MERELY ASKS FAIR PLAY [Photo] CONGRESSMAN OSCAR DEPRIEST When his secretary was refused service in the House dining room in Washington Wednesday, Congressman Oscar DePriest of Illinois, drafted a resolution which he planned to introduce in the House of Representatives, asking that the House Accounts Committee rescind all orders and regulations barring Negroes from use of public facilities in the House of Representatives. With Mr. DePriest it was not a matter of a Negro wanting to eat with white people, as intimated in the Associated Press release to the daily papers, but merely a matter of fair play. The colored people of the United States expect better treatment than that accorded the secretary of Mr. DePriest in the dining room in the nation's capital, for the convenience of members of the House of Representatives. Mr. DePriest stated it clearly in the resolution which he intended to introduce, but which he held up when he was told by the Democratic leaders that the rule would be abolished quietly. The resolution said in part; "The colored citizens have borne their full share of responsibility and sacrifice in every military movement in which this country has been engaged, from the Revolutionary period through the Civil War, on through Carizal, San Juan Hill and the Argonne front." the resolution continued. "This loyalty must gain for them the liberal plaudits of patriotic America and place them beyond the pale of present-day serfdom and slavery." Representative Warren, Democrat of North Carolina, is chairman of the committee and was responsible for the rule against serving colored people, which did not obtain under the Republican administration.
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MISS CRAWFORD IN LEAD; MISS DAWSON, SECOND; MRS. MCCRARY, THIRD Miss Viola Crawford moved up from fourth place into the lead of the Leader's subscription campaign as the second period of the campaign closed Wednesday night. Miss Penelope Dawson remained in second place. but Mrs. McCrary, who was in first place last week, dropped to third place. Miss Ruby Stone dropped from third to [fourth?]; Miss Ozetta Norman held fifth [place?], and Mrs. Evelyn Roberts of Toledo, Ohio, and Providence, Ky., and Mrs. C. E. Hansborough of Greenwood, Miss., came with a mighty rush and landed in sixth and seventh places respectively, as the second period closed. Miss Leona Henry is eighth, Mrs. Naomi Orr, ninth and Miss Annie Churchill, tenth. The votes of each of the persons participating in the Leader's subscription [campaig?], in which the Chevrolet Master Six Coupe and five cash prizes are to be given away, are shown on page 3.
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YOUNG ATHLETE COMMITS SUICIDE: FAILURE TO GET WORK AND LOVE FOR WOMAN SAID TO BE THE CAUSE 
Thomas Lord Tompkins known as "Tommie." 22 years old, well known amateur baseball and football player, committed suicide Thursday night at the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Reberta Paul, 1413 W. Chestnut Street. Despondency over a broken love affair with a married woman are said to have prompted the act. 
Mrs. Paul stated she believed her grandson had been brooding over a love affair with a married woman who had recently returned to her husband. Tompkins is said to have had a quarrel with the woman's husband late Thursday. When the man departed Tompkins went to his room and fired a bullet through his head. He died before medical aid could reach him. Some of the friends of Tompkins are of the opinion he was doped or drunk when he committed the act. Funeral services were held Monday at 2 p. m. at the A. L. Merritt Funeral Home, 1201 W. Chestnut Street. Rev. J C. Henderson officiated. A mother, sister, grandmother and other relatives survive.
Y.W.C. A. PREPARES FOR ANNUAL DINNER The annual dinner of the Phyllis Wheatley Branch Y. W. C. A. will be given at the "Y" Thursday evening, February 1, at 6 o'clock. The dinner, styled as a "Buffet Luncheon," is being carefully and elaborately planned and promises to be the greatest event of the "Y" year. The report of Mrs. Mayme R. Brock. who has served the branch as executive secretary for nine years, and also those of the other officers of the Y.W.C.A will be made. One of the most important things to be done at the dinner is the election of members of the Committee of Management. Mrs. Aljulia Smith. Miss Addie Barlow and Mrs. Maudellen Lanier, prominent women, are retiring from the committee after serving nine years. These vacancies are to be filled, and the following are up for election: Mesdames Carolyn S. Blanton, Abbie C Jackson, John H. Williams, Fannie Johnson; Misses Maude Brown, Mabel Coleman, Winifred Jetton, Armah Wilson, Louise Matthews and Lillian Carroll. The annual address will be delivered by Mrs. George W. Berry. Others will also speak, with musical numbers by the Girls Reserve chorus, the Jordannaires. Clara Hill, Blanche Anna Moody, Jean Hampton, Tella Marie Cole and the Kaufman Quartette. Rev. A. L. Smith of the Grace Presbyterian Church will give the invocation and grace.
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PROMINENT CITIZEN PASSES AWAY Warner May, prominent fraternal leader and churchman, died at the Red Cross Hospital last Monday night. His funeral was held at the Walnut Street Baptist Church, white, where he was sexton for many years, Rev. W. P. Offutt officiating. Rev. Vollmer, assistant pastor of the church, preached the funeral. H. B. Britt and William Prather presented some of Mr. May's favorite songs. Mr. May, who lived at 1718 W. Oak Street, was born at Taylorsville, Ky., February 27, 1859. He married Miss Ellen Matthews fifty years ago and to the union eleven children were born. Mr. May enjoyed a wonderful home life. In latter life he was sexton of the Walnut Street Baptist and held the position until his death. He was a member of Calvary Baptist Church, a Mason and an Odd Fellow. He was conscious until the end and said he desired to go when the time came. He prepared his funeral arrangements before his death. His remains were laid to rest at Taylorsville, Ky. He is survived by three daughters, three sons, nine grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, two daughters-in-law, a niece, who with his many frends mourn his death.
Back In Lead [photo] Miss Viola Crawford Well known Louisville nurse, who regained the lead in the Leader's subscription campaign as the second period closed Wednesday evening.
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KENTUCKY STARTS OFF LYNCHING YOUTH TAKEN FROM HAZARD JAIL BY MOB OF 500 State Contributes First 1934 Disgrace To Lynching Wave Started Late In 1933 Hazard, Ky., Jan. 25.--A colored man, Rex Scott, 20 years old, was taken from the Perry County Jail here yesterday evening and lynched by a mob of about 500 white men who were masked. The jailer, Leroy P. Combs, was first ordered to turn over the keys by the mob leaders, but finding that he did not have them, they approached Deputy Jailer W. C. Knuckles, who handed the keys over after a little resistance. Scott had been arrested for the alleged beating up of a white man, Alex Johnson, an employee of the Marlowe Coal Company. Saturday night. The man died a few hours after Scott had been taken to a cemetery, fifteen miles from Hazard and lynched by the mob, composed principally of miners. It is said that Scott was a former inmate at the Kentucky Home of Reform at Greendale and the State Reformatory at Frankfort. In the lynching of Scott Kentucky, struck by the lynch wave which hit the country several weeks ago, is the first to be disgraced in 1934. The last two persons lynched in Kentucky were men. neither justified. but for crimes more brutal and guilt more thoroughly established. Citizens, many of whom were deputized, followed the mob and located Scott's body, and three men have been taken in custody as members of the mob and questioned.
MRS. BUFORD DENIED ALIMONY, SAY ATTORNEYS; FALSE, SAYS MRS. BUFORD The case of Mrs. Alzada Buford, who is suing her husband, W. C. Buford, for divorce, was heard before the commissioner on an interlocutory hearing for alimony last Saturday morning, according to Mr. Buford's attorneys. The rule issued by the plaintiff in the action, asked for alimony in the sum of $48.00 per month. After much discussion by attorneys and clients, the commissioner denied the plaintiff any alimony whatsoever. Maintenance of the child was discussed but both Messrs. Brown and Frank, who represent the defendant, W. C. Buford, informed the court that there was no necessity to enter an order to require their client to provide for the maintenance of his child as Mr. Buford expected to give his baby everything that his means would permit. Mrs. Buford is represented by Atty. Charles W. Anderson, Jr. Mrs. Buford's Note To Editor Dear Mr. Cole: I am writing you to request that you issue the following statement in my name: The allegations in the instrument which appears in another paper this week and may appear in the Leader, are false and intended to misrepresent. I am herewith declaring that on no occasion have I filed a petition for alimony from Mr. W. C. Buford. After Mr. Buford refused to provide food temporary maintenance during the period of the divorce action. After Judge Savage stressed Mr. Buford's providing amply for our daughter, I did not press my plea. The judge did not refuse my petition--it was voluntarily waived. Signed, Alzada M. Buford.
PEACE WOMEN TO HOLD MEETING The World's Union of Colored women for Peace invites the public to attend a meeting at the Y. W. C. A. Wednesday night, January 31. Officer Wm. Scott of the Veteran's of Foreign Wars and Sergeant Summers will be the speakers. The women urge the public's attendance and solicit its support. The officers are Mrs. Fannie R Givens, president; Mrs. Ella R. Robinson, secretary.
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