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Hoi lint ws scheduled to be executed at IJ .01 a. m. January 4. At i p. Jmuary 2.

lit. Houston secured from Mr. Justice VanDevamet of the highest tribunal, a stay, notice of which was telegraphed at once to the warden of the state penitentiary at The additional month will be utlrtzed by the N. A. P.

counsel prepare and file i.writ seeking review of the case by the U. S. Supreme Court. Hollins was first convicted of crira mat assault late in December. 1931.

His apepall dragged along under the direction of the International Labor Defense and nothiiur was done for bh for eight months. An appeal was sent to the N. A A. P. in Febru ary, by friends of the condemn man In Sapulpa, but when tht N.

A. A. C. P. investigated and found the 1.

D. in cbaige. it left atters to that organization. Hollins was sentenced to die Au. of 18, 1912, and a frantic appeal for hdtp came to the N.

A. A. P. on August 11, Since that late date nothini had been AMM So UiiToft rtnacwrty the N. A.

A. r. stepped, ra by telegraph and long telephone' and thrcugh its Oklahoma state president, Roscoe thinjee, secured a stay of execution and filed notice of appeal to the Oktaboma high courts. A new trial was quickly granted, the Oklahoma high court Landing down a blistering rebuke to the sow tr court for the way Hollins had Dten robbed ot nis rights it waa brought out that Holins had been tried in the basement of the jail at sight without a lawyer and wholly hi the presnce hit enemies and uut he had' been threatened with frnching ii he did not. confess.

After a new trial, a wrangle a change of venue and an air ir of the exclusion of Negroes irora the jury, Hollins was again convicted and the Oklahoma court sf appeals upheld the sentence. At this stage, the Oklahoma N. A. A. P.

branches, which had been carying on the fight, turned it oyer to the national office in New York, which in turn, referred it to Mr. Houston as he is located in Washington. Mr. Houston, who had nothing to do with the conduct of the cases in Oklahoma, will set about combing the record for grounds upon which an appeal to the U. court may be based.

Needless to say, funds fort his phase of the work re badly needed by the N. A. A. and gifts and contribution to kill defense work will be greatly appreciated. FrdOfAssdU Hen Are Rearrested Oa Charge cf Following their dismissal on a felonious assault eharre ui enrmertirm the shooting Howard Brown, SI West 150th street, two men who lve the names of Henry Johnson, A Ol 1 Weil tXIrA tlrM mnA kaiti Holsws.

32. who said be has aomt, Were rearrested on 'a wge of homicide when Brown died Harlem Hospital. According to police, Johnson had ohed the window in the door of ons automobile when it waa at Lenox avenue and 113rd Brown, finding what damage been done, remonstrated wnh zf nd in the ensuing argument Moines is said to have drawn a pis uid fired a shot which lodged in frowns abdomen. Johnson and Holme were arrested sppeared before Magistrate Ha JJ Washington Hcignts Court on essault charge, aqd the charge ditmiimt Ob Thursday Brown died in the tai and Detective Dot man of West 135th street police station wrwti) IK. i "fe.

They were held for arraign GASOLINE 'OVE BLAST ntffftH DltDMa BALTIMORE, Md. SU boys "wnea to death here Friday tssolme stove exploded in JJl i store where they ZV'Tg. youths ranged in 1 to IS ytsrv Six others Secret By lie Age Uncovers NiEisreBog System Operated By life (febbg Ring A vicious number fixing system is responsible for the series of funnyM numbers which have been appearing daily in Harlem during the past few weeks. Through manipulations of a clique of unscrupulous white gamblers and policy racketeers who are in a position to dictate what the. third dirit will oe, local policy players hareT found it increasingly difficult to 'hit' In a daring expose of the inside workings of the popular numbers game which takes countless thousands of dollars a day out of Har lem, The New York Age after a searching investigation gives its readers the details of the system which already has the smaller inde pendent numoers bankers with their backs to the wall and threatens to sound the' death, knell of the "back figure game in Harlem.

ed paying off their hits at the Fair Grounds track in Louisiana, the State of King Fish Huer Long. Almost immediately, unheard of combina tions began appearing without profit to the takers of the individual figures. The first intimation that the figures were being fixed however, was revealed when certain wise gamblers began series of reckless betting on the last figure to i ttrav pi "back figure" plays, wuivfl 'att paid off at jodda tight to one. An Age Ulorswanr teld iMt oi a time the one figure beta were be coming so popular as to cause, hun dreds of players to drop the three figure bet entirely and go for newer off shoot of the policy game. Faced with a consequent loss of revenue, the racketeers started to devise ways and means of again fattening up their coffers when a clique of white gamblers showed how they could tarn the trick by controlling what third number would come out As the figures are arrived at by an addition of the prices' paid on the races first, second and third for the first figure, and up to the 5th for the second, the last figure being determined up to the 7th race it became apparent that through some manipulations, said to originate at the.

track itself, the gamblers able at the end. of the sixth race to so work their ne farious game as to determine what the third figure would be. Another phase of this fixint heloed the bankers of the larger game to the extent that popular numbers woulJ be prevented, that is if 7 and 5 were leading the bankers reported heavr'play of 7iz which i popular number and one whicH fre quently comes out in combination the third figure would be determined to the best interest of the bankers, By these manipulations, the gam blers were able to not only control the final number so that the racketeers would not be hit too heavy on any number, but were also able to place bets, through their agents, with unsuspecting Negro banks taking back figure plays. The odds being all in favor of the gamblers, the Negro independent policy bankers were being heavily nu iot ine tnira ngure. As a result of these revelations, it is said, the practice of "back' figure" playing which had threat ened to become even more popular than its parent, the three iigure number, has been practically wiped out The undercurrent information that the numbers are being fixed by the racketeer controlled banks, more (Can tinned oa page three) Argument (her Vcnn Of Innocent Girl Bystander; rebee Arrest 2 An argument over a woman be? tweea Julius Lewis, 60, and Frank Snorton.

29, ended Saturday in the fatal wounding of Virginia Spallino, thirteen year old girl, of 336 Henry street, as she was passing through Seward Park. Lewis shooting at Snorton, had missed his target and hit the innocent passerby instead. The two men had bad a difference, according to police, and Lewis, using a .45 calibre service revolver, fired three tunes at Snorton. The first shot, going wild. Ht Virginia in the left breast When the gun missed fire on the second shot, Snorton grappled with his assailant and nullified the action of the hammer by blocking it with his hand, receiving slight wound between the left thumb and forefinger Giving himself up at Clinton street nntir iLibon.

Lcwm. who tsve fis addresi as 162 East Broadway, where be is employed as a janitor, "NEWTOK Dr. Jchn Connors, Hkd Surgeon At Harlem Hospital, Dies STAMFORD, Conn. Dr. John Fox Connors, director of surgery at Harlem Hospital since 1925, died suddenly at his home at Shippan Point here just before midnight.

Saturday. Although he waa taken with a heavy cold on New Year's day, pis death, said to have been due to embolism, was quite unexpected, He was 61 years of age Born in Ireland, Dr. Xonnors en ire professional career has been in New York where he had come to be regarded as among the leading sur geons. His outstanding contribution 10 profusion is a new method of operating for empyema which he per 4ccuw 7xtf(' which has been widely and success fully used' ever since. He spent twenty months in the service during th World War, re turning with the title of LL Col.

in the Medical Corps While overseas (or a year and three months, the French Government made him member of the French Academy in recognition of his work in base oos pitals. Hit parents came to New York when he was an infant and settled there: He attended at, John's Col lege irr Brooklyn where he received bis AJ B. degree in 1892, and was graduated from the New York Uni versity Medical School in 1893, serv ing his interneship in the City Hos pital on Welfare Island. He entered yeneral practice in 1898 and specialized in surgery In 1902 he received the master's degree from St John's College and in 1922. tr honorary degree of LL D.

was bestowed upon him br at Johns. A requiem mass was solemized for him in St Mary's Roman Catholic Church on Tuesday at 10.00 a m. His wife, the former Louis Schwartzwalder, died here in 1931 He is survived by two daughters. Mrs. George A.

McLachlan of Dan bury, and Mrs. Alfred T. Chabot of New York. $600 Lkiages Awarded bSdtAbt Restart A decision of vital importance to Harlemites was rendered in the MumciDal Court on Tuesday be fore Judge M. Lewis and a jury when $200 was awarded in each of three cases for discrimination The complainants were Roy Wilkins, assistant secretary of the N.

A. A. C. Alice Mason and Isabel Tarkington, who charged at they were refused service in the restaurant of Alice McAllister, white, situated at 43 West Eighth street. All three defendants were rep resented by Any.

Hubert T. Vt lany of the firm of Geo. MinUer. Ends In Fatal Shooting told Sergeant Tbonua E. Enright that he bad shot a man in a park fight, but did not know whether he had hit him.

He later admitted to Assistant District Attorney P. Francis Marro that the shot which re sulted in Virginia's death had been the one intended for Snorton, ac cording to police He was charged with homicide ana violation of the Sullivan law. Snorton and Rtsscll Keyes, 47, of 136 Munroe street, were brought to the station by Patrolman Thomas E. O'Connor. Snorton said he was a bartender and liven at 36 Norfolk street.

Both men were detained as material witnesses. The shooting took place at' noon, and Virginia was removed immediately to Gourerneur HospiuL where iht at 2 p. m. A brother in law. Frank Trixxino, of 2 Cannon I street, stood ready to give a blood i uaosiusion.

URDAYT3ANUARY 12, 1935" SWORN IN AS CITY MARSHAL 4p A if i Ml I sX i llftp 5. v' i' (7 as City Marshal from Mayor LaOuacdu at City Hall. To the Tight is Alderman Conrad Johnson. (Photo by Mayor La As Gty Marshal; Second Negro Appointee As part of a program inaugurated to give the Negro voter a position in civic administration, Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia appointed Eugene Faulkner, real estate living at 157 West 142nd street, as City Marshal last The office carries with it a six year term.

1 think Mr, Faulkner is too good for this job," the 'Mayor said in an interview exclusive to' The Age. "I hope I have something better for him soon. Alderman Conrad A Johnson had urged that a colored man be appointed to the position. Mayor LaGuardia concurred the suggestion, and when Johnson recommended Faulkner for the position he was accepted Faulkner is the first Negro Republican ever to be appointed as city marshal and the second colored nun in New the Monhagen River Skating Rink. York City's history.

Skerritt Denies At Abyssinian; Wants To Control Friandly Ssdety In a sweenisur statement in which cietr is purely a private, beneficial he accused the Abyssinian Baptist (organization, more than thirty years Church of attempting to controllold.andwhatevermoniesithas.be what he declared was a private or i longs to the members and cannot ganizatidn. Samuel Skerritt, leader of the Friendly Society, whose resig nation was said to have been demanded and turned in last week, after a meeting of the trustees of the church, uttered a vehement denial to all of the accusations rumored to have been. made against him, and declared his intention of fighting to the finish. "If necessary, said Mr. Skerritt, "the courts will decide who is in the wrong." Skerett appeared at the office of The Age on Tuesday and demanded a retraction of the story, published here last week, concerning ta meet ing at the church of the Friendly Society, during which it was re ported that there was some disor der.

Emphatically denying that he had at any time attempted to strike anybody at the church, the enraged man declared that the report had been circulated by some person or persons wno waned to nurt his cnar acter avowed that it was all part oi an attempt to discredit the present wnrmnKs ot tne society ne insisted t'lat neither he nor the two secretaries, Mrs. Dorothy Williams and Miss Mathilda Smith, had re vgned as had been reported and fir ther asserted that they had no in tention of resigning. "Tr ev want to make tne Friendly sociciy a mere auxiliary ot tne church." said Skerritt. "and it nerer hai' been and never will be. The So mm 7 1 Si ,1 Hntt, Age start pnoiograpner.i FacEtner The other appointee is Javan A Steele, Democrat, who was apopinted last year.

Faulkner was sworn in by the Mayor in his private omce. Faulkner is an ex service man, having been inducted into the army in 1918 at Cams Upton. He was serg eant major of the first battalion of the Bearcat Division, that organiza tion going to France as replacements to the 3o8th He was dis charged as sergeant major of Com panies 23. 24. 27.

and 28. Army Senr ice Corps, raulkner is now a mem ber of the George P. Davis post No. 116 of the American Legion: Fraternally the new city marshal is a member of Brooklyn Lodge No. 32 of the Elks, and of re Carthaginian Lodge of Masons.

He conducts his real estate brokerage at 15 west 142nd street Faulkner is married and has one son, Eugene aged three. Report ot Row Charges Ce be taken over by the church or any body Skerritt also declared that the claim of Mrs. Erne. Miller, local undertaker, which was reported to be the original cause of the trouble, has been paid, and that it had and has, absolutely nothing to do wit! the whole situation. He refused to comment on the rumors being circulated that an ef fort was being made to incorporate the lYiendly Society as a separate and distinct body, but insisted that that is just what it really is anyway, When asked just what claim he felt the churcn might have if, as had been stated, all of the members of the society were members oi the church, the latter being: a orereoui site for the former, he replied that it was true that all of the members of the society were members of Abyssinian church but that they hai merely restricted the membership in that fashion in order to afford the henentf ol the organization to thei leiiow cnurch member in preier ence to anyone else.

That this con ditivn constituted any ground for belief that the organization war an auxiliary of the churcJi was pre posterous. said Skerritt. because then condition' had been created n.erely as a gesture of friendihtp for (Continued on page three) urea Indictment Returned Against Yculh In Muro Mystery By J. C. CHUNN (By Special Wire To The Age) ATLANTA.

Ga. What is gener lly considered here as a triumph for justice is the indictment of George Maddox, scion of a promi nent ueorgia family and brother in law to the late W. A Scott, by a Fulton County Grand Jury. late Monday afternoon, when ther re turned a true bill formally chars ing the 25 year old Maddox with the murder of Scott, a famous publisher, founder of the Atlanta World, and of. the Scott Newspaper Syndicate representing a chain of 50 or more newspaper throughout America.

Police said Monday, night that Maddox, a resident of Chicago, is being sought there on a bench warrant issued hv ludre H. Hnwarit of the Fulton Count Sunerior Court, and. his arrest is expected momentarily. The indictment was made on cir circumstantial evidence and rfirarz tes tirhony gathered by Attorney Reu ben A. Garland (white) who hat represented the Scott family since the first inquest and, after a year of sveighing evidence in the brutal slaying of Editor Scott, obtained the iHinuncni ana is saia to have a strong case against the former dapper Morehouse student who i t.

leged to have been visiting here at the time of the, slaying. evidence at this time attacks the supposed iron clari alihl of a fortnerweetheart of tW indict man as iour otner testifi4 tn seeing Maddox in the vicinity the neighborhood where Sca'r 1 1 Kineo, ine estaMishment of this evidence on the part of Garland is believed largely responsible for the indictment. 0. W. Brown Named Clark Of bprtent N.

Legislative Ccdy NEWARK. N. J. For the first time in four years, colored citizens of Essex County were recognized in the of patronage by the New Jersey Legislature when Oliver W. Brown, young Newark political leader, was chosen to serve as clerk to tne important committee on Emergency Belief.

This committee will be charged with the re drafting of the entire structure of State re lief and the administration of the $10,000,000 bond issue which was voted by a rcferendani in the No vember general election. Brown is a native ot Jersey and was educated in the Public Schools of Flemington, where he was star athlete on the Flemington High School teams. He it a gradu ate of Lincoln University, and was named on the colored AU American football team for two years. He so won considerable fame as a base ball player and football official Af ter graduating from Lincoln, be attended New Jersey Law School for two years, and served a clerkship of three years with several prom inent New Jersey lawyers, includ ing Attorney Frank Wrmberley, now practicing in Camden. RESCUER BURNED IN BLAZE Suffering from major burns of the hands, legs and arms, James Rabin 35.

of 117 West street, was taken to St Vincent's Hospital on Friday after he had heroically rescued Mrs. Ether Hefftel, 35, of 2JI Echo place, the Bronx, from a fire in the Equitable Dress and Costume Co, 553 Eighth avenue. Supreme Court Says It WiH Review The Scottsboro Case WASHINGTON. D. New hope for the lives of Heywood Pat terson and Clarence Noms, two oi the Scottsboro boys, sentenced to die on February 8th.

was held out this week bp the decision of the Unit ed Supreme Court to, review the death sentences imposed on them by the State of Alabama. This marks the second occasion ori which the high court has return ed a favorable decision in the case, it once before havimr ordered a new trial for Patterson, Norris and five other defemUpl ii eheworMaioni case. On' the former occasion. the court held that "the boys had been denied' a 'Utf'trial in AWma in tfiah they were Hot provided with counsel in' time to prepare for their defense. Tho contention in this anpjal was that the defendants had beer, denied their constitutional rights by being tndiced by a Grand Jury and convicted bv a trial jury from which colored persons were excluded, Negro Stewards And SsansnSaveWKles In ID ted Crash The heroic work of the Negro stewards, officers and saved the lives of numerous white passen ger who almost lost their lives the sinking of the Colonial liner, Lexington, in the East River last week.

The Negro rescuers were mem ber of the crew of the Lexington, and guided the passengers from, the ship lo safety tug bots. During ine last and most dangerous moments of the crash Negro stewards could be seen throwing passengerr luggage to the decks of the tug boats. Quick thinking and a cool head on the part of Lloyd Hinkson, Negro chief steward, calmed the passengers who were panic stricken by ti crash. The passengers declared that Hinkson seemed grow more calm as he went about the dining room telling them not to get "A lady came rushing up to me and cried. 'Where shall 1 gof 1 led her to the side and she stopped shake hands with me and said, Goodbye'," ink too stated, BREAKS LEG IN FALL Herbert LaMurray, 25, 44.

West street was treated by Ur, Novikotf of Harlem Hospital, early Sunday morning for a fracture of the left leg, sustained when lie' fell from a first floor window in his home to. the pavement below. His 'friends were notified. Steal Watch And Cash establishments than any other, found no response. Of the many brothers in trade who were presumably so near, no one answered tis call.

When his relentlesi assailants had finally ceased their castigation and fled with the loot, Thompson report ed his mishap the police who immediately assigned capable operatives to track down, the miscreants, and then betook himself to Harlem Hospital, there to receive treatments To date, the thugs have not yet been captured. But Thompson, cherishes the hope that Providence may yet deliver into his hands those who so vilely mistreated him. So if his fellow employees notice Thompson carefully scanning various fares as ey enter the staFbhment let them wonder ttp longer And if his eyes light up with anticipation, then may they feel that justice itill prevailsand then turn the body over to him. Three Lien, Underteking To Rob Undertaker Bury lib By Blows, Employees of the undertaking firm of Kodriouez and tates, located at 225 West 134th street, may wonder somewhat if thev observe one of their fellow workers, H. Thompson, 55, who lives at 253 West 134th street, peering eagerly into the face of each male oody which enters the place.

Their bewilderment is liable to increase if perchance, his gaze should alight upon the features of one, two or three men, and a smile of satisfaction soreads over his own countenance. But therein lies a tale. Last Sunday evening about nine o'clock, Tijomnoa, on his way to a larage in IJtHh street was attacked between Seventh and Lenox avenue, by three men who not only beat him severely about the head but also robhed him of a valuable watch and his money. And. the pity of it all, his cries, resounding through the one block of the community which is noted for housing more underakwg TWELVE PAGES Samuel J.

Battle 5 CENTS PER COPY Negro Police Lieut Id New Yorb; Detective Roberts Is Pr Notable among the 29 promotions to the rankl of lieutenant made Monday afternoon by Polled Commissioner Lewis Valentine was that of Sergeant Samuel J. Battle, who had been in charge oi the Radio Gun' Squad of the 28th Precinct. Battld i is the first Negro policeman to ever become a lieu Becomes First IC1IH 111 11 IC mew. 11 ISJ partment. The Comrmisioner vancement of betectjve John Roberts from second to first gradfl was also announced this week, The new lieutenant, wvo lives ai 225 West 138th street, was appoint ed to the force in 1911 after over corning, a feeling of prejudice, bade fair to deny his appointment, It WLi only after Mayor Gaynorsj attention was called to the discing ination that Battle was' admitted tne torce.

Following bis induction into' tht police department. Battle was assign ed to. the 68th street polka station, wnere he found himself alone and avoided by fellow patrolmen. Not one of the white policemen would speak; to him, even when off duty. Until winter of 1912 this condition con tinued, but the whites were finally won over by Battle's dignity and reserve.

1 He was transferred tT. Htrrterir nr'iyiJ, and gained distinct dmotei) ion. ana jmoucity position, as rs k. i 2 1 ine in si icgro pairoiman vo pairoi the street of the In seeking to enter a 'police school where he might study for promotion in 1919, it was decided hat a vote must be taken among other patrol men to determine whether or not they wanted a Negro in the school. Pa trolman Battle's heroic rescue of a white officer from the hands of a lynch mad mob helucv in deciding which way his fellow officers would vote.

(They decide unanimously in favor of his entrance into the school. in that same year Battle took his sergeant's examination, and '1925 found him appointed to that in which position he served in the 135th street station until two years ago. Becoming an acting lieutenant, he was transferred to the 123rd street station, where tie acted as director of the Sixth Division Radio Gut Squad. Monday the police commisJ sioner rewarded him with hia latest promotion' Battle who has been assumed to i desk duty at the 135th street station, had been the senior ranking Negro sergeant on he for, the other two being Lewis ChishoUn and Emanuel Kline, both of whom recently tools the examination for a lieutenancy. Local circles are awaitimr the nub licatkm of the list of those who (Continued on pa? three) Foreign Hissicss Urge Passage of Federal Lyciihg E3 A urging the enactment 5 of a Federal arru lynching bill waa passed at the forty second anttna ses swn of the Foreign Missions Con lerence of North America, which met in the Garden Chy Hotel, Gar den Gty, January 2 4.

More than 200 representatives of mission ary' enterprises from many' sections of the world sure, present. The re' solution "Deploring the evil of lynchinz. and conscious of its far reaching and detrimental, enect. denying as it does the very principles of Christian bro therhood which our world missions are seeking to extend, the Foreign Missions Conference will direct the attention of its member boards to this bill making lynching a Federal offense, and urged them to take such action as seems to them wise. Dr.

L. Berry, foreign mission secretary of the A. M. E. Church, was elected a menil.er of the Committee of Reference and Counsel of Foreign Missions.

Other Negro or sanitations represented at the meeting were the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Board of which Dr. J. Randolph it secretary; the Mission ary Department of the A M. E. Zion Church, through Mrs.

P. A. Wallace for T. Medford, secretary, and the National Baptist Foreign Board, the Rev. Mr.

Jack son. Kuretary Discussions were frank and free, dealingr with international, racial, political and religious problem) of today throughout the world. Dr. jotm Mott made one of the prnv cipal addresses. Dr.

Leslie B. Mns of New York City, executive seers Ury, was in charge of axrarujements 1.