pirst in Local Circulation. Vol. 4, No. 25 IE W WIN AND LOSE IT POLLS CANDIDATES FOR CONGRESS LOSE IN NJ, yDICAGO With all of the election returns in, President Calvin Coolidge lias been elected by a record vote. Along with him, was elected a Republican Senate and House. Senator Robert M. La Follete, who ran as an Independent Progressive, carried only one state and th^t was his home state of Wisconsin. Senator La Follette was supported by a num ber of Negroes. John W. Davis, running as the Democratic candidate, possibly re ceived more Negro votes than any Democratic candidate eyer received in a national election. Thousands of votes were cast for him by Negroes in northern states. However, he was able to carry only the rock-ribbed southern states. The saddest feature of the election was the defeat of the two Negro congressional candidates. Dr. Char les Roberts in New York City, was conceded to have an excellent chance of being elected. However, in the avalanche of Democratic votes in that city, Dr. Roberts was snowed under, although his distrct, the 21st, is largely Negro, or merchants who de rive their support from Negroes. Atty. S. A. T. Watkins, running as a Progressive in the Ist district of Illinois, which has been represented by Mr. Madden, was also knifed by the Chicago voters. In the state legislature races, sev eral Negro candidates were success ful. Henri W. Shields was returned to the Assembly as a Democrat. Brandon in New Jersey running a Democrat was defeated. The fate of the Negro candidate in Indiana is un known, but it is believed he lost. Can didates in Illinois, West Virginia, and possibly Ohio, were successful. COPELAND CASE MAY CO TO I). S. SUPREME COURT The decision of the Court of Ap peals of the District of Columbia, af firming the- judgment of the District Supreme Court in finding Herman L. Copeland guilty upon a charge of murder in the first Mlegree for the killing of Police Lieutenant David T. Dunigan on May 21, 1918, will prob ably be appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States. Not Sufficient Error In reviewing the case the Court of Appeals found no error suffieent to warrant a reversal of the lower court and the granting of a new triaL Nevertheless it was of the opinion that certain language of the district attorney was improper and reprehen sible. In his argument to the jury, Henry Lincoln Johnson of counsel for the defense contended that Copeland was not callous but exceedingly regretted the ^necessity of taking life in self defense. In rebuttal to this line of argument the district attorney said: “If Copeland had a gun right now, gentlemen of the jury, I submit to you he would not hesitate to kill every one of you twelve men.” Defense counsel interposed an ob jection and asked that the court de clare a mistrial. The judge refused. This was assigned as error. On this particular point, the Court of-Appeals said: “We think- that the language in ©it Washinfltmi {Tribune First Negro Judge Elected at MKr j Hl HR S * ■ / -J r* A । - ALBERT B. GEORGE (Courtesy Crispus Attucks Press Assn., formerly Y.M.P.A.) WIFE SLAYER MUST GO TO GALLOWS Ralph Thomas, alleged wife niurderer, must pay the supreme penalty for his crime, the Court of Appeals declared this week. It found no error in his case of a sufficient nature to warrant a new trial. Thomas is alleged to have slashed his wife’s throat from ear to ear. He and his wife were es tranged. They met at the home of her brother. He invited her and a party to accornpany him to his room. He told her he wished to give her $lO and a tablecloth. The party went by automobile. Thom as and his wife entered the dwell ing arm in arm. The party drove off. Later she was found with her throat slashed. Bed clothes and pillows were piled ori top of her. question was improper and reprehen sible, but the court’s immediate ad monition to the jury, together with the careful and comprehensive in structions contained in the general charge, lead us to sustain the action of the trial court in refusing to de clare a mistrial on that account, or to grant a new trial because there of.’” Rightfully Admitted The admission in evidence of the .detailed and circumstantial statements of witnesses relative to the first homi cides and the location of the t>odies of the slain men when found by the officers and viewed by witnesses was also assigned aS error. Counsel for, Copeland contended that it did not ap ipear that the bodies had remained in the same position from the time they fell and that the details con cerning the first homicide improperly tended to inflame the minds of the jury against the * defendant. The court, however, did not think that these conditions were supported by the record. The Court of Appeals also found no error in the statement of the trial court that evidence concerning the first ■ homicide was admitted in part to show the motive which actuated Copeland when he fired at Dunigan. .ppeals first Published Weekly LOCAL ALUMNI OF HOWARD UNIV. TO MEET SATURDAY The local Howard University Alum ni Association will hold its regular meeting in Library Hall,' University Campus on Sautrday November 8, 1924 at 8 o’clock, p.m. This will .be the last meeting before the annual election in December. Alumni in tending to participate in the election are planning to attend and qualify so as to be fully eligible to vote in De cember. Other plans are to be perfected concerning the activities of the local association during the Thanksgiving holidays. A lively meeting is ex pected. A large number of local graduates are concerned over the alleged en croachment on the provinces of the General Aiumrrt Association by per sons not elected or responsible to the said association. One graduate stated last week "Such tyranny justifies an insurrection.” The Lincoln-Howard game on Thanksgiving is the leading event in athletics in' the university and will draw a record attendance this year. The local a^sociaiton will see after the comforts oft visiting alumni and assist ih making the occasion an en joyable one. LEAVES FORTUNE TO POOR Carthage, Mo., Nov. 6—A trust fund of SIOO,OOO, the interest from which is to be used by the City of| Joplin for the relief of the “deserving poor of the city, without regard to 1 race, religion or color,” was left to that city by Gilbert H. Barbee, retired Joplin newspaper publisher and Dem ocratic political leader, who died Oc tober 17. The will was filed in Probate Court, here this afternoon. The SIOO,OOO at present is in government bonds. The will directs that -the principal be per-- petuated by reinvestment in other United States Government bonds. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1924 CHICAGOZELECTS NEGRO JUDGE Chicago, Ill.—For the first time so far as known here, a Negro has been elected a judge of an Ameri can court of record. He is Albert B. George, elected Tuesday to the Mu hicipal Court of Chicago. *e first Negro ever to sit in the Illinois State Senate also was elected. He is Adelbert H. Rob ferts. Roberts formerly sat in the lower house. George attended school in Wash ington, D.C., studied law in the office of a white attorney in Al toona, Pa., and afterward was graduated from Northwestern Uni versity Law School. George re ceived 435,664 votes while Rob erts received 23,963. LAWYERS WAGING BITTER FIGHT IN MURDER CASE At every turn the Government is । meeting with stubborn legal resis > tance in its effort to convict James I T. Holmes, Harry W. Freeman and • John A. Gross of orst degree murder ! in connection with the killing of Po . liceman Raymond C. Leisinger from the rear of an automobile on the night of August 28, last. Admissibility of Evidence Their fate will be largely deter mined by the decision of Chief Justice McCoy upon -the admissibility of ma i teral evidence which the prosecuting attorneys are seeking to put into the j record over the objections of defense | counsel. It is probabft that the Nash auto mobile, from the rear of which it is alleged the officer was slain, will be ■ excluded and the jury told to dis ! regard all testimony relating to it. ■ Attorney James A. O’Shea contends j that it was illegally seized. The most damaging evidence thus | far adduced was the, testimony of Helen Catherine Jackson. She was I one of the occupants of the car on the nig*ht of August 28. She was not indicted, however, but was held as a material witness. Giri's Story She testified that the quartet met at Seventh and S Streets, Northwest, j She was with Gross, her sweetheart. They got into Holmes’ car and drove j first to Fenton Street, Norhwest, and from there to several other places. They finally stopped on P Street near j North Capitol. Holmes and Free man got out of the car and went into the alley and returned later with a | pint of corn whiskey, she said. All ] three of the men took a drink. They drove-off. At the corner of ■ North Capitol and P Streets, as the ! car started to turn, the policeman at . tempted to jump on the running board but missed it. He jumped on the rear end. “Holmes started drW ; ing faster,” she testified, "and after he started driving Freeman looked out i of the back of the car and said ‘some : body is on.’ “The policeman started shooting. He shot before they turned into I Street, shot while it was on North Capitol twice, and then Holmes wanted to know who was shooting and Freeman answered and said that the police was shooting, and he said ‘Well, wait a minute.’ He says, ‘l’ll fix him.’ And he started to pull some thing in the front of the car where he was sitting, and then he asked, ‘ls he ^till on the car?’ and he said, ‘Well, here, take this,’ and he hands him a gun and Freeman takes the gun, standing half way up, bent over like, fires three times through the I back of the car, and then he said— Holmes asked him was he still on • the car. and Freeman said, ‘Wait a (Continued on page 6) tribune Election Night Force at Work *. 1 . DR. W. A. PETREL FATAL VICTIM OF RECKLESS DRIVER Police have been unable to find any j clue that would lead to the arrest of I the autoist whose car struck and killed । Dr. William A. Pethel, a dentist, Hal-: lowe'en night. Dr. Pethel was knocked down and run over Ify an automobile at Thir teenth and U Streets, Northwest, about 7:30 in the evening, He was re moved to Freedmen’s Hospital in a taxicab and was pronounced dead up on arrival by Dr. L. H. Brown. Dr. Pethel lived at 1904 Ninth Street Northwest. He bad offices at 1845 Fourteenth Street, Northwest. He was 54 years old. JANITOR HELD ON CHARGE OF MURDER Charles E. Monroe, 40, janitor of the West School, was held for the actum of the grand jury by a coroner’s jury last Tuesday in connection with the shooting of his wife, Mrs. Lucinda Monroe, 45. early Sunday morning at 4235 Dix Street, Northeast. Mrs. Monroe died Tuesday morning at Cas ualty hospital from a wound in her ,stomach.-> According to witnesses, Monroe was being sued for divorce by his wife and came to her residence with a gun and threatened to khoot both her and the man who was there. He fired and fatally injured his wife. He left the scene but was later arrested on the street in Southeast Washington. HOLD AUTO DRIVER FOR MAN’S DEATN Russell Anderson, 1516 Q Street, Northwest, and Bernard Ranson;, 1211 I Six ond One-half Street, Northwest, were ordered held for the action of the grand jury by a coroner’s jury i last Tuesday in connection with the death of Joseph Powell, 35 years old, of 145 T Street, Northwest. Powell was killed when struck by an automobile, in which it is alleged the men were riding. It happened last Saturdoay at New Jersey Avenue and S Street, Northwest. According to the story told by wit nesses, Anderson was driving the car and Powell was operating a smoke screen. They were being chased by police of the Second precinct who suspected them of rum-running. Ransom is held as an accessary. Anderson has not yet been arrested. Office: 920 U St, N.W. Photo bv Scurlock TD DEDICATE WOMEN’S HEADQUARTERS Dedicatory exercises of the home of the National Association of Wage Earners, Inc., at 1115 Rhode Island Avenue, Northwest, will be held next Tuesday, November 11th at 11 a.m. Miss Nannie 11. Bur foughs, is president of the asso ciation. The list of speakers includes Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, who is president of the National Fede ration of Women’s Clubs and Vice- President of the National Associa tion of Wage Earners. Mrs. Beth une arrived in the city early this week; The National Association K of Wage Earners, Ihc., is an organi zation which has for its-aim tho betterment of the working condi tion of colored women. ALLEGED DOPE PEDDLERS GET A NEW TRIAL -In a decision handed down last Mon day, the Court of Appeals reversed the judgment of the District Supreme court and remanded the case of Maude P. Schencks, alias Maude Briscoe, for a new trials In this case the court, found that on April 5, 1922, a revenue agent had procured a search warrant by -filing an affidavit before a United States Commissioner, saying that he had rea son to believe tl^* she was selling dope. The search warrant was executed and the agent seized 17 vials of co caine, a number of cap ’ < ntain- ing cocaine, two marked v-'- dollar bills, $497 in bills, S3Q- in gold and various articles of jewelry valued at $650. On April 28, 1922, the grand jury returned an indictment charging her with violation of the Harrison Anti-Narcotic Act. When she was brought to trial, a motion was made to squash the search warrant on the ground that it was void inasmuch as there was no reasonable or probable cause shown for its issuance. The motion was denied. She was found guilty and sentenced to 5 years im prisonment. The case was appealed. The court held that affidavits or depositions which simply state that the affiant or deponent has reason to believe or does "believe that a crime has been or is being committed are insufficient to support a search war rant, and any search warrant issued on such affidavits or depcstions is invalid. Washington’s Best Advertising Medium. ELECTION NIGHT SERVICE Of THE TRIBUNE, BIG HIT A monster crowd enjoyed the elec tion returns as given out by The Tribune in front so its office, 920 U Street, Northwest, last Tuesday night. T|e service given the pubic was not exceeded by any newspaper office in Washington, white or colored. A special leased wire over United Press from New York City, brought all the returns directly into The Tri bune's office. The various dispatches were then edited and turned to a corps of slide writers. From the slide writers the slides went to the giant stereopticon machine where they wore flashed on the big screen. The service given by The Tribune on this occasion, has never been du plicated by any other colored news paper. A complete telegraphic out fit had to be rigged up to receive the news. Construction of the projection machine was under the supervision of Fred Pelham and Raymond Murray. A number of prominent business men also shared in the success of the entertainment. Among them were: Mortimer M. Harris, Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, Dr. Robert McGuitt, John T. Rhines, S. 11. Dudley, Dr. Georgs H. Herriot, Atty. Perry W. Howard, Addison N. Scurlock, Atty. John Wil son, The Southern Aid Society. Mur ray Brothers I’tg. Co., Prudential Bank. The Federal Life nsurnnce