4 The Courier sun • AUGUST 20, 2015 for breaking news visit www.couriersun.com Glendale cemetery ceremony honors 4 times • AUGUST 20, 2015 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.timesnewsweekly.com victim of lynch mob 100 years later BY ANTHONY GIUDICE [email protected] @A_GiudiceReport Vowing never to forget, local elected officials and activists gathered on Aug. 17 at the Glendale grave of Leo Frank to mark the 100th anniversary since the Jewish factory superintendent wrongfully convicted of murder in Georgia was lynched by a hateful mob. In 1913, a jury in Georgia found Frank guilty of murdering a 13-yearold girl who worked at his factory and sentenced him to death in a trial marked by anti-Semitism. Then- Georgia Gov. John Slaton commuted Frank’s sentence to life in prison, but in 1915, a group of armed men kidnapped Frank from the prison farm where he was serving time. The group drove Frank to Marietta, Georgia, an Atlanta suburb, where on Aug. 17, 1915, he was brutally beaten and hanged from a tree — a victim of anti-Semitism and unfounded fear among residents. Frank’s body was interred at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Glendale, where Monday’s ceremony took place at graveside. Among the participants were City Council members Rory I. Lancman and Elizabeth Crowley, Assemblyman David Weprin, Public Advocate Letitia James, Borough President Melinda Katz and members of the Anti-Defamation League, the Queens Jewish Community Council and the Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archives. “Leo Frank wasn’t a senator or an advocate. He wasn’t an artist or an academic. He was just a Jew, and often that’s all the world needs to know,” Lancman said. “He must have felt terribly alone during his ordeal, especially when he was kidnapped and surrounded by a bloodthirsty mob. He is not alone today.” Crowley echoed Lancman’s sentiments that more work is needed to bring an end to social injustices that still exist today. “This still happens today, 100 years later. That’s why it’s so important we come together as a community to remember the anti-Semitic acts that killed Leo Frank and the racism that is alive today in America,” Crowley said. “Whether it’s the color of your skin or the religion you practice, here in New York and all across America and sadly, more often, all across the world people are killed for who they believe in or who they are, and that’s just wrong.” Frank’s grandniece, Catherine Smithline, was in attendance to remember her granduncle and the terrible ordeal he was put through a century ago. Smithline was presented a proclamation from the Council of RIDGEWOOD TIMES/Photo by Anthony Giudice Local elected officials present Leo Frank’s grandniece, Catherine Smithline, with a proclamation from the City Council honoring Frank’s memory. the City of New York on behalf of Frank that would remain at the cemetery, which memorializes some of the facts of Frank’s trial and murder. “Leo Frank’s trial and murder was not just a horrific example of anti-Semitism, but also a damning condemnation of America’s justice system at the time,” QUEENS COURIER/Photos by Anthony Giudice Lancman added. “Let’s leave here remembering Leo Frank, but let’s not forget that we still have a lot of work to do to rid our legal system of injustice.” Drone talk tops 104COP general assembly meeting Queens International Night Market to move to Jamaica starting in September bY angeLa MatUa [email protected] @AngelaMatua BY ANTHONY GIUDICE [email protected] @A_GiudiceReport After a successful season in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, the Queens International Night Market will bring its mix of merchandise, The new president of the 104th Precinct Civilian Observation Patrol (104COP), Mark Pearson, got his first taste of official duty as he conducted his first 104COP general assembly meeting at the United Talmudic Seminary in Glendale on Aug. 13. art, food and performances After to Jamaica 104COP on unveiled Sept. 5. its newest piece of equipment last week, a quad-copter, Pearson The market,was faced which with answering debuted questions in from patrol members and residents regarding April, had this to new relocate technology. because of the “The U.S.idea Open is to use slated this to device take in place conjunction with the NYPD to make sure that they’re from Aug.aware 31 that through it’s going Sept.to be 13 for what at it’s going to be used for, which right now it the is slated Billie to Jean be King used National for missing Tennis children or a missing person,” Pearson said. “So anytime Center. it goes up, they’re aware of it. We need to be fully open and transparent with John secured the Wang,NYPD.” the market organizer, Pearson the said new that location the 104th at a parking lot on 168th street between Precinct 90th does not officially sanction drones, but they are not opposed to them either. He also informed those in attendance that 104COP is in the process of getting the proper exemptions and filing the appropriate and Jamaica avenues. The fair takes place on Saturdays from 6 p.m. to midnight and offers patrons more than 50 choices for food, art, merchandise RIDGEWOOD TIMES/Photo by Anthony Giudice The new president of the 104 Civilian Observation Patrol (104COP), Mark Pearson, answered questions regarding the drone 104COP unveiled last week during the organization’s monthly meeting on Aug. 13 in Glendale. paperwork with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). “The regulations are, if you’re going to fly within a 5-mile radius of an airport, which is within the jurisdiction of the 104th Precinct,and we musical have to and notify dance the air traffic controller and get approval from them first,” Pearson said. “If it’s outside of performances that you don’t until need Oct.to, you 31. have to fly below 400 feet. Which, in order to try and find somebody, you would have to fly “100 The feet.move And the will regulation give us is you the can’t fly below 25 feet over people.” chance “There’s to a lot play of concerns an important over privacy role issues and everything like that,” he continued. “These devices, well the one that we in the have,transformation does not support of Downtown audio. It only records, if we turn it on, video. That’s it. There’s no use for us to use it to spy on Jamaica,”anybody. Wang That’s said not in what a Facebook it’s meant for. It’s meant to find a missing child as quickly as possible.” post.Pearson “It also is a noted great that opportunity 104COP will to continue to coordinate their patrols with the 104th Precinct to make them more cohesive expand our and reach effective. and continue our mission “Either at of the creating time of a the shared patrol,community or right before the patrol, we actually get in touch with the captain and let him know that we are space going that out can so that foster way social he’s aware,” Pearson said. “He’s been relaying information to us and I, in turn, will now inform whoever else is supervising the patrol so that way they know where to focus.” change and positively impact neighborhoods by highlighting cultures and celebrating diversity all across Queens and NYC.” The food options at the market represent the diversity of the borough and attendees can pick up Brazilian, Caribbean, Romanian, Hungarian and Burmese cuisine among others, purchase jewelry and other crafts from local vendors and listen to music from groups like the Au Privave Jazz Quartet. Many of the vendors at the Flushing Meadows Corona Park location will also be present in Jamaica but Wang is looking to add local vendors to the market. The Greater Jamaica Development Corporation will offer attendees discounted parking across the street. Photo via Facebook/Queens International Night Market The Queens International Night Market will move to Jamaica beginning Sept. 5 TIMES NEWSWEEKLY (USPS 465-940) is published weekly by Schneps NY Media LLC, 38-15 Bell Blvd., Bayside, NY 11361. Periodicals postage paid at Flushing, NY. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: Times Newsweekly/Ridgewood Times, 38-15 Bell Blvd., Bayside, NY 11361.
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