DON'T THINK CITY PARK SUIT IS UNDERSTOOD
MASSES FAIL TO GRASP PRINCIPLE
CHECK REVEALS AMAZING LACK SYMPATHY FOR COURSE AS PURSUED By William J. Ealy A spot check poll among business men and non-professional Negro citizens this week, revealed an amazing lack of sympathy or understanding of the pending park segregation suit brought against the City of Louisville by Dr. P. O. Sweeney and the local branch NAACP. Twenty persons out of thirty contacted said in effect, they believed the suit to be an effort on the part of Dr. Sweeney and his professional friends to play golf. One man who declined to be named, declared, "the big Negroes don't want to be connected with the little 'fish.' If they win the suit they will grab an almanac and pick out all the days when it is scheduled to rain and give those days to use common Negroes." The professional group, this un-informed man declared would form some kind of a fraternity league or something of the sort and exclude them (the working group) from the links. Many of the other replies were equally as far removed from the principle of making the city parks available to all citizens. Counsel for Dr. Sweeney said the golf links and the Iroqouis Ampitheatre projects were included into the park segregation suit to prove the city of Louisville does not make equal accommodations for its colored citizens. "And since such an accommodation would work to the detriment of the citizenry at large, it is believed that in-discriminate use of park facilities by all ctizens, would be the best way of solving the problem," the park suit attorneys declared, as they pointed out that the acreage and facilities of Chickasaw and other Negro parks fail to equal, even on a racial percentage, the benefits of Shawnee, Iroqouis, and other (Continued on Page 4)
COURT HUSTLER WINS ROUND Second round of the current fight between Negro lawyers, professional bondsmen and police court hustlers apparently, went to Clem Covington, City Hall janitor, this week after city authorities declined to take action on charges brought against the city employee by a Negro attorney. Covington was accused of taking two dollars from a client of Atty. J. A. Crumlin in police court Wednesday morning promising he would speak to the prosecutor in her behalf. The woman identified as Mrs. Mary Stewart of 109 East Walnua Street was in court to prosecute her husband, Earl Stewart of the same address on an assault and battery charge. Atty. Crumlin represented Mr. Stewart. According to Crumlin, when he approached Mrs. Stewart and asked did she intend to prosecute his client, Mrs. Stewart answered in the negative, and said she had given Covington two dollars to speak to the prosecutor. Crumlin asked The Leader reporter to step into the warrant office as he tried to swear out a warrant for disorderly conduct against the city employee. An un-identified deputy clerk asked the lawyer to let him speak to Covington before Crumlin took out the warrant. Covington said he knew the woman and had promised to lend her enough money to pay her husband's fine if the court (Continued on Page 4)
CALENDAR FOR LOUISVILLE MUNICIPAL COLLEGE OPENING ANNOUNCED The Calendar of Louisville Municipal College was announced early this week. The first semester opens September 15, and ends January 24. Registration begins September 17. With Freshman and Sophomore Classes bulging in enrollment, provision and adjustments have been made to section freshman classes in English, Natural Science, World Culture and Social Science, World Culture and Social Science, and to divide the sophomore-required courses into two sections. The new teachers who have been asked to join our faculty, to assist in the new adjustments, are: Mrs. Alphonse S. Hunnicutt, B.S., Bluefield State College; M. Ed., University of Cincinnati, American Conservatory of Musix, Ohio State University, Hampton Institute, with experience as a high school teacher of English and Social Science, and formerly at Elizabeth, N. C., State College and Hampton Institute, will be present as Instructor of English and Social Sciences. Mrs. Hunnicutt's wide experience covers the states of West Virginia, North Carolina and Virginia. Miss Susie M. E. Nelson, B.A., Morris College; M.S., Atlanta University, Howard University, with high school experience in South Carolina, and as instructor of Biology and Chemistry at Morris College, and instructor of Chemistry in Allen University, Columbia, has accepted appointment as instructor of Natural Sciences. Negotiations are under way to secure a third teacher for World Culture.
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Train NAACP Target Jim-Crow Train Target of Suit
ARCHBISHOP FORMER LOUISVILLIAN RULES IN FAVOR OF NEGRO STUDENTS St. Louis, MO., Aug. 21 - Archbishop Joseph E. Rittter, a former citizen of Louisville, and presently head of the St. Louis Catholic Diocese, this week, ruled Negroes must be admitted to the five diocesan high schools of this city beginning with the fall semester. The ex-Louisvillian made his ruling after a flood of applications from Negro students were brought to his attention. Applications are being received from Negroes for admission to South Side, McBride, Rosati-Kain, North Side and the new DeAndreis high schools. Brother Henry, principal of McBride High, said three or four Negroes have registered there. A faculty member at South Side said none had registered there as yet. He learned 12 Negroes registered at Rosati-Kain and four at North Side. One woman complained to Msgr. Alfred C. Thompson superintendent of diocesan high schools, about admission of Negroes to Rosati-Gain and said she would withdraw her children from the school. Other high schools operated by religious orders and not directly under the Archbishop's control will not be required to admit Negroes, it was learned. However, St. Louis University High School had one Negro student last year and there will be at least three other Negro students there this year, a faculty member said.
ST. JAMES A.M.E. CHURCH TO OBSERVE HOMECOMING [Photo] Rev. Norman W. Brown - St. James A.M.E. Church will observe its "Homecoming" with a "Gospel Feast" in sermons and songs Sunday, September 14. Under the leadership of Rev. Norman W. Brown, pastor, who for many years has been an outstanding minister and leader of his denomination, St. James has been repaired and renovated at a cost of $1,733.40, through the fine cooperation of the officers and members of the church. The homecoming will bring together all former members of St. James and friends in an all-day feast and festival. The program for the day will begin with (Continued on Page 4)
BEAUTY COLLEGE HEAD Mrs. Sarah E. Thomas Founder, president and instructor of the Mme. C. J. Walker School of Beauty Culture, Louisville, who holds a national certificate of award, announces elsewhere in this issue, courses to begin October 6.
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DETAINING CASE IS DISMISSED
"CRYING SHAME ," WHITE ATTORNEY MISTAKEN INDENTITY, SAYS THIEMAN BUT CASE TO GO TO GRAND JURY "I believe this to be a case of mistaken identity," Trial Commissioner Henry Thieman declared in Quarterly Criminal Court early Tuesday morning, as he dismissed detaining charges against Fred Williams, 27, white, brought by a young Negro woman, Miss Rosa Lawless, 19, of Coral Ridge Ky. The woman identified Williams as the man who picked her up in a gray Chevrolet sedan early Sunday morning, August 3 on the old National Turnpike and made advances to her. Bruised on both knees and minus a large patch of her hair in the top of her head, Miss Lawless said she got into the car because she thought the driver was one of the white neighbors who usually gives Negroes in the neighborhood a lift when they see then walking. She explained that she was enroute home in time for her mother to attend Sunday School after spending the night in town with her sister. "He went down the road a bit and turned around and came back" the woman declared. After asking her where she was going, Williams, according tot he girl who is a janitress at the Fairdale High School, said she could ride with him. He at a point called Strawberry Lane, she further stated. Placing his arms around her neck, the young white man who is the father of three children, according to the mother of Miss Lawless, asked the girl to "love him." (Continued on Page 4)
ALLEGED RAPIST TO GRAND JURY Identified as the early morning rapist who ravished a young woman on 9th Street, August 21, Nathaniel Gasden, 20, 307 Woodbine, drew double trouble in police court this week, when James Irvin, white, Cokes Hotel, further identified him as one of a trio of Negro youths who abducted him and took his car for a midnight to dawn motor jaunt early August 23. Gasden wao bound over to the September 22 grand jury on both counts. The woman, Mary Robertson, of 634 R. 8th, who admitted upon cross examination that she was a prostitute, told the court that Gasden followed her for several blocks before accosting her. She denied the defense attorney's charge that she and Gasden had argued over money. "He twisted my right arm up my back and held an open kinfe to my throat," she insisted, as she charged the defendant forced her into a commercial truck on 8th Street. Gasden said there had been no trouble between them. He could give no reason why she should swear out a warrant charging rape, he reiterated. Irwin, said he worked for the (Continued on Page 4)
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