FARMERS CLOSE SUCCESSFUL CONFERENCE AT KENTUCKY STATE COLLEGE Frankfort, Ky. August 22, 1935--The Farmers conference, which brought together 60 colored farmers from over the state, closed its meeting yesterday with talks by several agricultural experts and demonstrations by leaders in the field. Professors A. T. Wood, representing K. S. I. C. and A. C. Burnett representing the Extension Service of University of Ky. expressed themselves as being highly satisfied with the progress made since the conference was organized a year ago. The leaders and the farmers were highly elated with the sentiment expressed in a letter received by President R. B. Atwood and read before the assembled delegates from Dr. Frank L. McVey, president of the University of Kentucky. The letter follows: (Continued o page 8)

BAPTIST ELECT BALLEW MODERATOR; CLOSE WITH ARMORY MASS MEETING By Penelope Perdue Adams The General Association of Kentucky Baptists ended Sunday night after a five days' session at the Zion Baptist Church, 22nd and Walnut Sts., of which the Rev. W. H. Craighead is pastor. The presiding executive of the convocation was the brilliant pastor of Calvary Baptist Church of this city, Rev. W. P. Offutt. The Association reached its climax in a mass meeting held at the Jefferson County Armory when the Rev. T. L. Ballou of Gary, Ind., spoke to a large audience. Rev. Offutt introduced the speaker saying, "He is a son of Kentucky, an outstanding orator, an honorable citizen, a Christian gentleman, a pulpiteer who has no superior, and a man whom all the people love." In his discourse on "[Baptist?] Brotherhood and its Opportunity," Dr. Ballou depicted world, church and race conditions. He made a vivid description of the world passing through an unparalled and unprecedented age of reconstruction, readjustment, unrest and discontent. He said in part that people are desperately wicked; homicide, suicide and all kinds of 'cides are on every hand. Speculative science has replaced the theological idea of God. The world is becoming materialistic. America, the pride of the world, is becoming materialistic instead of spiritualized. It depends upon head and pocket instead of the heart to guide, thus leading to destruction. There is rascality, greed, dishonesty. There is a lack of love and an abundance of lust. His brilliant address was full of food for thought. The Rev. W. H. Ballew, moderator-elect and editor-manager of the American Baptist, offered the invocation and a large chorus directed by Prof. H. B. Britt, furnished the music. The General Association of Baptists closed one of the greatest sessions in the history of the organization. A (Continued on page 8)

DENTISTS ELECT OFFICERS FOR 1936 The National Dental Association closed its annual session here last Friday, August 16, to meet in Cincinnati, Ohio, August 4, 1936. The Association elected the following officers for 1936: President, Dr. W. D. Reid, Nashville, Tenn.; President-Elect, Dr. Jackson L. Davis, Washington, D. C.; Vice President, Dr. S. C. Hamilton, Chicago, Ill., Sec'y-Treasurer, Dr. J. A. Jackson, Charlotte, Va.; Ass't Sec'y, Dr. J. W. Johnson, Louisville. Regional Vice Presidents: Drs. John A. Turner, Washington; A. F. Belcher, Decatur, Ala.; T. G. Benjamin, St. Louis.

WINNER [Photo] The little daughter of Mrs. Mary Brown who won the bicycle offered in the American Legion contest.

LEE MADDOX IS KILLED BY FRIEND Lee Maddox, better known as "California Slim," well known man about town, was accidentally shot and killed by his best friend and business partner, Warren Trabue. Maddox and Trabue were said to be at 1537 rear W. Kentucky Street guarding some whiskey and had fallen asleep. Maddox, it seems, awoke and made the rounds of the place to see that everything was all right. His moving about wakened Trabue who began shooting, thinking it was hi-jackers trying to break in and did not know, so he says, until too late that it was his buddy. Maddox, who came from Drakesboro, Ky., had just buried his father there three months ago. He is survived by he wife, Mrs. Thelma Maddox and a son of the Louisville address, a mother and four sisters of Drakesboro. Burial was at Drakesboro Sunday with the People's Funeral Home in charge.

CROWDS ATTEND ANNIVERSARY OF CENTRAL DRUG STORE By William H. Ferris Central Drug Store was crowded with friends and patrons Thursday, August 15, from 8 a. m. until midnight. It was Anniversary Day. Cut rate sales on toilet articles and whiskey and wines was one of the features, along with the giving of ice cream, cake and hand lotions to the ladies and shaving cream, refreshments and sandwiches to the men, between three and four o'clock. Dr. J. E. McDonald and Frank L. Moorman, proprietors, Mrs. McDonald, Dr. J. B. Hudson, pharmacist, Mesdames Mayme Maddox, Elizabeth Thomas and Birdie Lee Thompson, Misses Katie Davis and Helen Clay, waitresses, William Hughes and Ike Johnson, soda fountain boys, Willard McDonald and Edward Reed, delivery boys and Chef Jack Perkins form the staff, which pleases the large number of patrons. The delegates to the Dental Convention were loud in their praises of the Central Drug Co.

ENCOURAGED BY SMALL LEGISLATURE PRIMARY VOTE - If Favorable Decision Is Reached A Real Organization Will Be Formed And The Facts Carried To Every Voter In The District - While things have been unusually quiet among the race groups following the August 8 primary which made history for the Negro in Louisville, a great deal of thinking has been going on, which may be turned into words within the next few days. Out of the primary came two colored men, as nominees of the Republican and Democratic parties, respectively, and who will ask the voters of the 58th Legislative District to elect them as their representative to the state Assembly at Frankfort in the general election in November. There were two Republican candidates for the primary nomination. Charles W. Anderson, Jr., who received 670 votes and Lee L. Brown, whose vote was 157. The four Democratic candidates were C. Ewbank Tucker who received 369 votes: J. H. D. Bailey whose vote was 99: R. P. Beckham 16 and E. A. Grundy 9  . Anderson is the Republican nominee and Tucker the Democratic, and one of these two men would be elected in November if things remain as they are, with Anderson being slightly favored to win because of the Republican majority in the district, but with Tucker having a good chance to win and be the first Negro to sit in the state's law making body, with several other things considered. But since the primary there has been strong talk of a third man entering the race, as an independent Republican. While nothing definite was announced as the Leader went to press, the subject of one of two good colored men who might be available as candidates was being enthusiastically debated with an expected decision on the matter the first of the coming week. The fact that out of the 5,000 votes in the 58th Legislative District only 1,320 were cast in the primary has given encouragement to the movement. This is [the?] more significant when the amount of ballyhooing, the kind of propaganda was put out, and the sort of tactics used by those behind the winning Republican candidate is considered. The fact is also brought out that Lee L. Brown had only a shell of an organization, did practically no campaigning, and taking a great deal for granted, allowed several things to go against him. It also being reported that one of the leaders of the opposition said that votes that were for Brown were counted otherwise--that he wanted to win, but believed in being fair about it. Should the matter of running an (Continued on page 8)

REV. STEVENSON MOVED TO HOME Rev. John M. Stevenson, Paducah minister, formerly of Louisville, who was painfully injured in an automobile accident last week while attending the General Association of Kentucky Baptists, has been removed from the city hospital to the residence of Mrs. Parthenia Bell, his sister, 1326 W. Madison Street. While Rev. Stevenson's condition remains serious it is thought by his sister and wife, who are at his bedside, that there are signs of improvement. The visiting pastor was injured when a car which he was driving was struck by a Spaulding Laundry truck driven by Walter Brown at 15th and Jefferson Streets.

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