PARENT - TEACHERS' FOOD SHOW SPONSORS [two photographs] Mrs. Patsy Sloan, president of the Louisville League of Parent-Teacher's Associations, and Mrs. Louise Bond, chairman of the Scholarship Loan Fund Committee of the Association, played a great part in the success of the Food Show sponsored by the League at the Plymouth Settlement House March 4-7. Mrs. Sloan is a member of the Louisville Police Department. Mrs. Bond is the wife of T.M. Bond, teacher in the Central High School, and herself a former teacher in Langston University, and Government Home Demonstration Agent in Arkansas and Oklahoma.
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70,000 Pass Bier of Richard B. Harrison 15,000 Fill Streets, Windows and House Tops To See Last of Famous Negro Actor
Thomas Told He Couldn't Get By Without Race or Social Equality
Municipal Prof Receives Ph.D. Columbus, Ohio, March 21. - On March 15, at the winter convocation of the Ohio State University, the degree Doctor of Philosophy was conferred upon George D. Wilson, head of the Department of Education at Louisville Municipal College for Negroes, Louisville, Ky. Dr. Wilson earned his Bachelor's degree at Indiana University and his Master's degree at Indiana University. While studying for the doctorate at the Ohio State University he was honored by the faculty of the Graduate School, acting through the Graduate Council, by appointment as University Scholar in Education for the four quarters of the school year 1933-34. His field of specialization was college administration and he studied under the direction of Dr. Arthur J. Klein, formerly chief of the Division of Higher Institution of the United States Office of Education. The subject of Dr. Wilson's dissertation is "Developments in Negro Colleges During the Twenty-Year Period, 1914-15 to 1933-30." Dr. Wilson, who has engaged in educational work since 1923, has had a rich and varied experience as teacher of education and as an administrator of college and teacher-training programs.
Plan Derby Festival and Home Coming
RACE CITIZENS COOPERATE WITH DERBY FESTIVAL ASSN Organize For Week's Celebration And Home Coming; Arrange For Entertainment Of Visitors What may be regarded as a colored organization working in conjunction with the Kentucky Derby Festival Association, headed by Mayor Neville Miller as president; Col. A. N. S. Strode-Jackson, executive vice president and William E. Morrow, secretary-treasurer, was formed during this week. As has been stated through the daily papers, the Kentucky Derby Festival Association was organized for the purpose of making the famous Kentucky Derby a bigger event, to bring more thousands of Kentuckians back home from year to year and to attract thousands of more visitors to the Louisville metropolis, to show them something more than the Derby. In addition to the three officials as named above, the Association is being backed and supported by several other business men and the citizens at large. The colored people of Louisville have always played their part in every effort of interest to the whole citizenry and have willingly shared in every movement tended to make Louisville a bigger and better city. And following the many inquiries about the part the colored people were to play in the Kentucky Derby Festival week celebration from April 20 to May 4, the day on which the Kentucky Derby will be run at the famous Churchill Downs, the proper connections with the Association were made and the colored organization formed. Thousands Of Visitors Expected; The Entertainment The colored [organization?] with Dr. J. A. C. Lattimore, president; I. (Continued on page 4) 
FALLS CITY BREWING CO. EXPLAINS JOB SITUATION; TO SUPPORT ATHLETICS In a statement given to the Leader this week, the attitude of the Falls City Brewing Company toward the colored people is explained by the company's president, Ben Shrader. The statement of Mr. Shrader is prompted by some criticism which has been directed at the company because of the non-employment of colored persons at the Falls City Brewing Company plant. In regards to this, Mr. Shrader explains that the employment situation comes about through unionized conditions at his plant and at other such concerns for which the company heads should not be blamed. Mr. Shrader adds, that he has always been the friend of colored people and that it has been his desire to do something for the race in Louisville, and that after studying the matter over, he feels that the colored people can be greatly benefitted if ably supported in the field of athletics. And the Falls City Corporation will begin by equipping a first class baseball club, to be followed by other lines of activities. It is the purpose of the company to make the baseball club equal to that of the best among semi-pro clubs in the country, barring none, according to the statement given the Leader. The president, Mr. Shrader, is an ardent lover of athletics. He was (Continued on page 4)
Sordid Stories of Torture Related 
PAY LAST RESPECTS TO HARRY HARRIS Funeral services for Harry B. Harris, prominent citizen and clerk in the local postoffice, were held at the Calvary Baptist Church last Friday, the Rev. W.P. Offutt officiating. Many friends paid their last respects. Mr. Harris was fatally injured when the automobile he was driving left the road a few miles from Indianapolis, and struck a tree. He and his sister, Mrs. Georgia McComo, were going to Indianapolis to get a sick brother and bring him to Louisville for treatment. Mr. Harris, who was rushed to the city hospital in Indianapolis, died there Tuesday night of last week. (Continued on page 4)
FOOD SHOW PROMOTER [photo] MRS. L. W. ST. CLAIR Well known in the business and education life of Louisville, the wife of I.W. St. Clair, principal of the Western School, who promoted the Food Show sponsored by Louisville League of Parent Teacher's Associations, Mrs. St. Clair, who promoted several successful shows and cooking schools in Indiana last year, is now associated with the Leader in the promotion of food shows and kitchen carnivals in points in the Blue Grass section and West Kentucky where the Leader is largely circulated.
ELLA MALONE TAKES 4 YEARS After winning her appeal for a new trial through her attorney, W. Clarke Otto, former commonwealth's attorney, Ella Mae Malone, well known woman character, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in criminal court last week and accepted a four years sentence in the penitentiary, getting off lightly for fatally shooting Ed Harris, her friend, when he asked for $20.00 which he had given her to keep, according to testimony. When tried for the murder some months ago, Ella Mae was given 12 years, regarded as a light sentence for the crime committed. It is not necessary to say that Ella Mae Malone and the young man she killed are colored, or Negroes, as the daily papers usually put it--the fact that the prosecution recommended the four years for murder explains that.
GROCERIES TO BE GIVEN AWAY The annual "Bigger and Better Business Week," program of the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity will be observed from Monday, April 1 to Sunday April 7. The program begins with a social get together at the Pythian Temple Monday night April 1, from nine to one, with business talks and other programs during the week, closing out with a big business mass meeting at the Chestnut Street C. M. (Continued on page 4)
Whites Steal Negro Creations Only Distinctive American Producer, Says Johnson Would Not Be What It IS Were It Not For Negro; Believes In Social Equality
Southern Judge Socks Friends For Treatment of Negro
PRANK WITH GUN IS FATAL TO MAN J.L. Mason, 36, died from bullet wounds in the city hospital Monday afternoon. Robert J. Williams, 56, of 511 S. 11th Street was held on a charge of murder in connection with the shooting. Williams in a statement to detectives, said that the gun accidentally discharged while he was playing a prank on Mason. No other eye witnesses to the affair have been found. Williams was arraigned in the police court Tuesday and bound over to the grand jury for later hearing.
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