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In I. 1 I LEBANON, Jan. 12 ZI TreSatcny dit Xni shall Trelawney die There's SOjOOO Comisftme mil know tht reason why! So sang a tost of aroused Britishers two centuries ago when a brutal crown threatened to take the life of their peasant leader. But there were no voices raised today in the Uttl court room of thli sleepy Tennessee town when a twelve good and true men twelve white men filed into court to give the verdict in the case of vs. Charley Alexander, Jake Alexander, George Benton Oldham, nd Jim Walter Marthel.

Four black men, or rathe two black men Wd two black boys for George Oldham and Charley Alexander are lut seventeen. True, they were not sentenced to death. Charley Alexander and Jake Alexander were grlven life term Oldham wa given twenty Are years. And Jim Walter Mar thel was acquitted. For what? In May of 1932, Ben Northern, a djautr sheriff of Lebanon, came one treeing to the home of Mrs.

Mar gi, Moore. In the testimony during ths case it wa developed that Mm. Moore's husband had died mysteriously a few months before, and that a white neighbor had threatened to poison the Moore family as well. Since that time Jake Alexander had been hired to stay In the house with Mrs. Moore to protect her.

Ben Northern cexne to the Moore fcjms to serve warrant upon tihom, no one knowe; for the testimony also developed that the warrant he carried found later In his blood soaked coat waa made out in. blank, and waa invalid. With Ben Northern came a crowd of white men. One of them was Millard E. Brown.

Ben Northern and Millard Brown never returned for they fell in the yard of the Moore home, shot to pi sees by shotgun thells buried from the house. But the trial developed startling testimony. There had been trouble between the whiten of district "poor whites" and the Negroes. The person who threatened to potion Mrs. Margie Moore" and remember that Mr.

Moore died aiyiterlously soon afterward was Mrs. Louise Brows. In the crowd that accompanied the deputy sheriff to the Moore horn waa Ernest Smith, a white boy. On that fateful evening of May. Charley Alexander was walking along the road when be passed the fimith home.

The Smith boy, it was alleged, cursed the colored boy, and tried to strike him with an ixe. The colored boy resisted by throw ing rocks at the white boy, who Tent once to white neighbor and borrowed a shot gun with the xpraaied intention of "killing that black ton of a White neighbors testified that Er nest Smith drunk went up and down through the neighborhood, de claring that he intended to "wipe those Niggers off the hill." A kindly white neighbor went to Margie Moore's house and Informed her that a mob forming. Armed with shot guns. Jake and Charley Alexander, George Oldham and Jim Marthel assembled to protect this acme. TREIfTOPT.

N'. Janfl 11 (By AN?) Colored women In New Jer iiidostry received a powerful in their fight against undasir Tk Pkf sbiairglbi Coeriey's Feature Paige ii i i irarrr tirring Sermon For Dapper Denizen Of Pals Accord Him 1 Millionaire's Funeral i hi i Austin Preaches nn J'J Underworld As mm a mm mm mm mm mm mum mm mw a a mrm vanced on the Moore home. They were led by Deputy Sheriff Northern, with a blank and invalid warrant in hi pocket. They fired several shots at the horn before they entered, the yard. Jim Marthel looked out the door.

and saw that it waa surrounded on all but one side. He decided on a sudden flight but ran into the arms of Northern and Brown. That flight probably saved him from prison term. i Meanwhile, young Charley Alex ander, excited by the tumult In the front of the house, took up a shot gun and fixed through a crack in the door. Thai shot riddled Ben Northern and narrowly escaped hitting Jim Marthel.

Then Jake Alex ander took the I gun from him, reloaded It, and fired through a window. That shot riddled Millard Brown. Ernest. Smith," the "poor white boy" who was the instigator of all of the trouble, together with other members of the of carnage. He wire fence and mm SOUS mob, Bed the scene crawled through a ran to the sheriffs office.

Returning with this official. the Negro men were placed under arrest, and spirited away to Nashville for safe keeping. That night a mob visited the, home of Mrs. Margie Moore and beat her and her sister in law almost to death. Then, after long months of waiting, cam the trial.

The judge refused a change in ven ue. 1 He admitted as evidence the invalid warrant, with which Deputy Sheriff Northern was no more than a trespasser. Competent defense council rallied to the cause by the family and with the aid of the Order of Elks, introduced a long ar ray ox witnesses to show that the Negroes were defending their home from an unauthorized and furious mob. And today twelve men twelve good and true men twelve white men said that Jake and Charley Alexander most spend the rest of their" life In prison, end that George Oldham must pend twenty five years there. But there are voices asking Shall Jake and Charley Alexander die in prison for defending their castle and their Uvea against mob?" WiU the Elk be satisfied with wnat was.

after all, a moral victory in a prejudiced community? Will twelve million Negroes in America say that these men, like Dr. Oselan Sweet in Detroit, were risrht in defending their home against an armed mob? WARNED AGAINST POISON PEN LETTERS LOS ANGELES. Jan. 12 (ANP) Residents of Imperial Valley. many of whom are prosperous colored families, were warned by District Attorney Heald of El Centre to expect a barrage of letters through the mail next week designed to discredit the stability of certain valley banks.

Heald said hU office has received advance information regarding plana for an anonymous letter campaign such a was launched last summer to spread false rumors, against the financial institutions. Some people think they can never get anywhere without a $3,000 automobile that makes 80 miles an hour. i ki wnrklnv condition when the Industrial Standard Committee of the Consumers' league of New Jersey moved on their behalf. The committee, caiiea oj me president, Mrs. H.

N. Simmons of Elizabeth, included key persons representing the largest organlaa tiona of the State. I B. Granger, extension worker for the Borden town Manual Training School, attended as a member of the committee. Tha committee waa caned to coo sider plan for halting the rapid deterioration of industrial standards for female employment In tna State, and iwris en enforcement of the excellent code of wa that vt ju established for ad vantage of the competition for Job by lowering the conditions under mnlovea work.

The OotMrum era' Jeagu fat atrwafV "IF THi jCOURV PLEASE!" mmmf' t'rf jmt? vm 1 1 sjBsssjejBjsjsjBjsjsMrt vr ssi. vwwwrr vV fij LEXINGTON, aJn. 12 (C. N. 3.) French Vermillion, Serman Townee and Mollis Caldwell, all white, recently got into an argument with four Negroes on.

a country road near Hazard in Perry County about 136 miles southeast of Lexington, shot and killed three and wounded the fourth of the four men. The shooting of the men was al posed to this practice and has appointed its committee to act for it. Mrs. Simmons stressed the need of special attention to the colored woman worker. "These women," she said, "are our so called mar Hnr workers.

They are employed often by business men who use them because they are eap ana because they can be exploited more easily than the more fortunate white worker. No real advance ean. made In protecting the working women unlea ail groups are equally protected." The aid of the Federation of Colore. Women' clubs was mentioned a powerful force in seeking out Information regarding violations of sanitary cods, length of working hour, night work. etc.

Mrs. Simmons called attention to the report of the Stat Interracial Committee rhfcak bad jus xUaed it Survajf ir 4 Jt "If the Court please" etc. So clever Attorney Elsie Austin yearns her daily brea3 pleading before the bar of justice in Cincinnati, Ohio. She says she likes her job. HOLD ''WHIT es TffiEE leged to have occurred after they refused to help move an automobile in which the defendants were said to have been riding.

Trial of the two men and the woman came up here last week but was postponed until the February term of Perry County Circuit Court. The defendants are held without bond. Vermillion is in jail here, while Townee and the woman are held In Hazard. Reading The Courier Is "Like Stepping Into A Strange Says White Scribe A uniqt tribute to The Pittsburgh Courier, written by Chuck Kinter (white), sports editor and commentator of the Tucson (Ariz.) Daily Star, is embodird in the following Item from his column, "The Chuck Wagon "NEGROES GO IN FOR BIG SPORTS One of the local Negro athletes brings us a copy of Pittsburgh Negro newspaper published at Pittsburgh, Pa. "The sports pages contain an astounding amount of news about things that rarely break into the wires of the press associations.

"The Negro Dixie Baseball League held Its annual meeting at Monroe, La. Depression or no depression, a large number applications were made for franchises. The next meeting will be held at Memphis, Tenn. TO BETTER STATUS OF EQ "Eddie Tolan, pride of the Negro race, has decided to forsake the track as a sprint artist. Kid Chocolate, Negro world's featherweight champion by recognition of the New York Athletic Commission, has a chance to win recognition by other fistic bodies.

Negro football teams in many localities east of the Mississippi are preparing for the 'big games' of the season. "Co eds of Wilberforce University made a demonstration for the benefit of Courier photographers of the cheers they will give when Wilberforce plays West "Virginia State at Pittsburgh for the season's championship. "Reading The Courier is like stepping into a strange world." PHYSICIAN URGES CONTROL OF BIRTHS 1 CXXV ELAND, Jan. 13 De claring that birth control last ruc tion is vitally essential for the so cial. 1 physical and economic ad vancement of the Negro race.

Dr. Charles H. Garvin made an Inter esting, address, Sunday, before the St. James A. M.

E. Church forum. He spoke from the subject. "A Negro Doctor Look at Birth Con trol." on th Negroes of New Jersey, com piled by Ira De A. Reid, under the direction of W.

K. Valentine, Bor don town School head, and the com taltts which lm bJnB, Cops 'Find The Woman' As Pastor Urges Big Shots To Change Their Ways i Bill Stanley, Debonair Chicago Sportsman, Is Killed By their Maker. Italians When Woman Issue Bobs Up. rnCAGO, Jan. 12.

(ANP) They laid am Stanley awav last Friday afternoon. The funeral sermon was preached (or read) oy tne rtev. jumus ausuu at irugiuu. Baptist Church. He warned those present that they had better I change their way or living, or iney migni oe snua.eu out hie Stanley was, with no chance to make peace with Stanley, as he was known in tnat twiltghtj zon between the underworld and the upper world, where some men and women choose to i KaItcv 7 move oixv slain on: New Year's morning at the Club De Rendezvous as the result of an unforeseen imbroglio wiu two Italians, Frank Bugllo and "Cowboy" Angon.

According to some stories of the affair Stanley, A native of Arkansas, donned his armor rode a white horse for the last act of his "fa. It waa in defense of a women. According to other stories, he butted in and got "bumped off." There is no questioning of the fact that about 5 o'clock In the morning he was enjoying the cabaret revelry when the two Italians came upon the scene of merriment. Buglio is a known gangster. His Ralph, reputed owner of the notorious Sunsetccafe, aald to be listed among the public enemies of the Trouble Is reported to have begun over a woman a girl.

She is Mar garet Gosby. one of those divinely beautiful women who make men do things. Just twenty two, she has been places and seen things. The "big shots" of the twilight zone saw her when she first began to bloom, and while her girl friends continued in day school and went to church on Sundays, Margaret took a path lined with roses and fur coats. For five or six years she has escaped unscathed.

Old Man Trouble began to weave a pattern for her a month ago. She had been sweethearting with Jim mie Hilt, the former policy baron, who once attracted so many female visitors from New York. But when Margaret was engaged to dance in Ralph Bugllo's Sunset Safe, Frank Euglio smiled upon her. He had a Clark Gable smile and she fell for It. Jimmy was discarded, but not to be ignored.

Time after time, since the estrangement, he is reported to have taunted her, and once to have knocked her unconscious. She tired of the nagging. In the midst of the revelry New Year's morning, Hilt is said to have directed his bitter shaft at the child beauty. She called for help. Frank Buglio and "Cowboy" came to her aid, both armed with pistols.

Jimmy faded out before they got to the rendezvous. After the two Italian arrived, one of them Is said to have attempted to drag Margaret from the cab aret. Here, some reports state. Stanley entered the picture. He picked up a bottle and cracked Buglio across the head with it.

Bu glio dropped hi gun and It was kicked toward Stanley. Buglio ob tained another gun. but before he could use it Stanley had shot him. In the meantime, "Cowboy" had gone out one door. He came in an other just as Buglio was shot.

A bullet from his gun struck Stanley the mouth and he went down. Cowboy" seized Margaret and fled from the place in a bullet proof car. Later she left him and went to her home, where she was arrested late Sunday afternoon. "Cowboy" is not yet In custody. Tb Southsid was filled with rumors after the double killing and up until the Urn of Stanley's fu neral.

The most important of these was to the effect that Italian gang sters intended to put several Negro sporting characters on the spot." One of these said to have been sought was Jimmy Hilt. He was re ported to be under the guard of two men. From out of the twilight zone a strange assortment of mourners came. Stanley's wife, who is white, was there. So was her sister.

The entire male fraternity of those men who make their livings by their wits, the gamblers, policy lieutenants, panderers and racketeers were also there. And among the gentler sex, both white and colored, there were scores who had mOre than a nodding acquaintance with the police. Scores of high priced automobiles took the strange array of mourners familiar night life figures, to the cemetery. Walter WincheU Says Negro Churches Worth Real Money NEW YORK. Jan.

13 (ANP) Credit Walter WlncheU, the paragon of columnist with th following from the Daily Mirror: "That the Negro rac owns church property in the United State which wa vsjuad Jfi30 a. SVitfyXtt WARNS GANGS A REV. J. C. AUSTIN Prominent Chicago pastor, who warned a large crowd against riotous and reckless living during a eulogy delivered at the occasion of a well known sportsman, who had been a victim of gang rule.

CILEVBEl MAESTRO OFFICES? PROBE WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (ANP) At the coroner' inquest here Tueaday morning. Police Homer L. Pearson of the 11th precinct, ws absolved of all blame in the fatal shooting of Howard Simms, when he testified that he shot and killed Simms in self defense. The officer said that he was set uron by Simms and was being choked by his assailant when he nulled hi own gun and nrea Simms stirred police circles when he made a death bed confession that he was the slayer of Mary Baker, one of the murders which has remained a mystery, a cdkr up of the confession, however, proved it to be false.

"Moral Turpitude" Issue Faces Teacher In Capital City butt WASHINGTON, D. Jan. 12. Doe association of an unmarried woman teacher with a married man separated from his wife, or vice versa, constitute conduct unbecoming a teacher? The Board of Education of the District of Columbia may be required to decide that question raised by the suit of Mrs. Mable Carter, 2729 Eleventh northwest, for a limited divorce from Jessie M.

Garter, a District of Columbia fireman, 136 Randolph street, northwest, recently filed in the District SUpreene Court. In her bill of complaint Mrs. Carter charges that her husband neglected her for "other lady friends." She names Miss Sarah West, a teacher in the public schools of the District of Columbia, and accuses her husband of keeping company with Miss West at present, but make no charge of misconduct. She assert, however, that Miss West "is well aware of the fact that the defendant has a lawful wife." Mrs. Cartera grounds for a limited divorce are cruelty, neglect and insufficient support.

She alleges that, her husband exhibited a violent temper toward her and their 11 year old child, India Celestine Carter. Whenever he lost his temper, she charges, be would seize the article nearest at hand and throw It at her. He threw a chair and other household furnishings at. her April 10, 1929, the day they separated, she says. She claims she lived In constant fear of her life.

and that of their child. As a result of his treatment, she states, she suffered a nervous breakdown. While they were living together at the Randolph street address, she asserts, he struck her in the face, blackening her eye. When they separated, Mrs. Carter declares, she was forced to leave her child with him, but the child sought refuge with her December 26th last, and told her she could no longer stand her father's treatment.

The child told her that she bad been subjected to severe whippings. The couple was married August 23, 1921. Mr. Carter Is a fireman and receives a salary of $2,100 a year. Mrs.

Carter ask for temporary and permanent alimony. DEFEMBER HAS (Special to The Pittsburgh Courier) CHICAGO, Jan. 12 Five employe of the Chicago Defender had their head chopped off Saturday in another one of the sensational payroll shakeups which have been a factor In the institution's opera Uon ever sine Robert S. Abbott, the publisher, returned from South America nine year ago and discovered, as he charged, that he had been robbed of 1200,000. The men discharged at that time, aU veterans, were: Phil A.

Jones, the a eneral manager, whom Abbott had trained from a boy; Alf Anderson, the editor; Rosco Simmons, celebrated colunist, who succeeded Allison Sweeney; Tony Langs ton. editor of the theatrical department and Deloa Bell, the auditor. N. K. McGUL a Florida lawyer husbasd Mr.

AhfcottVwlXe NEW PAYROLL SHAKEUP; AXE HITS WOMAN sister, was then ins la ailed a gen era! manager. Subsequent shakeups hit A. L. Jackson, assistant to Abbott, who is now president of the board or trustees of Provident hospital; Richard I Jones, who is now sup erintendent of the South Center department store; Luclns Harper, the managing editor, wno was nrea ana rehired: Ethel Gavin Ford, Phil Jones' former ecretary and Frank Young, the sports editor. The three most important of the employe let out Saturday were: Mrs.

Netti George Speedy, former court reporter, who became society editor; ATN. Field, editorial writer and Farrell Jones, an employ In the advertising department. Very little authentic Information could be obtained a to in caw of th discharges, attbxxig. tn i ill it rrt irtf S3 rc LES HTTE Premier orchestra leader of the famous Cotton Club in Culver City, Calif. This musically minded young maes tro is one or the most out standing orchestra leaders on MUSS the West uoast, (8es Snetoon'a "Harlem IAmited" thi week.J ...11 lW DENIES CRIME, MAN SEEKING HEW TRIAL i electric chtir.

Before the trial sb 1 i if MOBILE. Jan. 12 Motion for a new trial was made by Ula Rosa Gerhard attorney for Hardy Whit, convicted and sentenced to death for the slaying of thr Williams, a white street car conductor several months ago, in an alleged attempted holdup between Crichtoa and Springhlll, on a Springhlll oar. Durinar course of his trial Whit renudlated i his alleged confession. declaring that he had been in timldaied and beaten into making it.

The Jury which convicted nun wa out less than an ball nour. MLs GerhardV a young Jewua woman, has attracted much attan Uon by the strong effort ah is making td save White from uim asked for a change of venue, charg lng that White could not recelv fair trial In Mobile because of threats made against The mo i Uon, however, was cnrer ruled 1 I Gi INS FAME (A WILLIAM L. DAWSON .1 Director of the famous Tuskegee choir of 110 student which had the unusual distinction of opening the Radio Clty theater group la New York lat week. Mr. Dawson, himself a graduate of TAifcete, Is head of the Instl tutlon's musia school, Simultaneously with his Radio City appearance, lt was announced that Stokowsk renowned leader th Philadelphia Philharmonic orchestra, would play his aytn phony just finished, the first complete symphony based on racial musie to written by Negro.

sons released were informed ta let tera that they wer bng laid tor a oncoal reason. I 5i ii.