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| THE MONITOR A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS • THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor m $2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1923 Whole Number 415 Vol. VIII—No. 50 I - - - - - --------- --- MARCUS GARVEV IS CONVICTED IH THE BLACK STAR FRAUD Jury tiler Ten Hours' Deliberation Brings in Verdict of Guilty— Sentenced Thursday to Five Tears. ASSOCIATES ARE ACQUITTED Fiery Leader Loses Head and Aloises .Indue, Jury and Prosecutor— Thrown Into Cell Hail Kef used. (Crusader Service.) New York, June 22. Marcus Garvev, advocate of the “Back to Africa" move ment and defender of the Ku Klux Klan- Jim-crowism, lynching und the white's man’s fiat of Negro Inferior ity, was found guilty by a jury before Judge, Mack in the Federal Court Mon ^ day night of using the mails to de fraud in connection with the sale of stock of the Black Star Line, which Garvey organized. The Jury retired at 12:30 o’clock in the forenoon, and the verdict was returned ten hours later. Orlando Mv Thompson, George Tobias and Eli Garcia, who were identified with the Garvey ventures and had been indicted with him, were acquitted. Two indictments had been returned against the four men, but Garvey was found guilty of the third count in the second Indictment. It is alleged that he had continued to soil stock In the Black Htar Line Company when he knew it was insolvent. Garvey admit ted this when he testified in his own j behalf. Three other indictments had been dropped because of the govern ment’s inability to get the persons in voived to testify in view of the in-! timidation carried on by the Garvey j crowd of fanatics. The delay in delivering the vediet ) was due to the insistence of two Jurors! that a verdict of guilty be returned | against another of the defendants.! Eventually the other iurors satisfied! them that all Garvey employees had j been mere rubber stamps int lie hands i of an autocrat. (iline) LOMti HIM nruu Garvey made a demonstration in the court room when he hoard the verdict. He violently abused the prosecutor and the jury and insinuated that they might be forced to relent. So violent was he that five United States mar shalls surrounded the U. N. 1. A. j I "Moses" and led him away. As hej passed Mrs. Garvey, he fell sob bing into her arms. Prosecutor Mattock, who handled the case for the government, made the re quest that Garvey be held without hail - after Garvey's white lawyer, whom he ' had summoned in toward the end of his trial, had asked that he be re leased on the $5,000 bail under which he was held after his indjptment. He branded Marcus Garvey a menace and told the court that evidence in his pos session showed that the African le gion was supplied with guns and am munition and were continually threat ening the peace. Thursday Marcus Garvey was sen tenced to a term of five years In the federal prison at Atlanta. WEDDING ELABORATE SOCIAL FUNCTION The most elaborate social affair ev er given in South Omaha was the marriage of Miss Mildred I. Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Riley Wil liams, to Mr. Muegene Johnson, at Bethel Baptist church, Monday night, June 11th, the Rev. Thomas A. Tag gart officiating. The church was beautifully decorated with pink and white roses. The color scheme was carried out in the refreshments. The bridesmaids were Miss Genevieve \ Jackson, gowned in white chiffon, and l Miss Blanche Smith, gowned in lav endar organdy. Each carried bou qgiti ptwlr rosebuds. The little flower girls were Mattie Tolbert and Lucille Myers. The ring bearer was little Alberta Stearns. Following was the bride, gowned in a beautiful white crepe creation trimmed in real Span ish lace. Her lovely veil waH held by a string of crystals. She carried a | bride’s bouquet of white roses and lilies of the valley. The best man was Mr. Alex Delworth. The bridal cou ple received many beautiful and use i ful presents. After the wedding W | freshments were served in the recep \ tion hall of the church. The couple \ are at home at the home of the ’ bride’s parents, 2613 M street. BATTALION GETS COLORS Boston, Mass., June 22.—Mayor Jaa. M. Curley presented the Second Sep arate Battalion Infantry, National Guards with an American flag at the South Bute Armory last week. ORGANIZES AND PLEDGES IVY LEAF CLUB Miss Blanche Lynn Patterson, A. B. teacher of French and Spanish in tfie Lincoln high school, Kansas City, Mo. and western organizer of the Alpha Kappa Adpha Sorority, arrived in the city Wednesday and is the guest of Miss Dorothy E. Williams. Miss Pat terson has organized and pledged an Ivy Leaf Club among the girls at tending the University of Omaha, which is the preliminary step toward the formation of a chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha. Miss Patterson will leave Friday night for Minneap olis to take a summer course at the University of Minnesota. "BUDDY” HAZARD GOES INTO BUSINESS FOR HIMSELF “Buddy" Hazard, who has scads of friends among our people, has gone into business for himself, having pur chased a half interest in the L. N. Porter’s North Side Market at 2322 North Twenty-fourth street. For six years he was in charge of the meat department of Tuchman Bros. "Bud dy” is a thorough believer in reciproc ity. He has had his dental work done by a colored dentist, has taken his i meals in a colored restaurant and ha patronized other race enterprises, and ) oelieves in advertising in our news papers. Watch his business grow. EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF SAINT PHILIP THE DEACON Despite the heat there was a large congregation present at the 11:001 o’clock service Sunday morning. Next Sunday is the Feast of the Nativity of St. John Baptist. The services will be at the usual hours, 7:30, 10:00 and 11:00 a. m., and 8:00 p. m. The in terior of the church is being redec orated and revamished. APPOINTED PLAYGROUND SUP ERVISOR AT KOUNTZE PARK Mrs. Ada Hill Smith has lieen ap pointed playground supervisor by Park Commissioner Hummell. and has been assigned to Kountze Park. It is | a well-merited appointment. - I TRADE UNIONISM MAY ELIMINATE COLOR BARRIER _ * Favorable Action by National Body Expected as Result of Frank Accusation by Race Delegate RECOGHITIONMAY BE FORCEO Officials Assure Recalcitrant Dele gate of Full Sympathy With His Manly Position Wheeling, W. V'a., June 22.—Col ored men in trade unions throughout the country will be recognized in the I future, according to an anouncement made by the Ohio Valley Trades and | Labor Assembly at their regular semi monthly meeting here a short time ago. The statement fololwed an accusa tion by Abraham Evans, colored mine delegate from Warwood, in which he asserted that his race was being de nied proper recognition as labor men j before the assembly, as well as throughout the country. Evans de clared that the Negro should stand upon the Name footing as the white man in the ranks of organized union labor, if he is loyal to the organiza tion. To Force Recognition Evans was assured by officials of the assembly that color should be no bar in organized labor. At the end of the long darwn out discussion, an nouncement was made that a concert ed effort to enforce recognition of colored miners in tWs district would he immediately launched, and that the complaint of the delegate would be carried to the national body. It \.s reported that some labor or ganizations in certain sections of the country have recently taken a decided stand on barring Negro labor from thethe ranks of organized unions, and despite the efforts of those who claim that the colored man can not get a "look in,” these high handed methods have not been abandoned. There are hundreds of colored men affiliated with the local assembly, the majority of them being miners, and there are thousands of colored men throughout the country connected with the different trades unions. The action of the Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Assembly, it is be lieved, marks the opening shot in the rairited war to bo waged against dis criminatory practices in the unions. 1 1 ■■■ .... 1 .--JHEJilllJiLi1 From Nebraska to Arkansas and Back Experiences and Observations of the Editor on Trip to Southland Where He Saw Many Things of Interest SOME PLEASANT SURPRISES IN HOT SPRINGS One of the many pleasant surprises with which I met upon my arrival and all too brief sojourn in Hot Springs— for my stay there was less than forty hours—-was, sis I have already iStim ated, the friendly and homelike at mosphere of Hie place. It was snow ing when I arrived and there was bit ing crispness in the air, thoroughly ex hillrating, which was very like near ,:ero weather in Nebraska. This no doubt added to the home-like feeling. It was a pleasant surprise to find this kind of weather, for I like it. Do you know, I don’t think we ever get entirely away from the things we learn to love in early childhood. eF b ruary is tny birth month and Canada my birth place. As I write now far beyond the meridian of life, I recall with delight, how I loved to play in the snow as a child in tny Canadian home—and we had some snow in Can ada in those days. I don’t know how it is now. but I know how It was then. Snow tiad a fascinating tendency then for me and has yet. And so 1 was pleasantly susprised to find "The snow, the snow, the beautiful snow" of which Sigourney and others have sung, falling in this far southern city. As I walked beside my stalwart host. Father Whitlock, I was surprised to find what a short time it took us to reach St. Mary’s Kpiscopal church, which Is within a stone’s throw of the Rock Island and Missouri Pacific stations and the Post Office and right across the street from the magnificent Pythian Bath House and Sanatarlum, eerected at a cost of $375,000, and at that time nearing completion. I shall speak in extensio of this wonderful building in a subsequent article. St. Mary’s is a neat brick structure, or a rather nondecript type architecturally, for it was built with the utilitarian idea of combining a chapel, a parish house and a priest’s residence all in one. As there is ample ground, I think the idea is eventually to build a large church and use the present building as parish, hall and rectory. The lower floor is occupied by a small but neat chapel, the upiier floor ia comfortably fitted up as living rooms for the Priest of St. Mary’s and his family. A former priest, Arch deacon Johnson, who erected the building, had a large family, and made provision accordingly. Father Whit lock does not need all the room for he is not married—yet. His mother lives with him, and he professes to be in no hurry to be married. His mother had been called to her home in Virginia by the illness of his slater and he therefore expressed regret that we would have to take our meals out. He was the soul of hospitality and no one could hare madd me more com fortable—nor did I lack for substantial home-cooked food for the oafe to which he took m# is known ns the Vapor City Cafe, on Malvern avenue, and only a short distance from the rec tory, the efficient and business-like proprietress of which if Mrs. K. U Stokes. It is a strictly modern up-to date cafe, nicely appointed, and the meals such as to satisfy an epicure. As we entered the cafe two young men seated at one of the tables arose and cordially greeted me, saying "How do you do, Father Williams, what in the world are you doing down here?” They were two young men who had attended St. Philip's, Omaha, a few months before, with Mr. Irving Grey. Another young man accosted us, saying, ‘‘My name is Ballard, l have read several copies of The Moni tor, and I wanted to meet you and tell you personally how fully I ap prove of your ringing editorials. Let me do so now.’’ I thanked him. Dinner ended Father Whitlock took me to the Woodman Hospital and Bath House a fine structure, erected at a cost of $100,000, occupying a prominent corner on Malvern avenue. It is a modern, spacious fire-proof structure elegantly furnished and ade quately equipped. It is in charge of Dr. Baraban, a skillful physician and surgeon, and an eminent gentleman, a friend and fellow student of Dr. W. W. Peebles, of our own city, at North western University, Chicago. Dr. Peebles was in the College of Den tistry and Dr. Baraban in that of medicine there. Dr. Baraban cour teously conducted us through the in stitution. I had hoped to have cuts and data of this Institution which would give my readers a more ade quate conception of the place but I have been unable to get them. As we entered the reception room two gentlemen were standing there talking. Hearing my voice one wheeled around and said, "Hello, Father John, this is Indeed a pleas ure.” It was my friend of many, ma ny years standing, Frank B. Waring, of Chicago, who was for such a long time director of St. Thomas’ Church choir of that city, his wife being the well-known physician, Dr. Mary Fitr butler-Waring. The other gentleman smiled and extended his hand. He was Dr. Wesley, a well-known Chi cago physician and another old friend whom I had not seen for several years. “Jess Is here, too, Father John”— Frank, despite our friendship insists upon always addressing me formally as "Father John.” “He’ll be mighty glad to see you." He referred to my friend of boyhood days, Jesse Binga, now prominent as a banker in Chi cago, and destined some any to be one of the wealthiest men of our race, if success continues to follow him, which I sincerely hope it will. His business success has not swollen his head. When Jesse and I were boys together in Detroit, I wonder if anyone ever dreamed that he would bo a banker with an elegant mansion in Chicago's exclusive residence section T I do not know whether he overheard our voices but ns we ascended the stairs he was £)bout to descend and with hand outstretched cordially greet ed me with, “Hello, John, this is in deed a pleasant surprise? When did you come? How long are you going to be here?” After being conducted through this wonderfully interesting institution, in itself a liberal education as to racial ability and effciency I had the pleas ure of meeting several delightful guests from far-separated parts of the country, cultured, up-standing men and women. All of this was, of course, a pleasure agmented by the pleasant! surprise of mneting so many old, friends at Hot Springs. (Next article: “A Busy Sunday In Hot Springs.) VICTOR RECORDS OF RACE ARTISTS The Victor people have decided to put out records made by colored art- j ists. . This decision is largely due to a suggestion made two years ago by Sol Lewis, the North Twenty-fourth music dealer. Mr. Lewis wrote the Victor people stating that he was convinced that the colored people were demanding records by colored artists. The Victor people replied that he was mistaken, that colored people as Americans were satisfied with the records they were putting out and this feature was unnecessary. Mr. Lewis from time to time reported his sales of O-Keh, Black Swan and other records featuring race artists, from this territory alone. The figures were significant. Now comes the an nouncement that owing to the de mand from dealers the Victor people have decided to make records of col ored artists. FIRST VISIT TO OMAHA IN NINETEEN YEARS Mrs. Alma Stewart of Bellaire, O., en route from Denver, Colo., where she has been visiting her father, is spending a few days in Omaha visit ing old friends. She is accompanied by her little daughter, Alma, and they are the house guests of Mrs. R. W. Freeman. Older Omahans will re member Mrs. Stewart as Alma Shav ous. This is her first visit to Omaha in nineteen years when she left here as a girl of sixteen. THE MYSTERY CLEARED Earl Edwards, bookkeeper at the Waters-Bamhart plant, Around those diggings for several days had kept himself quite scant; Whenever they looked for Edwards he was seldom to be found. And it was quite a puzzle to ascertain whore he was hanging round. But all at once the myBtery was made exceedingly clear, When looking quite chesty the boys saw him appear— A smiling and passing cigars as liberal as an earl. For his wife had presented him with a nine-pound girl. THE ST. PAUL PRES BYTERIAN CHURCH At the morning services Sunday the Sunday school children will render their Children's Day program, con sisting of songs and recitations. The ordinance of baptism will be administered to the infant daughter of Mrs. Willard Chue, and probably other children will receive the ad ministration. We were glad to have worship with us last Sunday morning, Mrs. Robison of Chicago. We are always glad to welcome strangers. The topic for discussion Sunday ev ening will be “How Can We Win Friends and Keep Them?” Proverbs 27:5, 6, 9, 10. This is a timely topic anil should offer food for a lively and profitable discussion. Think it over and come out to express your views. —Russel Taylor, Pastor. MILLION FOR FISK Associated Negro Press. * Nashville, Tenn., June 22.—$890,000 as an endowment gift for teachers’ salaries was one of the features of a gala commencement at Fisk University last week. The General Education Board headed the list of donors with $500,000. Among other donors were the Carnegie Foundation Fund with $250,000; Edward Harkness, New York, $50,000, and Julius Rosenwald, Chi-j cago, $25,000. The total endowment will be $1,000,000. PRESIDENT RECEIVES COL. YOUNG’S WIDOW Washington, D. C., June 22.—Ac companied by a delegation from Ohio, Mrs. Charles Young, was received at the White House by President Har ding, last week following the burial ceremony of her husband. The President spoke earnestly on what the loss of Colonel Young meaue to the entire nation. Mrs. Young’s two children, Charles, 16, and Marie, 13, are still in school in FTance. -- l COLORED SCIENTIST, , TUSGEIEE, SPRINGER MEDALIST Peanut ami Sweet Potato Wizard Han Developed 290 By-Products from These Popular Tubers. RECEIVES BRITISH HONORS Medul Awarded In Consideration of His Recognized Achievements in tile Field of Agricul tural Chemistry. New York, June 22.—The Spingarn Medal, awarded annually for the most distinguished achievement by an Am erican citizen of African descent, goes to Dr. George Washington Carver, of Tuskegee Institute, for 1922, it has been announced by the National As sociation for the Advancement of Col ored People. The award was made by a committee composed of: Bishop John Hurst, chairman; Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Dr. James H. Dillard; Oswald Garrison Villard; Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois; Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Dr. John Hope. The medal is awarded to Dr. Carver: “In consideration of bis services in agricultural chemistry, his recent re cognition by a British Royal Society, and for lectures on agriculture during the last year before white and colored audiences, particularly In the South, where his clear thought and straight forward attitude have greatly increas ed interracial knowledge and respect." Dr. Carver’s achievements Include developing 165 by-products of the pea nut and 115 of the sweet potato; mak ing potash and china berry meal from the china berry; making a tonic for stock food from vegeable products. He also devised a dressing for canvass shoes, and white and white and col ored washes from clay; used okra fibre for paper, rope cordage, straw | matting and carpet, and made 20 varie ties of laundry bluing. INJURED IN AN AUTO MOBILE ACCIDENT Mrs. Maggie Morgan, 2818 Paul street, who is employed as a cook in a Chicken Shack on West Center St., was injured in an automobile accident Monday night while on her way to work. She was riding in J. D. Lewis’ taxi when a reckless driver collided with the Lewis taxi. Mrs. Morgan’s right wrist, left arm and leg were injured. GOVERNOR BRYAN ERASES COLOR LINE IN BOXING BOOTS Objectionable Ruling of Nebraska Commission Effective For Last Two Years Set Aside VIOLATED THE COHSTITUTiOH Lum Doyle, Who Favored Ruling And Told Delegation He Would Rigid ly Enforce It Removed From Office Special to The Monitor Lincoln, Neb., June 22.—Governor Bryan, unlike his weak-kneed repub lican predecessor Samuel R. McKel vie, has had the courage to do the rightt hing and erase the objection able color line ruling which has been effective since the passage of the box ing bil itwo years ago. Under the bill the commision ruled that boxing bouts between colored and white con testants were unlawful in Nebraska and such bouts were not permitter. Protests were made against this rule to Governor McKelvie, but Without sucess. Lum Doyle, the boxing com missioner, favored the ruling and a delegation of citizens who presented a petition signed by 5,000 citizens ot all classes requesting its appeal, that the ruling had his aproval and would be rigidly enforced. His attention was caleld to the fact that boxing contests had been staged between whites and Indians, whites and Japanese, Mexi cans and other dark-skinned race, the ruling have been enforced only as to contests between colored Ameri cans and whites. He made “no bones” of telling the delegation that so long as he was boxing commissioner, “Ne groes and whites would not be per mitted to box ni Nebraska.” Last Tuesday Governor Bryan re pealed this ruling, declaring that it was in direct violation of the Con stitution of the United States and of this state. He also announced that he had discharged Lum Doyle, state boxing commissioner and transferred his duties to H. H. Antles, secretary of the department of public welfare. It was upon the grounds of its uncon stitutionally that prominent colored citizens who have no puarticular in terest in the fistic arena opposed it and requested its appeal. LOCAL ELKS TO BANQUET NATIONAL HEAD OF ORDER Grand Exalted Ruler J. Finley Wilson Of Washington To Be Omaha Visitor Next Week The local lodges of the Independent Brotherhood Progressive Order of Elks of the World are exceedingly active these days. First, they are making preparations to honor the na tional Grand Exalted Ruler, J. Finley Wilson, of Washington, D. C., who is to be an Omaha visitor next week. A banquet will be given in his honor at the North End “Y” next Tuesday night, for which a tempting menu has been provided and an excellent pro gram of toasts prepared. This is to be followed by a ball at Dunbar Hall. These events are all preparatory to the ten day carnival which is to be given from July 1 to 10. All of these happenings aru preliminary to and anticipatory of the Elks’ pilgrimage to the National Convention of the Order which is to be held in Chicago in August. Iroquois Lodge expects to attend in full strength taking with it Desdunes famous band. The Chicago Great Western has been selected as the railroad to take the Elks to the Windy City. J. Finley Wilson is a prominent newspaper man, being editor of The Washington Eagle, one of the most influential of our race journals, and is president of the National Negro Press Association. MIXED CROWD BREAKS UP KU KLUX MEETING Perth Amboy, N. J., June 22.—Dis senters broke up a Ku Klux Klan meeting here revently and drove one Rev. Oscar Haywood, a Klan speaker, from the building in which he was endeavoring to conduct a lecture pro gram. The crowd was composed of Negroes and whites. BRITISHER LYNCHED Palm Beach, Fla., June 14.—Henry Simmons, a native of the Bahama I» lands, was hanged to a free and his body riddled with bullets for speaking out against the lynch law in the South.