19 May 1923
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Newspaper
The Union
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1923
Page
1
Henry Heineman of Flat 11 Henrietta Apartment on West Fourth street reports being held up and robbed by three Negroes who took $175 and a $50 watch. They threaten him with a revolver, tear out the room telephone, and flee east on Fourth. The letter criticizes Black residents and calls for deportation or hard labor.
A Jackson mass meeting produced a declaration detailing why Black workers are leaving Mississippi. It cites unequal funding for white and Black education, few colored high schools, suspected peonage, bias in jury and ballot access, and limited public improvements for Black communities. The exodus could be checked if conditions improve.
Prompt action by Principal A. L. Monce and six teachers averted a race clash at W. H. Morgan School Kilgour and Third streets. About 300 people gathered on Ellen street while police arrived. Negro pupils were kept inside and later disappeared. fight had stemmed from a Monday night altercation between a white and a Black student.
Prof Monce describes a noon push between a Negro and a white boy that triggered rumors of a larger gathering. At 3 pm a crowd gathered but warnings and late dispatch prevented violence. He had officers stationed at dismissal for days to deter further fights and praised the calm response.
Col Young, the highest ranking Negro officer in the Regular Army, died January 8, 1922 in Lagos Liberia while serving as United States Military Attache in Monrovia. His body will arrive in New York May 20 and be shipped to Washington for funeral rites led by Negro members of the American Legion. The escort will form at Union Station and procession will end at the cemetery with memorial ceremonies and burial services.
Rev Henry H Proctor of New York City and friend of Theodore Roosevelt Booker T Washington and General Pershing will speak at the Ninth Street YMCA on Thursday May 24 at 8 P M. A Yale graduate he now leads the million dollar Church Community Center in York under the Century Club auspices Tickets available from Century Club members and at the YMCA.
The Cincinnati Branch held a May 7 meeting at Union Baptist Church with Prof. Wm. J. Decatur delivering a Race Ideals address. Members spoke brief benedictions as the executive committee pledged careful, sincere continued crusade against vice and immoral conditions in the city. W. H. Clinton was president and E. S. Johnson secretary.
The minister asserts thinking is the toughest task, noting that few men succeed because many people shy away from deep thought and intellectual effort. He argues that society undervalues sustained contemplation and rewards conformity.
Arlington Va Special ceremonies mark the burial in National Cemetery of Colonel Charles Young, the only son or survivor noted, with funeral rites set for next Monday afternoon, May 21, under the care of the Wheaston News Service.
The piece records Wayne Wheeler blasting New York over repeal of the state dry law. It cites Byron Newton’s harsh verse praising the city’s corruption, describing New York as vulgar, bossed, and money mad in a vivid old-fashioned critique.
The District of Columbia supreme court rules a white owners real estate pact not to sell to colored people is binding on parties and not against public policy or the Fourteenth Amendment. Judge McCoy overruled Buckley’s injunction suit against Irene Corrigan and Helen Curtis. Corrigan sold to Curtis in alleged breach. Curtis was represented by James A. Coleb.
A Federal Council on Church and Race Relations conference in New York discusses anticipated large Negro migration to northern cities in 1923. It urges local church federations to form interracial committees, appoint colored workers to aid travelers, and coordinate with Travelers Aid Society to place migrants in suitable homes and neighborhoods.
Columbia Missouri May 16 George Barkwell a wealthy contractor here was arrested last Wednesday as a member of the mob that dragged James T. Scott from jail and lynched him last Sunday morning Other arrests are expected in a few days the arrest came ahead of a special grand jury convening to investigate the lynching.
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