COLORED GIRL IS RAPED - INSURANCE MANAGER CHARGED WITH RAPING COLORED GIRL 16 Takes Wife To Tennessee; Makes Advances And Attacks 16 Year Old Maid On Return ATTRACTIVE LITTLE GIRL WAS BROUGHT TO LOUISVILLE WITH FAMILY; TELLS STRAIGHT, CONVINCING STORY Before Juvenile Court Saturday; N. A. A. C. P. Investigates And Will Push Indictment An attractive and intelligent little 16 year old school girl told Dr. J. H. Walls, president of the local branch N.A.A.C.P., and the editors of The Louisville News and The Lounsville Leader how advances were made by the man of the family for whom she had worked, and with whom she had lived for four years, and how she was attacked by him on January 20th. The little girl told about leaving her mother who with four other children lives in North Carolina, to make her home with an aunt in Tennessee, and when she was taken into the home of Harry W. Pipkins, of Johnson City, and practically treated as one of the family, came to Louisville with the Pipkins, who now live at 2008 Lowell Ave. The girl, though somewhat embarrassed, told in a straight forward, convincing way of how Pipkins, who is manager of the Missouri State Life Insurance Co., with offices in the Starks Building, approached her Tuesday morning, February 20, after she and two of his four children had returned with him to the city from Tennessee where Pipkins had carried his wife, who with the two other children remained with relatives. She told how she ignored what was being said to her and rushed out to school, and though hating to return to the home knew no other place to go, and how on Tuesday night after the two chil- (Continued on page 8)
FAMILY SERVICE ORGANIZATION GIVING HELP TO NEEDY COLORED PEOPLE :That the Family Service Organization is bearing a large portion of the responsibility for the care of indigent and unemployed colored persons in Louisville was revealed Wednesday in the regular meeting of the Family Service Advisory Committee. John M. Glendenning, Supervisor of the Western District and secretary of the Committee, reported that during January 1187 families with a total of 4392 persons were supplied with food, clothing, rent and fuel by the organization. Assuming that the Negro population is 52,000 the report shows that approximately 8% of the total was served in some way by the organization. Applications for the relief and assistance have increased so rapidly during the past four months that it has been necessary to add five full time case workers for work among colored people. Even with this staff it is practically impossible to thoroughly cover the field and the organization will welcome the volunteer assistance of persons willing to help in this emergency. J. A. Thomas, Secretary of the Urban League and Chairman of the Advisory Committee, reported little change in employment conditions among Negroes since the registration of unemployed persons several months ago. At that time it was found that approximately 5000 Negroes were unemployed and although work has been secured for many of them, more recent labor turnovers have thrown others out of work. Because of this unsettled state of affairs it is quite reasonable to anticipate further demands on the agencies aiding the indigent. The Advisory Committee which is cooperating with officials and workers of the Family Service Organization includes Mrs. J. O. Blanton, Thomas Bond, Rev. J. C. Caldwell, Rev. P. J. A. Coxe, Miss Rebecca Guest, G. W. Jackson, Miss Margaret Lewis, Mrs. W. B. Matthews, Miss Mary Merritt, Mrs. Mary V. Parrish, W. H. Perry, Jr., Mrs. Amanda Sayles, Miss Carrie B. Warren and Rev. Jas. M.Williams.
Six Men Die On Same Day
Domestic Life Insurance Co., Officials Who Made Good Reports And Were Re-elected At The Annual Stockholders Meeting Last Month. [Photo] W. W. SPRADLING President [Photo] J. E. SMITH Vice President, Agency Director [Photo] W. F. TURNER Secretary and Gen. Mgr. [Photo] CLARENCE YOUNG Treasurer [Photo] G. P. MACK Assistant Secretary [Photo] DR. C. W. SNYDER Medical Director
Cite New Evidence In Favor Of Payne
LAWYER CAHILL CITES MORE EVIDENCE IN ASKING NEW TRIAL FOR PAYNE Frank R. Cahill, Jr., young attorney for Charles B. Payne, 20 year old colored boy who was given one year as the maximum penalty on the charge of failure to render aid when the Courier-Journal woman reporter was killed by an automobile on Bardstown Road by a jury in the Criminal Court, filed a motion for a new trial last Saturday supported by four affidavits signed by Eddie Thomas, 543 West Street; Arthur Moore, 766 South Jackson Street, and Floyd Buford, 430 South Tenth Street, three colored employees of Sears, Roebuck & Co., Ninth Street and Broadway, and which stated that Don Ramsey, a detective, came to their place of employment January 20, following the death of the woman reporter, and told Buford to "watch out for an automobile bearing license tag 760-598, with a badly damaged left front side, and that there was a reward of $2,500." Buford said he told this to the other men. Thomas and Moore say that they s  aw the automobile in the Sears and Roebuck parking lot, but before they could notify the police the automobile disappeared. An affidavit also alleged that Detective  Baumgartner and Griffin, who arrested Payne, later come to them and told them "to forget about it." In addition to the above as new evidence Attorney Cahill charges that the one year confinement in [the?] Jefferson County Jail was contrary to the law and evidence. In his own affidavit Mr. Cahill says that the new evidence came to his knowledge after the trial and that he had no means to make a thorough investigation, since the defense was conducted practically without money.
Policy Bankers In Muddle
SITS AS JUDGE [Photo] HENRY J. RICHARDSON, JR. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 27.--Attorney Henry J. Richardson, with offices at 229-1/2 Indiana Avenue, presided in Superior Court Three during the entire morning of February 18, disposing of three cases. Young Richardson, who is 28 years of age, has the distinction of being the youngest Negro in the United States to sit on a Bench of a court of higher jurisdiction and preside over a full session. He was appointed to the post by Judge William A. Pickens, Democrat, Judge of Superior Court Room 3. Attorney Richardson is a Democrat, having run for legislature in 1930 on that ticket. He was defeated for the nomination by a small margin.
HEMPHILL AND MURPHY PRAISED Patrolmen Hemphill and Murphy in performing their duties as officers of the police department of Louisville, Ky., have on many occasions proven themselves to be of worthwhile value to the community in which they live. Further these two men constantly increase the prestige and the dignity of the Louisville police department through acts that indicate that beneath the blue of their uniforms are souls representing manly courage, fair play and a high respect and great regard for the law. Hemphill and Murphy have endeared themselves to the Negro citizens of Louisville, Ky. They are true representatives of the race to which they belong and every open minded citizen greets these men as brothers who place true character, citizenship, the protection of womanhood and the well-being of the community above the selfish and the designing deeds of lawless men. The Committee of Fifteen desires through this article to make known their regard for the services that h  ave been rendered the city of Louisville by Patrolmen Hemphill and Murphy. The Committee further points these men as representatives of the true spirit of American manhood, representatives whose idealism might well be emulated by the sons and daughters of the great Negro race.
More About "Y" Basketball Game ST. LOUIS WRITER NO SPONSOR OF CLEAN JOURNALISM, SAYS RUSSELL Louisville Players Not Aggressors; Pine Street Captain The "Chaser" And "Hoodlum" By H. C. Russell To the Editor, Louisville Leader: An article which appeared in the Leader last week from the pen of Mr. Jospeh B. Brown, St. Louis editor and self styled "sponsor of clean sports," but apparently not a sponsor of clean journalism, calls for further discussion of the "unfortunate occurence" between St. Louis and Louisville basketeers in the Pine Street Y.M.C.A. gymnasium, February 7. Since, much to the surprise of Louisville Y players, the occurence was given the public press, it is only fair to grant any loyal St. Louisan the right and privilege of publishing a defense of his team and his city. But Mr. Brown's statement was at so great variance with what actually happened that the matter cannot honorably be allowed to rest where he leaves it. Now to a few of his statements: First, that Louisville players were the aggressors. This does not square with the fact that the St. Louis player who was in the [[illegible] clash acknowledged in the presence of Pine Street Y.M.C.A. secretary and players from both teams that he was the aggressor, and further offered a gentlemanly apology to the Y.M.C.A. and the Louisville team. Next, Mr. Brown states that "Mr. Gowins chased a player to the side lines and all of the Louisville team rose up against him," and further that "the only act of hoodlumism displayed was by a Louisville player who picked up a chair to strike Captain Zomphier." Mr. Brown is plainly in error as to both the "chaser" and the "hoodlum," and even in greater error in his statement that "all the Louisville team rose up against" anybody. The fact is, there was but one "chaser" and but one "hoodlum," both combined in the person of Zomphier, who in all rules of good sportsmanship, as captain of the St. Louis (Continued on page 5)
MUTUAL STANDARD BANK ANNOUNCES PROGRAM; NATIONAL PRESIDENT WRITES That Louisville citizens may be brought into more intimate knowledge of the wonderful facilities and service which the Mutual Standard Bank offers the public, the bank announces the early launching of a city and county wide campaign of education and good will, which will carry the message into every nook and corner of the city and adjoining territory. All the personal resources of the institution including directors, officers, employees, women's auxiliary organizations and interest friends will be brought together in a gigantic effort to cover the city like a blanket of morning dew. Discussing the proposed campaign, a representative of the bank complimented the citizens of the city and state upon the cooperation and support which they have given the older banks and the newly merged institution, but, he said, there are thousands of our citizens who are still uninformed as to the real services of a first class banking institution such as the race now has in The Mutual Standard. Every citizen, he continued, should know something of how the banks have made home ownership possible to hundreds of families; of the fact that every Negro church built or remodeled during the past ten years has been assisted through our banks; of how these banks have given banking experience and made savers of five thousand race men and women who had never before had any banking experience. And further, said he, the people should know something of the part the banks have played in the establishment and maintenance of nearly every race business enterprise to be found in the city, and how three [thousand?] boys and girls of all ages have been started toward habits of thrift and sound character through the savings facilities offered. According to the bank announcement scores of workers will take the field, thousands of pieces of printed matter will be distributed, and speakers will carry the messages to churches, lodges and all kinds of public assemblies to better acquaint Louisville citizens with their great banking institution, now the second largest Negro bank in [the?] world. National President Writes Letter Philadelphia, Feb. 23 1931 Dear Editor I am sure that you are as delighted as I am that the banks owned and operated by colored men, have made such a splendid showing in these days (Continued on page 5)
Says Faith Inspired Lincoln