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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-29
MARIA LIVESTOCK SHOW
Is INDEFINITELY POSTPONED

The committee in charge OF the
celebration and exhibition Of live
stock at Maria. Texas, set for octo-
Der and 3 has given notice OF the
postponement- The reason given
therefor is the continued rains caus-
ing washouts and bad roads Another
date will be set later when weather
conditions are more favorable
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-29
REPORTS REVOLT
BY OBREGON'S FOLLOWERS

Newspapers printed here for dis
tribution in Mexico, carry an extra
edition story Of a revolt said TO have
been staged against the Carranza gov
eminent by friends Of Gen. Alvaro OBJ
RECON Obregon is in Nogales and the
rumors are not given credence by To-
cal Mexican officials.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-29
PEACE COMMITTEES ESTABLISH
nEEICEs IN CALEDONIA

Los Angeles. san Diego. San Fran
cisco, Calf, and Miami and Tucson,
Ariz, are to have branches OF the
Mexican peace committee OF FL Paso-
Manuel Bonilla, president OF the com
mittee. has left for California. where
he will work in the interests OF the
organization
The committee is starting a public
itv campaign and has scattered broad
cast placards stating its aims and
methods.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-29
CARRANCISTA KILLS BANDIT
IN VICINITY OF CUARUTLA

A Mexican rebel chief named ANA
zur. operating in the vicinity of Qua
rutla. was killed in that city Septem-
Der IS, By Jesus Pizarro. a former
rebel chief under Cen de Ia o. who is
now operating with the Carrancista
forces. Details of the death were not
given, beyond the fact that Pizarro
captured and killed the bandit chief.
curtiss & Co. buy Liberty BOnds.-Adv.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-29
BUYS son EWES.

J. R. Summers. OF Del Rio, Texas.
has bought 5000 ewes IN Montana and
is shipping them TO his section OF the
former state for restocking ranges,
He Is said to have bought 1000 Of
them for his own range
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-29
CANDIDATE. BEGINS CAMPAIGN
FOR GOVERNOR OF CHIHUAHUA

Julio Ornelas has begun his cam
paign for election as governor OF the
state OF Chihuahua, according to
word received here. The election was
to have been held IN June but was
postponed because OF an active cam
paign which has been started against
Villa.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-29
K1NG ANn arEEN DELAYFn.

Santa Fe. y. ", Sept 29.-The de-
partment OF state has advised COVER
nor o. A Larrazolo that the king and
queen OF the Belgians will be in Al
huuerue October IS instead OF 20.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-29
JUDGE HOWE WILL EMPANEL
A GRAND JURY IN NOVEMBER

A new grand jury win be empan-
eled by judge ". D. Howe early in
November. This grand jury viii in
vestigate q large number OF cases
now pending.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-29
sHTPs Lawns 10 NEBRASKA.

Pitman Livestock Commission COM
pany OF FL Paso has shipped from the
Albuuerque country OF New Mexico
1000 lambs to Gibbons. Neb. The
was made Sunday.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-29

IN the recent primary elections held
IN Atlanta. Ca. women participated FOR
the first time.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-29
RUGS of All Kinds Are Here
IINOLEUM

Is new Hnoleum needed in kitchen, bath
room or hall We show printed hnoleums
in a variety of patterns and colorings at
SIPS a square yard. Inlaid linoleums, in
tile, hardwood and other designs, at s1.s5
to $3.50 a square yard.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-29

as never before. The new Negro
recognizes that politics has power
and as there Is no sentiment when
he thinks there should be no sentt-
ment in politics.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-29
"a mysterioas. unauthorized order

"a mysterious, unauthorized order
to withdraw" The investigators could
not, according to their report, even
learn the source of that mysterious
order"
The inspector generals staff which
made the investigation at the re-
quest of Secretary Baker even found
that the claim of the accused Colored
officers and men that they had suff-
cred the greatest discrimination
sufficient to have destroyed the mo-
rale of most any other unit was un-
founded.
There was no Colored unit in the
army, unless it was some of the
labor battalions, that was the object
of greater and more brutal discrimi-
nation than the 368th. This dis
elimination began at Camp Meade be-
fore they sailed for France. It was
an oppressive, discourging-brutal
factor on the ship that carried the
boys over. 1t was present in every
camp they occupied, and it sent to
an untimely, bloody grave those Col
ored boys who fell in that Meuse-
Argonne offensive.
Readers of The Advocate may re-
call that War Correspondent Ralph
w. Tyler, that Mr.. Tyler insisted that
there should be an Investigation
that those Colored officers should not
be made to pay the brutally unjust
penalty meted out to them by court
martial until every man who went
into that inferno had been called to
testify.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-29
RBBT ". CHURCH, RADICAL PROPA.
THE NEW POWERGANDA WILL NOT|N-
IN 1920 POLITICS FLUENCE NEGROES
Will NOT Be ANARCHISTIC,
BUT WILL CONTINUE TO
DEMAND RIGHTS
(By Associated Negro Press)

Chicago, Ill.,, Nov. 27.-Radical
proganda among Negroes is on
the increase in Chicago. But it has
not resulted in any definite drift, and
In no respect has assumed the pro-
portions of a movement" This is
the view of T. Arnold Hill. secretary
of the Urban league tthe foremost
employment and social center of the
Coiored race. Other prominent work
ers emphasized this view.
Il am sure that socialist and syn
dlcalist propaganda has not increased
among the Negroes in the proportions
that 1t has among the whites" said
Hill. There are papers and maya
zines published every month Of
course. 1t can easily be shown that
they have been in existence for years,
and slowly built up a self sustaining
subscription list. One of these is
extremely radical. Its editor is an
instructor in the Rand School for
socialism in New York.
The l. w. w. has special organizer
J. w. Sims, formerly an organizer for
the American Federation of Labor,
active in Chicago. Negro leaders
from four southern cities have pass
ed through Chicago in the last two
weeks. In all cases they escaped
from mobs seeking to lynch them or
they were warned by white officials
and friends that if they did not
leave, mobs would get them. Also
IN each instance the refugee was
promoting the work of an organiza-
ton which urges the Colored race
to stand for the complete constitu-
tional rights of the Negro.
Il have talked with these men who
escaped the mobs or more warned
of mobs, said Dr. George Cleveland
Hail., one of the leaders in Chicago
and member of the State Race Re-
lationships Commission. There is a
propaganda and a movement active
IN the south which aims to destroy
Negro Leadership. If the department
of justice is looking for propaganda
OF violence and lawlessness, utter
disregard of the constitution and
law and order, we suggest that the
department pay some attention TO
this phase Of sedition, anorchy ana
contempt for American institutions.
rs the Negro getting more hostile
to our government Not at all. he
is turning more and more bitterly
against the administration of our gov
ernment, however, which permits
discrimination in law and action
against people who are asking only
constitutional rights.
----
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-29
MADDEN IS HELD IN SAINT
LOUIS FOLLOWING SPEECH
Citizens Claim His Presence Unde-
sirable. Reject Proposition
as Graft.

st. Louis. Mo-, Nov 81 Rev. Moses
M. Madden, who is promoting a plan
to establish Negro state along the
Mexican border, was arrested Tues
day night after making a speech at
Alhac Dancing Academy. Madden
came to st. Louis from Oklahoma
about three months ago and later
held a meeting in the Coliseum at
which a few hundred of his follow
ers heard him explain his plan, which
was to petition the United States
Government to establish the state for
colonizing Negroes in Texas and
Mexico.
Madden is said TO have gone before
Congress and that the Foreign Re-
lations Committee of the United States
Senate is now considering his schome.
He claims he was to appear before
the Committee on Friday OF this week.
1t is stated that the meeting Tues
day night was to refute arguments
against his plan, made by Reverends
M. Owens and w. o. Venerable.
The hall was crowded early and
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-29
-FOUR NEGROES ACCUSED Of ROB-
Berry REMOVED FROM JAIL
Three Escaped, But One is Lynched
by Missourians

his neck and thrown over an out
hanging limb. The mob pulled and
the limb broke. The Negro started
running as he fell. Four guns flash
ed and he was killed instantly.
At the shots the other three Ne
groes ran. Efforts to catch them
failed unless, as the officers suspect,
one of them was thrown into Forest
| Park Lake and drowned. Searching
parties have, been dragging the lake
all day but the body has not been
recovered, and it is believed the
Negro made his escaped. This theory
is given credence by the fact that
an unclad Negro was said to have
been seen in the vicinity of Clifton
Hill this afternoon and a posse now
is there looking for him.
Officers Refuse to Talk.
Efforts to learn from the officers
the names of the Negroes who were
recaptured have been futile. They
claim they do not know. Neither will
they tell where they have placed
them for safe keeping. One Negro
was captured this morning after he
had appeared at the home. of Ike
Walker, farmer, and asked for
some old clothes. Walker gave him
the Clothes, but when he tempted to
question him concerning his condition
the Negro ran. Walker then tele-
phoned to Moberly and officers cap
I tured the Negro between Moberly
and Huntsville.
The second Negro was captured
near Clifton Hill. He was clad in
overalls and shoes which he had
stolen from an automobile.
Thompson. the farmer. who was at
tackled by the Negroes, is said to be
only slightly hurt. The Moberly po-
| lice were unaware of the formation
of the mob and did not know of the
| lynching until telephone messages
from Macon said the Negroes had
brought in this direction.
Threatened to Dynamite Jail.
1t was only after threats were made
ito dynamite the Jail that Sheriff
Jesse Stamper of Macon County told
his deputy, Bob Epperson, to hand
over the keys. The four Negro pris-
oners set up a dismal howl. They
got down on their knees and plead
ed with their captors for mercy. At
the front porch. as he was leaving,
the leader turned to shake hands with
the Sheriff, Goodbye, Sheriff." he
said. You'll have to excuse us for
arousing you at his time Of night.
About seventy-five or eighty men
were in the party, the officers said.
All but one, according to the Sheriff,
were masked, and all appeared to be
armed and several carried ropes. One
of the men took the Sheriffs revolver
from the bureau.
Stamper said the visitors were very
good-natured. Everything was quiet,
he said, except for the cries of the
Negroes.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-29
THREE M EN- KILLED
AT B0GALUSA, LA

Bogalusa, La, Nov. 27.-Three
white men were shot to death and two
were wounded in a fight at garage
heretoday, in which several men at
tempted to prevent special police
from arresting a Negro labor leader,
suspended of melting Negroes, and
two white men who had carried shot
guns to protect him while parading
him down the main street of the
city.
The dead are:
L. E. WILLIAMS, president of the
Allied Trades Council of Boga-
lusa and owner of the garage.
J. P. BOUCHILLON, Carpenter
THOMAS GAINES, carpenter.
The wounded are S. ]. O'Rourke,
carpenter and one of the men for
whom a warrant for arrest had been
sworn, and julie LIE Blanc, special
policeman and former Captain in
the United States Army.
Saul Dechus, a Negro, is presi-
dent of the Negro union. He escaped
from the garage with four white men
during the shooting.
James Williams, brother Of the
slain leader, was arrested, charged
with assault with intent to kill.
Bogalusa was quiet tonight. The
special officers, who are members of
the Self-Preservatio and Loyal
League and vino advanced on the bar
ricaded garage despite the fire from
shotguns and pistols, are maintain
ing order.
The officer began their search for
Dechus last night, but failed to find
him. Today, the officers said, Bouch-
illon and o'Rourke, armed with shot
CONTINUED on Page 81.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-29
AMERICAN LEGION DECIDES TO
ALLOW STATE TO DECIDE
IN NEGRO BRANCHES

Minneapolis, Mimi, Nov. 27.-The
American Legion, an organization
representing the veterans who fought
in the great world war, slipped a
cog in it's wheel of progress when the
eligibility Committee recommended
that eligibility of members be left
to the various states instead of to
the National Committee. 1t is plain
to be seen that this attitude which
the "bar-up" against the thousands
of Colored veterans throughout the
South who were valiant in the SER
vice of the country during the war.
This subject was one of the many
questions before the American Legion
and was left for f1nal decision from
the Springfield meeting during the
war. This subject was one of the
many questions before the American
Legion and was left for final de-
cision from the Springfield meeting
during the summer.
In practically every Southern state,
there has been determination to re-
fuse charters to Colored posts which
of course, is in line with Southern
policy, but out Of harmony with the
times and the true American spirit
of justice and fair-play.
Prior to the convention a number
of delegates were in conference in
Chicago with Capt. Lewis e. Johnson,
formerly of the $40 Infantry and
others. The men brought written
statements from Southern states
stating that the American Legion
was for Caucasians only.
Very naturally, the Colored veter-
ans throughout the country in con-
junction with the thousand splendid
white veterans are greatly indignant
at any camouflage effort to smear
over the subject and keep out of the
American Legion, thousands or more
who willingly left their homes and
business and work, to go to France
and fight for democracy while thous-
ands of white southerners used every
means within and without the law
to keep them out of the service. The
records bear out the fact that the
Colored people of the south as well
as in many other sections of the
country, furnished more than their
quota of service men.
This attitude will undoubtedly pre-
cipitate a fight to the finish by the
younger citizens who are determined
that justice shall prevail.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-29

the Argus reporter was unable to
get within distinct hearing distance.
Detectives johnson and Cooper who
attended the meeting, reported to
Night Chief Kirk that DR.. Madden
had made remarks about the flag. The
detectives obtained the names and adj
dresses of those in charge Of the
meeting and after it was over, arr
rests were made at houses where they
were boarding.
Those taken to the station were:
Bishop James G. Campbell, 2242
Adams. Thomas Gadney. 2242 Adams
Mary B. Kemp. 400 South Jefferson;
Charles Newman 2S01 Papin, and
Richard Edmond, 212S Adams. Mrs.
Kemp is said to have only appeared
on the scene when the arrests were
being made.
InfIammatOry Speech Charged
1t. is said the Colored detectives
were sent to the hall after the Rev.
w. d. Venerable. pastor st. Stephens
Baptist church. had complained to
Continued on Page 81.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-29
COLONEL WHO LED
NEGRO UNIT PRAISES
WORK OF ARTILLERY

Dallas, Texas, Nov. 27.-"Regular
army men won't listen to me when
I tell them this" declared Walter
A. Prosser, Colonel of the 350th Ar
tillery of the Ninety-Second Division,
last night at the Southland, "but
the Negro under white officers, di-
rection makes a wonderful artillery
man." Colonel Prosser, who is well
known in Texas, where he was sta
toned for many years. commanded
a regiment of the Negro division
equipped with the famous "Soixante
Quinaze," or French rs. The Ninety
Seconds Artillery got into action
later than the infantry. but saw a
month of service in the Toul Sector.
"I saw the Negro men do lot of
astonishing artillery work." the Col
onel said For one thing, we got
thirty-six shots in minute with the
15-and I believe that is a record.
For another thing, Lieutenant Col
onel,t who served with us and after
ward commanded the Second Artillery
Brigade Of the Second Division, de-
clared emphatically that he found no
superior work on their part. For
that matter, the Ninety Seconds in
fantry did not make a bad record.
Only one battalion ever really blew
in the lines and gave the rest Of the
outfit a bad name I saw the others
fighting and they did it WE'LL
Colonel Prosser is at present 10
Gated at the school of fire at Fort
Sill, Okla. I'VE have the beginnings
of an excellent artillery school there"
he said. "Given time for development
of the ideas put into 1t. it will be a
big thing for the army"
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-29
Mayor Calls Meeting OF Negroes
(By Associated Negro Press)

(By Associated Negro Press)
Covington, Tenn, Nov. 27.--A great
many rumors have been going in
Upton County that the Negro is
figuring on uprising. The rumors
became SO strong that Mayor J. J..
Green of Covington, called meeting
of some of the more prominent Ne
groes, but all of them denied know
ing anything of the rumors. One of
the rumors was that the Colored
population around Rialto. one of the
thickest Colored settlements in the
county, had secured guns and amuni-
ton for the uprising, to begin Octo-
ber 81, and which rumor caused the
following statement to be issued by
two of the leading Negroes of the
community:
A PUBLIC DECLARATION OF
To Whom it May Concern:
This is to certify whereas 1t has
been rumored that we. the Colored
citizens of Rialto. are charged with
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-29
WILL PR OBABLY Be POWER
BEHIND THE THRONE IN RE-
PUBLICAN AFFAIRS IN ILLINOIS
(By Associated Negro Press)

Chicago, ILL.,, Nov. 27.-Robert r.
Church, capitalist, business man, and
a political leader has demonstrated
beyond question his ability to cope
with the present political crisis so
far as our group is concerned. Mr..
Church is a political leader by adop-
tion and by choice. He has studied
politics and has been interested in
every field of activity from COM
mitteeman to presidential nomination
and election. He is retiring in dis
position but untiring in effort. He is
demonstrating more unselfishness
than four or five other political lead
ers that might be picked from various
parts of the country. AS time goes
on Mr.. Church will undoubtedly be
consulted very seriously by the lead
ing factors Of the Republican party
with reference tot the presidential
campaign Of 1920.
Mr.. Church was in Chicago this
week in conference with Republican
leaders, number of whom we're call
ed to the city by Chairman Will H.
Hays, to discuss the subject of con-
ditions following the recent elections
The political situation throughout
the country is such as to give the
leaders of all parties great concern
AS quiet as it is kept, the propaganda
of the Socialist and /. w. w. has
begun to have an effect on the think
ing Colored people, because much of
their argument for economic and
political justice is absolutely un-
answerable by either the Republican
or Democratic parties.
There is to be formed in this city,
the latter part of November, new
national Labor party to which a call
has been issued and it is stated that
Twenty thousand delegates will at
tend. The Republicans for a part,
keep their hold on the majority of
the Colored people throughout the
country, but they must play the game
fair and above board If they are
dealing with the new Negro who
thinks and goes independently, and
who is bitterly disgusted with the
old time arguments of the debt owed
the Republican Party and what it
did for our fathers. The new Negro
sees the advantage of political power
and he wants it. He is further de-
termined to have it some place or
other. He is open to reason and
uses good sense and good Judgment
and knows we'll who are his friends
and always unfinchingly stands by
them. Race consciousness and unity
have been aroused to such and extent
to gether with wide opinion of race
threats. that concerted action Of po-
litical matters may be obtained now
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-29

Moberly, Mo-, Nov. pa Negro,
said to be one of four who on Thurs
day night held up and robbed Ed
ward Thompson, a farmer, on the
outskirts of Moberly, was lynched
in Forest Park here early this morn
ing. The Negroes three companions,
who had been taken with him from
the Macon Jail and spirited to Mober-
ly by the mob, escaped from the
lynching. Two of them later were
captured by the Randolph County
officers and are now in jail at
point unknown. One Negro still is
at large, but posses are securing the
country for him and his capture is
momentarily expected.
The four Negroes were arrested
Thursday night by Moberly police
after Thompson had reported that
while on his way home he had been
held UP and beaten into insensibility
by four blacks and robbed. He gave
the police a description of his as
sailants, and short time later Harry
Classy, a Moberly Negro proprietor of
a rooming house, told the police four
men answering the description given
by Thompson were at his home. When
arrested all of the Negroes were
armed. They gave their names as
HALEY Richardson, Is years ord, 161
West Thirty-first street. Chicago;
Sanford Taylor, 20 years of age, fi3
Baker street, East st. Louis; George
Adams, 1S, 29S8 Federal street, Chica-
go; James Anderson, 1922 Federal
street, Chicago.
NeighbOrs Bent on Lynching.
Rumors that Thompson's neigh
bors were bent in lynching the Ne
groes reached the Moberly officers
Friday morning, and following their
preliminary hearing, when they were
bound over to the next term of the
Circuit Court, the prisoners were
taken to the Randolph County Jail
at Huntsville.
Friday night is is said, mob went
to Huntsville, but was outwitted by
Sheriff Henry Owens, who had taken
the Negroes to the Macon County
Jail. Last night an unusually large
number of farmers were noticed on
the streets here, but as the Negroes
were not in the city mob violence was
little feared. That night, however,
about twenty automobiles sped to
Macon the Jail was stormed and the
four prisoners were taken from the
Macon County Sheriff clad only in
the night clothes and brought to
Moberly.
Mob Waiting At Park.
The mob hurried the Negroes to
Forest Park, in the west part of the
city. Here a crowd, said to number
100 men was waiting. A large fire
had been built, it is said, but it is
uncertain whether the intention was
to burn the Negroes or merely to
keep the mob members warm. One
of the Negroes had his arms pinioned
behind him. A rope was place about