Matthews Resigns
RESIGNS [photo] W. B. MATTHEWS Prof. Matthews has resigned as principal of the Central High School, after a leave of absence from his duties in March, 1934, because of illness. Prof. Matthews has given twenty-two years of faithful service to the school, the race and the community, and valuable service to the general advancement of education. Prof. Matthews' letter of resignation to Superintendent Frederick Archer is carried on this page.
PROF. W.B. MATTHEWS RESIGNS AS CENTRAL HIGH PRINCIPAL Continued Ill Health The Cause, Says He In Letter To Superintendent Archer; Atwood S. Wilson Named Successor
After twenty years as principal of the Central High School, Prof. W. B. Matthews resigns following an illness which forced him to take a leave of absence from his duties in March, 1934. Prof. Matthews, who has given faithful service to the school, and made a fine contribution to the educational progress of the Louisville community, sent the following letter of resignation to Superintendent Frederick C. Archer, dated January 22: Dear Mr. Archer: In September, 1912 I was elected principal of Central Colored High School.  Since that time I have put the best that there was in me into my endeavor to build up the school.  The enrollment, which was then 276, has been increased to 833 and the school has developed into a ranking A Grade accredited high school.
I realize that this growth and improvements could not have been attained without the whole-hearted support that I have always received from the six fine superintendents and the splendid board members under whom I have been privileged to serve, along with the loyal faculty with which I was surrounded. Since the latter part of March, 1934, on account of ill health, I have been unable to keep at my post of duty and I now find that the condition of my health is such that I cannot hope to continue in active service.(Continued on page 4)
MISS CUTHBERT MAKES IMPRESSIVE ANNUAL Y. W. C. A. DINNER ADDRESS By William H. Ferris Miss Marion E. Cuthbert, National Y. W. C. A. secretary of New York City, delivered a remarkable address on "Upholding Ideals" at the "Y" anniversary and banquet Thursday night, February 7. Said she in the course of her speech, "I know the word 'ideal' is elusive. If I become possessed of an ideal and a ruthless world kills me, then more than ever shall my ideal live on. An ideal is some flower of life, which at present is in a seed form. We must bring to flowering what is hidden in ourselves. Imbedded in this bit of humanity, is the possibility of physical life. A new spiritual life goes with every new generation. God had imagination and he created a world. We have imagination. We con have imigination. We connot only dream bust must work consciously and unconsciously to bring our dreams to pass. Christ gave the world a blue print of a social order." Mrs. Alice B. Crucher presided, Mrs. M. E. Brock read her annual report as executive secretary, Mrs. Henrietta P. Butler, Mrs. Carolyn S. Blanton, Miss Harriet La Forrest and Miss Edna Moss delivered short addresses.  Miss Maud Brown introduced Miss Cuthbert and Mrs. Abbie C. Jackson made the presentation.In the election of the members of the Board of Management; the following were elected: Mesdames Julia Russell, Henrietta Butler, K. D. Williams, Florence Johnson, Aljulia Smith, Addie Barlow, Minnie Mae Street and Mis Valla Dudley.  Rev. W. P. Offutt gave the invocation and Rev. C. L. Russell pronounced the benediction.
NEGRO DEMOCRATS HOLD STATE MEET AT FRANKFORT 300 Delegates Declare Themselves Politically Emancipated; Attorney General Wooten Addresses Gathering By William Warley History was made in Kentucky last Tuesday, February 12. It was Lincoln's birthdday anniversary and it was significant that nearly 300 colored Democrats, from all over the state, met in the Courthouse at Frankfort, Ky., and declared themselves politically emancipated. The call for a state-wide meeting of colored Democrats was made by John T. Merritt of Frankfort. In response to that call every colored Democratic organization in the state sent one or more delegates to the meeting. Over 60 men and women went from Louisville, divided into two factions. There were the 3rd District Colored Democratic Organization and allied clubs that went in two buses, 42 strong, and the Colored Victory Democratic Organization and affiliated bodies that wen in individual cars, about 25 strong. Representatives from other counties and districts were also present, so that when Mr. Merritt called the convention to order at 11 o'clock, there were nearly 300 persons in the Courthouse. Mr. Merritt explained the call and declared it was time for the Negro to strike off the shackles that bound him to the Republican party and make friends with the Democratic party. After that Rev. J. H. D. Bailey of Louisville led in prayer, which was followed by the convention singing "My Old Kentucky Home."  Hon. Bailey P. Wooten, Attorney (Continued on page 4)
POLITICAL GROUPS AND CITIZENS COMMEND LEADER'S RACE MOVE By Jesse B. Colbert The members and friends of the Square Deal Organization were amazed and gratified at the readiness with which the editor grasped and developed the aims and objectives of the Square Deal movement in the last issue of the Leader. We have always believed that some of the essentials of a great editor are the ability to analyze and interpret the principles that motivate life and character. As the Leader so wisely predicted, our organization is the panacea for the very undesirable political condition that effects our group. If the Negro only knew it, he stands at the turning point of a new day politically, such as never has been his good fortune to experience in the past. The fact that the Negroes are willing to be identified with an organization that is non-partisan, composed of members of all political affiliations, is indeed both heartening and reassuring and shows beyond a reasonable doubt that he is awakening to the possibilities of his political destiny. In so far as the attitude of both (Continued on page 4)
R. TODD DUNCAN IN RECITAL HERE Alpha Alpha Sigma chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority presents R. Todd Duncan, noted baritone concert artist, in a recital at West Chestnut Street Baptist Church Friday, February 21, at 8:15 p. m. Mr. Duncan is well known to Louisville audiences, having begun his musical training with instructors of the Louisville Conservatory of Music and also taught here several years. Although comparatively young in (Continued on page 5)
REV. LIVELY FINED FOR ASSAULT Rev. A. J. Lively, local minister and well known Pullman Porter, was fined $100.00 in criminal court Tuesday on a charge of assault and battery. Rev. Lively was arrested some time ago on a warrant sworn to by Mrs. Emma Sattlefield, a member of Lively's church, charging him with knocking her to the ground twice and beating her in the face with her pocketbook. Lively was dismissed of the charge in police coort but the case was taken to the grand jury by Mrs. Sattlefield and Attorney C. Eubank Tucker, and the minister indicted. Witnesses for both the commonwealth and the defendant, testified the trouble started during the discussion of the deacon board and junior choir. When Lively was asked for his opinion, he gave it and Mrs. Sattlefield became incensed, calling him vile names, followed Lively and his wife out the door and attempted to cut him with a knife. "I was forced to knock the woman down," he stated. One eye-witness stated that she heard Mrs. Sattlefield say that there was hell and deceit in the church, referring to Lively.  The woman denied having a knife.
ELECTED PRINCIPAL [photo] A. S. WILSON Prominent educator, who has been elected principal of the Central High School to succeed Prof. W. B. Matthews who recently resigned because of illness. Prof. Wilson was appointed acting principal when Prof. Matthews was given a leave of absence in March, 1934. See article on this page.
MRS. PEARL WILSON TAYLOR DEAD Mrs. Pearl Wilson Taylor, 1936 W. Walnut Street, well known in local business circles, died Monday at the City Hospital of double pneumonia after a week's illness. She is survived by her mother, husband and sister.  She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church Mrs. Taylor's friends are praising Mrs. Wm. Heyburn, for whom Mrs. Taylor worked for nine years. They tell about Mrs. Heyburn's kindness and consideration shown Mrs. Taylor during her illness. Mrs. Taylor was buried from the J. B. Cooper chapel at 11 o'clock Thursday morning.
NAACP TO HOLD MASS MEETING The Louisville Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will sponsor a big mass meeting at the Trinity M. E. Church, 3rd and Guthrie Streets, Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. E. S. Lotspeich, State Secretary of the white Y. M. C. A., chairman of the Inter-Racial Commission and Dean Rufus E. Clement of the Louisville Municipal College will be the principal speakers. The N. A. A. C. P. and various organizations throughout the country are holding mass meetings in an effort to rally support for the passage of the Costigan-Wagner Anti-Lynching Bill at this session of Congress. A splendid program has been arranged and the public is invited to join in this protest.
SLUGS MUNICIPAL COLLEGE COED Miss Catherine Johnson Found On Class Room Steps "Too Bad It Had To Be You, But You Won't Be Only Victim," Says Culprit By Jim Brown Miss Catherine Johnson, a popular sophomore at the Louisville Municipal College, was slugged by an assailant whose identity was not known when the Leader went to press, last Tuesday morning between ten and eleven o'clock, and robbed of her purse which contained a few valuables carried by the young woman. Miss Johnson, who is the daughter of Mrs. William Johnson, of 1819 West Chestnut Street, was found prostrate and unconscious on the steps of the class room building by Misses Kathleen McClain and Hortense Halloway. After help was secured Miss Johnson was brought to consciousness and taken home by students. Suffering from intense pain from the blow delivered to the base of her skull and near her neck by a blunt instrument or a hard back hand lice, and from falling down the steps, Miss Johnson stated at her home Wednesday that she is of the opinion the assailant came up from behind, as she saw no one. The culprit pinned a note on Miss Johnson, written on a file card of the institution, which read as follows: "Too bad it had to be you. I needed ten and you 'dammed' society fools keep us out of every thing and make us commit crime, but you won't be the only victim, sorry." Damned is written the way it was spelled by the assailant who left the note. He might have meant that it was ten cents he needed or ten dollars.  Miss Johnson's purse contained only ten cents in money.
FLOYD SCOTT, WHO KILLED WIFE READING PAPER GETS 10 YEARS Floyd Scott, 25 years old,who lives at 1205 W. Liberty Street, killed his wife, Amelia, November 14, 1934, as she sat in her home, reading a newspaper. Scott was charged with willful murder. Scott said, when he gave himself up at the Second District Police Station, that while cleaning his gun, it went off as he arose to get some shoes at his wife's request. Floyd was indicted by the grand jury after investigations by Sergeant Pettelko of the homicide squad, who found that Scott was under the influence of liquor on the night of the fatal shooting of his wife. One witness, Mrs. Mary Maddox of 1508 Cedar Street, the mother of the slain girl, testified that Scott had threatened his wife's life on other occasions and that while they were separated, he came to her house and tried to cut her throat. She also stated that Scott made a remark to her three nights before the murder, that he was going to blow out Amelia's brains. In taking the stand in his own defense, Scott said that he and his wife were much in love and lived a peaceful life in their little home. The only statement he could give relative to the shooting, was that he was cleaning his pistol and as he started from his chair, the gun went off. Harry Payne, 306 S. 12th Street, testified that he heard the shot and got to the scene about two minutes afterwards; Scott was coming down the steps, asking neighbors next door to call a doctor as he had shot his wife. The police were called instead, but the woman was dead when they arrived. Witnesses testified that Scott's reputation was good among those who he knew best, and in the neighborhood where he lived. Scott was given ten years in the penitentiary by a jury in the criminal court Monday.
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