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§ A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS
g THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editow
f m©© a Year. 5c ;t pv OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1924 Whole Number 480 Vol. X—No. 12
f SPLENDID SERVICE
BRINGS HONORS TO
A COLORED DOCTOR
Dr. S. B. Jones Received Distinguished
Decoration from King George—
Was Former Teacher in
U. S. Schools
London, Sept. 18.—Dr. S. B. Jones,
who received his medical edication in
the United States, has l>een awarded
by King George the Order of Mem
Iter of the British Empire in recog
nition of meritorious services render
ed in combating a smallpox epidemic
in the British West Indies in 1923.
Dr. Jones, who is medical officer,
magistrate and coroner at Anguailla,
Leeward Islands, West Indies, attend
ed investture in Buckingham Palace,
appearing before King George to re
ceive one of the British ruler’s birth
day honors.
When an epidemic of smallpox
swept the leeward Islands Dr. Jones
used wholesale vacination to check the
disease—a plan introduced in North
Carolina several years ago by Dr. W.
S. Rankin of the state board of health,
which was a departure from isolat
ing patients and those exposed to
smallpox. Dr. Jones’ method was so
successful as to attract the attention
of medical authorities in England.
Several months ago he came to l/>n
doi: to take a post-graduate course
and while here he received notice he
would be honored by the King.
Dr. Jones received his early educa
tion in the government schools of the
West Indies. He went to the United
States shortly after l>eing graduated
from Harrison college, Barbadoes,
West Indies. He stayed in New York
several weeks, deciding to live in the
South. For two years he taught at
Shaw University, four years at St.
Augustine’s Episcopal College, Ra
leigh, N. ('., then studied medicine at
lx>yola University, Chicago.
In 1915 he became head of the De
partment of English at the Agricul
tural and Technical College, Greens
boro, N. C., and also served as col
lege physician. In 1916 Dr. Jones
married the daughter of Dr. James B.
Dudley, the institution’s president. In
1917 he returned to the British West
Indies with his wife and became con
nected with the British medical serv
ice there.
ZION BAPTIST CHURCH
22nd and Grant Sts.
Rev. W. F. Botts, Pasor
The pageant of All Nations which
was to have been given at Zion Bap
tist church September 15, under the
auspices of teh Welcome Circle, was
postponed on account of rain until
September 25. Notice is hereby given
to all queens, attendants, other par
ticipants and the public that the pa
geant will positively be held Thurs
day, the 26th, at 8:30 p. m., rain or
shine. )
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WAYNE ELSWORTH SAWTELL, ATTORNEY
Who is one of the city’s most brilliant lawyers. Thorough in
preparation, he is a hard, relentless fighter, who never relishes
a defeat, and never accepts one until every point of law has been
unsuccessfully brought to bear upon his client’s case. He is clean
and honest. Lawyer Sawtell is a product of Iowa, having been
born, raised and educated in Des Moines. He finished law from
Des Moines University in 1910, coming to this city two years
I afterwards where he has been located ever since in the Omaha
National Bank building. He has been attorney for the Kaffir
WESLEY GIVEN STAY
FROM ELECTRIC CHAIR
Colored Man Will Be Sent to Sani
tarium for Insane—Was to Be
Electrocuted Sept. 26
Sol Wesley, Omaha Negro, will not
die September 26 for the murder of
W. M. Deerson. District Judge Coss
Wednesday issued an order postpon
ing the execution “till the further or
der of the court”.
Wesley began acting abnormally
several weeks ago and since then has
not spoken a word. Judge Goss was
summoned by Warden Fenton. He
called into consultation a committee
of experts consisting of Drs. W. S.
Fast* D. G. Griffith and George E.
Charlton, superintendents of the three
state hospitals for the insane. They
reported to the judge that W'esley is
"mentally inaccessible” because he
will not talk or answer questions, but
sits gazing into space, clasping a
Bible to his breast.
They are unable to determine
whether or not he is sane. Wesley
is to be observed in the future and
when the doctors decide he is sane
they will report to the judge, who will
then again impose the death penalty.
Wesley was convicted of the murder
of W. M. Deerson of Lodge Pole,
Neb., in a grocery . tore at 3824 Sew
ard street.
Sentence of his companion in the
attempted robbery of the store, I,e
Roy Mauldron, was commuted to life
imprisonment.
ST. PAUL’S NOTES
Attendance and interest in our ser
vices seem to indicate a new spirit
of work for the Master’s kingdom.
Under the leadership of Superin
tendent Mrs. M. A. Johnson the Sun
day school rallied Sunday with a sub
stantial addition to its treasury.
The program of the Christian En
deavor Sunday evening was conducted
by Miss Ethel Speese and was excep
tionally helpful and inspirational. Es
pecially commendable were the read
ings of the Misses Anna and Ethel
Speese.
By urgent request the Speese
brothers male quartet gave a selection
and though they' have not sung to
gether for some time* it was demon
strated that they are capable of add
ing much to the musical resources of
our city. This quartet and the Tay
lor quartet will combine in a male
voice double quartet for the service
Sunday night, which will be in special
behalf of men, with one of our pro
fessional men as principle speaker.
Mr. J S. Speese has consented to
read “The Missionary Collection.”
Dont fail to hear this.
The pastors morning topic will be
“Joshua and Caleb, or the Possibilities
of Faith ami Courage.’
Rev. P. M. Harris, a well known
business man on the^outh Side, and
wife were both quite sick last week
but are better at this writing.
Omaha Central High School
(By Courtesy of Omaha Chamber of Commerce.)
BAPTIST ENTERPRISE
PASSES THE QUARTER
MILLION DOLLAR MARK
National Baptist Publishing Board
Through Its Secretary
Makes a Big
Report.
Chicago, 111., Eighth Regiment Ar
mory, Sept. 18.—Special to The Mon
itor.—More than a quarter of a mil
lion dollars worth of business for the
I fiscal year wash reported by the sec
retary of the National Baptist Pub
lishing Board of the National Baptist
convention. In addition to this, the
value of the plant representing more
than a million dollars was handed over
to the convention in a statement of
the secretary who gave a resume of
the full year’s work. Twenty-five
thousand dollars worth of improve
ments were made, one hundred thous
and copies of standard books, and ten
million copies of the Sunday school
periodicals were manufactured and
printed in 1924 at the close of the fis
cal year. The plant as shown in the
secretary’s report, covers the biggest
investment and is regarded as a Rock
of Gibraltar in denamination etlorts.
It was founded by the late R. H. Boyd,
who established it in 1896, and who
was its guiding hand until he passed
into the Great Beyond. He was then
succeeded by his oldest son, Henry
Allen Boyd, who made to the Board
this year, his second annual report.
One of the features of the report was
the humanitarian side of the work of
the Publishing Board’s report, con
nected with the religious activities, is
that each employee is insured for
$500.00 and the beneficiary of this in
surance is named by the employee in
dependent of the National Baptist
Publishing Board and yet the Board
pays the premium. The secretary
showed that this was a kind of a
bonus in advance. The editorial work
extention work, Sunday school mis
sions, new building program, with new
feautres and new periodicals to be
added cover a scope of the work out
side of the financial statement, pre
pared by the Homer K . Jones, (cer
tified acountants) accompanied by a
complete appraisal from the Lloyd
Appraisal Bureau; the two substanti
ating the statement that the Negro
Baptists were holding in the National
Baptist Publishing Board’s plant, an
institution valued at a million dollars.
It was the biggest report and showed
the largest holding of any institution
owned by any Negro denomination in
the world.
ALLEN CHAPEL A. !H. E. CHURCH
Twenty-fifth and R Street®—MA. 4375.
O. J. Burckhardt, Castor.
Sunday was quite a day with us.
Rjerv. A. W. Jones preached in the
forenoon and Rev. Mr. Blackwell in
the evening.
Our league is back in working
order and had a splendid meeting,
there were visitors from North Omaha
and Council Bluffs present. Supt.
S. E. Cross expects to have a great
League this year. He is begging for
the co-operation of the young people
of South Omaha.
The pastor will fill his pulpit next
Sunday. Come and encourage him by
your presence.
The sick committee report® the sick
much improved at this writing.
The pastor has only two more Sun
days to close his year’s work. If you
are really and truly his friend now
is the time to prove it by helping him
get his conference claims together.
BALL POSTPONED
Owing to the heavy rain the ball
advertised for Monday evening, Sep
tember 16, at Dreamland Hall was
postponed to Friday evening, Septem
ber 26, at the same place.
Pilot Willing to Be
Target for “Death Ray”
Walter Sutter of Elizabeth. N. J.,
an experienced array pilot, who has
come forward expressing his willing- j
ness to fly a pluP'*,<nto the path of
Grlndell Matthews' “Death Itny" anil
claims that the ray will not bring him
down in his plane even at the mean
height of 1,000 feet. He also stutes
that an experienced flyer would not
have his plane wrecked hy the ray
without some sort of a struggle.
Refugee Family Tells
of Hardships in Mexico
Norfolk, V'a.—Deprived of their
ranch and property accumulated in 19
years of hnrd work and forced by the
Mexican revolution to flee penniless
and without food, Wilhelm von Wal- j
denfels and his family of four have
arrived here en route to Germany.
They brought a harrowing tale of
flight from their home in the Interior
of Tabasco, a 48-hour trip down the j
Grijalva river to Frontera In a dilnpi- ]
dated sailboat steered by a Mexican
girl; of lost direction and the piling
of the craft on the rocks and the fight I
against drowning and, finally, of the
long Journey afoot from Frontera to
Vera Cruz.
At Vera Oruz the refugees, hungry
and sick, had their first bit of good
luck In the presence in the harbor of
a steamer. They had no money, but
Captain Grashoft, u fellow country
man, waved aside the question of
passage.
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CARD OF THANKS
We wish to than kour neighbors and
friends for their kindness shown us
during the illness and death of our
beloved brother Joseph Cloyd, who de
parted this life Tuesday, September
10, 1924. Also for the many beautiful
flowers.
A. L. ANDERSON, Brother.
MRS. RUTH COVINGTON, Niece.
MRS. CRAIG MORRIS, Niece.
LEWIS and B. ANDERSON,
Nephews.
Rev. Bryant and wife have opened
up & nice neat little cafe at 6110 South
Twenty-fifth street. You can always
find nice barbecued meats on hand.
They deserve a generous patronage.
COLORED CITIZENS
OF DAYTON, OHIO .
RESENT SEGREGATION
Children lii'Hi-,. to <«« fo Basement
for Instruction and Are Fully
Burked by Parents
Day ton, Ohio, Sept. 18.— (By the As
sociated Negro Press)—Colored school
children staging a strike protest
against a segregation order of the
school board Is causing no end of ex
citement and indignation in this usu
ally quiet burg. “The Basement for
Colored Children’’ has been met by a
square, “We won’t go in to the base
ment for the school board or anybody
else,” by the colored children who are
being steadfastly backed by *he in
sistence of their parents that the or
der is grossly unfair and totally at
variance with the laws governing the
attendance of children in the public
schools of the city.
It is admitted on all sides that the
colored people have assumed a digni
fied and forceful attitude toward the
question. They have backed up their
verbal protests by filing a written
protest to the board. This document
is dated Dayton, Ohio, August 3rd,
1924. To the Board of Education of
Dayton Public Schools: Hon. W. D.
Blnik, president; Prof. Paul C. Stet
son, Superintendent, greeting: We, the
parents and representatives of that
part of the citizenship of Dayton
called the “colored group”, herewith
assembled, arise to protest against the
establishment of four new rooms for
colored children in the Willard Dis
trict. These rooms in positive segre
gation are proposed, designated and
ordered, are now assembled in the
basement of what is commonly known
as the Willard School.
COLORED COMMERCIAL CLUB
REPORT FOR AUGUST
Number of males applying for work,
237;females, 285; total, 522.
Classification of men sent to jobs:
Cooks 3, janitors and porters 4,
handy men 17, valets 1, elevator boys
1, plasterers 1, laborers 9, chauffeurs
2, house men 1, dishwashers 1, car
washers 3, totals 43.
Classification of women sent to jobs.
Cooks, G. H. work 26, maids 7, day
workers 12, housekeeprs 3, cateresses
2, laundreses 8, scrub women 1, dish
washers 4, waitresses 4, maids out of
city 2; total 69.
Total placement, 112.
The following information was
given:
1. General information concerning
individuals and colored business
houses.
2. Location of individuals and col-'
ored business houses.
3. location of roms and homes for'
colored people.
4. General information concerning
colored people of Omaha.
5. To ex-service men: Information
concerning bonus.
6. On to two hours each day spent
filling out application for ex-service
men for bonus.
Schedule of meetings held at the
club:
Aug. 5, Nebraska Medical Associa
iton.
Aug. 6, Railroad Pullman Porters
Progressive Association.
Aug. 6. Executive Committee R. C.
F. of World.
Aug. 12, Past Masters, Masonic.
Aug. 13, Railroad Pullman Porters
Progressive Association.
Aug. 14, City Mail Employes.
Aug. 15, Past Masters, Masonic.
Aug. 16, Shriners, Zoh, 52.
Aug. 17, Ex. Committee American
Legion.
Aug. 18, Executive Committee Col
ored Commercial Club. •
Aug. 31, Ways and Means Commit
tee, Colored Commercial Club.
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NATIONAL RACE CONVENTION
TO UNITE COLORED VOTE
To Be Held in Brooklyn October 9—
National Equal Rights League
Seeks Unity in Campaign
Demands
Boston, Mass., Sept. 18, 1924.—An
opportunity for the colored citizens of
the United States to assemble in a
national conference of their own ra
cial element independently of any one
else to deliberate upon the most ef
fective methods of using the present
potential ballot power of the race to
secure redress, is to be afforded by
the National Equal Rights League at
its annual meeting in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
October 9.
The main object of this seventeenth
annual meeting of the League will be
to have the race endeavor to unite
upon a race demand or program tor
rights and protection now denied, and
upon how to do most with the ballot
power of the race in this unusual
political campaign to make assured
headway for successful results, in
view of the three-party contest with
unprecedented division of the colored
vote.
Every race body from every com
munity is to be invited to send dele
gates, to sit on equality with regular
league delegates, but it is especial
ly urged that in every town, county
or city Equal Rights Committees or
Branch League l>e organized at once
to agitate this Race Conference and
send representatives.
Any desired information will be
furnished by National Headquarters,
103 Court street, Boston, Mass.
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AUSTRALIA BARS
COLORED IMMIGRANTS
(Special to the Monitor)
Sidney, Australia, Sept. 18.—The
bar against Negro and Asiatic immi
grants to Australia known as the
“Australia White Policy Act” is now
being rigidly enforced. The law has
for its sole object the preserving of
that rich country for the white set
tlers’ benefit. The whites there feel
that their safety lies in the keeping
of th native Negroes in subjection.
This they fear they cannot do if they
allow those who have a blood interest
in the natives tell the natives of the
injustice that is being done them.
Australia and New Zealand are
British possessions which were in
habited originally by strong and
fierce tribes of Negroes. In order to
gain foothold on the island it was
“necessary” to kill off many of them.
This was done.
(Australia to England is like Con
go was to Belgium. Leopold reduced
the natives from 40,000,000 to 27,
000,000 that they might be “more
wieldy”.—Editor.)
ST. PLILIP’S NOTES
There will be the usual services at
St. Philip’s on Sunday.
Bishop McElwain of the diocese of
Minnesota, one of the visiting bishops
to the synod, which convenes here be
ginning Sunday and lasting to Thurs
day, has been assigned to St. Philip’s.
Public invited. Come and hear him.
Mr. Eddie Harington and Dora
Combs were married at Council Bluffs
Saturday. The South Omahans wish
them a pleasant voyage through life.
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(By Courtesy of the New Era.)
HARRY WILLS, THE “BROWN PANTHER”
Who won a decision over Luis Firpo, the “Wild Bull of Pampas”.
“BROWN PANTHER”
CONQUERS THE
“PAMPAS BULL”
Eighty Thousand Witnessed Colored
Man Triumph Over White
Hope—Wills Was Easily
the Best Man.
Jersey City, N. J., Sept. 18.—Harry
Wills, the “Brown Panther’ won from
Firpo, the “Pampus Bull” in their
bout at Boyle's Thirty Acres. It is
estimated that 80,000 persons witness
ed the contest.
Firpo was the first to climb into the
ring. He wore his famous checkered
bath robe and limbered up in his cor
ner during the few minutes interval
before Wills climbed into the ring.
Both were the target for a battery of
cameramen while he gloves were fas
tened on.
Firpo was acorn panied by Dan
Washington, his veteran Negro train
er and Bill Tate, while Paddy Mullens,
manager of Wills headed a group of
Wills handlers.
Promoter Richard’s forecast of an
$800,000 gate came true. The colored
fighter will receive $250,000 for his
share of the receipts and will have
the right to demand a match with
Champion Jack Dempsey.
Wills knocked Firpo down in the
fourth round for a count of four.
GROVE M. E. CHURCH
21st and Seward Sts.
Sendees for Sunday will be: The
Rev. Dr. W. A. C. Hughes preaches at
11 a. m. Dr. Hughes is secretary of
the Bureau of Colored Work of the
Board of Home Missions and Church
Extension of the M. E. church. He
was formerly pastor of Sharp Street
Memorial Church, Baltimore, Md. He
is a gifted speaker.
At 3:30 p. m. Bishop M. W. Clair,
resident bishop of the Covington Area,
will preach. Bishop Clair for the last
four years was bishop of Monrovia,
Liberia. The Covington comprises,
Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,
Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa,
Missouri, Colorado, Nebraska, Kan
sas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Liberia,
Africa. The bishop is classed among
the greatest preachers in the Meth
odist church. The public is cordially
invited to hear these men Sunday, the
21st.
DEFENSE DAY COMMEMORA
TION A GREAT SUCCESS
Omaha contributed her full share
to the national program for Defense
Day, September 12. Fifteen thousand
took part in the parade, which was
the longest ever seen in this city. The
colored patriots, as usual, joined in
large numbers1 to make it a success.
Many of our civic and fraternal or
ganizations were represented.
The Rev. John Albert Williams
spent the week in Detroit, Mich.,
where upon the invitation ot the priest
and vestry of St. Matthew’s Episcopal
Church he preached an historical ser
mon Sunday morning in commemora
tion of the eightieth anniversary of
the founding of the parish.