Fights 'Dope' Spread Among Girls
SPREAD OF TERRIBLE "DOPE" HABIT AMONG CHICAGO GIRLS TOLD All Classes Of Citizens Commend Campaign To Save Louisville Youths According to the Chicago Whip of last week a campaign similar to that suggested by a committee of Louisville citizens with the cooperation of the Louisville Leader to save the youth of Louisville has been launched in Chicago and at the same time. The Whip states that the revelations are so shocking in connection with the smoking of the notorious narcotic weed, Marijuana, by girls and boys of the teen age, that they appeared to be incredible, following an investigation which spread over a number of weeks, and included research into all classes of society. Louis Armstrong Given Jail Sentence For Having Dope The Whip says that: "The Marijuana, or 'reefer' habit has spread to such an alarming extent, that measures to ban the weed under the narcotic law are said to be afoot. At present California is the only state which knows enough about the weed to have taken measures against it. In this connection," says The Whip, "it will be remembered that Louis Armstrong, famed jazz orchestra player, was recently arrested in Los Angeles and given a jail sentence when a small quantity of Marijuana was found in his possession. "Few people ordinarily ever hear of the drug, nor in the past have many Americans know what it was or what it looked like. Marijuana itself is a pale green substance, which grows wild in Mexico and Lower California, which resembles tea to a great extent. Mexicans have used it as a narcotic for years and it is only within the past ten years that its usage has spread to 'gringos.' "Within the past year an organized ring of Marijuana vendors has sprung up in Chicago; and at present there are said to be hundreds of boys and girls addicted to its use." Louisville's Fight Against Rough Dances And Thoughtless Young Teachers The Leader does not know that the Marijuana or "reefer" drug habit has reached Louisville, but conditions among the youth and the younger society set in Louisville are perhaps as alarming as they are in Chicago. Cigarette smoking, drinking, and gambling are prevalent among the young women here, and the Louisville citizens' fight is to save the Negro boys and girls from the ruin that is certain to be theirs unless they are stopped from going to public affairs without regulation and supervision, and especially dances of the sort reported given at Thirteenth and Walnut on Monday nights. The other matter now claiming the attention of the Louisville citizens is the alleged conduct of certain of the younger school teachers, about which so much as been said during the past several months. It was agreed by a group of citizens a few weeks ago that the citizens had been tolerant enough, both as to the class of dances at Thirteenth and Walnut and the alleged conduct of certain of the young public school teachers entrusted with the (Continued on page 8)
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COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER [Photo] REV. W. E. FARMER Rev. W. E. Farmer, pastor of Chestnut Street C. M. E. Church, delivered the commencement address for the Lebanon High School, at Lebanon, Ky, Wednesday, May 20. A large audience of member of both races gathered in the white high school to hear Rev. Farmer speak on "Service," including the superintendent and members of the Board of Education. It is said that Rev. Farmer delivered one of the best addresses ever made to a graduating class. As the result he has two other engagements for commencements. Miss Nettie Lee Hughes, who secured Rev. Farmer as the speaker, is the principal of the Lebanon High School.
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Miss Jessie Silvey has returned after a visit in New York. - Mr. and Mrs. John Able and Mr. and Mrs. Carter Bailey motored to Jeffersontown to see Mrs. Robert Bright.
BROWNS GET PEN SENTENCES Maceo Brown, former letter carrier, and Spencer Brown were given sentences of eight and two years respectively by Judge Dawson in the federal court last Friday. Maceo Brown pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing from the mail and forging negotiable government obligations and Spencer Brown for complicity in the crimes.
CHILD SAVES LIVES OF THREE It is reported that James Lee, ten year old son of Mrs. Rena Lee, and a student at Samuel Coleridge Taylor School, saved the lives of 3 children who were trapped in a fire which occurred at a dwelling at 11th and Madison Sts., Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Mr. Clyde Liggins entertained the participants of the "1931 Variety"
MEMORIAL ORATOR [Photo] ROBERT L. BROKENBURR Prominent Attorney of Indianapolis, [Indiana?], who will deliver the principal address at Memorial Services honoring the Late Madame C. J. Walker, Sunday night, May 31st at Zion Baptist Church.
CENTRAL HIGH COMMENCEMENT AT AUDITORIUM The Leader announced last week that the Central High School commencement would be held Friday evening, June 12 at the Louisville Memorial Auditorium at Fourth and Kentucky. Since it had been previously announced through some other source that the commencement would be held at the Armory we are again announcing the Louisville Memorial Auditorium as the place. Central will graduate 150, its largest class. Admission by tickets only.
Little Miss Dorothy L. Cordery, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George T. Cordery, won first prize in the story telling contest at the Eastern Library.
De Priest At Armory Monday Night
TO BE HEARD BY RECORD BREAKING AUDIENCE, IS INDICATION To Speak On Religious Educational And Economic Status Of Race Congressman Oscar De Priest, of Illinois, speaks in Louisville at the Armory Monday evening, June 1. According to Rev. J. H. D. Bailey, who is a member of the group sponsoring the coming of Mr. De Priest and the director of the program, indications are that a record breaking crowd will be on hand to greet the able race leader. Mr. De Priest is the only Negro member of the House of Representatives and the most popular character before the American public. It is reported that Superintendent Gregory of the Board of Education is of the opinion that every Negro child in Louisville old enough to know how to appreciate seeing and hearing such an outstanding leader of the race should be permitted to do so, and it goes without saying that every man, woman and child able to pay the reasonable admission charge of 50 and 25 cents will be at the Armory Monday evening. Mr. De Priest will speak on the religious, educational and economic, condition of the Negro. Special band and vocal music has been arranged for the occasion. Mr. De Priest's first and last appearance in Louisville as a speaker was in 1929 when he spoke to a Sunday afternoon audience which taxed the capacity of the R. E. Jones Temple. He came under the auspices of the N. A. A. C. P., Mr. I Willis Cole, president.
KENTUCKY STATE INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE BEGINS COMMENCEMENT MONDAY Frankfort, Ky., May 29.--Fourteen persons will graduate with degrees from the Senior College, forty-five from the Junior College and 26 from the High School Department at the forty-third commencement exercises at the Kentucky State Industrial College, 10:30 A. M. June first in the Hume Hall Auditorium. Dr. Carter G. Woodson, Historian and Director of [the?] Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Washington, D. C., will deliver the commencement address. The Baccalaureate Sermon will be preached by Dr. Thomas E. Jones, President of Fisk University, Sunday at 2:30 P. M. The members of the graduating classes are as follows: Senior College--Vara Mildred Atwood, Augustine Edward Birch, Frederick Douglass Bond, Rose Jackson Blythe, Anna Mack Dalton, William Clay Didlick, Mary E. Gill, Onzonator L. Hampton, Pearl Catherine Mitchell, Emma E. Quarles, Joseph Alexander Simpson, Oliver Windell Strawder, Leota Evelyn Thacker, Cornelia Weston. Junior College--Genevieve Bard, Catherine Coleman Bean, Izola Francis Bell, Marian Alverta Brown, William Roosevelt Campbell, Charles Grayson Coleman, Lena Mae Coleman, Mary B. Fletcher, James Novel Frazier, Edith Elizabeth George, John Marx Givens, Ora Belle Hamilton, Minnie Belle Harris, Lucy Norris Herrington, Ola Del Jacobs, Marvene Spelmaphine King, Lillie Mae Letton, Charles Wilson Lewis, Richard Livers, Mary Elizabeth Mace, Ellener Harlan Mathis, Leon Perry Miller, Lonnie Mack Moten, Edna Clementine Patterson, Emma Rose Pleasant, Julia Kathryn Reid, Mary Belle Robards, Lula B. Rowland, Evelyn Eva Russell, Steven Marshel Samuels, Rosetta B. Saunders, Thelma Inez Smoot, Emma Mildred Stewart, Mary Will Lee Stewart, Willa Mae Stewart, Katherine Anna Stone,, Russell Lowell Stone, Allie Mae Sweatt, Susie Elizabeth Tardif, Bessie Beatrice Turner. High School Department--Elizabeth Allen, Willie Richard Allen, Dessy Ray Anderson, Margaret Helen Anderson, Mary Lillian Ballinger, Anna Agatha Beaven, Henrietta Glasper Best, Mattie Elizabeth Boyd, Clarence Edward Calbert, Clyde Crawford, Alice Corine Duncan, Sara Barthenia Goss. Adell Jones, Luther Ruel Jones, Kelly Ann Elizabeth King. William Henderson Lackey, Jr., George Chester Mitchell, Vera Lee Pipkin, Everyn Wells Shields, Mary Estelle Sledd, Jeanette Smith, Roxie Stewart,: Edward Arnold Thompson Moses Williams, Mary Elizabeth Womack, Ruby Francis Wood. Junior College Department--Major Home Economics--Hattie Conley, Ruth Clark Garner, Virginia Louise Haskins. Talitha Dolores Howard, Bessie Mae Noland. Certificate of Proficiency in Shoe Repairing--William Samuel Dotson, (Continued on page 8)