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92 The Crisis League has registered a strong protest against Richmond's segregation ordinance. Segregation of the Negro population of Chicago into restricted sections by legislative action has been proposed and will be pushed by the Chicago Real Estate Board. While the committee which drafted the resolutions was composed of representatives of both races, the colored people opposed the passage of the suggestions embodied in the committee's report, and the majority of them withdrew from the meeting. At one point in the discussion, E.F. Manns, ,a colored real estate broker, threatened that if the resolutions were passed the most desirable sections of the city would be invaded by Negroes. The proposed disfranchisement of 165,000 Porto Ricans by a property an literacy test failed through the efforts of Meyer London, Socialist representative of New York, who assailed a bill so bitterly that Congressman Mann wanted him "disciplined" by the House. London persisted and forced a resolution to grant the Porto Ricans ten years in which to either acquire property or to learn to read and write. The boxing commission has drawn a line on mixed bouts in Ohio. A bill has been introduced into the Indiana Legislature for the appropriation of $25,000 to establish a Housemaids' Training School for colored women at New Albany. White residents are protesting against the erection of a colored hospital and orphanage at Chelsea avenue and Ayres street, Memphis, Tenn. Because Gladys Willis, a colored girl in the Waynesboro, Pa., High School, has been selected to deliver one of the essays at the commencement exercises on account of her high marks, several of the white students have threatened to appear on the stage commencement night. The white matron of the dining room of the University of Illinois gave the colored girl students notice that they were to be segregated in the dining room. The girls referred the matter to Major R.R. Jackson, who learned from President Edmond James that the order was a "misunderstanding," and that it would be corrected at once. The "Jim Crow" post office window at Pensacola, Fla., has been abolished by order of the Department at Washington. A bill which would allow Jim Crow schools in Pennsylvania has been quietly introduced in Pennsylvania Legislature. It slipped through the Senate before anyone knew what it meant. Colored people are organizing to stop its further progress. The colored citizens of Galveston, Tex., are protesting against the lawlessness of white soldiers who have been terrorizing the colored population and have killed two. Miss Malinda Phifer, a colored girl, has sued the Strand Theatre of Delaware, Ohio, for discrimination. The validity of the many Negro segregation ordinances passed in many cities was argued again before the full bend of the Supreme Court at Washington, D.C., April 27. L. Kernahan was refused service in a restaurant at Eighth avenue and 117th street, New York City. He sued the proprietor and recovered $100 damages. Several hundred white laborers on the half- million dollar fire brick factory of the General Refractories Company, Olive Hill, Ky., are trying to oppose the introduction of colored labor. Three sophomores of Howard University offered to join the navy. When they asked what service would be required of them they were told they would be assigned to the "mess department" - that is, to the dining room service. The boys returned to Howard. In Mansfield, La., E.L. Calhoun, a white man convicted of the murder of Green Columbia, a Negro, was given a jail sentence of thirty minutes in a cell and discharged. 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