Republican farmer., 1920-06-25
RIOTS RESULT
 OF RADICAL PLOT
Police Bombing Chicago For Jonas Alleged
 Agitator. .

Chicago, June 21.---Police today were seeking R. D. Jonas, alleged radical agitator and three negroes in connection with rioting in Chicago's black belt last night, during which two white men were killed and two negroes were seriously injured. The fighting followed dispersal of a pa rade of negro members of the Star Order of Ethiopia an organization said to advocate return of the negro to Abyssinia, and immediately after one of the leaders of the parade had set fire to an American flag.
 Police today emphasized that the rioting was not the result of racial feeling but more probably the result of a radical plot. They pointed out that negroes and whites had. co-oper- ated in an effort to resent the insult to the flag. However, several incl dents, including the maltreatment of three negro ministers many blocks from the scene of the rioting, occur ring later in the night, savored of race rioting.
 The negroes sought as leaders in the plot to burn the flag are Joseph Fernon, who is said to call himself ''The Great Abyssinian"; his son, and Grover c. Bedding, who, it is said, claims to be a native of Abyssinia. The three negroes led the parade yesterday, mounted on horses and wearing fantastic rainment.
 Bedding and seven other negroes said to have been leaders in yester- days parade, were arrested today. Bedding was caught at a railroad station just after he had purchased a ticket for St. Louis.
 Joseph, who police declared, was back of the movement for the return of the negroes to Abyssinia, yester- day, was the principal speaker at d m eeting which had for it's object the launching of a boom for Mayor Will. liam Hale Thompson as a third party" candidate for president, whc would rally the solid Irish and negro vote"
 The killing of the white men, who included Robert L. Rose, a sailor sta toned at Great Lakes, aroused hun l dreds of sailors on leave in Chicago and, caused issuance of an order for the arrest and immediate dispatch to Great Lakes of all sailors found on the streets.
 | The other white man killed was i Joseph Hoyt, 59 years old, clerk in a cigar store near the scene of the shooting. He was shot with what is believed to have been a dum-dun bullet. His head was split as though with an axe. The negroes who were wounded, include Joseph F. Owens, 8 1 policeman.
 For several hours after the rioting started, crowds formed in and around 1 the outskirts of the black belt,'' but 1 700 policemen had little trouble in dis persing them.
 | Three negro preachers were beater 1 by crowd of white men, and a negro l buying ticket at the Polk street sta i tion downtown was seized by 25 mer and severely beaten. Four negroes ir 1 a taxi near the same Station also were
 set upon by a crowd but escaped. 1 According to witnesses of the burn, ing of the flag and subsequent shoot 1 ing, the parade led by the Fernons
 and Bedding dispersed in front of z cafe at 35th street and Indiana ave
 nue. The parade was to have beer
 followed by meeting in a hall ovei the -cafe.
 One of the leaders of the proces i sion, believed to have been the e1del | Fernon, took a flag from parce
 which he was carrying and set fr'
 to it. Spectators asserted that tn. | flag was saturated with oil and tha | it burned readily.
 Policeman Owens rushed to tn, 1 scene and toward one of the men, hi.
 club raised as though to strike, i 1 was said. One of the men on horse 1 back, it was declared, fired at hin 1 with a short rifle, wounding him witt 1 the first shot.
 Rose, the sailor, who had beer 1 touring the south side with two com | panions, sprang from an automob bil'
 when he saw the parade and wa almost at the policeman's side whel the latter was shot, according t'
 Spectators. He turned and ran int l a nearby cigar store.
 Several men with rifles, some 0
 which it is declared were obta1ne' 1 from an automobile nearby, ran t the door of the cigar store and fret a vo1ley. according to persons nea the scene. Rose and Hoyt, the ctsa
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