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The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-04-09
Jury Sentences Three Men
in One Hour.

Chicago, Auril within one hour
Tuesday juries in tho Criminal court
sentenced three bandits found guilty
of robbery with gun to terms of
ten years to life at Joliet penitentiary.
Clement Lebedis, TO- was sentenced
for holding up the grocery store of
John Bony at 9i4 West Thirty-sixth
street and stealing SLY and a $4,000
sent to Pontiac in 1916, paroled in
1911, and finally discharged in 1919.
There is only one thing you can
do" States Attorney McDaniels told
the jury before Judge George Ker-
stems. That is to send this man, who
ought now to be in -? to JO-
liet, where he cannot escape at least
for seven or eight years.
Richard Bradford, a Negro of 6536
st. Lawrence avenue, was foreman of
the jury in Judge David's court which
convicted Joseph Parker and Henry
Tolbert, both Colored, When Brad
ford was elected foreman he said TO
his fellow jurors: "These fellows are
a disgrace to my race We've got to
send 'em down the river"
The two were charged with hold
ing up Elbert Witherspoon, $50 West
Twenty sixth place. for $11.60. George
w Bingham. former teller of the
Schiff and Company bank was sem
fenced to from one to ten years by
Judge Frank Johnson after Bingham
admitted that, beginning with the day
he was first hired three years ago, he
had taken a total Of $7,450 from the
bank.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-04-09
THE D. c. SUPREME
COURT DECIDES A.
GA|NST SEGREGA-
TON.
Grants Damages TO EViCted Me-
gro Interstate Passengers who
Brought Suit, Virtually Means
Segregation Laws are Invalid.

Washington, d. c., April IA case
of vital Importance to the Colored
people of the United States was decid-
Court Of the District of Columbia
when Chief Justice Walter Mccoy rul-
ed that the iim-crow law of Maryland.
which makes it crime for Colored
passengers to ride in the same part of
a railroad train or electric car as
white passengers, was unconstititu-
tional and void as applied to inter
state Colored passengers. The court
further held that a so-called "regula-
ton" promulgated by a railway com
pany. segregating white and Colored
passengers, was unenforceable, and di-
rected a jury of twelve white men to
return a verdict in favor Of two Color
ed men who had been evicted from
car of the Washinton, Baltimore
and Annapolis Railway Company be-
cuase they had refused to occupy rear
seats when directed to do so by the
conuctor.
The evicted passengers were Fred
erick " Brooks and William A. Wal
ler Colored business men residing in
Kenilworth, D. C. On August 6, 1917,
car of the w. B. & \. at Best Gate,
Md. The car on which they were
riding was moving between Annapolis
and Naval Acadamy Junction, two
Maryland, but the evicted Colored
men Were riding on a ticket emitting
them TO transportation into this city.
AS a result of the eviction from the
train, Brooks and Waller were COM
PEELED to spend the night in a partly
enclosed station of the railway at Best
Gate and the exposure caused them
to become slightly i'll.
Although no excessive force was
used by the conductor in evicting them
from the train. and although the ac-
tual damage and loss sustained by
them was slight, the court ruled that
the eviction was wrongful and illegal
and directed the jury to award them
such damanages as the jury might
think proper to compensate them for
any actual loss, an for any physical
pain and suffering, and for any mem
tai anguish suffered by them as a re-
suit.
The jury, after half an hours de-
liberation, returned verdict against
the railway company for $1,000, each
plaintiff being awarded $500.
Brooks and Waller were represent
ed in the case by Attorneys James j.
OLeary and Raymond Neudecker, with
offices in the Fendall Building this
city. Attorney Robert l. Miller was
also of counsel for the plaintiffs.
Mr. O'Leary, who is Assistant Unit
ed States Attorney for the District of
Columbia, argued the constitutional
law features of the case and procured
the ruling that the jim-crow law of
Maryland was unconstitutional as ap-
piled to interstate Colored passengers,
and the further ruling that the segre-
cation Regulation of the company
was unenforceable, because it was un-
Continued on page S)
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-04-09
Tusksgee Head Concludes
Speaking Tour.
(By A. n. P).

Charlotte N. Car, April 7:-Dr. Rob
ert X. Motion, principal of Tusllegee
Institute concluded a weeks speaking
tour here Monday afternoon when he
spoke to a large audience of white
and Colored people, whicn greeted in
the city auditorium. During the week
DR.. Motion addressed three white
schools, including the State Universe
Trinity College, at Durham, North
Carolina and the State Agricultural
College for white at Raleigh. The
other communities visited includ-
ed Holly Springs, Method, Zebulon,
Windall Garner, Fayetteville. Chad
bourne, and Wilmington. And at each
place visited both white and Colored
people We're present to hear him. In
all of his addresses DR.. Motion stress
ed the importance of justice, forbear-
ance, frankness, and good will be-
tween the races as the basis for SOL
wing the race problem. The meeting
thousand white and Colored people at
the City Auditorium. was typical of
meetings held at all the places visited
by Dr.. Motion and his party. The
garbled report of DR.. Motons Ra-
leigh speech sent out by The Asso-
ciated Press does him great injus-
tice. A special writer in the Raleigh
News and Observer reports DR.. Motion
as saying:
TT is time for you Negroes to quit
talking about the white people, 1T Is
time for you white people TO quit
talking about the Negroes. You ought
to talk to each other, and together
work to the common justice, COM
your problems believe God has
set these two races down here to-
gether as sort of human laboratory
to prove to the world that two peoples
can live together in harmony and in
peace. 1t is time to quit talking So
cial equality We neither want that.
We want racial equality. 1t is for us
both to follow the traditions of our
people, and don't let any of us stoop
to anything that is mean, or that is
unjust"
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-04-09
(By a. n. P)

Washington, April 7.-Startling in
formation will be revealed in the War
Risk Investigation asked for by Pres
ident Harding. General Charles G.
Dawes, of Chicago, heads the Com
mission, and Assistant Secretary of
the Navy Roosevelt is one of the
members. The Commission is now sit
ting in Washington, and during its
sessions 1t will be disclosed that Ne
gro soliers in that department, under
the Wilson administration suffered
shameful and unbelievable treatment.
One of the former officers who ser
we'd in the War Risk department, Lieut.
J. Williams clifford, has gathered
fund of data on this subject, and he
will offer it to the Commission.
III an exclusive interview for The
Associated Negro Press, he declared:
"lt was because my petitions for
these suffering men were practically
ignored that | resigned from the de-
partment some time ago. The people
viii be aroused to action when they
know what these brave boys are go
ing through
"What we need is close. sympathetic
contact with all former soldiers. There
are thousands Of opportunities to be
helpful that thousands of soldiers do
not know anything about. We must
eucate them into the advantages OF
war risk, but the determinations must
Lieut.. Clifford. showed the Associat-
ed Negro Press representative letters
that he has received from various sol
diers. Only brief quotations from a
few of them can be given here.
Quotations from Soldiers.
Oscar Flewellen. of Waco. Texas: 81
have asked these doctors here in camp
to send in my medical record. but
they will not look after the interests
of the Colored boys. . ColOred boys
are treated like cattle and dogs. The
officers are low bred, uncouth, and
If they are not careful a race riot
is liable to occur as these boys have
all decided to stick If anything oc-
ours"
S. II. Cavitt, Houston, Texas: II
write YOU in the interest Of our Col
ored returned soldiers and the treat
ment that is given them as to their
just compensation and hospital treat
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-04-09
SECRETARY MELLON Or
DERS Jim CROW" SIGNS
DOWN.
Government Officials Are Be-
ginning to do Actual Work on
Problems Of State. Q Wilson
Jim Crow" Sign Makes
Treasurer Angry.
(By A. N. P).

Washington, D. c., April 7,-History
immortal Rev, John Jasper Of Vir-
ginia: THE Sun Do Move. If you
direction of Washington.
President Harding started the ball
rolling. by putting humaneness into
net, and it is now. being echoed on
Capitol Hill. The latest solo in the
grand chorus comes fromone other
than the powerful and mighty Sena-
tor Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania,
who has startled the nation in
statement of justice to the Negro. Al
that Senator Penrose, says Is truth.
and It is bound to have an electrical
effect upon other senators. upon law
abiding bodies and the people in gem
Cabinet Roll Call.
In the expansion of this idea, II is
most interesting to have intimate
and unquestioned knowledge of how
the Presidents official family STANDS
on the subject The Associated Negro
Press is in oposition to state author
itatively that every member of the
new cabinet can be depended upon to
deal squarely with all American citi-
zens. There is no disposition to side
step any of the issues that now CON
front the people. The issues of Race
adjustment are being met, and Will
continued to be met with frankness
never DeIOre eQualleu.
Secretary of State Hughes is giving
and sympathetic consideration to the
problems of Liberia, Haiti, and the
Dominican government: His reception
essarily formal, but nevertheless cor
dial.
through the department of Justice, is
delving into the terrible peonage con-
ditions in Georgia and the Mississippi
! delta. The protests of organizations
and citizens generally, that are pour
/ ing into the President and Attorney
sideration, and so far as the govern
ment is concerned these conditions
will be dealt with firmly.
Secretary of War Weeks has given
with him that there will be nothing
but square deal in his department.
for all. He is thoroughly interested
in disabled soldiers, and in fact, all
World War; and now uphold the honor
of the flag.
Secretary of Labor Davis is demon
stratng to the world that he believes
| in justice. In the recent Packers
hearing, the Secretary of Labor stood
| like a stone wall in defence of treat
ing Negro labor fair
Secretary of the Navy, Denby has
been in the tropical waters surround
| ing the West Indies, and his opinions
| OF COnQlIlOnS III I1dlll Will bO u lohb
way toward determining the program
of achievement and justice in that re-
public.
Postmaster General Hays is every
where preaching the gospel of Merit
and Justice" In denomination the
Postmaster General is a Baptist. and
is a postmaster in the ability to de-
! liver the "rousements' which turn
/ lethargy and injustice topsy-turvey.
Secretary of the Interior hall, with
out any noise or excitement, dropped
Lieut.. Flipper into a berth, and gave
Alaskan Affairs. The "crocadile"
{ Continued on page 81
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-04-09
l.. NJ. CHEEK. EDITOR OF THE IN
DEPENDENT, SUCCUMBS AFTER
BRIEF ILLNESS.

Raleigh, N. c., April 7-Lawrence
NJ. Check editor Of the Raleigh lnde,
pendent, local Negro newspaper dled
nj 3.SO O'Clock following a brief ILL
ness. He was a native of Warren
county, an was educated at shaw UNI
versity, graduating cum magma lauue;
After his graduation he spent seVeral
years in the teaching profession SER
wing as professor of Greek I'M Hous-
ton College, Houston, TcE as
In 916 he came to Raleigh and
established the Oregon Printing COM
pany, out of which grew the RaIelgh
Independent, which is among the lead
ing Negro newspapers of the Soutn,
Editor Check, thouh young, had won
the respect and admiration of his peo-
pie throughout the country. The Col
ored people Of Raleigh will miss MN
cial civic and religious circles. The
funeral arrangements will lie announ-
ced later.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-04-09
STAR WITNESS FOUND IN GEORGIA "MURDER FARM" CASES
Says Friends Of Accused Men Start Ru-
mOrs Of Negro Menace to Change Senti-
ment in Their Favor. Much Evidence on
Hand to Show That Much Testimony Was
Perjured.

1t was a part of the plot, officials
stated, for the man to enter Jasper
county to start a rumor of seeing the
dead bodies thrown into the river by
the Negroes, and the signing an af-
fidavit at Monticello, ii this effect.
All this was to be done letters We're
look out for the Negroes wiping
to be sent to farmers telling them to
out the whites" and runners were dis
patched in several directions, crying
that the Colored people We're gather
ing to start racial war, it is al
legged.
In addition to all this, it is reliably
stated, a letter has been found which
was sent to the man who was to take
the leading part in the conspiracy, in
structing him to meet Huland will
liams at a certain place to ne inform
ed of the details of the conspiracy.
The man met the Williams boys ac-
cording to the alleged confession of
the prisoner, and was promised $4,000
If he succeeded in carrying out his
instructions.
When the young man started to Jas
per county last Sunday, his brothers
learned of the alleged plot and caught
him before he had succeeded in carry
ing out any part of the plot.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-04-09
RECENT SURVEY SHOWS SOUTHERN NEGRO
FARMERS HAVE MADE MUCH PROGRESS.

ices performed upon which 1t is diff
ficult to place the valuation. AS for
example. the immuniZing of 6,7l4
heads of hogs by incubation, the car
ing for 1O9,5O7 fruit trees in 22,629
orchards, the installation of 6,Sl2 tele-
phones and 1876 water systems. 1t
should also be remembered that these
results were accomplished throuh
demonstrations which should reach
out and influence for good many
times the number Of farmers direct
ly reached.
Movable schools.
The movable schools conducted by
the use of the well known Knapp ag-
ricuhtural truck was the means Of
reaching great numbers Of Negro far
mers, improving their home surround
ings and living conditions by demon
strating the needs for such thinss as
door steps, white washed buildings.
fences, better chicken houses, etc. The
work for the women at these nova
Bile schools began in the kitchens
which were completely overhauled and
improved, followed by the same re-
suits in the dining room, If separate
and the other room or rooms In the
house.
1t should also be kept in mind that
the white county agents in counties
where there is a Negro population do
considerable work with the Negroes.
After reporting many other phases
OF the work Professor Campbell closes
by stating that Negro extension work
in these seven southern states can
look back over its achievements for
the year 1920, with no small degree
If pride. Although we have lost a
number Of our workers who were ap-
pointed on an emergency basis during
the war, there are still sufficient
number eft to servo as a leavening
force which is destined 70 enrichen
rural life as no other form of teach
ing can possibly do
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-04-09
CLAIM WARRSk BUREAU OFFICIALS DEALT UNFAIRLY WITH SERVICE men
Startling Information to be Given Out in
Investigation Of Bureau Of War Risk Insur-
ance Investigation. Negro ex-Service Men
Claim Officials Practiced Much Discrin-
nation.

ment. 1t is quite evident that they
are not getting what the Government
gives to them, owing to the fact that
there Is no one here to represent them
IN their grievances; as the doctors
and nurses turn deaf ears to their
pleadings."
Lloyd Bates, Texarkana, Ark. have
Just received the letter stating that
you have cut my compensation from
$1,000 per month to $500 per month.
want to know why you cut the
Colored boys and allow the whites in
the South to get $4,000 TO $1,000 per
month. am asking how l am to work
when | lost my chances when I en-
tered the army, for I am now unable
to walk and work and / am a Grip
pie | want new rating from some
doctor who does not call us Niger
and make us wait two hours until all
Cme me, Wh@ites mites are are waited on | have proof
Logan who will say the same"
Augustus Stanberry, Dallas Texas:
1T seems that all these white doc
tors here are giving us a raw deal
they Will not send in our medical re-
satiOn'
Theodore Roe, Haley Ark: 'I have
waited patiently to hear from my
medical report but it seems that no
one in this camp will write or send
in our reports for compensation. We
do know they will write to the Blu
reau for the white boys but not for
US"
J. f. Davis, Y. NJ C. A., secretary
Marshall. Texas: wrote: 81 do not
know how il is in other states. but
may I say to you that hundreds of
Colored people hereabouts in the
State of Texas. are being robbed
cheated, deprived of the things right
fully due them from the Bureau. NJ
have just received information Of a
mans having secured an agreement
from the War Risk policies for the
payment Of a considerable sum of the
proceeds if he will adjust it or get
them the money"
There are scores and scores of cases
similar to those. many of them un-
printable in their scandalous debauch-
cry. In the matter OF neglect, cover
ing up and studied insult, it appears
that thousands of disabled Colored
Americans have suffured untold agony.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-04-09

Auburn, Ala, April IA report of
Negro agricultural extension work in
Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas for
the year 1920 by Prof. T. A. Camp
bell, field agent for the states con-
cerned, has just been received. The re-
port covers 80 typewriter pages and
after showing that Negro extension
work - really under the supervision
Of the white directors of extension in
the states concerned, with the state
Negro agents located at the different
colleges for Ne ogroes, it presents
brief history of Negro Extension work
which began Is years ago when Book
or T. Washington called together at
TuslIegee institute a few influential
Negro farmers from all parts of Ala
bama Professor Campbell reports THAI
there are now employed in this state
20 local Negro agents. seven local
women agents. one state agent for
men, one state agent for women, one
state club leader and a man and
woman on the movable school force.
These local agents are located in
counties where the Negro population
is heaviest in order that they may
efficiently reach and serve gre lter
number of Negro farmers and their
families.
In a general way agricultural eX-
tension work among the Negroes is
conducted in a way similar to that
pbell states they get their "cue" from
the whites and after reducing 1t to
where it is practical for Negro far
mers they apply. it to their work.
They have soil building, terracing,
plowing, pruning, spraying, cultiva-
ton, feeding and other demonstra-
ton for the men, while the women
have their cooking, sewing, cleaning,
furniture building, and other demon
strations
A detailed report for these seven
states shows that these Nero agents
ers and that they were called on at
their headquarters by 14.224 farmers
for assistance. A total of 4,G74 meet
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-04-09
THE MOTTO INTERPRETATION

The address delivered by DR.. Robert
r.. Motion last night could produce no
other than salutory effect. Endeav-
oring to interpret some of the things
which the white and Colored people,
respectively, keep "in the back of
their heads the Tuskegee. principal
spoke with refreshing franl<ness. His
directness, his simplicity, his honesty
and earnestness are at once disarm-
ing and strongly persuatlve. He is inn
meiately revealed as a man who lives
mankind. whose outlook is that of
clear-eyed Christian. The wides-
pread adoption Of the Motion methoos
would soon clarity the atmosphere of
racial relations. His method is that
of unreserved frankness and unlimited
charity. Nothing is to be gained
by policy of concealment; no adjust
ment of the race problem will ever
be made while there is a lack of un-
derstanding, or while spirit Of sym
pathy is excluded from our coun-
ellis on racial relations,
The Wilmington IN. C) Morning
Star
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-04-09
EDITOR OF TIMES PLAINDEALER
RESIGNS.
(By A. n. P).

Birmingham, Ala, April Henry
f. Arnold classed as one of the great
est promoters of newspapers among
the race has resigned from the staff
of the Times Plaindealer. 1t was the
untiring effort of Mr. Arnold that has
made the Plaindealer recognized
journal among the race, and his
many friends all over the country will
regret very much his leaving. No de-
tails have been given for his action
but Mr.. Arnold is reported to have
said that a statement will be for
warded to the Associated Negro Press.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-04-09
LYNCHING TOWN BOYCOTTED BY
STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY.

The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, 20
Fifth Avenue. today announced re-
Society Of Kentucky had voted to call
off a meeting which IT had been plan
ned to hold in Versailles, Kentucky.
Versailles Is the scene of the lyn-
ching of Richard James on March 1S,
row removed the jailer who permitted
the mob to take its victim from his
custody.
The change in the state Meeting OF
Kentucky's med cal society Is a direct
consequence of the lynching, according
to the president of the society.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-04-09
{ Special to Associated Press)

Convington. Ca. April "A new
and sensational development in the
investigation here of the atrocious
murder Of eleven Negroes on the John
S. Williams plantation and in ada
cent rivers, was revealed late today
when evidence was submitted to the
Newton county grand jury to the ef-
feet that three William boys and
others We're responsible for the con-
spiracy to arraign the white people
here against the blacks, and that eff
forts had been made to secure per-
jured testimony in behalf of the prom
inent planter under indictment for
murder.
Behind the bars of the Newton coun-
ty Jail tonight, a young man, whose
name officials refused to make pub
lie, is being closely guarded, and it
is his testimony before the grand jury
Tuesday which attacks Julius, Huland
and Marvin Williams, charging them
with attempting to bribe him to testl-
fy that on a certain night several
weeks ago, he saw a car Of Negro
occupants on Aliens bridge over the
Yellow river, and that on closer eX-
animation he discovered two dead
blacks
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-04-09
SWEAR IN SPECIAL MEN TO PRO
TEST MINING PROPERTY.
(By A. N. P).

Birmingham, Ala, April 7.--Approx-
imately fifty special deputies haye
been sworn in for the protection of the
mines and other property Of the Ten
nessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Com
pany following an attack on Arthur
Whitfield and John Dawson, Negro
miners, near Pratt City late last Tues
day.
According to authorities their inves-
LEGATIONS show that the two miners
were attacked while on their way
home from work go,
No clues have been found which VIII
lead to the capture Of those RESPONSE
ble for the shooting.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-04-09
NEGRO TOBACCO FARMERS SEEK
TO JOIN FEDERATION.
(By A. N. p.

Louisville, KY, April NEGRO to-
bacco farmers are seeking to join with
the Tobacco men from twelve states,
who We're here in a conference at
which adoption of a cooperative plan
OF growing and marketing tobacco Is
expected. The meeting was called by
the Kentucky Farm Bureau Federa-
ton, which urged the necessity
of having all phases of the tobacco
industry represented in the proposed
marketing plan. The states represent
ed at the meeting included Kentucky,
Connecticut. North Carolina, South
c arolina, Maryland, Virginia Illinois.
Ohio, Tennessee Missouri. Indiana and
Wisconsin.