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All Sweet Case Defendants Released Uuder Bail Bonds 0FFHL6 RMBRI6RN OUR AIM To serve the public, efficiently and honestly, wtihout fear or favor, and our watch RECIPROCITY INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS OUR FRIENDS FIRST word is Aj RECIPROCITY A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Vol. 7. No. 44. BUFFALO AND LACKAWANNA, N.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1S25 5 Cents Per Copy $1.50 Per Year I TP4 UIT ANNULMENT RHINELANDER LOSE JONES FAMILY HAPPY! "ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NEGRO LIFE AND HISTORY" TO CELEBRATE TENTH ANNIVERSARY PUBLISHED MANY WORKS White Plains, N. Dec. 10. After mors than twelve hours' deliberation, the jury in the annulment suit of Leonard Kip Rhinelander, wealthy son of Philip Rhinelander. against his colored wife, Alice Beatrice Rhinelander, decided in favor of the wife.

The jury received the case Friday morning and, except for a short time taken out to get instructions relative to the testimony of a woman reporter, was in steady deliberation until after 11 o'clock at night. When court adjourned for the day, Justice Morchauser ordered the jury locked up and directed that if they came to a decision during the night, the verdict be sealed. It was opened at 10 o'clock Saturday morning. Prior to the announcement of the finding in favor of the wife, reports were circulated that she had won and that only two of the jurors had been against her. "Negro History Week" Begins February 7th "Journal of Negro Life and History" Placed on Lists of Over 300 Leading Libraries of Country 75 in South.

fit muftli till VSwEf llh1 Mir Mbr hold public exercises sometime during the week. Every pastor is urged to deliver an address on the work either on the Sunday opening or the Sunday closing "Negro History Week." The Association further urges the Negroes of every community to organize clubs for the study of Negro life and history. The "AMERICAN" therefore, urges its readers to contribute their share in making this a greater Happiness and relief from strain are shown on the faces of Alice Jones Rhinelander and her mother and father, following the verdict Saturday against the wealthy young Kip Rhinelander, who lost suit to free himself from his dusky bride. (Courtesy liuffalo Daily Star) NEW TRIAL IS SET FOR JJUtUABY New York, Dec. 10.

M. L. Walker, treasurer of the Detroit Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People telegraphs that all of the eleven defendants in the Sweet case have been ad mitted to bail and have been re leased under bail bonds furnish' ed by colored property owners of Detroit, and by the local de fense committee. The National Office of the N. A.

A. C. P. will help defray the cost of such bail bonds as have not been met in their entirety by local colored citizens. N.

A. A. C. P. attorneys ap peared in court on Wednesday morning, December 2nd, and procured admission to bail in the sum of $10,000 each for Dr.

Ossian H. Sweet, Henry Sweet and Leonard Morse. Mrs. Sweet was released on her personal recognizance, thus releasing the $5,000 bond heretofore furnished for her. The N.

A. A. C. P. attorneys in the case have already begun their preparations for the new trial in the case, which has been set for January.

ROLAND HAYES HERE JAN. 15TH The coming concert of Roland Hayes, Negro tenor, in Elmwood Music Hall on January 15th, is among the most eagerly anticipated events of the present music season. The dramatic rise of this singer from poverty and obscurity spqnt on a tiny Georgia farm; his triumph over almost insu-perbable obstacles, is something of a romance. Roland Hayes (who has toured Europe with phenomenal success five times) is now beginning his third American tour. The great critics of Continental Europe, have been unanimous in their praise of his flexible and astonishingly beautiful lyric voice, his scholarly understanding of music, and his faultless diction.

Mr. Hayes feels and imparts the exaltation of the Negro spirituals with a charm of the eighteenth cen tury interpretations; his sympathy with the moods of German and French artists has been a marvel to critics and audiences of these nations. His program here will include each of these styles of song. Ticket reservations may now be sent to Bessie Bellanca at the Colonial Flower Shop, No. 230 Delaware Avenue.

NOTICE The Executive Committee of the local Branch of the N. A. C. C. P.

will meet this Thursday evening at the Y. M. C. A. AMERICAN INTER-CHURCH BASEBALL LEAGUE The following churches will be asked to enter: Michigan Avenue Baptist Church.

Lloyd Memorial Congregational Church. Saint Luke's A. M. E. Zion Church.

First Shiloh Baptist Church. Friendship Baptist Church. Saint Augustine's Mission. First Baptist Church, Lackawanna. Bethel A.

M. E. Church. Saint Phillips Church. Lockport Church.

Rules are as follows: Contestants, Boys 10-20 years 3irls 10-20. Contestants must be attending chool, day or night and must attend Sunday school at least twice a month. All games will be played at the Broadway Auditorium during the win er months. The Negro research worker is today handing to the reading public voluminous works having to do with every phase of Negro life and history. The nucleus from which these works are coming, is the "Association for the Study of Negro Life and History," an organization founded in Chicago, September 9, 1915, by five men: G.

C. Hall, J. C. Stamps, W. B.

Hartgrove, A. L. Jackson and Carter G. Woodson. Publishes a Journal.

This Association, (existing then in name only), unknown, without a penny in the treasure, no advertising medium, and without a solitary dollar to execute a programme of research) has grown in the brief span of ten years to where it is publishing a quarterly, which, Dean Kelly Miller has characterized as "the most scholary magazine ever published by Negroes." In keeping with Dean Miller's comment is the assertion by Frederick L. Hoffman, statistician of the Prudential Life Insurance Company that the movement toward popularizing the life and history of the Negro race, is likened to movement started by John R. Green in popularizing the history of while in the opinion of Professor W. B. Munro of Harvard University, (who readily denominated the first publication which appeared January 1, 1916) the quarterly is "an historical journal of excellent qual ity." Aims of Association.

The purpos? of the "Association for the Study of Negro Life and History" is to produce proofs in documantary and narrative forms to prove that the Negro is a participant in the making of history, and not merely a lay figure in the great world drama of civilization to stimulate and train young men with the capacity for research according to the methods of modern historiography;" to collect "sociological and historical data on the Negro;" to accelerate the "study of peoples of African blood," with the view of publishing books in this field for the "promotion of harmony between the races acquainting the one with the other." The "Journal" in the South. Nothing so clearly attests the popularization of the "Journal of Negro History," as the fact that of the 300 or more of the leading libraries ot the country, which subscribe for the "Journal." 75 of these are large public or school libraries located in the South, and notwithstanding the fact that they subscribe for the "Journal." Negroes have no access to pages of the magazine. The quarterly has given impetus to a very great number of subjects dealing with Negro life and history. Space will not permit a cataloguing of the works here. In the ten years existence of the Association, it has produced in the neighborhood of twenty-five independent and bound volumes covering a variety of subjects dealing with Negro life biography, slavery in Canada, Africa, and the United States.

Negro migration: the Negro and the United States Supreme Court; Negro slave owners; free Negroes in 1830; the Spanish Negro in Florida; the Negro and the Reconstruction; the Negro in South Caroline, in Virginia; the mind of the Negro as reflected in his letters from 1815-1816; education of the Negro prior to 1861; a history of the Negro church; orators and their orations; the Negro in America history, and Negro citizenship. Celebrates 10th Anniversary This organization whose upward struggle has by no means been a smooth one, will, (beginning February 7th) celebrate its 10th anniversary; this anniversary, to be known as "Negro History Week." The Association is appealing to every church, lodge, and club in each of the several communities of the nation with a Negro constituency, to The court sessions of the trial this week were of probably greater significance than thoise of any of the preceding weeks of the trial which lasted four weeks. It was marked by a masterful appeal for fair play and against Race prejudice by Lee Parsons Davis, counsel for Mrs. Rhinelander, and by an open, impassioned, uninterrupted plea for Race prejudice by Isaac Mills, the former Supreme Court justice and 75-year-old attorney for Rhinelander. Mills minced no words in asking the jury for a prejudiced verdict.

He ad mitted the fact and the necessity of prejudice in America and adjured the jurymen to be guided by it rather than by the law in the case. Attempts to make him stop, made by the defense counsel, were overruled by the court. Ku Klux Klan and other inquitous influences were busy in the last days of the trial. Strong letters were writ ten to the jurymen, so strong that the court ordered them not to be opened. It is not definitely known what the next step in the drama will be.

One of two are said to be possible The first Is an actlpo. against Pjhllip Jfthine-lander, father of 'Alice's husband, for alienation of affection, and the other is divorce from her husband. One of the insults which Mills hurled at the Negro Race during his address to the jury was that even thouyh Mrs. Rhinelander had been devraded during the course of the trial, she could return to her Race where any good colored man would be glad to lave her. ANNOUNCEMENT Beginning next week will appear the first installment of "AN ANCIENT a short story by Zenobia A.

Alexander. The story grips your attention from beginning to end and abounds in biting humor, indescribable pathos, hair-raising fear, reckless love and irascible hatred, a story displaying a variety of imaginery and full of interesting incidents. Subscribe for the AMERICAN so that you will nllss a single installment. N. A.

A. C. P. The Buffalo Branch of the Association for the Advancement of Colored People, received a returned receipt and thanks from Mr. J.

E. Spingarn, Treasurer of the National Office on December 6th. The public will be delighted to know that the Buffalo Branch is planning to hold the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1st, 1926. Thereby, hoping to complete Buffalo's Defense Fund of $300. Dr.

Sweet will go on trial January 6th, 1926. The place of meeting will be announced in the next issue of the AMERICAN. GOOD OLD GEORGIA Washington, Dec. 10. Flogging of prisoners in Georgia was abolished by the Legislature some months ago but there appears to be a desire, on the part of the wardens, for a return to the lash.

One of the present brutal methods of convict punishment is to fasten a prisoner in a shallow box and to smear molasses on his exposed face, to attract flies. The arms of the prisoner are bound to prevent brushing the insects away. It is reported that at other convict camps prisoners are backed up to a post with their arms chained behind them. Their arms are then raised as high as possible and then fastened to nails, the prisoners being left in this position for hours. Uniform punishment methods will be sought at a December meeting of the Georgia prison commission and members of the State Board of Health will pass on the humaneness of the proposed disciplinary methods.

NEGRO MUSIC HA! U8EBB RHYTHM," SAYS MENCKEN New York, Dec. 10. H. L. Mencken, (white) versatile analyst of racial traits and embellishments, after showing deep appreciation for the development of Negro music by James Weldon Johnson, J.

Rosamond Johnson, Will Marion Cook, and other high lights in the Negro musical world, goes to the heart of the virtues of music created and written by Negroes, by saying that their native rhythm is superb. Says Mr- Mencken: "The rhythms of the Negro were superb, and so all that was needed to make good songs was their reinforcement with melody. That melody, it is highly probable, came from the camp-meeting, and at some time not earlier than the end of the e'ghteenth jentury. The whites in the South made no effort to educate their slaves in the arts, but they were greatly interested, after the first tours of Francis Wesley, in saving their souls, and that salvation was chiefly attempted, for obvious reasons, out of doors- There arose the camp-meeting and the camp-meeting was a place of sturdy and even vociferous song. The Negroes memorized what they heard and then adapted it to their native rhythms.

Thus the spirituals were born. To this day Methodist hymns seem banal to musicians be cause they lack variety of rhythm; nine-tenths of them bang along in the same depressing sing song. "But the Negroes spirituals are full of rhythms of the utmost delicacy, and when they are sung properly not by white frauds or high-toned dephlogisticated Negroes but by black singers, they give immense pleasure to lovers of music. Beeth oven would have delighted in them, and Brahms, had he ever heard thPm would have borrowed them for his uses, as indeed, Dvorak did after him." PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD CHEF WINS $40,000 VERDICT New York, Dec 10. Following a lengthy trial, the basis of which was negligence and damages, Ernest Car ter, 29 years old, of 240 Roman avenue, Forest Hills, Long Island, received an award of $40,000 ina sealed verdict returned to Justice Leander Faber in the Queens Supreme Court last week.

Carter was badly injured when the Washington Special, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, on which he was employed as a chef, was rammed in a rear-end collision with a Philadelphia local at Manhattan Transfer last January. Damages of $100,000 were asked for Carter. Counsel for the Pennsylvania moved to have the award set aside as excessive. MEHARRY AIDS PUBLIC HEALTH Nashville, Tenn. Dec.

10. Asserting that Meharry Meedical Colletre was more thought of in New York than in Nashville, Dr. J. J. Mullowney, president, in recent interview, gace someidea of the scope of the school's work by showing that during the last year, the college and the George W.

Hubbard Hospital had treated 7,618 patients. In the dental department 3,177 patients were treated, and in Hubbard Hospital, 1,288 free patients, 22 patients, and seven part-way patients. The total cost of operating the hospital and dispensaries was $6,000 a month. FRATERNITY HOLDS COMMERCIAL EXHIBIT Washington, D. Dec.

10. Among the many interesting features of the program of the twelfth annual convention of the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, which will be held in Rich mond, during the Christmas Holidays, the following two stand out con spicuously as representing a forward step in the right direction. First is the discussion of business subjects. The problems of trade and commerce will be studied with the aim of discovering what is needed to give the Race a better business back ground. The question will be apr proached from the standpoint of facts, figures and forces and all the light available will be brought to bear upon the subjects discussed.

Speakers representing the various lines of business have been invited to address the sessions. The second feature is the holding of a commercial exhibit during the four( days of the convention. The exhibit will show the progress of the Race in business and will be representative of the small as well as the large racial enterprises. A. Langston Taylor, the executive secretary of the fraternity, is in charge of these special features of the convention program, be states that the outlook for a great meeting is very encouraging.

Preparation is being made to entertain more than two hundred delegates and visitors. Prof. Monroe Work of Tuskagee, will deliver the annual address and special addresses will be delivered by Attorneys Arthur W. Mitchell and J. Franklin Wilson of Washington, D.

Dr. I. L. Scruggs of Buffalo, N. and Prof.

J. W. Woodhous of Baltimore, Md. LOST Ruby Tom Dozier, No. 15 Potter Street, Buffalo, N.

is anxious to get in touch with his sister, Clara Dozier, formerly of La Grange, but now said to be residing in Chicago, III. READ THE BUFFALO AMERICAN ADVERTISEMENTS WANTED 20 LADIES To Enter the Big Subscription Contest for the BUFFALO AMERICAN For Further Information Phone Seneca 3868 or Call at Main Office, No. 45 William Street. OUR GOAL IS ONE THOUSAND Beautiful Prizes Will Be Given to the Contestants Turning in the Largest Number of Subscriptions. DIPLOMAS AWARDED AT PORO COLLEGE Pittsburgh, Dec.

10. Owing to the fact that Mrs. Annie M. Malone, founder and directing genius of Poro College, St. Louis, was unable to be present at the graduating exercises at the Central Baptist Church, Monday night, Cary B.

Lewis, Chicago, 111., awarded diplomas on behalf of Mrs. Malone and Poro College, to Mesdames Sara Ramsey, Elizabeth Goodlow, Laura Wilson, Misses Rosa Henderson, Alma Young and Hazel Lewis. There was also a special meting of the Pittsburgh Poro Club and officers for the ensuing year were elected. Mrs. Lizzie Barker, head of the sub-station has offered a prize to the agent who brings in the largest number of new agents.

A telegram was read from Mrs. Malone, encouraging the agents to give their best services to the public at all times. She was detained at St-Louis on account of pressing business. ANNOUNCEMENT Announcing the opening of our new neighborhod store at 438 Michigan Avenue one minute walk from corner, with an ACQUAINTANCE SALE Come in and say, "How do you do?" We have arrived. We are pleased.

We want you to be pleased. We carry a full line of men's wear including, hosiery, neckwear, dress shirts, flannel shirts, underwear, sweaters and caps. We are closing out a line of men's Ladies' and children's shoes, rubbers and articles at very reasonable prices. To further accomodate you we have opened in conjunction with our Haberdashery Shop a first class cleaning, repairing and remodling establishment where you can get your clothes touched up to perfection. We are looking for you.

Come in! NEGRO GETS PART OF ESTATE OF HIS NEGRO MASTER Texarkana, Nov. 26 Ned Brooks, 62, has been awarded a judg ment of $50,000 against the estate of the late J. H. Herndon. Herndon was 82 when he died.

In the suit led by Brooks, it was stated that the plaintiff had worked for the deceased defendant for nearly fifty years without pay and that it was with the understanding that If Herndon died, Brooks was to get the estate. Shortly before he died, Herndon discovered oil on his farm property, and his wealth grew to nearly one million dollars. Ho left ft to near relatives and Brooks contested the will. As soon as the suit was $60,000 in a local bank was attached. THE HI-Y-CLUB IN BUFFALO When Mr.

Jackson of the Michigan Avenue Y. M. C. came to Buffalo in 1923, on of the frft rthlnes hn did was to organize a Hi-Y Club. Last year the Hi-Y Club reached its prime with thirty-three members.

Towards the end of the season, the membership dropped off, leaving only ten tone and loyal members. Mr. Jackson was re-luctantant to reorganize the Hi-Y Club this year, but he started with the ten loyal fellows. Up to the present time the Hi-Y program has failed in its entirety. On Wednesday evening, December 2, 1925, Mr.

Jackson notified the boys of his withdrawal from the club and his willingness to close the meetings. In an effort to prove to Mr. Jackson and all Buffalo, that they can follow the Hi-Y program, they held their first meeting on Wednesday, December 9, 1925, at which meeting the program for the year will he mapped out. All eyes are on the Hi-Y Club. Can they make good? Yes they can.

Will they make good? The answer is up to the boys themselves. Watch the Buffalo AMERICAN for developments. The Poro Club Elects Officers The Buffalo Poro Club at its regular meeting on Thursday evening of last week elected the following officers: President, Mrs. Carrie Riley, No. 34 Laux, Street; vice-president, Mrs.

Annie Springer, No. 355 South Division Street; secretary, Mrs. Esther Riley, No. 258 Pratt Street; treasurer, Mrs. Mary Holloway, No.

627 East Eagle Street; chaplain, Mrs. Anna Simpkins, No. 151 Pine Street. The Club received a telegram from Mrs. Malone, head of Poro College, St.

Louis, expressing her inability to be present. A vote of thansk was extended Cary B. Lewis of Chicago, for his splendid talk given the club. A nice sum was presented to Mrs. Ella Glenn superintendent of Friendship Home to be used as she sees fit for the girls of this institution.

A committee served delicious refreshments. The next monthly meeting will be held at the Friendship Home. CARD OF TflANKS Mrs. John II. Bell of No.

7 Union Street, wishes to thank her friends for their loyalty and kindness during her recent illness and especially the Dorcas Club, who remembered her with such beautiful flowers, fruits and convalescent cards. Mrs. BeTI is able to be up and around and hopes to be out soon. Attending physician was Dr. I.

L. Scruggs..