Atlanta world. (Atlanta, Ga.) 192?-1932, December 11, 1931, Friday City Edition, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextV-i? | (el N southern 'g Newspaper - VI (L VOLUME 4, NUMBER 141 Morehouse Logic, Oxford Wit Feature Interrace Debate NEWSPAPERS JLURED BY BRITISH Press a Lesser Evil Asserts Morehouse; . . . No Decision Given LAUD ATLANTANS By: Cliff Mackay Milion K. Curry and Alfred C Tyler, representing Morchouse col lege in the Atlanta school’s firs! international, interracial debate with Oxford University of England gave the blonde-haired Britons a real taste of forensic battle Wed nesday night at Sale hall in negat ing the resolution that “The Press is Democracy's Greatest Danger.” Though a non-decision encoun ter, the two Atlanta lads refuted with euase cvery point brought forth by the two Englishmen 1n their attempt to stamp newspapers as the world's greatest danger to the rule of the majority. President &5 H Archer, acted as chairman of the affair. Following the oral clash, Ox ford's debaters complimented Morehouse by saying the local stu dents had given them the best contest so far met in the South The Britishers have debated sev cral Dixie white colleges a n d Tuesdav night had taken on FEmory university. 1000 IN AUDIENCE John A. Boyd-Carpenter, a gradu ate student, and John Foote, a seni or who represented the English school, kept the audience of more {ﬁaﬁ?’m.‘ ‘wheh -packed-Sale hall in a constant uproar with a con tinued sparkling humor and sar casm not generally associated with natives of Great Britain. Speaking with a typical Oxford jian accent, Boyd Carpenter as fivst speaker for the affirmative put hig audience in a good humor by tell ing how, when he docked at Bos ton. he was handed a huge bundle of paper, resembling a “cheap cdi tion of the Encyclopedia Dritan nica” which he said he later found to be the Sunday edition of the Boston Evening Post.” Comics Not News Continuing his ridicule of the American press. h e said that journals of the United State do not give their readers w h a t they should havé but what they want This. he declared, accounted tor the tremendous popularity of the comic strips, which have no news value. “American editors are constant ly in search of something to amuse readers rather than instruct them If a girl was run over in the street by a motor-car, {t would not be news to a typical American editor, but if a girl wearing green stock ings was run over a molor-car, that in mind of an average editor would constitute news “Rather than attempt to discover opinions and shape them. t h ¢ American press seems inferested solely in building up huge circula tions. Politics to American news papers has no news value unless it holds a possibility of war. Prior to the World war Germany was de picted in English newsp@pers as o gross monster with spiked helmets preparing to trample over the peo ples of the world and the Russinn was shown to be a rather chubby pleasant-faced peasant. Now the Cerman is illustrated, as rather a snd figure more to be pitied than feared and the Russian is drawn as » huge creature wearing heavy ’bi:n-k boots, black bearded. bloody (Continued on Page 2) The Weather INCREASING CLOUDINESS, fol lowed by rain in north and west portions Friday. Saturday rain; mo derate east and southeast winds. Highest temperature 64; lowest tem perature 42; mean temperature 53, C. F. von HERRMAN Meteorologist Weather Bureau BeTEr LABOR UNIONS PUSHING PEONAGE PROBE Pitts Brothers Slew o Man Shooting at Patrolman r N y T 3 T FTHEIR KIN SLAIN Probably waiting until the heat and Irviction following one of the most sensational murder ever to be recorded in Atlanta should die down. announcement wa made ot tht solicitors office. that the much postponed trial of Columbue and Buster Pitts, brothers indicted jointly for the slaying of Ralph Harwell, white 32 Ba Street. in a spirit of revenge for the slaying ol their demented brother by an of fieer would appear Decenibier 15 before Judge E. Pomeroy The shooting ol the while citi zon followed when bullets meant for Officer H. J. Waters struck and fatally wounded Harwell The as ailants were unknown, but police helieved the kiler wWere some members of the Pitts family seek ing revenge on the officer for the slaying of their mentally un balanced brother : On Wednesday, June 24, Bfficer Waters had shot down M. C. Pittl 686 rasicr Street, wounding him near the heart, killing him in stantly The shooting occurred at Greorgia Avenue and Frasier Street. The shooting drew the ire of hundreds of Atlantans, friend:s and neighbor it was not only branded as cold blooded murder buf was the second such shooting of Nergoes by policemen in that vicinity in two day: First Shooting The first victim of the oflicers shooting: was l.arry Dixon of Philadelphia, who was seriously wounded by Officers A. D. Pools The officer vlaimed he had re eeived a4 eatl that a Nepro wa brandishing a gun and molesting ftwo women near the Coca Cola plant. The officer had him pointed out and shot him The Philadel phiar clamed that he had B« pisiol and did not point it at hi officer as he said he did He also said the polidezman shot him first and questioned him atterwards The next day Pitlg, along with a number of other folk, were sitting on a wall about 200 féet froem Georgia Avenue adjoining a num ber o £ small busines housi Patrolman Waters came along and ordered the men to move Al of them moved with the exception of Pitts who sat blankey and gazed at the officer The officer grabbed out his billie and started toward the demented man who grabbed him and pre vented him from striking him In the struggle that followed Pitts is said to have thrown the policeman (Continued on Page 2) - / ® Just 11 More shopping days until Chrisamas. That means just five mere ivsues of The Atlanta World before that Day of Days. But in cach issue of The World will be found advertise ments of what to buy and give for Christmas. Mer chanis who really want yvour trade ask for it through The World, Make yvour Christmas gift list from World advertise ments. g The Atlanta World Q‘&Q"“:"‘"" TR e S 'f'f‘%’ 7 “‘*'%'—*;W"—*"’“”*QO NN AR 2 WAk &tr/ W | et RS R WSl IR\ S AUSY s ¢ ”"_A_‘.\‘?’;_Aﬁ “- i1 e s % N\ Ll 2/ 2 DIXIE'S STANDARD %@7‘“" ' “# S RACE, JOURNAL{IAX()® * £ Spelman Schedules Langston Hughes . for Lecture Langston Hughes, the young poet. who i3 (o be at Morchouse college for a week beginning Dec- | ember 9, will speak at Spehman college on Wednesday morning, | December 16, at 11:45 o clock in Howe Mermorial hall. He will give at this time a lecture reading of his own poems, pointing out the relation of poetry fto the back ground and life of the Negro peo ples Mr. Hughes is the author of two books of poems. The Weary Blues,' Fine Clothes to the Jew, a collec. tion of dramatic recitations entitle- I'he Negro Mother, and a recent novel, Not Without Lauchter, selected by the American Library association as one of the forty out standing books published in the year--1930 the poet’s work ha ' been translated into French, Ge man, Russian, and Spanish, and was awarded the Harmon Gold award for Literature for 1930 The Juveniles were caught and arrested in robbery cases Wednes day. The first, Leonard Williams, a lad of 14, was caught after he )l,md robbed a stand at 29 Holcombe's alley by a group of Negro citizens who gave chase after him and succeeded in ecapluring him and turning him over to police He was taken into custody and later sent to the juvenile detention home | The second. Marion Cox rear 99 | West Baker Street, a youth of 11 yvears, was eaptured in a lunch stand at 778 Spring Street, oper-| ated by Roy Gardne: ;\nulhvri Negro boy with him, Robert Lee| Charles, 413 Johnson Street, fled.| ' Marion was captured by a white man driving a truck for the Kmg Cake and Doughnut Company. Marion was caught in the place and | the owner notified A bundle of cigarettes was stacked near the window as the youths were pre-| paring to leave. Jazzin' | 1z I'\C NCWS | = By , FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS || | Labor pushes peon probe; say workers treated wrong ; Big time actor's pay attached; he owrd debt much too long; § Press hit hard by Englishmen; they stage a4 good debate ; Burned girl taken to Grady; did she get there too late? ; Vengeance slayers go on trial; they killed friend of a cop ! Alabaman’'s fate wunknown; both ~sides’ pleas very hot: | Clark to battle S. C. State; predict| ~a fine grid game | ‘Ml-rchants who are going broke! } might lack of World ads blame!| Beautify the home for Christmas. Attend the meeting sponsored by The Atlama World Monday. Many free prizes will be given away by The World and local merchants. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1931 .t Murder Trials t o » Occupy Most of ‘ . Coming Week Announcement comes from the solicitor’s office that next week from the criminal courts intends hearing a number of murder trial which have been postponed from time to timie. The murder ftrials seemn always the most difficult to gel under way.” was the statement made by officals from that office, and the court is anxious that they be potten off the schedule Beginning today in Judge G. H Howard’s court. the much heralded trial of L A Qechsle. alleged Peter street whiskey merchant, who was indicted for the slaying of Wiil Dennis in October on Humphries street will begin, The {rial glated to appear all of the week was crowded out by the extreme large number of robbery cases appearing in that court Occhsle was jointly indicted with Albert Miller, after he had appear ed before the Grand Jury as a state witness in indicting Miller. He was summoned again into the @ court room by solicitor Stevens after he had been allowed to testify before | the grand jury. and arrested. He was then jointly indicted with Miller for the murder of Dennis a long with three others all brothers {o Albert Miller. They were, L. ( Ernest and A, C. Mille A new problem confronts doctors at Grady hospital, according to several complaints turned in by in ternes in charge of the colored side of the Butler street nsdatution, Thursday night a call was sent to| detective headquarters for assist ance in ferreting a sneak thief patient located somewhere in the wards who possesses a peculiar mania for lifting joke magazines from the white duck coat pockets| ol the physicians | At first the condition had been | ignored but now since so many com plaints have been turned in, the affair has turned into a problem. A three-day thorough search be-| neath the mattresses in all the wards on the part of nurses proved o be of no avail as the clever theif patient has found a method of disposing of his ill-gotten wares Now patients are beginning to complain that they are so closely guarded they can't even rustle a paper without drawing down a vigience committee to censor the publication, So serious has the condition be-. come that many patients have boy cotted all newspapers and male habitues of the hospital no longer {ise paper to wipe | their -razor blades. It is thought that a special meeting of representatives of both the patients and the doctors will be held Friday to outline a battle campaign. In the Fulton county court Wed nesday before Judge G. H. How ard, Will Jackson was sentenced to serve one vear on the gang, on a- charge of burglary. Jackson’s sentence was largely due to the cleverness of solicitor John Hud son, the prosecuting attorney for the state Sometime after October 10, the M and M credit clothing store on Broad street was burglarizzed and a wholesale loot that included 60 silk dresses, over coats, suits and other women and men's wearing apparel was removed through the sky-light ventilator Jackson was apprehended. Howe . N Dress lIgnites From < e . 1 Fire in Grate rgy I'hursday . ¥ r NOW AT GRADY Early Thursday morning little Salomia Harpe four-year old daughter of M Mable Harper ot 205 Walnut Street. wa laughing and happy Thiursday night she lay in the children's ward of Grady hospital with serious burns about her body which may prove fatal while her mother sat nearby weep ing According to Mrs. Harper, little Salomia was standing in the living room with ber back 1o the open coal grate, In stooping over to pick up a magazine, the little tot backed into the grate, the fire immediate ly igniting her dress. The mother, told World reporters he was in the kitchen preparing breakfast when she heard the creams of her daughter, running to her rescue in an attempt 1o snatch the rug off the living room floor to wrap around the child, whose body by this time was a living torch, the excited woman merely fanned the flames to great er fry. She wrapped -the little girl in the 1ug, but in her haste failed to wind the carpet tight enough about her body L.eaving the child, who was still velling and squirming in misery, she ran to the rear of her house to summon her neighbor, Mrs. Sara Smith, 573 Spencer Street, who came to help the excited mothe: By the time the two women had returned to the house the child had wriggled out of the protecting rug and had gone to the kitchen to ap ply water to her burning body and apparently had fallen in a faint Mrs. Smith then, according to the mother, removed the child’'s burn infi dres It was the ribbed under wear the child was wearing, Mrs Harper said, that stuck and pulled to the little girl's burning {flesh “My poor little girl,” the mother said and again began sobbing, ‘ The little girl who had laid quite still during her mother's recitation of the ftragedy. turned over and| laying her charred little hand on her mother said, “Don’t ¢ry. mama, Fll be all right [ just knows I'll be all right " Doectors at Grady hold that she has only one chance out of ten to live Charged with robbery, Henry Hall was found not guilty before a jury in Judge G. H. Howard's court Thursday, but instead he was found guilty of carrying con cealed weapons. He entered a plea of not guilty and talked for more than 50 minutes on the stand, re peating the same story over and over, until finally the Judge stopp ed him and asked him if he was through. Hall declared that a number of men always assembled at the home of Tom Dower, in Randou’s alley, and gambiled every Saturday night, On this particular Saturday night early in October, Mrs. Dower was angry with him because he had won 70 cents from her a short time before. and framed him He de clared that a pistol was planted on a trunk behind him by one of the men in the house and that the police had come directly to him and ar rested him only when n truth all were guilty of gambling. Atlanta U. Lab Hi anta U. Ld 1 1 ® Holds Christmas V’ SO g d. ! espers Sunday Sunday evening. at seven o‘clock Sisters Chapel, Spelman college will be the scene of the second an nual all-musical Christmas vesper service of the Atlanta University [.aboratory high school The pro gram will ginclude solo and group numbers, both instrumental and choral, and tableaux -‘The arrange ment and presentation o f the tableaux are under the direction of Hale Woodruff and the art classes of the school. Kemper Har reld, violinist. and Naomi Hayman orpahist, will assist - in several numbers. The other music 1s pre sented by the high school glee clubs. under the direction of Lil lian E. Webster CHICAGO. Dec. 9—(ANP)--Em phasizing the main line of defense used by his attorney, Wendell Cireen. “Judga’ William Henry Harrison. former member of the state board of paroles and pardons who was acquitted of a charge of having accepted a bribe and con spired to release inmates of penal institutions, declared after his dis charge that he had been {ramed from start to finish. | “Mr. Harriscon received scores of fetters and telegrams following hi: acquittal from friends throughout the couniry who were made happy by his vindication. He spoke in great praise of {ine masterly fight in his behalf maae by Wendell Green, one of the most successful attorneys practicing be fore the Chicago bar. ‘ = Abbie Mitchell, the greatest Ne gro soprano and one of the finest dramatic sopranos now on the con cert stage, will give a recital at Spelman college tonight at eight o'clock in Sisters chapel Miss Mitchell's training., begun on the minstrel stage at the age of fourteen when h e r marvelous voice was discovered by a great Negro violihist. going on through vaudeville and then opera with constant study in both New York and Paris has given her the dis tinctive postion she has among the artists of -the concert stage of to day. Her program Friday night will include groups of German and French songs, Negro folk-songs and Negro spirituals | ' . | Order Big Lot of Catfish Cages i | ANOTHER TALE FROM MISSISSIPPI GOOLA-GOOLA. Miss,, Dec, 11—Farmers near the small com munity of Chitlin® Switch have recently placed a sizeable order for catfish cages which may be hung in the living rooms. Last summer the fishing worms of the vicinity grew so large they went down to the Mississippi river in a body to get even with the fish. As a result. the fish were scared away and rushed to the land where they had to climb trees to save themselves. They stayed there all summer but with the advent of cooler weather they found their airy haunts too chilly. Consequently. many of the kindhearted farmers have taken them down and brought them home to keep as pets during the winter. The order for catfish cages came when several farmers report ed their finny pets wandering aound the home, falling into basins of water on Saturday night, and drowning. These new cages are sa'd to be the cat's meow. Next jeeting of The World's Better Home Week will be held Monday. Time, program, place of meeting, as well as a list of prizes to be award ed, will be given in Sunday’s issue of The World. Dispute Testimony 5 | in Rosenwald Fund o r ‘ . Thief’s Trial Jackson, Miss., Dec., 1'—-(ANP) —State School Superintendent W. F. Bond's testimony that disputed Rosenwald checks bore the sign ature of Bura Hilbun was under dispute late today as court recess ed in the trial of the former super visor of Negro schools. Defense ef forts to draw from Bond testimony that others beside Hilbun had sign ed the name of the school super intendent to checks was met with objections by the state. Hilbun is charged with embezzling $53,000 drawn fro.n Rosenwald funds for building Negro schools. Several superintendents of education testi fied that “ghost” schools for which Rosenwald money was issued had never been built. { Experimenting on blowing up a human being with an electric pump .| by a man known only as “James” may prove fatal to Ernest Dudley, 20, 323 Houston Street, who is now {in Grady hospital suffering from | internal injuries. { According to Dudley who is a | waiter at a downtown restaurant, while delivering dinner to James a tire repairman in a local garage, (Continued on Page 2) OKLAHOMA CITY Okla. Dec. 11 —(ANP)—That uneasy lies the head of a Negro who throughin dustry or what not may amass a considerable amount of wealth was evidenced here Thursday when a suit for $117.750 damages was filed against A. L. McDonald, wealthy citizen of this city, after a collision with a car said to be owned by Dr. J. M. Thuringer. white instructor in the medical department of the University of Oklahoma. When the case came up, McDon ald entered a plea of not guilty to the charge and was immediately freed on bond. The accident occur ed last Tuesday according to the al legations set forth. The case will be watched with widespread inter est by Negro citizens of the city. and an able array of legal talent| ! will be on hand to represent both plaintiff and defendant when the| case is finally heard. Oklahomans| view the suit as a thrust at getting| the valuable property owned by | { McDonald, which includes large holdings in the Oklahoma Sity 01li flelds. i SEIT Y Wages for 12 Hours = - $1.25, Asserts | Labor Head 1 1 ~N CHARGES DENIED WASHINGTON, D. C.. Dec. 11 (ANP)—William Green, presi dent of the American Federation of Labor is the latest to lift his voice against working cond'tions on the lower Mississippi leveess During the past week charges have | been filed with the War Depart= jment. and public'ty given to pras i tests by various labor executives pagainst what thev described as tha tintolerable conditions under which i colored labor was being used in ithe flood control work which ig | being done under government sue | pervision but by private contrae= i TOrs, i A thorough investigation should be made, said Mr. Green, | “to punish those guilty of perpe= trating these wrongs.” He was re ferring to reports that the lash tand pistol butt were frequently used on the Negro laborers work= ing on the project. ! Paid $1,.25 Daily —~— = | Green asserted that workers ‘on i levee buildings near Providence, "La., and Greenville, Miss., were being paid as low as $1.25 per & day for a 12 hour day. and that ‘n addition to those small wages that they nad to buy their provi= ‘ions at commisaries where they were charged high prices. The charges have been denied in detail by R. G. Church. secretary. and manager of the I\!iss’asip';xl Valley Flood Control Branch eof the Associated General Contrag= tors. the concern which has tﬁﬂ contract, He contends that the labor unions want to control em= plovment of the men on the job. which now is using chiefly Negro labor. ‘“If we yield to the de mands of the labor unions teo raise wages. white men will re place the Negroe*” sa'd Church: The war department is waiting a report of investigators sent inte the district “BUGGY” AN CAN BE Jackson, Miss., Dec. 11.--(ANP) —Hulen Page went back to nature and wound up in the state insane hospital. The elderly man frighten ed residents almost out of their wits, especially the flappers, as he was seen walking leisurely up and down the streets without clothing. The sherift's office was notified and deputies were immediately dis= patched to take Hulen in custody. Before their arrival, however, & kindly housewife who recognized “Uncle Hulen” and knew that he was subject to “spells” had one of the servants bring him in off the street and dress him. A lunaey commission was called at the cm house and after an examinatior found thhe old gentleman was & “buggy” as they make 'em. \ s S l //\ 74 (L 7 2 0. ; | . (, ‘ ///// 1 R - BB | “DEACON JONES” g By 1. P. Reyn 'ide e Brother Bell jumped up & ; aid “HE WAS FULL OF THE SPIRIT. He was right only he should have said “SPIRITS.” Week PRICE 5 CENTS