Gary American

NEW DEMANDS FOR CLERKS IN STORES VOLUME II, NUMBER FORTY-ONE Ban Is Lifted Against Washington Park WORRY OVER FAMILY TROUBLES LEADS WOMAN TO TRY SUICIDE Woman Attacked In Home Is Rescued By Police Dog DISAPPROVE OF BARE LEG GIRLS "Kurious Katie" Finds One Person To Approve Of Stockingless Girls By KURIOUS KATIE The Gary American will pay $1 for each question accepted for Kurious Katie to ask. Send your name and address with your question to "Kurious Katie" The Gary American, Gary, Ind. For this week's question, Lewis McKay, 1632 Maryland, was awarded $1. THE QUESTION Do you approve of the modern bare-legged style for women and girls? THE ANSWERS Elbert Pearson, architect, 1935 Massachusetts street: In one way I approve of it, and in another, I don't. Lots of girls go around bare legged just to show off. It is alright for young girls. But a little application of soap and water would improve them all very much. Mrs. Georgia Goosby, housewife, 1724 Van Buren: I do not. I thing they look better with stockings on. Dresses are short enough and I don't think they should have so much meat out. It is enough for young girls to do it, but these women. . . . D. Dr. Leroy Blingham, dentist, 1548 Broadway; No, I don't. It is alright for young girls up to 15 or 16 years of age. After girls are in high school or of marriageable age, they should wear stockings. (They can buy pretty sheer stockings if they wish. Mrs. R. W. Woodiok, 1981 Massachusetts street. I like it alright for girls, but I don't think women should go bare-legged. It doesn't look nice. E. W. Morris, shoemaker, 9 E. 19th avenue. Yes, I like it. The more of them that go bare-legged the better I like it. Miss Jobnie Taylor Is Injured in Auto Mishap Sruck by an automobile at 17th and Broadway early Sunday af- ternoon. Miss Johnie Taylor, 16, the daughter of Dr. Dan B. Taylor, 1941 Massachusetts street, is in St. John's hospital suffering with in- juries received in the accident. Woman Attack Is Rescued Chicago.—Betty, a German police ng, belonging to Mrs. Ernestine se, proved herself a heroine on saturday night when she saved her distress from a criminal attack by Ling Brown. Brown, who was a friend and a former neighbor, saw Mrs. Burse at the street Saturday night about eight p. m. and told her he was going up to her house to see her husband. The woman told him that her husband was working late and would not be home before ten o'clock, and Brown said he would go up and wait for him. Mrs. Burse accompanied him (and on entering the house, tied up the dog, which is hostile to strangers, in the kitchen. As she was returning to the parlor, Brown jumped out from behind the door in the bed room, and grabbing the woman by the throat, threatened to kill her if she scream- Beats and Chokes Her Brown dragged the woman to a bed and attempted to undress her, but Mrs. Burse struggled and then screamed, and broke away from her assailant. He caught her again, shook her, and beat her about the face and body with a water pitcher, Mrs. Burse struggled free again GAY PUBLIC LIBRARY STH AVE JEFFERSON Bonds" joy colored ny he does in his store. ORTY-ONE DEMA Lifted FAMILY TROUBLES N TO TRY SUICIDE The Gary American Husband Comes Home Just in Time to Save Her; Condition serious Worry over family troubles was the motive, police said today, which spurred Mrs. Callie Marshall, 30 years of age, to attempt to end her life Thursday night by inhaling gas in her home at 1909 Maryland. Only by rushing into the house and dragging her out in the fresh air was it possible for Emmett Marshall, husband of the woman, to save her, police said. Marshall came home shortly after twelve o'clock, and upon reaching the house smelled escaping gas. He ran into the room where his wife was lying prostrate on the floor. Jerking her up in his arms, the woman's husband carried her out on the front porch of their home where she was temporarily revived. She was later taken to St. John's hospital where her condition is still reported critical, physicians at the hospital declared today. Asked by police why she tried to end her life, the woman, on her bed in the hospital, told a heart-rendering story of how she had worried for days and nights over family troubles which, she said, had been existing in her home for some time. "When I couldn't see any relief, and everything looked so dark and dreary," she stated, "I felt that there was nothing worthwhile left in life for me, and sought to end it all by taking my life," she concluded. This was the third attempt within a week of a Gary woman to end her life, police records show. Police Pick Up Gang CHICAGO.—As the result of the frequent complaints of the women patrons of the Regal theatre, who are annoyed by the insulting remarks of a band of slick-haired shields who line the sidewalks approaching the theatre, a police squad from the 48th street station, led by patrolman James Brown, rounded up eighteen of the offenders Thursday night. Merchants in the district complain that the gang is ruining the district, and interfering with business by making remarks about the women who pass and standing in the doorways of the shops. They lodge about the fenders of parked cars in the side drive, left there by patrons of the theatre, pilfer fro mopen machines and are in general a nuisance and disturbing element in the community. "All the news that's fit to print," is our slogan. Bed In Home d By Police Dog and rushed into the kitchen, where the dog was barking and straining at her leash. Brown followed her into the kitchen, and was about to capture the woman again, when the dog broke its leash, and dashed after him, chasing him out of the back door. Brown ran down the alley, striking at two women who had heard the screams and tried to stop him. Captured by Police Mrs. Burse reported the attack to the Stanton police station, and Brown was arrested at the 31st street beach Sunday. At the time of his arrest, he denied the charge and claimed that he had never seen the woman before. In court Monday morning, when witnesses testified that Brown was a former neighbor and friend of the Burse family, Brown changed his story, stating that the woman had solicited him on the streets, and had him arrested because he had refused her. Mrs. Burse exhibited the bruises which she had received in the struggle, and it was proved that her story was correct by witnesses who heard him tell her he was going to her home to wait for her husband. Brown was sentenced to 6 months in the house of correction. The Ga Off GAR ANDS Again Musical Genius CARL DITON Known to many as a composer of songs, Carl Diton, pianist, will be one of the guest artists to appear on the program of the National Association of Negro Musicians now meeting in Fort Worth, Texas. MUSTARD (Hottest In Town) HELLO. EVERYBODY! Little Dickie Diswater, the office pest, has had one helluva time with his scaigraph. In fact, scaly has had his feelings hurt once or twice, and has been deeply insulted. If it could have talked it would have cussed at some of the legs that passed by. But it had its reward when it stood on 19th and Broadway and watched a gal glide by who could make Venus De Milo lose the rest of her arms hiding her legs. And then there was the broad that wanted to knit scaly because the darned thing snorted in disgust when she rolled her mountain limbs by. But its all in the life of a scaigraph. GERTIE SAYS HER IDEA OF NOTHING IS A BLADLESS KNIFE WITHOUT A HANDLE. OH, YEAH? I swore the day I met you That I would win your heart I vowed that day I'd get you To yield to Cupid's dart I've raed that fascination I wish I could forget you I have one consolation I swore the day I met you. —Swiped. WELL, IN THAT CASE Dear Daddy, D: I just know you've got the wrong impression of me. Just because I said I once lived at 29th and State and when I wanted a man I kept him mine or else—and I offered to give you money you must think I'm naughty. But I'm not. Really I'm not. It's only because I love you, you great big he-mans, that I want to be nice and do things for you. Don't you understand? I'm as innocent as a lamb and my soul is just as white as freshly fallen snow—and I haven't been shorn of my virtue nor have I drifted. —Minnie Del Pondo (Continued on page 3) Gala Opening of G Scene from "LAFFIN' THRU" at the Gary Theatre Sunday. The Gary Theater, Broadway at Fifth, opens in a blaze of beauty on Sunday at 12 o'clock noon. More than $10,000 has been expended in completely redecorating and renovating the playhouse. Mutual circuit traveling burslesque road shows, vaudeville and motion pictures will be presented. Performances will be continuous daily from noon to 11 o'clock O CLOCK. —Minnie Del Pondo Office of Publication: 7 East 19th Avenue. Telephone Gary 2-4660 GARY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1929 PLACE OPEN TO ALL AS BAN IS LIFTED IN PARK PLACE OPEN TO ALL AS BAN IS LIFTED IN PARK Committee From N. A. A C. P. Gets Quick Action On The Matter Washington park, Gary's recently finished city park at Fifteenth and Pennsylvania, will be open to colored people at all times and no colored person will be barred from the park in the future. This assurance was given to members of a committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People as a result of a meeting with members of the inter-racial committee Wednesday afternoon, according to Rev. A. C. Bailey, president of the N. A. A. C. P. Following the publication of an article in The Gary American describing how several colored people had been denied admission to the park, members of the N. A. A. C. P. sought a meeting with the inter-racial committee to protest the policy of discrimination. Rescind Order They were told that the matter would be taken up with the park board immediately. Meanwhile, they were assured that the order barring Negroes from the park would be immediately rescinded, permitting colored people to enter the park and to have full access of its playground equipment and swimming pool. The park was recently completely by the city park board. Located in a section of town where most of the residents in the vicinity of the park are colored people, it was not known that Negroes would be denied entrance to the park until a group of colored women carried their children to the park several weeks ago, and were told by police who stopped them that they could not enter the place or have access to its playground and swimming pool. A report of this incident to the N. A. A. C. P, and the publication of the episode in The American brought quick response from the organization who named a committee to investigate the matter with the result that assurance has now been given that the park will be open to all persons, regardless of color. The committee which interviewed members of the inter-racial committee was composed of the Rev A. C. Bailey, president of the N A. A. C. P., Rev J. W. Kittrell, Mrs Mary Davis, Mrs. A. Moncrief, Will Taylor and Mrs. Pauline Tennison Dismiss Charges When Joseph Smith, 1715 Adams, arrested by Detectives William Linn and Ira Kidwell for violation of the state liquor law, was tried in City court by City Judge C. M. Greenlee and the charges against him dismissed for want of a search warrant. "All the news that's fit to print," is our slogan. She Is Champion Woman Flyweight! Miss Emma Maitland Here are three poses of Miss Emma Maitland, who has been fighting in every important large town in Europe. She's the recognized female flyweight champion of Europe and has been victorious in 28 fights, scoring knockouts in five. RIVALRY CLOSE IN AMERICAN'S GREAT SUBSCRIPTION CONTEST Competition Grows as Race For Big Automobile Gets Under Way Rivalry of the most intense kind among the candidates who are now hitting their hottest pace before the clock strikes 11 on September 7, in order to get in every possible subscription on the biggest vote schedule of the campaign, is bringing a whirlwind action. All the preliminaries are now over—the competition is getting keener. The prizes will soon be distributed to their various winners and the Chrysler Sedan will be presented to some "live wire." The fighting spirit dominates—the very air is tense with excitement as the closing day of the BIG VOTE period draws nearer. Time is Flying Time is shipping rapidly by and the campaign will all be over before you realize it. Therefore, there is only one thing to do and that is to take advantage of every opportunity that presents itself which will be the means of increasing your vote standing. Candidates Showing Speed As one lady expressed it, "Why, I'm just really beginning to get busy and I haven't scratched the surface yet or seen nearly all of my friends who have premised to give me their subscriptions to The American." Another "live wire" hustler said, "Since I've found how easy it is to get subscriptions from my friends, I am getting more interested all the time and more determined than ever to capture that Chrysler." This will give but a faint idea of the determination with which everyone is possessed these last fate- ful and important days. And everyone has their eyes on Saturday night. $25 "Club" Worth Votes Between now and September 7, $25 in long-term subscriptions is worth over 275,000 votes. Remember that you don't have to wait until you have collected the entire $25 to get credit for the 100,000 EXTRA votes allowed, as your subscriptions should be turned in promptly, as your subscriber want their papers when they have subscribed. Big Subscription Count Most The 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10-year subscriptions are highest in vote value. Just think!—one 10-year subscription alone 625,000 votes. Expect to Complete New Progress on the work of building Israel C. M. E. church, 2337 Washington street, which has been under construction for the past two months, is being made daily and the task of completing the church is expected to be finished in time to permit an opening of the building on the second Sunday in September, according to the Rev. A. C. Bailey, pastor. Workmen were busy engaged in finishing various tasks today preparatory to putting the final touches to the edifice. The plastering to be done on the building will begin this week and it is also expected that the floors and windows will be started. The corner stone of the building was laid a month ago in a ceremony witnessed by several hundred people and participated in by members of St. Luke lodge No. 43, F. & A. M. "All the news that's fit to print," is our slogan. "Interest, Character, Substance" Latest news of the day over leased wire of Exchange Press PRICE THREE CENTS N STO FIGHT TO GET CO IN S. S. STORES E CENTS IN GARY AND SUBURBS ELSEWHERE, FIVE CENTS TORES ET COLORED CLERKS TORES GETTING HOTTER PRICE THREE CENTS IN GARY AND SUBURBS ELSEWHERE, FIVE CENTS FIGHT TO GET COLORED CLERKS IN S. S. STORES GETTING HOTTER N. A. A. C. P. Appoints Body to Investigate The Charges Made BY SARAH TAPT SIMS The Gary American's indictment against merchants on the South Side who refuse to employ Negroes as clerks in their stores and shops will be thoroughly investigated by the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, according to the Rev. A. E. Bailey, president of the association. Moved to action by the stories appearing in The American describing the attitude of certain white merchants in ridiculing the suggestion that they employ colored men and women as clerks in their stores, members of the N. A. A. C. P, have appointed a committee to interview those merchants on the South Side who receive a goodly percentage of trade from colored people, and to ask why they do not heed the plea of The American. The committee will call on every merchant in the central district and the result of their interviews will be made to the association which will then take action. Fight Started by Newspaper The move to induce South Side merchants to employ colored people in executive capacities was started by The Gary American in the early part of the summer. The newspaper published a series of articles showing that morgant than $50,000 per day is being spent by colored people in Gary for food, clothes, household goods and other commodities. The major portion of this sum, the newspaper pointed out, is being spent in South Side stores where Negroes are employed as clerks in only six stores, although there are over 175 stores and shops on Broadway and Twenty-fifth avenue which could profitably employ colored clerks and cashiers. Notable among these stores which derive the greatest part of their income from colored people and refuse to employ colored people in any positions except as porter or janitors are: Gollin's department store, located at Seventeenth and Broadway, the Mid-West Packing company, located at Twenty-second and Broadway, the Consumer's Packing company located at Twenty-fifth avenue and Broadway, the Northwest Packing company, located between 17th and 18th on Broadway, and the American State Bank, located at 1710 Broadway. Gollin's department store, the largest of its kind on the South Side, derives fully eighty per cent of its patronage from colored people. The store employs five clerks, all white, and even the janitor of the store is a white person. Gollin, the manager of the store, assumed a hostile attitude toward a reporter for The American when he was called upon and asked why he did not employ colored clerks. His attitude is regarded as intolerant. Every excuse has been given by some South Side merchants for their failure to employ colored clerks. For example, there is the excuse given by Harry Wise, a proprietor of the Mid-West Packing company, who declares that it would be too much of a problem to train colored people as clerks. Mr. Wise also told representatives of The American that colored people do not like to be served by members of their own race. **Prove Wise Is Wrong** That Wise is wrong and has no foundation upon which to make these excuses is proven by the fact PRIZE OF $25.00 BE GIVEN CONTESTANTS A SPECIAL PRIZE TO BE GIVEN A SPECIAL PRIZE OF $25.00 TO BE GIVEN CONTESTANTS $25.00 will be given the person turning in the greatest number of subscriptions to The Gary American newspaper by 11 o'clock Saturday night, September 7. Remember, a ten-year subscription costs as ten one-year subscriptions, etc. This offer has no bearing on the regular vote schedule which appears on another page of this issue—$25.00 for a few moments spare time this week. Isn't that worth while trying for? We shall count subscriptions from August 31 to September 7 only for this award. --- --- --- (Continued on page 2) OKLAHOMA OIL KING IS SUED Wealthy Negro is Named by Wife in Action For Divorce in South MUSKOGEE, Okla.—Luther Manuel, rich Creek freedman, is certain to win the suit filed by his wife, pretty Fay Louise Manuel, for divorce and alimony. The basis of this statement is the fact that courts in this state usually protect their rich Negro and Indian wards from gold digging wives. Manuel is of Negro and Indian descent. Under the State law affecting the Creek nation to which he belongs, every child was given 160 acres of land. At the age of eight he was given a white guardian, as the law requires, and sent to a white military academy, in California. Later he finished his education at Lincoln University and Boston University. Case Postponed The Manuel divorce case was postponed two weeks ago when Mrs. Manuel, after a two-day grilling in which she exposed liquor parties and automobile rides with her husband and others extending across three states, suddenly collapsed on the witness stand and the next day gave birth to a dead child. Had the child lived it probably would have inherited half of the Manuel estate, but women in Oklahoma usually find it difficult to sue the Negro-Indians successfully. **Owns Skyscrappers** Out of Manuel's 160 acres of land flowed a sufficiently large stream of liquid gold for him to purchase two skyscrappers in Boston and half the city of Muskogee. Jazzin' the News (The week's news in verse) By LOUISA WHITTED N. A. A. C. P. gets action on discrimination here; Is assured by other faction that there's nothing more to fear. Same association interviews the merchants in our midst; Wants to know what is to hinder hiring colored to assist. Cohen mentioned for appointment to the post where Francis Died. Writer voices disappointment at the lack of race pride. Phythians attracts attention at encampment in the East; Ranks are rent by great dissension; drills are beautiful at least. C. M. E. Church finished mahly; hope to worship there are long. Kurlous Katie asks you plainly if you think bare legs are wrong. Woman saved from man who tries to attack her in her own home. Buy from firms who advertise to prove there's business in your dome. Watch our circulation contest waxing hotter every day. There will be a bigger conquest when we give that car away. RIG BARGAIN FOR SALE—Two corner lots at 25th and Lincoln. 50x125 feet. $100 cash. See Joe Gracin, 2268 Washington. VULCANIZING — Guaranteed. One year guarantee batteries $5.85 ex. We buy and sell useq *ires, 134 W. 25th Ave. Plan Labor Day Dance At Miramar Ball Room Elmer Stirman and his Chicago "Harmony Kings" will furnish the music at a Labor day dance at the Miramar ball room, 14th and Madison street. Labor day. September 2, according ton an announcement made today. In addition, numbers will also be rendered by the Pullman porters' orchestra and the "bandans boys." Page 2 FIGHT STARTED BY 'AMERICAN' AROUSES TOWN Merchants to be Interviewed by Committee Named By N. A. A. C. P. (Continued from page 1) that on the South Side of Chicago, the section in which the colored people live, a majority of the stores employ colored clerks. These clerks had to be trained, and if the owners of these stores could profitably employ Negroes as clerks and train them for the work they employed them to do then Wise and all other South Side merchants can do the same thing. The Mid-West Packing company, which Wise operates jointly with Morris Greenbaum, receives about ninety-five per cent of its patronage from colored people. Hardly a white person ever enters the store which has grown to large proportions through the profits it has made from colored people. If colored people would stop trading at the store, it could not exist longer than a week. The case of the Mid-West Packing company is one which the N. A. A. C. P. committee may profitably investigate along with the cases of Golffn's department store, the Consumer's Packing company, the Northwest Packing company, and others who are notoriously unfair in denying employment to colored people as clerks and cashiers. These merchants and many others like them are getting rich from the business they derive from colored people. They live in palatial homes, drive luxurious automobiles, take the money away from the South Side where they earn it and invest it where colored people have no chance at getting some return. More Several South Side stores have developed to a degree of perfection of giving their customers short weights and dishonest measures and this is why, it is pointed out, many of these stores are afraid to employ colored clerks. They realize, it is argued, that if they are forced into employing colored clerks this system of cheating will soon be wiped out. By demanding the owners of the stores where they trade to give Negroes positions as clerks, colored people in Gary will not only have places created where their own boys and girls, graduating from high school, can get work, but can protect themselves from the dishonest merchants who, employing white clerks who are prone to connive with him in short-weighting his customers, are daily committing a crime which police authorities can well investigate. The fight is on! We must have a clerk in every store which derives most of its patronage from colored people. And we must demand it and enforce this demand with whatever weapons we have at our command! N. A. A. C. P. to Meet at "Y" Sunday at Three p. m The regularah meeting of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will be held Sunday afternoon at Hunton branch Y. M. C. A, at three o'clock, according to an announcement made today. The organization will receive a report from a committee appointed to investigate the attitudes of South Side merchants in employing Negroes as clerks and pass on other current business matters, it was announced. Restrictions placed against colored people at Washington park, 15th and Pennsylvania, which has recently denied admission to colored people, will also be discussed in the meeting, it was stated. The meeting is open to everyone and residents of the South Side of Gary are cordially invited by officers of the association to come and take part in the discussions. 国家税务总局监制 Our Taxi Service Neither taxes your patience or your pocketbook. Zone rates to all parts of the city. No red tape. No delay. PHONE 7434 Day and Night Service 128 WEST 5TH AVE. OUR TOWN By MARGARET PEARSON Mrs. Braddock Back From Iowa Studies Mrs. Edna Braddock has returned to Gary from the state university of Iowa, where she has been pursuing studies in the graduate college. Mr. Roy Lawe, who has been out of the city for quite a while, has returned home. Miss Blanche Hamilton, of Danville, Illinois, is visiting the Kelleys, 1958 Massachusetts street. Mrs. Reatha Henry, 2370 Washington street, is visiting points in the south. She will be gone for several weeks. Mrs. John Cooper. 2456 Grant street, surprised her husband with a birthday party last Monday evening. Among the guests were Mr. and Mrs. John Nan, Mr. and Mrs John Allan, Attorney and Mrs. E. N. Bacoon, Mr. Camnady and daughter, Dorothy, and Mr. Thomas Carter. Many beautiful and useful gifts were received, and a very delicious luncheon was served by Mrs. Cooper. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Pearson, of 1935 Massachusetts street, spent Sunday in Chicago visiting relatives and friends. Miss Marguerite Steptoe, 2545 Jefferson street, was hostess at a party last Thursday evening, given in honor of Miss Elizabeth Washington, a visitor in the city from Milwaukee. The entrance to Miss Steptoe's home was beautifully decorated with Japanese lanterns. The guests enjoyed themselves by playing cards and dancing. Those present at the affair were: Mr. and Mrs. Lillard Gonzales, Mr. and Mrs. James Rucks, Mr. and Mrs. Powell McDaniel, the Misses Arella McGee, Earnestine Campbell, A. Clemons, who is a visitor in the city, and Miss Wilhemina Butler, and the Messrs. George Fuller, Roy O'Neill, Earl Gordon, Beverly Scott, Edward Gordon, Thomasas Allen, Otis Bailey, T. P. Ross, and George Wheaton. Mrs. Fannie Oglesby, who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Wallace. 2300 Broadway, has returned to her home in Jeffersonville, Ind. Mrs. Bertha Williams, of Chicago, visited Mrs. A. L. Sanders, 1935 Massachusetts street, last Saturday evening. Mrs. Florence Alexander Returns After Trip Mrs. Florence Alexander, 2600 Harrison street, has returned from a trip to Indianapolis. Physicians Attention! FOR RENT—Offices for physicians, low rent. Good location. 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Shore Line Motor COac or Coach Company Roy Law, Back in City After Vacation Pearson's Spend Day In Windy City Miss Steptoe Fetes Guest at Her Home Imps Club to Meet Tonight The Imps club will meet with Mrs. Wilma Williams, 705 West Twenty-fifth avenue, Friday eve- Mr. Thomas J. Patton and Mr. Oliver Patton, both of 1933 Pennsylvania street, spent the last week in Lansing, Mich. Chicagoans Are Visitors Here Miss Ollye Dillon and Mr. Robert Nichols, of Chicago, were visitors in Gary over the week-end. Mr. Gradys Brown, who lives in Detroit, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Reese, 2521 Adams street. The Misses Eleanor Edwards, Jimmy Lee Edwards, Lucille Johnson, Mrs. Ella Pearl Davis and Mr. L. D. Williams, all of Chicago, were visitors in Gary last Sunday. They visited Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Bryan and family, 2240 Madison street. Phillips Entertain Visitor With Trip Mr. and Mrs. H. Ivan Robinson, of Chicago, are the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Phillips, 1520 Vermont street. Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Phillips and little daughter, Janet, together with Mr. and Mrs. Robinson, visited Casa Loma, the beautiful resort in Wisconsin. Fifth & Vermont Streets Phone 2-3319 First Class Body & Fender Work Automobile Glass Painting & Trimming Frames and Axles Straightened FIRST CLASS WORKMANSHIP We Re-build Auto Bodies PHONE 2-6026 ent last week in the city as the tests of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Anton, 2529 Washington street. Mrs. Smith is the mother of Mrs. Anton and Miss Neal is the niece Every member is requested to be present and an interesting program will be arranged for the occasion. A notice will be sent to every member later. Mrs. A. Crosley, 2617 Adams street, her sister, Miss Bessie Hargrove, 2616 Adams street and Miss Geneva Davis, 2160 Massachusetts street, spent the last week-end in Chicago. Mrs. Charles Harris, 705 West Twenty-fifth avenue, Mrs. Lena Dentress, 2261 Washington street, have just returned from St. Louis. You Can Always Be Assured of the Best in Fruits and Vegetables When You Buy Here JOHN ROMPOTIS 1702 BROADWAY "Indiana's Greater County Fair" — The — Lake Count FAIR "Indiana's Greatest County Fair" — The — Lake County FAIR Will Rival the State Fair in Many Departments CROWN POINT, INDIANA Sept. 9 to 1 to 13 DAYS AND NIGHTS --- A. M. B. Good Banks Are Good Friends Time was when you felt chill and cold when you entered a bank. The president wore a a stiff, black hat and scowled continuously. Banks have changed and bankers have changed. They are both more human. The good banker of today has your welfare close to his heart. The Gary State Bank is known as "the bank of friendly service" and always welcomes conferences with old depositors and new. Bring your problems here and you will know the full meaning of "friendly service." The Bank of Friendly Service The Gary State B The Bank of Friendly Service Broadway at Fifth Avenue State Bank friendly Service Fifth Avenue The Gary State Bank The Bank of Friendly Service Broadway at Fifth Avenue spent last week in the city as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Sexton, 2529 Washington street. Mrs. Smith is the mother of Mrs. s Mrs. Smith is the mother of Mrs. Shrubb. Nea is the niece of Mrs. Shrubb. Birthday Party For Miss Ophelia Marsh Miss Ophelia Marsh entertained at a birthday party given for herself. Thursday, August 22, at the home of Miss Mamie Parker, 1624 Massachusetts street. The color scheme, which was yellow wand white, was carried out beautifully. A very delicious five-course luncheon was served by the little hostess and the group later enjoyed themselves by dancing, playing cards and games. Those present at the affair were the Misses Helen Woods, Mary Spragglin, Katie Monroe, Fannie Summers, Mae Bennett, Norma Shackleford, and the Messrs Thomas White, Dave Mitchell, Tollie Moore, James Garner, Lucius Smith, Richard Cheaks, William Smith, Roscie Johnson, Venoy McCoy and Amos Miller. Everyone had a delightful time. The first regular meeting of the Gary Noonday Business club, following the summer vacation, will take place at the Stewart House, Wednesday, September 4. CONTINUOUS 10:30 TO 11:30PM ROOSEVELT BROADWAY AT 15th. ST. "The Terror" with MAY McAVOY, LOUISE FAZENDA, ALEC FRANCIS FOX MOVIETONE NEWS—AND COMEDY Also a Columbia All-Talking—Dancing Act. "FALLING STARS" Monday Only - September 2 MRS. WALLACE REID'S PRODUCTION FOX MOVIETONE NEWS AND ALL-TALKING COMEDY Tuesday and Wednesday - September 3-4 LAURA LA PLANTE in with JOHN BOLES and HUNTLEY GORDON FOX MOVIETONE NEWS—TALKING ACT Thurs., Fri. and Sat. - - September 5-6-7 D. W. GRIFFITH'S "Lady of the Pavements" with WM. BOYD, LUPE VELEZ, GETTA GOUDAL where they visited relatives and friends. Miss Mauldin is Back From Trip Miss Mable Mauldin, who recently graduated from Terre Haute Teachers normal, has returned to Gary. SUITS CLEANED AND PRESSED MONDAY, TUESDAY 69c If brought in. Service and Satisfaction Guaranteed. Superior Remodelers "THE LITTLE PLACE" 2136-38 BROADWAY BEFORE BUYING Bath Room Fixtures, it will pay you to see the Hoosier Plumbing & Supply Co. The amount you can save by buying from us will surprise you. COMPLETE BATH ROOM OUTFITS $53.75 Consisting of five-foot bath tub, one apron wall lavatory, and one toilet HOOSIER PLUMBING and HEATING SUPPLY COMPANY PHONE 2-1679 "ALWAYS THE BRIGHTEST SPOT IN GARY" GARY ```markdown ``` DOORS OPEN 12 NOON SHARP! Continuous Daily Noon 'Till 11 P. M. FREE SEASON PASSES Attend the Opening and See Yourself in the Movies Movies will be taken of the crowds in front of the Theatre when the doors open! These pictures will be shown at the Gerry starting Sunday, Sept. 8th. If you see yourself on the screen in a "Close-up" you will be given a Season Pass FREE! Beautiful Souvenirs For the LADIE$ Opening Week! FREE SEASON PASSES Attend the Opening and See Yourself in the Movies Movies will be taken of the crowds in front of the Theatre when the doors open! These pictures will be shown at the Gary starting Sunday, Sept. 8th. If you see yourself on the screen in a "Close-up" you will be given a Season Pass FREE! Beautiful Souvenirs For the LADIES Opening Week! MUTUAL CIRCUIT TRAVELING ROAD SHOW BURLESQUE VAUDEVILLE — PHOTOPLAYS OPENING ATTRACTION! "LAFFIN' THRU" A Whitly-Girlie Extravaganza WITH A BIG COMPANY OF STARS and a Chorus of Youth, Beauty and Pep! Gary's Newest Sensation! MONSTER MIDNIGHT Show and Frolic Every Saturday Night ```markdown ``` Doors Open 11:30 p. m. Show Stars 12 Sharp! Ends "Somtime' Sunday Morn ALL SEATS RESERVED FOR THE MIDNIGHT SHOW ONLY ```markdown ``` JULY 10:30 TO 11:30 P.M. SEVELT WAY AT 15th. ST. The Home of VITAPHONE TALKING PICTURES Saturday - - August 30-31 The Terror" AVOY, LOUISE FAZENDA, ALEC FRANCIS MOVIETONE NEWS—AND COMEDY September 1 ANNA Q. NILSSON in 'Blockade' All-Talking—Dancing Act. "FALLING STARS" y - - September 2 WALLACE REID'S PRODUCTION "Blockade" "Linda" ONE NEWS AND ALL-TALKING COMEDY Wednesday - September 3-4 LAURA LA PLANTE in "Scandal" IN BOLES and HUNTLEY GORDON OVIETONE NEWS—TALKING ACT and Sat. - - September 5-6-7 D. W. GRIFFITH'S of the Pavements" OYD, LUPE VELEZ, GETTA GOUDAL HANDY DIRE Of Gary Firms Who Products and Se BUILDING CONTRACTOR LUTHER MOORE 1901 Broadway Gary, Ind. ROC Phones: 160 1981 6 DISLOYALTY OF NEGRO TO OWN RACE SCORED New York Editor Laments Lack of Cooperation Among The Race INDIANAPOLIS.—The Negro is disloyal to his own group, Fred R. Moore, editor of the New York Age, declared on the floor of the National Negro Business League here last week. "The Negro buys everything the white man buys," said Mr. Moore, "and he buys from white people. It seems to me that the thing we want to discuss here is ungripping the Negro from the white man and directing him how to buy from his own particular group. The white man has got the Negro gripped so that the Negro who wants to go into business or is in business is starved to death because the Negro will not go near him. All the big Negroes around here will go into a white store before they will a Negro store. Negroes have failed who have had the same kind of goods in their stores as the white man carried because the colored people in their communities preferred to do business with the other fellow, preferred to strengthen the white man rather than give opportunity to their own sons and daughters." TWO HURT AS ROOF CRASHES TWO HURT AS ROOF CRASHES Many Shaken Up in Atlanta to When House Top Falls In Picture Show --- ATLANTA.—Two persons were seriously injured and several score were badly shaken last night when the roof of the Dixie theatre, a popular moving picture house, caved in during the evening performance. The crowd was thrown into a panic by the crash, and started a stumped for the exit. A police officer stood inside of the doorway, holding his gun on the frenzied mob, forcing them to march out in orderly fashion. When the roof fell in, falling plaster and tin cut and bruised many persons in the audience, and many more were hurt in the wild rush for the exit. Willie Ross, 8 years old, was trampled under foot, and was badly bruised, receiving internal injuries. Miss Annie Turner was knocked unconscious by a blow on the head from falling plaster. The cause of the crash has not yet been determined. Mrs. Ella Mae Crump, 2014 Massachusetts street, has gone to Terre Haute, where she will visit a host of friends and calss mates. Allen's Service Station "QUICK SERVICE" We sell the Best Gas and Oil. Cars Greased. Your Satisfaction CORNER 21st and VIRGINIA Phone 2-7814 SAM'S LOAN SHOP JEWELER & PAWNBROKER Unredeemed Jewelry, Watches, Dia-monds, Clothing and Shot Guns for Sale 1604 BROADWAY Copeland's Music Shop All the Latest Records Pianos and Other Instruments Tuned and Repaired 27 WEST 17th AVENUE Phone 2-2747 Gary, Indiana EAGLE CLEANERS and DYERS Satisfaction Guaranteed 18 W. 25th Ave. Gary, Ind Calumet Hardware and Paint Company Hardware and Building Supplies for Every Need 1829 Broadway Phone 22012 GARY, INDIANA G Composer of "Listen to the Lambs," and other Negro spirituals. Nathaniel Dett, celebrated song writer, is taking a prominent part in the convention of the National Association of Negro Musicians at Fort Worth, Texas. MUSTARD (Continued from page 1) THE WAGES OF GIN IS BREATH. * * * GENUINE MONKEY BUSINESS Hot Stuff: Seems as if trouble donecome into my family an made a home. My uncle down in Nashville gut hissef a young wife this las time an sew in ordah 2 do right by her he bought a pair of monkey glands an suntime later he learned that he was gain 2 be a pappy. On the great day he paced up an down in frunt of his sillier half's door an when the doctah came out he rushes up 2 the man of med-i-cine an says. What is it, doc, a boy or a girl? An the doctah says, Yew cum in heath and help me get the blame thing down offa the chandelier an Eve'll tell vew. As eveeh. EMPHATICALLY NO!! YOU HAVE DONE ENOUGH FOR HER Dear F. M. D.: Perhaps, as you have worn the coveted toga of column conductor you will be able to answer a question that is troubling n. It is this: If I take a girl out to a show pay her taxi fares everywhere going and coming, after a show take her to a cabaret and let me set her back a few bucks for sandwiches and drinks, dance with her, and afterwards take her clean to her doorsteps, do you think that I should kiss her? TRY THIS REAL FAST ON WOUR TONGUE Add Famous Last Lines: "I'm going to Chicago to live." —F. M. D. DIRECTORY Who Guarantee nd Service Our Time Is Your Time FRED RENO Watches, Diamonds and Jewelry For Sale and Repaired All Work Guaranteed 29 WEST 17th AVENUE Phone 2-2348 GARY, IND. S. S. BROWN CLOTHES SPECIALIST First Class Tailoring and Dressmaking 28 E. 16th Ave. Gary, Ind. S. I. PRINCE SHOE REPAIR SHOP BEST MATERIALS GOOD WORKMANSHIP at 23 West 22nd Avenue DUCO PAINTING Body Repairing and Trimming Department R. MILLS, Manager Fifth Avenue Garage 320-38 W. 5th Ave. Gary, Ind. HERB ADE GOLDSTONES 1320 BROADWAY Money to Loan on Everything Watches—Jewelry—Luggage ROGER W. WOODFOLK LAWYER Phones 26303—Office 2nd Floor 1633 Washington Street Residence 2nd Floor 1981 Massachusetts Street GARY, INDIANA --- THE GARY AMERICAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1929 "Every state has a law which provides that the citizenry shall aid the police when called upon to do so," the opinion stated. "Those laws do not contemplate, however, that the citizens shall act in a manner that will constitute a hazard to public safety. If a police officer asks the driver of a car to chase a speeder or other miscreant, the driver must obey, but only within certain limits. The officer is without authority to rescind prevailing speed limits during the chase; the driver, therefore, is still bound by them. Have Them C Gary is having a price war dyers. To meet the com- \ our prices. Have all you Suits Cleaned and Pressed (Called For and Suits Cleaned and Pressed (If You Brin Ladies' Dresses and Coats Home Dyers are Work Called For 20 EAST 20th PLACE EXTRA! 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A Universal News cameraman will take motion pictures of the crowds in front of the theater when the doors open. A number of "close-ups" will be taken of different persons in the crowds. These pictures will be shown at the Gary starting Sunday, Sept. 8. Anyone seeing himself or herself on the Gary screen in a "close-up" will have only to inform George Young, managed of the theatre, of the fact and he will be pleased to award them with a season pass. Under Mr. Young's supervision the Gary theatre has been transformed into a modern theatre of today. The facade has been refinished in bronze, old rose and green. More than a hundred lights have been placed under the canopy in front of the entrance lending a daylight brilliance to the theatre at night. Because of the fact that all of the theatres of the Mutual circuit open on or about Sept. 1 and in order that the Gary theatre would be ready to open on the date set, all of the improvements planned by the new lessees could not be completed in time for the opening. "Laffin" Thur" the opening attraction at the Gary starting Sunday is said to be one of the best of the Mutual shows. There is a big company of stars, dancers and comedians and a chorus of youth beauty, charm and pep. Daughter of Atty. Woodfolk Here Undergoing Operation Italia, the little daughter of Attorney and Mrs. R. W. Woodfolk, is spending a few days here, while undergoing treatment for her tonsils. The family physician of Attorney and Mrs. Woodfolk, after a careful examination, suggested that an operation be performed. She is now confined in St. Antonio hospital where it is reported she is rapidly recovering. "All the news that's fit to print," is our slogan. 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American Published every Friday morning in the year by The Gary American Publishing Company, Incorporated, American Building, 7 East Nine-tenth avenue, Gary, Indiana. TELEPHONE GARY 2-4660 Entered as second-class mail matter at the post-office at Gary, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1929, by The Gary American Publishing Company, Incorporated. a second-class mail matter at the post the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1879 Billing Company, Incorporated. Entered as second-class mail matter at the post-office at Gary Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1929, by The Gary American Publishing Company, Incorporated. CHAUNCEY TOWNSEND, EDITOR Subscription price $1.50 a year in advance. For six months, $1. Single copies, three cents. "The Gary American enters the field without malice or envy toward anyone. It has no axe to grind. Neither does it have anyone to punish. it has but one aim, to which it will cling with pious devotion, and that is to stand squarely in defense of the rights of the black American."—Prospectus of The Gary American No. 1, November 10, 1927. at price $1.50 a year in advance. For three cents. American enters the field without malice no axe to grind. Neither does it have a mim, to which it will cling with pious surely in defense of the rights of the bl the Gary American No. 1. November 10. Subscription price $1.50 a year in advance. For six months, $1. Single copies, three cents. "The Gary American enters the field without malice or envy toward anyone. It has no axe to grind. Neither does it have anyone to punish; it has but one aim, to which it will cling with pious devotion, and that is to stand squarely in defense of the rights of the black American."—Prospectus of The Gary American No. 1, November 10, 1927. DODGING THE ISSUE The automobile has brought m ole. But it has also brought one y year thousands of people are accidents of various sorts. The form, scale and inconven mobile has brought much pleasure has also brought one of our most susands of people are killed and ma- of various sorts. The majority of t spaces and incompetence. There a The automobile has brought much pleasure to the American people. But it has also brought one of our most serious problems. Every year thousands of people are killed and maimed in automobile accidents of various sorts. The majority of the casualties result from carelessness and incompetence. There are few unavoidable accidents. It would seem a simple matter to enforce adequate driving laws, and when tried, it has proven that this reduces the accident rate. It would seem equally simple to withhold operating licenses from persons too ignorant or too incompetent to drive a car with ordinary ability. Yet we go far out of the way for our cures and produce such legislative boomerangs as compulsory liability insurance. And, in the meantime, while such panaceas dismally fail the death record mounts. We are a careless people in many ways. And our lack of safety consciousness causes untold waste in lives and property. Until we follow the obvious course and teach prevention, modernize traffic laws and bar the reckless and incompetent from the highways, the toll of automobile deaths will mount. IGNORANCE OR PREJUDICE DANGEROUS There is too much sentiment and too little logic in tariff reasoning. Those who would abelish all duties, talk glowingly about the beauties of "free trade," with all nations like brothers, shipping their products in and out of foreign ports, and everyone getting everything at a bed-rock price. The high tariff advocates, on the other hand, almost go into tears over what is going to happen to business and the farmer unless the tariff is boosted sky-high, to the point where no European producer can come near the American market. Both of these attitudes betray ignorance or prejudice. We cannot let the bars down to a point where our industries and wage earners suffer from cheap labor foreign competition. Nor do we want to put them up to a point where imports cannot compete on a fair and equitable basis, with domestic produce. Our tariff has never been, and never should be, a deterrent to importation, but an equalizer, fair to foreign and domestic producers alike. THE STORY OF MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP One thousand four hundred and forty American cities and towns, with atotal population of about 3,000,000, have dispensed with municipal operation of electric plants and now receive service from private companies. Four hundred and eighty-nine municipal plants, serving 1,600,000 people, which at one time operated their own generating plants, have junked them and now buy electricity wholesale from private sources, according to statistics of National Electric Light Association. Municipal ownership was doomed when the modern plan of large central station service and interconnected plants was inaugurated. These great systems with their efficiency, lowered standards of service, added tax burdens and political entanglements have been the rule rather than the exception. Good electric service is so vital to modern industrial and domestic life that only the most efficient power production and distribution methods will survive. A GREAT ECONOMIC PHENOMENON A recent estimate places the number of shareholders in American industries at 15,000,000. Twenty years ago the number of persons possessing stock was about 500,000, one-thirtieth of the present total. It is no wonder that we are hearing more and more about the stock exchanges of the country, and that a steadily increasing percentage of our citizens are interesting themselves in finance. So general has our prosperity become that for the first time in history the person of average means finds himself in a position to buy an interest in the companies which he patronizes or works for. The development of stock exchanges in leading cities is reducing the possibilities for crookedness and fraud and enabling the general public to more easily become an active factor in the industrial and financial structure of the country. This is an outstanding economic movement of the century. Its social and political implications cannot be measured. They cannot even be imagined at present. If the facts of today are any augury for tomorrow, the present investment trend of our nation will bring greater prosperity, comfort and power to the masses of the people. THE GARY AMERICAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1929. MAN STABBED BY WIFE WHEN MONEY TAKEN Woman Resorts to Use of a Deadly Weapon When She Misses Funds CHICAGO. — Thomas Smeddler, 32 years old, was fatally stabbed by his commonlaw wife, Evelyn Whaten. Monday night as the result of a few dollars which the man had taken from her, Smeddler and the woman had been living together for three years, during which time the man had misused and beaten her, and had lived largely off of her money. On Monday night, according to the woman's story, Smeddler had robbed her purse while she was out of the room, and sneaked out of the house before she discovered it. He returned several hours later intoxicated, without the money, and a quarrel ensued. During the struggle which followed, the Whaten woman grabbed a knife and stabbed Smeddler in the chest, the knife penetrating to the heart. Fleees From Scene "God, Evelyn, you've killed me!" Smeddler screamed and fell to the floor. Attracted by the cry, Garfield Lyons, landlord of the flat, ran to the room, just as Smeddler fell. He and the woman and Joe Robinson, another roomer, lifted the dying man to a bed, where he hled profusely. When Lyons went to notify the police, the woman fled, going first to her sister, Mrs. Mary Toombs, and then to her mother's, where she was later found hiding in a linen closet by the police, who placed her under arrest. Twin City News Miss Willa Miller, of Chicago, is the house guest of Miss Martha Burnett. Mrs. Culpher and daughter Alma, of Toledo, Ohio, are spending a few days in our city the guests of the P. C. Parks family. On Tuesday evening a very pretty party was given in honor of Miss Culpher. Cards and dancing were enjoyed until a late hour when the hostess served a lovely repast to the following guests: Misses Lithia Belt, Alma Thomas, Lena Morgan, Rhonea Dennis, Willa Miller, Addie Harvey, Martha Burnett and Mrs. James McKinnie. The Messers, J. Dwyer, Arthur Allen, Norman Dennis, Emerson Holmes, Henry Milton, Sylvester Logan, Milton Hines and Theodous Talbert. The Musolte club met at the home of Martha Burnett on Monday evening. The club is having a beach party Saturday night. The East Chicago high school Alumni held its regular meeting at Dr. Johnson's office Tuesday night. We are very anxious that all graduates will please be present at our next meeting September 3 at Judge Guy's office. The sudden death of Mr. Frank Robinson was a great shock to his many friends. His funeral was held Wednesday morning from St. Marks church. Rev. Thomas, former pastor of St. Marks officiated. The Best Place to Eat Is Home But the Next Best Place is at 2489 ADAMS STREET $1,200.00 Automobile LOW IN PRICE and economical to operate, the new "66" Royal Sedan is low and fleet in appearance, with ample space for five adult passengers. This body type reflects typical Chrysler craftsmanship in the dynamic symmetry of its lines and proportions, as well as good taste in appointment. Fully Equipped The Second Prize is a Chevrolet Coach 7 East 19th Ave. Mr. Tom Posey is confined at St. Cathrines hospital and would be glad for his friends to visit him. Miss Lethia Belt spent the weekend in Chicago visiting friends. Several East Chicago Elks have left the city for the convention in Atlantic City. Mrs. Mamie Armstead, Mr. William Davenport, Mr. L. C. Weddington and Mrs. J. C. Weddington and Mr. J. C. Russel were among them. Miss Otelia Simpson has returned from Fort Wayne where she attended the Baptist State convention. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Burnett and daughter Martha, Mrs. A. R. F. Johnson and son, Robert. Willa Miller and Mrs. Will Crawford motored to Hudson Lake Thursday. PURCHASED FROM IMPERIAL MOTORS FORD PURCHASED FROM GRANTHAM MOTOR CO. ANYONE MAY ENTER THIS CONTEST Phone or Call Contest Manager THE GARY AMERICAN Miss Louise Carter has returned from a pleasant stay in Paducah, Kentucky, where she visited her grandmother and other relatives. Attorney H. L. Davis has moved his office to 2215 Broadway. Mr. Arthur Jones of Birmingham, Ala., was the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Belt. Party of Garyites State University, Fulton The Mrs. Pearl Johnson, 2031 Massachusetts street, Bessie Fryerson, 2031 Massachusetts street, Rost Shealy, 2012 Massachusetts street, Mrs. A. Pounds, 21 Broadway, Mrs. A. Watson, 25 Monroe street, and Mrs. Shorter the last week-end in Niagara Falls, N. Y. SHERIFF'S SALE State of Indiana, Lake County, ss: No. 18008. Lake Superior Court, May Term, 1929. Mid City Building, Savings and Loan Association, an Indiana corporation, vs. Thomas O. Gregg, a widower, Ferdinand F. Burscher, single, Hila Zigich. By virtue of an Order of Sale to me directed from the clerk of the Lake Superior Court, I will expose to public sale to the highest bidder for cash in hand, at the east door of the Court House in Crown Point, Lake county, Indiana, on Wednesday, the 4th day of September, 1929, between the hours of ten Phone Gary 2-4660 o'clock a. m. and four o'clock p. m., the rents and profits for a period of not exceeding seven years, of the following described real estate to wit: Lots 16 and 17, Block 4, as marked and laid down on the recorded plat of Broadway Heights Addition to Gary, in the City of Gary, Lake county, Indiana. If said rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and costs, I will at the same time and place offer for sale the fee simple in and to said real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to satisfy said judgment, interest, costs and accruing costs. Said sale will be made without relief from valuation or appraisal laws. Taken as the property of Thomas O. Gregg, a widower, Ferdinand F. Burscher, single; Ilija Ziglich at the suit of Mid City Building Savings and Loan Association, an Indiana Corporation. JOSEPH B. KYLE, Sheriff Lake County, Indiana DAVIS & STANTON, Atty for Plaintiff 8-16-23-23 The Department of State employs two international courriers who carry diplomatic mail between the United embassies and legations in various parts of the world. ```markdown ```