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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-05-26
HOSPITAL MIDDLE
AT cTUSKECEE is
STILL UNSETTLED
Conflicting Reports Out Re-
garding Appointment of
Director
WHITE DIRECTOR, RUMoR
Harding Says Decision for Col
0red Personnel Is
Unchanged
WHITE DIRECTOR, RUMOR
(Crusader Service)

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Washington, May 25.-Declaring
that selection of colored personnel
for the Tuskegee (Ala.) hospital for
colored veterans of the World war,
would require time and that meantime
it was necessary to retain white Off
GERS, President Harding refused to
reconsider his decision to appoint
white medical officers to positions,
leaving to colored people only such
subordinate positions as ward doc
tors, nurses, attendants and laborers.
That statement was made officially
at the White House last week in ex-
planation of Mr.. Harding's attitude
toward the row between colored civil
rights organizations and white resi-
dents of Tuskegee over control of
the institution.
Representatives of colored civil
rights organizations said tonight the
White House statement would not
satisfy their organizations.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-05-26
TWO HIGH SCHOOLS TO
COST $1,500, 900

A great colered school, with sew
enty classrooms and an auditorium
seating one thousand, is under con-
struction in Norfolk, Va, at a cost of
about $500,000. 1t will be one of the
largest school buildings in the South
and will provide elementary, voca-
tional and high school training for
1000 students.
Meantime, Baltimore has complet-
ed plans for q million dollars colored
high school, with more than fifty
rooms and an auditorium that will
seat 1,700.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-05-26

Essay Contest
.. Judges Picked
BY Fraternity

Mrs George Gooden. presi-
dent of the Harriet Tubman
Civic league; George w. Ham
ilton, attorney, and Roy Will
kins, managing editor of The
Appeal will be the Judges in
the essay contest to be held
by Mu chapter, Alpha Phi
Alpha fraternity, Mason w.
Fields, president, announced
Thursday.
The contest, which will be
held at Pilgrim Baptist church,
Sunday night, May 27, will
close the Twin City part Of
the fraternity's national "Go
to School" campaign.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-05-26
Porter Wright Is
Found Not Guilty
OF Whisky Charge
Sleeping Car Employe Freed il
Case Brought eby Special
- Agent Webb

Alfred Wright, 500 Line
sleeping car oprter, was found
not. guilty Tuesday night of
- the charge of transporting
liquor by a jury in the court
Of Judge Hanft. Special
Agent Webb of the 500 Line
charged Wright with having
the liquor and having locked
him in the ladies' room of the
car while the train was run
ming between St. Paul and
Minneapolis, during which
time the liquor !. contained in
two suit cases and a grip was
thrown from the train. Webb
claims to have broken out of
the ladies' room, stopped the
train and recovered the whis-
key alongside the track. A
suit case and a grip containing
II. bottles of Scotch was pro-
duced in court. The liquor
was tested by the St. Paul
city chemist and declared to
be 80 proof. Wright was de-
Tended by Attorney w. T.
Francis.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-05-26
'sY' CENTER GIRLS HOSTS
TO MOTHERS AT SUPPER

Tuesday, May Is, the "Y" club
center held it's Mother and Daughter
banquet at the main "Y" down town.
About 60 msthers, daughters and
friends were present including Miss
MacGeorge, the general secretary of
the Y. w. C. A. A toast to the
mothers was given by Betty John
son to which Mrs. George Gooden re-
sponded with toast to the daugh-
ters. Several spirituals were rem.
dered by the st. James choral choir
Ruth Brown sang Little Mother o
Mine" Miss Beulah Stephens acted
as toastmistress.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-05-26
NEW JERSEY ENACTS
ANTI-LYNCHING LAW

The Randolph anti-lynching bill,
passed by the legislature of New
Jersey, has received the governors
signature and becomes law. 1t
provides that any city or county
which permits mob violence may be
held liable for $4,000 penalty. "A
similar law has passed the. lower
house of the Pennsylvania legisla-
ture, with only one dissenting vote
The entire Democratic delegation Oh
forty-three members supported the
bill. .-. -. 'rr. .'..~aH
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-05-26
new BAPTIST CHURCH
.DEDICATEDIN new YORK
Third Oldest C0lored Baptist
Church i'm America
Opens Doors

New York, May PAX. N. F. Ser
vice)-Dedicatorial services of the
new Abyssinian Baptist church and
Community House, of which Rev. A.
Clayton Powell, D. b. is pastor, were
begun Sunday morning. The new
church erected at a cost Of $325, 200
is possibly the finest colored church
in America. The main auditorium
has seating capacity of 1000.
Noted Men Present
The opening sermon will be deliv-
cred by Rev. w. A. Harrod, D. D.,
Phi. D., pastor of the First African
Baptist church of Philadelphia. Dur
ing the month noted colored men will
take part in the celebration, some of
whom are: DR.. L. X. Williams, Presi-
dent of the National Baptist Conven-
ton; the Rev. Hutchens C. Bishop
D. D., DR.. w. p. B. Dubois, Eugene
Kinckle Jones, Charles w. Anderson
Collector of Internal Revenue, DR.,
E. P. Roberts, Miss Mamie II. Bur
roughs, DR.. Robert Motion, Alderman
George w. Harris and William M
Kelley of the Amsterdam News.
Third Oldest Church
The Abyssinian Church is the third
oldest colored Baptist church in
America, having been organized in
1908. It has had fifteen pastors.
The Community House has a gym.
nasium, shower baths, reading rooms
rooms for teaching cooking and sew
ing, a model apartment and roof gar.
den. About September 18th of this
year classes will be formed in Do
mestic Science, Christian Education
Stenography and Typewriting, Civil
Government, Physical and Beauty
Culture. An employment bureau is
also to be opened at that time.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-05-26
Seue,, Students
Candidates For
Degrees At "U'

Among the 1,500 senior stu
dents assembled for the an
nual Cap and Gown day pa
rade and exercises at the Uni
versity of Minnesota, May II,
were six colored candidates for
degrees. The candidates for
ence, literature and the arts
are Bella T. Taylor, w. DON
aid Brown, Alfred Elkins and
Roy Wilkins. From the COL
lege of pharmacy there are
two candidates: Frederick D.
Inge and George w. King; and
from dentistry there is one:
Howard Shepard. Roy Will
kins was not in the exercises
because of trip to Water
loo, Iowa. w. Donald Brown
and Alfred Elkins have en-
tered the medical school and
are candidates for NJ. D. de-
grees in the class of 1927.
Commencement exercises will
be held on the afternoon of
June 20.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-05-26
HIGH 'P0TENTATF
OF AFRICA FACES
JUDGE AND JURY
Head of u. N. /. A. With Other
Officers Charged With
Fraud
TRIAL MAY LAST ONE MONTH
Brilliant Array of Legal Talent
For Both Defense and
Prosecution

New York, May PAX. N. F. Ser
vice)-After repeated postponments
lasting nearly a year the case of the
Federal government against Marcus
Garvey, Provincial President of Af-
RIGA and head of the Universal Ne
gro Improvement Association, for
alleged use of the mails to defraud
finally came to- a hearing before
Judge Cornelius Mack in the Federal
court on Friday, May 1s. Arranged
with Garvey are Ellie Garcia, ex-Aud-
itor General of the U. N. I. A.;
George w. Tobias, treasurer, and Or
lando Thompson, secretary general.
Array of Talent
Appearing for Garvey are Attor-
neys C. w. McDougall, formerly As
sistant District Attorney, and Ver-
nal Williams. Garcia is defended by
by Lincoln Johnson, Tobias by Atty.
J. Matthews, and Thompson by Atty.
W. Ifley. The prosecutor is Asst.
DlSL. AttoIHey MdICuchS.
Considerable trouble was expert
enced in the impanelling of the jury.
The right of challenge was freely ex-
cerised on both sides. After a delay
that consumed almost the whole day
the following jurors were selected:
VIM. J. Kerr, c. Delana Knapp, Sam
uer ]. Moorhead, Martin Kregan,, Geo.
B. Mcclellan, Charles J. Jansen, Leo
Pankus, George Burt, Frank Conk-
land, Daniel McElkenny, Edwin j.
Scott, Lansing A. Wood.
All are white.
Sketches Case.
Assistant District Attorney Mat
tucks opened with an outline of the
case in which he emphasized that the
government was not concerned with
any fools" dream however foolish it
may be for the social advancement
and betterment Of a people" No one,
he insisted, was more willing to as
sist in getting the rights of any op-
pressed portion of the population than
he. But that, he said, was not the
question in the case. The question
to be dealt with, he said, was alleged
manipulation of the million or more
dollars that passed into the Black
Star Line. These funds, he declared
had been fraudulently obtained and
that Garvey and the other defendants
had used the Negro World for col
lecting the money. The duty of the
jury, he said, was to find out whether
large number Of poor persons were
victimized.
The court room was crowded. The
trial promises to be long one from
the array Of witnesses on both sides.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-05-26
CONSTRUCTION WORK ON
- NEW GARAGE STARTED

Construction work on the new ga
rage being erected by Charles Jack
son on north Bale street between
Cook and Oliver streets began last
week. It is expected that the build
ing win be completed in about q
month, at which time a general re-
|pair business and sale Of parts viii
be started.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-08
DRY Law To Be
CENTER Of
FIGHT
No Less Than Five Changes IN
Act to Be Proposed TO
Congress.
lContinned from Page 1s.l

'non-aIcoholic, it would never have
been passed.
Il shall propose legalizing the
sale of three per cent beer to end
the iY1tolerable conditions now ex-
listing throughout the country.
We can at least be honest with the
Constitution which does not pro
hibit beer. IL my amendment is
adopted, / believe it will be d step
taken to halt the general disregard
of the prohibition law which ex-
lists practically everywhere.
While Edge and Little are lead
ing the fight for beverages. the.
lrys will unite behind Senator
Sterling to extend the laws pro-
visions.
"The next Congress will be 10 dry
as the one which passed the Vol
stead act" said Sterling. I'm tts
recent decision, the Supreme Court
upheld the right Of Congress to
prohibit the sale of liquors on
American ships but decided this pro
hibition had not been written into
the VoIstead act. As a result, we
twill attempt to have the law
amended To apply TO American
ships everywhere.
II shall also reintroduce my bin
extending the jurisdiction of the
Volstead Act to three nautical
leagues from the American coast
line. There are numerous pfece.
dents established wherein nations
have enforced their local laws on
vessels outside the three-rnfle
zone
Government authorities. seeking
to prevent international complica
tons, will sponsor an amendment
to make foreign ships immune to
the prohibition law as long az their
liquor stocks are kept sealed in
American waters. This provision
probably will not be fought by the
drys.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-08
GONPERSANGER
ADM 7 TED BY
WITNESS
Hernin, Of Plate Printers. Tes-
titles of Leaders Enmity
Toward Ryan.

Published statements to the effect
that Samuel Gompers, president or
the American Federation of Labor.
could not swing the labor vote.
seemed 10 have bad effect on the
labor leader and caused him to be-
come angry with the author of the
remark.
Such was the statement of George
Hernin, executive committeeman of
the local plate printers union, tes-
tifying in E1ehalf Of p. j. Ryan, who
has sued Gompers. William B. Clark
and two others in the District SUI
pFeme Court for $4,000 damages
for alleged Islander.
The statement was elected by At
torney Edwin A. Mooers, represent
ing Ryan, during the examination OF
Hernin this morning.
"Gompers seemed very much
peeved because of that interview,
Hernin said. He said at the meet
ing. which was held at the head
quarters of the American Federation
of Labor. that the Plate Printers
organization sho>ld take some &C
ton relative to the matter"
Asked what members of the
executive committee he said in re-
ply Hernin asserted that Clark
then declared that I'VE will take
care of that.
Speaking of the resolution which
was adopted by the executive com
mittet following the meeting with
Gompers, Hernin said that he fell
very much incensed over it's adop
ton but that he was powerless tC
act other than he had. The laws
of the union, he said. unfortunate
ly are that a majority rues.
1T seemed to me that they were
after Ryan and meant to get him,
he said. They referred to by
Hernin was Gompers, Clark and
the other defendants.
Attorney Jackson H. Ralston, rep
resenting Gompers, succeeded in pre-
venting the plaintiff from offering
any testimony relating to the trial
OF Ryan which was held subsequent
TO the filing of the suit. Associat
ed with Attorney Mooers, prosecut
ing the suit, is Attorney George G.
Page.
Ryan will testify in his own be
haIf in the suit this afternoon
Gompers will probably go on the
stand tomorrow.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-08
To GLASS
ALL DISTRICT
WORKERS
Survey for Classification of
Civilian Employees Has
Been Started.
Continued from Page III

Continued from Page IT'D
permits the employe to examine
the QUESTIONABLE as filled by his
superior officer and to make a
notation either of assent or of ex-
ceptions
1t is expected that the work of
assembling all the missionaries
will take more than month, and
the board will build up staff i'm
mediately for handling it.
The District Reconsideration com
mittee meets today to complete
tentative rules for reclassifyfng Dis
trict government employees. The
committee, headed by District Audi
tor d. j. Donovan, was appointed
Saturday and held it's first meeting
yesterday.
Each department head has made
recommendation for classification
and grade of his employees After
the committee acts on this data,
it's recommendations will be for
warded to the Commissioners, who
in turn will send them to the
general Federal ALLEGATION, board
by June l.
An analytical and interpretative
report of the reclassification bill
was made by George A. Ward,
counsel for the Federal Reclama-
ton Service, at a meeting last night
of the Federal Bar Association in
the auditorium of the Interior De-
partment.
Ward said the Redistribution bill
is the first step toward a better and
more efficient organization of the
Government services.
Other speakers were j. A. Metz
CERT, State Department.; r. b. David
son, Treasury Department; F..
A. Warren, Interior Department.; E.
c. Dezendorf. Interior Department,
and T. G. Sherman. Agricultural
Department. President Pickens
Neagle presided.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-08
Rum Rules for Foreign
Ships to Permit Wide
Latitude to Masters
BY w. II. ATKINS,
International News Service

Treasury Department regulations
for enforcement OF the Supreme
Courts decision barring liquor from
all ships foreign and domestic
within the Smile limit. will be pro-
mulgated considerably before June
10, when they become operative, It
was officially declared today.
Government experts. including
both Treasury and State Depart
ment officials declared the aim VIII
be to draft rules Of reasonable
character" relating to. the liability
that will attach to foreign ships.
While the regulations in their
tentative form show no discrimina-
ton in favor of foreign vessels, ii
is the view of Government officials
drafting the rules that considerable
discretion must BE allowed
foreign ship masters to avoid
clash with certain foreign govern
ments.
Masters to Fix Own Limit.
Upon the question of allowing
foreign vessels an ample supply OF
medicinal liquors. it is the belief OF,
officials that masters Of ships fly
ing foreign flags should be per-
mitted to determine the quantity OF
such liquors they may require. It
is not now the purpose of this
Government to set up an arbitrary
limit for such supplies.
Officials practically have decided
that the law cannot be stretched to
allow liquors for the crews 70 be
included within the medicinal liquor
classification. The French and
Italian governments voiced protests.
but in the view Of Treasury Of
ffcials, nothing can be done to
Iegalize the bringing into American
ports of liquors for the crews, as Is
required by the French and Italian
laws.
Generally, 1t is expected that the
regulations. as they apply TO
foreign vessels of every kind, VIII
be construed literally. Officials OF
the customs and prohibition enforce
ment services will not be allowed
to make indiscriminate searches OF
foreign ships, or to do other acts
which might invite protests that
would involve the State Departments
in diplomatic disputes.
It is probable that Treasury Of
ficials will direct subordinate Of
ficers and agents of the different
bureaus handling prohibition mat
tiers to refrain from interference
with foreign vessels. except IN
instances of the most glaring de-
fiance of the Supreme Courts de-
cision
High officials are convinced that
Congress will lift the ban on
foreign ship liquor at the next ses-
sion
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-08
HARDING TAKES
TIME On D. {.
RENT JOBS
Senator Ball Has Withdrawn
His candidate-Many Seek
ing Places.

A conference of President Hard
ing and Senator Ball of Delaware
chairman of the Senate District
Committee, at the White House To-
day was not forthcoming of any
further assurances that there are
prospects of any immediate ap
pointment of a new District Rent
Commission.
Senator Ball said after the con
ference that he did not discuss the
probable personnel of the new com
mission other than to withdraw the
candidacy of Thomas E. Peeney
Clerk of the Senate District Com.
mittee, who thas been regarded as
q certainty. It is Understood that
Peeney will receive a more lucra'
tive position.
II was further asserted by Sena-
tor Ball that he had no idea as to
the candidates who are being con-
sidered by the President. He also
added the President gave no intima-
ton as to when he would make any
appointments or whether he would
make recess appointment
Senator Ball stated that his main
purpose of calling at the White
House was to discuss with the
President proposed trip by the
Executive to Milford, Del, JUST be-
fore he departs the Capital on his
trip to Alaska. The tentative plan
is for the President to make the
trip on the Mayflower to I1ewes,
Del, which is about twenty miles
distant from Milford. Tire occasion
of the visit, he said, viii be to
initiate the President in THE Tall
Cedars of Lebanon" a Masonic or
ganization. The President is then
expected to motor to Wilmington to
speak to the Young Republican
Clubs at a luncheon.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-08
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-08
80 cHIRoPRAcToRs GET
SHEEPSKINS TOMORROW

Commencement exercises for the
Riley School of Chiropractic will
be held tomorrow night in the large
ball room of the New Willard Ho-
tel. A reception and dance for the
eighty graduates will be held in
the school, IT'S Massachusetts ave-
nue. northwest, Thursday night.
DIR. Joe Shelby Riley will make
the address to the graduates tomor-
row. Lewis Raymond Watson will
be salutatorian; Elsie M. Milden-
stein, historian; Minnie E. Rab-
bitt, class poet; Ina M. Hancock,
class prophet; George w. Chiswell
valedictorian. and Adelbert Fred
erick Orr will address the under
graduates. Diplomas will be pre-
sented by DIR. Albert Shape, dean.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-08
ACCOUNTANT IN
MORSE CASE
IN ERROR
Gillespie Admits He Was $112,-
900 Wrong in VaIde OF
Noauk Goods.

Testifying for the government,
William A. Gillespie, of Gillespie 4
Co, certified public ACCOUNTANTS of
Baltimore, Md, formerly state
auditor of Maryland. this morning
admitted on cross examination in
the Morse conspiracy trial that ne
had been in error in number or
cases in auditing the accounts or
the Noank yard, one OF the con-
Germs owned by the Morse interests.
Witness yesterday testified for
the government as to the manner
in which he arrived at the assets
and liabilities of the Noank yard.
referring to the books and records
of the firm in his calculations.
Cross examined by Judge Nash
lockwood, of counsel for the de
tense, Gillespie today admitted that
in compiling his estimate of the
real estate value and equipment OF
the Noank plant he was wrong by
SIP, 900. He also admitted that he
was in error regarding the state
ment he made yesterday as to what
he called "a balancing entry in the
journal Gil1espie's attention was
called to the dates OF certain entries
in the ledger, but he could not ex-
plain the discrepancies between the
entries of these dates in the ledger.
He admitted they were Improper.
He was taken in hand by At
torney Bissell Thomas Of counsel
for the defense and also by At.
torney Stanley Fowler, Of New
York Gillespie in replying to the
question of Attorney Fowler stated
that the figures regarding the value
of the yard at Noank We're the
same as if ''liquidating sale" were
being contemplated, in other words
as If the business was going tino
liquidation, but were not the fig
ures of a going business. Sill
lespie declared that the Noank
plant was a going business with
many orders on hand.
Judge Turner of counsel for the
Government asked the witness TO
turn TO the books of the concern
and explain TO His honor and the
jury" the, intricacies of entries on
the various books of the plant.
Attorney Fowler, representing
Nehemiah Campbell, former treas
urer of the Morse enterprises, asked
Gillespie whether Campbell had en-.
gagged him to install in his own way
(witness.s) a system of bookkeeping
at Noank-''an honest system OF
bookkeeping The Government oh.
jected to the word honest" and
Attorney Fowler withdrew the OBJ
jectionable word substituting dis
honest" the Government Directing
again. Witness finally stated that
the system was installed by him
without any directions or interfer.
ence by anybody. Examination OF
witness was continued today.