The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1922-01-21
U. S. BREAKS .
In ON PLANS
FOR AFRICA
Charge Carvey With Selling
Passage on Mythical
Steamer.

NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 2l.-The
tate of the Universal Negro Improve
ment Association, fhe Black Star Line,
the Africans Communities League and
other allied Garvey organizations hang
in the balance awaiting the outcome
OF the arrest here Thursday by fed
eral officials of Marcus Garvcy, presi-
dent general OF the Universal Negro
Improvement Association. and moving
spirit of the back to Africa move
ment' agitascd through his organiza-
tions.
Released on $500 Bail
Garvey was arrested in his private
apartments in West 10Th Street and
taken TO the Black Star Line Offices at
SO West f3sth Street. where the books
and records OF the famous steamship
line wcfe Seized by federal agents. He
was thsn takeassbefore Federal Com
missioner Hitchcock. and released on
$500 bond, pending hearing on
January 10. Other officials of the
Black Star Line were subpocnaed by
Post Office inspectors.
Charged With Fraud
The specific charge upon which Gar
vey was booked was advertising and
selling passage to Africa on a mythical
vessel and using the mail to defraud
in disposing of stock in the Black
Star Line.
The Black Star Line. Garveys
hrajH-child, has been the cause of at
ta=. upon iiln from many angles,
ION several occasions Il has been
charged that the vessels chartered BY
this company have been leased and not
owned by the black steamship COM
pany. Recently passagc to Africa was
upon the "Phvllis Wheat
ist.' supposed to be under construc-
fes Inquiries made at the bureau of
10. gation revealed thai there was no
-Hah ship. GarvcN answered this hv
~aeug that negotiation TOR the pur-
chase OF the ship had been completed,
and the actual purchase was only u
matter of time
Unrest in Organization
Considerable unres IN he various
Garrcv organizations Ia. been notice
ablc lately. Turbulent factions have
grown up in local branches through
out the country, and special agents
from New York have bccu kept busy
difficulties. In California
local organizations broEe completely
away from the mother erganization
and rrOrganized along new lines.
Great excitement prevailed ia IIar-
lem t'le day following the arrest of
Mr.. Garvev. Excited shareholders in
the various tiarvcv corporations be-
siePed the Offices of l35th Street. de-
their money bach A few
days before Garvey's arrest it IS said
that he refunded money TO several
claimants
plot" Says Garvey
p Urged for a statement, Mr.. Garvey
says: MY arrest IS but the starting
point of great international conflict
that will one day show the Negro not
the worse off for the result. Enemies
of the Negro Race and enemies of my
within the Race have been
plotting fof some time to besmirch my
character in order to held me up to
public ridicule and to cause me TO lose
favor among my people.
Among those who are opposing the
Universal Negro Improvement Asso-
ciation are the leaders of the National
Association for the Advancement OF
Colored People and the African Blood
Brotherhood, of which Cyril Briggs.
editor of the Crusader" a monthly
is the paramount chief and
active working head. and who is out
on bail for criminal libel against Mar
Gus Garvey."