TWO NEW LITTLE QUEENS OF FILMLAND [2 photos] The above photos show Hollywood's newest, and perhaps youngest, little dance artists. Misses Charlotte and Charlane Derricks, five-fear-old daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Derricks, of Sacramento, Calif., who are in filmland looking about for a suitable vehicle for their extra-ordinary talents. Mama Derrick accompanied the young ladies to Hollywood and supervises the business end of their art.
Cotter Honored By English Publishers
SCHOOL PRINCIPAL HONORED BY ENGLISH PUBLISHERS J. S. Cotter, principal of S. Coleridge Taylor School, received international recognition this week. Mr. Cotter received a request from the editor of the "Town and Country Review" of [London?], England for permission to publish [his?] bibliography along with other leading men and women of the day in the columns of that publication. Mr. Cotter has been asked to send notes on his life, career, work, etc., from which the editorial staff of the "Town and Country Review" will draft a suitable text. Mr. Cotter has been with the [Louisville?] Public Schools for firty-five years [During?] this time he was principal of [three?] different Schools, first at Seventh [and Ormsby?], then at Eighth and Kentucky, and for the past twenty-three years at the S. Coleridge School. He was the man who initiated the plan of naming the school for colored children in honor of outstanding colored people. He is a member of the Author's [League?] of America, is listed in Who's Whom Among North American Authors and Who's Who In America. Mr. Cotter's first publication was "Aryming," his next book of poems was entitled "Links of Friendship" then followed "A Khite Sond and a Black One," "Caleb. the Degenerate," a poetic drama which appeared next at tracted favorable comment from the Poet Laureate of England and from Israel Zangwell. His next work was a book of stories called "Negro Tales." Among the unpublished works Mr. Cotter has "Dawn and Dusk," several one-act plays, and songs for which he wrote the music and words. Seventeen years ago Mr. Cotter organized a prize story telling contest in the libraries for colored people. This was the first of this type of organization in America, as recorded in the minutes of the National Association of Story Tellers. Mr. Cotter is still very active along these lines, and is a member of the National Story Tellers League. Mr. Cotter is a regular contributor of stories for magazines and is const  antly writing stories, poems and songs which are popular with white and colored people alike.
General Lee Saved Colored Men From Mobs, Says Report
MRS. ANDREWS PASSES AWAY Mrs. Kittie Andrews, well known church and club woman, passed away at the Andrews home, 2301 W. Walnut Street, Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Andrews was the wife of William Andrews, prominent hotel man and one of Louisville's most successful citizens. who himself has been an invalid for more than eleven years. and the mother of Miss Edwina Andrews, well known school teacher. Mrs. Andrews had been ill several weeks, but had been able to be up and out during the last several days and the news of her death was a shock to the many friends of the family. Funeral services For Mrs. Andrews will be held at the Zion Baptist Church where she was a faithful member, Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock, Rev. W. H.. Craighead, the pastor, officiating.
Dean Bruner Resigns
BRUNER RESIGNS AS DEAN OF COLLEGE OF MUSIC AND ART; PUBLIC TALK HASTENS END; NEW ORGANIZATION ANNOUNCED G. P. Bruner, the white dean of the Bourgard College of Music and Art, is no longer connected with that institution. Following his resignation a few days ago the colloge, which is located at 2503 W. Walnut Street, has undergone a complete reorganization, with Miss Anna C. Roth, president; Mrs. W. B. Matthews. vice president; Miss Ethel B. Malone, secretary; J. O. Blanton, treasurer Misses Alma C. Schmitt, Anna Pinkert, Lorraine Steinacker and Horatio O'Bannon and Atwood Wilson as officers and members of the bi-racial Board of Trustees, and Miss Iola Jordan, former head of the department of music at Kentucky Stae College at Frankfort, as registrar, and Miss Barbara Simmons. who received her music degrees from the University of Michigan, as instructor. Both of these young ladies are well known Louisville girls. It is the ambition of the trustees to have this college fulfill t  he mission for which it was founded and so generously endowed by the late Miss Caroline B. Bourgard. Believing as she did that the Negro race is "endowed with deep spirituality, religious fervor, high ideals and a lave for the beautiful which is ever seeking expression," it was her desire to give to all an opportunity for correct expression through the study of the best music and art. It is the consensus of opinion that the resignation of Dean Bruner was hastened after his public and unduly criticism of the singing of a chorus of local colored talent from several of the churches several months ago when he was asked to say a word following the program, and for which he was rebuked by leaders of the chorus and through the columns of the Leader. While the dean did not get the results desired and became unpopular among the colored people, he was a great believer in printers' ink and always kept the Bourgard College of Music and Art before the eyes and in the minds of the public. Since the purpose of the college is the cultural developmnet of the group, and not financial profit, the new administration announces that lessons may be secured for a nominal sum. For full information apply to the registrar, Miss Iola Jordan, telephone Shawnee 1620 or to the secretary, Miss Ethel B. Malone, telephone Shawn 2397-W.
Colored Leaders Deplore Murder Lexington, Ky., March 12. - Leading colored citizens here very much deplore the part played by Will Graves and Robert Jones in the brutal murder of C. W. Taylor well known, white owner of a confectionery on north Limestone street. Graves, 28, who confessed that he fired the shots that killed Taylor lives at [illegible] Deweese street and Jones who admitted that he hired Graves at the request of Mrs Ida Taylor wife of the confectioner, bootletter and hijacker because she said, she was afraid he might kill her or one of her children It is said that Jones who was employed by the Taylors at the confectionery refused to kill Taylor when he was asked to do so by Mrs. Taylor but that he got Graves who was glad to do it as "he needed the money." Both were promised $50 by Mrs. Taylor, but Jones was not paid. Graves admitted that he "bumped Mr Taylor off." Charles Robert Smith, son of Mrs. Taylor and step-son of Taylor, admitted that he paid one of the men the $50 given him by his mother to kill his step-father, whose body was found last Thursday night in the snow on Pine Road near Lexington with his skull shattered by three pistol bullits, his left arm broken and his legs a mass of bruises.
Mr. Jack Dozier, well known young musician, left Wednesday for Brunswick, Ga.
JURY GIVES GIRL, 20, TWO YEARS Before a crowded court room, Miss Mary Brown, age 20, heard a verdict, guilty of manslaughter, returned against her and a sentence of two years given her in the penitentiary, Tuesday evening her in the Criminal Court. The trial was a battle between Frank M. Cahill, defending the Brown girl, and Meria O'Neal and C. E. Tucker, prosecuting the case. It is remembered that Cahill and Tucker had a run-in a few weeks ago over a colored client. Mary shot and killed Frances Graham in a restaurant on First Street between Walnut and Liberty, September 18, 1933.. Mr. Cahill made his closing argument Tuesday night in which he made an eloquent plea for acquittal. Mr. O'Neal made the Commonwealth's closing speech. While he commended the brilliance of Mr. Cahill's "average" defense speech, he asked for a punishment sufficient to warn coming law breakers. The jury was out 40 minutes. Miss Brown took the verdict calmly.
MISS CUSTARD TAKES LEAD Miss Mary C. Custard of Cynthiana. Ky, made the first report of the Leader's subscription campaign in which free round trip and expense money to the C.M.E. General Conference in St. Louis in May or to the World's Fair in Chicago in June and is in first place. Other candidates who were nominated as entrants in the campaign this week were Miss Fannie E. Buchanan. Harlan. Ky.; Miss Margie Wood, Lynchburg, Va.; Miss Gustava Dobbins. Louisville and Mr. William H. Humphrey, Jr., Maysville, Ky. The campaign is now well under way and during the next week we should begin to see another interesting battle of votes for one of the ten round trips and cash, another fine opportunity made possible by the Leader management. The names and addresses of the candidates already entered are given on page 4.
ON COMMITTEE [Photo] R. B. ATWOOD President of Kentucky State College and the K. N. E. A., who has been appointed to serve on a committee in connection witr the National Conference on Fundamental problems in the Education of Negroes.
EMMA BRUCE GETS 6 MONTHS By James Brown Judge Charles I. Dawson was feeling in good spirits last Tuesday and was quite lenient with his time-giving. Emanuel Bruce, who had three charges against him for illegal handling of morphine, was given six months on each charge with two of the terms pro bated. Mae Douglass, who was named in the indictment as aiding in the sale of morphine at 532 S. 6th Street, was given a probated six months sentence. District Attorney Sparks prosecuting the case showed that George Fultz, white, had gone to 532 S. 6th Street on two occasions to get morphine. Fultz claimed that once Bruce sold it to him and the second time Mae Douglass handed the morphine cubes to him. Narcotic agents testified they found one marked dollar bill in the house while raiding and a quantity of morphine. The marked bill was said to have purchased the first cubes of the morphine, according to Fultz. Both Miss [Dougltss?] and Bruce denied ever seeing Fultz or selling morphine to any one. Miss Douglass admitted that the morphine officers found in the raid belonged to Douglass. The judge warned Miss Douglass not to appear in court again on that charge. The jury was out 25 minutes. Jim Bard. distillery operator. was given 30 days and a hundred dollar fine probated on illegal distilling of liquor. He took the guilty plea.
DR. J. A. AGNEW DEAD News comes to Louisville of the death of Dr. J. A. Agnew of Owensboro, Ky., who for more than thirty years was one of the most successful business men of that section. Prior to moving to Owensboro and going into the undertaking business, Mr. Agnew practiced dentistry in Louisville. He was a close friend of Dr. R. F. White, proprietor of the White's Drug Store, a former Owensboro citizen.
Bishop Ransom in Home Town Given Ovation By Mayor And Cambridge Citizens Goes Right Ahead In face Of Misconduct Charges Which He Declares Is Trick Of Enemy
Newspapers Rather Than Church Lead Fight For Justice, Says Bishop
Burkesville Gets Colored Police Burkesville, Ky., March 14 (Special To Leader) - Through the efforts and recommendation of H. E. Alexander, H. Newby and other prominent colored citizens of this community, Mayor W. C. Stearns and the City Council appointed a colored man, Wm. Baker, a policeman of Burkesville this week. Officer Baker was bonded and duly sworn in, and Burkesville is one of the very few, if any other, towns in the state that has a regular colored police officer, especially where there are just two, one white and the other colored. That is the way it is here in Burkesville and the citizens all, white and colored, are proud of it.
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