Governor defuses mob at Kentucky lynching threat
Gov Edwin Morrow dispersed hundreds of would be lynchers in Frankfort after they moved toward Will Luvaell a black soldier who confessed to a 10 year old girl murder. He warned the mob a death trap if they attacked the reformatory. Police and deputies swore in and guards secured the scene. The governor delayed action until dawn.
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Star News Service
Frankfort
Edwin I’. Merrow
Will Lu Aell
Geneve Hardiman
Frankfort Reformatory
Nicholsville
Lexington
Morrow
Legislative Committee
Oklahoma Negro Youth Leads School Chicken and Rabbit Market Plan
Cleveland school supervisor O M Eastman promotes a home project to curb living costs by teaching poultry and rabbit raising. Pupils prize a 15 pound rabbit Pershing and a Rhode Island Red winner in local shows. Pamphlets and guidance come from the home project division to help turn time into money. Impetus comes from Indianapolis children’s success with poultry profits.
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Star News Service
Cleveland
O. M. Eastman
Indianapolis
Merchandise Loot in Transit Hits Record Losses in 1919
United States railroad statistics estimate $945000000 in goods stolen while in transit on U S rails during 1919, more than double any prewar year. The U S Chamber of Commerce report notes a widely used robbery method shared by thieves across the United States and abroad. Thief hunters remain skeptical of the organizing claims.
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Star News Service
New York
United States
United States Railroad Administration
England
France
Italy
Argentina
United States Chamber of Commerce
Organiza
Robbery Ring Targeting Trains Across Major Cities
Police report a widespread international organization behind merchandise thefts from trains. Robbers board trains and abandon goods for confederates to recover along the route. Motor truck drivers in Chicago New York St Louis and Kansas City have been implicated.
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Tion
Chicago
New York
St. Louis
Kansas City
Colored women praised for relief work in France by Maury B. Talbert
Mrs. Maury B. Talbert of Buffalo, president of the National Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs, says French officials and citizens hold Black troops in high regard. She recalls a town where the mayor praised soldiers after rumors of crime and recounts Black troops exhuming and reburying 26,000 bodies, showing discipline and humanity.
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A. N. P. Service
Sioux City
America
Maury B. Talbert
Buffalo
N. Y
National Federation of Colored Women's Clubs
France
Omwan
M. Ibert
Atlanta Negro teachers demand equal pay rise in protest
A delegation of over 100 Negro teachers appeared before Atlanta’s board of education in a special session to demand equal salary increases for black teachers. They criticized a $30 monthly raise for white grammar school teachers versus only $10 for Negro instructors, saying such discrimination drives their group north.
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Atlanta
Board of Education
One Bottle of Booze Causes Mineola Uproar
In Mineola New York on February 13 a dusty bottle of whiskey found under Nassau hotel work on the verge of demolition sparked a stampede at the Long Island railroad station as around 100 men rushed into the building to claim the bottle. Owner Hugh Kennedy seized the contents and disappeared after breaking the cork in a frantic scramble for a corkscrew.
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Mineola
Nassau Hotel
Long Island
Hugh Kennedy
Chicago Citizens Rally Against Segregation Bombings
In Chicago nearly 1500 people gathered at St Mark’s Church to denounce segregation tactics in Kenwood and Hyde Park and the bombing of property. Led by Nathaniel Brascher and Dr John W Robinson, speakers urged legal action, bank support, and preservation of property rights under the Protective Circle slogan No Backward Step.
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Chicago
Feb
St. Mark’s Methodist Episcopal Church
30Th Street
Wabash Avenue
Kenwood
Hyde Park
Protective Circle of
Onder
Natham Daniel Brascher
Associated Negro Press
Protective Circle
Brascher
John W. Robinson
Prothetic Circle
Robinson
Charles E. Bentley
The
Bentley
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Arkansas
Washington
Grt
Aldes “T. Anderson
Alder
Man Anderson
Ling
Bank 1 Building Loan and Insuranceompany
Mary C. Clark
Houlevard
Lewis E Johnson
Nr .1
Chicago Business League
470 Infantry
France
Johnson
Negro League Leaders Named in City and National Notes
Chicago Business League selects Lew W. Wallace as Executive Secretary and Uren W. Snelson as Executive Clerk. Plans for Tuskegee model schools in Iphambante Portuguese Africa Old United Rhodesia and Angola with 225000 funding. Mayor Gunter assists Negro outreach in Montgomery. Indiana shows 20000 African American voters in Marion County as power balance. Charleston proposes referendum to repeal law allowing kin of lynched person to claim damages and for county to sue lynchers.
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Chicago
Lew W. Wallace
Uren W. Snelson
Chicago Business League
Boston
Iphambante
E. Africa
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Rhodesia
Angola
Bartholomew
M,te Church
Indianapolis
Indiana
Marion County
Charleston
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Charles Bentley
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