LAWYERS DECLARE WAR ON COURT HUSTLERS
TWO CITY HALL JANITORS NAMED
CONSULT COMPTROLLER AS THREAT MADE TO EXPOSE WHOLE "SORDID MESS" Following a daily press story in which City Controller. Charles Roser, is alleged to have named two Negro janitors of the City Hall as police hustlers, at the insistence of members of the Lincoln Bar Association, several colored lawyers declared "war" on hustling activities of the court and threatened to expose the whole "sordid mess." Action on the alleged hustling came to a head last Monday morning when a committee of race lawyers and bondsmen sought the aid of Controller Roser in settling their difference. The lawyers committee headed by Attorneys, J. A. Crumlin, Benjamin H. Shobe and C. Ewbanks Tucker, complained that Tom Wallace, a professional bondsman, solicited clients for several white lawyers in conjunction with his bond making activities. Wallace denied the charge. At this meeting, which was held prior to the release carried in the daily papers, Tucker said he wanted to  go on record as saying the whites in police court are as guilty as the colored. The janitors are just a part of a general "un-ethical" practice prevalent among some police court practictioners, he said. The hustling complained of by the attorneys is in no measure confined to janitors or bondmen, Atty. Ben H. Shobe declared as he recalled the resignation of Mrs. Wright, former deputy clerk of the police court, who resigned under questionable circumstances several weeks ago. "The (Continued on Page 4)
AFFAIR ENDS IN DISASTER A rooming house brawl ended in disaster for Joe Childs, 35, 922 R. Magazine last Saturday night, August 16, after John Lewis, 56, rooming house manager, was seriously cut and shot Childs five times in an effort to escape his slashing blade. The rooming house manager had been called to stop a fight between Childs and his alledged girl friend. Witnesses told police Childs had Lewis down and was cutting him when Lewis shot him through the thigh, the neck and through the kidney and liver. Childs was found leaning against a bed with powder burns on his white shirt when the coroner arrived. According to police, the argument started when Childs accosted Dorothy Copeland and Elsina Stone of 632 South 10th Street and tried to get Miss Copeland to go to her apartment with him. The officers said Childs started to beat the young woman after she refused. To avoid the beating, she started up stairs with the angry man whipping her every step of the way. Lewis entered the disturbance when Agnes Watkins, a bystander called the manager. Claiming self defense, Lewis was arraigned in police court Monday morning, Aug. 18. His bond was set at $500 and the case continued until September 22. Arresting officers were Detectives R. Kilgore, James Huggins and Capt. Michot of the 2nd District.
PROMINENT BUSINESS MAN CHARGED WITH RAPING COLORED GIRL TWICE
DR. G. D. SMITH VISITS OLD FRIENDS Dr. G. D. Smith of Charlotte, N. C., has been in the city several days visiting old friends Dr. Smith was for several years one of Louisville's outstanding dentists. Returning to the home of his early life, Dr. Smith is now the owner of one of the most modern barber shops in the South.
India GOVERNMENT HAILED BY WHITE
New President Charles L. Hill Outstanding scholar and minister of South Carolina who was recently elected president of the College of Liberal Arts of Wilberforce University by the Board of Trustees representing the A. M. E. Church.
Says Senator Blocked FEPC
Minister Gets $25.00 In Bus Suit
New Lynch Technique
NEW LYNCHING TECHNIQUE SEEN
"SELF-DEFENSE MURDERS" IN WHICH  NEGROES ARE SHOT IN BACK GROW
SOUGHT IN SLAYING, FOUND AND CHARGED WITH MURDER; OLD FEUD, REPORT Sought in the shot-gun slaying of Howard W. Anderson, 736 R. South Second, July 2nd, Ardrilie G. Williams, alias "Doc" Williams, 738 R. South Second,, was arrested and formally charged with murder this week by homcide police, after they declared his alibi had been broken. Williams has steadily maintained that he was not even in the neighborhoon of the slaying. The break came, the police said, when they succeeded in finding an eyewitness to the shooting. Officers declined to name the witness whose testimony has placed Williams at the scene of the crime. A 13-year-old white boy, son of the man for whom both Anderson and Williams worked on various occasions is felt to be the key to the solving of the case. Young Thomas Mitchell, Jr., previously reported that there was a "feud" between Anderson and Williams. "Doc" (Williams) used to throw open his door and talk about Howard (the victim) loud enough for everyone to hear him," the youth declared.. The boy said Anderson staggered up to the house after being shot as he stepped out of a coal shed in the rear of the house. Williams and Anderson lived in the rear of a tourist home at 736 South 2nd, operated by Thomas Mitchell, St., the father of the lad who identified Williams as the slayer.
DR. BLACKBURN INSTALLS UNIVERSAL SLIP LAMP D. M. B. Blackburn, who recently completed a course at the Post Graduate School of Medicine, Chicago, this week installed a Universal Slip Lamp to be used in the diagnosis of of the diseases of the eye.
THIS WEEK'S EDITORIAL ON SENATOR BILBO When the death of Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi became known in Louisville, Thursday, The Leader had just closed its forms on this week's editorial on page 4, captioned "Bilbo's Confession." We are sorry, but we saw no need for killing the editorial and further delaying the business of getting the forms off the press for the current week. - The Publisher
YOUNG MINISTER IN DEMAND Rev. Stephen White, student at Simmons University and a local preacher of the Chestnut Street C. M. E. Church, is quite in demand as a promising young minister. Pastors of some of Louisville's leading churches solicit his services from Sunday to Sunday. He is to make his second appearance within a period of a few weeks at Trinity A. M. E. Church Sunday: Rev. C. A. Liggins, capable minister and school principal is pastor. Rev. White delivered a stirring sermon at the Inspirational Hour on Laymen's Day at the recent District Conference of the C. M. E. Church. -- If you appreciate the quality service we are attempting to render the race and community, but do not find time to mail a remittance, phone JA. 5025 and a Leader collector will call.
TAKES A COURSE [Photo] H. F. Jones General manager of Mammoth Life Insurance Co., returned from the University of Wisconsin this week, after completing a ten days' course in advanced insurance methods. Mr. Jones was the only Negro insurance executive who took advantage of the summer course.
URGED TO KEEP NATION FORWARD
Treat the possessions of others as you would your own - if anything, have more regard for them, Don't put your feet on chair covers or be a vandal with your cigarets.
The banjo, a stringed musical instrument, was introduced in the United States by Negro slaves.
Apology Fails to Stop Woman
BUMPS INTO HER ON FOURTH STREET DETAINING CHARGED; BOUND OVER TO GRAND JURY; PROSECUTOR CITED An apology failed to appease Miss Florence Pike, white, 1357 South 4th, when Otis Sistrunk, 35, 1454 South 34th Steeet bumped into her on Fourth St., July 31. Arrested on a warrant sworn to by the white woman, Sistrunk was charged against her will and bound over to the September 19 grand jury, under a $500 bond. Heard in police court Tuesday morning, August 19, after two continuances, Sistrunk who said he was searching for an office building, claims to have bumped into the woman. He offered apologies and they were accepted, he said. He was held after an un-identified white woman told Miss Pike, "He did it on purpose." Several local Negro civic groups, including the NAACP said they intended to confer with Prosecutor Foster Deweese which they charged tries to send Negroes to the grand jury on the least pretext.
WHITE VOWS TO AVENGE KILLING 
POWELL TOLD TOO ILL FOR REELECTION
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