BUSY SINGER [Photo] Etta Moten, radio, screen and stage star, is leading a busy life these days. Last week she appeared at the Granada Theatre in Pittsburgh. This week she is at the Paramount in Syracuse. Next week she is scheduled for a personal appearance at one of the Detroit theatres and in between she found time to make a commercial audition Monday over WOR, the big independent radio station in Newark. Early in November she is being presented in concert by the Cincinnati chapters of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
[Saunders] For Board of Education
W. L. SAUNDERS CANDIDATE FOR BOARD OF EDUCATION Headquarters Opened in Mutual Standard Bank Building With J. R. Ray As Campaign Chairman By William Warley William L. Saunders, one of Louisville's best known citizens, has accepted the challenge of a number of his friends and fellows to run as a race representative on the Board of Education. Mr. Saunders is not only one of the most substantial citizens, but also one of the most conservative and much persuasion had to be used to prevail upon him to make the race. He finally yielded to the appeal of race pride and the argument that colored Louisvillians need a representative of their own on the Board. After Mr. Saunders consented to make the race about 20 representative men met in the Domestic Life Building, 601 W. Walnut Street, and elected Joseph R. Ray, campaign chairman; Rev. J. H. D. Bailey, vice and John H. Frank, Jr., chairman of the legal committee. Wednesday over 400 names had been signed to papers endorsing Saunders. Only 400 names are necessary but the plan was to have double that amount when the papers were filed at noon Thursday. Headquarters have been opened at 614 W. Walnut Street, Mutual Bank Building. Mr. Ray expects to have a committee of 150 men and women and is calling that number to meet Monday night, October 15, in the Mammoth Life Insurance Company agency rooms, 422 S. 6th Street. With a united front it is the opinion of many that Saunders can be elected.
PRESIDENT J. F. LANE APPEALS FOR BETTER RACE RELATIONS Lebanon, Ky., Oct. 11.--(Special)--[Standing?] in the presence of ore than [illegible] thousand Methodist preachers and [laymen?] who packed the church here [last?] week, Dr. J. F. Lane, the [president?] of Lane College, Jackson, Tenn, made an impassioned plea in behalf of [better?] race relation in this country. [His address?] was so replete with wholesome thoughts we are giving excerpts of it, setting forth the high points which elicited hearty applause, being led most of the time by the women of the conference At the close of the speech, the leaders of the conference crowded around the speaker and congratulated him upon his preaching on the race question. Bishop U. V. W. Darlington, who presided over the conference, said that the address was a sensible one delivered by a sensi- man. He declared that his great father as well as his great church and race should be proud of him. He further said, looking at the speaker, "You have (Continued on page 4)
WOMEN'S PROGRESSIVE CLUB MEETING SUNDAY The Women's Progressive Club will hold its first meeting of the season at the Plymouth Congregational Church Sunday evening at 4 o'clock. The subject to be discussed is "The Value of Community Participation in Community Needs." The public is invited.
Fight for Negro Star
VOTERS URGED TO SUPPORT FRANK DRAKE FOR CONGRESS The following interesting statement about Frank M. Drake, Republican candidate for Congress, was given to the Leader this week: "Mr. Drake as Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney during 1921-22 and, in connection with those duties, he took particular interest in the welfare of the colored people, being very careful when their cases came before the grand jury to see that they were not oppressed with prosecutions for trivial offenses. He also prosecuted a number of cases involving colored people in order to protect the rights of those who were innocent and punish criminals who attempted to treat them unfairly. Mr. Drake states that of all of his experiences in the criminal court, the one of which he was proudest was when a delegation of prominent colored citizens at one time told him that for the first time in years the decent colored people of Louisville felt like the criminal court was there for the protection, instead of the persecution, of the colored people. One of Mr. Drake's most pleasant memories in connection with his criminal court work was the association with Mrs. Bertha Whedbee, who at that time was a colored policewoman and who made an outstanding record of service to her people in that work. Mr. Drake has often said that Mrs. Whedbee's cases were better prepared than any that were brought to the criminal court by officers dealing with the same class of cases as came under her supervision, and that the police department suffered a great loss when her work terminated. During the week preceding the notorious 1927 election, Mr. Drake (together with Jos. Selligman) was on duty in the police court almost constantly, defending the hundreds of persons (mostly colored citizens) who were arrested on trumped up charges for the purpose of keeping them in jail election day and generally terrorizing the voters. Something like five hundred of these cases were on the docket of the police court and they (Continued on page 4)
Students Demand That Willis Ward Play In Michigan-Georgia Tech Game
MRS. LENA GOODE STRICKEN; DIES Mrs. Lena W. Goode, 1917 W. Chestnut Street, passed away Monday morning after a very brief illness. Mrs. Goode attended morning services at her church and greeted her friends as usual, apparently in perfect health. She returned from church, had dinner and was stricken at the dinner table, sinking rapidly, she never rallied. The end came at 1;45 a. m. Mrs. Good is a native of Louisville and was well known in civic and church affairs. She belonged to the 5th Street Baptist Church, the Order of the Eastern Star and Ladies Union Band, being president of the latter organization. (Continued on page 4)
LEADER'S ANNUAL CAMPAIGN IS ON The Leader's annual subscription campaign began Wednesday to end Thursday evening, December 20. For the past eleven years the Leader has given away automobiles each year as the capital prize and other prizes in cash. Cars have been sent as far as Mississippi and North Carolina, and cash and commissions to those who have failed to win one of the big prizes have been sent to all sections of the country. Three of the twenty-one automobiles given away by the Leader have been won by persons living in the little city of Georgetown, Ky. The Hudson Coach, Essex and Chevrolet are the cars the Leader have offered in the past. This year the beautiful and popular Ford V8 Sedan, shown elsewhere in this issue, is the capital prize. $100, $75, $50 and $25 will be given in cash to the four other persons who report the largest number of votes representing subscriptions of from 6 months up, during the period all money reported will be given to those who fail to win the car or one of the cash prizes instead of ten per cent as heretofore. The names of those already entered are carried on page 8 with the 10,000 votes given with the nomination. The reporting begins next week. Others who will take advantage of this rare opportunity of getting an automobile or cash around Christmas time for just a little work among friends during spare time, are urged to cut out the nomination blank and mail at once.
FOR CONGRESS [Photo] FRANK M. DRAKE Republican Candidate For Congress See article.
Leibowitz Quits Scottsboro Case
BISHOP CLEMENT SERIOUSLY ILL As the Leader goes to press Bishop George C. Clement, who has been ill for several months, is reported in a serious condition. The entire family is home, it is reported.
KILLS SWEETHEART SHOOTS SELF CLARENCE WOODS FATALLY WOUNDS MISS ANNA TAYLOR Jealousy Said To Be The Cause; In Hiding When She Started To Work Monday Morning Clarence Woods, better known as "Jay Bird," 21sts Street, shot and fatally wounded his sweetheart, Miss Anna Taylor, last Monday morning at the corner of 21st and Walnut Streets. After shooting Miss Taylor three times, Woods ran about fifty yards into an alley and attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head. He is now confined in the City Hospital where his condition is critical and is under guard. Officer William Scott who was off duty at the time was on a Walnut Street car when he heard the shots and got off to investigate. He found Miss Taylor lying in the street and followed Woods whom he saw running into an alley. He heard another shot and on entering the alley found Woods critically wounded. Woods was arrested about three weeks ago on a warrant sworn to by Miss Taylor, accusing Woods of cutting up cl  othing and threatening her life with a butcher knife. He was arraigned in Police Court but was dismissed on lack of evidence. It is reported that he left town but returned to Louisville early Sunday morning and was seen in the neighborhood early Monday morning watching Miss Taylor's home. They are said to have been sweethearts for several years and jealousy is believed to have been the cause of the shooting. Miss Taylor was born in Burkesville, Ky., but has lived in Louisville about ten years. She was a member of Zion Baptist Church and was regarded as a quiet and peaceful neighbor by those who lived around her. She is survived by a mother, Mrs. Lucy Duvall; three sisters, Mrs. Parrot Pace, Mrs. Lizzie Burbridge and Mrs. Onnie Carter; two nephews, Terry and Randolph Burbridge, and a niece, Miss Ollie V. Pace. The body was shipped to Burksville early Thursday morning for burial.
WEST KENTUCKY COLLEGE HAS LARGEST ENROLLMENT IN HISTORY Paducah, Ky., Oct. 11.-The present enrollment of 207 at West Kentucky Industrial College shows an increase of 58% over the enrollment for the entire first semester of last year, and an increase of 50% over the largest college enrollment for the first semester of any previous year. Indications are that by the close of registration the number of students will exceed 225. Registration began Monday, September 17, and by the end of the first week, the enrollment exceeded by far, that for the same period of last year. Registration was held, primarily, in room 101 of the administration building. Freshmen-English tests were given in room 201 at 2 o'clock, September 17. Classes began Wednesday, September 19. A survey of registration statistics shows that in tddition to the 23 Kentucky counties, namely Ballard; Barren; Bells; Boyd; Calloway; Christian; Clark; Davies; Fulton; Graves; Harlan; Henderson; Hickman; Hopkins; Kenton; Logan; Lyon; McCracken; Muhlenberg; Warren; Webster; Simpson and Union, represented there are student son the campus from five other states, Illinois; Indiana; Mississippi, North Carolina and Tennessee. Students were admitted with advanced standing from the following colleges. Wiiberforce University, Talladega College. Kentucky State Industrial College. Lincoln Institute, Livingstone College, Indiana State University, Southern Illinois Normal University, and Tennessee State College. The enrollment of 110 in the freshman class is the largest in the history of the in- (Continued on page 4)
Tyler Sits As Superior Judge
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