The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-21
CHICAGO NEGROES
 |NST|GATE A RIOT;
 SEVERAL ARE KILLED
Hold Back to Africa" Pa rade and Burn An Ameri- can Flag, Trampling It
 With Their Feet
By Associated Press

Chicago. June 20.-Two white men and negro policeman were killed and several negroes were wounded tonight in a riot in the heart of the south side "black belt" following the re- ported burning of an American flag by band of negroes who were said to have paraded in the interests of back to Africa" movement.
 The dead are R. l.. Rose. white, a sailor; Joseph Hoyt. white. a cigar dealer, and Joseph P Owens, a negro policeman.
 Rose was shot through the heart. dying instantly. Hoyt's head was split across the brow. leading the po- lice at first to believe he had been killed by a blow from an axe. Later investigation. however. brought the conclusion that his skull had been split by dunn dunn bullet. Owens was taken to hospital. where he died soon afterward.
 The trouble occurred at Thirty fifth street and Indiana avenue. near the scene of last years race riot in which more than thirty whites and blacks were killed and hundreds in- jured.
 Several hundred policemen were rushed to the district and succeeds1 Tn restoring order before the disturb ance spread. More than a thousand negroes gathered. but no general riot occurred
 several negroes who witnessed the flag burning ran to pool room at -fr
 nue and asked aid of persons in the place in preventing the act.
 Rose. who was in the pool room, and number of negroes proceeded to- ward the gathering of blacks. They were joined by Policeman OwensI who attempted to arrest one of the group
 Owens started to search ths man Cor a weapon when other negroes in the crowd were reported to have drawn pistols
 It was not known who fired the first shot Owens was wounded in the back and Rose. who had Just left Hoyts cigar shop after enlisting the latters aid. was shot through the heart.
 According to the statements of
 spectators. the paradinE negroes
 disbanded and gathered in n circle
 around m American flag, --ree7 they set on fire. After tt AsA burned a fsttSs tbey stanAnaa Gu x HGE ftstys sewe al Ernsy saqo
 sra ha&sss trisw at
 Tae aoands of fsa Haatz many negrosa wh6 0eEh nor "a tla eade and keeY fi,Sae6 trta nH asoi roers and eif r4 assistance. 1eoorainp Elements made to the Police declared tonight that they probably never would know the exact rumber wounded Several were car ried off by friends. 1t was said, fo. the parading negroes disappeared rapidly after the first few shots. Esti- mates ranged from one to dozen dozen men. mostly negroes were arrested and questioned at the Cot tage Grove police station. According to the police. tho negro organization. known as "The Aby-~ sinians." had been holding me- ings in the Chicago negro quarter for 8osas time to persuade members of thAfe race to go to Liberia. Two Anne eEn flags were carried by the parad. -e they moved through the black ielt Rose was 2S years old and m taaer of the Fifteenth regiment. sta icnta at Great Lakes. He won the tisstH- guished service medal overseas.
 The police learned that "The .Abyss sinians' were to sail on one Of tla Black Star Steamship Company vess sells.
 We will leave nothing undo 10 lind the men who began this shootlGg affray" Chief of Police Garrity said.
 T do not expect there will be any further trouble in this district"