Mob Lynches Dying Man
Mob Takes Dying Man From Hospital And Lynches Him
Sets Body Afire After Drenching It In Gasoline In View Of Colored Homes
[Y. M.?] C. A. CAMPAIGN GOING OVER [THE?] TOP; EXPANSION PROGRAM BEGUN With approximately two hundred men's memberships and one hundred boy's meberships already reported, the Membership Campaign Committee of the Chestnut Street Y. M. C. A. unanimously decided last Monday night to continue the campaign until the quota of three hundred men and three hundred boys would be reached. In spite of the many difficulties and obstacles that confronted the workers this year, the response to the appeals was reported by the campaign workers to be the most favorable for several years. Few, if any, objections were received by the workers, and were it not for the fact that there is so much unemployment at this time, a much larger membership could have been secured. The membership campaign was the first move in the program for improving and enlarging the activities of the "Y" and campaign leaders are optimistic over the final outcome. Other plans for expanding the "Y" program have gone steadily onward and workmen are preparing this week to begin painting and cleaning the building. We, therefore, urge the hundreds of mothers and fathers who would like to see the Y. M. C. A. render greater service in Louisville to support the membership campaign.
Couldn't Search Woman's Coat
Officers Shoot Two Colored Women
BUTLER COUNTY OFFICERS SHOOT WOMEN NEAR BOWLING GREEN Bowling Green, Dec. 10.--Two colored women were shot down by Butler County officers about eight miles from Morgantown last Friday. One of the women, Ella Bailey, was killed and her sister, Stella, was shot through the right leg. The two women resided alone in what is known as the Dimple neighborhood and own a farm of abut 260 acres. It is said that the officers went to the Bailey home for the purpose of serving a warrant, and when the women refused to open the door the officers attempted to [batter?] it down, which brought shots from one of the women which hit one of the officers in the hand, whereupon the three deputies who made up the [party?] sent a fusilade of shots [through?] the door at the women. Fair minded citizens of the section regard the shooting of the women as unwarranted and brutal.
Pennsylvania Keeps Red Caps
ARRAIGNED FOR 15-CENT MURDER Harry Hughes, 23, of 1014 Magizine street, and Hiram Fields, 19, of 1823 Magazine street got into an argument over 15 cents, according to witnesses, and Field, was fatally shot by Hughes. Hughes told Officers John Hayden and George Harris that he and Fields were examining an automatic pistol which was accidentally dischared. Hughes was arraigned in Police Court Friday on a charge of murder.
DePriest Votes for Snell
ORNDOFF GETS ANOTHER BREAK William Orndoff, 40, for the past several months known around court circles as the "Man the Law Forgot" had his death sentence reduced to life imprisonment Monday. Convicted for the murder September 8, 1927, of Edward Ellis, Orndoff was sentenced to die. His lawyers filed notice of intention to appeal the case but the appeal was forgotten. The condemned man remained in Jefferson County Jail for more than two years when a curiosity-seeking news repoorter discovered him. At once a movement was set on foot to have Orndoff's sentence commuted, with results as stated.
MAID BLUFFS BURGLAR Miss Annie Ragland, 23, of 518 Camp street, bluffed a youth who was ransacking the home of her employer long enough to call police who arrested the intruder. Giving his name as Charles Robertson, 17, of 1614 S. Clay street, the boy was lodged on a charge of house breaking.
CHURCHMAN [Photo] REV. C. L. HOWARD Rev. C. L. Howard, recently appointed presiding elder of the Louisville district, will bdegin his first round of quarterly meetings in the city Sunday. Rev. Howard will start at Parkland C. M. E. Church, Sunday, December 13; Highland Park December 20, and South Louisville December 27. He will be at Chestnut Street C. M. E. church and Miles Memorial January 3 and 24 respectively. Rev. Howard will preach at each of the Louisville churches on the dates above and he invites all pastors and congregations to the Sunday afternoon communion services.
More Trouble for Negro Labor
Kelly Miller, Jr. Not In Russia
Leaders At DePriest Conference
Non-Partisan Meeting Attracts Leaders from Twenty States
DuBois, Mordecai Johnson And Nannie Burroughs Speak; Bishops Take Exceptions to Pickens Who Leaves Platform
COLORED DEMOCRATS PLAY PART IN INAUGURATION OF GOVERNOR LAFFOON Frankfort, Ky., Dec. 8.--That the American Negro is a part and parcel of everything American, and rightly so, was greatly demonstrated here today at the inauguration of Judge Ruby Laffooon, the successful Democratic candidate for governor of Kentucky. Not only did the colored citizens of Frankfort do their part by contributing their automobiles and decorating their homes and business places in the non-prtisan plan to make the inauguration the most elaborate and impressive of all past events, but the race was well represented in the great victory demonstration and colorful inaugural parade by Negro Democrats of the districts where there is a large colored population. The Frankfort Negro Democratic unit was headed by Prof. G. P. Russell, former president of the Kentucky State Industrial College, who was one of the marshals of the day. This group was composed of colored leaders in automobiles, several marchers, a colored orchestra, school band and floats. among those in automobiles was President R B. Atwood of Kentucky State College. A representative group of colored Democratic leaders came from Louisville, Lexington, Hopkinsville and other points, and were distributed about in different parts of the parade. Outside of Frankfort the largest representation came from Louisville, and they added to the impression made by the Fifth District Democratic organization on the more than 10,000 persons who watched the great demonstration. Among the Louisville representatives were Dr. Maurice Blackburn, Messrs. Clark Jefferson, W. E. Johnson. Alex Morris, Len Haley, Chance Morris and several others. Two inaugural affairs were sponsored by local colored Democrat organizations Tuesday night.
FIVE YEARS FOR MURDER Entering a plea of guilty in Criminal Court to a charge of voluntary manslaughter, Julius Porter, 25, was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. Porter admitted causing the death of Bennie Morris in September when he fired a pistol at another man.