Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-15
CHANCELLOR ELLIOTT STOPS CIRCULATION
 OF NEGRO JOURNAL
Enjoins Agent of the Chicago
 Defender From Actiyi- ties Here
L1BELOUS ARTICLE ON
 WICK KILLING CASE
Anyone Caught With Radical Sheet in City or County Liable to Prosecution, Say
 Officials


 terday afternoon issued an injunction restraining John Young Jr., Pine i Bluff negro, "or any other persons" from circulating the Chicago Defend CT, negro radical publication, in Pine Bluff or Jefferson county. { .Ihe Injunction was granted on the request of Mayor Mack Hollis and City Attorney A. R. Cooper, follow ing receipt here of copies of the newspaper in which the recent kill ing of George Vicks, negro, after he had murdered City Detective C. c. Lynn in cold blood, was portrayed in an article in a scandalously false manner.
 The injunction granted by Judge Elliott instruct Chief of Police Frank Stewart, Sheriff Curran Nichol and Constable Ben Brannon and their deputies to seize all copies of the paper and to arrest anyone with copies in their possession. Under it the officials believe, possession of copy of the paper can be held to be in violation of the orders against circulating it.
 Vicks, after shooting negro, kill ed Officer Lynn when the latter went to arrest him. He then barricaded himself in house on East Barra- que and held off officers and citi- zens, shooting several innocent peo- pie and endangering hundreds until the house was burned and he was forced out and killed. Negroes as we'll as white people aided in the hunt for him and there was not the k. oH i or after the affair.
 Here's the way the Chicago Defend CT printed an account of the incl dent: WICK GIVES ACCOUNT OFT SELF. Pine Bluff, Ark, Feb. l3.- George Wick, in an attempt to de- fend his home, his liberty and his six white men who tried to invade his domicile. The affair was the outgrowth off bulldozing tactics of by southern officers, and resulted in the killing of c. c. Lynn, 32. city detectives; Mrs. Sam Soltz, 65, the above two white; and Memphis Slim, Ray Avery, "A, shot through the thigh; Ed Mann, deputy constable, shot through the leg; Frank Terry, machinist, shot thdough the head; George Bozart, shot in the breast; Colton Stain, arm shot off; Joe Cranberry, shot in the leg, all white Wick was also killed"
 Account Untrue.
 In their complaint, athe mayor and the city attorney alleged Young isl either the agent and representative of the editors and publishers of the Chicago Defender, or is engaged in circulating the paper on his own au- thority.
 The Defender is classed as libel ous, scurrilous, insidious. scandal ous, wicked, profane and vile in1 character, and it "has the intention of stirring up race hatred and pre- judice, and agitating rebellion against the law and the officers elected to enforce the laws"
 The account of the Vicks killing. the plaintiffs classed, as wholly and utterly untrue and known to be so by the publishers and editors and designed to inflame the minds of those who read it.
 In these contentious the plaintiffs were upheld by the court. Judge Elliott's ruling marks the close of the career of the Defender in Pine Bluff. Since the close of the war the Defender has been especially dangerous. Every incident involving a negro has been printed in it in a highly colored manner. In many cases of race trouble in the South the Defender has been confiscated among radical literature seized. Absolutely false reports of the Hell ena and Elaine troubles recently brought hundreds of copies of the paper to this section. The paper, it| is charged, some time ago was finan-1 ced by the International Harvester company >and other corporations which sought to entice the negro from his southern home to the north ern industrial centers, the object being to obtain cheap labor. It's pres ent ownership is not publicly known. A short while ago one of the edi. tors was named on the publicity staff of Governor Lowden in his campaign for the republican nomination for presidency.