Two Men Commit Suicide
TWO COLORED MEN FOLLOW WHITE FRIEND IN SUICIDE ACT Porters Worried Over Death Of Barber Also Hang Themselves Lexington, Ky., Sept. 8.--A white man's committing suicide by hanging himself was believed today to have caused two colored men, both formerly employed in the same barber shop with him, to take their own lives in the same maner, and within a week after his death. Both men, Jim Brooks, 54, 161 Spruce street, and Ollie Duckworth, 17, 550 Breckenridge street, had been porters at the Lafayette hotel barber shop, and both thought a great deal of Cliff A. McKenney, one of the barbers at the shop. McKinney hanged himself a week ago Sunday in the garage at the rear of his residence, 106 Lackawanna road. Both Duckworth and Brooks are known to have worried a great deal about the death of the white man whom they had known and liked. The former's foster mother, Mrs. Mary Duckworth, said today that Ollie had read a newspaper account of Mr. MdKenney's death at least 20 times. "He seemed to go all to pieses," she said. "One morning he told me, 'Mother, I dreamed I saw Mr. Mac last night'." That was Wednesday, the day after Mr. McKenney's funeral. That afternoon, Duckworth went to a coal shed at the rear of his house and hanged himself. He was to be buried Sunday afternoon. Sunday morning, daylight, disclosed Jim Brooks' body, hanging with a rope around his neck, on a telephone pole in Templeman alley, near north Limestone street. He had apparently been dead several hours. Mrs. Mattie Page, 161 Spruce street, with whom Brooks boarded, said he had also shown evidence of being greatly worried about McKenney's death, and had repeatedly read the newspaper story about it. She said Brooks, who had left the Lafayette shop and had lately been eployed at another shop, came home Saturday night and paid his board bill, then borrowed a pencil from her. After his death a note was found, wrapped around 75 cents in coins. It said, "My insurance is due Monday. Here is t  he money to pay it." Mrs. Page said she and her husband heard Brooks when he left his room some time Saturday night or early Sunday morning, but thought nothing about it. He had used a piece of rope which he had taken from the barber shop, police found upon investigation.
Stop Use of Lash in North Carolina
Use of Lash on Prisoners Abolished in North Carolina
Negro Democrats Open Offices
WEST KENTUCKY OPENS SEPTEMBER 21 [Photo] THE NEW ADMINISTRATION BUILDING The fall session of West Kentucky Industrial College at Paducah will begin Monday, September 21. Monday and Tuesday are set apart as registration days with the classes for the first semester beginning on Wednesday, September 23. The institution has had a very unique history and represents the tenacious determination of its founder and president, D. H. Anderson, to build a fully equipped, well recognized institution of higher learning. The present year marks the opening of a new era in the institution's history with a reorganization of the curriculum and the completion of the new Administration and Recitation Building. This latest addition to the buildings of the campus is modern in every detail, affording well equipped laboratories, good library facilities and an excellent auditorium. All boarding students of the college are well housed. The new girls' dormitory completed in 1929 is an excellent example  of modern dormitory construction and the boys are well situated in the former [illegible] dormitory. Last year's session was the best in the history of the school. In addition to Kentucky's large contribution, students were in attendance from Illinois, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee and West Virginia. The West Kentucky Lions lost only one pigskin on the gridiron last year. Notable games were those with Lane College, LeMoyne College, Tennessee State, and Kentucky State. The basketball team defeated all netters in a most colorful season of intercollegiate basketball. DeHart Hubbard's Lion Tamers, in an attempt to tame the West Kentucky Lions, lost a double-header and in a later attempt to retrieve themselves lost two more games. Knoxville College, St. Louis "Y" and Muncie, Indiana "Y" teams were defeated two games each, while Tennessee State dropped one game to the Lions. All indications point to even more colorful seasons of football and basketball this year, including games with all teams played last year and with Wilberforce University.
Ten Pass Washington Bar
CHARLES COLEMAN OUT ON BOND Charles Coleman, who fatally shot Albert Johnson Saturday night, August 29, in Coleman's shoe shop at 509 S. Sixth street, was bound over to the Grand Jury when arraigned in Police Court last Saturday, pending investigation. Coleman is out of $1,500 bond. His plea is self-defense. In an interview with a Leader representative Coleman made a statement as a correction of a report of the shooting as carried by The Leader last week. Mr. Coleman said that Johnson had no interest in the business but was working on a percentage basis. He said that the argument started over $1.50 Johnson claimed he owed him, which Coleman says was not due until the shoes had gone out. Coleman denies having made any threats to kill Johnson and says that Johnson had fired twice when he ducked behind the counter, got his pistol from a drawer and also fired twice, fatally wounding Johnson who died within fifteen minutes after being rushed to the City Hospital. Coleman will be heard before the Grand Jury September 17. He is represented by Atty. Brent Overstreet.
SURPRISES [Photo] MRS. C. C. BROWN City editor of The Louisville Leader, formerly Miss Mayme E. Osby, whose marriage to Mr. C. C. Brown of New Orleans, occurred Monday, September 7. The ceremony was performed at R. E. Jones Temple by Rev. N. D. Shamborguer in the presence of a few intimate friends. Mr. and Mrs. Brown will be at home after September 20 in the Gold Coast, apartment 300.
MRS. JACKSON DIES: FRIENDS SHOCKED Mrs. Julia Jackson, wife of Prof. G. W. Jackson and mother of Reid and Blyden Jackson, well known young men, passed away Tuesday afternoon about 2 o'clock at the Jackson residence on Grand Avenue. Mrs. Jackson had only been ill a few days and it was not thought by the family and friends that her complaint was of a serious nature. The news of her death therefore was a shock to the community. Mrs. Jackson was from one of Kentucky's best known families. Her father, Rev. S. R. Reid, was one of the leading ministers of the A. M. E. Church. Her mother still lives with her son, Dr. G. H. Reid, prominent Louisville physician. For many years Prof. Jackson, the husband, has been one of Kentucky's outstanding educators, and is at present teacher in the (Continued on page 8)
Campaign Organization Formed
COLORED REPUBLICANS FROM ALL OVER STATE GET TOGETHER HERE Mayor Harrison Candidate For Governor Speaks; Underwood and Other Campaign Leaders Named By William H. Ferris Colored Republican leaders from all sections of Kentucky met at the Mammoth Building Tuesday noon, applauded Mayor William B. Harrison, the Republican candidate for Governor of Kentucky to the echo, and elected the committee to manage the campaign to elect him in November. More than 200 leaders, men and women, were assembled in the Mammoth assembly room when Mr. I. Willis Cole, editor of The Leader, called the meeting to order in the absence of Dr. E. E. Underwood, Frankfort, member of the Republican State Central Committee and chairman of the Colored State Organization, who had not arrived, and asked Rev. A. H. Shumake, pastor of the Virginia Avenue Baptist Church, to offer the invocation. Mr. Cole then called upon Dr. W. T. Merchant, Kentucky's colored delegate to the Republican National Convention at Kansas City in 1928, to introduce Mayor Harrison. Rising amid great applause the mayor said in part: "Kentucky is being challenged this year as she has never been before. Those who know me know that I am not and have never pretended to not an astute politician. Four years ago politics was as strange to me as aviation. I have always been accustimed to work in the open, without any trading. I have always tried to do the correct thing. There is being built up in this state the most powerful political machine that the state has ever had to confront." The mayor contrasted the steam rolling Democratic State Convention and the open Republican Convention. He then said, "The Republican ticket is an unselfish ticket. It is a ticket of men who want to give disinterested public service. I have always been for all the people I represent. Your group has a tremendous part to play in this conflict. I have no special promises to make to you. I have tried to treat you as I treat other American citizens. If elected Governor, I will treat you as citizens of  Kentucky." Dr. E. E. Underwood, who came in while Mayor Harrison was speaking, (Continued on page 8)
Minister Cuts Throat of Woman After Preaching Sermon
National Baptist Secretary Dead
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