Eight Condemned Boys Get Long Stay
Long Stay Granted Boys Condemned to Die in Alabama
Case Is Assuming International Importance; Protests Made in Germany
Lynch Five in Six Months
Five Lynchings Reported For First Six Months of Year
LOUISVILLE GIRL MAKES GOOD Mrs. Annie Lee Davis, who as Miss Annie Lee Wilson was one of Louisville's capable and most popular young women, is making good in Chicago. Mrs. Davis who is a student in the department of social science in Chicago University, has been appointed assistant in the Childs' Placing Agency of Chicago. Mrs. Davis will receive her B. S. degree from Chicago University within a few days She is the daughter of Mrs. Jennie Kirkpatrick, prominent in social and fraternal affairs, who lives at 2215 W. Chestnut street.
[ILLEGIBLE] ANNUAL TESTS [Photo] The above is a picture of the 1930 6A Class of the S. Coleridge Taylor Colored School, that had the Highest score in the Annual Standard Tests of the 6A classes of the colored schools in January. The median score for the colored schools was 84 and the score of this class was 91. Members of the class reading from left to right--Bottom row: Maynonie Martin, Pauline Blinco, Myrtle Prince, Miss Josephine W. Kelly, teacher of the class, Frances Bell, Lena Price, Maggie Thompson; second row: Raymond English, Hayes Whitesides, Wilton Robinson, James Sumpter; third row: Susie Hardy, Anna Embry, Alene Hodges, Addie Mason, Clarence Collins; top row: Kenneth Owens, Tilford Wilcoxsin, Thos Blunt. Prof. Joseph S. Cotter is principal of the S. Coleridge Taylor School.
LOUISVILLE MUNICIPAL COLLEGE ANNOUNCES NEW FACULTY MEMBERS The authorities of the Louisville Municipal College for Negroes announce the addition of two new members to the staff of the college in the persons of Mr. Charles H. Parrish, Jr., and Miss Eliza V. Atkins. Miss Atkins began work on the first of July as the assistant librarian in the college library. She is the daughter of President S. G. Atkins of Winston-Salem Teachers College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and received her early training in the schools of her native city. She received the Bachelor of Arts degree from Fisk University in 1930, after which she went to the University of Illinois and completed a year of graduate study in the library school, graduating with the class of 1931 with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Library Science. Mr. Parrish is well known to the people of Louisville and Kentucky, being the son of the late Dr. C. H. Parrish. He was raised in Louisville and has lived in this city most of his life. Mr. Parrish holds the degrees of Bachelor of Arts from Howard University and Master of Arts from Columbia University. For the past year Mr. Parrish was in attendance at the University of Chicago where he was doing special work in the department of Sociology working toward a Doctorate of Philosophy. Mr. Parrish comes to the Municipal college as the Associate Professor of Sociology. For the past nine years Mr. Parrish was connected with Simmons University as the Professor of Sociology. It is evident from the caliber of persons being added to the staff of the college that the authorities desire to give to the citizens of Louisville an institution of high standard and quality. At the time the announcement concerning these two persons was made it was also stated that there are to be other appointments made, the announcement concerning them to be given to the press at a later date.
LAW SCHOOL HOLDS COMMENCEMENT The forty-first annual commencement of the Central Law School was held on the evening of July 2 at St. Stephen Baptist Church. A program which included musical selections, orations by the candidates for degrees, an address representing the alumni, and the presentation of diplomas was given. The graduates were, Messrs. Royal Eades, Ernest Ellis, Frederick Garner and Earl E. Pruitt. Faculty members of the Central Law School are Dr. W. H. Perry, Attys. W. C. Brown, John H. Frank, Jr., A. J. Slaughter, J. H. Humes, H. P. Alexander, Mrs. Mary A. Clark and Rev. J. H. Winstead. A ladies auxiliary is officered by Mesdames Narcissa Brown, Minnie McAfee, V. B. Alexander and Emma Humes.
DEATH CLAIMS YOUNG MATRON A host of friends were shocked to learn of the passing of Mrs. Alyce Winlock Sweeney, who died Thursday, July 2nd at the residence of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Winlock after an illness of nine weeks. The daughter of one of Louisville's most prominent families and a member of the city's social set, her demise brings --[Photo] MRS. ALYCE WINLOCK SWEENEY-- grief to many. Funeral services were held at the Plymouth Congregational Church, Saturday, July 4 at 1:30 o'clock. Rev J. A. Cox officiating minister was ably assisted by Rev. J. Max Bond who read the Scripture, Rev. W. H. Craighead and Dean Rufus Clement, all of whom paid glowing tribute to the life of this young woman and spoke words of comfort to the bereaved family. The obituary read by Mrs. Elizabeth Haskins Payne, music by the choir with Atty. Everett Harris and Mrs. Anna Bowman Mahin solosists, concluded the last sad rites. Mrs. Sweeney leaves to mourn her loss a mother, father, husband, infant son, two sisters, two brothers, other relaties and a host of friends.
Church Scores Race Prejudice
Congregational Council Passes Resolutions Against Discrimination
Will Not Meet Where Colored Members Are Refused Hotel Accommodations
Bishop I. B. Scott Dies in Nashville After Three Weeks' Illness
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