Norwich bulletin., 1920-06-22
WHITE LEADER INSTIGATED
 RACE RIOT IN CHICAGO

Chicago, June 21.-With R. D. Jonas, said by the police to be the white lead CT of an organization advocating the re- turn of negroes to .Abyssinia; Grover c. Redding and seven negroes under arrest in connection with a riot last night n the Chicago black belt that resulted in the killing of two white men and the Wounding> of several negroes, police ard federal officers began an investigation of the star order of Ethiopia" whose mem bers were reported to have participated in the affair.
 The police were still searching<fo Jo- seph Fernon, who is said to call himself the Great Abyssinian" and his son. Ac- cording to reports; they gal bed n fan tastic raiment, also were leaders of the parade.
 Jonas said that he had warned fed ! eral officers last week of the proposed parade of the. cult and that they should be on the watch for trouble, bu1 declared | that no attention had been paid to his 1 statement.
 Packages of pamphlets explaining l Egyptian secrets" were taken from Red ding. He had concealed them under his l clothing. They were held as evidence of his alleged activities among negroes in | spreading the cult.
 1 The inquest into the deaths of Charles l Hoyt,r cigar store clerk, and Robert L.
 Rose, sailor victims of the riot, was l postponed until June 26 at the request of the police. Captain Caughlin of the Cot
 tage Grove police, station, declared tha; l he had three of, the men believed to be 1 implicated in the shooting under arrest 1 and wanted more time to search for l | fourth, said to be a former negro soldier. ] While the police were quizzinS the al leged leaders of the Abyssinian cult Ed | w2rd .I-sERrenDan chief pa tar Nor the department of justice, started an in
 quiry on behalf of the government.
 He said searching investigation
 would be made to determine just how far
 the .Abyssinian movement has spread and
 what individuals are behind it.
 Resolutions denouncing Jonas as a
 white leader responsible for creating un-
 rest among. the negro population were
 passed today by several negro organiza,
 tions. They said that the riot was not
 caused by racial feeling but was the re.
 putable negroes had no part in the movement.
 Jonas was said to have been. the chiet speaker Sunday at meeting to urge
 Mayor William Hale Thompson to be
 come candidate for president on a thirC party ticket backed by, the solid Irisl and negro -yote.''
 Thousands of pieces of literature re , lating to the Abyssinian movement wer confscated by the police in a, raid on
 garage on the south side. According t,
 the police one leafet boosted that standing army of four million was ii s readiness in Ethiopia. Applications fo ? admission to the order were among tn 1 papers. They were captioned Star Or : der of Ethiopia" and bore Bible quota
 tions. sa ~
 States Attorney Hoyne today receive 6 the following telegram from New Tor n signed Black Star Line, Inc, Marcu : Garvey, president" , From newspaper reports it Is appar c ent that one Grover C. Bedding is OF s erating in Chicago under the guise of a
 | Abyssinian and a representative of tn
 colored people. He has often used tn f name of the Black Star line corporatio t in representing himself to the people e This man has been operating all owe h the United States and is fraud. W y have had cause to denounce him in man 0 cities recently in Bostcn.' n The police said tonight that two nc e gro witnesses to the affray identife
 Bedding as the man who killed Rose an
 Hoyt. The witnesses are employees of tf
 cafe, in front of which the shooting too place.
 T Previously, Jonas had identified Rec :. ding as the. man who led the parade an s who burned the flag. Bedding, smartl VI dressed in frock coat, protested ths
 his name was George Brown and that | 't had just come to Chicago from St. Loui He said he was 2 laborer for the stre, o railways.
 n Jonas admitted to detectives that I d was at one time a leader of the Abyssil e Ian movement, but denied any connectio y with Sundays parade.