Atlanta world. (Atlanta, Ga.) 192?-1932, January 01, 1932, Friday City Edition, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextGEORGIA ENDS 1931 WITHOUT A LYNCHING I membek sou t hern _ _ Hews >aper icq be VOLUME 5, NUMBER Will Communists Sacrifice Eight Boys to Propaganda? Darrow, Hayes and Reds Leave Birmingham at • Odds; Not With NAACP BIRMINGHAM. Ala . .Jan 1- Thei'e still is a remote possibility that two of America's greatest criminal lawyers, Clarence Darrow of Chicago, anil Arthur Garfield Hayes, New York will join in the defense of the eight young boy., condemned to die for criminally assaulting two young white hobo girls near Scottsboro, Ala.. la. I March but that possibility seemed ver very remole as attorneys re pn .nting the International Labor Deiense League and those retained by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, left Birmingham Wednesday with no definite conclusion as to the admittance of the distinguished crusaders for the cause of justice to the hearings before the Supreme court of Alabama January 21. or to the defense of the lads in the event that a new trial is allowed Mr. Hayes reiterated his expies sion of Monday. Tuesday evening when he made it quite clear that he and Mr. Darrow were not re presenting' the N3LAIC.P. blit wish ed to assure themselves justice would be given their clients, the boys who are now at Kilby prison The two men came to Birmingham Sunday to complete plans for mak ing their appearance before the Su preme court as well as lay plans for further action. They conferred with a number of local lawyers at the time obtaining information as to Alabama court procedure. Send Wire However, while the distinguished legal lights who have won many battles in court rooms were here making their preparations. G. W. Chamblee. Sr., of Chattanooga, filed a certificate of employment to defend the condemned boys in the office of the clerk of the high court stating that his associates would be his son. G W. Chamblee. Jr. Allen Taub. Joseph R. Brodsky and Irv ing Schwob of New York. At that, time, Monday. Lowell Wakefield, in behalf of the Inter national Labor Defense, an orga nization with Communistic affilia tions. made public a telegram to Mr. Darrow and Mr. Hayes at Bir mingham from the eight defendants stating that Mr. Chamblee and the other lawyers had been employed to defend them and thaT they did not want Mr. Darrow and Mr. Hayes to fight the International Labor Defense and make trouble for Mr. Chamblee just to help Hie National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People and asking that they help the Inter national Labor Defense and Mr. Chamblee. The condemned youngsters are Ozie Powell. Willie Roberson. Andy Wright. Olen Montgomery. Eugene Williams. Charlie Weems Clarence Norris and Haywood Patterson Give Statement Prior to his departure for New Orleans, Tuesday night, where he and Mrs. Haves stopped for a short while on their way to Mexico City, Mexico for. a brief vacation. Mr. Hayes had the folowing statement to make: "The clarification of the differ oncc" in Ihe Scottsboro case is this: Mr Darrow and I. believeing that innocent men have been convicted were brought into this case to help the defendants. "We are not interested in organi zations or causes: we deem it the dutv of lawyers to represent their clients and no one else. "The sole responsibility hero is to these colored boys. We have no criticism of any organization that may wish to help. We may disap prove of their tactics but that doe. not concern us directly as lawyers. (continued on page two) The Weather CLOUDY. slightly colder Friday; Saturday fair. Highest temperature CO: lowest temperature 49; mean temperature M. C. F. von HERRMAN, Meteorologist, Weather Bureau. — Best Wishes for a Prosperous Year in 1932 — Sharpshooter Gets His Man in Good Leg; Misses Bad Expert marksmanship on the part o I Reese Russell. 200 Hilliard street, caused turn to wound his victim in his real leg rather than the artifical Wednesday. The victim, Har vey Fears, 352 Frasier street artificial leg. hospital attaches reports The wound was inflict ed by a shotgun. According t o police reports. Fears had attacked Mrs Lilly Kate Star, 200 Hilliard street, Russell's sister, and cut her coat with a sharp knife. When Russell tried to stop him. Fears attempted to cut him and the later was forced to shoot him. Eye witnesses collaborated Russell's statement. Russell was carried to the hos pital where he was admitted His condition is not thought to be serious. STUDENT HUBBS ?CUBS COLLIDE Racing across in front of a street car Monday. Lawson Burdett, white. 58 Alabama streets, S W. driving north on Central avenue, at the intersection of Mitchell street and Central avenue, struck a roadster was following the car on the right side. The roadster was operated by Joseph Johnson. 490 Tatnall Street, who was going west on Mitchell. Miss Edna King. 516 Tatnall street, S. W.. student at the Atlanta School of Social Work, was injured in the collision and treated at a private doctors office. Miss King's condition is reported improving. It was learned she sustained a leg and head injuries. Spelman t o Begin New Year’s Work Next Monday On Monday. January 4. Spelman college will reopen after the Xmas holidays which began on Decem ber 23 Activities for 1932 will be gin with the regular chapel exer cises in the morning at eight o’clock. After this service the usual sche dule of classes will follow, and the students will begin the long stretch of work which ends in June. Burned by Lye Water Burned on the left foot by an overturned bucket of potasli water, with which she was scrubbing the kitchen floor, Mrs. Dora Alexander who gave her address as 267 Clif ton Place, was released from Grady hospital after being treated in the emergency clinic. Struck With Rock by Unknown Assailant Struck in the head with what he thought was rock. George Nev - some, 1051 Queer street, had s?v eral stitches taken at Grady hos pital Wednesday night. Newsome said he was passing in front of 1055 Querry street enroute home when ihe was hit. Ho was unable to de i scribe his assailant. ATL AN Ww-WORLD DIX fE ’ 3 SO VlWALffiß'g * "Entered as Becond-clasu matter at the post office at Atlanta, Ga. under the act of March 8, 187a’’ COMMON-LAW WIFE OF DEAD MILLIONAIRE SUES ESTATE FOR $BO,OOO TRUST FUND 61. SUFFERS CK OF HEW Wideawake Sheriffs Hustle Prisoners to Safekeeping LEI) LIST IN ’3O (By A Staff Writer) Although Ripley may never men tion it in his world famous column entitled ‘Believe It Or Not." the great commonwealth of Georgia has performed a miracle the equal of those heralded through history. Not a single lynching was re corded in the state from the 12 months beginning January 1. 1931, and ending yesterday. This is going to the other ex treme from the year 1930 when Georgia led the roster of states with a high mark of seven for that twelve month period. Lynching throughout the nation decreased in the year just closed. The total for 1930 was 21 while in 1931 only 13. 14 or 15 <depending on whether you accept Tuskegee, N. A. A. C. P. or Associated Negro Press figures) fell victims to the lusts of the mob. A large part, of the responsibil ity for the state's attenipt at de cency lies with the sheriffs i throughout Georgia. Many threat- | ened lynchings were averted pure-I ly because officers rushed suspects to safety’ or else showed mobs the.y i meant to keep their prisoners at all costs. Probably the most noteworthy ' case of this sort is that of John I Downer, which attracted nation- ' wide attention. Changed with an attack on a white woman and her ; male companion, he was brought i to Atlanta for safekeeping return ed to Elberton, tried, and sent- ' eneed to die while soldiers kept a mob at bay. At the present time , lie has a chance of winning his J freedom or at least a committment of his sentence through appeals taken to U. S. courts, yet even this chance would have been denied him had not the Elberton sheriff spirited him to safety when a mob formed. On the other hand, there have been various police killings in At lanta a n d throughout Georgia which might have been called lynchings had the deeds been done by private citizens. There are also several cases with 1 h e "legal lynching" angle where Negroes were railroad to the electric chair after what apparently were far cical trials. And yet all of this is a long step in advance of Georgia's past re cord. That the state will be able to go through 1932 without revert ini; to savagery is something hoped for by many of botli races Man Butted Head on Jail Door; Is Dead ack Woodall, address unknown vho Tuesday attempted to break ais way out of the city’ jail by but ting his head against the bars, died at C vady hospital Wednesday night from cerebral hemorrhage of the brain doctors said. The man was unconscious more than twenty hours before his death. ATLANTA, GA„ FRIDAY, ,IAM \IH I, 1932 White Killer Freed on Appeal Jailed as Thief From all indications and as near ly as records can be traced, fate has played one of life's little tricks on Ormond Bell, white of a Mills street address. The white youth beat the Old Lady at her own game, through tlie aid and cunning of Colonel William Schley How ard. aided by 100 character wit nesses. on September 30 in a mur der trial. But now. Bell is being held on suspicion and also on a । charge of robbery. Bell was tried in Fulton county i superior court September 30 and found guilty involuntary man slaughter of an aged Negro, re iceiving a sentence of one year. He motioned for a new trial which yet has not been heard before the court. Bell obtained his release October on bonds of $l5 000 Neither Solicitor Jolin Boykin nor his assistant. Ed. A. Stephens, could be located early Thursday but it is believed that they will use every available method to fight the motion and try’ the bonded defend ant for his new offenses. Bell is accused of having broken into a case together with another white youth Tuesday at midnight. The other youth. Bural Story. 294 Techwood drive was the first to be arrested and Bell was later arrest ed at Story's home. Both were positively identified by persons who saw the robbery committed. Officers Tuggle and Roper also identified them and said that Bell was wanted for a holdup expected sometime ago. Officers Tuggle and Roper had received a call to Little Jim's case just a stone's throw from the scene where Bell is said to have slain an aged Negro last August 18. Frank Harris, at Simpson Street and Jones avenue, and found that bur glars had enter the case through a vacant basement next to the case by breaking a glass window. They dug a tunnel througn the walls to the basement of the case. They stole a sackful of loot. The two youths upon arrival of police, fled. Police gave chase. Finally they dropped the sacks which were recovered by’ police. They were seen crossing Simpson street a block below Jones and । Marietta, the scene of the slaying lof Harris in August. Police talked' to E. D. Gates, a night watchman at an apartment house located at 25 j Alexander street, and N. W. Lord, I who saw the boys around the case. Very' soon they arrested Story and | Bell who were identified by the (two men as the youths seen in the ‘cafe. The officers themselves re- Jazzin* The News By FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS | Georgia had clean lynching slate; what will state do this year? Darrow, Hayes, at odds with Reds; may not aid boys is fear: Baptists want all cash that’s pledged; it’s needed to pay debt I Tulsa police head is jailed; I was caught in own dope net! Wedless wife sues for back cash; the ease shocks staid New York; Cult head's income bothers whites; he's never known to work: White youth free in murder case now nabbed for being thief Last year's full of long sad days; may this one hold no grief! cognized them as the ones they *had chased. I In the offense committed last August, Bell is alleged to have killed Frank Harris when the lattq; I was unable to give him a cigarette at the Jones avenue bridge I was indicted along with three oth ers youths for the murder They \ were Everette Abercombie, Jack Eubanks, and a youth known only as Green. The last two escaped |and are still at. large. Large bits of i concrete were thrown at the vic ■ tim, hitting him in the head and I killing him instantly. In the trail, which was one of the most sensational of the year, one Bell’s associates admitted that Bell killed the Negro. The high light of the trial was the testimony ■of Mrs. Lula Sims who lived not far from Harris at 353 Tyler street. She testified that Bell had rocker! j her home a year before and charg | ed the police force with negligence in arresting Bell. She based her claims on racial prejudice. 51115 ROBBERY IS STUBBING GAUSE Stabbed on both legs by a man whom she described as living tall and dark. Hattie Favors. 262'- < )ld Wheat street, told dock i s at Grady hospital that the man had attempt ed to rob her. The stabbing occurred while she was walking up Hilliard street be tween Auburn avenue and Old i Wheat. Her cries which attracted I passersby, she said, frightened her assailant away without him achiev- \ ing his purpose. i 11st Baby Born in Leap Year a Girl Mrs. Rosa Mae Kmimore. 22, of ! ' 269 Vernon place was a proud wo- i | man this morning and prouder still I : was her husband. Luther, as it was I I she who gave birth to the first baby of the new year, a girl. The infant began bewailing her troubles in I this stricken old world at exactly 13:11 a. m . January 1. She weighed I seven pounds. Mrs Rochelle Harvey 48 Thur man Street came within twelve minutes of stealing Mrs Kinimore’s laurels as she gave birth to a seven pound boy at 11:48 p m. Dec. 31. Both mothers and their children are resting well, doctors at Grady hos pital where the infants were born, say. Emancipation Day .. Observed Todav by Spelman Spelman college will holds its annual observance of the manumis sion of the leaves with an Emanci pation Day Program to be given in Howe Memorial hall tonight at 8 o'clock. A scene from John Drink water's play. ' Abraham Lincoln,” will be the feature of the evening, which will also iniluite the ringing of spirituals by a c> turned chorus and three dr.iin.iti'- u-.idmg:; with ONCE ^IN JAIL BARS 100 NEW Escapes from City’s Bastile for Fourth Time in 12 Months HUNT HIM AGAIN I The steel bars of the city bastile ■are as a tin can to John Brockman, 148. address unknown, who Tues iday for the fourth time in less Ithan a year escaped from the toils of the law. About ten months ago Brockman : was held by police on a charge of burglary’ and so was placed in the? Decatur street jail. Appearing pale of hue. one morning shortly after his arrest, he told officers at the institution that he was ill. A block from Grady hospital where officers were obligingly taking him. Brock man did his first of his now famous series of disappearing acts. This time he avoided all bluecoats for a period of seven days. He was re- ; captured. City police refused to tri; t him to the thin bars of the city jail and ‘ so escorted him to the stronger : cells of Fulton tower. A few steps away from the county bastile. Brockman peeled off his coat and : made a fast fadeaway. Seeing the man running down Butler street. Patrolman F. C. Foster opened fire : injuring Brockman in the legs. Po lice kept watch on the elusive pri soner at Grady hospital for a per iod of six weeks. After his recovery he was escort- I cd to the Fulton county courthouse. When the judge read off the sent- I ence of ten years at hard labor, the prisoner was not there to hear it. He had again disappeared. Peeved law enforcers started a diligent search for the prisoners with the result that after a week’s I time he began his sentence with the Monroe county chain gang. Last Tuesday state officials again I received a call that Brockman had severed his chains and escaped to freedom. HOME BURNED The home of Henry Buck. 275 ; Henry Street. N. W, was badly burned by flames Thursday morn ing. The fire is believed to have originated in the kitchen of the : house and defective wiring is re ported as the cause. (Canned Milk Cows Save Overhead '. _ I ANOTHER BIG” TALE FROM MISSISSIPPI GOOLA GOOLA, Miss . Jan. I—One enterprising farmer near the vicinity of Chitlin Switch has been able to make qu : te a bit of money out of the canned milk business within the last few years. He 'S able to sell his product more cheaply than his competitors because he does away with the factor' and the resultant overhead. This farmer, Bill Martin,- obtains the finished product direct from the cow. Instead of being- fed gra- or hay only, the cows in (he Martin pastures have the i diet n xed in with thinly cut -trips of tin which have been painted green or iy to resemble the grass or hay. Con sequently, the milk and I n cans are predui d at the same time and all the farmer has c do after “ean-mdking time” is stack the filled can up and label them fur shipping. The only’ difficulty ■ ’ " inability to get large cans of milk and Martin is at present working on a plan to remedy that. 3L=lli^ Auto Hits Wagon and Mule; Both Drivers Hurt Again the old argument between the horse and wagon versus the automobile for supremacy came in to play Tuesday when an ice wagon and mule driven by W. B. Janks, 109 Fort street, N. E., was struck by an auto driven by R. B. White, Jr. white, of Jefferson Place, at the intersection of For rest avenue and Bedford Place. 'Die dispute ended in a virtual tie with both vehicles escaping dam akes while the drivers were ser iously injured. Both men were : carried to Grady but no case was made against either at the request ’of the other The wagon and mule were the property of the Southern Ice company. STUBBING VICTIM LOSES MIND Doctors at Grady hospital are of the opinion that Alexander Amos. 536 Whitehall Terrace, who was admitted to the hospital seven days ago suffering from a serious stab wound in the back, has gone in sane. Just when doctors were thinking the man was improving, he suffer ed a relapse which apparently has effected his brain The- man con stantly talks of policy and spends the day rattling on what In- says are "choice gigs." Hold Up Store At the corner of Sunset avenue and Simpson streel, tlie L. W. Rogers store was robbed by two men who not only- rifled the cash register but also took all the mon ey off the manager, I?. A. Brown, that he carried on his person then escaped. The men were described to the police, as both wearing brown suits and caps, weighing around 130 and 140 pounds, five feet several inches tall and carry ing pistols. Rob Delivery Boy When Barnard Kelly, of Glenn wood avenue, R, F. D No. 3, a de livery boy for the Medlock drug store. 2005 Boulevard drive, at tempted to deliver an order of ice cream and change for $lO to a fic titious address, two young white men held him up in front of 1641 Woodbine street. Thursday The youth was unable to describe the robbers any further than that their hands were white. FIVE CEtfTS MBi 1 OF SUED TRUSTEES Interracial Marital Tangle Uncovered in N. Y. Suit DEATH INVOLVED NEW YORK, Jan. I—Both Har lem and greater New York were agog this week over the sensation al suit for an $BO,OOO trust fund in volving three internationally prominent white leaders which may revive investigation into a tw’o-year old unsolved murder, was filed in New York county Supreme court. The plaintiff, an elderly col lored woman, a resident of Flush ing, claims that she was the com mon-law wife of Clarence King, white oil millionaire, who died more than thirty years ago. The woman. Mrs. Ada F. King, (137-55 Kalmia street, Flushing, has (filed the suit against the trustees of the dead man's estate in an ef fort to recover the alleged trust fund, which she claims was es tablished for her more than three decades ago. These trustees are George Foster Peabody, interna tional banker and philanthropist; Seth Sprague Terry. millionaire New York attorney, and John S. Melcher, wealthy clcbman of this city. Peabody is a widely-known pa tron of Negro art and education. He has contributed large sums of money to Hampton and Tuskegee institutes and sponsored several scholarships, one of which allowed Ballanta Taylor, a native African, to return to his cuntry for the pur pose of making an intensive study of African music. The banker, who was born in Columbus, Georgia, but has lived for many years In the North, is also a backer of tin? Southern Commission on Inter racial Co-eperation. The white millionaire, according to Mrs. King's suit, created the $BO,OOO trust fund for her and two children born of the alleged com mon-law union. Following King’s death in 1901, the suit contends, the woman kept the alliance secret be cause of an agreement that she was (a niontl >ly payment of $5O for the rest of her life. Ihe money, Mrs. King contends, came to her regularly in check form every month for the last thirty years, but suddenly the pay ments ceased. When she recalv^d no check this month, she a 1 leges, । (Continued on Page 2) । — DEACON JON’S By I. P. Reynolds The Pastor said in his serman on watchmeeting night, I AM THS SHEPHERD. FOLLOW ME — Bro ther Bell said, that’s just whot the other pastor said last year and be fore the year passed he wM I*l JAIL.