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-f 7 A. Fearlcs Exponent of. Right and justioo. An Uncompromising Defender of the Colored Race. We fear only to do wrong.

-u Larger Circulation than all the combined Colored weeklies In Oklahoma. Read THE STAR and keep in- t. Weekly Mail Bdition 9 F4. VOLUME HERO OF STREET CAR CONDUCTOR AVHO KILLED COLORED MAN IS BEING HELD IN JAIL WITHOUT BOND. Newspaper That Made Hero of Murderer Now Silent on Facts.

MAN IS BEING HELD IN JAIL WITHOUT BOND. (Special to The Tulsa Star) MUSKOGEE, Jan. 28. Although the daily press has been tactfully silent about late developments in the investigation of the Wiling Thursday night of last week of W. S.

Williams by Wm Linn, (white), street car conductor, who was lionized following the murder by newspaper stones in which, Linn was featured as the lior of an attempted holdup and his victim the villian of the play, the hero conductor is now domiciling in the county jail without bond awaiting his preliminary hearing on the charge of murder. Immediately following the killing the daily press service flashed across the country in glaring head lines the thrilling story of a black bandit in an attempt to holdup the Hyde Park street car and the heroic action of the conductor in saving the street car company money, by shooting and killing the alleged bandit. The chief of police had slated Linn for a position on the police force because of his braveact. Subsequent developments, however, has changed the entire color scheme of the story and instead of parading the streets of Muskogee and being pointed to as the hero of a thrilling attemptcdrobbcry, he has assumed the role of a common murder and is being detained as such -in the county jaiL Williams, the murdered man, was a resident of Parsons, Kansas. At the time of his death he was visiting friends here.

Investigation following his death showed that he was a man of good reputation. It also developed the fact that he was murdered by Linn. Full details of the killing will probably be brought out at the preliminary hearing next Tuesday. Friends of Williams are making ef-forts to employ special attorneys to aid in the prosecution of the conductor COWETA NOTES. We are sorry; to announce that the death angel visited the home of Miss NanieNead, Friday morning, and now she is numbered with the dead.

She left many friends to mourn her loss. Friday, the 21st, death also entered the Benbo home and now John Ben-bo, one of the early pioneers of Coweta is, lying in the silent tomb, leaving a wife and sister, and a host of friends to mourn his loss Still the Peaple Will Marry. Mr." Willie Burse announces his marriage to Miss Ardell Tucker and they will make Coweta their home. Mrs. Dr.

Carter and Mrs. Rev. Pearson has not forgotten their home mission duties at the death of Miss Neal, they, too, representing the mis-sionarysociety of Mt. Rose, taken upon themlesves the responsibility of paying the entire expense of the sickness and burial of one of the less able sisters The people of Coweta should take their hats off to such sisters as those. The best thinking people of this town compliments the action of the Home Mission society, but there are a few, by a certain preacher, who is connected with this church, that is known a threadbear Christian, that oppose not only that but everything for the uplifht of the town.

The reporter wishes to state to thoseparties to be careful for those living in a glass house should not throw stones. Mr, C. Hurst has purchased a beautifully 10-acrc piece of land joining the town. WAHINGTON, D. Jan.

29 The Howard University Faculty and students recently held a meeting in the University Chapel in the interest of Mr. Herbert Hoover's European War Relief movement. In transmitting the contribution of $56.78 to Chairman Arthur S. Moses, of the European War Relief Council for the District of Columbia, Dr. Emmett J.

Scott, Secretary-Treasurer of the University, stated that although the amount was small, it testified to the vary great interest of those connected with the Uni-vereitv in liplnino those who are so my suirenng in Europe at mis i w. e. BANDIT RACE DISTURBANCES FORCING COLORED PEOPLE TO ELEE (Associated Negro Press) ATLANTA, Ga, Jan Colored people are fleeing from Hall County Race disturbances have been frequent this of the State ior sometime past. This condition lias leu to much controversy as to die best means to ease the situation. Ilic whites decided that only drastic methods could be successfully used because lhc Colored people were determined to Tight the issue to a finish.

TlltC vum.iu.iiuu uuvuiupeu inio a wholesale disarming of the Colored population. This was accomplished by the issuing of a general search order of the bonus and a confisca- Hnn rF nil .1 vii uiu.iiiiis inus uiscovereu. Then a "Colored drive" was opened uhu mt ijuupie lorccu 10 flee to other parts. Gancsville haj 6.11 nun in L.uioreu population as a result and chaos is prevailing in that section us one of the results. The governor has been asked to take steps to relieve the Up to his iinc he has evinced interest in the matter.

STATE NEWS LETTER More Eridence Needed in Telephone Kate Case The hearing upon the application of the Southwestern Bell Telephone for an increase in rate is postponed to Feb. 1. The Corporation Commissioners stated that Idit-ional evidence hau been requested to be presented by the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce. If no objection is made by the telephone company to the evidence introduced by the Chamber of Commerce, a final hearing will probably be held upon Feb. 1.

Oklahoma Colleges Equal the Best The University of Oklahoma has grown very rapidly and is not only the largest state school in Oklahoma but ranks high among the universities of the country. It is fully accredited by the Association of American Universities and has been admitted to membership in the Association of Collegiate Alumni; The following is the attendance standing of the various state schools in Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma 2713 A. and M. College 1383 Okla. College for Women 174 Central State Normal 128 Southeastern State Normal 107 East Central State Normal 301 Northwestern State Normal 271 Southwestern State Normal 239 Northeastern State Normal 213 Engineer is Investigating The Corporation Commission has obtained an engineer who is now investigating the actual property valuation of the Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company and the Muskogee Gas and Electric Company in connection with the request for an appraisal of these properties recently submitted to the Commission.

Final heaing is set for January 28th. A Peculiar Business There is one business in the period of readjustment, through which the country is passing, that is in a peculiar position, and unlike any other, it can't Close down its "factories" be-becausc of high labor or material costs, lay off employees, refuse to take orders because the prices its customers offer do not equal costs of production and give a profit. This peculiar business is that having to do with the production of electricity, gas, transportation and communication services. Regardless of how difficult the working conditions mav be. it must grind away 24 hours a day, for a lapse of functioning would be disastrous, not only upsetting all business and TULSA, OKLAHOMA, STORY HELD ON methods of living, but also involv- niH ine ami ucam lisen.

While all other industry can re. fuse to take orders fom customers, mo utilities are not permitted to do so. They must continue to take them and get the necessarry equipment in place to render service just as fast iu their credit will permit them to borrow the nccessarv money from investors. Exorbitant market prices for coal, steel, labor and other nroducts mav result in other industries closing down for a period, but tiic utilities are precluded from this, the state public utilities commission exercising a waicmui eye to see mat lucre is no let up in the services rendered communities. Refinancing The Street Car System John W.

Shartel, general manager of the Oklahoma Railway Conf-pany, will represent the street and mterurban railway systems of Oklahoma at the mid-year conference of the American Railway Associa tion to De Held in Clucago on February 10. The purpose oi the meeting is to discuss Uie subject of "Financing and Re-Financing of Elec tric itaiiwnjs." Hits is a matter of vital cooccrn to traction companies due to the almost impossibiiiy of gelling added revenue to rehabilitate tneir lines. White Way For Bartlesville Bartlesviile is to have a spectu-lar White Way System. Single light ornamental standards arc to ue used. JSearly 75 per cent of the uusiness frontage has been signed in lavor of the improvement of the liartlcsvule Gas and Electric Co.

The U. S. Geological Survey reports that in the month of October, it20, the elecnc light and power plants in the United States produced 1,337,079,000 kilowatt hours by water power, of which Oklahoma produced 201,000. The total production by fuels for the United Mates was, kilowatt hours, of which Oklahoma pro-uueed 18,722,000. The total production by wood lor the United Mates was 7,048,741 kilowatt hours of which Oklahoma produced The grand total of kilowatt hours produced in the United States was 3,741,332,744 of which Oklahoma produced 18,948,000.

it required 3,101,897 tons of coal 1,151,051 barrels of oil and 2,370,587 000 cu. ft. of gas to generate this power in the 48 states. The power plants in Oklahoma used 9,277 tons of coal, 10,581 barrels of oil and 512,383,000 cu. ft.

of gas. BUSINESS LEAGUE TO HOLD SMOKER THURSDAY NIGHT. Local Body May Send Representatives to State Legislature. At a meeting of the local Colored Business League Thursday night it was decided to hold a call meeting next Thursday night in the Stradford hotel. A smoker will be given for the occasion and it is understood that the League will probably select a committee to go as its representatives to the state legislature to ask the republicans to pass a bill providing for colored men serving on juries in Oklahoma.

Every business man or woman jn town are urged to be present. OKMULGEE TOPICS AND EVENTS Miss Marie N. Williams of Tulsa was here Friday doing business for the Tulsa Star. Through the courtesy of Dr. C.

P. Wallace, Miss Williams met a number of our business and rpofessional men and women. Mrs. Lizzie Dabbs of Mt. Pleasant, Texas, is a guest of her brother.

Samuel F. Manuel of 819 East Third street Rov. T. W. Slevenson of Mt.

Pleas ant Baptist Church, 4 miles South of Boley in the Rusk neighborhood, with the aid of his congregation will begin the erection of a four thousand dollar ($4,000) brick church Monday. Rev. Stevenson has served as moderator of the S. W. Creek and Seminole convention for the past seven years.

Mr. E. Cross, a leading racp man of Capital Heights, has erected sev Jnnuary 29, 1921. SOUTHERN PEOPLE WILL RECEIVE NO SPECIAL MESSAGE WASHINGTON, n. r.

Qn i have no message to the people of uic oouui mat i wouiu not utler to all the United States." This is the heart motif of the message which President-elect Harding has written at the behest of Clurk Howell, editor of the Atlanta Constituion, to the South. Mr. Howell, is appears, is one of the prominent Southern men who is very anxious that a genuinely new era shall be opened for the southland. The Howell type of Southern cr affects to be heartily tired of the present tannled situation whirh hey say, is operating to the great economic and business disadvantage of their section of the countrj. The "Race Problem" is, of course, Ul me UOIlom 01 inn rnliro liintfnn This is acknowledged on all sides Dy an complexions or men.

"What is the Republican Party going to do about the South's fears in relation to the loudly expressed ambitions of its present day Colored citizens" is the question uppermost in the minds of all Southerners. Hence, the request of the editor of the Constitution. He, with other white Southerners want to know and know so sincerely that they can literally taste it. Mr. Harding's message had not evaded the direct question it is declared by prominent men here, black and white, but, in Ids effort he ha3 clearly culled to the attention of the South the fact that the problems of the counry are not sectional in character but apply, with equal force, to all the country.

"Let's all pull together," he says. "Let us have oneness of Americanism," he declares in another instance of the "Message." In the matter of Southern appointment, Mr. Taft 's the only leading Republican who has worried himself with the fear that Mr. Harding may so far forget the Southern that he will appoint Colored men to first class Federal positions in the South. Why, no one has been able to answer intelligently.

Up-to-date the President elect has said nothing which would indicate his attitude in the matter of appointments outside of his cabinet, and a good deal of this has Ucn tentative nature. Henry Lincoln Johnson is on the ground, but he has oothing to say about the question of appointments. Henry Lincoln may be playing "possum" no one knows. But he is keeping mum, just the same and sawing wood, maybe. Dr.

Emmett Scott declares he is not in politics and therefore has nothing to say about appointments. In fact every body is up in the air on this all-important point and the result is political fog so dense and thick one can almost cut with a knife. In "the meantime Mr. Harding has laid aside the affairs of state for the moment and is playing Golf in the balmy climes and under the blue skies where Federal appointments are not heartily in evidence and the only Colored appointments that he has to worry about are the caddies who carry his clubs around the links. eral rent houses.

He is a lover of Race papers. Rev. T. M. Galcwood, presiding elder of the Tulsa District of the C.

M. E. Church passed through the City Monday. The Quarterly Rally of St. Paul C.

M. E. Church will begin Sunday, Jan. 29th and continue to Feb. Cth.

Dr. Cray delivered ono of his characteristic addresses at the C. M. E. Church Thursday night while Mrs.

Brown sang to the delight of all present. Mrs. Ludia Tugglo was a guest of Miss F. L. Dean Sunday.

Mr. Randolph who lives on 17th and Alabama received a lick in his eye losing the sight of same. A chip of wood caused the misfortune Remember the Bazaar which starts at the M. Church Monday MURDER night and continues "all the week Hcv. h.

m. Madden, pastor. Rev. C. Wlllinins, jmstor of Ml, Olive Presbyterian Church, has been ill the past three weeks, but Is improving.

Tickets arc being engaged iptutv ny wishing to be patrons or the Patti Brown entertainment be given at Dunbar High School, Feb. lltli. Several from out of town are to ue placed on the list of patrons. A large delegation of citizens attended tiic Smarter Set nl on the 20th Inst. The Ministerial Alliance is doing much toward giving the right kind OI llistruellnn In nnr io.i..

to Race patronage, right living and a needed change Iheir relation io each other. Attorney D. J. Wallace is spending the week in Oklahoma Citj where he hopes to assist in bringing the condition of the affairs relative to race development before the makers or the laws now in session. We are glad to see Mr.

Berry House able to be about the house once more and hope soon to have him with us again in the business This is TEST week at the school and all children have the best of deportment to their credit. Lawyer J. II. Stevens has been ap-noinlcil ininnilnn Cm. speed whoso guardian his father died recently.

We are sure that this growing estate will bo well managed. Rev. Fisher preached for the First Baptist Church Inst Sabbath. Sabbath School at the above church was good in spite of the weather. Collection, $8.13.

The county association of teachers meets this aSturday, 29th in the auditorium of Dunbar. Judge D. J. Wallace returned to-dav from OUInlinmn flu. i.

has been attending the Intcr-Rocial uummission. ne is a member of the educatonal committee of the Inter Hfirlnl nnminlcilnn TI.Il- COtnmitfpn wnrklm In irwitimr.f with a like committee of the State principals' Association succeeded having bills drawn to secure amendments to the separate school uws. Bills looking toward cor recting me cvns oi uic present separate laws were delivered to two senators and two rep-resenlnlivps hv IV I Wnllnn. G. W.

Carry who will introduce samu in each house respectively. It is lll'lil'Vl'll I lint Ihf Mil ilmutn lv Judge Thurmau of the Inter-Rac- iiu commission will lie passed by the State Legislature now in sess ion. iii0 inicr-Hacial Commission the State Teachers' Association and the State Principals' Association arc behind the bill with all the force, nowcr and iiifliicucf" their command. Prof. E.

M. Castleberry (white) nnil Ilr. Jnlnunn if E. Church of Tulsa, were elected organizers, Uotli men arc broad, honest and well educated and suie of results. They will proceed to ortfnni7i Inlpr-llfteinl Pnmniiccimiv In each county of the State.

tiiu luiiuwJUK rui'c ineii wum present viz: It. Emmet Stewart, 11 Twini. I Tumor II Hooker, G. W. Sawncr, J.

II. Lilly, I). J. Wallace, Phillip Lewis anil Roscoe Dungcc. A bill is being prepared to se- wutu (Vbiibi uvuiiiii'viutiua iu separate coach.

and Jim crow law. Judge D. J. Wallace and G. W.

Car ry win remain at tnc uipuai mis week working for the passage of this needed legislation. EDITQR IS COMMENDED Editor of The Tulsa Star, Dear Sir: Permit me, through the columns of your paper, to thank you for that excellent editorial on "The and Our Youth." For breadth of vision and intensity of purpose no' one need attempt to improve upon it. It should be read by all members. It is a ringing challenge to every citizen who values human welfare, who sees human need, who is interested in his own child and the child of his neighbor, who wants a better Tulsa to heed its admonitions and line up without reservation with the Y. M.

C. A. and its put noses. Your editorial bespeaks a brilliant mind and a heart susccptable of feeling the fundamental needs of humanity. May God bless you in your labors.

Yours in a Great Cause, G. A. GREGG, Executive Secretary of Hunton Branch, Y. M. C.

A. NUMBER FIFTY-TWO CHARGE THE OUTSTANDING RACE PROBLEMS TO BE DISCUSSED WASHINGTON, D. Jan. 29-Ilie Fourth Annual Convocation of file Howard University fccliool of Heiigi to be held February 22, 23 1UJ1, will devote itseli to the uiiuussion oi outstanding piob-lents. lhe Convocation will seek to answer the questions: "Can the Jute and BiacK and Yellow and tied and Brown races live as brothers itr common world? Are Social classes and tastes permanent lines ol cieavagu between mcnV" llio Convocation seeks to aid and encourage those upon whom falls me- great task of promoting peace und good will among all men.

The subject for discussion during the three das session will im. day, February 22nd, 'The Social and Economic Aspects of Brotherhood;" on Wednesdays, February J3rd, "The International Aspects ui on rnursday, February 24th, "The International and Interdenominational Aspects of Brotherhood." Among those who will speak at the Convocation arc Rev. Frederick Lynch, D. Editor of Christian work and Secretary of the Church Peace Union, New Vork Ot; Rev. William N.

DcBer-ry, Assistant Moderator of tho National Council of Congregational Churches), Springfield, Massachusetts; Hon. Wane B. Wheeler, LL. Counsel for the Anti-Saloon League, Washington, D. Dr.

Jas. II. Dillard, Charlottesville, Tim. Uhvk Janiej D. Buhner, D.

and W. O. L.nrrington, u. i) Washington, D. Mr.

Arthur D. Call, Secretary of the American Peace Society, Washington, 1). Hon. Thomas Sterling United States Scnutor from South Dakota; Miss Mabel T. Boardman, Commissioner of the District of Columbia and President J.

Stanley Durkce, D. Howard University. The Convocation Sermon will be m'fnnlirfl liv nnn rvf flin nmlnnnl Baptist ministers of Uio country. ii. ti if rv kT nuv.

win, i', iiuyes, u. 01 ixew York City. BRISTOW NEWS vi. The citizens hero arc very'busyj getting ready to farm. Prospects for oil is still Some drilling going on.

The church work is not what it ought to be, neither the Sunday School or B. Y. P. U. Secret Orders are all the go.

Good Masonic Lodges, Odd Fellow, K. of Wiscmen and U. B. F. Mrs.

Fannie Wulker and her new husband, Mr. Jeb Unwise left for iUUIUIlil 1UI vis on uic lOUl oi January, 1921. The O. O. C.

had a public installation at First Baptist Church on Thursday, Jan. 20th. They were installed by K. W.I. Mrs.

Rebecca Turner. After some brief remarks on Calalhians by Sister Turner, Mrs Will Ellick one of our city teachers played some sweet selections. The newly elected officers were installed. Sister G. E.

Ben. W. E. Jones, our W. Inx.

All the officers were installed by Sister Turner. Madam N. A. R. Leslie ngc almost 100 years sang a solo and was cheered many times.

At closo of Installation the K. of P. brothers marched in and Mrs. Ellick played a march. Madam Leslie led the grand march for Ca-lanthians and K.

of P.s which was said to be the best over had in Bris-tow. Every one out here likes the Star and I am in hopes to get many subscribers. Slser Rebecca Turner, G. INX NOTICE TO PUBLIC Because of the illness of our lino--typist this week we have been forced to reduce the size or the paper to four pages. For this reason several local ads and a considerable amount of news matter had to be left out.

This is not offered as au excuse, but an explanation. EDITOR. vt i.