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CLEAN NEWSY yEf reliablf PROGRESSIVE UNBIASED HOL. XVI. NO. 5 pouth Released By brand Jury Hanged By Angry Mobsters PLEASE BY GRAND I JURY ANGERS WHITE Sheriff Says Hanging Was Handled Very Quietly Governor Condemns Action of Lynchers Columbia, Tenn. —The name of Tennessee was added to the al ready long list of states where frencied mobs have taken the law into their hands and brutally lynched persons accused of crime. Tennessee’s name was scrolled across the escutcheon Friday when the body of Cord Cheek, HO, whom the Grand Jury had refused to in - dict after his arrest on a charge of an attempted attack on uu 11 year old girl, w.is found hanging from the limb of a tree near here. } After Cheek’s arrest on the charge there was not sufficient evidence to warrant the members of the Grand Jury returning an indictment against the youngster. Ha wus given his release. Angered At Release Angered at the release of the youth, o mob gathered and, snatsh him to the outskirts of the city da Cheek up on the street and took where he was hanged. On being questioned about the lynching, Sheriff Claude Godwin bald that the lynching was “hand led in a very quite manner and he knew anything about it.” The lynching was condcmmed by Got. McAllister in an Interview Saturday at Nashville. He declared that it was a disgrace to the state mR no right thinking person could foLdonc the *.'U£a of mob ruly. Atty. Butler Heads Drive To Aid Needy Under tho direction of the pres ident of the Michigan Democratic League, Charles C. Diggs, state or ganizer and deputy parole corn \ mlssioner, and his assistant, Theo \ dore K. Barnes, are stressing to [ the branches of the organization i throughout the state, the iniport ’ ance of aiding their needy during the holidays. Messrs Diggs and Barnes report ed that, due to the National Re covery program, most of the out state branches are finding them selves in fairly good circumstances. The president of the M. D. L. appointed Attorney E H. Butler to head a Wayne County committee, to work in interest of aiding tho needy Others of the committee are Mrs. Mayme Donovan, Dr. D. C. r pith. Dr. Russell, Mrs Kbo, Mrs. 'Jordan, and Misses Johnnie Mae McConndco, Jessie Waller, Loretta Manning, Mary Jane Scott, and \ Messrs Lawrence A. Carter, Theo dore Barnes, Edward Swan, Chas. |C. Diggs, Joseph Craigen, Frank Ownes, Jesse Hutchinß, and others. Dr. Carver Lectures At Howard U. Washington—(CNS)—The start ling revelation that when a person buys a bag of peanuts he is really buying a tube of shaving cream or a strip of linoleum, in rudiment-1 ary form, was impressed upon a! group of’ Howard University stu ; dents last week by I)r. George W. [ Carver, noted chemist of Tuskegee | | Institute. Dr. Carver demonstrated I 100 products which the South's I lowly “goober” has yielded to him I in years of research. Face powder and cheese, to name la few, not to mention synthetic I rubber, milk, cream, butter, Ice ■ cream, lnstan* coffe, complete with ■ sugar and cream; lard, soap, ink, I pickles and axle grease. Dr. Carver Iseid he is now experimenting on ■ the application of peanut rubber in ■ the manufacture of automobile Ktires. v . K Although a specialist in by-pro- Kducts of the peanuf the Tuskegee ■scientist also has won fame for ■his production of 125 commodities ■front a sweet potato base. Sweet Kotato floour, which he perfected, Kras used at the institute during the ■World War as a substitute for Hrheat flour. I From Alabama clay he has ex tracted multicolored paints, and He has made paper rope cordaga straw matting from okra fiber. K is atilt at work trying to perfect 9road building material from cot. and asphalt. A -A fU £tr @ii b hit z Niono wSiy of Michigan E—to Hanged In Effigy and CON G ILESBM A N I) EPIt IE ST HANGED IN EFFIGY MIAMI, Fla. — (CNB) —Congress- man Oscar DePrlest of the lßt Ill inois District was hanged in effigy here tills morning, Friday Dor* ember 15. It was expected that lie would arrive on a train from St. Petersburg over the Seaboard Airline Railway but the railway officials reported him in Tampa. Police removed from a telegraph pole a dummy bearing the follow ing sign: “Oscar DePrlest, stay out of Miami. This is a white man's town.” The identity of the persons who lashed the stuffed figure to the pole crossarm remained un known. Grigsby's Pamphlet Arouses Interest The little pamphlet, "An X-Rny Picture of Detroit," recently pub lished by Snow F. Grigsby, is be inf read with interest by many citizens. Attorney Charles Perkins, teach er of the adult class at the New Bethel Sunday School, purchased twenty-two copies of the little booklet, in order tlmt his class might discuss and study it, es pecially tho statistical figures showing the small number of city jobs tilled by colored citizens, in proportion to the population. In regard to the unequal dis tribution of public Jobs, Mr. Grigs by says In part: “There are 3,724 policemen on the local force, of which 35 are colored—less than one per cent representation. If Negroes had 7 per cent representa tion, they would have 261 Negro policemen here." He further states "The Board of Education has 10. 183, employees. Os this number, 7323 are regular teachers, only F»0 are colored. If we had our share on the regular teaching staff, we should have 612.” Speaking of hospitals, Mr. Grigs by continues: “Herman Kiefer Hos pital has, 1,400 beds and 727 em ployees. We are due to have 50, but [have one on part lime." The Re ceiving Hospital has approximately 700 employees; we arc duo 49 em ployes there, but have 4. three of wbopu are on part time. Medical Society Holds Meeting T)n* Detroit Medical Society me* at its regular meeting place at Brewster Center, December 16. The usual business of the evening was transacted and reports of tho various comraittess submitted. The members present were: Drg. Givens, Rucker, Marckoe, Graham, Isaacs. Constable, Mc- Clendon, , Matahaljle, Knox, Allen Milton, Young, Murphy, and Mack. members are Drs. H. R. Thompson, Barland, Carter, and Seabrooks. Avery scholarly paper was read by Dr. C. C. Constable, en titled “Hemorrhage of the Ute rus?*’ It was wefil discussed by all present. itie members of tho Detroit M*'ileal Society wish all their pa tieiJts and frfands a Merry Chriat- V» a Happy New Year. Phone Randolph 2704 OPEN HOUSE AT ST. ANTOINE TO USHER IN YEAR Or. Martin Heads Committee On Big Program The Tenth annutt! Open House Program of the St. Antoine Branch Y. M. C. A. will be staged on New Year’s Day. Beginning at 2 P. M., a continuous program, which has for its purpose the exhibition of ail of the varied “Y" activities will begin and continue until late evening: All metiers of the “Y” and friends are cordially invited to at tend. The big “Y” gymnasium and the swimming pool will offer to the friends of Y gymnasts and regular class members u resume of the re gular gym program. Boy's health drills, competitive games, men’s < drills, swimming exhibition, volley ball, and hnsketlmll games will keep the department humming with activity throughout thu day. The annuul volly hull game be tween the “Y” Varsity and the Ministers will he staged at 9 P. M. The awarding of life saving emblems will climax an aquatic program engoged in by both men and hoys. Hundreds of "Y” boys will de monstrate why they like the “Y” in series of exhibitions. There will be ping pong and checker tourna ments moving pictures, demonstra tions of “Y” boys clul) activities and other interesting features. Tile checker experts of Detroit have their big day at the “Y” as u feature of our annual Open House program. Anderson Day, a well known Spanish pool anil checker players is co-operating in this act ivity, and the Detroit Straight Checker Club has been invited to have a part. There will be a billiard tourna ment under the direction of Jos. C. Matthews. Probably the most ipieresting feature of the day’s program will be the unique musical presentation by the “Y” Melody Lads under the direction of John Taylor. This group or about twenty young men lias thrilled many audiences with its high type singing. This pro gram will bo augmented by other young artißts In the community. This day of festivities will be clim axed with a Borial hour for young people. You may feel at liberty to in vite all your neighbors, and par ticularly the boys whom you feel will be interested in the “Y” pro gram; o JURY CONDEMNS OIRL TO HANG EOK MURDER Jackson, Miss., — (CNB)The Miss issippi Supreme Court ordered the execution of a 17 year old Jackson, Negro girl, and fixed the hanging for January 17. Missouri Jurist Denounces Lynching Os St. Joseph Man Letting Down of Bars For Lynchers Will Endanger Laws Os Country, He States St. Louis, Mo.— (CNS)—- Judge J. V. Gaddy, of the Circuit Court at St. Joseph told a special grand Jury last week that every person who was active In the mob that lynched Lloyd Warner, Negro youth, the night of November 28, is guilty of murder in the first de gree.’ The Jurist called upon tho grand Jury to return Inllctments. “It is necessary to punish guilty members of that mob, if we are to protect ourselves against she danger of the mob," Judge Gaddy said. The man who pulled off the Jail dooor ar any man who helped to break Into the Jail, Is Just as guil ty as the man who placed the rope around Warner’s neck." ■Warner, charged with attacking a white women, was seized after tho mob had stormed the county Jail frr several hours. He was beaten, stabbed, hanged to a tree near the courthouse and his body burned before a crowd of 8,000, Every man who was active In that niob ta guilty of murder In the first degree, and should he in dicted, Judge Caddy charged tbe ( grand Jury, which 1s made up of • prominent citizens. Successor to The Detroit Leader—Established 1907 DETROIT, MICHIGAN. SATURDAY, DEC. 23, 1933 COMMITTEE ON CIVIL RIGHTS FORMED HERE Grigsby Elected Head Os Committee A small group of rcpnyj*u*fffT tivd citizens havo lorffled """what will be known as the Detroit Civ il Rights Committee. The launch ing of this organization is the di rect re&uit of a Sunday Forum, held at St. Johns Presbyterian Church here 1 , several weeks ago, at which time forum speaker, Snow F. Grigsby, gave glaring figures showing the dearth of Jobs allotted to Negroes in the various departments of the local city gov ernment. The organization will have as its first mission the seeking out of the proper authorities and the de manding of Jobs to which Ne groes are Justly entitled in the various city departments. The Detroit Civil Rights Com mittee, which will be inter-racial in its make-up. is at present com ■posed of (lie following: Dr. Wil liam H. Peck, pastor of Bethel A. M. K. Church; W. B. McDaniel, reul estate broker; Attorney ('has. B. Berry, V. A. Bristol, promi tutive; and Snow F. Grigsby, chairman. Spokesmen snv tlint the Civil Associated Negro Press represen nent undertaker; ltobt. A, Crump, Rights Committee will not at tempt to ursurp tlie powers or authority of any other organiza tion, nud that it would rather seek the aid of all and uct as a spur to those who have hitherto been dilatory In tjieir activity, yet it will take the lead, when neces sary, in all movements for the betterment of the group. ’The Committee is now busily engaged in compiling its inform at ion and mapping out its method of procedure. / Dr. Pitts Indicted For M * : 1 Fraud I FMl*ilelpbi*~ <CN«)—“Dr.” Wsl ter L. Pitt*, alias Vofco Publishing, alius The Observed alias Mayer Distributing Ccupany, and bo forth and so forth, has been indicted on ten counts for the use of the mulls to defraud. Ills accomplice Adel aide Dabney was ulho indicted. Many patrons througout tho country paid the "Doctor” Ms three dollar fee for the privilege of se curing a “delayed number’ that he guaranteed to lilt. Representatives from the Pitts burgh Courier, tho Afro American, Washington Tribune, Norfolk Journal and Guide, were called as witnesses to prove publication of the “Doctor’s Love powders, Lucky Incenses, Number Dust, and Dust, and other advertisements. Assistant P. S. Attorney, E. Washington Jthodcs editor of the Phila. Tribune, was in charg! of the grand Jury that returned tlie indictments. The danger of the mob lies in the letting down of individual re sponsibility, said the Jurist. It wasn’t a desire to administer Justice which sent the mob aguinst the Jail. It was hate, the pussion that engenders any murder. When you And the real leaders of that mob, you will And men of not much higher moral standards than the man they murdered. If you had boen there that night, I doubt it you could have picked 12 men from that ntoh who would have had the courage to convict Warner as mem bers of a Jury in a court of Justice Their action was an nssault on the Institutions you pay for to admin ister Justice. W. O. Sawyer*, Assistant State Attorney General ha* Aled charges against Ave men as leaders of the mob. Aaron Levin, Junk dealer, and John Zook, former policeman, arc charged with Aral degree murder. Je« Davidson and Raymond Young, truckers, are charged with malic ious destruction of property, It be ing alleged their truck was used In pulling down the jail door. Wil liam Garton ia charged with mal icious destruction of property, and Carl Pitcher la accused of having In his possession a revolver itolen from the jail. SEIZE $3,590 IN COUNTERFEII DETROIT SCRIP Steure Follows Buy By Detective Hardy An investigation by Detective George Washington Hardy, who purchased SIO.OO worth of bogus scrip for $2.00 on tho pretext of wanting it for a group of rack eteers, led to the confiscation of $13,500 of the bogus City of Detroit scrip Tuesday. The bogus scrip was seized a: 2723 Park avenue where Hardy said the scrip was bought. A war rant to search the premises hud been issued by Judge Thomas M. Cotter in Recorder’s Court. HuroM Wolverton, white ami L. J. Brown, white a private detective, were ar rested. Brown was held on charges of uttering and publishing the counter i’eit paper. Brown is accused by police of being the leader of a con. terfeit gang which lias been dis tributing counterfeit paper about the city. 1 n the apartment were also Robert Schultz, 25; Richard Stead, 29; ami two women, Frances Carp, 24. and Ruth Knott, 3,5, all white. Schultz bad $2.00 of the bogus scrip in bis possesion when search ed. With the arrest of Brown and tho oilier.", police believe tbut they bad stopped tiie channel through which a Chicago gang bad hoped to dispose of $200,000 of the coun terfeit paper in Detroit. Already 22 persons have been arrested, five convicted, and cases aro pending against 12 others. The police have seized $21,000 in con-] terfeit $5.00 notes and more than 250 complaints huve been lodged Hardy has been a member of the police force for seven years. He was promoted to the position ot ik months *if«v H| t« at* A a died to 'the Women’s lit AioU. Garnett Ice Joins The Tribune’s Staff Representative Os Paper In Hamtramck The Tribune is fortunate in hav ing secured the service of another wide-awake and tulented youug re porter in iiamtrnmck, in the per. son of Garnett T. Ice, of 11240 Mitchell street, who will represent this paper in his tit y, as a suc cessor to Leitoy White Mr. Ice, who graduated from Hamtrumck High, with honors, in January, 1923, Is a freshman stu dent, taking a pre-medlcul course at Detroit City College, lie is the fortunnto possessor of a two and u half year scholarship, given by the public schools of llaiiitrumck us a reward for his four year high school average. This brilliant young man has n sweet tenor voice and sings with the Melody Lads, as second tenor. While at Hamtramck High, Mr. Ice sang in the Glee Club, and directed tho operutta, "Chonita," during his senior year. Mr. Ice is a member of the First Baptist Institutional Church, of Hamtramck, and teaches in the Sunday School. Mr. Ice is popular in social, Civic and Church cihcles and the Trib une is confident he will prove a valuable assent to the paper and will receive the hearty support of his many friends and acquaint ances. Chicago Gospel Singers Appear In Detroit The Gospel Chorus, composed of twenty members of the Kbenezor Baptist Church, of Chicago, were in Detroit this week and filled singing engagements at several local churches. They were guests of A. W. Hutchins, of Calvary Baptist Church, here. The singers, with their quartot, sextet, and chorus, sang at Cal vary Baptist Church, Tuesday night; at St. Stephens, Wednesday night. They are scheduled to fill a return engagement In Detroit In January The group is directed by Prof. Theodore R. Frye, with Miss Ro berta Martin as pianolst. The chor us when In Chicago, la composed of 800 voice*, but only two score mad* the trip to this city. The entiro aggregation visited the Tribgne office, and complimented the splendid equipment of the Plant, Crawford Given Life Imprisonment After Verdict Os Guilty Seasons Greetings TO our many Readers and Adver tisers, and the Qeneral Public, the Detroit Tribune extends best wishes for J{ Qlorious Christmas and J{ healthy, happq, Prosperous Tlew IJear. Booker X Washißgton-)Trade Association Closes Good Year Northwestern Branch Reports Tell Os Fine Work Accomplished Through The Year The Northwestern Branch of the Booker T. Washington Trade As sociation closed another successful year, Thursday, Dec. 7, at which time reports of the various com mittees and departments were read. Among the many forms of val uable service which the organiza tion rendered the public were in cluded the detuiled information they gave out concerning the Homo Owners' Loan, the Sales Tax, N. It. I A. and other topics of vital inter est. Tho club devotes the third Thurs day in each month to the young people. Fine debates and other ed ueutionul and eutertainng features were sponsored. The association entertained the young people of Lansing, who are organized into a business group, whose members are very talented. The Thrift Week they sponsored was very benefical to business in the Northwestern section of the city, and the nstociatin plans to continue It through the year. The progressive group haß worked zealously to boost Negro business. Tho club’s business lunches, un der the direction of Y. Strickland, were a success. From March 10 to Oct. 20, lunches were served to a Get* Federal Job Washington—(CNS)- It is an nounced that Karl R. Moses of Chicago has been appointed to a position as assistant economics analyst in the Department of Labor Mr. Moses has been assighned to the Civil Works division of the Federal Emergency Relief Admin istration. He Is a graduate of Ober lln College and the University of Chicago. For several years he has been in charge of the research de partment of the Chicago Urban League. howa R if FT t«msi:t”n e w ARTS BUILDING Washington—(CNS)—Flans for building with Public Works Admin construction of a now classroom building with Public Work* Ad ministration funds are now ready. The new structure Is to cost 9460,- 000. It will have room for 1,100 students and the administrative office of tho College of liberal Art* and Education. Oi'fit. 2146 St. Antoio* V A -% f % thousand persons. There were forty-six meetings held during the past year, with 10,323 persons In attendance. Fifteen persons were given jobs, through the association •luring the year. Sixty-seven dol lars and Afty cents was given to St. Stephens Church. Seventeen per sons graduated from the sales manship department of the organ ization. The retiring president, G. W. Jackson, makes the following statement: "1 thank the public for their support, during the two and a half years I have served the Branch as president. Business has been increased and the West Side's interest in the Trade Association in growling. “You have helped me put over the program, and I ask you to 1 support the new officers who will enter upon their duties in January.’ | The officers elect are as follows: Dr. Lawson, president; ltev. Howell, Ist vice president; H. Bur nette. second vice; Mrs. Dunnell, secretary; Rev. Brown, corres ponding secretary; I. M. lludley, tlnanclal secretary; Y. Strckland, treasurer. The executive board are Dr. Strickland, H. Reeves, and R. R. Bright. Blames Lynching On Homes, Churche* And School* The Kev. Edgar Dewitt Jones, I pastor of the Ontral Woodward] Christian Church, told hi* congre gation Sunday that the blame for« the outburst of lynching recently can be charged to the public schools home and churches. Wherein great at rase was yluoed on the three H’s of elementary ed ucation a century ago, he advocat ed inatruetton In the trinity' of reverences, rectitude and reapons* ibllity. The minister laM much of the blame for the recent outburat at the door of Gov. James Holph, Jr. of California, who recently stated that he would pardon all membera convicted for participation in a lynching or taro white men at San Joae, California* IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE IN THE TRIBUNE PRICE FIVE CENT? VERDICT RETURNED LESS THAN TWO HOURS Testimony of Colored Witnesses Convict Accused Man Brilliant Defense Made By Houston Leesburg ,Va. \ Jury of 12 men found li. i.iuc ( run ford 4 • uilty and recommended life imprisonment. Leesburg, Va. George Crawford, on trial for thu murder of Mrs. Agnes H. Ilsley, wealthy shorts* woman, is being hurried ulong the road to conviction by the testimony of many Negroes and especially by, 1 that of llertie DeNeal, described e a one-time sweetheurt of the ac . cused man. Mrs. DeNeal testified Crawford 1 hud sent her u note early ou the night the crime was committed, asking her to send him some-food in the woods where he was hiding. She testified she sent the food. It was Mrs. DeNeal again who identified the handwriting of a i note found 'in an ahoirded ear as j ihut of Crawford. She has proved !to be one of the most valuable ; witnesses for the prosecution. In : spite of everything, she told rt»- , porters she still loved Crawford. Courtroom. Orderly, But V There have been no outw£ * fl ( manifestations of hostility and nt ' i disorder whatsoever, but the aft * l suH.pii«r« to entrcDtotV i*nma. V_ •' - ~ I they lug' in differ-/*! I parts of Virginia all during the ' [ Christmas seasou ot 1931 asd near * iddleburg the day before the crime * while and colored witnesses Idea’ ’* 1 filed him as being 10 Kichino, Washngtun, Warrenton and Lyri burgh during Decru/oer, 1931. (Throughout the bearings, which have brought forth much inform ation which Crawford did not im purl to his attorneys, the ex-chauf leur has received brilliant defense from Dean Charles H. Houston and his associates,, Mesrs. Leon A. Hansom, Hdward P. Lovett and James G. Tyson. Mr. Ransom con ducted un illuminating and pains taking cross-examination of Dr. Arthur Hunter, Washington skin specialist who testified that Mrs. lsiey’s fingernails had under them hits of skin aud hair of a Negro. Mr. Ransom’s examination elicited the opinion that the skin under the nails was darker than he (Ransom) and Crawford is about Ransom's color. Jury Issue Holds Interest The primary interest of the Na tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People in the Crawford case remains the issuo of Negroes serving upon Juries, it was declared here by Walter White, who has attended all the sessions. The N. A. A. C. P wants Crawford to have a fair trial and hs accordingly secured the possible legal counsel ••No four attorneys anywho any color, could give a defd any braver, more painsti ** j more brilliant, or more sc'j ' d defense> than Messrs. Hu 1 Lovettj Ransom and Tyson,! Mr. White. The four colored lawyers J* first Negro attorneys dv( <rm handle a case in the Loufcoi I county courthouse, have won tl * greatest respect of everyone, 1 eluding the prosecution, John Os lcher, Trank Wray and Senat Cecil Connor; the newspapyrmc* the townspeople in general, as* Judge McLemore. It la evident the of the lawyers present, Dept Houston stands head and should', uoovi* the reset, Dean Houston, In h‘* * vatCTna tlon of the Jury cOmraiHioners sec ured the frank a uniaakm from, them Unit they dn’ not consider any Negroes In Loudoun county qualified to serve as Jurors. C, T. Whaley, one commissioner, beesfis CCosimssJ os p ««e I) KLA\ I* ATLANTA TOLIC* HI.OCR SCOTTSIimtO KALLI, ATLANTA. Ga.,—<CNSV—Hooded men and police attended a raMMi' ing in the Hoi soy Temple, sritJVw i meeting was held to relee fenfa for the defense of Urn Bcottahom J boys. •