Ruby Bates Denies Attack
White Woman Leader Says Lynch Fight Is Success
Concerted Effort Being Put Forth To Abolish Evil
LOUISVILLE ATTORNEY PROPOSES NEW STATE EDUCATIONAL LAW Chas. W. Anderson, young attorney, presented this week to Governor Laffoon and the Department of Education at Frankfort a proposal for a State law that would provide professional and post-graduate education for colored boys and girls of Kentucky. In a statement to the Leader about his proposal Mr. Anderson said: "Realizing the desire and ambition of many young colored girls and boys to obtain professional education after graduation or the completion of their academc work at Kentucky State Industrial College and the Louisville Municipal College and being unable to attend institutions out of the state because of their economic and financial condition, I believe that we should have such legislation as will provide and give to the young colored boys and girls of our state the advantages of the same and identical professional education as is now provided at the Universities of Kentucky and Louisville. The injustice of this condition is very apparent when one takes into consideration that the children of the colored taxpayers of Kentucky have no institution of learning supported by state or municipal appropriation where they may pursue courses in medicine, theology, law or graduate work. They are denied the privilege of pursuing courses in professional or graduate work at the state and municipal institutions where such courses are offered, thus being compelled to leave Kentucky where their parents are citizens and taxpayers to go elsewhere for professional training. Granting that the law of Kentucky provides that there must be separate chools for white and colored children, does the Constitution provide that colored institutions must possess inferior and inadequate educational facilities? "I believe that until a colored state institution is placed on an equal basis with the present educational facilities as provided at the Universities of Kentucky and Louisville, that the State of Kentucky should  permit colored boys and girls to pursue professional and graduate work at those institutions supported by state and municipal appropriation where such training may be had. Secondly, and as an alternative to the first suggestion, I believe that the State of Kentucky should pay the tuition of colored students who are compelled to attend colleges out of the state and are pursuing courses not offered at Kentcky (Continued on page 4) --[photo] CHARLES W. ANDERSON, JR.
Value Of Health To School Children Told By Frederick Archer Supt. Louisville Public Schools When a child enters school for the first time, a great change takes place in his life. Before school age the child has only a few fixed times at which activities must be performed--bed time, meal time, and the mid-day nap. School time is added, and in the school day there are definite times for work and certain kinds of play. In the home there are only a few people, but the child at school must get along with many strangers--teachers and child. He must now spend some of the best hours of the day indoors instead of playing in the open air. To the child, school is a serious business, even though he likes to go there. His school is as much his work as yours or mine is our work. These new conditions combine to make school somewhat a test of a child's physical and mental health. It is only fair to the child to send him to these new responsibilities equipped as fully as (Continued on page 4)
General Education Board Spends Millions on Negro Education
34 Schools And Colleges Aided; Medical Education Promoted
Easter Shopping With Husch Brothers Asked We are again calling the attention of our readers, and especially the ladies to the Husch Brothers advertisement on page 8. We know that a large number of those who have Easter shopping to do noticed the last week's advertisement and have already made purchases at Husch Brothers. We are however, anxious that none of our readers overlook the advertisement carried by the store which always carries the best for ladies at popular prices and which is now offering extra ordinary Easter values. And as we stated last week, Leader readers are going to Easter shop with those who advertise in their own newspaper, the Louisville Leader. Not only because such stores as Husch Bros. at 212 S. Fourth Street offer unusual values even during the depression times, but when they advertise in the Leader it is evidence that they want and appreciate colored patronage. The salesladies at Husch Bros. are proud of their colored lady patrons which they always give their most courteous attention. Turn to page 8 and note the values offered.
Deberry Granted Stay Of Execution
DEBERRY GETS DEATH STAY As the Leader goes to press Thursday night Walter Deberry, one of the four men, three colored, to be electrocuted early Friday morning, is granted a stay of execution by Governor Ruby Laffoon pending a hearing before Judge Davison on a plea of habeas corpus secured by Attorney C. Ewbanks Tucker. The sentence of Frank Crenshaw, another of the four doomed men, was commuted to life imprisonment by Governor Laffoon early Thursday.
Louisville News Case Again Continued The case of R. Everett Ray, editor of the Louisville News, against J. L. Leake and Larry Gaines, who Mr. Ray charged in a warrant several days ago, with swearing falsely in the effort to get possession of the Louisville News, was again continued when it was called in Police Court Wednesday morning. It was continued until Wednesday morning of next week. The case carries a penalty of from one to five years. Mr. Ray is represented by the law firm of Brown, Frank and Tucker, and Messrs. Leake and Gaines by Attorney Wm. H. Thomas.
AMERICAN WOODMEN ANNOUNCE GOOD WILL PROGRAM The American Woodmen of which Prof. C. C. Trimble is district manager, announces its spring good will program to be sponsored in Louisville by the churches, collectively. The itinerate follows: Bates Memorial Baptist Church, Rev. R. P. Whitesides, pastor, Monday night, April: 10, at 8 o'clock. Jacob St. Tabernacle A. M. E. Zion Church, Rev. J. H. A. Bailey, pastor. Tuesday night, April 11; Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Rev. J. W. Woodfork. pastor, Thursday night. April 13; Lampton Baptist Church, Rev. J. W. Williams, pastor. Each night will be featured by instructive and interesting programs. Friday night. April 14, will be an independent effort by each church separately. Saturday night. April 15, will be coronation night.
K. N. E. A. CANDIDATE [Photo] W. J. CALLERY Friends of Prof. Callery give the following reasons why he should be elected president of the K. N. E. A.: 1--Over 20 years of unselfish service to the association during which he never missed a meeting and to the cause of Negro education in the state. He was appointed with others under the administration of State Superintendent George Colvin to study and draft plans which have resulted in the present accrediting of Negro high schools in the state. In the assciation he has been constantly relied upon as a trusted helper and supporter in every emergency. He was one of a committee that laid plans for the first Armory feature that is now such an important part of K. N. E. A. programs. 2--He was appointed by Gov. A. O. Stanley with other leaders for educational and racial cooperation, who met with the Governor in Louisville during the war. 3--In rural education, he was the pioneer in transportation of colored children to a consolidated  school. The system of transportation in his community has beeb accepted as a model (Continued on page 4)
Thrift Contest Closes Wednesday Evening The Leader's thrift contest for school boys and girls will come to a close Wednesday evening, April 12 at 8 o'clock. The contest, which began February 1, offered a thrift gold medal and $100 divided into ten prizes to the ten boys or girls who proved themselves the thriftiest by reporting the largest number of votes representing subscriptions of one month or more during the ten weeks' period of the contest. The proposition offered a splendid opportunity to school boys and girls during the depression days and several young people took advantage of it. Four or five of them or some of the others may be announced as winner of the thrift medal and the (Continued on page 4)
DEFENSE WINS BIG POINT IN SCOTTSBORO CASE BATTLE - JUDGE ADMITS PROOF NEGROES NOT ON JURY LISTS Charge Court Tried To Influence Negro Newspaper Correspondents - Note: Since receiving articles from the Associated Negro Press correspondent, and direct from Decatur, the daily press carries the news that Ruby Bates, one of the two white women the nine colored boys were accused of attacking, walked into the court at Decatur Thursday and declared that she had not been attacked. She denied the attack early in February and had been missing since February 27. She said she accused the boys at the previous trial because she was excited. - By John L. Spivak Decatur, Ala., April 5.--The first victory with far reaching consequences to all Negroes in the Black Belt was won by International Labor Defense Attorneys defending Haywood Patterson at 11 o'clock Friday morning when Judge James E. Horton, presiding over the Scottsboro case, announced that the defense had presented a prima facie case proving there were no Negroes on the county jury roll. To this startling statement the court added that it was now up to the attorney general to prove otherwise. Judge Horton's decision came after a long, bitter fight that promised to last indefinitely, for Samuel S. Liebowitz for the defense, had announced that he would examine every name on the 1933 Morgan County roll to prove they were all white, if it took "till Doomsday" and he had to subpoena every unindentified man listed to prove they were white. The morning session had started exactly where it had left off yesterday evening--the identifying of names on the roll as white, by A. J. Tidwell, president of the Morgan County Jury Board. Tidwell, a choleric gentleman, squirmed under Liebowitz's questioning and several times lost his temper. Attorney General Thomas E. Knight, who had the air of a licked man at (Continued on page 4)
BISHOP CLEMENT AND EDITOR SPEAKERS AT SUNDAY MEN'S MEETINGS Laymen will be in charge of the services at the Chestnut Street C. M. E. Church, Rev. W. E. Farmer, pastor, all day Sunday, and at the West Chestnut Street Baptist Church, Rev. William Johnson, pastor, Sunday night. It is Men's Day at the Chestnut Street C.M.E. Church and with Mr. Nathaniel Brown as chairman the committee has gotten together an elaborate all day program. Bishop George C. Clement, noted prelate of the A. M E. Zion Church, will deliver the sermon to the men Sunday morning and a program has been arranged for afternoon and night. A laymen's mass meeting is being held at the West Chestnut Street Baptist Church Sunday night, sponsored by the trustees. Mr. B. H. Larke, chairman, with the cooperation of all the clubs of the church. The principal address is to be delivered by Mr. I. Willis Cole, editor of the Leader. Other well known church men and business men will speak. Special music has been prepared by the choir and a male chorus of one hundred voices will sing. All local churches are to be represented and a capacity crowd is expected. Mr. A. D. Doss, agency director of the Mammoth Insurance Company, and an officer of the Calvary Baptist Church, is to serve as master of ceremonies. A thirty minutes song program will begin at 7:45. Those in charge of the Men's Day program at the Chestnut Street C.M.E. Church and the laymen's mass meeting at the West Chestnut Street Baptist Church, respectively, cordially invite the public to attend each of these meetings.
K. N. E. A. Program Of Same High Order Louisville is getting ready for the annual K. N. E. A. session which convenes here at Quinn Chapel Wednesday, April 19. Prof. A. S. Wilson, secretary of the K. N. E. A., announces that the depression will in no way hamper the program, and that it will be of the same high order of the past. Among the noted speakers scheduled are Dr. James S. Tippett of Columbia University who will speak Wednesday afternoon on the subject "Using the Environment in Teaching"; Mrs. Jeanette Triplette Jones, a noted race woman of Chicago, will be one of the speakers Wednesday night. Dr. R. R. Wright, Jr., president of Wilberforce University, and Prof. F. M. Wood, supervisor of colored schools, Balti- (Continued on page 4)
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