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VOLUME 4, NUMBER 146
Latest Shooting by Police May Cause General Quiz
AP PISTOL
BAUSE OF
CHOOTING
Quiz on Shootings by
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Police May Come as
Result of Gunplay
VICTIM MAY DIE
A toy pistol, pointed at 1 police
man when he was attempting to
make an arrvest. brought grief to
Wiley Cook, who was probably
fatally wounded Sunday night by
Officer J. W. Anderson.
Hospital attaches reported to the
police that Cook is expected to dic
from the gun shot wound of th
right side. It was announced at the
office of the chief that the shooting
will be thoroughly investigated
Already the homicide squad ol
Ginn and Evans, chief detective,
are investigating the case. Due to
the many shootings of Negroes by
policemen the department is spat
ing no pains in investigating the
shooting.
According to reports, the officers
had answered radio call to 533
Robbins street, where George Tho
mas, operator of a stand, said that
a man known only as “Shorty” had.
been loitering around the place
brandishing a gun. The officers
were in the act of arresting Shorty
when Cook is said to have walked
up and pointed a toy cigarette case
shaped like an automatic in his
face.
Officers Make Statement
Both police signed a statement
that read as follows: “We were
parked in front of 542 Robbins
gireet when . George-Thomas and
Wiley Cook, rear 533 Robbins
street, stopped in front of the
place. About that time, unknown
woman walking on the side walk
was meeting Shorty. They had
some words and Shorty told wom
an to go on or else he would shoot
her and I (J. W. Maddox) ashked
Shorty if he had a gun and went
to search him. J. W. Anderson also
drew his gun and then Shorty
threw up his hands. About this
time Wiley Cook walked up behind
Shorty and said to Maddox, ‘Don’'t
start nothing, white folks; and
pointed a toy pistol in his face
Maddox got in a tussle with him
and at this time he was shot by
Officer Anderson. Wiley Cook was
then carried to QGrady. George
Thomas was a witness to the shoot
ing and he said that Shorty had
been armed in that section with o
pistol all day and we do not know
if he had one or not as we were
not able to finish searching him
before he could have done away
with it.”
Cook Makes Statement
The wounded Cook at the hos
pital claimed that he did not point
the pistol at the officer but that he
was pointing it at a woman when
the officers, just passing by, leap
ed from their car and shot him.
Waycross Cops Seek
2 Vampire Autoists
(S. N. S. News Service)
WAYCROSS, Ga., Deo., 30
County police seeking two colored
men, who Monday crashed into the
rear of a car driven by D. B. Lar
risey and then veered into a col
lision with Mrs. R. C. Harris, both
white. Mrs. Harris, it is said was
seriously injured.
The two men, police say, after
crashing into the cars, jumped out
of the automobile in which they
were riding and fled. Their ma
chine was completely demolished
The
Weather
INCREASING CLOUDINESS, fol
lowed by rain in the west and north
portlons Wedne sday afternoon; rain
Wednesday night and Thursday
morning; <oldar Thursday after
nooh and night.
C. F. von HERRMAN,
Meteorologist,
Weather Bureau.
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INTERVIEW DARROW. HAYES ON 8 BOYS
HUSBAND |5
FAEED A |
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Decide Wife Killed
by Her Hand and
Not by Hubby
O ANTTRY ~ N
DESPONDENT, SHE
As the resilt of the verdict of
coroner’'s jury Monday, Robert
Andrews, alleged wife slayer, was
freced from the city jail where he
spent the merry Christmas a pri
soner. Andrews wife was slain
Christmas Day in her home, at 225
Corley street Her husband, the
only person in the home at the
lime wis arrested for the crime
after he had accompanied the body
of the woman to the hospital
At the inquest it was learned
that the wife, Mamie Andirews, had
m several occasions tried to hl«_)wl
her brains out with the same spot
gun with which she took her life
on Christmas Day and her hus
band, fortunately, was around and
wrestled the weapon away from
her each time. The last time, it
was said, was Christmas a year
ago.
The husbhand also said that it was
generally known by him and all
neighbors that his wife drank ex
ceedingly heavy and during her
drunken speels she would becorne
very despondent. In one instance 1t
was cited that Andrews secarched
in vain for her, and nnally found
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MARBLE STOPPLA
CENT T0 GRADY
Tuesday morning Albert Leslie,
13, 556 Pullman street, playfully
with his foot stopped a marble
from rolling. An hour later he ap
peared at Grady hospital with a
deep cut over his left eye., which
he said was administered with a
stone in the hands of Nace Clark,
of 6300 Pullman street, who had
shot the “aggie.”
Leslie said he was held by
Clark’'s two brothers while being
struck in the eye. He told doctors
that Fred Gafer, 636 Pulliam
street, wast the third party in the
ficht. He was released after being
treated in the emergency clinie.
Lawyers Blank on Forgery Charges
Against Re-arrested Dr. Mitchell
(S. N. S. News Service)
OGLETHORPE, Ga., It was
was revealed Tuesday night that
lawyers who had petitioned the
governor for the pars> of Ir. M
Clarence Mitchell, who was re
leased from the state prison af
Milledgeville Christmas Day from
a life sentnce for murdsr, only fo
be rearrested and brought here to
the Macon county prison on an old
charge of forgery, had no know
ledge of the forger charge
Prominent white friends of the
Macon physician who had interest
ed themselves in his case, said that
an immediate appeal would be
made to the governor for a paroie
on the old charge, which besides a
year's sentence in prison carried a
fine of $1,000. Had it been known
at the time about the charge,
Macon attorneys say. the governor
would have been asked to include
that in the first parole.
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“"Entored ss peacond-clags matter at the post office at Atlanta, (ia. under the act of March 8, 1879"
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Will Investigate
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- Mystery Fire on
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Ashby Circle
The West Side near the vicinity
of Ashby circle was thrown into a
state of chaos as several tive com
panies swept madly by an effort to
quench a fire at 1008 Ashby circle
carly Tuesday morning. The resid
cnee was that of Gabriel Holmes.
According to police, the fire was
of an incindiary origin and broke
out in the altic. They arrived aften
the firemen had placed the fian
under control,
Firemen reported to police that
the house had been sct afire u:
kindling that had been saturated in
kerosene had been placed in the
attic and secl afire. They waore able
to quench the fire and found the
tell tale evidence
Holmes told Officers L. ©O. As
kew, J. W. Ector and liecutenant
O R. Jones, thal he «ind his wife
had been away from home the
earlier part of the evening and had
built a fire in the hcater. When
they returned later in the cvening
they discovercd simoke coming
from the attic. Police are planning
further investigation of the case
RILLS NEGRT
(S. N. S. News Service)
LOUISVILLE, Ga., Dec., 30—
Struck by an antomobile driven by
Charles 1. Kinsey, white, of At
lanta. Charlie Gibbons, colored far
mer, was dead upon atrrival at the
city hospital here
Kinsey said Gibbons was cross
ing the road, and appaysatly had
not seen his car. The white men
said he was unable to stop before
striking the farmer. After hitting
the man, Kinsey placed him in his
car and rushed him here to the city
hospital. The accident occurred
three miles out of the city limits.
Kinsey was released by local po
lice.
WHITE FARMER MUST PAY TO
PROSECUTE NEGRO
RALEIGH, N. C. Dec., 30--(AN
P) When Judge Walter I, Small
learned that James Glover had al
ready been tried and acauitted of
stealing apples from C. W. Poole,
white farmer, and that Poole had
contrived to have Glover brought
into court and tried again for the
same offense, he stoppd the trial
being held in the Superior court,
and ordered Poole to pav the costs
of the new trial before proceeding.
Poole claimed that when Glover
was tried the first time, he (Poole)
was unable to assemble the proper
witnesses,
' Dr. Mitchell had served nine
years of a life sentence after being
l(-nnvirt(‘(l of poisoning his nephew,
to get his insurance which totaled
more than $40,000, including a $10.-
000 war risk policy.
The next step in the case Macon
officials said would be to again
interest the state prison commis
sion which had already twice reco
-mended to the governor that the
doctor be released Macon county
prison olflcials will also go before
the prison commission, it is said, in
an effort to get that body to assign
Dr. Mitchell to a prison camp.
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., Dec. 25
Dr. M. Clarence Mitchell was .
downcast a n d disappointed man
Christmas Day as he was turned
over to Sheriff W. T. Jolly of Ma
con county. after being released
from the state prison here.
ATLANTA. GA. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1931
Emancipation Will
Be Celebrated on
New Years Day
l In accordance with the custom
‘(;f many years, the FEmancipation
{ Celcbration exercises will be held
funder the auspices of the Atlanta
Branch of the National Association
|for the Advancement of olored
'Pvnpl(' on New Year's day
! The principal speaker of the day
{will be {he Reverend Mr € K
'Brown, pastor of Warren Memorial
IM. B Church. who has the reputa
{tion of being a forceful and plea
Ising speaker The Atlanta Letter
Carriers Band, the Dokies Band,
and Wheat Sticet Baptist Church
Choir will furnish the 'music. Un
usual effert is-—bemg put forth to
| make-that day a great one in the
{history of Atlanta Negroes! The ex
:(‘r('i:w:; will be promptly at twelve
to'clock and end at 230
5 ‘The mecting will be held at
i Wheat Street Baptist Church. Those
desiring seats are wrped to be on
itime as standing room is usually at
a premium on such occasions.
‘ A liquor squad which swooped
‘down on residence in the vicinity
lof Piedmont avenue between Gil
lmvr and Armstrong streets, netted
the prohibition officers only a gal
f1on can of corn whiskey, which was
:found taked between two build
lings at 69 and 71 Piedmont avenue.
J No arrests were made. The of
j ficers made a through search for a
quantity of alcohol. which was sup
'posed to have been delivered in the
i neighborhood = Monday morning.
iThe contents of the gallon can
| were dumped into the street.
| The uncovering of a water-meter
{hole in the sidewalk. disclosed an
{empty can which officers say had
lonce contained alchol However
]thvn- was nothing in the can when
found.
ROBBE,®> OF $4
Monday at the corner of High
jland avenue and Boulevard, W. R.
! Tanner, 530 Highland avenuc was
jrobbed of $4 by two large men
lweighing about 200 pounds. The
El‘ubl)(‘l‘:. not only took the money
tbut ecul Tanner on the arm and
¥slcevc ks
Man Fs Stabbed
Another stabbing occured Mon
day at 256 Fleventh street when
Henry Jones of that address was
stabbed over the heart and in the
arm. Police were unable to learn
what the motive of the stabbing
rwas. Sam Mathews, Dorsey, Math
ews and Annie Mae Wright were
all arrested on suspicion.
He was highly recomended as a
model prisoner by Superintendent
B. H. Dunaway, who in delivering
the doctor to Sheriff Jolly said,
“You do not need handcuffs on
him. In fact if you should turn him
loose and tell him to show up at
Oglethorpe he would be there — I
have that much confidence in him.”
Dr. Mitchell was permitted a
brief talk with his wife, who had
come from Macon with the parole
signed by the governor, only to be
down and cried He was carried
away shortly after 12:30 p. m. in an
told that he would be held for an
automobile, his hands free or hand
cuffs.
His wife took his personal effects
from the state prison here and left
saying that she had not given up
her ten year fight for his freedom,
and declaring that her husband
was innocent.
PENNIES FOR
GHARITY
COUGHT
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ilump!()yment for 256
ok : o
. Given by Pennies
| Donated Here
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400 BOXES OUT
Comprising some of 1he rdces
most representative women, the
colored division of the penny club,
recently organized in the city, re
'pm'ts that all of ‘its workers are
lpoing ahead very enthusiastically
!']‘h(v organization has made very
| successful reports
{ It was also announced that thi
iorganization has, under the able
ileadership of Mrs. Dollie J Alex
i:vnd(-r as chairman, placed more
than 400 penny boxes in the various
{('}n_n'('lu-s. stores, and public places
Ifin‘nu_ghout the city for the con
(venicnce of the public to contri
'bute a penny a meal to the unem
(plny(,‘d.
' This club plan of a penny a meal
'is a universal one, and its appeal
is to everyone, man, woman. and
rchild, to give one penny a meal or
three cents daily to the cause of
\the unemployed. The organization
through this daily method of con
tributions is able to provide work
(for those unfortunates who uare un
lemployed.
| Workers Get §7.50 Weekly
i Already the organization has
';::mxcd employment for 256 men
| with salaries of $7.50 a week, 75,000
| pennies. The nature of the work
;is usually unskilled and is for civic
'institutions, hospitals, schools, ete
[Grout precaution is taken to sec
‘that it does not interfere with L.a
'bor union regulations.
| Everybody is urged to do his or
{hor bit and is reminded that one
penny each time a meal is ecaten
Iwill provide those less fortunate
‘with work Quite a remarkable
!feature of this organization is the
| fact that not one of the persons
;wm‘king in the organization re
' ceives any pay for their services,
lall are working for a charitable
‘cause. The headquarters of the
| colored division is located in the
i Butler street Y. M. C. A. building
on the second floor.
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Sidewalk Flies Up and
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Hits Charley in Eye
New Christmas roller skates,
brought only a black eve to Char
ey Martin, 11, 351 Auburn avenue,
and star newsboy for the Atlanta
World. -
Martin. while testing his Christ
mas skates, a present from his dad,
slipped and fell and according to
Charley “the sidewalk flew up and
and hit me in the face.”
He wants it known that no one
struck him in the eye, as many of
his friends, he said, have thought
Jazzin' The
News
FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS
Noted Lawyers quizzed on Eight;
they both denounce the Reds
Latest shooting may draw fire on
cops who lose their heads;
‘Skeegee says 13 were lynched;
press service says two more
Dr. Mitchell still in jail; this act
does daily score.
Probe is asked on Haiti's case; the
facts have gone to Smoot
Penny club asks all aid caunse; three
cents a day will suit;
S. C. has large student roll; but
only few go far
Every World you have to read te
keep your knowledge at par!
Fights 2 Holdups;
-~ Saves (ash But
Is Injured
A hand-to-hand tussle with two
holdup men on Peachtree street
near Third Saturday night. landed
F W Sweet 244 Fast lemon St
in Grady hospital with 4 deep cut
on his left hand and a badly|
bruised head. o
Sweet told police that \',’-,g;.n’
assailant commanded him to hold- |
up his hand, he struck the man in |
the face with his fist. The second !
man, whom he said he had not|
seen at first, then run up from the|
\rear and struck him over the head |
‘|with a blunt instrument. While |
struggling with the second. the |
first drew a knife and cut him uz;i
the hand.
The men, fled, he said, without
getting any money. He was admit
{ted to the hospital. l
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{ Zack Woodall, address unknown.
|:m(l booked in the city jail on .x‘
charge of intoxication. apparently !
lthnught while in his mmi-con-i
lscious condition that he possessed
[ the “butting” ability of the bxlly-‘
l;.:nat. |
; He conceived the idea that with
{ the use of his head he could break
the steel bars of the I)cr:atur‘
street bastile. |
Shortly afterncon Tuesday, po
lice delivered Woodall to t h e
|Grady hospital, where it was
i found that he was suffering from
Ia severe case of cerebral hemor
| hrage. Admitted to the hospital, hr*I
{had not regained consciousness late |
;Tuesday night. |
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‘Stabs Man in Jail; |
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- Then Slays Himself/
| MAYS LANDING, N. J, Dec. 30
—(ANP)—There was confusion in|
{the Atlantic County jail on Satur- |
lday when Albert Bunting. severe
i1y injured William Rice, a robbery
lsuspm‘t, Bunting was serving six|
imonths on a disorderly conduct
icharge. and became enraged at|
| some remark made by Rice. He
. grabbed a knife which was used |
| for cutting soap and is alleged to
t have stabbed Rice repeatedly. Rice
| was taken to the Atlantic City hos [
i pital where physicians entertain
’sliuh? hope for his recovery. Bunt- |
ling committed suicide by h:mamq;
{himself in his cell He made a|
!n()mv of his belt
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| CHANGES PLEA; GETS |
i “FRIEND RELEASED |
i PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 30 (AN |
| P) Helen Roberts who had her |
{ friend Louis Cole jailed for break- 5
ling and entering her home and |
[ with assault and battery following |
{an altercation in her home jnfaf;
{outside of Media, changed her |
| testimony and pleaded with the |
| court to release Cole, who had |
| been in jail for several weeks. She |
radmitted to the court that thvy'
{ were both sweethearts The court |
! vielded to her plea. |
Not Stalls, But Pegs Needed
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ANOTHER BIG TALE FROM MISSISSIPPI
GOOL. A, Miss. Dec. 30—Bob Whitmore, who has a
farm near Chitlin Switch, does not us' ctalls in his barn
for the mules. In place of stalls, he uscs pegs or lenuing
places.
It seems that all of the Whitmore mules have no joints
in their legs and therefore have to lean against things or
or be thrown across some object before they can rest at
night. A veterinary doctor from this city who was once
called in by Bob swears that each of the mules has wooden
legs.
The only explanation the farmer has been able to
made this far is that several years ago his bornyard ani
mals got too friendly with a wooden saw-horse stored in
the stable for the winfer.
Th Off Train,
rown rain,
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Youth Receives
Broken Leg
Thrown off a fast Chattanooga
railroad frieght train by the brake
man, James Hamilton, who says he
lives at Route 4, Box 15, Abbeville,
S. €, was found by doctors at
Grady hospital to be suffering from
a broken left leg.
Hamilton said he wanted to go
home to spend the holidays with
his mother, but could not afford the
regular train fare. He chose to
travel “a la hobo.” Hamilton de
clares he was thrown off the train
about a mile from Barnesville, Ga..
cixtvmiles from Atlanta.
| He was admitted to the hospital
Three masked men who Saturday
night held up Percy Langston, and
| Robert Johnson, while the pair
were walking down Jackson street,
netted only 36 cents for their
[h:lbin
' But a stab wound which one of
-l'h«- trio gave Langston, who says
he hves at 584 Houston street, will
‘vnst him several days in Grady
ih(' spital, where doctors say his con
idition is critical.
Johnson was also stabbed in the
right arm, but after being treated
in the emergency clinic was allow
ed to go home.
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Hit-Runner Injures
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- Woman Leaving Car
t Struck by a hit-and-run driver
while stepping off a River street
car at Ashby street, Saturday
night, Mrs. Bertha Cherry, 932
Oendle street, was brought t o
Grady hospital suffering from a
compound fracture of the skull.
At the hospital, Mrs. Cherry said
the man, who was white, was
driving a Ford sedan car. She was
tunable to secure the number or the
man's identification.
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Those Quicksteps
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Step Too Quick
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in Grid Game
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Joe Brown, 72 Jackson street, |
didn’t step quite quick enough |
Saturday when the Lionsdale ;
and Quicksteps teams met in |
the R annual grid encounter
He wius brought to Grady hospi
tal with a fractured left leg.
Brown, who said that he was
playving half-back on tife J.ions
dale eleven., told doctors that
he was making an End Run
when one of the Quicksteps
stepped in his way and clipped
him.
The scene of the conflict was
at White Gas field. he said. The
vouth was admitted to the hos
pital l
MWEDNESDAY:
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Scottsboro Case Is to
Be Reviewed by
High Court
ATTYV'S IN PHAM
By E. N. DAVIS
“Evervthing is in readiness for
our appearance before the Supreme
Court of Alabama this month,”
stated Arthur Garfield Hayes, New
York, Monday afternoon at his
suite in the Tutwiler Hotel where
he and his colleagne, Clarence Dar
row, of Chicago. spent Sunday and
Monday completing their prepara
tions for taking over ane of the
outstanding cases of the year that
has attracted international atten
tion, the defense of the eight young
sters condemned to die for the rape
of two white girls on a freight train
near Scottsboro, Ala., March 28.
The lawyers, renowned as the most
outstanding criminolgists in E
merica, consulted with a numb
of local attorneys concerning me
thods of state legal procedure dur
ing their stay here and checked
over some further evidence prior
to their return for the hearing on
their motion for a new trial before
the highest tribunat of the state.
The hearing has been set for Jan
uary 18. at Montgomery.
Mr. Darrow, the veteran fighter
of many important court battles,
was leaving the hotel at the time
of the interview and introduced
the interviewer to his co-worker.
That the boys were not given a fair
trial is the firm belief of Mr. Hayes
who wishes to see justice done in
this case in which nine human lives
are involved. In event of the grant
ing of a motion for a new trial, Mr.
Darrow and Mr. Hayes will lead
the defense for the men. They are
being retained by the National As
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People and are in the case
for the sake of the human souls in
volved.
“I do not criticize the lawyers
who had charge of the defense at
Scottsboro at the time. T believe
that they did the best that they
could to defend the youth in the
limited time that they had to pre
pare the case. Mr. George Chamblee
of Chattanooga, former attorney
general of Tennesseec. is an able
lawyer and T would have no ohjre
tions to his delivering one of the
arguments before the Sunreme
Court if he did not do so with the
intention of spreading propaganda
and had the interests of the con
demned lads at heart’
The eastern lawver seemed im
pressed with the fact that condi
tions in the South as they effeet
members of our group are not as
bad as they are universally paint
ed. He, as do other leading mem
bers of the other race. believes that
the country is large enough f?r
all races to live together in har
mony without clashing with pne
another.
Judge A E. Hawkins of Jackson
County, presiding judge at the trial,
refused a motion for a new triai
Despite this, an appeal was made
to the Supreme Court and the exe
cution of the boys was stayed untii
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| DEACON JON®S
By L P. Reynolds
1 The brother said let us sing the
|{Song—"WE WILL ALL BE HAP
|PY OVER THERE". Brother Bell
lsaid he would sing but give him &
llittle HAPPINESS over HERE.
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