Atlanta world. (Atlanta, Ga.) 192?-1932, January 08, 1932, Friday City Edition, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextHold Evans, Mail Carrier, for Stealing War Vet’s Check | mem Lek QfV|J Southern F. ' Newfbaper fynqicate VOLUME 5, NUMBER 4 HAACP HEADS ANNOUNCE FORMAL WITHDRAWAL IN CONDEMNED BOYS’ CASE M’HOUSE HAS STUDE AT * CONFAB Only Negro College Represented at N.S.F.A. Meet AT TITLANE NEXT Kenneth Days, president of the student body of Morehouse college, returned Sunday, from Toledo. O where ho represented the students of Morehouse at the annual con gress hid by the National Student Federation of America. Mr. Days, was the only Negro present repre senting a Negro institution, since Howard university and Wilbcrfore. the other institutions for Negroes, members of the Federation, did not send delegates. Oover 250 were there representing the leading col leges and universities in the counlrv It is conservatively estimated that over GOO.OO^studentg, ,wej;e repre sented. Nearly seven years ago at a con ference of students representatives from every state in the union, call ed at Princeton university to dis cuss the question of this country's entry into the World Court, the N S. F. A. was initiated. Organized Themselves Spontaneously, without outside advice or sponsorship, these stu /ients set about realizing their de ' ire for a nation-wide organization mirror under-graduate opinion ^ n y formed the N. S. F. A and a,.bed to "Achieve a Spirit of Co operation among the students of the U. S and to develop) an intelli gent student opinion on questions of national and international im portance in working towards these ends, tile Federation acts independ ent of my political patty or religi ous creed. The congress recently adjourned went on record as favoring settle ment of international disputes by arbitration, and the entry of the U. S. into the League of Nations and World Court. The congress also is sued resolutions urging the delega tes to the Disarmament conference at Geneva in February, to stand for U. S. leadership in a general dis armament program. The assembly went on Tcord as '^iposing proto- (Continued on Page 21 HAS NOT RETURNED A new racket has been discover ed by Mrs. L. 11. Hamilton white. 28K Josephine street, who on De c^mher “it. allowed a woman Mrs. Annie Harden of an unknown ad dress, to carry her clothes away under the impression of washing them Since that time the woman has never returned with the laun dry. The woman, she claims had been brought to her by a man who work at the Withers Coal com nany. 105 Whitehall street, 'lire laundry included one silk blue and r"d diamond dress, one light green flowered dre'.s with a white tuck ed vest, two white slips and a white gown. Detectives were sent upon the case for investigation immediatolv. Th'V reported that du" to the Imk of facts on the case it was a dif ficult one. The Weather CLOUDY Friday and Saturday; probably occasional rains Friday: slightly colder Friday. Highest temperature 56: lowest temperature 43; mean temperature 50. C. F. von HERRMAN Meteorologist Weather Bureau Pass Resolution at Annual Meeting on Alabama Defense 2 Youths Write in for NAACP’s Aid Letter Denying LL.D. Charges Sent Boys and Communists NF.W YORK, Jan. fl By forma l i ecolu< 'on;; of the Board of Director: f< llo'ving the Association's Annual Businc: ; Meeting. Tuesday after noon. the National Association for Iho Advancement of Colored Pen plc has withdrawn from the de fense of the f) boys sentenced to death at Scottsboro. Ala., placing (he entire responsibility for the fate of the boys upon the Cummun ■Gs opera^ig through the Interna fioiril I abor Defense. This action by the NAA C P r < i.ard following the withdrawal of its attorneys, Clarence Darrow md Arthur Garfield Hayes, from 'he case after the Communists had made it a condition of their counti nuing that they repudiate the N. A V C. P and work under Commun :4 s control. Roys Ask Help Meanwhile, two of the boys. Wil- He Robinson and Charlie Weems, have again written the N A C.P. asking that organization to defend others. The NA A C.P resolution was in response to a telegram signed and purporting to have been sent by parent and guardians of the boys, is in full as follows: We have received a telegram bearing your signature and sup posed to have been written by your selves. addressed to Mr. Walter White .and Mr. Roy Wilkins, read ing: ‘Red’ Telegram Newspapc. s arc carrying stories that Clarence Darrow and Arthur Garfield Hayes representing the Na tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored T’eople have re fused to help the Scottsboro boys. We therefore wish you would wire those gentlemen and also make nublic acknowledgment of the fact that neither one of you nor your organization is now or has ever been in any sense or in any way connected with the case of th" Scottsboro boys and that these cas- <Continued on Page Two) IRATE MO PUTS CHILD IN GRADY A hot-tempered father, who struck her over the head with an empty mayonniase jar. caused little Il^lma Pelato of 517 Johnson Avenue, to be brought to Grady hospital with deep lacerations about her face. Thelma told doctors at the hospi - tai that her father was cross Wed nesday morning, and that when she requested carfare so that she could go to school, he flew into a rage and struck her with the salad jar. She was permitted to return home after be'ng treated in the emer gency clinic. An Alert Mind Will not overlook or ignore those advant ages or the opportun ity lists in our WANT AI) section. Valuable information and quick response exist in World Want Ads Call Wa. 1459 ATL AN W^WOR L □ "Entered as second-clans matter at the post office at Atlanta, ()a. under the act of March 8, 1879" .l. d. mi PLOTTED DENIAL? ( barge He Attempted _ to Get Confession from White Girl S BOYS WITNESS CHATTANOOGA. Tenn. Jan 8 George W. Chamlee. white at torney. was charged with originat ing an attempt to “frame" Ruby Bate:-, one of two white girls who " testimony resulted in death sent ences for the eight Scottsboro boys last March, in a story told 1o Huntsville. Alabama police by Mir on Pearlman, white prize fighter, Wednesday. Pearlman, a Chattanooga fighter, know as "Dandee Dundee," claim ed Chamlee induced him to get the girl drunk and obtain a statement from her repudiating her. testimony in the’now famous Scottsboro trial. The fighter’s charge was made aft er he was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge. Attorney Chamlee retained by the International Labor Defense, here Wednesday night branded the story as "absolutely false.” Letter Found The disclosure of the alleged plot to obtain a reversal of the girl's testimony was made by Pearlman after the Huntsville police found a letter in his possession signed by Ruby Bates, which stated that she had sworn fasely in the Scottsboro trial. The Huntsville authorities said that the letter was addressed to Earl Streetman, her sweetheart. The Hates girl, whose home is in Hnnstvillc was shown the letter (continued on page two) Jazzin* The News By FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS Rosenwaid departs this life; gave millions to the race Scientist flays the “money itch;' may cause whites to lose place: Association washes hands; Reds an severed on eight hoys Flyer to take 'Lantans up; — if you haven’t much avoirdupois. ‘Lawd’ gives program for Bennett; white audience well pleased Hotel owner defies whites; says Negro guests won’t cease; Slew estranged wife in ‘l4; in Savannah he is nabbed If you’ve anything to sell, first use a ‘Lanta World ad ! ATLANTA. GA., FRIDAY. JANUARY M, 1932 STAGES DIG PARTY AND IS JAILED Cashed $4 25 Check Stolen from Mail Says Postoffice BGND~IS 12,000.00 .lamer Austell Evans. 100 Crumb ley street. S. E. is now being hold by Pnited States Commissioner Griffith to the federal grand jury on charges of stealing and cashm 1 ! a World war veteran's check for $425. Evans bond has been fixed at $2,000. He was arrested Wednes day. On the society pages of the Wed nesday's issue of tlie Atlanta World almost half a column is devoted to a write up of J. Austell Evans, host to a brilliant supper dance honor ing the members of a social club of which Evans is president. , I I Soon after the writeup in Wed nesday's World. Evans was arrested I by the Atlanta operative secret scr- ' | vice agent. He was taken before I commissioner Griffith before whom he is said to have made a confes : sion of the whole episode. Was Sul>-('arrier i According to commissioner Grif fith, Evans had been a sub-carrier for the city delivery and one day । when one of the regular carriers ' was off duty, Evans was called upon i to carry mail in his place. In the mail upon the route was I a letter addressed to Vernon Tylon, j whose address was unknown, from I the United States veteran's bureau, the letter contained a check for I $425. Evans stole the check and carried it down on Decatur street' and succeeded in getting an old , man said to be very illiterate to aid ! him in his scheme, said the com । missioner. Open Savings Account The two went to the Fulton National Bank and opened a sav ings account in the name of Ver-' J non Tylon, and requested that the’ I alleged Tylon be allowed to open lan account. The account was open- | led and Evans endorsed the check I | and identified the man as Tylon. i ' They were returned $4OO after they । ' had deposited $25 on the account. I i Fellow .carriers at the post of- I fice said Evans had sported a new : diamond ring and many other new things, they ad said they marvelled I at his sudden prosperity. SPECmORS Bl FLY FREE Pilot Promises Free Rides Following Exhibition MAY GEF MOVIE By Howell A. Murphy What is expected to be the larg est crowd ever to attend a single event at Candler Field will in all probability ring true tomorrow aft ernoon when Charles E. James, well-known aviator, and Alexand er Nelson. intrepid parachute jumper, present their thrilling sky performance, affording all Atlanta and people from way stations the opportunity of witnessing an affair which will be as unique as it will be sensational. Beginning promtly at 2:00 p m. Mr James will zoom his ship skyward demonstrating various angles pertaining to the handling of an airplane, including ; what is know as a "dead stick land- | ing." which means the operating of a plane with the motor st^| off and the pilot landing said plane safely on terra-firma This much talked-of sky attrac tion which is sponsored by B. R. Holmes head of the Holmes In dustrial institute, embraces an in teresting and well rounded pro gram. Following the exhibition of James, who opens the program. Alexander Nelson will make a parachute jump. 3 000 feet: and later in the afte i >n Nelson will execute a lump f: m an altitude (Continued on T’a£e 2> MORE THAN ONE MILLION GIVEN TO GEORGIANS IN ROSENWALD CHARITIES UIS SLUES m u YEARS Held for Murdering Estranged Wife During ’ TO STAND TRI AL <S. N. S. News Service) VALDOSTA. Ga.. Jan. B.—Seven teen years of freedom from justice as an alleged murderer, came to ian nd Thursday for Ben Phillips. : who was broU* lit to Valdosta from ^Savannah to await trial for slaying I his wife. i Court records reveal that Phillip's I and his wife had been separated. 1 the woman residing on th state farm ' and in 1314 it is charged in the in dictment that Phillips went to the woman’s house and cut her throat Her head barely hanging on her ' body, the woman is said to have crawled a distance of nearly a mile from the house to a public road where she died. Accused by Son The only evidence the state has to the effect that Phillips actually commited the murder was the state ment of a small son, who told of ficers that his father had done the slaying. Phillips is said to have fled to Florida following the mur der. Phillips made a sensation al getaway when handcuffed at St. Petersburg, by jumping through a train window enroute back to pri son in the custody of a deputy sher iff. Interest in the case had died down until railroad detectives told that a man resembling Phillips was work ing in Savannah. His arrest was re- j quested and deputy sheriff just i returned here with the elusive pri- , soner. Phillip will be tried at May term of the superior court on the I murder charge. CELEBRATE ACHIEVEMENT OF NEGRO AT EMANCIPATING EXERCISES NEW YORK. Jan 8. (ANP) ’ The sixty-seventh anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation , Proclamation was celebrated here I Friday with a program at St. Luke’s | Methodist Episcopal church under j trhe auspices of the Frederick Doug lass chapter of the John Brown i Memorial Association. Cleveland ■ G. Allen, well known writer and historian, was master of ceremonies. Mr. Allen stated that the Negro’s reducation of his illiteracy was his greatest achievement since obtain- . ing his freedom. Son of White Man Who Sued Lamar for Heavy Cash Killed 7^ P?, '»“-v '■ U BY GENE WHITE Just three weeks after. Mr Walt Ray and her busband, highly re spected white citizens of Norcross. Georgia, had been granted a decree for damage suits in Fulton superior court, newspapers brought them again to the front pages, whe.i their 23 year old son. T. B Rav was fatally wounded as a bandit The youth died at the Crawford W. Long hospital. Tuesday after hav ing been identified as one of the three white bandits who set terror into the hearts of a sscorc of At lantans with their daring holdups in a maroon colored auto. Th'' bandit was wounded m an at tempted holdup of the Hollywi >d Villa, Sunday The Rav v. II । 11 "''mbi .| as $25,000 Given YMCA in Atlanta by Rosenwaid Schools, Projects Received Money 255 Georgia Schools Erected by Philanthropist RY CLIFF MACKAY Julius Rosenwaiij.- odden and untimely death in Uni'ago Wed nesday has revTved in th< mind <■: grateful Atlantans his n any con tributions both personal and through his Fund and Foundation towards local schools, and comm unity organizations and projects. That, the south will feci keenly the loss of the great Jewish philan thropist. more than any other sec tion of the nation, was the senti ment expressed by J. M Chiles executive secretary of the Butlei Street Y. M. C. A. when interview ed shortly after word was receiver here of Mr. Rosenwald’s death It was the personal gift of $25, 000 contributed in 1918 by Mr Rosenwaid that was the decidin' factor in the construction of thr $150,000 Butler Street branch here Mr. Chiles revealed. The Butlei street branch is only one of 25 Ne gro branches, which were made possible by personal contribution; from the noted chairman of the Sears, Roebuck company. Among other brancehs to which Mr. Rosenwaid has given various sums totaling more than s<loo,ooo statistics in Mr. Chiles office show ed. were buildings at Chicago. Ind ianapolis, St. Louis. Columbus Ohio, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Wash ington. D. C.. Philadelphia, New- York City. Atlantic City. Buffalo. Brooklyn, Pittsburgh. Monte Clair. Dayton. Youngstown. Toledo. Kan sas City, Denver, Los Angele Har risburg. Pa., Dallas. Detroit, Orange. N. J., and the branch at New Orleans, which as yet lias not been completed. Local schools have also felt the benevolent hand of the gentle Jew. who always gave his aid only with the understanding that local citi zens m the community would supply two-thirds, while he gave the other needed third of the amount. Though definite figures as to the sums donated toward local schools was not available Thursday data at the office of the Commis sion on Interracial Co-operation in the Standard building here showed that Mr. Rosenwaid had made sub stantial donations to Spelman and Morehouse college and to Morris Brown and Atlanta universities. Additional information gained at the Commission's headquarters showed that through money donated by the Rosenwaid Fund, more than 5500 schools for Negro es had been erected throughout the south in rural districts unable to finance educational means for (Continued on Page 2) the white family whose car wasx wrecked in 1929 after having struck the auto of Wilson T Lamar, prom incut Atlanta Negro. It has been sail! by witnesses that the Kays were speeding in their car slightly striking the bumper of Lamar's ear, then losing control of their own, and Overturning it on Pul liam street. As the result of the impact Mrs Walt Ray was seriously injured, while the others in the car escaped with little or no injury Lamar was threatened by an angry mob of whites who collected when they discovered that the beautiful yel low newly purchased car was his own. Wilson left the scene fearing mob violence and went straight way to a policcm; n’i lion ' whom • •• ■■■■ • - i z P ; * © A.N P. JULIUS ROSENWALD HINTMURDER ASMANIS MISSING Disappears After a Fight With Man and His Wife GONE THREE DAYS A possible murder is believed by police to lurk behind the mystery surrounding the sudden disappear ance Tuesday of John Brown of 209 14th street, who has now been missing for three days. The murder clue was supplied Thursday by Bennie Noble, who is a roomer at the Brown home. Noble told of an attempt made on Brown's life by a man known as Willie Stinson, when the two had engaged in a heated argument and : fight. During the course of the fight. ; which occurred Tuesday at Stin- I son's home. 247 14th street. Noble j said. Brown had knocked Stinson i down and was preparing to follow | up the fight when Stinson's wife, j Elsa ran forward with an ice-pick । and would have jugged Brown in ' the back had not he (Noble) inter- I sered. Noble said he then took Brown home. At home Brown told his ] wife that he and Stinson were i “only playing" Noble said. Shortly after supper time. Noble : said. Brown left the house, telling' his wife that he was going to the I Stinson home. He has not been - seen since, which has led his wife. I (Continued on Page 2> ►he knew and gave up Many even ing papers of this city styled him as a "nigger in a big yellow car" who hit and ran after what was then believed a fatal injury to Mr.- Ray The Rays then filed suits, six in number, along with their friends, who were riding in the car with them, for more than 159.200 after they learned that Lamar owned propertv. dry cleaning business in the city and wis a former bonds man T B Rav. the slain son, was identified a one of the bandits who attempted to hold up the Hollyv"-1 villa Dvo located be (wivn Vlanta and Macon. Al- (I'ortf'.h J”n I'ige Z) CjTY j ■ 1 i iTiiTJjn Famed Philanthropist Dies After Illness of Three Months $40,000,000 Given for General Aid firry on " - St a< ' vi ? by < -<, ' ather (Special to The World) CHICAGO. Jan. B—Julius Rosen waid, the man who has done more toward aiding Negroes than any other philanthropist who ever lived is dead. The man who had given more than $4O 000,000 of his fortune built, as head of the Sears. Roebuck and Company, died Wednesday at ex actly 2:55 p. m. after remaining bedfast for more than three months suffering from arteriosclerosis and acute kidney ailments. His heart action stopped while he was wrapt ' in deep sleep. Had the famous philanthropist lived until this August he would have been 70 years of age. f Incomplete records showed that Mr Rosenwald’s personal contri butions to his constant fight against racial and religious intolerance since the beginning of the century had totaled $21,568,670 Besides this huge fortune he had created the Rosenwaid Foundation through an endowment of 200.000 shares of Sears, Roebuck stock worth $20,- 000.000 at the time of the gift. Two weeks ago. when Mr. Rosen waid'.; health denoted that he did not have much more time on this earth, his two sons, Lessing and William Rosenwaid, who are executives of the Sears, Roebuck company at Philadelphia, declared that they would carry on the tradition of philanthropy that their famed father had begun more than 30 years ago. At that time they an nounced the introduction of the Rosenwaid Family association, to match the Rosenwaid Foundation as the contribution of the new gen eration to the family tradition’ It was revealed by immediate members of Mr. Rosenwald’s family that it was his plan to have h s vast fortune entirely spent for MARTIN HONORED 81 CHURCHMEN Dr. J. A. Marfin, was named general chairman of the Committee on Church Co-operation at the annual election of officers held Monday in the Butler street branch Y. M. C. A. Other officers named were Dr. J. A. Baxter, first vice chairman; Rev, J. Raymond Henderson, pastor of the Wheat Street, Baptist church second vice chairman;: J. M. Chiles, executive secretary of the Butler Street Y. M. C. A. secretary, f Heads of sub-committees chosen were Jesse O. Thomas, civics; W. A. Bell, education: Bishop W. A. Fountain, race relations; C. W. Washington, indi d relations; F. B, Wachin^nn e£l ( )r] j 'ry L. a’ Pink- ' ' - -/ A Bax- T. Walden, law enforcement. DEACON JONES By L P. RrynoWs j p?".‘ a While the congregation was sing' ing SWING LOW SWEET CHAJU lOT Brother Bell SWUNG hU M a.'-rnnst the pastor’s chin. WF-cWST untinued on page twoi