The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 5, 1917, Page 1

NUMBER 38 FHURSDAY, JULY 5, 1917. The fire in the’ negro. homes at ve and Railroad drove hundreds of blacks into the open. As they ap-| Impressive Ceremonies Mark the De- peared members of the mob opened ¢ Baptis : f Hire on them. . At least five in this ig te gy Sy Sle i se py — on Ae ’ 4 Springfiel | Appeals: BRADLEY. WINS BENCH CON- NEW CHURCH DEDICATED. i CONTEST. Lloyd George hay caret ephoned the a cae ; decided that the te pay . be unable to starve Scorés of Negroes, May Hane those who-stay at home.or drive the| ished in East St. Louis f: the: Allies from. the field. Z Wa. will rule the waves after ‘ * East St. Louis mobs of whi ave been | guaranteed, the war,” he contluded. ‘We are ; s engaged in great ship building for) and women numbering upward of George declared to-| ©°& Aiphone our. fahting nd Bd transporting of | 000 persons had killed at least: a ti rif employers and workers, ° 2 i i ociibiaste. thle Atanong we WRN Teor nd ORs se Rey ed the natipnal| o'clock “Monday night, according. 3 estimates “which came from khe'D lice and officers in. charge of Ilfinois militiamen, ~ , Bie Fire, which whs started: by / bers of a section of this great ~aieby in the negro belt near Third strent: and Railroad avenue, spread bey control of city firemen, and is threat: ening the business section of the’ city: Another incendiary fire, starte by a part of the mob in Black ‘Valley, negro segregated district, betw Fourth and ‘Sixth, sreets and Broad? way and Railroad“avenue, spread un-} til fire fighters admitted it was yond their contral. : Despite the presence of more than 1,000 national guardsmen in the city, Trade of German Colonies for Phil- ila ave bec from sache on, arliament. at Unite tates regular troops srinee Sapenied nt | from Jefferson Barracks will be ‘sent Tokio, July 2—A proposal that|into the riot distri immediately ‘was Japan negotiate with the United|the opinion of militiamen. alt States for the exchange of the Phil-| All street railway traffice was) stts- ippine Islands to Japan for the South} pended at 7 o’clock last night when Sea Islands, seized by the mikado|the theaters and saloons were Of- from Germany, was made in Parlia-| dered closed. ment today by Kotaran Mochizuki,| At that hour the militiamen were an opposition member. given instructions to shoot to kit Mochizuki expressed the belief that| against the white mobs. They at Mthe United. States would consent to| once started a tour of the city, rounds) formed in the vicinity and invaded ‘such an exchange, thereby ‘removing|ing up the blood-mad citizens wh} the black belt searching for the ne- many of the difficulties that have) were out to avengesthe assassination| gro. It is said that the. mob roughly tended: to cause friction between} of Policeman Coppedge and the-mur-|treated a number of the negroes. America and Japan. In discussing | der of. William Keyser, a- hardware] The negroes were said to have been ‘the Japanese policy,in the Orient, he] merchant. -'. | expecting ‘a repetition of the invasion own. wrongs.- < i, clared the United States is sus-] Keyser was hit by a stray bullet] early today when mobilized. “Germany. says the British ave! picious of the’ imperial government’s|as he stood infront of his place:of| East St. Louis race riots broke out —seeking her colonies “as well as Mes- attitude towards China. business, 409 Collinsville avenue. | May 28 last, as the result of two potamia and Palestine. If such, aim Viscount Motoni, foreign minister, Immediately two negroes, whom the white men being held up by negroes. was: true, we-—meedn’t have “ehised replying to. Mochizuki, said there was| mob was chasing, were ‘shot to death:| Riots between the whites and blacks thrée’ oF four ‘millions ‘of: troopi-—-our no cause for fear regarding Japanese-| Another. was killed a few minutes resulted in the injuring of more than own: atmy-would Have been capable. late: in and Broadw: megroes anda dozen white ‘men. “Our greatest army,,is...in. France. ‘We ate theré'to recover for the peo- ple who have been driven: out, ¢heir patrimony, the land which belonged to them. As to Mesopotamia, it is not and never has been Turkish. You have only to read the terrible reports to see what a wilderness'the Turks have made of the Garden of Eden. | What is to happen to Mespotamia must be left to the peace conference, and there is one thing that will have to happen to it. It will never be re- stored to the blasting tyranny of the : ‘Turks. i “The same observation applies to Armenia. As to the German colon- ies, -that again is a fatter which must. be settled by the great interna- tiogal peace conference, When we come to settle who must,be the fu- ture ‘trustees ‘of, ‘those uncivilized lands we must take into-account the ‘sentimeats of the peoples themselves ‘and see: Whether they: are. anxious/+o gecure the return of their ‘former cmasters or whether they would rath- er trust their, destjnies: to other and juster and gentler. hands. The wish- number were killde. outright. © Police ‘assert two’ others were driven back ‘Thea Seem into the flames and incinerated. . | Thirty-five houses in the Black Valley were in flames within half an hour after the fire was started. The 8 blaze spread toward the center of the business district. All fire apparatus the city. was assembled at Third and Broadway, where. the firemen texan a battle to save the town. » The Broadway fire caused a second sgeneral alarm,, and apparatus from | he St. Louis ‘side’ of ‘the river was rushed to East St. Louis. It is estimated that 50,000 men and ‘omen were in the:streets, and more ‘than two thirds of this number were armed. ‘Small boys carried revolvers and were shooting at the blacks. There were 200 malitiamen on duty in the zone affected by the fire, but, despite fixed bayonets, they were ‘powerless to handle the mob. Every hospital on the East Side is with blacks, who.are so severe- y injured that many may die. The bull ring” at police headquarters is packed with negroes badly beaten and shot. It was also made. known by city Officials to-day that the trouble start- ed last Saturday night when William Dublin, 47 years old, 459 North Sixth street, became involved in a cutting affray with an unidentified , negro. Dublin, who is in St. Mary’s Hospital in a serious condition, was severely slashed and stabbed by the negro. Following the stabbing the negro escaped. A mob of 50 white men The handsome new Baptist church located at the corner of North Dela- ware and Pine streets, was formally dedicated Sunday. The services of the day commenced at 9:30 when the regular Sunday Schoo! was held with Gardner Smith superintendent. At 10:30 there was 4° fine musical program’ followed by a sermon by Dr. S. M. Brown, of Kansas City, a former.pastor of the church, to whose energy: and zeal in’ a large measare is due the erection of this church edi- fice. After the sermon an appeal was made for funds to complete the pay- ing for the building and in a very short time the amount necessary, $9,000, was subscribed and the build- ing which cost something over $2s5,- 000 was entirely paid for. At the conclusion of the ‘sermon the immense congregation was in- vited to the basement of the building where the ladies of the church had provided a fine dinner for all. It is estimated that more than 1,000 people were served. In the afternoon the dedication ceremony was conducted by Dr. Brown after which the dedicatory prayer was offered by the pastor, Rev. J. W. Alexander and then fol- lowed the sermon by Rev. Brown, and while he has preached many ex- cellent sermons in this city his ser- mon on this occasion was one of his best. a In the evening there was another fine musical program followed by an- other excellent sermon by Doctor Brown. All the services were attended by immense | crowds, all the other churches having dismissed their con- gregations in honor of the occasion. It was a sort of “homecoming” for former residents of Butler who were members of the church, many of them coming from Jong distances to meet again with the old friends and to particigmte with them ‘in the opening of their new church home. Jefferson City, Mo. June 30—By a vote of 4 to 3, the Missouri Su- preme Court in banc today decided the contest involving’ the 12-year term om the bench of the Springfield Court of Appeals in favor of James H. Bradley of\ Kennett, Dunklin 1 County, and ordered the unseating of i Judge Argus Cox of Bolivar, Potk : County, who was awarded the certi- ficate of election and has been on the } bench since January 1. The contest grew out of an error of the County Clerk of Maries Coun- ty in preparing the ballots for the last general election in that ‘county. Cox was the Republican nominee for the office and Bradley the Demo- cratic nominee. Through inadvertence the name of Arch A, Johnson of Springfield, who had been a contestant for the Dem- ocratic nomination in the State pri- mary, was put on the ballot instead of the name of Bradley. In the 43 counties in the district outside of Maries County, Bradley received 86,928, and Cox 87,271 votes. In Maries County Cox got 721 votes, making his total for the 44 counties 87,092. Bradley received one vote in-Maries County and 1,311 votes were cast for Johnson. Judge James T. Blair, who wrote the opinion, holds that it was the intention of the 1,311 Maries County voters who cast their ballots for Johnson to vote for the regular Dem- cratic nominee and that this was shown conclusively by the evidence taken by Special Commissioner H. E. Alexander. It is obvious, Judge Blair says, that the ballots cannot be counted for Johnson, the law requiring the names of party nominees only to be printed on the ballots. He. says: “In such circumstances and under such statutory provisions we are of the opinion that a party ballot, vot- ed and cast as printed, must be held conclusively to show the voters in- tent to vote for the nominee of that . party, and that it must be counted, with respect to each office for the party nominee thereof, regardless of what name appears in the particular space devoted to that office. In this case the agreed acts and statutes are sufficient without any consideration ofthe oral evidence offered.” To hold otherwise, Judge Blair points out, would be in this case to disfranchise the voters of one party in an entire county and would estab- Buying a suit at our present prices can be compared 1 a ‘their aims and their One -Hunitcal. Per Cent; Beopie. It is a pleasing coincidence that the Red Cross Cartpaign for $100,000,000, which immediately followed the ¢on- clusion of the Liberty Loan cam- pai , resulted in. an’ oversubscrip- | tion of practically the same. percent- tization “of Germ er age. as the oversubscription to the : the), best Guarantee ort a Americal ime ‘merican people are well over spare would negotiate*in a'dif-Tyo9 per’ cent patriotic and well over ferent spirit and with less suspicion] 109 per cent generous. with:a free government than with the} \ ‘aggressive, arrogant Prussian mili- tarism. Peace must be guaranteed by the destruction of. the Prussian mili- tary power, so that. the German peo- ple’s ‘confidence will repose in their equity and not in military right. ‘ “The ,only. térms on which Ger- ‘many has suggested restoring Bel- gium are terms ‘of vassalage. No Getman statesman ever urged that restoration—and none ever accepted the status quo ante and no_indemni- ty’ basis for peace. . “Imperial Chancellor Hollweg ale most promised independence to Bel- gium, but the ‘junkers’ mailed fist promptfy. boxed: his ears: “Germany asks an indemnity and a little territory here and there, wit! privilege. in, other directions for her JAPS.WOULD SWAP ISLANDS disfranchise the entire State and be- i to buying wheat wheat when it sold at $ 1.25 a bushel. hind which, possibly, fraud might en- trench itself. ° Under a contrary ruling he ‘says that it is within possibilities that an Mind you, this is not a cry of “wolf,” i Misa mig res in hanging but a tip: from those who are familiar conyers him a majority of 248 in the district. with market conditions—who can see manne Se the effect on prices that huge govern- . lat tek soncit i comme , desires and iuterests of the peo- i ‘ , Ga ‘ Fs eran by Chief Justice Graves. and Judges -of-att-those conntries|] = IE ‘a ment buying, combined with the tre- Faris and Wiliams , ee ie ‘mendous shortage of wool, is bringing TO TRAIN MILITIA ¥ about." Missouri and Kansas Guardsmen Probably Will be Mobilized at Concentration Site. Washington, D. C,, July 2—Mis- souri and Kansas members of the Na- tional Guard who will be called to the colors August 4 for ultimate ser- vice in France may be mobilized for preliminary training’ at the concea- tration camp at Nevada, Mo. Nego- tiations to this end are now being conducted by the Bureau of Militia Affairs of the War Department. The plan had been to send:the Mis- souri and Kansas guardsmen, : who will compose the Fourteenth Natioa- al Guard Division, to one of the can- tonments in the Southern. Division, probably Texas. Brig. Gen. Harvey C. Clark of Missouri, however, has 3 ‘* Ee tea hoe ei _. today! ate.mighty ‘good buys, either to meet your ‘present . _* ¢lothes needs or to lay away for. the future. , > ’ No obligationsto buy, in your coming here to look, cs