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VOLUME 4, NUMBER 1415
BENEFIT LOSES ONLY $4.106.130 INSURANCE
Young Aviator Dies Instantly in Plane Crash
HEAVY FOG
WAUSE OF
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Vietim Son of Well
Known Physician
in Kansas City
FALLS 1,500 FEET
TOPEKA, Kans.,, Dec. 27.—Thom
as Perry Jones, son of Dr. and Mrs.
Thomas A. Jones of Kansas City,
Mo., a young aviator, was ins!:mlly!
killed Monday, when the twn—pns-f
senger Velic mono-toupe plane, in|
which he was flying, became Insl}
in a fog -and crashed to the earth
two miles north of North Topeka l
Young Jones, it is said, had becn |
warned by Paul Pugh, local airport
owner, of the impending dangers|
Jurking in_the heavy bank of fog, !
but the dead flyer had chosen (o]
ignore Pugh’s advice. 1
N Cirele Twice {
According to E. T. Backus in
whose field the plane crashed, the
flyer circled twice around his place
Mtogwufl%;;wal landing.
Backus said 1 Hé feached the
scene of the wreck, Jones' body
was dangling from the wing of the
ship as if he had attempted to leap
out and was caught. One foot was
torn completely off and blood was
pouring from his mouth. He was
dead.
Dr. Jones told newspaper repre
sentatives that his son, accompani
ed by Dr. P C Turner, had left
Sunday for Topeka.
Pugh said the pair had landed
their plane on his fleld about 3:30
Sunday afternoon. They left the
field and returned about four hours
later.
Seeing them taxi the ship out ol
the hangar. Pugh said he questionerd
them about making the trip back to
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Ethiopians Given
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New Educational
System by Man
WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. 25
(ANP)--Howard university adds
another graduate to the field of
foreign service in Cyril Price, of
' 1f the class of 27. who is engaged
' in the field of cdueation in Ab:
sinia.
Mr. Price left America last June
for his post in Abyssinia where he
{s in charge of the educationil
program of the province of Derie
Daona. Since he has been there he
has formed a Board of Education,
and organized a Parent-Teachers
Association, both of which are
working systematically to make the
program he has initiated success
ful.
Mr. Price received his master's
degree in English at Howard in
1930, »nd has-only to complete his
thesls before receiving the Ph. 1.
from the University of New York
WORK BEGINS ON NEW
BORDENTOWN DORMITORY
BORDENTOWN, N. J. Dec. 25
(ANP) - Work was begun Wednes
day on the new hoys' dormitory for
the Bordentown Manual Training
School. 1t is estimated that the
new building will be ready for oc
cupancy early next fall 160,000
was appropriated for the building
by the 1931 ILegislature. The new
dormitory will house 100 bovs in
creasing the school's capacity !o
boys to 300.
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| NEW YOREK Dec 22 Writing
“n the Christian Century, for Dec. 9
IIH'. W E B Dua Bos, menber of
{the Board of Directors of the N.A.
(A C.P. and cditor of the Crisis, ex
(presses his opinion that the Church
!\\I\i('h hus lagged in facing the coi
{or Line will avoid such problems as
| possible.
Calling the problem of the color
line “nol only the moast pressing
social question of the modern
Iworld; it I8 an ethieal cuestion
}Hmt confronts every religion and
fevery conscience, D Du - Bol
lreviews the history of the Church
I.n this field.
The Christian Church “sponsored
and defend” slavery in America
writes Dr. Du Bois who says: “The
only Christian body that gave the
!uhn]itiumst.; aid and countenance
iwas the Quakers, who, toward the
ithe eend of the 18th Century, and
lin the beginning of the 19th, gradu
jally fook . stand against slavery
land began to agitale for emanci
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Policeman Slays Man He Claims
~ Tries to Attack Him With a Knife
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vpon answering a radio call to
rear 979 IVLV!'“(‘ street, Officer W
L. Owen and W. D. Nash were 1n
formed by Henry Robinson, rcar
979 Myrtle fitl‘(‘(‘f, that two men had
brandished pistols about his home)
and upon his threatening them
they had fled Ope of the men,
Robert Lee, rear 935 Myrtie street
had returned 30 minutes later and
had thrown rocks into his hame
Officers soon arrested Robert
Lee and found him in o very
drunken condition. Upon search
ing him they found a billiec and a
long knife. He was charged with
drunkeness and disorderly conduct
and immediately placed under ar
rest. As Officer Owen went to the
home of Max E. Land, 975 Myrtle
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A H{DIXTE'S STANDARD MG <~ R RACE JOURNALIA %)
“Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Atlanta, Ga. under ?:e act of March 8, 1879"
| BY CLII'F MACKAY
| Atlanta’s one-hundred year old
youngster, Willie Ward. vouthful
|m both mind and physigque, vo o
ltorduy celebrated his century mark
biithday, by tramping Peachlrce
'::!rvm in search of a job
The little old man, who despt
[his many years, holds himself as
:(_'l‘("(‘t 48 a man sixty vears younger,
!nnd whose hair, though slichily
Loreyed, is still long, when quest
!jmwd by the writer, said fhat
his birthdays 10 longer hold a thrill
for him.
“They have been coming 100 quick
L often . 10 God is good to mg
fhough I hope to see twenty-five
more vet!” he said.
| Ward's life reads like a chapter
out of ;1 highly-eolored novel. Born
on the present site of the Georpia
State capital on December 26, 1831
the man thovgh he has only trave
sed the two stated of Georgia and
Mississippi has lived a full life
When ‘but nine years of age he
was sold to “Old Man Willinns,
whom he says at that tine was
known as the worst slaver in
Georgia. He owned a plantation
known as “Bad Man's Farm,”
where more than 3,000 slaves work
ed. Numerous stories of brutality,
beatings and killings often leaked
out but nothing was ever done a
bout them. Ward said after three
Leatings he ran away from the
place and tramped back to Atlan
ta only to find that his parents,
‘who were free Negroes, had been
retinrned to the father land by King
Edward III of the Golden Apge of
Africa.
Ward then tells of his recapture
an'd how he was sent to the famous
John Wright Walker firm near
Azoo Valley, Miss., where he spent
the larger part of his life in vir
tual peonage. Though he had cs
caped several times, he was alwaye
brought back and then after the
civil war, he began woirXine on the
{ifty-fifty cropping contract
Despite numerous good crops. as
is typical of most peonage farm
he seemed to get deeper and deep
cr in debt with, the owners of the
cstate. It finally bBecame neces
sary for his family to work from
carly morning to sundown in order
to keep body and soul together.
Many probably recall sensational
ctories appearing regarding Ward's
escape from the farm, his being
marooned two week's in the top of
a tree, living on food brought him
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(ieorge Harrison to
Give Recital Today
George Harrison, noted reader.
will appear in a recital of Dunbar
poetry in Sale hall of Morechouse
university Sunday afternoon at
4:30 P. M. The noted speaker will
be assisted by the Morehouse col
lege Glece Club, Orchestra and
Quartet. The affair is being spon
sored by the senior class of the lo
cafrschool. A silver offering which
is to he taken at the conclusion of
the recital will be donated to the
Morchouse Endowment campaien
itreet, to phone for the patrol. he
claimed that he heard a scuffle
then three shots from a pistol. Run
ning back to the car he found l.ce
dead from gunshot wounds
In his report to headgquarters, Of
ficers W. D. Nash, the slayer of
Lee, claimed that Robert l.ee had
sivn him constant trouble and
finally asked him if he might be
allowed to tie his shoe string. The
officer claimed that he granted the
request and as the Negro did so he
came up with a long knife, slash
ing his coat. The officer then fired
upon Lee killing him instantly.
According to the Grady hospital.
Lee was brought into the clinic
wounded several times, one shot
taking effect in the abdomen, a
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1931
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The World announce 1} ¢
tention of the Rev. 5 Ralph Wil
son, pastor of the Pilgrimm Baptist
church, as manager of the new
classified advertisement depart
ment which is being started
For 14 years Rev. Wilson has
had newspaper experience in both
advertising and editorial depart
ment ifier studying courses in
journalisa at. the Univetsily ol
{hicago
Employment has been with the
Kansis (il Call Chieago Whip,
ind Atlanta Independent, where he
was conneeted as managing editor
until cominge to The WORLD
Rev Wilson is connected with
various ¢, religious bodies and
cducational movements in the city
as well being identified with the
Busines qgue F and A M. and
ihe Roval Arch Chapter No 40
St Andiew Commarndry No 27
Springficld. Mo
Charleston, W V.. Dec 25 ) B>
The Associated Negro Press)-Roy
Davige, 24, confessed to stabbing to
death Britton Crozer, 40, a brick
layer in Third avenue Thursday
night, when police arrested him a
short time later
Chief of Police John Rritton
(white) who obtaimed the confess
lion, said Davis stated he killed
(rozier in an _ argument about
clearing house lottery tickets
Davis in his first Btatement said
he and (rozier got into the a 1
ment at the boarding house
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second in the chest a thivd in the
hip. and others about the body.
According to Officer Nash, l.ce
kept trving to get out of the police
car His bodvy was turned over lo
the Hanley company. after doctors
at the hospital pronounced him
dead.
Very soon a woman. Mary Kemp,
979 Myrtle strect, was brought in
to the police station drunk and dis
orderly. According to Captain Hol
combe of the nicht sguad the wo
man seemed drunk lifvless, and
very pale in color. Reportiers at the
hospital claimed that the woman
was found nude. locked in a bath
room. Doctors at the hospital ad
ministered several antidotes with
little success,
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Two violents deaths were chalk
ed up for the Merry Christmas day
when a woman and a4 man wert
killed almost within 45 minutes of
cach other. Both deaths occurred
in different sections of the city
In the first case..the victim. Mrs
Mamie Andrews. 225 Corley avenue,
committed sutecide according to her |
husband. Robert Andrews. who|
was the only person in their home|
at the time. The husband told offi- |
ficers Manor and Nix that the wom-,
an had wounded herself in the nm'k!
with a shotgun. He was taken into
%("H:\u(i}' and booked unde: ,n-p‘w—!
| ion.
| The ambulance driver for the
i Hanley 4., Pete Turner, who has
{ been retained as a witness by po
;*t"t‘ claimed that when he arrived
| the woman was lying on the floor
of the front room with the shot-|
_gun nearby. Turner declined tol
give any other statement save that |
Andrews was from his home town
Norwood Gia. and had alwavs
been of good character. He claimed
that he saw no burns from the di
charge of the gun but that the en
tire volley of shots had been pour-!
ed into the wound, showing that
it must have been fired al close
range. i
Blame Andrews
It is believed that officers will}
attempt to fasten the killing upon|
Andrews, supporting the theory;
that a long shotgun was a x:r}‘:-:"!
cumber-some weapon to fire vpon|
one's self especially without burn i
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Cyclist Runs Into
Drunken Man and
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Cyclist Is Hurt
Hitting an unknown man, whom
he says appeared to be intoxicated,
while astride a bicycle proved un
fortunate to Ernest Sims, 643 Mag
nolia Street, a delivery boy for a
local drugstore, who was found at
Grady hospital to be suffering
from a fractured collar bone
Sims cldims that he whistled
when he saw the man in the path
of his vehicle but the drunk ap
parently didn't hear him. When he
struck the man, Sims said, he was
hurled more then fifteen feet into
the air landing on his side against
the curbstone.
The man, he said. in his haste to
get away from the scene of the ac
cident, dropped a large bottle of
liguid which smelled lil:~ alcohol
After being treated at the hos
pital. he was permitted to return
home
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FRANK MARSHALI. DAVIS
Millions lost by Benefit; j
save lots of pay in vear
Legislation DePriest secks;
three bills Congress will hear,
Negro pilot dies in plane; |
dense fog the cause of crash
S. C. gridders lose to Clark; |
their clean slate hopes are smash- |
ed.
Harlem leaders won't be tried; ;
they offered loot to Iaw :
Hundredth birtkday ‘Lantan sees; |
of fifteen kids he's pa; |
Cops still shooting Negroes h«‘rv;g
“resisting law” gets one {
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These two pictures will be used as evidence by General W,
Chamlee. International Labor Defog ttorney of Chattanooea
when he appeals before the Alaban greme Court on January 15
against tl death sentence of the cight Scott=boro bovs framed on a
charge of aping two white womei | top picture shows the trial
town of Scottsboro, Ala i pulat dur'ng normal times
The lower pileturse how rt of | mob of 10,000 that flocked into
town to create a lynch atmosphe ntimidate the jury. The mob
broke into cheer hiad hit march when the death verdict
was announced,
. NEW YORK, Dec. 22-—An ordery
to heads of government depart.
ments warning them that no race
discrimination is to be shown in
;carx*ying out economy policies, is
asked in a letter to President Hoov
er made public today by the Na
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People.
The association cites the recent
attempt to transfer to Porto Rico
an employee in the Custom House
at New Orleans, whose seniority
entitled him to remain in the
country .
The |letter sent to President
Hoover by the N A A C B sion
ed by Walter White, Secretary, is
as follows:
“May we be permitted to place be
fore you for consideration the re
quest that in carrying out proposed
economies in the administration ot
National Government that depart
ment heads be warned by you as
nation based upon color or race.
We recognize, of course, that theo
retically such discrimination is
supposed never to exist. But in the
dismissal or demotion of govern
mental employees it is, unfortu
nately, not always true that the
standards of impartially applied
rules and regulations are rigidly
adhered to.
*Of all the raecial groups in the
United States the Negro is suffer
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ANOTHER BIG TALE FROM MISSISSIPPI
GOLILA GOOLA, Miss. Dec. 27--Twop petrified epps whielh Sam
Jones found 20 vears ago near Wett Lake and kept in his home at
Chitlin Switch hatehed Christmas noght in the midst of a hot party at
the Jones residence
One of the proiucts was a stone b'lled woodpecker and the other
was a granite colored Plymouth Rlock rooster with miarble legs.
Mr. Jones plans to sell the rooster to a lotal restaurant where it
is understood it will he practicially the same as those ordinarily served
while the \\'4)‘:(?[!« ckor will be trained to drill holes 1n rocks on the
Jones land <o that ‘dynamite may be inserted the obstructions blown
away and the eround used for farminge,
ing most severely during this period
of depression and unemployment.
It is still unfortunately frue in
many instances that the Negro 1Is
usually the last to be hired and
the first to be fired We sincerely
trust that you as President will take
all steps within your power to pre
vent the imposition of still further
hardships upon Ngro federal em
ployees.
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Placed Hand on Girl;
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Charged WithAttack
Shelby, N € Deec 25 - (By The
Associated Negro Pres)--Emory
Maddox, 19 vears old, and employ
ed on a farim near here was ar
rested and placed in jail on a charge
of attempted assault, Friday morn
ing., Officers declare that while out
rabbit hunting he came upon a 16
vear old girl washing clothes near
a spring. The boy is said by the
officers to have apptroached the
girl, laid his hand on her arm and
asked her if she would not go to
Arkansas with him The g1l
frigchtened ran to the hotse. The
Bos is =aid to have assured Her
parents that he meant no harm
but was placed under arrest and a
charge laid agiinst him. :
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iloss of insurance in force of
$£4,106.130 from Sept. 24 to Nov. 16
nas been sustained by the National
Benef ¢ Insurance company, ac
cording to a statement made by the
treceiver, Daniel €. Roper, at A
I meeting of the National Convention
{of Insurance receivers In New
i York last week. The insurance in
| force today is $54.827.308 as against
| $56,933.438 in September.
% Meanwhile, the number of work
i(\r:: in the home office in Washing
iton has been reduced trom 171 to
|92 and in the field from €58 to 556,
’a total reduction between Sept
{ ember and November of 181, The
| annual savings in salaries on this
| basis is approximately $150,000.
f Endorse Mutualization
| The convention went on record
lin a resolution as unanimously en
! dorsing -the mutunlization of the
company as the nmu:l % ble and
safe method of solviry its difticuls
The loss of only $4,106130 n in
surance in force is regarded as a
|sign of public confidence that the
I situation will be satisfactorily
straightened.
Continued Operation
In the resclution by the N:tional
Convention of Insurance Commis
sionerg it was also recommended
that in the event that Receiver Rop
er was not able to put thru the
plan of mutualization, that Mr.
Roper, continue the operation of
the company under the authority
and direction of the Supreme Couct
of the District of Columbia, with
necessary ancilliary receiverships.
In his address before the conven
tion, Mr. Roper stated that -he fell
that the colored people deserve and
are entitled to have an insurance
company as sound and o3 safe for
them as any white company in
America is, for its policyholders.
How to Conserve Inferest
“The question in my mind!” he
said, “is how can the interosts of
the policyholders of this compary
be best conserved? It is impossibic
to pursue two roads simultaneous
ly, one looking to rehabilitation
and one looking to liquiMition. As
is seen from the decree of the court
I am required to pursue fust the
road looking to rehabilitation, aned
this I believe can be made possibie
with the co-operation of the Com
missioners here presont
“If it can, and the company is
brought out of these tribulations
sound in its fundamentals and
wicely safeguarded in its future
administration, we will render to a
large segment of our populatips,
and hence to the country, a dige
tinct publie service.” i
NEW FLOODS THREATEN i
SOUTHERN S’l‘qms
Jackson, Miss., Dec. 25, (Bfi The
Associated Negro Presy) —Six
bridges and several stretches of re
cently constructed roads in Web
ster county have been washed a
way by flood waters spreading
over northern Mississippi and por
tions of Arkansas and Louisiana.
Several towns and villages have al
50 been threatened by the rise of
the water and preparations have
been made to care for refugees.
Consi‘crable damage has been done
to unharvested crops
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