt was paid off the home
of Frederick Douglas, the home re
stored and made a shrine in memory of
the great Douglass, also because of
the fact that she represented the col
ored women of America at the Interna
tional Council of Women held in Nor
way.
•‘The award was made specifically
for the above reasons. However, the
Committee could not fail to take into
consideration also the fact that Mr*.
Taloert was twice president of the
National Association of Colored Wom
en and that all her life she has baen
identified with uplift work, religious
and civic, and has been a leader of the
women of her race.”
The Committee making the award
consisted of Tilshop Hurst, Dr. Dillard
and Mr. Hope. Rabbi Solomon Foster
of Newark ha« been invited and has
accepted the iuvltation to present the
medal to Mrs. Talbert at the Newark
Conference.
A VIEW OF OMAHA’S WHOLESALE DISTRICT
TWO NEGRO GIRLS GRANTED
LAW DEGREES IN NEW YORK
New York, June 16.—Two Negro
girls—the first of their race to be
graduated from New York University
—have degrees of bachelor of law
and juris doctor of law.
The two, who won arts degrees
from Hunter college, and have been
(caching in the public schools in Har
lem Negro colony, are Anne Jones
Robinson, 24, and Enid F. Thorpe,
25. They were graduated yesterday.
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Until then, no New York law school
ever granted degrees to women of
the colored race.
OPENS Ml SIP SCHOOL
The Jack Pinkston School of Music
held its formal opening Monday from
four until nine o’clock. During the
afternoon and evening a large number
availed themselves of Mrs. Pinkston's
invitation to visit and inspect this
school which is to mean so much in
the musical education of our young
people. In the evening vocal numbers
were given by Madam Lena Mays
Curry, Mrs. R. Dewey Allen and Mrs.
Russell Reese, and violin numbers by
Clarence DesDunes. The school be
gins with a good enrollment.
Rev. M. II. Wilkinson, state mis
sionary, has returned from Hastings,
where he raised $398.50 in four days j
to help burn off the mortgage which
needed but $66.60 more. He left for
Norfolk Friday.
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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
be 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
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.”
1“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 paid; of the house. Ferguson vs Gies, 82 Mich.
358; N. W. 718.”
Pre-Election Rumor Revived
New Book; Secret Service
Searching for Author
(Special to the Monitor,
Washington, D. C. June 16.—It is
alleged that a book is being circulated
here which is causing considerable ex
citement, although were it not for
America’s inane and insane bias alohg
one phase of "the rising tide of color,”
would cause no comment. The book
revives the rumor, which was given
currency shortly after Harding’s nom
ination, that the distinguished Ohioan
has Negro blood in his veins. The
statement was branded at that time
as a mean political trick, without any
foundation in fact, purely designed to
encompass his defeat. His campaign
managers exerted strenuous efforts to
discredit the rumor. The book, the
author of which is said to be unknown,
is designed to prove that President
Harding is not of pure white blood,
but that it Is mingled with that of
Africa, the potency of which, accord
ing to America’s peculiar method of
reckoning in consanguinity may be
expressed by the ratio of 1 to 99.
Just think of the richness and the I
strength of African blood, that one |
drop of it, where its presence is sus- I
pected or detected, is sufficient to fix I
its possessor’s ethnic status on the
Negroid side. Now some one who
claims to know wants to prove that
Warren Gamaliel Harding is not simon
pure Caucausian. So this book has j
been written to prove this. With
what measure of success, your corres
pondent does not know. It is stated
that secret service men have been de
tailed to discover the source of the
book, which is said to retail at prices
varying from four to fourteen dollars.
Those who claim to have seen copies
of the book declare that it contains
over two hundred pages, with Illus
trations and photographs of Harding’s
ancestors which unmistakably indi
cate evidence of dark blood. The
volume is also said to contain declar
ations of persons who allege Intimate
acquaintance with Mr. Harding’s an
cestry.
Of course the whole thing may be a
clever scheme to make money or there
may be an ulterior motive behind it;
but that, this rumor has been revived
cannot be without some significance.
The absurdity of the whole thing to
your correspondent’s mind is, that if
Harding was said to have had a strain
of Indian blood in his veins it would
have been considered an honor, but if
African, no matter how little or how
remote, horrors! What sacrilege!
“What fools,” I would like to put it
stronger. “What fools, these mortals
be.”
The question is President Harding
white or colorej may become as in
teresting and perplexing as “How old
is Ann?”
COURT TRIES TO
FIND COLORED
DLOOD IN TEXAN
Man Who Was Considered While for
Years Is Arrested Under Sus
picion of Being Colored After
Third Marriage.
MISCEGENATION IS CHARGE
Texas Statutes Prohibit the Intermar
riage of Races But Not Very
Sensitive Concerning
Concubinage.
Fort Worth, Texas, June 16.—(After
having lived for twenty-three years as
a white man, Fred Teichman, thirty
seven years old, has been arrested and
placed under $2,000 bond on the
charge of being colored.
Teichman, who has lived here for
twenty years or more has been fairly
successful in business and is a trus
tee of Northside Methodist church,
white. Members of the church went
his bond to secure his release. He is
also said to belong to three white fra
ternal organisations.
He has been married three time*,
each wlf- having been white. No. 1
divorced him, No. 2 died after having
given birth to two children, and be has
been living with No. 3 for the last,
five years, and she avers she is per
fectly happy and satisfied with her
husband and wants the state to keep
its nose out of her domestic affairs.
Charge Against Teichman
The charge against Teichman, ac
cording to the Texas statutes, is “mis
cegenation.’’ The law prohibits the
marriage of any person in whose veins
rung the blood of a Negro within the
third generation, to a person of the
white race. Violation of the statute
is punishable by a term of two to five
years In the penitentiary.
Teichman, an expert bookkeeper
and accountant, says he never saw his
mother, but understood from his fath
er that she was white and said it was
seldom that his father ever talked
about the mother.
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“This is the most unfortunate affair
jf my whole life,” said Teichman while
n jail to a reporter. He wept as he
alked. “I have tried to live an hon
Jrable life and I know I have been
white' in my dealings. I never wae
irrested or charged with anything be
fore.
‘I was born in Houston and my
father was well known and, of course,
white. I couldn’t get my father to ever
iiscuss my mother, but it was natural
’or me to think she was white. Yet
when I was a boy my father placed me
n a Negro school. When T reached
fourteen years of age I realized that
I shouldn’t be associating with Ne
groes, being of a different race. I
an away from home, still thinking I
was white, and I have been recognized
is a white man ever since.
"I did not go to school much when
r was with my father, but I made my
rwn living and studied as I worked.
[ never dreamed anything like this
would come up.”
Investigation of Teichman s case be
gan several weeks ago when informa
tion was received by the Grand Jury
that he was living with a white wo
man. Assistant District Attorney
Martin was sent to Houston to obtain
evidence and upon his return the
complaint was filed.
SUCCUMBS TO WOUNDS
Jesse Welch, who It is alleged was
accidentally shot by hlB wife two
weeks ago at their home, 2*21 Nicholas
street, died Sunday at the Mercy Hos
pital. He was taken, to the hospital
when shot, aparently in a dying con
dition. Dr. Riddle, however, extract
ed the bullet and the patient was ap
parently Improving, but died Sunday.
His wife, who was re-arrested at his
death, was released after the coron
er’s Inquest.
NOTICE TO MONITOR PATRONS
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business manager and advertising
solicitor for The Monitor, having sev
ered this relationship, is now soliciting
advertising and working for THE
NEW ERA and NOT The Monitor.
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tisers and patrons of this fact to
avoid misunderstanding.—John Albert
Williams, Editor.