MRS. REDD INSTANTLY KILLED IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT Three Other Members Of Party Seriously Hurt When On Way Back From Speedway Races Mrs. Lucy Redd, well known woman who lived in 2721 Cedar St. was instantly killed near Columbus, Ind. last Monday evening about 8:45, when her automobile collided with a Columbus owned truck. Mrs. Redd had been to the Indianapolis Speedway races and was en route back home when the accident occurred. The truck was going towards Indianapolis, and it is reported, at a rapid rate of speed for a truck. In the car with Mrs. Redd were Mrs. George Taylor, Miss Velma Pritchett and Mr. Dennis Rice who made up the part to the races. All received servere lacerations and bruises about the face and body. The body of Mrs. Redd who was killed instantly was was badly mutilated. Her automobile was completely demolished. The remains of Mrs. Redd were taken to an undertaker in Columbus and then removed to the Gilbert Funeral Parlors here. The injured friends of Mrs. Redd were taken to a Columbus hospital for treatment and then brought to Louisville. Mrs. Redd was formerly a representative of the Mammoth Life Insurance Co. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at the Seventh Day Adventist Church, where she was an active member. Mrs. Redd is survived by her father, Mr. John Redd, two brothers, Ruben Bond Evansville, Ind. William Bond, Dayton, Ohio, one sister, Mrs. Pearl Alverado, Fresno, Cal. and other relatives.

Miss Louise Matthews Get Master's Degree Miss Louise Matthews, a teacher of French at Central High School, and daughter of Prof. W. B. Matthews, principal, received her master's degree last week from McGill University, Montreal Canada, where she has studied the past several summers. Miss Matthews wrote her thesis in French, subject, "Edmond Rostond in the United States." Miss Matthews is being congratulated by her many friends. It is very unusual for a teacher of the race to take a degree from an institution out side of the United States. Miss Matthews is a very modest young woman. She makes no pretense to show and fan flare, but she is one of Louisville's most efficient teachers, one who is truly a credit to the profession. She is interested in the Y.W.C.A. and other lines of social work.

Central High Gives Diplomas To 163; Normal Graduates 14
Central High School went beyond its last year's record when Prof. W. B. Matthews, the principal gave diplomas to 163 graduates Tuesday night at the fifty-first annual commencement of the school at the Jefferson County Armory last Tuesday night. In a most beautiful setting and greeted with something like 4,000 patrons and citizens. The exercises opened with an overture by the school orchestra, invocation by the Rev. J. E. Wood and a selection by the Central High School Chorus, Miss Nannie Board, director and Wiley B. Daniel at the piano. The salutatory was by James Albert Wilson. Other orators which followed were by Lenora [?], Anna Howard [?] Carolyn Edwards, [?] Virginia McGill and Lottie Lou [?] Harris, and then the valedictory [?] Wiley B. Daniel. Selections by the [?] vocal and piano solos by [?] Leo Jewell and Daniel interspersed the orations. A talk was made by Mr. Frederick Archer, Superintendent of Education. The benediction was offered by Rev. H. W. Jones. 
Class of 1931 1/2 -- Elizabeth C. Anderson, Lottie L. Harris, Florence M. Pitney, Louise F. Bell, Virginia L. Harris, Anna E. Reddy, William O. Boyd, Gertrude Hayden, Dorothy E. Rhodes, Elton Boykin, Leonard Henderson, Clifton Roberts, Sadie B. 
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Miss Patsie S. Sloan II 
Miss Patsie S. Sloan II is one of the fourteen who graduated from the Louisville Colored Normal School last week. She was an honor graduate of Central High School in 1930. A prize winner in the Girl's Declamatory Contest, and a member of the Girl's Glee Club. Miss Sloan was Valedictorian of the class and winner of the Times medal when she graduated from the Dunbar School in 1926. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abe F. Sloan.

Three Colored Women In Street Car Crash Among the sixteen persons hurt in the street car accident at Baxter and Hamilton Avenues last Monday afternoon were three colored women, Mrs. Della Battle, 1947 West Madison St., Miss Flora Baker, 421 South Twenty-eighth St. and Miss Elsie Wilson, 509 Coke St.  The street car in which these ladies were riding, an inbound on the Walnut Street-Crescent Hill line left the tracks, hit an automobile, and then crashed into the Baxter Avenue Pharmacy. The crash was of such force as to break the seat in which Miss Baker was sitting half in two, an impact which threw several people upon her. Miss Baker suffered a severe injury about the head and thigh. She was employed in the Haig home at 353 Hill-Crest Ave. She is a member of the West Chestnut Street Baptist Church. Mrs. Battle was painfully hurt about her head and body and is being attended by Dr. T. Lomax Nichols. She was a maid in the home of G. B. Roush, 125 Hillcrest Ave. Miss Wilson suffered a contusion of left leg. 
The motorman on the street car said that the failure of the air brakes to work was the cause of the accident.

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