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VOLUME 1. NUMBER 111
Morehouse Logic, Oxford Wit Feature Interrace Debate
NEWSPAPERS
SCORED BY
BRITISH
Press a Lesser Evil.
Asserts Morehouse;
No Decision (Jiven
LAUD ATLANTANS
By: Cliff Mackay
Milton K. Curry and Allred ('
Tyler, representing Morehouse col
lege in the Atlanta school’s firs!
international, interracial debate
with Oxford University of England
gave tfie blonde haired Britons a
real taste of forensic battle Wed
nesday night at Sale hall in negat
mg the resolution that “The Bros •
is Democracy's Greatest Dangm
Though a non-decision eneoun
ter, the two Atlanta lads reluted
with ease every point brought lorth
by the two Englishmen in their
attempt to stamp newspapers as the
world's greatest danger to the rule
of the majority. President S. II
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
eral Dixie white colleges a n <1
Tuesdav night had taken on Emory
university.
101)0 IN AUDIENCE
John A Boyd-Carpenter, a gradu
ate student, and John Foote, a sem
or who represimted the English
school, kept the audience of more
ih’airT.ooo hall
in a constant uproar with a con
tinued sparkling humor mid rar
casm not generally associated with
natives of Great Britain.
Speaking with a typical Oxford
ian accent. Boyd Carpenter as first
speaker for the affirmative put his
audience in a good humor by tel!
ing how, when he docked at Bor
ton. he was handed a huge bundle
of paper, resembling a "cheap edi
tion of the Encyclopedia Britan
nica” which he said he later found
to lie the Sunday edition of tin
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 have but what they want.
This, he declared, accounted for
the tremendous popularity of the
comic strips, which have no news
value
“American editors arc 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. ft would not be
news to a typical American editor,
but if a girl wearing green stock
ings was run over a motor-car.
that in mind of an average editor
would constitute news.
"Rather than attempt to discover
opinions and shape them. I h e
American press seems interested
solely in building up huge circula
tions Politics to American new
papers has no news value unless if
holds a possibility of war Prior to
the World war Germany was de
picted in English newspapers as a
gross monster with spiked helmets
preparing to trample over the peo
ples of the world and the Russian
was shown to be a rather chubby
pleasant-faced peasant Now the
German is illustrated, as rather a
sad figme more to be pitied than
femed and the Russian is drawn as
a hm'e creature wearing heavy
Nack boots, black bearded, bloody
(Continued on Page 2)
Tlio
Weather
INCREASING CLOUDINESS, fol
lowed by rain in north and west
portions Friday. Saturday rain: mo
derate east and southeast winds.
Highest temperature t>4; lowest tem
peraturo 42; mean temperature 53.
C. F. von HERRMAN
Meteorologist
Weather Bureau
Better
LABOR UNIONS PUSHING PEONAGE PROBE
2IENGEANCE
SLIMS 10
8E TRIED
Pitts Brothers Slew
Man Shooting at
Patrolman
THEIR KIN SLAIN
Probably waiting until the heat
and friction following one of the
most sensational murders ever to
be recorded m Atlanta should die
down, announcement was made
at the solicitors office that the
much postponed trial of Columbus
and Buster Pitts, broth ws indicted
jointly fj»r the slaving of Ralph
Harwell, while 32 Bass Street, in a
spirit of revenge for the slavim' ol
their demented brother l>y an ol
ficer. would appear Decembei 15
before Judge E Pomeroy
The shooting of the white eiti
/on followed when bullets meant
for Officer 11 J. Waters struck and
fatally wounded Harwell The as
sailants were unknown, but police
la lieved the killer were 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. Officer
Waters had shot down M. C. Pitts.
(>B6 Frasier Street, wounding bun
near the heart, killing Trim in
staidly. The shooting occurred at
Georgia Avenue and Frasier
Street. The shooting drew the ire
of hundreds of Atlantans, friends
and neighbors, it was not only
branded as cold blooded murder
but was the second such shooting
of Nergoes by policemen in that
vicinity in two days.
First Shooting
The first victim of the officer's
shooting was Larry Dixon. of
Bh i ladel ph ia. who was seriously
wounded by Officers A. D Boole
The officer claimed he had re
ceived a call that a Negro was
brandishing a gun and molest'ing
two women near the Coca Cola
plant The officer had him pointed
out and shot, him The Philadel
phian cl. Hmed that he had no
pistol and did not point it at the
officer as he said he did He also
said the poli.'cman shot him first
and questioned him afterwards.
The next day Pitts, along with a
number of other folk, were sitting
on a wall about 200 feet from
Georgia Avenue adjoining a num
ber o f small business houses
Patrolman Waters came alon:: and
ordered the men to move. All of
them moved with the exception of
Bitts who sat blankey and gazed at
the officer.
The officer grabbl'd 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
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•lust II More
shopping days until Christmas. That means just five
more issues of Tlfp Atlanta World before that Day of
Days.
But in each issueDf The World will he found advertise
ments of what to buy and give for Christmas. Mer
chants who realh want your trade ask for it through
The World.
Make your Christmas gift list front World advertise
ments.
The Atlanta World
ATLWW»WORLD
Spelman Schedules
Langston Hughes
for Lecture
Langston Hughe:-:. the young
poet, who is to be at Morehouse
college for a week beginning Dec-;
ember 9, will speak al Spelman :
college on Wednesday morning,
December Ki, al 11:45 o'clock in
Howe Memorial hall. He will give
at this time a lecture readii;.; of
his own poems, pointing out t!a
relation of poetry to the back
ground and life of the Negro peo
ples
Mr. Hughe; is the authoi ol two
books of poems. The Weary Blues,
Fine Clothes to the Jew, a collee.
tion of dramatic recitations entitle
rhe Negro Mother, and a recent
novel. Not Without Laughter,
selected by the American Library
association as one of the forty old
standing books published in th"
year 1930 Trie poet':; work ha.
■been translate'! into French. Ge
: man. Russian, and Spanish, and
was awarded the Harmon Gohl
award lot Literature tor 1930.
? BOYS ARRESTED
FOB ROBBERY
The Juveniles were caught and
arrested in robbery eases Wednes
day. The first, Leonard Williams,
a lad of 14. was caught after he
had robbed a stand at 29 Holcombe'.'
' alley by a group of Negro citizens
who gave chase after him and
succeeded in capturing him and
। turning him over to police. He
I 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
years, was captured in a lunch
stand at 779 Spring Street, oper-.
ated by Roy Gardner. Another
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. I
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’ The
News
— By —
FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS
Labor pushes peon probe; say
workers treated wrong
Big time actor’s pay attached; he
owed debt much too long;
Press hit hard by Englishmen; they
stage a good debate
Burned girl taken to Grady; did
she get there too late?
Vengeance slayers go on trial; they
killed friend of a cop
Alabamans fate unknown; both
sides’ pleas very hot;
Clark to battle S. C. State; predict |
a fine grid game
Merchants who are going broke
might lack of World ads blame!
Beautify the home for Christmas. Attend
the meeting sponsored by The Atlantia World
Monday. Many free prizes will be given away
by The World and local merchants.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11. 1931
Murder Trials to 4
Occupy Most of
Coming Week
Annmm. .-meiit comes from the
solicitor's office that next week
from the criminal courts intends
hearing a number of murder trials
which have been postponed from
time to lime “The murder trials
seem always the most difficult to
get imder way." was the statement
made by officah, from that office,
.and the court is anxious that they
be gotten off the schedule.
Beginning today in Judge G. 1!
Howard's court the much heralded
trial of L A Oechsle. alleged
Peter streel whiskey merchant,
who was indicted for the slaying
of Will Dennis m October on
Humphne: street will begin. The
trial slated to appear all of the
week was crowded out by the
extreme large number of i obbery
cases appearing in that court
Oechsle was jointly indicted with
Albert Miller, after he had appear
ed. before Hie Grand Jury as a state
witnc: s in indicting Miller. He was
summoned again into the court
room by solicitor Stevens, after he
had been allowed tn te.tify before
the grand jury, and arrested. He
was then jointly indicted with
Miller for the murder of Dennis a-
Jong with three other' all brothers
to .Albert Miller. They were L. ( .
Ernest and A. C MHlei
H PROBLEM
FOR DOCTORS OF
GW HOSPITAL
A new problem confront:; doctors
at Grady hospital, according to
several complaints turned in by in
ternes in charge of the colored side
of the Butler .street institution.
Thursday night a call was sent to |
detective headquarters for assist-:
anee in ferreting a sneak thief
patient located somewhere in the'
wards who possesses a peculiar;
mama for lifting joke magazines’
from the white duck coat pockets,
of 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
to lie 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- 1
come that many patients have boy
cotted all newspapers and male
habitues of the hospital no longer
use 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.
SENTENCE THIEF
TDDNEYEAR
In the Fulton county court Wed
nesday before Judge G. H. How
ard. Will Jackson was sentenced
to serve one year 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.
gnd M credit clothing store on
Broad street was burglarizzed and
«i wholesale loot that included 60
silk dresses, over coats, suits and
other women and mens wearing
apparel was removed through the
sky light ventilator. Jackson was
apprehended.
Home
GUILD NEAR
DEATH DDE
TO DDRNS
Dress Ignites From
Fire in (Jrate
Thursday
NOW AT GRADY
Early Thursday morning little
Salomia Harper. four-year old
daughter of Mr:- Mable Harper ot
205 Walnut Street, was laughing
and happy Thursday night she
lay in the children':; 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 her back to 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.
Tiie mother, told World reporters
,he was m the kitchen preparing
breakfast when she heard the
screams of her daughter, running
to her rescue in an attempt to
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 funned the flames to great
er fury. She wrapped -tlje little
girl in the rug, but in her haste
failed to wind the carpet tight
enough about her body.
Leaving the child, who was still
yelling 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 mother
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
inti dress. It was the ribbed under- i
wear the child was wearing. Mrs.
Harper said, that stuck and pulled
to tiie 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 tragedy, turned over and '
laying her charred little hand on
her mother said. “Don't cry. mama, i
I'll be all right. 1 just knows I'll
be all right ”
Doctors as Grady hold that she
has onlv one chance out of ten to
live.
58 MINUTE TALK
MSFREM
UN I CDDNT
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 gambled 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 in truth all
were guilty of gambling.
Atlanta U. Lab Hi"
Holds Christmas
Vespers Sunday
Sunday evening, at seven o’clock
Sisters Chapel. Spelman college !
will be the scene of the second an
nual all-musical Chri Jma: vesper
service of the Atlanta University
Laboratory high school The pro
gram will ^include 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
rold, violinist, and Naomi Hayman,
organist, will assist in several
numbers. The other music is pre
sented by the high school glee
clubs, under the direction of Lil
lian E Webster.
ICOUIT HARRISON
OFBRIBERY
CHICAGO. Dec 9 iANP> Em
phasizing the main line of defense
[Used by his attorney. Wendell
Green. "Judged 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 alter his dis
charge that he had been framed
from start to finish.
I Mr Harrison received scores of
letters and telegrams following hi.
acquittal from friends throughout
the country who were made
happy by his vindication.
He spoke in great praise of the
masterly fight in his behalf made
by Wendell Green, one of the most
successful attorneys practicing be
fore the Chicago bar.
ABBIE MITCHELL
SINGS TONIGHT
Abbie Mitchell, the greatest Ne
gro soprano and one of the fines!
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 violinist, going on through
vaudeville and then opera with
constant study in both New York
and Baris 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
ANOTHER TALE FROM MISSISSIPPI
GOOLA-GOOLA. Miss , Dee. 11 —Farmers near the small com
munity of Chitlin’ Switch have recently placed a sizeable order for
catfish cages wh’ch may be hung in the living room-'-
Last summer the fish'ng worms of the vicinity grew so large
they went down to the Mississippi river in a body to get even with
the f’sh. As a result, the fish were scared away and rushed to the
land where they had to climb trees to save themselves. I hey stayed
there all summer but with the advent of cooler weather they found
their airy haunts too chilly Con: equently. many ot the kindhearted
farmers have taken them down and brought them home to keep as
pets during the winter.
The order for cats sh 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 sard to be the cat’s meow.
Next meeting 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
in Rosenwald Fund
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 from 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.
BLOWN UP WITH
1 GUN
MUN MIGHT DIF
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 Janies
a tire repairman in a local garage.
(Continued on Page 2)
RICH OMAN
FACES BIG SHIT
OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla., Dec
11 -iANP) —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- ■
1 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 i
plaintiff and defendant when the
ease is finally heard Oklahomans,
view the suit as a thrust at getHng i
i the valuable property owned by:
I McDonald, which includes large i
: holdings in the Oklahoma Sity oil |
fields.
£R I DAM
EXECUTIVES
ARE WEI
CHARGES
Wages for 12 Hours
$1.25, Asserts
Labor Head
CHARGES DENIED
WASHINGTON I) Dec. 11
(ANP) —William Green, presi
j dent of the American Federation
[of Labor is the latest to lift his
voice against working cond’tion*
:on the lower Mi. sissippi levees.
; During the past week charges have
been fled with the War Depart
i merit, and public ty given to pro*
I lerts by various labor executive!
। against what the'’ described as th>
intolerable conditions under which
colored labor was being used in
the flood control work wh’ch is
being done under government su*
pervision but bv private contrac
tors.
"A thorough investigation
should be made, said Mr. Green,
"to punish those guilty of perpe
trating these wrongs.” He was re
ferr’ng to reports that the iash
and pistol butt were frequently
used on the Negro laborers work
ing on the project.
Paid $1.25-Daily -■—- -
Green asserted that workers on
; levee buildings near Providence,
La . and Greenville, Miss., were
being paid as low as $1 25 per a
day for a 12 hour day. r nd that
n addition to those small wages
that they had to buy their provi
sions at commisaries where they
were charged high prices.
The ehaiges have been denied in
detail by R. G. Church, secretary
and manager of the Miss : ssi]jpi
Valiev Flood Control Branch of
the Associated General Contrat
tm-s. the concern which has the
contract. lio contends that the
labor unions want to control em
ployment of the men on the job.
which now is using chiefly Negro
labor “If we yield to the de
mands of the labor unions to
rai.e wages- wlfte men will re
nlaee the Negroi”" sa : d Church.
Th- wa' department is waiting a
I‘epmt of inventigators ent into
the district
BUGGY” AS 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, us he
was seen walking leisurely up and
down the streets without clothing.
The sheriff’s office was notified and
deputies were immediately dis
patched to take Union in custody.
Before their arrival, however, a
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 lunacy
commission was called at the court
house and after an examination
found thhe old gentleman was a
"buggy” as they make ’em.
“DEACON JONES**
By I. P. Reyn Id*
Brother Bell jumped up and
said ”HE WAS FULL OF THI
SPIRIT. He was right only he
should have said "SPIRITS.”
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