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...styled himself " Provisional President of Africa, Commander of the Order of the Nile, Distinguished Son of Ethiopia." His name was Marcus Garvey...
Last week, the Federal Government rested its case against this same Marcus Garvey for using the mails to defraud...
...Abyssinia to Australia, met in Manhattan. A Declaration of Negro Rights and a Constitution of Negro Liberty were drawn up. A flag colored black, red and green was adopted; a World Leader and Supreme Deputy Potentate were elected; plans were made to build a " Black House " in Washington for Marcus Garvey, newly elected Provisional President of Africa. The following Universal Ethiopian Anthem was adopted...
...Nigeria and Duke of Uganda, testified to Garvey's extravagance in the West Indies, asserting that he had " gone broke at the races." The Assistant Treasurer of the line testified that Garvey had appropriated for himself money collected for the Association and for the Black Star Line. Unless Marcus Garvey can bring evidence to prove the propriety of his financial operations, the case will end with the Provisional President of Africa behind the bars for common fraud...
...Marcus Cavanaugh of Illinois, Wade Ellis of Ohio, Charles S. Whitman of New York, members of the American Bar Association's Committee on Law Enforcement, arrived in London on a tour of inspection of crime conditions abroad. This same committee studied conditions in Canada last year and submitted a report showing that crimes in Chicago alone more than doubled in number those in the entire Dominion...