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88 THE CRISIS [[image - black & white photograph of marching band parading through city]] [[caption]] RATIFICATION DAY IN VIRGIN ISLANDS [[/caption]] 7th and 8th of November, 1917, when the main patrol at Atawineh Redoubt had failed to reach its objective. He volunteered to again go out; and brought back valuable information as to the enemy's movements. Lee, Corporal V.E. Johns.- For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. On November 7, 1917, he laid a telephone line from Dumbell Hill to Two Three Farm, where he established a telephone station, remaining with the advanced troops covering the withdrawal of a squadron of Imperial Service Cavalry. Under heavy shell fire, he remained on duty at his post in a particularly exposed position. A German submarine bombarded Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, and killed several persons. Hiawatha Taylor, son of the late S. Coleridge Taylor, is serving in France with the British Red Cross. Colored soldiers from Trinidad, serving in Egypt, have recently won one military cross and three military medals for bravery. GHETTO The Board of Education in Louisville, Ky., has approved the following salary schedules for teachers in the high schools: White teachers (boys), Class A, $2,000 maximum, $1,800 minimum; Class B, $1,700 maximum, $1,550 minimum; Class A (girls), $1,500 maximum, $1,350 minimum; Class B, $1,300 maximum, $1,050 minimum. For colored teachers there is only one class - Class A, the salary for which is $1,200 maximum, $1,000 minimum. On account of the immigration of Negroes from the South, Laborers' Protective Union Number 1 of Newark, N.J., is dominated by its Negro members. The Essex County Building Trades Council, however, refused to recognize William A. Pearsall, the Negro elected to represent the union. The trial of thirty-nine Negroes, members of the Twenty-fourth Infantry, for the Houston riot, finishes the series of the court martial. The verdicts will all go to the President for review. The following lynchings have taken place since our last record: Collinsville, Ill., April 4, Robert P. Prager, hanged (white), accused of making disloyal remarks. Poplarville, Miss., April 20, Claud Singleton, hanged, accused of murdering a white man. He had been sentenced to life imprisonment. Lexington, Ky., April 22, Berry Noyes, hanged, murder of Sheriff W.E. McBride. Monroe, La., April 22, Clyde Williams, hanged, shooting C.L. Thomas, Missouri-Pacific station agent at Fawndale. [[end page]] [[start page]] THE CRISIS ADVERTISER [[advertisement]] [[boxed]] [[image - drawing of logo: circle containing an anchor surrounded by text: Standard Life Insurance Company]] Approved BY ALL classes! Thirteen Thousand People have expressed over Six Million Dollars worth of Confidence in STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY by Carrying insurance to that amount with this [[bold, italics]] Company. [[/bold, italics]] These people represent 167 different occupations and professions. They range from 15 to 55 years of age. They reside in forty different States, at the Nation's Capitol and in two Foreign Countries. The [[bold, italics]] Company [[/bold, italics]] is playing an important part in the making of History and the establishment of the Economic Emancipation of the Race. In the five years of its existence, the [[bold, italics]] Company [[/bold, italics]] has paid death benefits totaling $72,581.26. It has fully justified the confidence of its policyholders. We want [[bold, italics]] you [[/bold, italics]] as a policyholder of the most rapidly growing organization of its kind among Negroes. We want high class Agents to represent us. They will earn more than in many other professions today. If you are worth from $1200 to $3000 a year write us. STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Home Office ATLANTA, GEORGIA [[/boxed]] Mention THE CRISIS.
