Stay Away From Chicago
Those Seeking Work Warned to Stay Away from Chicago
"No Work Here" Says Employment Expert of Chicago Urban League
Simmons Says He Will Defeat De Priest; Pickens Thinks Not
SHE LEADS BANK ACCOUNT CONTESTANTS [Photo] MRS. EDNA EVANS Popular Louisville matron who leads in the First Standard Bank's New Account Campaign.
INTEREST GROWS AS CLOSE NEARS Much interest is being manifested in the New Account Contest conducted by the Ladies' Auxiliary of the First Standard Bank as the Leader goes to press. Mesdames Edna Evans, Ophelia Lucas, Lillian Swan, Addie Duff, M. E. Spradling, Mattie E. Carter and Misses E. B. Singleton, Madelyn Hines, Gertrude Derrick and Ritta Johnson are among the leaders with others close up. The contest does not close until Saturday, December 20, and it is likely that some of the contestants who now have a small number of votes will be at the top when the last votes are counted by the judges. The judges elected are: Mr. I. Willis Cole, Editor Louisville Leader; Mr. Wm. Warley, Editor Louisville News; Mr. R. F. Berry, Editor Kentucky Reporter and Mr. W. H. Steward, Editor American Baptist. Final results will be published in the above named papers on Saturday, Dec. 28.
REFUGEES FLEE HAITI UPRISING ON STEAMER MARTINIQUE [Photo] Refugees from the native uprising in Haiti lined up aboard the Steamer Martinique. after having left their homes at Aux Cayes during fighting between United States marines and a mob of 1,500 natives near the city.--Associated Press Photo Note: Dispatches from Haiti after the killing of five natives and wounding twenty by the United States Marines say that the dictatorial school system caused the strike of 10,000 students allthe way from kindergarten to University students. The strike spread to the custom office where employees entered all offices with clubs to drive out any [haggards?], throwing typewriters at two American bosses who tried to break the strike. The release says that the U. S. Marines are the only supporters of an imposter who calls himself "president of Haiti." who was elected by nobody but the rifles of the marines and who is a busy bootlicker of American imperialism and its agents great and small. Hi  s name is Luis Borno, and he is so cordially detested by all Haitians that his "presidency" would end very suddenly were it not for the presence of the marines. So much has been stolen and looted from the public treasury that the customs employees are suffering in their wages. The marines who have been illegally occupying Haiti for years declared martial law, under the command of Colonel Richard M. Cutts.
Employment Mass Meeting Sunday
CALL MASS MEETING TO DISCUSS LOUISVILLE'S EMPLOYMENT PROBLEM The unemployment situation among Negro workers will be thoroughly discussed Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the Lyric Theatre when a mass meeting called by leaders of the various civic and welfare organizations of the city will be held. With thousands of men and women out of employment, with social and welfare agencies taxed to capacity in their efforts to relieve the situation, the need for immediate action looking to a solution of the problem is evident. For several weeks the efforts of the Louisville Urban League Y. W. C. A. and other agencies have been concentrated on the task of securing work for the hundreds who apply daily at these offices. Although it has been possible in [a?] number of instances to create opportunities for some of them, no work was available for approximately 60% of the applicants. The seriousness of the situation was made known to officers and representatives of the civic organizations of the city last Wednesday and a committee was appointed to make a careful study of the condition and present definite plans for meeting it. After several conferences in which every phase of the problem was considered in the light of the information available, the committee is prepared to place before the public some very vital facts on it. The meeting to be held Sunday will [be the?] first of the series of educational conferences to be sponsored by the organizations. The ministerial alliances, N. A. A. C. P., Business League, Louisville Urban League, Y. M. C. A., and  Y. W. C. A. are combining their forces in this undertaking realizing that unless some measures to improve conditions are adopted. the Negro wage earner will be forced into the breadline. Among the speakers on the program Sunday will be Rev. J. C. Caldwell, J. O. Blanton, J. R. Ray, W. C. Buford, J. A. Thomas, H. E. Hall, Rev. Wm. Johnson, Rev. Millard Newman. Rev. N. D. Shamborguer. General discussion will follow the speakers who will present various phases of the problem and all present will be requested to give their impressions and opinions on it. If you want to know the fact about the most vital question before the country today, come to the Lyric Theatre Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.
NEW POLICE IN UNIFORM ON DUTY The new platoon of six more colored police in uniform promised by Mayor Wm. B. Harrison have successfully passed requirements and are now patroling the streets of Louisville. The race is now represented in the police department with twelve uniform officers and two plain clothes men, with indications that more detectives may be added. The addition of the new platoon is evidence that those who said more would not be appointed and that those who said more would not be appointed and that those already on the force would lose out because of the induction of the civil service know what they were talking about. The fine looking colored men seen on the streets in the uniform of patrolmen are Messrs. John Walker, Taylor Redd, George M. L. Harris, Henry Hamilton, Clarence Parker and Chester Johnson.
BANKS SUPPORT THRIFT MOVEMENT Sensing the acute economic condition facing the people at this particular time, the American Mutual and First Standard Banks are making the week of December 16-21 Thrift Week. Since December 1, these two banks have placed in the hand of the people in Louisville over $50,000 in Christmas Savings. As a general rule, Christmas savings funds go to make a Merry Christmas, but the bankers say that since there is so much unemployment and we are entering what is most likely to be a hard winter. it is sensible for us to have a sane christmas instead of such a merry one. During this week they are stressing the importance of paying off old accounts. paying taxes, opening savings accounts and adding to accounts already opened. The plan is to close Thrift Week with an Everybody's Day on Saturday. at which times the banks will give away calendars and souvenirs. Their slogan for the week is "Pay your bills, have an economic Christmas and save your money."
Col. Duncan Convicted
NEW JUNIOR HIGH OPEN Among the speakers at the program of the formal opening of the new Junior High School at Jackson and Breckenridge Streets, Monday night. December 16 will be Mayor Harrison, Supt. Gregory, other members of the Board of Education and other citizens. Prof. A. E. Meyzeek the principal, invites the public to be present at the program and to inspect this most beautiful institution of training for Negro boys and girls.
Bond Gets National Appointment
DEAN OF KENTUCKY STATE COLLEGE SPECIALIST IN EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT - Robsion Leads And Wins Fight For Recognition Due Colored Organization And Kentucky Voters - Prof. James A. Bond, Dean of the Kentucky Normal and Industrial College at Frankfort was appointed as "Specialist in Negro Education" by Secretary of the Interior Wilbur last Friday. The appointment which was no surprise to those who were in close touch with Congressman J. M. Robsion, leader of the Kentucky Republicans at Washington who have been determined in the effort to land a national place for a colored Kentuckian was first made known here among the colored leaders through a telegram from Mr. Robsion who was Republican State Campaign manager for the Hoover campaign last year to I. Willis Cole, who was active director of the National and State work among colored people. Dean Bond who was on a leave of absence for a year's study at the University of Cincinnati when the appointment was made will remain there temporarily but will later make his headquarters at Washington. Mr. Bond's work will be a part of the Survey of Secondary Education that is being made by the Federal Office of Education under an authorization by Congress and will have to do particularly with those phases of it relation to colored people. Dean Bond is 38 years old, and has been engaged in educational activities in behalf of his race for 15 years. He served for three years as Principal of the Middlesboro High School, in Kentucky; three years as Instructor of English in Swift College, Rogersville, Tennessee; two years as Dean of Seldens Institute, Brunswick, Georgia; three years as head of the Eduction Department, State College, Frankfort, Kentucky; three years as Dean of that College and one year as its Acting President. Never Any Doubt About Appointment There was never any doubt in the (Continued on page 8) -- BOND APPOINTMENT MOST IMPORTANT, SAYS ROBSION IN TELEGRAM TO EDITOR Washington, D. C., Dec. 6. Hon. I. Willis Cole. Editor Louisville Leader. 422 S. 6th Street. Louisville, Ky. Prof. James A. Bond, Dean of the State Colored School at Frankfort has been appointed by the Department of Interior to the new office created of Specialist in Negro Education. There have been white specialists for years making surveys, studies and reports in behalf of the education needs for the white children of the nation. Prof. Bond will head the work of making studies, surveys and reports and provide helpful leadership as to the educational needs of the colored children of the nation. I consider this the most important office in service and benefit to the colored people of the nation ever been held by any colored man or woman. This action taken in behalf of Prof. Bond is very pleasing indeed to me as I have been very anxious to see the colored children of the nation given more consideration in their educational training and at the same time I desired to see the colored people of Kentucky receive substantial recogintion at the hands of President Hoover's administration. As you likewise were deeply interested in this matter I am sending you this information. (Signed) J. M. ROBSION
Alonzo Parham Says Treatment at West Point Absolutely Fair
GETS LIFE SENTENCE IN JEFFERSONVILLE Waverly Hilliard, who killed Constable George W. Kirk in Jeffersonville last month escaped the electric chair, but was given a life sentence by the jury Wednesday morning. According to reports about the murder, however, (Continued on page [illegible]