CELEBRATE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY [Photo] MR. AND MRS. W. HENRY EDWARDS Mr. and Mrs. W. Henry Edwards of Owensboro, Ky., celebrated their golden anniversary Wednesday, March 9. This aged couple are pioneer citizens of Owensboro and for many years have been among Kentucky's most prominent families. They are leader, in civic, fraternal and religious circles and are receiving the congratulations of a host of admiring friends. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards are parents of Miss Emma E. Edwards, well known school teacher, leader in church and society circles and Owensboro representative of The Louisville Leader.
President Johnson Given Great Ovation at Howard Anniversary
WITH APOLOGIES TO MISS EMMA EDWARDS We apologize to Miss Emma Edwards, Owensboro representative of The Leader, for taking the following from her Owensboro column on page 7, captioned "Buy a Leader; Be a reader." "Our baby newsy makes 16 cents a week selling Leaders. In 52 weeks he will earn $8.32. In 10 years at just 16 cents, he will have earned $83.20. Our major newsy makes $1.74 per week selling Leaders. In 52 weeks he will make $90.48. In 5 years he will have made $452.40. Don't you thing this a neat sum for a school boy? Let's teach him thrift. Everybody help him make it and make him save it. Of course our boys increase their sales each week."
Claim Boy Tortured Into Confession
CLAIM BOY WAS BEATEN AND TORTURED INTO MURDER CONFESSION One Of Most Brazen Frame-Ups Ever Attempted By Police, Report Philadelphia, Pa., March 10.--Steps in one of the most brazen frame-ups of a Negro youth ever attempted by police in America was revealed by a report of investigators for the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights in the arrest of Willie Brown, 16 years old, held in connection with the murder of a seven year old white girl. With the white press of Philadelphia trumpeting that young Brown has confessed and should be immediately tried, even the Philadelphia Tribune, a Negro weekly, hastens to condemn him. The basis for the frame up, according to the investigation, was laid when Assistant Superintendent of Police Le Strange said: "The police possess no description of the slayer. No one has been able to give us a description of even a suspect. We believe however, that the crime was committed by either a dark skinned white man or a light-skinned Negro." Seven strands of hair found in the child's hand were described as "long and straight." What his grounds were for believing the slayer to be a Negro, the police head did not explain. Newspapers immediately began clamoring for a victim. Police started terrorizing the Negro section of town. Over a thousand Negro and white unemployed were herded in, lined up by police, who grilled them mercilessly for hours. Mass arrests of unemployed occurred daily on open streets in a desperate effort by police to find a victim. Explaining his arrest of Brown, a detective declared: "I was walking south when I saw this colored boy coming north. He did not look so good. I called him, placed him in an automobile, and took him to the third division." Asked why the boy did not "look so good", the man replied: "I don't know, he just looked suspicious and I played a hunch." Brown was given the third degree in jail, starved for nearly two days, beaten, tortured, grilled for hours on end. Police announce his "confession." At the coroner's inquest he maintained he was innocent. His hair is short and wooly. He is considered innocent by his neighbors, who say he and his mother were at the New Garden Theatre the afternoon the child was murdered. The boy lives in what is known as the "band-box area" of Philadelphia, the poorest slum district, where six and eight workers crowd in one room above sunless, sewerless courtyards.
LEGION NOT TO DISCRIMINATE In a release from the New York office of the Urban League, the American Legion has given assurance that no discrimination will be practiced against Negroes in the "War Against Depression Campaign," now being conducted by that organization. In a letter to T. Arnold Hill of the Urban League, Mark T. McKee, Executive Director of the American Legion Employment Commission, expressed surprise and concern about the reports of flagrant discrimination. Said he: "It is the purpose of this commission to not differentiate in any particular, our efforts to obtain employment for men and women, regardless of their race or color. "I assure you that the American Legion Employment Commission will see that the Negro is not excluded from benefits derived from the Commission's activities. We have a number of Negro posts in the American Legion who are organized and helping us carry this employment campaign to success." The Peter Salem Post No. 45 of Louisville is already cooperating with the National American Legion Employment movement. They launched their campaign last week and it is said that encouraging results are being gotten.
DOING GOOD WORK IN NEW YORK [Photo] REV. C. L. KNOX From New York the report comes that Rev. C. L. Knox, pastor of the Williams Institutional C. M. E. Church of that city, is making splendid progress. Rev. Knox formerly pastored the Chestnut Street C.M.E. Church here and was sent to New York from Winchester, Ky., where he made a round report the one year he served there, by Bishop C. H. Phillips at the Kentucky and Ohio Annual conference which met in Louisville last November. Just four weeks after Rev. Knox became pastor of the Williams Institutional Church seventeen new members had been taken in and the congregation and collections were increasing each Sunday and at the week services.
BRIDE [Photo] MRS. RUSSELL RICE Formerly Miss Dorothy Skinner, well known young woman of Durham, N C., whose marriage to Dr. Russell Rice took place February 27 in Knoxville, Tenn. Mrs. Rice, a graduate of both Scotia Women's College, Scotia, N. C, and N. C. State College, Durham, was until her marriage, cashier of the Union Insurance and Realty Co. of Durham. Dr. Rice, well known locally, and Mrs. Rice are at home at 2341 W. Chestnut street.
GREYHOUND BUS LINE SUED Hopkinsville, Ky, March 10.--(Special.)--A civil suit for $10,000.00 damages was filed in the Christian County Circuit Court last week by James M. Bacon of Chicago, Ill., against the Grey Hound Bus line for its refusal to transport him safely from Hopkinsville to Chicago. Mr. Bacon purchased a ticket at the Hopkinsville station for Chicago, and left Hopkinsville in the afternoon on January 9. Upon his refusal to take a back seat when he changed busses at Evanville, Ind., he was forcibly ejected and turned over to Evansville police and remained in the custody of police until the coach from which he was ejected had sufficient time to speed away. No charges were filed against the passenger by either the bus company or police. Mr. Bacon was returning to Chicago from a visit to his mother for the first time in 20 years. He is represented by Lewis L. Scott of the law firm of Scott and Bacon of Hopkinsville, Ky.
Young Dentist Dies After Long Illness
DR. ARTUS B. WILSON, BROTHER OF PRINCIPAL OF SCHOOL, BURIED TODAY Was Graduate Of Central High School And MeHarry Medical College By Gladys Foust Dr. Artus B. Wilson, one of the promising young dentists of Louisville, whose office was located at 1225 West Walnut street, died Sunday, March 6, at 6:30 A. M. after an illness of nearly two years. The late Dr. Wilson, age 28, is the brother of Prof. Atwood S. Wilson, principal of Madison St. Junior High School and was the youngest of four brothers. Mr. Joseph A. Wilson, the oldest brother, is a clerk in the main post office at Chicago and the other brother, Mr. Cyrus R. Wilson, a mail carrier in the city of Detroit. Thier mother, Mrs. Mary E. Wilson, provided a college education for all four of her sons following their graduation from Central Colored High School at Louisville. Dr. Artus B. Wilson was graduated from MeHarry College with the degree of D.D.S., in 1928. He was also a prospective member of the Falls City Medical Association and of the Ewell Neil Dental Society. He was a member of Centennial Baptist Church on West St. Catherine Street near his residence. --[Photo] DR. ARTUS B. WILSON-- He also was a member of the Juvenile Order of the Sons and Daughters of the Morning, Number 2. The funeral was held at Centennial Baptist Church March 8 with Rev. C. E. Starnes officiating. His favorite (Continued on page 4)
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