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ablest Defense fob Detroit doctor
Residential Segregation Sweeping States Reaches Cleveland, O.
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EMINENT LAWYER
FOR DEFENSE OF
DETROIT VICTIMS
National Advancefent Association Is
Negotiating for Services of
a Great Criminal
Authority
ABLE DEFENSE IS ASSURED
New York.—The National Associa
tion for the Advancement of Colored
People. GO Fifth Avenue, announced f
that negotiations are under way with
an eminent white lawver, one of the
greatest criminal authorities in the !
state of Michigan, whom it is hoped
to retain for the defense of Dr. O. H.
Sweet and the ten other people ac-1
cused of murder for defending Dr.
Sweet’s home from a moh.
The defense of Dr. Sweet, his wife,
his two brothers and seven other col
ored people has heen entrusted to the
N. A A. C. P. and no pains will be
snared in behalf of these eleven Ne
groes, now held in charges of mur
der.
The N. A. A. C. P. reports dis
patches from Detroit to the effect that
all the defendants appeared before
Judge Faust on Tuesday, September
22nd, whpn effort was made to have
them released under bail. Judge Faust
declined to admit bail for any of the
defendants and ordered their impri
sonment to he continued. An addi
tional hearing on the question of hail,
this this time before another judge,
was held September 26th.
In connection with the case. Waiter
White, assistant secretary of the N.
A. A. C. P., made the following state
ment:
“The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People re
gards the case of Dr. 0. H. Sweet and
his codefendants as one of the most
important it has ever attempted to
defend. Those people in defending
Dr. Sweet's home were standing for
the right of the Negro to choose where
he shall make his home and to live
there unmolested. We can expect
such cases to increase until the U. S.
Supreme Court in Washington, in the
case now carried there by the N. A. A.
C. P., determines the right of the
Negro to fix his home exactly as do
all other American citizens.”
HUNDREDS RACE ON FOOT
TO NEW DIAMOND REGION
Johannesburgh, South Africa. —
Thousands of workers in this district
have abandoned their jobs to take part
in u diamond rush to Oersonkrail,
where several valuable finds have been
reported.
Already 2,000 claims have been
st !<ed off, ami diamond buyers are
said to have purchased stones weigh
ing as much us 28 carats each, which
were found only eighteen inches under
the soil.
Hundreds of athletes took part in
the rush, running several miles to
stake claims. One of the most valu- ;
able of the claims was marked off by
u champion runner on behalf of a one
legged war veteran who could not keep
up with the other competitors.
IORO CLUB ALERT.
ACTIVE AND PROGRESSIVE
The Poro club, which was recently
organized by Mrs, Birdie J. Hawkins,
demonstrator from Poro college, St.
Louis, Mo., who closed the school of
instruction for Poro operatives Sep
tember 5, is energetically and actively
at work along the lines suggested for
individual proficiency and mutual
helpfulness. All the members feel
Itenefited by the instruction given at
the school, which was held at the resi
dence of Mrs. J. H. Russell, 2914
Erskine street, and the helpfulness
that has come through association in
the Poro club, which has a member
ship of nearly forty.
The officers of the Poro club are:
Mrs. Anna E. Jones-Tubbs, president;
Mrs. Anna Covington Whitley, vice
president; Mrs. D. E. Oliver, secre
tary; Mrs. S. B. Allglac, assistant sec
retary; Mrs. Jessie Thomas, treasurer;
Mrs. Mamie Washington, chairman of
the investigating committee; Mrs.
Matilda Lightfoot, chairman of the
sick committee; Mrs. Edith Llewellyn,
chairman of ways and means commit
tee. Mrs. L. R. Harvey and Mrs. Pearl
Ford are teachers of sewing and
needlework.
SEGREGATION FIGHT
SPREADING THROUGHOUT
NORTHERN CITIES
New York.—The fight on residential
segregation is spreading throughout
the North according to reports receiv
ed and published by the National As
sociation for the Advancement of Col
ored People, 69 Fifth Avenue. Re
cently there was a small riot in Phila
delphia, and now Harry E. Davis, a
member of the Ohio legislature and of
the N. A. A. C. P. Board of Directors,
forwards a report showing that an
organization has been formed in
Cleveland to debar colored people
from a white residential district.
The fight in Cleveland is being made
to bar Dr. C. H. Garvin, a colored
physician from occupying a house he
is having built on Wade Park avenue.
Two hundred white property owners
rorently held a meeting and formed
an organization. At the meeting white :
neighbors of Dr. Garvin protested
against his occupancy of the house he
was having built.
One white attorney, Frank F.
Gentsch, 11104 Wade Park avenue,
N. E., near Dr. Garvin’s property, is
reported to have said to G. W. Wills,
a colored man present at the meeting: ;
"I want you to know that you will i
never live in the Wade allotment. Fur
thermore, you can say to Dr. Garvin
that he will never live in the house
that he is building on Wade Park
avenue.”
Dr. Garvin is reported to have said |
in a press interview that he was not j
trying to speculate in real estate but!
that he was building a home in which
he intended to live and that the prop
erty was not for sale at any price.
N. A. A. C. P. SPEAKER
ADDRESSES NEW YORK
AMERICAN LEGION
Robert W. Ragnall. director of branches
of the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People, on Thurs
day, September 10, addressed the New
York Department of the American Legion
in annual convention, being the first Ne
gro to speak before that body. Mr. Bag
nail’s address was made before several
thousand delegates who warmly applauded
his remarks, and was broadcast over the
radio. At the conclusion of Mr. Bugnall’s
address, the department commander pub
licly thanked him for his “inspiring mes
sage filled with necessary truths.” -
In his address to the ex-soldiers Mr.
Bagnall called attention to the Negro’s
patriotism and notable war record and de
plored the efforts not only to humiliate
Him while in service but to deprive the
Negro soldier of the credit which was his
flue. i
“The Negro has done his full duty to the
country in war and peace,” said Mr. Bag
nall, “and he has done so in a land where I
he has suffered a thousand wrongs. Even
in France he was humiliated and discrim
inated against by short-sighted American
army officers, and since the war he has
been subjected not only to the base slander
of General Bullard, who so far forgot me
Imnor of a soldier a« to defame brave
black fellow soldiers; but in addition has
been denied treatment for his wounds in
glmost all of the veterans’ hospitals of the
South, has been excluded from the Amer
icon I>*gion *in many places, even forbidden
to form American I.egion posts for col
ored soldiers. The Negro soldier has been
cheated out of war insurance by unscrup
ulous whites, has been shut out of citizens*
military training camps, and in some in
stances was killed because lie wore bis
country’s uniform.”
Because of the fairness shown by the
New York Department of the American
I.egion, Mr. Bagnall especially appealed to
his hearers to do their utmost to instruct
their fellow legionaries throughout the
country in the practice of fundamental jus
j tice to the Negro soldier, for the sake of
justice and for the sake of America.
Mr. Bagnall, representing the N. A. A.
C. P., was programmed to address the con
vention on the opening day, along with
Senator Copeland and Mayor Hylan, hav
ing been asked at the request of the col
ored posts of the American Legion in New
York state, who chose Mr. Bagnall as the
speaker to represent their race.
MUSIC WIPES OUT COLOR LINE
Toronto, Ont.—-(By the Associated
Negro Press.)—An event of historical
importance will occur in this city next
Friday night, when for the first time
in Canada a white and Colored choir
will give a joint recital; moreover the
event will occur in a Colored church,
as the choir of Rhodes Avenue Baptist
church will be the guests of the First
Baptist church choir in their choir
chancel.
SERGEANT BUCK, RETIRED,
WHO CAPTURED AGUINALDO,
VISITS AN OLD COMRADE
Sergeant John Buck, retired, a resi
dent of Tacoma, Wash., has been the
guest for several days of Sergeant
Bailey, his warm personal friend for
nearly fifty years. Sergeants Buck
and Bailey were members of the fa
momus Tenth cavalry and saw excit
ing times together on the western
plains, in Cuba and in the Philippines.
It was their regiment which saved
Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
in Cuba, and it was their detachment
which captured Aguinaldo. Sergeants
Buck, Bailey and Letcher, the two lat
ter honored residents of Omaha, have
been exchanging reminiscences of
army days. This is Sergeant Buck’s
first visit to Omaha in several years.
He leaves Friday for home.
NEGRO RAILWAY WORKERS
BEGIN ORGANIZATION DRIVE
New York.—Within the short time
of two weeks 7,000 Pullman porters
who reside in this city are reported
to have formed a union for the fur
therance of their work welfare. This,
it is said, is the beginning of a na
tion-wide movement to organize the
136,065 railway employees in the
United States, 20,224 of whom are in
[ the Pullman service. Similar drives
are said to be contemplated in Boston,
Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis and
other citieH where railway and Pull
man employees make their headquar
ters. It is presumed also, that, the
ninety-seven Negro telegraphers, 111
engineers, 6,498 firemen and other
hands comprising the 136,065 total will
be formed into appropriate organiza
tion units.
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HOWARD UNIVERSITY
Miss Gladys E. Brown, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Jasper E. Brown of 2883
Miami street, who received her B. A.
from the University of Nebraska In
June, where she majored in history,
left Friday night for Howard univer
sity, Washington, D. C., where she has
’ been fortunate in securing a fellow
ship in history. This gives her the
advantage of advanced study and re
search in history. Fellowships are es
tablished to help students who show
special aptitude in certain studies to
pursue further work in their chosen
line. Such opportunities are rare and
coveted honors.
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COLOR BAR HILL IS DEFEATED
BY SENATE OF SOUTH AFRICA
Capetown.—The senate has rejected
the government's color bar bill, a
measure that would have made it a
penal offense for any native, however
cultured, to compete with a white man
in a skilled trade. The bill, fathered
originally by the labor party, which
has consistently refused to recoginze
that the real laboring man in South
Africa is the native and the Colored
man, had the general approval of the
nationalist party. That party is large
ly composed of the least cultured and
most conservative portion of the elec
torate, and it finds its chief strength.
in the Free State and the Transvaal,
where a policy of native repression
has from a time long before the union
been advocated and on many occasions
carried into practice.
COLORED WOMEN JURORS
TO SIT IN INDIANA COURT
Crown Point, Ind.—For the first
time colored women will sit in a jury
box for the fall term of court in
Calumet county. The three women
were appointed by Judge E. Miles
Norton of the Juvenile and Circuit
Court. They are: Mrs. Clark Wagner
of Hammond, Miss Lillian Perry of
Garey, and Miss Eunice Scott of Ga
rey.
MOTHER OF HARRY LELAND
SUCCUMBS TO STROKE
Mrs. Rena McDowell, 2726 Burdette
street, mother of Harry Leland, died at
her late residence Sunday afternoon
as the result of a paralytic stroke
which she suffered a few days ago.
Mrs. McDowell, who was born in
Mineola, Tex., in 1870, was in the 56th
year of her age. She is survived by
her husband, Timothy McDowell; her
son, Harry Leland, and other relatives.
The funeral was held Tuesday after
noon from the Seventh Day Adventist
church, of which she was a member,
the Rev. Elders Allison and Lightner
officiating. Interment was at Forest
Lawn.
Sickening Story of SavagryTold by Eye
Witness of Burning Black Man Alive
“Oh, God! Oh, God! I
didn’t do it, Have Mercy!”
cried victim as flames
snuffed out his life.
He was beaten, suspended
from a rafter by the neck
and mutilated with fire and
knives but still he main
tained his innocence.
Finally, under torture, it
is alleged he confessed the
crime.
Was not identified by girl |
as her assailant,
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New Albany, Miss.—“I watched a
Negro burned at the stake at Rocky
Ford, Miss., Sunday afternoon. I
watched an angry mob chain him to an j
iron stake. I watched them pile wood J
around his helpless body. I watched
them pour gasoline on this wood. Ami i
1 watched three men set this wood on
fire." So wrote J. L. Roulhac, a cor- j
respondent for the Memphis Scimitar, |
in giving an account of the lynching j
of L. Q. Ivey, a Colored lumberjack
near here last Sunday afternoon.
Victim Prayed.
“I stood in a crowd of 600 people as
the flames gradually crept nearer and j
nearer to the helpless Negro. 1 j
watched the blaze climb higher and j
higher, without mercy. I heard his cry j
of agony as the flames reached him'
and set his clothing on fire.”
“Oh, God! Oh, God!” he shouted. “I
didn’t do it. Have mercy!” The blaze
leaped higher. The Negro struggled.
He kicked the chain loose from his j
ankles, but it held his waist and neck
against the iron post that was becom
ing red with the intense heat.
“Have mercy! I didn’t do it!” he
shouted again.
"You should have thought of this
before,” some one shouted from the
crowd. There was an instant of si
lence. Then several voices rose in
agreement. Nowhere was there a sign
of mercy among the members of the
mob, nor did they seem to regret the
horrible thing they had done. The
Negro had supposedly sinned against
their race, and he died a death of tor
ture.
Soon he became quiet. There was
no doubt that he was dead. The flames
jumped and leaped above his head. An
odor of burning flesh reached my nos
trils. I felt suddenly sickened. Through
the leaping blaze I could see the
Negro sagging and supported by the
chains.
Woman Spectalor.
The setting was a little sawmill. The
crowd stood on a huge pile of sawdust
and the Negro’s death pyre was in a
small gully beside it. They calmly
watched the flames leap and dance.
There was no talking now. Everything
was silent.
When the first odor of baking flesh
reached the mob there was a slight
stir. Several of them moved nervously.
“Ijet’s finish it up,” some one said.
Instantly about twelve men stepped
from the crowd. They piled wood on
the fire that was already blazing high.
The Negro was dead, but more wood
was piled on the flames. They jumped
higher and higher. Nothing could be
seen now, for the blaze encircled
everything.
Then the crowd walked away. In ■
the vanguard of the mob I noticed a j
woman. She ace.Aii to be rather
young; yet it is hard to tell about
women of her type; strong and
healthy, apparently a woman of thel
country. She walked with a firm, even I
stride. She was beautiful in a way. I
Soon Forgot Crime.
The crowd walked slowly away. “I’m j
hungry,” some one complained. “Let’s |
get something to eat.” “I’m hungry, t
too,” said another.
“We’ll have to go to New Albany,”
some one said. “We’ve bought out all
the food in the Rocky Ford stores.”
“We might go to Myrtle,” said an
other.
The crowd loaded into automobiles, j
The Negro, who was still chained to ;
the white hot stake, with the red-blue
flames leaping about him, was forgot-;
ten. The crowd was hungry and was
going in search of food.
Girl Failed to Identify.
A white girl was criminally assault
ed in a pea field Friday morning by
an unknown Negro. He escaped in the
woods. The county sheriff organized
a posse and captured L. Q. Ivey, who
denied having anything to do with the
attack.
He was taken to Tupelo for safe
keeping. Rocky Ford citizens went
into court and obtained a writ forcing
the sheriff to return the Negro to New
Albany for identification. In a New
Albany hospital the girl was asked to
identify the Negro Sunday morning.
She was not sure, but thought he
looked like the one who had attacked
her.
Then the officers started to take
him out of town. Crowds filled the
streets. The officers started out the
Myrtle road. The mob jumped in their
cars and followed. At a bridge an at
tempt was made to block the road, but
it failed. The officers’ car sped on.
Just outside the city limits of Myrtle
the officers found two cars across the
road. They wrere forced to stop. The
mob surrounded them. Several pistols
were drawn, but no shots were fired.
The caravan of cars started toward
Rocky Ford.
Saved Pals.
At Rocky Ford they took the Negro
to a deserted barn, where he refused
to confess. He was beaten, suspended
from a rafter by the neck and muti
lated with fire and knives, but still he
maintained his innocence.
Satisfied of his guilt, the mob took
him to the sawmill. While men were
driving the iron post in the ground to
which they were to chain the Negro,
he was taken to the top of the sawdust
pile.
The Negro stood on top of the pile
with his head bent and prayed. Then
he was asked if he wished to confess.
He admitted to the crowd that he was
guilty and under questioning told the
details of the crime.
Then he was chained to the stake
and the fire lighted. He screamed
twice, denying his guilt, and then he
was silent.
The mob talked of burning three
other Negroes whom Ivey had impli
cated in his confession before the
blaze was lighted. But Ivey’s horrible
death apparently satisfied it and no
further lynchings were attempted.
Ivey is believed to have confessed,
after much torture, when he saw there
was no way out of death, in order to
save the three other Negroes who
were held like himself in connection
with the crime. In his said confession
he is alleged to have taken the entire
blame for the crime.
Governor Scores Mob.
Governor Whitfield on Monday is
sued a signed statement denouncing
the lynching. The statement read in
part:
“Officers charged with the respon
sibility of protecting criminals should
resort to extreme measures in thwart
ing a mob. Had the governor received
notice of the crime he would have
given ample support to the sheriff in
the prevention of so horrible a crime
against the law.
“This crime against the law is
shocking to every sense of respect for
law and Christianity. It is true the
offense is a most atrocious one, cal
culated to arouse public indignation to :
the limit. Yet the records of the past
show conclusively that the penalty of |
the law is always meted out to such i
criminals.”
A coroner’s jury which investigated
the lynching of Ivey returned a ver
dict that he came to his death at the
hands of a mob, the members of which
were not known. The charred remains
were buried Monday.
WHITE ODD FELLOWS
PROPOSE ABOLISHMENT
OF THE COLOR LINE
Portland, Ore.—At the opening of
the sovereign grand lodge convention
of the Independent Order of Odd Fel
lows (white) here, Grand Sire Her
bert A. Thompson of Detroit recom
mended that action be taken to per
mit the admittance to the order of
races of color the world over. The
outcome of the recommendation has
not yet been reported.
LYNCHING PROTEST LAID
BEFORE PRES. COOLIDGE
Everett Sanders, secretary to Pres
ident Coolidge, has written to James
Weldon Johnson, secretary of the Na
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, telling him
that the N. A. A. C. P. telegram pro
testing the burning alive of a Negro
in Mississippi, had been “very prompt
ly laid before the President”.
The telegram sent by the N. A. A.
C. P. on September 21st to President
Coolidge, reads as follows:
“The burning of a Negro at stake
by a mob yesterday in Mississippi
constitutes the thirteenth lynching this
year. This case of savage ferocity,
inexcusable regardless of the guilt or
innocence of the victim, brings for
ward the crying necessity for federal
action to stamp out the shame which
blackens the name of America before
the civilized world. We respectfully
urge you to bring this question be
fore Congress when it next assembles
and that you reiterate your recom
mendation for effective congressional
action.”
On the following day, September 22,
the N. A. A. C. P. sent another tele
gram to President Coolidge, as fol
lows:
“Supplementing my telegram of
yesterday reporting the burning alive
of a Negro in Mississippi, I desire to
call to your attention newspaper dis
patches of today, recounting the mur
der by a mob in Georgia of an insane
colored man, taken from the State
Hospital for the Insane, chained to a
tree and beaten to death, charged
with murder of a nurse in the asylum.
This constitutes the fourteenth lynch
ing in 1925 as against twelve for a
corresponding period in 1924. May
we again urge a recommendation from
you to Congress asking suppression
of these uncivilized atrocities.”
In reply to the first telegram, the
president’s secretary wrote:
“Your telegram of September 21st
has been received and very promptly
laid before the President.”
A NEW BUSINESS ENTERPRISE
Mrs. Uuth Wallace had a formal
opening Saturday of her Flower Shop
at 2008 North 24th street, which
is in the store of Mrs. H. J. Craw
ford & Sons. This is a new enterprise
among our people. The Wallace Flower
Shop has a beautiful display of cut
flowers and can supply flowers for all
occasions, such as weddings, funerals,
social gatherings and all events where
flowers are in demand. Mrs. Wallace
was formerly in this business some
years ago at Kansas City and thor
oughly understands the demands of
the trade. When you want to “say it
with flowers" patronize the Wallace
Flower Shop.
ORDERS INDICTMENTS
FOR MEMBERS OF MOB
Asheville, N. C.—-(By the Associated
Negro Press.)—Indictments for every
member of the mob who participated
in the storming of the Buncombe
county jail Saturday night in an at
tempt to take a Negro prisoner, have
been ordered by Judge John Oglesby
-of the superior court bench. One mem
ber, a woman, who circulated a peti
tion against the imprisoned man, was
arrested and is being held. The pris
oner’s name is Alvin Mansel.
SAYS EASE MAKES WEAK LEGS
Schenectady, N. Y.—(By the Asso
ciated Negro Press.)—The luxuries
and so-called conveniences of modern
life are making for weak legs and
weak minds in the youth of today, ac
cording to President Charles Rich
mond, who recently addressed the stu
dents of Union college at its opening.
Boys and girls are becoming so de
pendent on motor cars, he asserted,
that they are not able to walk across
the average college campus. He told
of boys who had to tum on a victrola
to dress by.
WOULD PREVENT
DOCTOR TO RESIDE
IN‘WHITE’DISTRICT
Colored Clevelanders Urging Doctor
Garvin to Stand Steadfastly
For His Residential
Rights.
IMPORTANT ISSUE INVOLVED
Cleveland, O.—(By the Associated
Negro Press.)—You have heard of the
question of what will happen if an ir
resistable force hits an immovable
body? It may be that the answer will
be found in Cleveland. At this writing
the whites about the Wade Park allot
ment may be likened unto the “irre
sistible force.” Colored Cleveland is
the “immovable body.”
In a preliminary conference in the
offices of William H. Boyd, leading
white attorney, attended by a group of
citizens of both races, appointed by
representative gatherings, there was,
as announced by Mr. Boyd, friendly
and frank discussion on both sides, but
there was not a solution.
Colored Clevelanders declare that
the subject far transcends that of the
individual, Dr. Charles Garvin, who is
building a beautiful home in Wade
Park Addition, from the occupancy of
which efforts are being made to ex
clude him. It is maintained that it
has become a matter of principle,
which the famous traditions of Cleve
land and the Western Reserve will not
admit of wavering upon nor taking a
backward step. It has been pointed
out that the same condition obtains in
practically every big city of the na
tion in the north, and whatever Cleve
land does will be watched and set a
precedent. There are many Cleveland
ers of both races who are jealous of
the history of fair play for which the
community has been famous from the
beginning.
The Garvin house is nearing com
pletion; the director of public safety,
Edward Barry, former sheriff, prom
ises police protection; the two imme
diate neighbors of the Garvin location
continue to be furious, and the daily
newspapers are playing a silent game
since Monday. The most conservative
Clevelanders declare this is the se
verest strain on race relations this city
has ever experienced.
TIME FOR SOBER THINKING
AND DETERMINED ACTION
Colored America may well pause in
its mad career of indifference and
wake up to the fact that the most
amazing and sinister influences are at
work to bring about a state of isola
tion and segregation unequalled in
American history. The Associated
Negro Press for more than two years
has been bringing these stories to the
papers. Unfortunately, we have only
been stirred when they reached our re
spective communities. This fall from
Los Angeles to Boston and New York,
and from Detroit and Cleveland to
St. Louis and Washington, there have
been and are acute cases of housing
segregation. These are followed, as
in Philadelphia, Detroit and Cleveland,
by suggestion of a definite character
from whites and some blacks for sep
arate schools. What is Colored Amer
ica going to do about this amazing
condition? It calls for sober thinking
ami determined action. That it is at
tributed to the Ku Klux matters not.
The conditions exist and are increas
ing in tensity. The time is far spent
when this job should be tackled in ear
nest.—Associated Negro Press.
FIND SOURCE OF TUBERCULOSIS
Chicago.—(By the Associated Negro
Press.)—Two scientists of the Univer
sity of Chicago, Dr. Alexander A.
.Maximow and Dr. F. J. Lang, are said
to have discovered the source of
growth of tuberculosis by observing
the growth of the disease on living tis
sue through a microscope. The ex
periment established the belief that
the tuberculosis nodules grow on the
lung tissues and in the white cor
puscles of the blood.
MOB FOILED BY SHERIFF
Asheville, N. C.—While a lynching
was being perpetrated in Mississippi
Sunday night, one was barely averted
In this state. A crowd of 600 persons
who stormed the Buncombe county
jail in search of a Negro arrested on
an assault charge was only frustrated
because the prisoner had been smug
gled to another city by Sheriff Mitch
ell just thirty minutes before the mob
formed.
