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PAY SPRITZ AFTER CHRISTMAS Between Euclid and Prospect SPRITZ Next To Columbia Theatre 2067 East 9th St. During Sale THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1925. DARROW'S PLEA BRINGS TEARS! THE SWEET JURY DIS AGREES AND FORCES A NEW TRIAL. Eight of the Eleven Defendants Out on $5,000 Bail Each— New Trial in January—Bail for the Three Remaining Defendants Was Urged, Wednesday. Detroit, Mich.—A jammed courtroom was moved to tears by the closing plea of Clarence Darrow in defense of Dr.ossi H. Sweet, and the ten others, from charges of murder in connection with the shooting of mobbists attacking Dr. Sweet's home on Sept. 9 last. "To me this case is a cross section of history and a study of human emotions," declared Mr. Darrow. "It involves the future and the hope of some of us that the future will be better than the past." In speech to eleven defendants, Mr. Darrow said: "I speak not only for them but for a race which, however you may do, will go on and on to heights never reached before. I speak for a million Negroes who have some hope and faith remaining in the institutions of the land. I speak to you in behalf of those whose ancestors were brought here in chains. I speak in behalf of the faces, those black faces, which have haunted this courtroom ever since this trial began. I ask you in behalf of yourselves, our race, to see that no harm comes to them. I ask you in the future to do justice in this case." The Detroit Times, reporting the scene in the courtroom during Mr. Darrow's plea, say: "Darrow's plea was marked by all the tense emotion, the deep pathos which won him his reputation. The spectators kept a hushed silence, one or two dabbing at their eyes with handkerchiefs at his references to the plight of the black race. When Darrow finished he wiped an eye and sat down amid a hushed shattered only as the judge found words and signaled the prosecutor to start his final plea." After 46 hours of violent argument, which could be heard sometimes by persons outside the room, the jury disagreed. It was rumored that five jurors had stood for acquittal, and seven for acquittal of eight defendants and conviction of second degree murder for the other. The jury was dismissed at 1:31 p.m. in the courtroom shortly after Mr. Darrow filed a motion for a new trial and made a second motion that all eleven defendants be admitted to bail. A new trial has been agreed upon for the first week in Jan. Eight of the defendants were at once admitted to bail in $5,000 each which was furnished by our people of Detroit, but from the prosecutor in the case of the raid, Judge Frank Murphy to set Wednesday, Dec. 2, for argument. The three defendants held are Dr. Susan H. Henry Sweet and Leonard Morris. Mr. Darrow has not asked for separate trials for each of the 11 defendants but probably will do so. The expenses of the trial to date are about $20,000, the transcript of testimony alone costing $2,081.60. One of the most impressive eight seen was the way in which our people flocked to the trial. At half midnight, on Thanksgiving morning, when the jury was still arguing and sent out for instructions, the courtroom was packed. At 2:10 in the morning, when the jury was sent to bed, ballails had to make way through bed, ballails for the jury. Many of the ballails remained waiting and watching, many of them going without Thanksgiving dinner in order to be on hand. "I want to pay a tribute to the magnificent way in which Judge Murphy conducted the trial. He did his utmost to exclude the issue of race prejudice and his final charge to the jury was a masterpiece of scholarly learning and judicial impartiality. The case has largely changed public sentiment in Detroit. The better class opinion is now with attorneys, although the KID is of course more bitter than ever. But the N. A. A. C. P. will continue to fight the case and both Attorneys Darrow and Arthur Garfield Hays will continue to lead the defense until a conclusion has been reached," said Walter White, assistant secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., N. Y. City. Darrow and Hays Comment. Attorney Darrow commented as follows: "I am sorry the jury disagreed. I think the accused should have been acquitted. I appreciate the fact that most people are born with prejudice and the hard to overcome and I think that is the reason for the disagreement. I do feel, however, that the trial just concluded has gone a long way toward making a better understanding between the races, due to the fairness of the newspapers in reporting the trial, and the knowledge of race problems imparted to the people who heard it." "It is a sad thing," said Attorney Hays, "to cause people, particularly if they fear they are oppressed, to feel they can not get justice in a white man's court. For two days the jury argued as to whether or not these people were justified in shooting, under the circumstances shoot, yet the community exerted the pressure in the court to determine the question in two minutes, with the penalty of jail for life if their judgment was wrong." It was learned that five members of the jury held out for a general acquittal, while the others, although favoring acquittal of eight defendants, wished to find the three others guilty of degree homicide. There was little doubt the part of the jury to discuss the disagreement, but one member remarked significantly that: "an intelligent jury could have gotten somewhere." When a hearer expressed the opinion that this was an exception, "in intelligent jury, the juror retorted: 'You don't know the half of it.'" Fresh Ohio News Fresh Ohio News ERFORCE—H. D. B. Douzard-Banda, of Nyassaland, South Africa, arrived recently from London, to pursue his course in the university. He was met in N. Y. city by Bishop W. T. Vernon. Bouzard-Banda is a young man in whom the bishop took exceptional interest while he was presiding over the A. M. E. church in South Africa. After completing his studies in his native land and through the help of Bishop John Gregg now in South Africa, young Banda was permitted to come to this country. He will study theology and eventually go back to his native land as a missionary. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the window about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. 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The decree declares lynching to be "un-christian, uncivilized, and subversive of law and order", and endorsed the "efforts now being made by officers and members of the Mississippi Bar Association to so quicken the public conscience that mob law shall cease". Sheriffs were called upon to do their sworn duty in such emergencies and to defend their prisoners even at the risk of their lives. In connection with the resentments, Bishop Alsworth delivered a vigorous arraignment of lynching and appealed to the members of the conference to do their "utmost to help remove from the reputation of the South such foul blots as are put there by illegal gatherings and mobs. The difference between mob rule and law", said Bishop Alsworth, "is the difference we have savagery and civilization. We have been lynching the mob in the eyes of the world. We been permitting the stabbing of the very arm which we may some day call upon for support". Referring to the recent lynchings at New Albany, Bishop Ainsworth said that the reputation of the state suffered throughout the whole country in its material prosperity was seriously corrupted; corporations are not disposed to lend money or make investments in this state after such an affair", said Bishop Ainsworth. "Outsiders will think twice before settling in such security where the law is so disregarded and where human life is so cheap". TO GO ABROAD! Four of Our Boys to Visit in Foreign Countries, Next Year, and Enjoy Camp Life With Boys There. New York city — Four of our boys will sail for Europe, next summer, as members of the third world friendship tour, to be conducted under the M.A. of the national council of the Y. M. of forty boys, chosen from forty states, will be accompanied, next year, as against twenty from eleven states in 1925. Another new feature is the division of the tourists into two groups of twenty boys each. One group, to be gone ten weeks, will sail from New York, in June, and visit eight countries. The other, which will be away five weeks, will attend the world Y. M. of conference at Helsingfors, Finland, where the persons from about fifty countries — 300 of them boys under 21 — will meet. "The chief idea of the world friendship tours is to bring the best of the youth of all nations in contact with one another before they have reached the age where thoughtless prejudice sets in." The longer of the two tours, called the A-1 tour, will start from New York on June 26, returning Sept. 1. Visits to England, France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, and Denmark will be included. From July 31 to August 7, the party will be at Helsingfors, where, with members of the shorter tour, they will camp with boys of foreign countries and attend special boys' meetings. MOBBED BUT FIGHTS KLUXERS New York city—lbr. S. J. B. Collins, a physician of Farmville, N. C. who was severely beaten by a group of men whom he states wore K. K. K. regalia, is planning to sue members of the mob for damages, and is being assisted by the British viceconsul at Wilmington, N. C., who has protested the affair to the state authorities. The Civil Liberties Union has also up the case with Gov. McLean and Mr. Malvin Horton of Farmville. Dr. Collins, a Jamaican "Negro", was taken from his automobile, Sept. 28 and whipped. His assailants ordered him to leave town. Instead of doing so, he appealed to Mayor Horton and to Gov. McLean, who referred him to Solicitor Jesse Davis of Newborn, who is investigating the case. Collins still lives in Farmville he has refused to undisturbed. He refuses to leave town "with two years of back debts owing to him". SPURIOUS KIP LETTERS Being Sold "Suckers" by "skinners" —Buyers "You" in "Sealed Envelope" envelopes. Chicago, Ill.—Spurious copies of Kip Rhinelander's "written" letters to Alice Beatrice Jones were being vended in Chicago, last week the authorities were informed. Prices ranged from $1 to $25, investigators declared. The majority of sales were made at cigar stores and pool parors. One of the schemes was selling envelopes supposed to contain copies of the unexpurgated letters. On opening them purchasers found them to contain sheets of paper on which was printed "we thank you." SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS KIP'S ATTORNEY MERCILESS AND HEARTLESS IN QUESTIONING ALICE'S MOTHER. Startling Revelations—Rhinelander Warned, Said He "Didn't Give a Damn"—His Ex-Chauffeur a Star Witness—Alice Kept Off the Witness Stand—Her Attorney's Address to the Jury. White Plains, N. Y.—For a week, up to last week Tuesday, young Rhinelander, stuttering and red of face, told his story and submitted to a grudling cross-examination of intimate questions of his life. Tuesday morning, he took the stand for a few minutes and was asked whether the marriage clerk in making out their license had asked Alice about her color. "No" he answered, "he just wrote down white." Three witnesses for the defense were heard in the late afternoon, including Rob Brooks, butler, husband of Emily, Alice's sister. Brooks testified that Kip always had been "very friendly" to him, had played cards and dined at his house often and called him "Bob." He in turn, he said, called Rhinelander, "Len." All of his friends, Brooks said, were his own people, and Rhinelander hid played cards with an overseas veteran, Ross Chidester, former chauffeur for the Rhinelander family, called from an inner chamber of court where he had been hidden for hours, testified that he said to Kip, three months after he met the girl: ed stories that his bride was the daughter of a "Negro" reached his ears, young Rhinelander declared to her, his mother-in-law. "Never mind, I married Alice; I love her and I don't care." In the afternoon several defense witnesses, including Mrs. Robert Brooks, Alice's sister, Emily, testified. When court convened, Monday morning, Davis called Mrs. George Jones, mother of Alice, to the witness stand. After a few perfunctory questions addressed to the witness concerning her daughter's color, the witness was excused. Davis then turned to Justice Morschauser and the jury and said: "Acting entirely upon my own discretion as an attorney and entirely upon my own responsibility as an individual, the defense rests its ease. This saved Mrs. Rhinelander a bitter experience on the witness stand and staggered Kip's attorneys, who were not expecting anything of the kind. Attorney Davis then opened the argument before the jury, saying: "The Rhinelanders are determined "Don't you know her father is colored?" To this, according to the chauffeur, the young man retorted: "I don't give a damn if she is!" This was the first direct testimony that young Rhinelander was warned of the color of his bride before their marriage. After Chidesther's testimony, court was recessed, until Monday. Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, mother of Alice, testified early. She said she was born in Christorpe, England, about sixty years ago, where her father and mother still lived. She remembered her grand and great grand parents and all were of English stock, pure white. She said she married George Jones, 35 years ago, when he was a coachman and she a nurse. She was born in America within a month. Of course, said the witness, she knew George Jones was a mulatto. She had protested at Alice's motor trip with her fiance, and consented only when Leonard said the mythical Mr. and Mrs. Matthews would act as chaperons. She knew nothing of the Hotel Marie Antionette incident, and the first news she had of their marriage was when Leonard showed her the key secret. When she finished, up stood Mills, the Rhinelander lawyer. Two weeks ago he proclaimed that he would restrain any attempt to bemish this Mrs. Jones' reputation. Mills asked if Mrs. Jones had not sought to mate her daughter with a white man. She denied it, saying she objected to Emily marrying the butcher Brookie, because she was so young, not because she was cooped. Mills demanded that Mrs. Jones had not brought a white child, Ethel, to America with her. Paling, the witness nodded yes, and then came this: "Who was Ethel's father?" Trembling a little, Mrs. Jones shook her head. Ignoring it, the lawyer insisted on the question. Mrs. Jones said: "I do not wish to answer that." She turned her head to Justice Morchauser, and he ruled: "The lady is within her rights there. She does not have to answer." Mills asked whether she had been married before, and Atty. Davis objected, saying: "I protest against all this. Why go back forty years to besmirch this woman?" The appeal was in vain, for Mills asserted that the question was intended to attack the credibility of the mother, and the court sustained him. Mrs. Jones, clasping and unclasping her fingers, shook her head, saying: "I don't want to answer." But Davis told her he was unable to help her. The law required that she answer and the woman murmured: "No, I was not married then." Unrelenting, Mills pressed further, asking: Was Ethel the only child she bore before marriage? Yes. Was she sure? Did she also have a child, William, like Ethel, born out of wedlock and living now? No, murmured the witness. Lee Davis, help stop the interrogation, exclaimed: "My God! She was a girl of 18 on an Englishman's estate, forty years ago—and they're dragging that out of her." Mrs. Jones said that while her husband knew of the birth of a child before their marriage, she had succeeded in keeping the secret from her children, until they heard her confess it on the witness stand. She also testified that when the publish- IN UNION IS STRONG COPY FIVE CENTS NDS! OUT IN PROTEST HILESS AND HEARTLESS ALICE'S MOTHER. Nielander Warned, Said He —His Ex-Chauffeur a ice Kept Off the Her Attorney's to the Jury. ed stories that his bride was the daughter of a "Negro" reached his ears, young Rhinelander declared to her, his mother-in-law. "Never mind. I married Alice; I love her and I don't care." In the afternoon several defense witnesses, including Mrs. Robert Brooks, Alice's sister, Emily, testified. When court convened, Monday morning, Davis called Mrs. George Jones, a friend to the witness stand. After a few perfunctory questions addressed to the witness concerning her daughter's color, the witness was excused. Davis then turned to Justice Morschauser and the jury and said: "Acting entirely upon my own discretion as an attorney and entirely upon my own responsibility as an individual, the defense rests its case." This saved Mrs. Rhinlander a bitter experience on the witness stand and staggered Kip's attorneys, who were not expecting anything of the kind. Attorney Davis then opened the argument before the jury, saying: "The Rhinlanders are determined to win this case if they have to spend every dollar they own to cover every soul that stands before them." Why, he asked, had the Rhinlanders insisted on using mud and mud only for ammunition? Why had they pilloried the 63-year-old mother, compelling her to confess the birth of an illegitimate child, nearly forty years ago? How had they outgone now a woman, and the mother of the girl and boys to brand them? Why? "A fine Thanksgiving day they gave the Joneses," he added "Why didn't I put George Jones (Alice's father), the old beau of Mrs. Jones, on the stand? You've seen him and see him now. He is a mulatto, no disgrace to him. I did not call him, because he had heard the obsession dragged from his old wife, and ruined the old woman, but I would not be the tear the old husband to please wouldn't let a man treat a dog like that, while I had a hand to stop it." As for the absence of Alice from the stand, Davis offered a similar reason, more emphatically phrased. "If it was error, blame it on me, don't visit it on her. I could have kept you here another week, let you wee them drag her again through the utter flith, we dragged her through utter flith, but it struck me that it was about the world was through with the Rhinelander case. No one feels more sympathy than we," he said, "for this boy (Kip) over the loss of his mother, but death by burning is to be preferred to the living death visited by Mr. Mills on the aged mother of this boy, did rather be burned at the stake with honor, than be compelled like Mills, in seventy-fifth year, to rlp out of a mother, 63 years old, the confession of an indiscretion of her girlhood, and this with her daughters watching her, publicly." The court directed the jury that the question of Alice's color was out of the case, as defendant's counsel admitted her colored origin. Judge Morschauer also ordered the jury to incite all the alleged post-marital misrepresentation except those of significance as to Mrs. Rhineland's intent. Young Rhineland contends in his action that before they wedded his bride deceived him as to her color. White Plains, N. Y., Dec. 1, 1973. Atty. Les Parsons Davis completed his summing up for Mrs. Alice Rhineland to the jury today. Court then adjourned until tomorrow morning, when Isaac Mills, chief counsel for Kip, will begin ming up. The case will go to a jury. Thursday. Davis attacked plaintiff counsel for the manner of conducting the case, and especially for reading Alice's letters into the record. Alice appealed to the white men who make the jury to lay aside race prejudice and judge the testimony on its merits. He charged plaintiff counsel to justify their conduct of the case. After stating that the plaintiff "had stripped Alice of every scrap of respectability a woman loves most," Davis said that the defendant would leave the court room a wreck, "shunned alike by the white race and the black." He said the defense would not ask for a verdict to compel Rhinolander to live again with his bride, because it was apparent that they never could live together again after what has passed in the court room. He said he had defended Alice solely that she might retain her honor, and not in the hope that she would be able to get her husband back. --- PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter 226 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. M. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published in the state of Ohio ,and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWS- BEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 850,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1925. DRIFTING EASTWARD During a third police precinct clean-up, Saturday, there were 17 arrests, 13 men were taken for gambling and 3 for carrying concealed weapons. As all know the police station in that "notorious" precinct is located in E. 37th St., near Woodland Ave., not many blocks from Cleveland's "bloody corner", E. 25th St. and Woodland. The 13 men taken for gambling were gathered around a table, playing dice ("shooting craps"). A squad of police led by a lieutenant, in order to get to the men, had to batter in doors of a house in E. 59th St. Gambling devices and 14 tables were confiscated. A woman of the race, age 34, was arrested and charged with suffering gaming. As will be noticed, in the foregoing, the rottenness of the 11th and 12th wards, or the Central-Scovil-Woodland district, is marching steadily east. It will not be long until that part of the city, between E. 55th and E. 105th; Cedar Ave., on the north, and Quincy or Woodland Ave., on the south, will be quite as bad as the 11th and 12th wards. During the local political campaign, which closed recently, we understand that strenuous efforts were put forth by friends of the race candidate in the fourth district to prevent any discussion in his public meetings of the rotten conditions to which we call attention. We have wondered, since the close of the campaign, if the candidate and his friends were influenced to take the stand they did by the ministers or the denizens of the underworld in the third district. The former, with possibly one or two exceptions, refuse even to discuss the miserable conditions referred to and of course the latter do not wish the eyes of the community directed toward them. That the political tide has turmed in our Tavor, and that important adjudgements within the Republican party are being carefully and successfully worked out by the Coolidge administration has been clearly indicated by recent happenings which have greatly heartened colored citizens throughout the country. In a good, old-time Republican speech, delivered at Youngstown, O., last week, Senator William M. Butler, chairman of the Republican National committee, brought the party back to its original moorings, when, in his address, which formally opened the 1926 congressional campaign, he declared: "There must be a more general understanding that after all we are only members, not owners of the Republican party, and that we offer our services to the people, that we know neither CLASS, CREED, NOR RACE; that we stand for equal opportunities for all, and will right those who seek to destroy that right."—Columbian Press Bureau, P. O. Box No. 1649, Washington, D. C. The Columbian Press Bureau, we understand, is operated by jobholders of color at the nation's capital. That undoubtedly explains the foregoing which could best be styled political "chitterlings" for the consumption of the gullible of the race throughout the country. President Colliidge set the pace at Omaha, some weeks ago, and of course, his political leader, Senator Butler, must follow. The latter was only doing this when he made the speech at Youngtown, referred to by the Columbian Press Bureau. As a matter of fact, no "political tide has turned in our favor" and no "important re-adjustments within the Republican party are being carefully and successfully worked out by the Coolidge administration". Positive proof of the correctness of this statement can be found in the first four columns on the last page of this paper. President Coolidge and Senator Butler have no more intention of trying to bring "the party back to its original mooring", as far as we are concerned, than they have of discontinuing segregation of our employees in the departments at Washington, D. C., and elsewhere in the government service. Both of the gentlemen named, in their refusal to abolish segregation at the nations' capital show our peo- ple from one end of this country to the other that they DO know "class, creed and race" in a way that is an insult not only to our people but also to the abstract thing (in our case) known as American citizenship. The latest bearing on the foregoing, is that the National Equal Rights League, headquarters in Boston, on Monday, Nov. 30, 1925, memorialized President Coolidge, demanding that he "make good on his Omaha speech against race prejudice by abolishing federal segregation and righting other wrongs". Massachusetts is the President's home state, and Editor Wm. Monroe Trotter of the Boston Guardian, is secretary of the N. E. R. League. Additional Locals The 20th Century club met, Nov 21, at Mr. and Mrs. Grant Perkins', E. 69th St., and was royally entertained by Mr. Clifford Gardenhire and Elzy Milton. The members present were: Lura Kura, Delaney Sharp, Eugene Hagans, Gretcher Alexander, Spencer, Jas. Creech, Roxie Odden, Mattie Carroll, Wm. H. Hill, Davenport Browny, Leo Lynn, Grant Perkins, Wm. Hutchinson, Allen Smith, Robt. and Ruth Gregory, C. L. Williams, Troy Johnson, Louis Bingham, Adolph Poole, Jeff. Graham and Jesse evening at Mr. and Mrs. Friday at 43rd St., and were entertained by Mr. Allen Smith. D. R. Spencer is pres., and Jas Creech, sec. Among the many participants in the operetta, "All at Sea," by Harvey Worthington Loomis, rendered by students at Central high auditorium, Nov. 13, girls and boys of our group were well represented. The leading role, "The Pirate King," chief of the Pirates of Penzance, was taken by Cleophus Dabney; "Yum-Yum," Boo Boo, and from "Sting" three thrillers set in south wards of Koko, were represented by three of our girls; Willie Lee Floyd, Barylne Smith and Sarah Martin, Girls and boys in the choruses were Lyle Smith, Hozia Smith, Paul Sissle, Augustus Fields, Laurence Mitchell, Matthew Harris, James Harris, Erma Crawford, Marie Perkins and Corina Prince. Over one hundred students participated in the operetta. Millward Weaver, a pupil of Mary Noble Allen, was the pianist. Says the Belfry Ow Central high school of Cleophus Loomis, the Pirate King, and Leonard Flinn, as the police sergeant: "They distinguished themselves in their respective roles, while from the Japanese trio, Ruth Martin, Sara Martin and Perlyne Smith, was sent up the best harmony of the evening." 123 men and women, caught in the week-end cleanup of vice and gambling, were arraigned before Police Judge Hull, Monday, and all were released with suspended fines with the exception of a man and a woman who were charged with operating a gambling game and sentenced to 30-day terms in the workhouse. Of the 123 persons arrested over the week-end, 103 were taken in custody by Sergt. Emil Smetana and his men from the E. 37th St.-Orange Ave. station and the other 20 were arrested by Sergt. Emil Smetana and his men from the E. 37th Ave. station. The largest single raid was made by Smetana on a house in ward 11, at 2912 Scovill Ave. Eighteen women and sixteen men, charged with participation in a noisy assemblage in the home, were found guilty and given suspended sentences. Seven others, charged with gambling, also were dismissed with fines of $25 and costs each. Mrs. Shuford also was fined $100 and costs on a charge of possessing liquor. Nineteen men, arrested by Sergt. Smith at 5612 Scovill Ave. and Mrs. Shuford, were fined $5 and costs, but the fines were suspended. Thirty-six men charged with gambling at 4317 Scovill Ave. also were released under suspended fines. TESTIFY BEATINGS KILLED CONVICTS. Witnesses Tell of Members of the Race Being Whipped by Prison Official. Albemarle, N. C.—Stories of how Afro-American convicts were "beaten so unmercifully" that some died within a few hours, were told at the trial here, last week, of M. C. Cranford, Stanley county convict superintendent. Eight witnesses testified, Nov. 25, of "known cruelties" of Cranford, extending over several years. Some of the witnesses, white convicts, testified to having Cranford, his two African Americans on an afternoon, and that both men died that night. Dr. C. M. Lentz of Albemarle, testifying later, said he examined them on the evening of their death and that from what he could learn from Cranford and the guards as well as from the examination, the men died from "overheat." "Did you ever hear of a Negro in this county dying from becoming overheated? the judge asked. Evidence tended to show that another was dragged behind a truck for a great distance, and died shortly afterward. SAILS FOR LIBERIA! White Americans Already Assembling in the Little African Republic —After Firestone "Mazuma" New York city—James L. Sibley, (white), of Montgomery, Ala., sailed, Nov. 21, for Monrovia, Liberia, Africa, where he will become educational director under the auspices of the Phelps-Stokes Foundation of this city, the Board of Foreign Missions of the M. E. Church and other mission bodies having schools in Liberia. These agencies are sending Mr. Sibley to make a detailed study of the educational needs of the country. He hopes to report definite recommendations at the end of his first year in the republic. Mr. Sibley co-ordinated, recently, with M. Henry Firestone, who plans spending five million dollars in the development of rubber plantations in Liberia and will undoubtedly undertake an educational program for the many thousands of Liberians who will work on the plantations. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5. 1925 PRIME SPORT NEWS Tiger Flowers Floored! Buffalo, N. Y.—Tiger Flowers, Georgia middleweight, won the decision at the end of his six-round bout with Benny Ross. of Buffalo, here Monday night. Although Flowers was floored for a count of three in the third round, the Atlanta batter staged a great comeback and was easily the winner at the end of the battle. Chicago May Get Wills-Dempsey Bout Los Angeles, Cal.—The Wills-Dempsey heavyweight championship bout may be staged in Chicago instead of Michigan City, Ind., Jack Dempsey revealed here, Tuesday. Promoters of the match are seeking the consent of Paddy Mullins, Harry Wills' manager, to a change in the title fight out of the state of Indiana to Chicago, and out of the hands of Floyd Fitzsimmons, Dempsey said. He declared he was not opposed to such an arrangement. "It appears now that the fight probably will be held in Chicago," Jack admitted. Cincinnati, O.—DeHart Hubbard, famous broad jump champion, has been appointed an instructor of the Y. M. C. A. here. 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Tells when to Plant and Harvest by the Moon, the best Planting days and morning information. 20c. Atlantic Printing Co. Dept. C. Binghamton, N. Y. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Mrs. Cordella Wilmore visited relatives in Hillsboro, last week. Mrs. Della Eubanks, of Lakeland Ave., Lakewood, was quite ill, this week. Dr. Chas. Bundy was in the city, last week, from Youngstown to visit his family. Dr. Ferguson, district superintendent, preached at Cory church during the quarterly meeting. Mrs. Gertrude Hawk Jones, soprano, is ill at her mother's, Mrs. Gaines, 4302 Cedar Ave. The Cleveland Musical association, Mrs. Grace W. Thompson, president, is rehearsing Christmas carols. Geo. Buchanan, of Independence Rd., will visit an aunt, 82 years of age, in St. Louis, for a week. Rev. T. W. Woodson administered the Lord's supper at St. John's church. Over one thousand communed. Miss Dorothy Lipscombe, E. 34th St., gave a birthday dinner, recently, honoring the birthday of her fiance, Clarence O'Neal of Oberlin. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hamlet, E. 90th St., old residents, celebrated their 53rd marriage anniversary recently. Immediate relatives were in attendance. The widow of Bishop Camphor, who died at his station in Africa, THE GEEVUM GIRLS ? *M. KLEIMAN'S 2028 Central Ave. BENJ. AKERS', 3519 Central Ave. *THE S. & S. DRUG CO. 7325 Central Ave. The Gazette regularly should notify copy delivered promptly. business matters to The Gazette k., 220 West Superior Ave., oppo- you wish to see the editor call carefully examine The Gazette's purchases. Business men who have the patronage of our people, assurance that they want it. lication in current issues of The by 4 p. m., TUESDAY of that advertisements accepted until C. SMITH, Avenue, Cleveland, O. Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 many months ago, is to visit Mrs. D. E. Skelton, wife of the pastor of Cory M. E. church. Mrs. Roger N. Dillard was hostess to the Inner Club club, recently, and proved a delightful hostess. First prize was won by Mrs. Agnes French and the second, by Mrs. Alma Stewart. The editor of The Gazette was at Wilberforce, recently, attending a meeting of the board of trustees of the Combined (State) Normal and Industrial department of the University. Among the many very pretty Thanksgiving greeting cards received by the editor of The Gazette, last week, a visit to the Memento department, of the Utility Mortgage & Bond Co., Guarantee Title Bldg., city. Leroy W. Tucker of Chicago, a "Cleveland boy," was in the city, last week, visiting his other relatives and hosts of old friends. For many years, he was executive secretary of "Negro Y" of the "Windy City". Mr. Henry Officer, E. 38th St., returned, Saturday, from a week's visit with L. R. Carey who is now located at 684 Frederick St., Detroit, after ten years' residence here. Mr. Carey entertained elaborately, last week Friday, from 7.30 to 10.30 p.m., in honor of Mr. Officer. Mrs. Lillian Lee Woods, who was granted a divorce from Samuel E. Woods about six weeks before his recent death, was given the custody of their four children, Edith, Ellsworth, Warren and Edward. Harry F. Woods of Chicago, a brother of the deceased, came to the city to attend the funeral. Miss Vivian Potee of Springfield, state demonstrator for Poro college, St. Louis, was in the city, last week Monday evening to attend a meeting of Poro agents. Mr. Cary B. Lewis of Chicago, Poro publicity manager, was also at the meeting. They were very much impressed with the enthusiasm displayed by the Cleveland agents of this great system. Mme. E. Gilmore, 7718 Central Ave., is conducting a professional dressmaking and ladies' tailoring training school which ought to appeal strongly to our progressive young women particularly. It is said to be the most modernly equipped school of the kind, among our people, in the state. The Gazette suggests that its readers interested visit Mme. Gilmore's splendid establishment. Married life has not disillusioned a pretty eleighteen-year-old girl who was married to her dead husband's brother by Justice Zoul, last Saturday. The bride, Grace Dean Page, and groom, Thomas J. Page, gave their address as 3350 Scovill Ave., and were married by a boy of a baby girl, 13 months. Mrs. Paula said she first was married in Georgia when 14. When she was 15, the boy was born. Her first husband died of pneumonia. Cary B. Lewis, head of the publicity department of Poro college, St. Louis, was in the city, recently, to address a meeting of local Poro agents. He was splendidly received by committee members and secure a Poro sub-station for Cleve- HIDE, HORACE! HERE COMES FATHER! THE GAZETTE, CLEVER AND, O. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5. 1925. The FIRST and ONLY Cab Company Owned and Operated by OUR GROUP in the State of Ohio. IT EARNESTLY SOLICITS YOUR PATRONAGE. land. Mr. Lewis attended the Metropolitan club dance and left for Chicago where he has charge of a 30-apartment building which he and his wife purchased, several months ago. Mrs. Lewis is the daughter of the late Atty. and Mrs. Beauregard Moseley. The sudden death of Joseph Lucas, age 45, of 10817 Goodway Ave., last week. Thursday night or early Friday morning, was a surprise to the community, "Joe," as he was familiarly called by scores of friends and acquaintances, had been ill but a few days with pleurisy which developed into pneumonia. The funeral service, Monday afternoon, at St. John's A. M. E. church, was largely attended. In addition to his wife, a mother, a sister (Mrs. Geneva Minter), two brothers, and a son by his wife, survived the deceased and have the heart-felt sympathy of the community. "Joe" had been a faithful employee of the N. O. 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C., Oct. 4, 1924. —There is more segregation in Washington today under President Coolidge than there has ever been since the Civil War. The beginnings of segregation were under President Taft. It was greatly extended, under President Wilson; increased, still further, under President Harding; and reached its zenith under President Coolidge. For instance, the largest of our parks President Wilson never troubled, but the present administration has found time and desire to introduce it even there. To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. Mr. Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the commission in this city in 1911, creating white workers, and black workers, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, an announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold office where white people complained. Segregation, then, is a Republican institution and not a Democrat institution. It was begun by Republican, and to its all-embracing extent by Republican! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany their papers, is tenaciously held by our Republican President. Only last week, a colored girl appeared after having passed being examined, and having been telegraphed are by the department. The photograph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to appoint her when she appeared, and they saw her complexion. Commissioner Blair of the internal revenue bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clerk, and his word is law there, as he is the special favorite of Secretary Cox, President Coolidge. They halls from North Carolina. The home of the other favorite and leader of the segregated states, Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds. It is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at a loss to understand why he does not put his splendid declarations on democracy into operation here, where it would not even cost him a single vote and where he has full power and absolutely no opposition. They wonder if he is not a firm believer in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the chief tenets of the Ku Klux Klan which has found its "welcome home" in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—In the postoffice segregation is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious cafeteria for whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing luncheons and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantages as it is, is far less galling to the coured clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and setting them off as though they were lepers. The injustice stimulates all the clerks they reflect that they are far more capable than the whites, and render the government more intelligent and efficient service—the white man of their attainment being able to get far more lucrative employment. The department goes even farther in its solicitude for whites and neglect of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other games, comfortable lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. This private club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. In the locker rooms there is segregation, and segregation is attempted. All of the employees must the most dependable and faithful employees. Last year the white employees passed around invitations to the white employees, in the very presence of the colored, to attend a reception to the heads of departments, including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announced dancing and a pleasant social evening with the officials for "the post-office employees," yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. I hurried a protest to the postmaster general the day before the come out, and be ordered the postmaster to invite the colored as well as the white. These clerks get around their colored co-workers by giving the function at a local hotel. It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express itself in appointments, assignments, and salaries. Colored applicants are often passed over though their examination was superior. No Negro, however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The hard, unyielding caste passes whites over him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests in quickness and accuracy in the mail. The colored clerks have dared to form a union which meets regularly and often sends manly and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often appeals from his decisions to the postmaster-general. It has secured some improvement in their working conditions, but they are still bitter over the huge injustice done to them for nothing else than the color of their skin. (Special to The Gazette.) (Special to the GSA) Washington, D. C. — The government printing office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the best and brightest of our staff are forced to accept the positions there on account of the better and more lucrative avenues of employment being closed to them because of their color. The whites are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equaling our girls in educational equipment, culture, and working efficiency. Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the latter, of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreational facilities. There is a large cafeteria in this huge structure in the employees may go, but there are times out-of-the-way section reserved for our employees. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the place, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public humiliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard-caste offices of the police elsewhere. The inferior white pass over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a splendid record in his work, felt the need for employees so keenly that he secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of those smart Negroes" who believe in "social equality." and then dismissed on a trumped-up charge. He was arrested for assaulting a pistol. Right after the dance incident a fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons for which he was immediately dismissed. This severe punishment "moved the employee to no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a pariah by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a denial that the conditions complained of exist, and a request for the names of my informants. I knew the fate these informants would suffer so I have never given a single name! The denial that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this inquisitive scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, J. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1925. is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it. (Special to The Jazzette) (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.-Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and members of his family, three heroic young colored women who lost their positions as a result of their protest, and the noble wife of Senator Robert La Follette. Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a member of his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thought of race. Shortly thereafter came an order for segregation of the races, and a white lady who had been noted for her philanthropy among our people and who was upon intimate contact with the people employed at the bureau to tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places." Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily dismissed! Senator La Follette lodged a protest with Secretary McAdoo to no avail, and his noble wife began a crusade against the undemocratic innovation. She took the platform here in Washington and Boston before the famous Twentieth Century club. She used the columns of the Senator's magazine, sparing neither space nor vigor of utterance. She thundered against it in our local white press, and addressed the national gathering of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in New York. When our people here were so profoundly discouraged, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A. to urge them to continue the fight. To urge them to continue the fight, Wald Garrison Villard came to town to attack White House and Cabinet and arouse our people, and the Nation Association secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The fight checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregates, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau ait together. The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democratic party is still there, in all of its fullness, under the administration of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass are helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other department. THEY ARE SECRETGATED in their rest rooms, toilets, and working stations, and of course none are ever thought of for promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best names, most of them with high age, normal school training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there is no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited fields at high ware for even mediocre teachers. The white girls are to take these inferior positions, the inevitable result of segregation. Our people are still hoping for the issuance of an order destroying this iniquitous practice in all of our government departments, for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impairs the government service. (Spacial to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—The treasury department, according to the President's recent acceptance speech, is now under the ablest financial genius since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the great Hamilton came from the West Indies, and in that long sweep of history that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lincoln's cabinet, who, in a national extremity such as this country has never known, devised the national banking system which financed the Civil War; and Ohio's master financier, John Sherman. These men never knew what segregation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blair from North Carolina, has not appointed a colored clerk since his incumbency. While his predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, a Democrat from Texas, appointed and promoted several of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war necessitated, the by far the largest department of the federal government, their several thousand clerks, Net Negroes are so scarce there that they can't be noticed. There is the same general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency when promotions are due; ability to go so far and no further. The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special toilet, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilets for the colored are few in such a large structure. Hence, the segregated clerks are forced to endure physical inconvenience at times, and are forced to travel long distances when they desire the use of them. The department maintains a huge, magnificent cafeteria, in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national driveway, where white people of every class can come to rest, dine, and socialize at afternoons and evenings at See us First for all Goods in our Line JOHN S. HALL Prices Reasonable, Satisfaction Guaranteed. JEWELER AND OPTOMETRIST 8188 Central Ave., Cleveland, O. Prospect 3650 NEW The YOUTH'S COMPANION NOW ONLY $2 9 SERIAL STORIES Fascinating "continued stories," each worth in book form, the price of a year's subscription. 50 SPECIAL ARTICLES Upon topics of world-wide interest by writers of authority. 200 SHORT STORIES Advance in Literature, School Life, Indiana, Humor, Harbreadth Escapes, Athletics Radio — "Make-It and Do-It" Page Crabtree Catch Paselee's Cape Cod Philosophy — Wood Creature — Nature Lore — The Best Children's Page minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of this "delightful retreat," and the festive scene that their presence creates. It seats two thousand diners with space to spars; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The registries of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the colored people are congregated in a separate room which is publicly proclaimed as "a colored division." When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against this segregation would result in the abolition of the division altogether; so they remain in a dilemma, fearing to be removed. Our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and being poor, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of the damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. COOLIDGE'S SEGREGATION Washington, D. C.—We wish to call attention to the fact that in the fight against the segregation of our government employees, the Treasury Department will most likely be the center of attack, for segregation in several of its bureaus has been most pronounced. This is particularly true of the office of the register of the treasury and the internal revenue bureau. In the past, bureaus with were maintained until recently. In the latter there have been two cases of discrimination on account of color brought to public view. The words, announcing the election of President Coolidge, were hardly cold before the effort to increase segregation in the departments here was on again at full speed. It had slowed up a little during the campaign. Investigation of Burcuas An investigation of the executive departments and bureaus listed below shows that segregation prevails in them as follows: P. O. Separate Lunch Room Post Office Department—a segregated lunch room. See us First for all JOHN S. 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