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HARDING IN-MESSAGEi IN PENNSYLVANIA own; ave r
And Manning Indicted A.,};:·at~::~o;Pt~~ 9A~::'~ce~:~~n~: wa'h~=~ D~ ~~eA~~~~·.~]n rJ ;i:':~~~~~~~he!i~f ~:r:L~;;I~::: Enough," Says Commander
OFfiCIALS TO MAKE RIGID PROBE
TROUBLES IN GEORGIA
olured People, 70 Fifth Avenue, New f~rnce to h"ching in the t:nite Rlght.:; Bill which pa.e the Hou a
York, t lay rele'be a statement fe- -tate" Presi nt Harding in his fit la~t week amI now lies before the " '11- WANT
OF RACIAL garding an intenie\\' held by Jame me,S3/.,'\l to the new Conlfrcs; "hlen ate.
i Weldon Johnson on the morning of CUR\'ened here T~y, said the fol· O\'er the trenuou objection of
• April 4, with President Harding. :\Ir. lowing: I l!ep .... entative A,bury. Tue,-Gay the
I Juhn,on in talking with the Pre,.ident I "Cong~," OU!(~t . to wipe the stain Hou,e "olcd to recall the mea-ure.
emphasize the fact that the Xational of barbarIC IYllclllng from the banner. This was done, it " "" ,aid in order ,
WORLD TO KNOW THAT BRAVE I WHITE
MEN LIVE IN MEMPHIS
A. sociation for the Ad\"8llcc'llent of o( a free and orderly repre.;,entath·e ask amendments which would kCl'P ~1.·::\Il'HI, TEXX., April II.- Th:. nati n, , tate or municipality, cr with
:\Iontice110, G .• April 12.-Follo .. - Covington. Ga.. April 12.-"1 rur, Colored People. in speaking for tweh'e dem""racy. We face the fad that the col ' .... 1 people from white hot I". I.,ted city ,u.':"eu from ... .lD) a ch"l1'e the application of that :aw by oifi-log
the return of a dozen murder in· innocent, and when I get m): new trial million Colore citizen.; of the Unite~ many mllJions of people of African de- I Although the attempt of the Houe of crime. of hate. of lawle"ne-., but cials and e.ecuti duly elected ani
dJetments against John S. Wi\Jiam-, I'll pro,e that what I ,a)" IS true." States, was not In\.(oreste in the P3r- scent are numbered among our popu· to get the bill back into its jurisdic- ,one (act , tand:o out in it fa\·or. It con'tituted by the people who are
his t.hree younger _ons and Clyde .Ian. Thi., was aU that John . Williams, ~ling out o~ petty jobs but that its lation. an~ that i~ a number of sta~s I tion was successful, as far as the I i has in the American' Legion. Post Xu. t?em, e1"", ~ '\'emed b~' repre nta­ning,
the Negro whose senationru Jasper count)· planter, would Elly Sat· mterest w~ In the enacL~nent cf ~~as. they const~tute a ve~ I .... ge proportioll I House itself was concrened it was 1. as fine a hody of )'oung whIte IlI1'n th e;: ~I their ~"" chOOSing; and, _
con! '011 revealed the "murder farm ' urday when questioned by newspaper ures to relle\'e oppresSIve cond,tioJl; of the total populatIon. bl""ked in the Senate. There enato. as the great outh ga"e t the worl,l Whe.~a. Thi has no knowl­
ties, by the Jasper county grand men abou~ hi plans for the future. "I affecting Colored people. ]t ~s "?"~cesgary to :eeoun~ the diI' l Vare brought up a point of order bas· war. ' I edge of and no conneetion with UI&
jury this afbernoolL Soficitor Ge~ra1 refer you to my lawyer, Greene John- lir. Johnson took up with Mr. Har- ficulties lD~dent to this co~di~lOn, nor on the ?Id deci'io~ of a pres.idinj( . A few mon~ ago thl' state meet· Knigh of the Ku Klux Klan. so call­~
le Campbell announced tonight son," he added. "He may ha~e some ding the following points, .. amestl~' to ~mph~",e the fa.;t that It IS a con. , officer. which he mamtained forbade lIlg of the LegIon was)leld he1"C, and ed, in pursuance of the polkie, of the
t:B.t .vestigation will be m e .tatement to make ..e.-d week." urging that federal anti·lynching leg· dlbon whlch camt?t be removed. There . the bill leaving the custody of the Colored ex-soldiers sat ,,;th their ' American Legion, to refrain irom po­Tue.
sda, into the killing of two other He then stepped into a waiting au· islation, Congt'eS!'ional in, tigation of has beeD. suggestio~. ho.we\·"", that chamber. He was sustained in this white comrades. and in the phowgr.Jp" litieal and controversial matters;
indivi in dilrerent parts of the I tomobile and was rushed to the Falton the American Occupation in Haiti and s~me of Its diIficul lIlI8ht . be ame- I point of order by the p""siding officel taken of that memorable gathering OL I therefore be it
eounty. County tower. An hour before he luul a congressional investigation of dis· Iiora.ted b~ a h"?,s and el!~htened 1 and it was thll3 nullified. the steps of Co,o.it Library the Color- , Re.ol\·ed, Tlult ~emphis P~st No.1.
This disdosure by the Solicitor c8l'le stood unHinchingly before Judge John franchlsement in the South be includ- conSIderation of It, study of ,ts man.Y ElYorts of the house tc. t...ckle the boys had a place. American Legion, hereby brands ""
at die end of the first day's session of l B. Hutcheson and heard the senten"" ed in the President·s first meS38ge to aspects. "."d an etfo to i09"u1ate, ~f bill shows that the repre3entatives • ·ow. again. the :\Iemphi LegIon absolutel\" false the interference that
the speclal term of the grand jury, ' of life imprisonment upon him. Congress. Ir. Johnson also urged 011 not a pol~cy, at lea a na~nal attl' who voted for it ha"e changed their step, forward '0 prot......,t the name or the Ame'rican I.egion is in any way
during...bkh much new evidence otter· Tried 011 the charge of murder of behalf of the Association that the oth- ' tude of mmd.caIc to ~rwg a~ut mind~ due to prote, ts from ,"ote ... thi. cit~·, and to tand on the ,id, of conneete Ku Klux Klan ani
ing stronger support is the testimony , Jjndse~' Peterson, an insignificant Ne- er points be taken up and action taken the most sati~faeto poSSlble adJust- I back home. They have lost all oppor· law and right in the battle ill no knowledge of it, personnel of Manning. was submitted" is an gro .'brought out" from a city prison 011 them by the Presjdent. Mr. John· ment of relatlor.s tween ~ ra~eS', tunity to vote 0 .. the case again and parts between ignorar'Ce am; lawles.· the ""ope of its operation; that we re-indication
of the rigid probe Jasper and taken to work on his brood fields 90Il reports that his interview ,,~th and of each r.ac" the ,national life. I the fight is now in the Senate. ne •• on one , ide and lhe intelligence iterate our raith in American instit ....
COUAty officials are determined to oi cotton. he was condemned to tha~ the President was very satisfactory. Ol.,e ?rOPD-"31 IS .th creation of .a. com· , ]n the Senate the bill has the sup- of Southern white people. law an" tions and particularly in the institu-make
into aU racial trouble wi',liin punishment by a jury of other white The specific pOints discussed were: ml .,on embraCing representatives of port of Senator Vare ami nilej property on th,e other. : tion of orderly anti organized gaverD-borders,
according to Judge J. B. par. farmers and smaJI to .. " merchants, al- 1. Pas.,age of a federeJ snti.lynch- bot~ races: to 'Stud . and repo~ on the tates Senator Penl'o' . """l. elYortsJ :So Ku Klux Klan Boal4s. ment; that this post. denies re!!pons.-
The stirring charge of the Judge though the only di~ e,idence of hi' l ing law by Congress. er.tJ~ .S~bJect.. T~ .~'1:~~ as.,;ea~ will ~ made b" ",ve ~ ew da~" ag"eral )Iemphis or· bilit)' for the individual acts of i
was everywbere ei.,.d ·th enthw i· guilt .... as the assertion of a l"egro. 2. A wide and thorough investiga- men, am ,convt :n m ua the. bill d '-1..,..# I.ley General members. and if any member of U.is
asm. and long before first indict· 5yde Manning, that he had hound: tion of peonage cooditions in the ~aa\i~~u:fth!~~ "ls.za~:u!!alb! I "':lIe~ed u Hte . e. 1 POst i:' ~ted wiOl the){u ux
ments "" were pre- ,, ~ d drown~ P~n ~ 'm S~ to be made by the the ,,,,II be S t( I' I K1an It 15 th ut knowledg or J ce 00 • 4 "D:Jat. 
 ussed the ca-"" In I h ped to kill ten others of his race. I ';::;;;b;ent of the • trator!f ,,[ t'lre ,:ghts of CI~e II the road to colored organizations are expected to 'fhe official seal-skull and bones- that,.-e denounce the and. meth-
6 -,0 0 1l}en _1._ d rober f of them ..... th an ax. p -. perpe r.ghteous adju..nent l o,..,nmelm the Senate Committee. was attached thereto. The Klan .aid ods employed by the klan and reItera~
front" the eoon.!'vuse an a nu. • Our . . . peonage .~ stem. it intended to clean up Mem?bi8. l our determination to fight evils of the-of
depu~es .... ere present to pl'e\en. .lohon for ~e .... T~.1. . 3. An in\estigatlOn of di~franchl.e- 1 The letter of this cowardly band community. state and national go"-
an}' poSSlble diso~. A motion for a new trIal for "'1' 1 ment in the South and ~e n~ht of the COLORED TEXANS ORGANIZE murderer,; lhought surely that they emment. , openly and on the common
Iiams will be argued before Judge egro to "ole under the IdentIcal qual· KLAN' TO AVENGE BRAIID \\'ouM be at home in ~Iemphi" For in plane of jo.tice and righteousneSl', aI- "LOW TYPES" IN TREASURY Hut~oon in Decatur at 10 o'clock, ifications requir~ of otber citi.ze~s. " , 11 • thi' city of weallh, intelligence, indu_- I ,,:ays a~oiding organizations who de-
T Apnl30. 4. The appolDtment of n !l;atlon:r.1 ING OF BPL BOY try. unlike any other city may ciarlO. r,,'e theIr greatest powers from the DEPARTMENT DON'T WAN ~Iachinery wa put in motion Satur· Inter·RaciaJ Commis ion to make a t of but litlle lazineSl'. and white men .ecreey of their illegal actions.
TER day as ;oon as the verdict .... as return· thorough study of race relations. --. living \\~th Colored women rlen i" The resolutions dosed with the- COLORED REGIS ed for an early trial of .Clyde Man· 5. Congressional investigation of .. Dallas. Texas, ApTlI 9.-Th~ at:"'OI" the shadow or unh·e ... itie~all thino:s I words that a copy of them . hould be
ning, the :-/egro who t sllfied that hp OOth military and ei,;1 acts of the 'tl~ have. not . yet been able to ascer· are Possible and permi-~;ble. I gh'en to the pre so that the world
ashi on D. C. April 9.-Yr,. bad actually committe tho ~urder ' American Occupation in Hruti. I tam the IdentIty of the fiftee." well· Not so this t ime. ~Iemphi . Po", could koow that brave white men lived
~. ;rel' (whi~e) from the al Willi""",' command. !\tanmng wa.' 6. The appoinlJ!lent of Colored as· known member of the notonous Ku No. 1 of the American Legion. heard I aLo in ~Iemphis. to the maynr: to the-
VirglruB Di .' ~s Treas'UJV Dep:m. jointly indicted with William' in all s.istant secretaries in the Department Klux Klan who on last Friday took of the ne..-comeN to the. en,; ro"" state command r of the Legion. and to
~::'~:f Mr"::'k, in malci~g her tour ca.es against tbe fanner. of Labor and Agriculture. th~ cOloroo. beB bo~' from the Dallas an'; said that it would go out to meet the head hound of the pack, the "Inl'
ro~ th~ Se:J3te Office Buil il.l1:. I 7. The abolishment by executive ; I Hotel, earned him IOto ~h~ .w~s and it. perial Lizzanl,'·"W. J. Immons. wh() :~ the office of enator Ni !. WO AN GETS (700 order of all race segregation i the bume the. mlba~ K. K. Conf renc lives in Georgia here Negroes are
{ Den' Col and .aid' f partments at Washington and tle K. on hIS forehead WIth acid. Conferences "'ere held \\lth c,ty of· I burned for breakfast. baked for dinner
so~' 0 \e:.;., th~' nator. ~Iea-•. " FOR LOSS OF EYE t:nited States Civil Ser\·ice. ! The bellboy was ,",cu-«ed of having ficial s, "'ith officers of the courts. Thp and di\'; at the !'Upper table, so
J want to , "'-en caught rn the room of a woman leaders of the Legion lid llult the or· that the ,..hite children can be enler-
- Mr. Perkins ask~d her , ame d -- . I ! guest who wa, e"idently "ery fond ganizatinn would meet the Ku Klu.x tained after school.
State; also her bUSiness. . ~ ~lrs. lIary Owed bo 10 t tbe S I COLORED SLAYER OF WHIlE r.r the boy. Klan more than hal( way and offer n.,\ )Iemphi. is tired or bein~ caned the
Her anS\\..,r .... as: "I am USlOg m~ of b r eye ",btl emp~oyed by lhe R' It is kno\\:n l~e I~ bears an excel· apology for the journey. munler town. "We have borne it long
annual lea,·e to go around and ap~1 KenUldy Pape reputatl~n 1.0 hIS ho,,;,e town; bu~ A meeting of the Legion enouj1:h." said the commander of the
to their m2Jlhood not to nppolD"t a ~e . chine operator .. a. a ... arded ~700 10 ETS UF( VERDIOT IS now hO\'enng be~~ lire 3J'tideath Thurlay nigllt. and Plte it wa- post.
gro Register of the TreaUf}· Judj;e Gordou C, oun, TUsd~) morn· I G becao.'e ~f the unCl\i1lzed treatment~" mght ror election of an impo1ant of· 1 ,
....... asked why. 'Her an, wer ",as Lll .. Ing~The C3Se had be n 10 Court has rece at t"e !land · of the Ku licrr the Legion concentrated it, ir,·1 0 WH TE FO
"there are more than a thou,;and bea~" I four dur r.g wblch lime thr.. Lexington, Ky .• April 12.-WiJlian . ..:, • Klux Kla~.. ,. te",;t On the fight that white men o£l T 0 I R BLACK,
tiful .... Ilite girl ' .... ho would come used In lhe~, D COlored .... as sentenced to lift to the New )or" :.Iemphi .. mu- make again t the or· ARRESTED ON MISCE
CDntac:t ".ilh the 'nigger.''' 1£01., t!Je firsl ..U orn n. dIed. im":'""nment for the murder of G. DR. . WILlmRf R}; WH,LI .nIS. '£ws I", t n~ght , tate that the Color· ganization of "peele... .. " c-he", i,J' : •
e wa. further a..ked wou:d ~t £. C gT • \II O~den I!":ve up a ~rne .Abbott.5 years old. Owen County. ',n tiI:.\L'JH f;m TOH 0.' TilE ('HI· ed Te~an", IIlce~sed . be~'ond co~t~o., wn as the Ku • ta Klan: I GENATION CHARGE
moraJize the department by ha~g a . ,,:te~a ';. :~orth t an~ the night of A.ilril 3, in Cire";t Court .4-GO nf:!"E!\"DER. SI'E.\Kf:H and With the obJ":,,t In VI~"" of hltt'";: In a ~peech that rought cheer aftc'l
Negro for Reg;,.ter of the ~rear;ur)' ~m~eG'"erdl Mn. 0 n ... as late this afternoon. , .\'1 K. X. E. A. b~ck,. ~\e. orgamzed their own Black cheer. Joe ~omJle, prominent would the o!~"" fore .wal;, 0 e a.t on Se"em hoW'll .... ere n..,.,.sary befor« ----,-- Ku ~lo.~ KI~~ white man of the CIty and a I~ r ,n I Jelre..,..,nvllle. Ind .. April 
a whole on his bemg appomted 7 ~et acqllitled of a murder cbar~e the jurymen could agree. ,the first bal- H B Whol Thl, move I expectco to , prcad all th .. Legion. denounced the Ku K'Oj, cau,~ hI' looked more like a \\ hlte
a.ru;wer ,..as that she "didn't le\'" aso· lot stanning eight for death penalty omes urn I e throu!!'h the Southern tate unless Klan an enemr not to tb~ Xegro, man tban (,olored . earl Johnson .... !lo
they .... ould. because th re are man! &nd four for life imprisonment. ' la";ful meas~ are adopted at once but to the intelligence and character claIms h Is a. Colored rnB-n wa. ar·
that are expecting to ~t higher post· All UATES OF CENTRAl The verdiet was returned to Judo;e Operator Sleeps b~' th,e authontles to sto~ the W~I~: of outhern white men. who mu-t - I rested here Tuesday night, while at
tions when 0 Then,  Kerr shortl After 3 o'clock this after- . Ku Klux Klan from their nefanot:, , ent the charge that in nler to ( m'l home :-Ith his bride. lIn. Grace Hen·
some others have a.!iking for the If atPI1L COURSE n nand s!.tence immediately pro- I CI· d tr.Lde. rate superiority. they mo.-t son. 2, . at 514 Broadway lreet, on
gro." She also S81d that the .. 1IM I Ul.... . nounted. ~nminut".I"terDunnwas S alme gc about m the dark of nr~nt. ~OOIle'!l a charge . Of ml~enatlon. Jobn-
T3te has got to be protected from u.. IftD I lAM'· . . . URBAN LEAGUE TO CON and gowned mumblino; I e .... ,tche' .on and hI companion appll ... for a.
'egro because h in!erior veral famille homele nurderlng people "ho may no; IIi""nse sev .. ral ... eelts ago but were
wants soci uality, g uties to prevent..., d.,mon tration. from tbe resutts of. ftre .. -hleb broke TINUE HEALTH CAMPAIGN , uit their fanc), ~y day.. denied ~au of the 
Mr. P rkins sUd that he di DDt Dunn was rusbed'lo the penitential) out in the home 'If George ll undr At t!'e condu. '~n of ILi . addre, the that be .. as Whlla nd the
Iie\-e that Negroes wanted ~ eari!d !'lie four T the night of &be Mooting after ea rly last llonday mornlnrg. ltr. follc\\mg re.olub n-. ",h",h \\ere :"",' red . The t .. o not to
for SOClai equality, and It tba ns had thJeateDed the ~ffice"'l. llundy .... bo ..-a8 asleep on the second o,,?ed by mO.re than a dozen. legIon· be ()uHlone went to New AIba.Dy
bugaboo of tbe South.. . • ~ .. .. naary .~ Since that time lie has been ~on1ined noor was aroused by tbe ry or Iitlle nalre,. were mtrod~ by hIm an~ atumay to g t "I'd obt.alned Ii-that
"the did~ t Waat ......... "',.. ~ Llf .. In the penitentliary UId was not William Turner wh also In tbe pa. - by a un .. nun u .-ote  and ere married by the Re?
cial equality. the brougbt here unl:l1 o'clock this mum. house and llr. Robert Easley shouts. j Washington ." aad tIoolr~ )( Nth ing. lives .. l 622 South lay. Re luli"" P~ E. L. Raverly a Colore mLnlster.
r. P 'kin ': -We of 0 nlrall UId Bal\le ..... ... ,'0 IIbIiF announee_t.... made The tire had ~ed bead waY be- ecutive Secretary or the 1""31 l"rban Whereas. It h~s corne, ~o the \rno,,·I· Jobn on ... ,.. arre ted Tu d Y nlgbt
I at the Negro problem f hat J:e.trial _ . to held DOl" ani fore the fire depa ment coul~ be mpal n to ed~ of ~Iemph'" Post h~. I, Arne. ' by Con8l&bIe Harvey 8. Holm , who
bJ'oa(;er point of ,i_ than )'00 oIIIce of 1.0 ... 11. rd tered the rea~h . it Is cl Im!d that .hr elfcell.-e mu t be contlDuou, .. The can. Legk'lo, . that. there I .. cerla" 1m "hi from c1Iltdhood. and ctalm-erner
and the nrel mi\li~n. rec~ ;:' to when thee trial 'No:1d be caJls "ere made ore the 81 ping Loogu .. HI eonduct II allh m etlnl'; o:gan~ZIllion kno a the ."K" K'Ul. ed tbat e lI! able lO prove that be ts
groe- hav.e to be reeo' po\itiean I elephone operator uId be aroused tn e'ery dislrict In tbe rlty and " ' 1iI Klan . operabng or prepanng to op-hecol1""
," wh Ie .they ba, Ii. . . I than two to duty. veral ""cupants or the lIIustrate the meetings by movln~ era for the bettennent of of Wbite parents.
loyal to the Repu can party. ap tile Te timon .:culted homes ha "'ere d troyed '" rr pIctures and slid s. Dlock vi-llInz the commumty; and. afraid you ~ih • fo ; Kla C. V. h 11' ~~ were complete for ed to vacate 0 t of w!ndows In " ' i11 also be a pnrt of tb program \\h. re~.ln a commonidLtion to cer- P litt Br WIl G~ gAppti tment
. r of th T ., Tb 7 are ... 1 \ora. . . .. r lhelr night dOlhes. I lI! the belr [ \', hlh will Ia,' t throul'hout th y ar taln IDdivuiuals :md .reWFPllGe"'; f tIIc WL,hi Mn. plil 9.-Phlllp IL
office f ~ of the De~nt lu tWr shooting oecurred In tront ~: thal tb ftre .... as Job or a llrebug Thp ("rban I.e ue omce in tt.1 thi. organl:,tron h 'nade " BnI ' l\ f Kentuck) , h ,been ap,point-
• t a tloon to t.?" ~d t ho on Rose reet.. !oUoV. . -_--- city report lilt! or no cbanl'c In th threat to d n up the town f'd by ecretary hi n to • nt a :s .Dann went mto 111 I:SDEPE:SDE~" .\GUE , emptoyment situation. There '" . 10 the ev nt duly c n tu~ au- f C 'Ii.ation of Oepartment of La.
Registc'i, of thc Trea'uyY, remin~ his revolver and sho: lEETI I:\G. said )Ir. ('arter at I,'a t 2 ,,0 colp." .. d thorities of th . "0\. mm n farl to  offiCe "ill o,..,r ae
him of , he r..ct that the 'OI'l1n bein« The bullet pe tr.Ltai ---t - . , m a in th .. cit,' of ).oul·'11\ w~ or r:" do rlal~ things; ~nd,. th,ti , of the Department of .' gro
nab ed him to be el t- his death a half There will be a d ti.ng of tile Ind~ are out of work and tb .. piant .. h, t, \\ h rea;, Th,s ?Tgantza n . '. Econcmia, \\1Iich ".. conducted by
• pendent Citirens Let goe at their head- :r =~a~et:n~lng In a Iar mea,· ~~!~~~; :,o~g '~e~:~"~~~~: Dr. George E. Hayne
RIfts and veral Deputy quarters over the Fl . Standard Bank men, induding , ome offiCC! Secretary Davis took the lofty in a4c1ition to a force of po- Friday night. 22nd I AU indeper:- The newly organized male choru of Wherea.:-, the w II-define principle: tiO~ tha~ he.will not fn.-ter any the X t. Bapt! t reb thrilled the of the American Legion a oPPO d g:llton '~ his office and to that net
hoUl' with their be tiful tongs of to either direct or indirect interfer- ha abol~ the Department of Ne-
We wish them lICh success. er..,e with the e. L'\b1i bed law of any gro EconOmlCS.