The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-06-21
VELOPMENT a. ~J1l1 FIELDS REQUIRES BEST ROADS
All Night Rio ting in Chicago Black
Belt Led by So-Called "Abyssinians,'
Kings of Ethiopia and Radicals From
"Workers" Ranks; American Flag Burned
By Negro; Two White Men Killed in Melee

Chicago, June 2l.-Police today
were searching for R D. Jonas, al.
legged radical agitator, and three ne
groes in connection with rioting In
Chicagos black belt" last night, dur
ing which two white men were kill
ed and two negroes were seriously in
jured. The fighting followed dispersal
of a parade Of negro members Of the
Star Order Of ETHIOPIA" an organiza-
ton 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 q radical plot. They pointed out
that negroes and whites had cooper
ated In an effort TO resent the insult
to the flag. However, several Incl
dents, including the mal-treatment OF
three negro ministers many blocks
from the scene of the rioting. occur
ring later in the night, favored riot.
ing.
The negroes sought as leaders in
the plot TO burn the flag are Joseph
Fernon. who is said 10 call himself
THE Great Abyssinlan," his son ana
Grover c. Redding, who, it is said,
claims to be a native Of Abyssinia
The three negroes led the parade yes
terday, mounted on horses and weas-
ing fantastic rainent.
Jonas, who police declared was back
of the movement for the return OF
the negroes to Abyssinia, yesterday
was the principal speaker at a meet
ing which had for its object the
launching Of q boom for Mayor VIII
liam Hale Thompson, az third par
ty candidate for president who 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
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. An order barring all
sailors from Chicago, a result Of trou-
BILE, was considered by Rear Admiral
Bassett, commandant at the training
station today, but thus far no ac-
ton along this line has been taken.
The other white man killed was
| Joseph Hoyt, SO, clerk in cigar
store near the scens' Of the shoot.
! f.,rr IL ag.f .ssn t.. la1.
| to have been dum.dum bullet. His
head was split as though with an
axe.
The negroes who were wounded in
cluded Joseph Z. Owens, policeman.
| For several hours after the rioting
started, crowds formed in and around
the outskirts Of the black belt, but
400 police rushed into the belt, ana
had little trouble in stopping the
trouble.
Four negroes in taxi also were
set upon by a crowd, but escaped
According to witnesses Of the burn
ing of the flag and subsequent shoot
ing, the parade led by the Fernons and
Reddng. dispersed in front Of 35th
street and Indiana avenue.
The parade was to have been fol
lowed by a meeting in q hote! over
the cafe.
One of the leaders Of the procession,
believed to have been the elder Fernon
took flag from a parcel, which he
was carrying, and set fire to il. Spec
tators asserted that the flag was sat
urated with oil. and that it burned
readily.
Policeman Owens was notified Of
the act, rushed to the scene and to-
ward one of the men, his club raised
as though to strike, witnesses said.
One Of the men on horseback. It is
declared, fired at him with a short
rifle, wounding him with the first shot.
Rose, the sailor, who had been
touring the South Side, with two
companions, sprang from an automo-
biel when he saw the parade and
was almost al the policeman's side
when the latter was shot, according
to spectators. He turned and ran into
a nearby cigar store.
| 2tNtA0l illtI VIII IllltS, some
which it is declared were obtained
from an automobile nearby, then ran
to the door of the cigar store, and
fired a volley, according to persons
near the scene. Rose and Hoyt, the
cigar store clerk, dropped dead.
During the shooting. second flaS
was thrown upon the flames, but IVES
rescued before it was burned.
Shortly after the arrival Of police
and dispersal of the crowds, word
was sent out for the arrest of Jonas.
Before the order for his arrest was
issued, he was seen by a newspaper
man and declared he had nothing to
do with the parade. He denounced
Redding as q radical and an agita.
tor" but when police tried to locate
him, he had disappeared.
Police today arrested Redding and
seven other negroes who are said to
have been leaders in yesterdays pa.
rade. Redding was caught at a
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