"MISS CENTRAL HIGH" [Photo] MISS EULAH WARR Attractive young student who won the popularity contest sponsored by the members of the class of 1933-1/2, which closed Friday night, January 26, and was crowned "Miss Central High." The contest was given for the benefit of the "Annual." Miss Warr, who won out over several other popular students, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Warr of 943 S. 12th Street.
Buford Lawyers Make Public Statement
BUFORD LAWYERS MAKE PUBLIC STATEMENT My dear Mr. Cole: We are requesting that you allow this article to appear in response to the note to you from Mrs. Alzada Buford. Several of your readers have spoken to us about the note, particularly that part that accused us of publishing statements that were false and that was published with intention to misrepresent. We think and feel that it is only fair that those readers have an opportunity to view our side of the matter. We thank you in advance for [illegible] with this our very respectful [illegible] are, with the very highest respect. Brown and Frank, Attys. By John H. Frank, Jr. If Mrs. Buford Or Anyone Else Thinks That The Firm Of Brown And Frank Are Going To Sit Idly By And Be Accused Of Giving Statements To Papers That Are False And Given With The Intention To Misrepresent, Mrs. Buford, That Or Those Individuals, Are Sadly Mistaken. As lawyers, we realize that rarely do we have a case in which somebody's feelings are not ruffled. Few people realize that a lawyer's duty is to protect the interest of his client and to exert every honorable effort and legal remedy available in his defense or in the prosecution of those who endeavor to infringe upon his rights or violate duties owed. We are not unmindful that lawyers make many enemies. This firm is aware, perfectly aware, of this fact, but to be accused of willfully, falsely and with intention (Continued on page 8)
DEMOCRATIC VOTER COMPLAINS ABOUT NOT GETTING SQUARE DEAL The impatience or unrest, whatever it may be called among the Negroes who supported the Democratic ticket, just a little over sixty days after the election, has reached a point where the Point of View Columns of the Courier-Journal are beginning to hear from those who are of the opinion that the "Deal" of the Democrats is not square enough where the Negro is concerned. In his letter to the Point of View last Saturday morning, Robt. L. Lewis, a colored man who supported the Democratic ticket last November, compained about there being no janitors, porters and elevator men around the city Hall and Court House, and goes on to say that, "Negroes in Louisville are not asleep that if the ones who are supposed to represent us, don't do it, we know what to do in the next election. The letter of Mr. Lewis as written by him follow "I am a Negro who voted the Democratic ticket in the last election. I am employed and therefore not looking for a job. After attending quite a few speakings during the campaign I was impressed by the candidates and speakers and decided to vote the Democratic ticket for the first time in my life. We all know it is generally understood that Negroes get such jobs as janitors, porters and elevator men around the City Hall and Court House. Mr. Miler and Judge Ewing said that those jobs help by Negroes would be replaced with Negroes. For some reason there isn't a Negro janitor or elevator man in the (Continued on page 4) [Actually continued on page 2]
N.A.A.C.P. Joins DePriest In Fight
BISHOP RANSOM AT QUINN CHAPEL SUNDAY; DR. WRIGHT AND OCTETTE THERE MONDAY NIGHT By William H. Ferris Bishop Reverdy C. Ransom, the chancellor of Wilberforce University, will deliver the keynote message Sunday morning, February 4, in Quinn Chapel A. M. E. Church for the second annual observance of Young People's month. Bishop Ransom is one of the outstanding orators of the Negro race. In January, 1906, he delivered the Garrison Centennial address in Boston, Mass., which was printed in full in nearly all of the daily newspapers of Boston, Mass. In the summer of 1906, he delivered an address on John Brown at Harper's Ferry, W. Va., at the second annual meeting of the Niagara Movement, which was a classic and which commanded the attention of the country. In the fall of 1907, he delzered the Whittier Centennial address in Fanenil Hall, Boston, Mass. I heart the address and regarded it as t literary and oratorical masterpiece. On the afternoon of that day. I attended the celebration of the Boston Browning Society in the exclusive Somerset Hotel. I heard a famous Swiss educator. Nathan Haskell Dole. the writer and Dr. Anderson. a member of the Yale Corporation. speak. None of them rose to the heights of eloquence that Bishop Ransom did. Rev. Frank Madison Reid is rendering a signal service to Louisville in bringing the distinguished leaders of the A. M. E. Church here. The Wilberforce Octette The indications are that President R. R. Wright, Jr., of Wilberforce University and the Wilberforce Octette will be greated with a capacity house at Quinn Chapel Monday night, February 5 and that scores will be turned away. Last February, President Wright and his singers captivated Louisville's music lovers. And they are better today than they were a wear ago. A trainer of choruses has been added to Wilberforce's splendid musical faculty. Then the octette has toured the East, making a hit in such musical center as New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D. C., and adding experience to natural ability and training. So the octette now represents the high water mark of Negro music.
C.M.E. Bishops Meet In Jackson
N. A. A. C. P. PROTESTS HAZARD LYNCHING The following letter was sent to the Governor Ruby Laffone by the Louisville Branch N. A. A. C. P., Anderson, president, about the lynching of Rex Scott of Hazard last week: The Louisville Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People deeply regrets that once again we must record on obnoxious a distastful outrage upon the dignity of peace of our Commonwealth. The lynching of Rex Scott at Hazard by a mob of over 500 people has brought the blackest stigma upon the good name and people of our State that could possibly be perpetrated within its borders. Mob rule is subversive to th principles of democracy; the forerunner of law abrogation and a disregard for our fine and established judiciary. Kentucky must safeguard the principles upon which our State and Nation were founded. We must safeguard the original purpose and the present function of our courts. Not only must we for the present condemn the practice that impregnates our State with violence but we must act and legislate to prevent the fifture occurrence of the inexcusable affair at Hazard. The Louisville Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is indeed hopeful that during the present session of our State Legislature, you will sponsor the enactment of a State Anti-Lynching Bill.
N.A.A.C.P. "Cent A Negro" Campaign Grows
Mr. Herron A. Clark of the Allen Hotel is able to be out again after being confined for several days with a slight fracture of the ankle.
Back At Duties [Photo] EDITOR WILLIAM H. STEWARD Veteran editor of the American Baptist, who is back at his duties after an illness of several days at the Red Cross Hospital. Mr. Steward is now past 80 years, and his friends are proud of the fact that he is still able to "carry on" with the fine cooperation of a committee of prominent young ministers of the Kentucky Baptist Association.
Musicians Die In Crash
MR. AND MRS. SAMUEL G. THOMPSON HERE FOR SMITH FUNERAL Mr. and Mrs. Samuel G. Thompson of St. Louis were in the city this week for the funeral of Mr. Alonzo Smith well known citizen for Anchorage, who passed away Friday of last week and whose funeral was held last Sunday afternoon at there residence of Mr. John Marshall, Sr., father of Judge John Marshall, in whose home Mr. Smith had been connected for many years. The funeral eulogy was delivered by Father J. A. Johnson and Mr. Smith was laid to rest in the Forest Cemetery. Mr. Thompson, a former Louisville real estate dealer, was a close friend of Mrs. Smith, and the casket used in the funeral was furnished by Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, who are successful undertakers of St. Louis. Mr. Smith leaves a wife Mrs. Genevie Montjoy Smith; two sons, J. M. Alonzo, Jr., and one daughter.
Can't Stop Will Rogers Is Free To Insult Anyone Over The Air Made Himself A Bigger "Jack Ass" Last Saturday Night
Postmaster Is Fired 
Tennessee Postmaster Fired Following Cheek Lynching
Mrs. Georgeanna Cottwan of New York City and Mrs. Vesta E. Morgan of Indianapolis, Ind., are stopping with their aunts Mrs. Lucy Cook and Mrs. Sedonia Hickerson at 431 S. 24th St., having been called to the city because of the recent illness of their mother.
CANDIDATES HOLD CAMPAIGN PLACES With three more weeks to go from Wednesday of this week, the participants in the Leader's subscription campaign are holding the very same places they held last week. But some of the candidates have moved up closer to the leaders, and if reports we get mean anything, we are going to have some changes next week. During this period, the last of the campaign, most anything is liable to take place, and moreso the nearer the date of the the close approaches. Miss Crawford is in first place and Miss Dawson, Mrs. McCrary, Miss Stone, Miss Norman, Mrs. Roberts, Mrs. Hansbrough, Miss Henry, Mrs. Orr, Miss Churchill and others follow in the same places they were when the second period closed last Wednesday. Turn to page 3, and watch next week.
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